Continuing the comfy thread from >>3939690
>>3954898>>3954876What this anon said. A lot of the side quests are enjoyable, fairly short but provide lots of good context and background knowledge to the wider world. I feel like nearly all of them have some sort of reactivity too when importing your save into Deadfire.
>>3954905I like this game (close to finishing my first playthrough, I posted about my barbarian last thread) but it is a bit silly how every single goddamn sidequest is about transferring or otherwise fucking around with soulsI know it's the setting but they could have made some other stakes for questsI only have Twin Elms left in the main game and did White March 2 up to the outside of the Abbey. I fucked up there, I ran into one of the patrols and figured the rest wouldn't be hostile. Turns out I was wrong and I had to genocide the entire outside of the place, so I probably lost my chance to have fun dialogue by pretending to be the guy they're waiting forOh well, my MC is 100% honest and never lies anyway so it fitsFuck those monks btw holy fuck stop tearing my party apart
>>3954912They abbey is one of the hardest parts of the game outside the last levels of the cad nua dungeons. But it's also one of the most fun>twin elms leftkino incoming
both games are very underrated but I played with a full custom party, can't stand the companions
>>3954923Caed Nua was easy as hell in comparison, unless you're specifically talking about the boss. Does killing all the dragons change anything in POE2? I'm not sure I'm built for that
>>3954927Yeah the boss.>Does killing all the dragons change anything in POE2? I'm not sure I'm built for thatThere are dialogue changes mostly, especially for the dragon boss in the Caed Nua. The sky dragon has a quest linked to it and if you say to Hylea you'll kill the dragon, complete it and then back track on your promise to her. She'll send birds to shit all over your ship in Deadfire giving it poor stats until you upgrade itI think you can also get special dragon pets in deadfire too from them. Not too sure
>>3954912>>3954923Second playthrough and I must have been an absolute idiot in my first one.Never infiltrated Raedric's Hold, went in blasting. Was there relatively early, which made the Berath paladins really tough. Good loot, made a lot of money.I had no idea that you could disguise yourself as Woedica cultist and partake in that ritual. Just killed them. Godlike can't really wear the mask lmaoI don't even remember what I did in that abby. Probably killed them all. Will try to do it the proper way as well.
>>3954956I disguised myself as a Woedica faggot and then reloaded a save because "my barbarian wouldn't do that, he'd just start swinging a sword"I don't think it's possible to not slaughter your way to Raedric, ignoring stuff like intentionally sneaking past combat encounters. Everyone in the keep is automatically hostile and you can only decide to side with him when you actually meet himI feel like this game has a handful of instances where you slaughter your way through an entire army and then when you meet the head honcho you can go "yeah I wanted to ally with you"
>>3954927In addition to what >>3954939 noted, theres an option to deal with the adra dragon without killing it which changes an npc in poe2, iirc
>>3954959Yeah I know what you can do with the dragon. The Alpine Dragon also seemed to have a dialogue tree but I haven't done that yet, just attempted to fight him a few times and gotten raped to death
Just beat Kaoto. I always heard he's one of the hardest fights but I just memed him with pig related
>>3955165I can't remember him being that difficult. It was more so the whole area was difficult with all the monks.
>>3955558Yeah the monks are fucked up, that's why I started using pig mode in the first place, shuts them down very nicely
>>3954905I think I might've overdid it and played the game too much, so much in fact it became kind of boring while it was supposed to be comfy.I respecked the paladin lady (figured since she died more often than other members she's not fit for my party combo), shes... more akin to MC, and I still am not sure how paladin auras work lol, it seems they have extremely limited range (at least compared to the cleric) and doesnt stack, right? I've chosen her a different aura, one that makes you hit more often, and MC has the one that makes you harder to be hit, all n all design decision of this game are really awesome - like, sure I only get one companion per class, so no triple fighters/paladins for example, but who needs that when the encounter design and balance is made so you never really need more than double class in party.I'll chill the fuck out a bit just to not lose interest in the game and make a properly made big ass full completionist save to port into the sequel which I'll play in the following year.
>>3955600Bonuses from the same source usually don't stack. That applies to equipment as well, if you haven't noticed. A piece of armor with + 1 Perception and a helmet with + 2 Perception won't result in + 3 Perception, but + 2. It only takes the highest.Different auras should work, though. The attack increase aura in general is very good.And yes, Pallegina has shitty Intellect (for a Paladin), therefore her aura tends to be rather small. Her attribute distribution is probably the worst among the companions.
Even with scaling on, Act 3 is piss-easy if you completed WM1+2I suppose that's quite normal for cRPGs, if anything, this one does a better job giving me some encounters I can bash my head against than most
>>3955702Act 3 feels incredibly short and also half finished which doesn't help. Twin Elms always felt incomplete to me.
>>3955708I wouldn't necessarily call it incomplete, it's more like you expect there to be 50 sidequests cause that's how it was in Defiance BayIt's certainly not as unfinished as the end of Tyranny
>>3955712>It's certainly not as unfinished as the end of TyrannyDon't remind me....
>>3955708It's short, but it never felt unfinished to me. There being fewer sidequests is just a natural consequence of the narrative. In Act II it makes sense that there's a lot of sidequests in and around Dyrford and Defiance Bay; Defiance Bay is the largest city in the region and you're doing a very general investigation into the Leaden Key and following multiple leads. By the time you get into Act III you have a much clearer goal to follow so it makes sense that you're going to spend less time getting distracted by sidequests, and the Glanfathans hate you so you don't get every second villager asking some outsider to pick up their mail.You still have all the god quests, a few smaller sidequests in Twin Elms, finishing off the last of the companion quests, probably the last of the Endless Paths, and a couple of consequences from decisions you made earlier in the game like The Champion of Berath and hearing if that kid cut all his fingers off with the dagger you gave him. If you want more content you can always leave WM2 until Act III as well.
Has Obsidian ever made a game where the end wasn't at best rushed and at worst blatantly unfinished?
>>3955738>Has Obsidian ever made a game where the end wasn't at best rushed and at worst blatantly unfinished?Alpha Protocol was their only good game
>>3955738Pentiment
>>3955738NWN2
>>3955746Yeah, about that…
>>3955749The purported Neeshka "romance" was a fabrication
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I despise the base game and deadfire. Is white march worth it. People say its like iwd. But does that mean its just a snowy dungeon crawl. Because iwd actuaply had some pretty good mage duels with simulacrums and stuff. It wasnt just diablo
>>3955830>I despise both the base game and the sequel, will I enjoy the expansion to the base game?Yes.
>>3955830All of the DLCs for both pillars games are far better than the main game. They have better stories, map/quest design and have interesting companions too
>>3955830>I despise the base game and deadfire. Is white march worth it.No. It’s the same shit. If you didn’t like the base game, nothing in the DLCs will change your mind. Kind of amazed multiple anons are saying otherwise
>>3955841Vatnir my beloved
>>3955830what did you dislike about them?
>>3955830Why are you here? Do you imagine we fucking care that you don't like the game? If you don't like it, just stop playing it. Put it down and do something else. We don't fucking care.
>>3955849This guy is clearly taking the piss >>3955832
Reinstalled recently, game still has engine issues, but I managed to lower the hitching and stuttering significantly, so it's playable without me noticing, still I feel like recent games and the fact that their a stutter fest, really makes going back to this a treat. It's very dense, but that's part of the charm narrative wise. It's like eating Wendy's you love it, but too much of something you love will get stale. Anyways that's my Ted talk, also download the new AI companion portrait mod on nexus, has great new additions to the female cast, notably nice tit's.
