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  • Sylvus_MoonbowSylvus_Moonbow Member Posts: 1,085
    Today there is an update coming out about the new city in POE2. Probably some video with Josh talking about the design and showing off how it looks.
  • Sylvus_MoonbowSylvus_Moonbow Member Posts: 1,085
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    2.8 million mark has been reached today!
  • Sylvus_MoonbowSylvus_Moonbow Member Posts: 1,085
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    Yet another stretch goal announced!
  • Sylvus_MoonbowSylvus_Moonbow Member Posts: 1,085
    Here is the video on the big POE2 city.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpNQvQmovjs
  • AedanAedan Member, Translator (NDA) Posts: 8,551
    I'd prefer one more fully fleshed out companion to a handful of sidekicks.
  • wubblewubble Member Posts: 3,156
    I just hope it's not like the adoring fan from oblivion.
  • FardragonFardragon Member Posts: 4,511
    edited February 2017
    Aedan said:

    I'd prefer one more fully fleshed out companion to a handful of sidekicks.

    That's the point. There are eight fully fleshed out companions. The sidekicks are for people who would rather have more BG1 style companions without elaborate storylines. They are trying to cater to different types of players.

    SoD would have benefited from that idea.
  • FardragonFardragon Member Posts: 4,511

    Here is the video on the big POE2 city.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpNQvQmovjs

    Most interesting thing there was the party portraits at the bottom of the text adventure dialogue screen. Looks like you can choose who is doing the interacting, similar to NWN2: SoZ.
  • brusbrus Member Posts: 944
    edited February 2017

    They will be Noober, Neeber, Nüber, and Biff the Understudy.

    Hm, Noober as NPC sidekick? He could taunt the enemy A.I. by driving it insane and loosing intelligence.

  • megamike15megamike15 Member Posts: 2,666
    i'd rather they focused on just the 8 party members then take time away to make blank slates and have characters that should be fleshed out coughalothcough suffer.
  • FardragonFardragon Member Posts: 4,511

    i'd rather they focused on just the 8 party members then take time away to make blank slates and have characters that should be fleshed out coughalothcough suffer.

    Because each detailed character has to interact with every other detailed character the mount of work required to add each one inreases with each addition. The seventh character requires more work the sixth, the eighth would need more than the seveth, etc. And the intention is that PoE2 will have very detailed characters - each one with far more lines than any BG2 companion.

    But guess what? Not everyone likes very detailed companions. Some people prefer charactatures like BG1. And adding four BG1 type characters - a full party - is a lot less work than one fully developed companions.
  • megamike15megamike15 Member Posts: 2,666
    i understand that. there are also people like me that care about story and characters when they play rpgs. and when they are blank slates it takes something away. it's why i'll never play bg1 without the npc project.

    and aloth is the one that needs the most fleshing out of the three returning characters. there just was not that much of him in the first game.
  • ThacoBellThacoBell Member Posts: 12,235

    i understand that. there are also people like me that care about story and characters when they play rpgs. and when they are blank slates it takes something away. it's why i'll never play bg1 without the npc project.

    and aloth is the one that needs the most fleshing out of the three returning characters. there just was not that much of him in the first game.

    Islmyr is just a darling though.
  • FardragonFardragon Member Posts: 4,511
    Islmyr may be suppressed, depending on how PoE1 ended.

    But sidekicks are not being added at the expense of the main companions.
  • ThacoBellThacoBell Member Posts: 12,235
    Fardragon said:

    Islmyr may be suppressed, depending on how PoE1 ended.

    But sidekicks are not being added at the expense of the main companions.

    I really hope there is an option for the player to choose which choice they made, I definitely encouraged Islmyr.
  • megamike15megamike15 Member Posts: 2,666
    Islmyr is to aloth what boo is to minsc. they need eachother.
  • lefreutlefreut Member Posts: 1,462
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  • ThacoBellThacoBell Member Posts: 12,235
    lefreut said:

    ThacoBell said:

    I really hope there is an option for the player to choose which choice they made, I definitely encouraged Islmyr.

    If you import a save, the game will use the choices you made in PoE 1. Otherwise, you will be able to select the important choices before starting a new game.
    I think its time to nail down what I want to be my "canon" save then. Its Mass Effect all over again haha
  • wubblewubble Member Posts: 3,156
    ThacoBell said:

    lefreut said:

    ThacoBell said:

    I really hope there is an option for the player to choose which choice they made, I definitely encouraged Islmyr.

    If you import a save, the game will use the choices you made in PoE 1. Otherwise, you will be able to select the important choices before starting a new game.
    I think its time to nail down what I want to be my "canon" save then. Its Mass Effect all over again haha
    I'm trying to do a really good playthrough, though I probably will have lasting consequences for sending the people to the top of teir nowneth.
  • scriverscriver Member Posts: 2,072

    i'd rather they focused on just the 8 party members then take time away to make blank slates and have characters that should be fleshed out coughalothcough suffer.

    That's why the sidekicks were a goal for if they got money enough to do both.
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  • taclanetaclane Member, Mobile Tester Posts: 364
    Just crossed $3.0M overnight. That was the stretch goal for the companion relationship system.
    Next up is $3.25M: Sidekicks.

    Just four days to go! I think we can do it! :)
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  • mlnevesemlnevese Member, Moderator Posts: 10,214
    I wonder if @Shandyr being a Marshmallow will affect the vegetable wars here... will the vegetables do something about this sweet revelation? What about the ferrets?
  • KamigoroshiKamigoroshi Member Posts: 5,870
    Fluffle, the Fluffy Marshmallow of the Obsidian Order may sound sweet. But don't be fooled: his true identity is @Shandyr, the Bristly Beaverian of the Rodentia Order! Just look at his bristly avatar! No vegetable is save from his jaws...
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