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Pillars of Eternity - The White March Packs a Punch - The RPG Files at MMORPG.com

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
edited August 2015 in News & Features Discussion

imagePillars of Eternity - The White March Packs a Punch - The RPG Files at MMORPG.com

This week, a few of us at the MMORPG offices went hands-on with Pillars of Eternity’s first expansion, The White March - Part 1. Read on for what Chris thought of his first two hours in the game.

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  • Verum0Verum0 Member UncommonPosts: 55
    Good to see more content to PoE
  • Verum0Verum0 Member UncommonPosts: 55
    Wish we could hear more about projectreds MMO
  • GameByNightGameByNight Hardware and Technology EditorMMORPG.COM Staff, Member RarePosts: 811
    Thanks for the comment. You mean CD Projekt Red? They have a cyberpunk RPG coming out but no MMO that they've announced.
  • StoneRosesStoneRoses Member RarePosts: 1,814
    Only game to peel me away from the MMO world!
    MMORPGs aren't easy, You're just too PRO!
  • ReizlaReizla Member RarePosts: 4,092
    Instantly bought it, but I still have to play through the old content first...
  • H0urg1assH0urg1ass Member EpicPosts: 2,380
    My biggest gripe with this game was that they didn't use AD&D rules.

    BG1 and BG2 are two of my all time favorite games so when I play a game that looks like them but has completely different rules, it throws me off quite a bit.  I cringe every single time I add a point of Might to a Mage so his spells will do more damage.  My left eye twitches every time I add a point of Intellect to my Barbarian to raise his Carnage AoE damage.  It's just unnatural.

    Also, I don't like the weapons in the game.  The Arquebus, Estoc, Stiletto and Maces are clearly the best weapons in the game because they have a Damage Reduction bonus.  So if I want to be a longbow wielding ranger, then I won't be able to damage 75% of the creatures in the world.  If I want to give my Barbarian a giant two handed sword, then I'll have to live with knowing that the Estoc would raise his damage significantly.

    There are several niggling things like this which serve as constant reminders that I'm not in the AD&D ruleset anymore, and call me old fashioned, but no sir, I don't like it.
  • Erinak1Erinak1 Member UncommonPosts: 207
    H0urg1ass said:
    My biggest gripe with this game was that they didn't use AD&D rules.

    BG1 and BG2 are two of my all time favorite games so when I play a game that looks like them but has completely different rules, it throws me off quite a bit.  I cringe every single time I add a point of Might to a Mage so his spells will do more damage.  My left eye twitches every time I add a point of Intellect to my Barbarian to raise his Carnage AoE damage.  It's just unnatural.

    Also, I don't like the weapons in the game.  The Arquebus, Estoc, Stiletto and Maces are clearly the best weapons in the game because they have a Damage Reduction bonus.  So if I want to be a longbow wielding ranger, then I won't be able to damage 75% of the creatures in the world.  If I want to give my Barbarian a giant two handed sword, then I'll have to live with knowing that the Estoc would raise his damage significantly.

    There are several niggling things like this which serve as constant reminders that I'm not in the AD&D ruleset anymore, and call me old fashioned, but no sir, I don't like it.
    To be honest, I've never found the DR to be super prohibitive... I don't think most stuff has enough of it to really matter other than heavily armored stuff and generally you are better using magic anyway. One thing you failed to account for is that everyone gets 2-4 weapon sets so it's not like they really designed it with sticking to one weapon.. it's why the weapon proficiency stuff comes in groups. You aren't really proficient with one weapon so much as one set of weapons.
  • noncleynoncley Member UncommonPosts: 718
    I wish the AI was a little better - or that I knew if it was operating as intended or whether I have somehow set it incorrectly. My party doesn't like to auto-attack or stops auto-attacking when an enemy is down but because of the way the characters bunch on screen, I can't see that their attacks have stopped. The story too, while excellent, is horrifically written, the worst kind of fanfic, cliched and predictable. If a game is set in a medieval fantasy world, having characters speak like cowboys or gangsters utterly breaks the atmosphere and story for me.
  • AlamonzoroAlamonzoro Member UncommonPosts: 120
    old school rpgs are there to be broken.






  • AethaerynAethaeryn Member RarePosts: 3,150
    noncley said:
    I wish the AI was a little better - or that I knew if it was operating as intended or whether I have somehow set it incorrectly. My party doesn't like to auto-attack or stops auto-attacking when an enemy is down but because of the way the characters bunch on screen, I can't see that their attacks have stopped. The story too, while excellent, is horrifically written, the worst kind of fanfic, cliched and predictable. If a game is set in a medieval fantasy world, having characters speak like cowboys or gangsters utterly breaks the atmosphere and story for me.
    Yeah make sure it is on Defensive (I think that is the setting - one defends themselves, one continues to attack other targets after theirs is dead). I had noticed this as well. . also make sure you hit save. I thought I had changed some and then went back and it was wrong. Either it was a bug or I didn't save it properly. I found myself just going back and telling everyone what to do anyway. It was more enjoyable and my mage didn't eat up all of his spells on small things.

    Wa min God! Se æx on min heafod is!

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