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[SpacePirate Ridley]

Getting shit out of my PC so I can preload.

 

[-tetsuo-]

I will be here with bells on when I am done with Bloodborne. Can not believe 2 games of this quality are releasing in the same week.

 

[Einbroch]

Does this game let you reroll stats/skills at whim or at least early in the game? Is that even a thing in this game?

I really liked Divinity but backed myself into a corner and the reroll system came too late for me.

 

[Camwi]

I watched Sensuki's character creation video and even that seems overwhelming , lol. Can you folks recommend a class for newbs? Any help/tips/info to make my journey easier would be appreciated.

I intend to watch Sensuki's other videos as well. Just need a little help on choosing a class for beginners.

One note I read in a different PoE thread is that none of your companions is a

Spoiler

rogue

. Can't say they're the most newbie-friendly class (probably best off as a fighter or paladin or such), but just some food for thought.

 

[dude]

Does this game let you reroll stats/skills at whim or at least early in the game? Is that even a thing in this game?

I really liked Divinity but backed myself into a corner and the reroll system came too late for me.

I don't think there's a reroll option - But trainers are probably going to show up rather soon and the system is built around fucking your self up in creation. It's claimed you can pretty much roll an intelligent barbarian or a dumb wizard and still be pretty awesome.

 

[Shake Appeal]

I watched Sensuki's character creation video and even that seems overwhelming , lol. Can you folks recommend a class for newbs? Any help/tips/info to make my journey easier would be appreciated.

I intend to watch Sensuki's other videos as well. Just need a little help on choosing a class for beginners.

For beginners, I'd recommend building a character that largely uses passive abilities (or whose actives are simple and obvious) and doesn't require a lot of micromanagement.

So you can straight away rule out Wizard, Chanter, Cipher, etc.

Probably your best bet is a tanky Fighter. Look for Abilities and Talents that are marked "passive," as they'll give you boosts and buffs you don't need to carefully manage or ration. Focus on damage-dealing and survivability by making Might your core stat with some points in CON (to increase endurance), DEX (to increase attack speed and mitigate the effects of wearing heavy armor) and a smattering in PER/RES (as these will increase your Deflection, which increases the chance that enemies will Miss or only Graze you with their attacks).

 

[Anoregon]

From the pcgamer review:

As characters speak, their body language is described, giving you a sense of their personality. Click a magnifying glass icon on certain objects in the world and you’re treated to a totally unnecessary, but wonderfully evocative, description of them. Use your Watcher powers on selected NPC’s souls and you’re treated to expressive 500-word vignettes about their past. I haven’t done this much reading, and enjoyed it, in a game since Planescape: Torment.

 

[robin2]

From the pcgamer review:

Ahh... I didn't want to know that, I would have preferred it was under spoiler; but now it's too late. I guess I'm out of here.

 

[r3n4ud]

One note I read in a different PoE thread is that none of your companions is a

Spoiler

rogue

. Can't say they're the most newbie-friendly class (probably best off as a fighter or paladin or such), but just some food for thought.

Unless they've done something really complex with fighters, they're usually the easiest class to just pick up and play in these sorts of games.

For beginners, I'd recommend building a character that largely uses passive abilities (or whose actives are simple and obvious) and doesn't require a lot of micromanagement.

So you can straight away rule out Wizard, Chanter, Cipher, etc.

Probably your best bet is a tanky Fighter. Look for Abilities and Talents that are marked "passive," as they'll give you boosts and buffs you don't need to carefully manage or ration. Focus on damage-dealing and survivability by making Might your core stat with some points in CON (to increase endurance), DEX (to increase attack speed and mitigate the effects of wearing heavy armor) and a smattering in PER/RES (as these will increase your Deflection, which increases the chance that enemies will Miss or only Graze you with their attacks).

Awesome. Thanks a lot guys.

 

[ys45]

From The Escapist:



sorry, man. I just made your wait worse

Aaawwww man, it's ok I'm stuck at work anyway

 

[HowZatOZ]

This game heralds the return of the true RPG genre, and I have welcomed it with open arms. Seriously though, Ovsidian have knocked this one out of the park, I'm so damn addicted to playing I just can't stop. Such a gorgeous and rich game.

 

[Violet_0]

Ahh... I didn''t want to know that, but now it's too late. I guess I'm out of here.

the game has text. Apparently lots of it
e: oh okay, I get it now

 

[Dennis]

From the pcgamer review:

Such verbosity, what is this, Torment?

 

[Infinite_Daremo]

Ahh... I didn't want to know that, I would have preferred it was under spoiler; but now it's too late. I guess I'm out of here.

How is a game mechanic a spoiler?

 

[Shake Appeal]

How is a game mechanic a spoiler?

Spoiler

"Watcher powers"

 

[d1rtn4p]

First things first...get to the goose and fox, have a few beers and chat it up before I set out on my quest. Only way to roll.

 

[Durante]

Have you got a GeDoSaTo profile up and ready to go or is it the usual 'fullscreen' Unity Engine trick?

I have a profile, the trick works with DSR though.

You do need to use a console command in-game to comfortably downsample:

Pillars of Eternity downsampling guide:

To get the best image quality on the 3D rendered stuff, while maintaining the full quality of the backgrounds, I suggest this (if your hw can handle it):

• Downsample from exactly 4x the resolution (e.g. I'm using 5120x2880 on my 1440p screen).
• Since this is a Unity game, if you are using DSR you will need to set your desktop resolution to your downsampling resolution before launching PoE for this to actually work. (It just works with GeDoSaTo)
• UI will scale automatically, so there's no need to do anything regarding that.
• Your zoom limits will be messed up though: by default the game won't let you zoom closer than a 1:1 mapping of background pixels to display pixels. Since you are downsampling, every "display pixel" the game sees is actually just 1/4 of a physical pixel, so you'd like to zoom in further.
  Luckily, this is easy to fix: open the console (look up the key for that in the options) and type "setZoomRange 0.5 100". 0.5 will let you zoom in such that you get 1:1 mapping of background image pixels to real physical pixels again with 4x dowsampling.
• Additionally, you can use the command "msaa N" to enable NxMSAA, e.g. "msaa 4". It doesn't make a huge difference on top of 4x downsampling though.

Edit:
just noticed that this is already in the OP.

 

[Vincent Grayson]

How is a game mechanic a spoiler?

It isn't, and people are ridiculous.

If you don't want to hear anything about the game before you play it, don't enter into threads built around discussing the game.

 

[Violet_0]

First things first...get to the goose and fox, have a few beers and chat it up before I set out on my quest. Only way to roll.

I'll hire Evil as a mercenary and let him fight it out with

Spoiler

Bish

 

[Anoregon]

First things first...get to the goose and fox, have a few beers and chat it up before I set out on my quest. Only way to roll.

Don't forget to attack the innkeeper. It will clearly work out well for you.

 

[Lactose_Intolerant]

This game heralds the return of the true RPG genre, and I have welcomed it with open arms.

Did you not play games last year?

 

[Kimaka]

Finalized my PC's name. I'm fucking ready.

 

[Camwi]

I'll hire Evil as a mercenary and let him fight it out with

Spoiler

Bish

I'm going to go ahead and assume that the innkeeper fights with a bigass hammer.

 

[Altazor]

It's still number 1 in Steam, GOG and GMG. I hope it stays that way for a long time.

 

[Mitch]

I'll hire Evil as a mercenary and let him fight it out with

Spoiler

Bish

I'd pay to watch this.

 

[Violet_0]

I'm going to go ahead and assume that the innkeeper fights with a bigass hammer.

he's got a very unique item, afaik

 

[Noaloha]

I watched Sensuki's character creation video and even that seems overwhelming , lol. Can you folks recommend a class for newbs? Any help/tips/info to make my journey easier would be appreciated.

I intend to watch Sensuki's other videos as well. Just need a little help on choosing a class for beginners.

Is it the prospect of the actual character creation screen you're feeling overwhelmed by, or the gameplay itself? When you say 'easier' and 'for beginners', are you looking for a class that's easy to not build terribly, or a class that's easy to play?

If the latter, my biggest tip would be first to gently nudge yourself away from worrying about being overwhelmed by controlling your chosen class and, instead, ease you into a mindset of worrying about being overwhelmed with the prospect of controlling your entire party.

Then, only once that expectation's in place, it can be time to allay any fears of the game being overwhelming. It'll be a challenging game, but not a chaotic unmanageable one that you'll lose control of or not be able to follow - these two aspects are always just a space bar away.

 

[Durante]

You use enough bold tags?

No.

2 HOURS

 

[KC Denton]

The launch party was a blast, and it was great catching up with friends who worked on this. Congrats to them and everyone else at Obsidian for getting this game to release!

 

[FeD.nL]

This flew completely under my radar, so caught up in Hearthstone/HotS and Marvel Heroes I guess. but pre-loading now, pretty damn excited tbh.

 

[WanderingWind]

I keep hitting the big blue button on Steam, hoping some noble soul pressed the launch button in secret.

It could happen.

 

[Starviper]

So glad I threw money at this Kickstarter; looks like it's turned out excellent. Between this and Bloodborne, I won't be getting much sleep in the coming days.

 

[r3n4ud]

Is it the prospect of the actual character creation screen you're feeling overwhelmed by, or the gameplay itself? When you say 'easier' and 'for beginners', are you looking for a class that's easy to not build terribly, or a class that's easy to play?

If the latter, my biggest tip would be first to gently nudge yourself away from worrying about being overwhelmed by controlling your chosen class and, instead, ease you into a mindset of worrying about being overwhelmed with the prospect of controlling your entire party.

Then, only once that expectation's in place, it can be time to allay any fears of the game being overwhelming. It'll be a challenging game, but not a chaotic unmanageable one that you'll lose control of or not be able to follow - these two aspects are always just a space bar away.

I was looking for a class that'll be easy to play/manage. I'll worry about my party after my character is up and running, lol

 

[TheContact]

preloaded and ready

 

[SparkTR]

Paradox needs to shell out some of that Skylines money and buy a banner ad on Steam.

 

[Wanace]

So hyped! Can't wait to play.

 

[Mitch]

So glad I threw money at this Kickstarter; looks like it's turned out excellent. Between this and Bloodborne, I won't be getting much sleep in the coming days.

Wish I had backed, since I would really like a physical copy.

 

[Froli]

Any gaffer gonna stream? Can't wait for this awesome game

 

[Xaero Gravity]

Fuck it, I need this now. Is GMG the cheapest place to get it? It's $33 there.

 

[aravuus]

I was looking for a class that'll be easy to play/manage. I'll worry about my party after my character is up and running, lol

Apparently you can build your party to pretty much rely on passive skills to make the fights easy/simple to manage, so I guess pretty much any class could be a good choice? Except for the casters, I suppose.

 

[Mitch]

Fuck it, I need this now. Is GMG the cheapest place to get it? It's $33 there.

Someone is selling their Kickstarter Hero Edition code for $25 in the B/S/T thread.

 

[Zabojnik]

I was answering 90% of the questions in the previous OT. All that info I contributed was insantly dumped when that OT was locked. Then EviLore got mad because 0 emphasis on NeoGaf's contribution to Pillars's kickstarter. Now we get a OT that is barebones and gushing over NeoGaf's involvement with the game. Seems like some kind of advertising.

If someone gives me control of this OT, I can make it good.

Dear Evilore & mods, please allow TrueMenace (and other crpg elders) to contribute as much as possible to the OP. We need it to be a goldmine of PoE information. Thank you very much.

 

[LurkerPrime]

I couldn't sleep long enough...

So,

And good work on OT2, EviLore. The metascore is exactly what I hoped for.

 

[Dr Dogg]

It may be 2 hours but bear in mind those on Steam it's got to unpack first. Hope you all preloaded to an SSD and have the amount of space to decrypt it as well.

Edit:
just noticed that this is already in the OP.

Top stuff, cheers. Yeah as soon as I asked pahamrick dug out a post of yours from the beta thread. Thanks though anyway.

 

[Carcetti]

Do classes matter in dialogue/rpg context? Like if I'm a mage I get different talk options than when as a druid?

 

[Vincent Grayson]

Do classes matter in dialogue/rpg context? Like if I'm a mage I get different talk options than when as a druid?

I've heard mention of that, and it wouldn't be surprising at all, but I don't think I've seen it confirmed for sure that all classes have unique dialogue options.

 

[Ragus]

Divnity Original Sin was to complicated for a freshman in a genre like. I wobder gów this gamę compares. Is it as hardcore?

 

[Anno]

Do classes matter in dialogue/rpg context? Like if I'm a mage I get different talk options than when as a druid?

There was at least one such option in the backer beta. Not sure how prevalent they would be, and if they are or are not distributed equally amongst classes.

 

[Pancakes]

Divnity Original Sin was to complicated for a freshman in a genre like. I wobder gów this gamę compares. Is it as hardcore?

Based on what I've seeing in videos and talk in the thread Divinity:OS was much simpler than this will be. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, I loved D:OS but it needed more depth.

 

[RVinP]

Getting shit out of my PC so I can preload.

I piggybacked on another ISP outside my home and downloaded the preload (faster speeds), to my horror only to realize that one cannot take backups of steam preloads.

Copied the .\SteamApps\depotcache folder, came home, initiated a preload download on my home system, quit Steam, copied over the contents of that .\SteamApps\depotcache folder from my flash drive and booted up my steam client.

Currently my Steam Client shows preload complete for PoE, I'll cross my fingers and wait for the activation.

Wish me luck, else I'll need to piggyback the backup after activation too. Running on the streets, screaming give me bandwidth, GIVE ME BANDWIDTH!