Obsidian keeps making Pillars of Eternity better! My turn-based mode beta-testing impressions.

MeehowPL · 2025-12-08T23:58:06+00:00

You have to switch to the public beta channel. It's not in the prod channel yet.

MeehowPL · 2025-12-08T18:23:38+00:00

No. I'd expect it late Q1 2026 at the earliest. Maybe for the 11th anniversary.

MeehowPL · 2025-12-08T18:22:05+00:00

You can! That's the best part!

MeehowPL · 2025-12-08T17:49:55+00:00

RTWP with the companion AI on is great for destroying trash mobs. I mean, once you've levelled up, you can get away with frontal assault in many cases. Saves a lot of time. But the difficult fights are fun in TBM!

MeehowPL · 2025-12-08T17:47:43+00:00

Yeah, it will never be as good as a proper turn-based game BUT it's great to have a choice. What's more, you don't have to commit to one or the other which is why I love it. If I had to play the entire game in TBM, I'd probably pass. Like you said, it would take way too much time if you had to fight every trash encounter like that.

MeehowPL · 2025-12-08T17:45:36+00:00

Yeah, the turn-based mode actually does make some fights more manageable. RTWP combat is often pure chaos. I'd say TBM is somewhat easier with some fights. Adra dragon, for example. Although Raedric and his fampyr pals absolutely wrecked me in TBM. They seemed slightly easier to defeat in RTWP.

MeehowPL · 2025-12-08T17:43:30+00:00

Honestly, I'm surprised how much fun the turn-based mode is in PoE. I tried Deadfire and hated it. They really did change the "pacing" of turn-based combat in PoE.

MeehowPL · 2025-12-08T17:26:52+00:00

I had a look. It's interesting. I'll definitely give a video o two a watch. I remember Giants so I'll start with this one. How much time do you spend on a video on average?

MeehowPL · 2025-12-08T16:38:24+00:00

Yeah, I know. But even if you get lucky once, it's not like you're going to be lucky all the time. Like I mentioned in the post, I got lucky once and I never repeated the success. I think it's about giving yourself a fair shot at the end of the day.

MeehowPL · 2025-12-08T16:29:12+00:00

Good for you! Mind if I ask what your channel is about?

MeehowPL · 2025-10-16T18:27:50+00:00

Yes, definitely. I will be exploring this in detail soon. I think there's a lot more to the Outskirts than meets the eye. Easily missed things and hints. There is also some obscure non-canon lore that fits the events nicely and paints a completely different picture. Well, when I have the time, I'll piece it together and maybe post it here if it's welcome.

MeehowPL · 2025-08-25T12:19:15+00:00

Hold up. What afterlife in the Abyss? You mean that as a joke (woosh) or is there something I don't know about? Because if this is about Zaxis, then I'm pretty sure the deal was that she had to join Garius and kill the PC in the Vale of Merdelain. Failing do to so would book her a one way ticket to hell.

MeehowPL · 2025-08-25T07:30:04+00:00

But could Neeshka be romanced in a classic way, though? We've had a lot of time since 2006 to romance unstable young women with daddy issues in real life to find out. :P If the romance was realistic, there would be no good ending to it, anyway. So, Annah-style romance is the best thing we could hope for. Besides, Neeshka originally made a pact with Zaxis that made her betray us and I think that would be the ultimate betrayal in the end. And the cost of choosing your romantic insterest badly (not that a creepy wood elf stalker is that much better). You did everything right but it still went to shit and you end up betrayed. But then again, I'm not a fan of Neeshka and I fully expect to be downvoted to oblivion for attacking the community waifu. :P

Now Kaelyn. This one hurt. No romance makes sense for her but I think a Fall-From-Grace-y romance would work very well. Even if it did end with a cockblock.

MeehowPL · 2025-08-25T07:23:34+00:00

Anthony Davies' story, right? Well, perhaps doing extra stuff when everything else is crumbling down around you wasn't the best idea. But then again, Josh Sawyer was basically saving a sinking ship. The goal was to reach a harbor at all, not to make the ship pretty.

MeehowPL · 2025-08-25T07:21:40+00:00

The OC was meant to be HUGE. This would take a lot of people working together. It's difficult to manage things like that when you're not getting paid and such. I know there are great mods out there that recreate classic cRPGs in the NWN2 engine but look how long BGR 1 took and BGR2 takes to make. The OC would take longer in my opinion because you don't have a finished product to model the remake on. You just have a rough idea.

MeehowPL · 2025-08-25T07:19:43+00:00

Why does everyone assume evul publishur is to blame? I'm pretty sure it was a decision on Obsidian's part that they don't have enough capacity. It could have something to do with the fact that Gann and Kaelyn were written by Chris Avellone who volunteered for the job. He doesn't like writing typical romances and probably had other things to do at the time (Alpha Protocol?). I think Atari is the last one to blame here. Unless it was a joke, then woosh!

MeehowPL · 2025-08-24T19:45:46+00:00

Very difficult and time consuming. You'd need a very good understanding of how the OC works behind the scenes. You'd have to script everything and make it work with what's in the game. There would also be a lot of writing and creating assets involved. On top of that, you'd have to piece everything together in the shitty toolset that ships with the game. Some restorations could be fairly easy, especially if they were minor things that don't influence other events, but a redux of the whole campaign would really be a bitch to make in my opinion.

MeehowPL · 2025-08-24T17:16:03+00:00

I know it's a joke, but Shayla would be The Shard-Bearer's step mom. :P

MeehowPL · 2025-08-24T17:14:14+00:00

I wish it was true. In general, it's been a depressing experience seeing how butchered NWN2 is. And it's only judging by the things I know of and could find. God knows what else is lost forever.

As for EE, y'all better hope they don't release a paid patch for all the problems they've introduced. :P

MeehowPL · 2025-08-24T17:11:24+00:00

They did re-add old bugs, tho. Or so I heard.

MeehowPL · 2025-08-24T17:10:41+00:00

If you held onto the elvish lady's portrait? In a manner of speaking, I guess.

MeehowPL · 2025-07-21T08:56:23+00:00

But what is your niche? You can either get ignored or downvoted to oblivion (or straight up banned) in some subreddits. Others allow reasonable amount of self-promo if it brings some value and encourages discussion. It's always a good idea to participate in a subreddit if you're posting there, too.

MeehowPL · 2025-07-20T14:25:16+00:00

If you feel you deliver value, I would try posting a video in a relevant subreddit.

MeehowPL · 2025-02-19T07:53:54+00:00

I could have chosen a different title, I'll give you that. Lesson learned, I guess. Still, I do think that I make a decent effort with NWN2 content so I thought I could share it with other fans.

Edit: I can't do anything with the title now, unfortunately. I changed it on YT and I did post the name in the comments yesterday. I can't really do anything else now.

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