Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire

Comes out April 3rd. 33 days remaining.

Who /tanky/ here?

Reminder we now have a good Xoti portrait. Thank Art user.

These threads started 33 days ago when there were 66 days left, countdown-kun. You know what this means, right? We're halfway there!

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She looks cute now.

He's really talented

so nice

Why does she have to be a waifu? She was beautiful already.

Wild Leech or Pain Block?

I'm going to pirate Pillars of the Caribbean!

hm, what did he mean by this?

Pain Block
You'll pretty much never use Wild Leech, much better to go for Silent Scream or Amplified Wave later on

Nothing forcing you to use the portraits. Some people love user's version and the fact we have the option of them instead is pretty great though so seems like a win for all.

Does Pain Block stack with the other DR buffs?

>people

HOW DO I BEAT THIS SHItTY RAEDRIC BOSS LITERALLY BULLSHIT DIFF SPIKE REEEEEEEEEEEEE

TANK DIES IN 0.5 SECS. GET SOME BETTER DEVS OBSHITIAN.

>tank goes to talk with boss at throne room
>everyone else stays behind the door to the right
>tank initiates battle and runs to the door for a cheesy chokepoint
There you go

If its the first time you fight him a really good strategy is putting your party in the room to the south at the door way and then pulling with your tank and running him back to the doorway. If its the late game fight with him lvl up and come back or get gud.

BUT HE LTIERALLY DIES AS SOON AS ANYONE TOUCHES HIM. I WAS ALREADY DOING THAT TOOO AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Look for whatever spell grants Brilliant because holy shit.

>brilliant

Well, sweetie, I'm afraid your tank is complete shit then. Even on PoTD that battle is doable with a level 4/5 Edér as a tank

Every companion has to be attractive in its own right.
Ydwin and Xoti portraits lacked charisma, Eder and Pallegina were ruined I can stomach Eder, but he is looking much worse now. Eder's portrait in 1 was pretty amazing at showing his character, Pallegina was decent.
Aloth is still decent, the rest of the companions are actually very good. Except the tumblr haircut sidekick, but no one gives a damn about her.

>get gud.
Literally impossible, pretty much n artificial difficulty boss. what kind of shit game designers thought this would be a good idea. letting me breeze thorugh most the quest. the the bos is hurr hurr level up or else you die in 1 second untankable.

THERE IS LTIERALLY NOTHING BETTER I CAN DO FOR THIS SHIT TANK.

>that difference between Charm and Dominate
Holy shit, that's awesome.

That difference was pretty much the same in PoE

wtf is this for deadfire?

Yeah
One thing I don't like about it is that, as of now, a level 1 buff is able to nullify a level 3 debuff of the same stat.
So, if you have someone terrified, you can just cast a low level spell that gives steadfast and he's good to go. Which of course also means that if the enemy sees you with Brilliant, they can just cast a low level spell that makes you confused to fuck it up. I'd like that to change.

>spellcaster enemy AI
>good
Dream on

So based Artist user has fixed Xoti, Our Pal Pallegina the Paladin and Ydwin. What's next?

Charm simply dropped all stats a bit, it didn't prevent ability usage. The difference there was fairly inconsequential.

Maia Rua already looks perfect. Serafen and Tekēhu look good (in fact, they look better than their characters will probably end up being), sidekicks look fine and no one cares about them anyways.
That leaves Edér and Aloth.

When the hell are they gonna put White March on sale again

That ginger fuccboi sidekick is pretty cute desu
Would have rather him be a full party member

>Battletech and this being released on the same month
WHAT THE FUCK DO I PLAY?

well if I didn't see this I'd get fucked up by terrified debuffs and have no idea what's making me an idiot. very interesting and more in order than poe's system I guess.
>if you have someone terrified, you can just cast a low level spell that gives steadfast and he's good to go.
does this mean that priest's prayer against ... spells are not the only prevention against the debuffs?

Aloth is fine, looks more mature but pretty much the same. Eder is plain worse, but not only because he is older - he became considerably less charismatic.

Yeah, Maia is nailed. That's exactly how she should look.

Thanks user.

interesting, con debuffs really could fuck your tank up if you miss it. what's an AR?

Armor Reduction?

Sawyer is losing his mind on tumblr. One month left and he still has no idea what to do with resolve.

What's wrong with resolve boosting your spell damage, again?

I don't blame him. The forums bitch about literally everything he does. Even if it's something they themselves wanted. He should really implement a beta badge or someshit and ignore the casual idiots.

>have tons of ingredients which I could use to make potions with
>have shitton of food too
>never use any of them

In the worst case scenario he can always go back to the way things worked in PoE1 and things worked great there.

Try doing a The Ultimate run, your "problem" will solve itself immediately.

Damn, you're right. That debuff is brutal. Deadfire is going to be so good.

This, he changed it from 6 to 5 sized parties. The same ones who begged for a reduction are now mad. People who wanted Health/Endurance to be gone are now upset its gone, people who wanted a more involved stronghold are now bitching about the ship mechanics being so integral.

The place is fucking cancer and don't even get me started on RPGCodex.

I was always short on ingredients for the egg dish.

This is why Sawyer should just stick to his vision and make the game as he wants it. This is how any artist of merit works, making vidya is no different.

He's the one who doesn't speak the same language as everyone isn't it? I'm more interested in him and the black dwarf then Tekehu or Serafen.

Did nobody post the improved Ydwin portrait?

Can I still complete Trials of durance if I don't pray to Galawain?

>niggerdwarf
Will join niggervagina on the blood pool equivalent

Well game design is an iterative process, I wouldn't worry too much. They will get it right eventually

I'm surprised how a couple touch ups make a 0/10 portrait into a full on 10/10 one. If this weren't a sidekick I'd used it.

Why did Obsidian design the portraits the way they are? They aren't "bad" but they look like they intentionally didn't want any objectively attractive companions or some shit.

So THIS...is the power... of waifufags
now fix Edér you bloody cunt

He could be alright. Guess we'll see once the game is out. Ydwin is waifu bait, don't no shit about the other sidekick, Tekehu is a suppose to be a arrogant cunt and Serafen just looks like a worse Hiravias.

I'm really really surprised nobody on the Codex or Obsidiot forums linked these yet. Why hasn't that happened?

Yeah, it's odd considering how good the original portraits looked.

Xoti is CUTE!

I'll just reuse the portraits of Ed and Al from POE1.

>Why did Obsidian design the portraits the way they are? They aren't "bad" but they look like they intentionally didn't want any objectively attractive companions or some shit.
yeah and eder and pallegina's portraits used to be attractive in poe1.

Edér is still cute in PoE2
Unless you are mad because he got older as he should

I prefer Pallegina from POE2 more, but I guess she looked too much like Rihanna.

Seems like we are a secret club after all.

Post your portraits for 2.

Remember the game's going to continue to balance after launch. Also, all that post really indicates is just how retarded a lot of the feedback is from the armchair devs in the backer beta, and why Sawyer should just fucking ignore them

n'yah!

I mean, it's not bad but his portrait in 1 was god tier.

Eder went full dad. He looks like he'd lounge around drinking beer next to a couple of naked children frolicking and now he has to worry about pot belly.

n'yarr!

It seems pretty probable a different artist/s worked on these new portraits

Retards saying he's fat now to boot
Still has defined cheekbones and a square jaw
Besides isn't he like 40+ now
He isn't a young lad anymore

n'yarron!

Is there actually this much hype or are the same 5 people making and re-making these threads.

The first PoE was polished but exceedingly dull. Making it an overall mediocre experience at best.

Cutie.

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It's obviously one guy making these countdown threads, but the fact they tend to be replied does indicate that there is some amount of hype on Sup Forums.
PoE 1 was great. Best RPG released this decade along with Underrail.

>Eder is 37 by pillars 2
I always thought he was younger. Pallegina would be 31 and Aloth 67.

Oh it's absolutely artificial. I'm looking forward to the game but I feel like these forced threads just piss people off.

freckles ruin the manliness

N'yahr yourselves.

I liked Underrail but that may be my desire to play a proper Fallout 2 derivative. I wouldn't put PoE anywhere near Underrail honestly.

The only game in recent memory that I would put next to Underrail in terms of quality and polish is Divinity: OS and OS II. People don't give Larian enough credit for actually introducing new shit to the cRPG genre by adding full interactive environments and proper elemental effects. I understand if the whimsy turns some people off of Divinity but mechanically it's top notch.

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There's like 50 people waiting for it and keeping those threads alive me included
>reach page 10
>suspiciously dumb question about the game just before it 404

Friendly reminder if Edér isn't bi Sawyer's house will be burnt down to cinders

RPGs are worthless to me if they don't have an interesting story and atmosphere to them. I don't feel invested, I don't bother finishing it. That's why the Original Sin games are shit in my opinion. Pillars of Eternity is miles better.

>suspiciously dumb question about the game
R-rude.

Why is everyone in your party so mad about a noble fucking his niece in the Skaen cult quest? That's fucking middle ages, it wasn't uncommon.

I'm not bumping the thread. I just keep seeing it this past fucking two months and it's really puzzling to me since it really brings nothing to the table apart from being "another one of those semi real time with pause games but actually relies on dicerolls games". Icewind Dale did it better and it did it more than 15 years ago.

Yep. Incest was the norm for the aristocracy, especially the Von Hapsburgs with the famous hairlip.

Yeah and we've played icewind dale those 15 years

Lads, did anyone else really not feel the White March companions? I like them as characters, but it is simply agony to dilute my star team of default companions. Yet I feel obligated to bring all of the WM companions since it's their DLC.

That doesn't look like a man who is losing his mind. That looks like a man who is being empowered by arguments over attributes.

I can see your point but with that in mind PoE would have better served as a book cause it was a fucking slogfest of a chore to play through.

If we're speaking about video games in general terms Divinity OS far more competent as a video game rather than PoE.

Underrail strikes a good balance of both.

i really could care less about the other two but drug addled monk grandpa was probably in my top 3 for favorite companions

The two women had really grating voices, and yeah they weren't as fun as my normal team. At least my dwarf Eskimo fit in.

He really isn't gay. He could be bi maybe but he's definitely not full gay. He fucked a woman and hd a hollowborn kid.