Topic: Pillars of Eternity

Anyone else gunna be picking this up tomorrow? I'm pretty excited to play it, I just hope they've made the control scheme manageable on PS4.

Sounds interesting, but I will wait for Push Square's review first.

Yeah I'd like to wait for some reviews but with it being acclaimed on PC I'm hopeful they haven't somehow ruined it moving it over the PS4.. as mentioned my main concern is the control scheme. I expect it to be cumbersome but fingers crossed it's not unmanageable.

I'll definitely be picking it up but not anytime soon. Probably regardless of reviews unless it's atrocious and unplayable, that's not very likely.

I'm tempted but with Destiny 2 right around the corner, I don't think I have the time to juggle them both.

I'm sure I will pick it up at some point tho.

@kyleforrester87 That's my concern as well; hoping for the best. Enjoying Divinity tremendously at the moment.

I loved Divinity and the control scheme worked pretty well on that if I recall correctly. Fingers crossed this will be well done.

Well Push Square gave it a 9/10. I will probably look into this after I finish Dragon Quest Heroes II.

I'm allowed to talk about the game now so I can confirm it does indeed rock.

I just installed it and made my character - as generic as they come. I don't know why I always do that, I can never spice them up. When I do, I regret it. I could never play Skyrim as a Kahjiit for example. I wanted my guy to be bald but there's no bald male portraits so I had to give him some hair. Gutted.

Feel a bit ill so I don't know how much I'll manage to play tonight. It looks great on my TV though. I got a couple hours through it on my Mac before giving up a year ago so I know what happens at the start.

I have noticed you do have to press the touch pad twice for the map. Odd!

I'm glad it wasn't just me having to press the touchpad twice to get the map to come up.

How much is it?

@Tasuki - PSN has it for $50.

@Splat Hmm thought it was lower then that might have to wait for a sale then since I already have a few big name games coming out here soon. Thanks for the reply.

I've played a bit this week but I've been too exhausted in the evenings to get my head around anything complex and been falling back on Everybody's Golf instead. I'm up to the first town though and checking out the underground temple.

@johncalmc Any pro tips for a n00b?

@kyleforrester87 Tempting as it may be, don't just run off and do the main quest. You'll almost certainly - unless you're way better at it than I am - hit a brick wall. It's best to hit up a new town, and explore all the buildings, houses, inns, whatever, talking to people and racking up some quests. They'll give you plenty of experience and coin and whatnot. You'll need to do some side quests to deal with some of the tougher enemies in the main quest, and to be able to deal with the dungeon under the castle.

As soon as you can afford it, hire help at an inn. If you play the game only recruiting new party members as you progress through the story it'll be nearly Act III before you fill out your party at six members. You'll make things a lot easier for yourself if you hire help and create your own party members. It costs, but it's probably the wisest investment you can make.

It's absolutely essential that you have at least one tank (fighter, etc) that can draw the attention of mobs you come up against. You can find a scripted tank in the first main town near the big tree. I think he becomes available after solving a couple of quests. It might pay to have two tanks, though, and that's where hiring a created character comes in. You can create whatever class you like to join your party, and so if you feel there's a glaring omission in your party, create someone to fill the gap.

Create your own running formation. Seems like a small thing, but it really helps. You need to set your formation up so that if you're surprised in battle you don't have like a mage or something at the front of the pack. They'll draw the attention of all the enemies and be slaughtered. I found it best to arrange my dudes into a triangle sorta shape, with a tank at the front, rogues/other attackers next, and then guys with guns/bows/wizards at the back of the group. This naturally makes the tank the first of your party that the enemy sees, and the first to land an attack on enemies, drawing the attention of the crowd away from more vulnerable party members.

@johncalmc Okay thanks, I'll give it a whirl and be back with more questions lol.

What happens if someone in my team dies?

I'm playing on easy btw.

@kyleforrester87 It's kind of weird because I didn't feel like the game explained death very well. Either that I wasn't paying enough attention. Your characters have endurance and health. If you run out of endurance, your character is knocked out, and once the fight is won they'll wake up and have all their endurance replenished. If your health is reduced to zero, your character falls, but once the battle is won their status is changed to "maimed". Being in that status means that their HP is reduced to 1, and their stats take a massive hit. If you rest (inn/camp), they lose the maimed status and go back to normal. If you enter another battle and they lose their 1 HP, they die, and they stay dead. If it's your main character it's game over.

The autosave / manual save / load system is fairly forgiving, so I'd say make a save fairly frequently, and if you end up in maimed status in the middle of a dungeon, reload.

@johncalmc They fixed the map, huzzah!

I've been thinking about picking this one up. @johncalmc thanks for the tips!