Simple guide on how to make PoE2 34 times more enjyable:
>open game
>start new game, pick preset character just to be super fast
>breeze through the coastal area, go to port maje
>you now get an achievement
>quit
>start new game, pick +5000 gold gift
>make serious character
>get to port maje and make full custom team in the inn
Now I've saved you from shit party composition, poorly written OC dunnut steel companions and left the combat enjoyable combat romp this game is.
Thank you
Still shit game, despite some good ideas.
I exclusively play party based games now with a custom party of generics. I have ascended. Reject modernity, embrace tradition.
>left the combat enjoyable combat romp this game is
This is actually wrong, the combat in deadfire is really, really bad and its much more focused on dialogue and exploration than the first game. What kind of fricking idiot plays Deadfire for the combat?
Yeah, this is a bit mind boggling as like 90% of deadfire is not combat.
My theory is that OP unironically got filtered by Sawyer math-focused combat and needed a broken team to make it out of the prologue. I can't think of any other way to explain this. Really activates the almonds.
>like 90% of deadfire is not combat.
True, which is why the game sucks. Combat is the only good part (assuming you play on POtD with upscaling)
>Combat is the only good part
I have no idea how you couldn't enjoy exploring the very unique setting of deadfire and all the cool cities and shit. Neketaka may be the best rpg city ever made unless we count stuff like Wizardry 7 cities which are more like outdoor dungeons. I really can't think of anything better.
This just means RPG cities invariably suck. Which they do. Nothing is more boring than city exploration, cyber-tourist FedEx employee simulation.
>cyber-tourist FedEx employee simulation
No, Neketaka is pretty fricking incredible and not like that.
Nope.
>I have no idea how you couldn't enjoy exploring the very unique setting of deadfire and all the cool cities and shit
Because Deadfire's writing is boring, not as terrible as BG3's but it still sucks
>Because Deadfire's writing is boring
You can say a lot of things about deadfires writing but it's definitely not boring. No one would call a Spanish soap opera boring, regardless of the quality of its writing.
>You can say a lot of things about deadfires writing but it's definitely not boring. No one would call a Spanish soap opera boring, regardless of the quality of its writing.
I'm not the anon you're responding to, but I have played and finished Deadfire and it was a total snoozefest. Blah blah blah chase Eothas to the secret city or whatever at the end of the game with the robot guardian or dragon or whatever that thing was and blah blah le colonialism and le imperialism are... le bad? Le noble savages are le good. I don't even remember what the plot of the game was about or why Eothas was doing whatever he did.
>Blah blah blah chase Eothas
That's not the meat of the writing
>le colonialism and le imperialism are... le bad? Le noble savages are le good
Have you actually played the game or you are just saying you've played the game?
I never played the game. I'm just here to be offended.
The natives are the most fricking moronic of all the factions except the feminist version of the pirates. They have barely any leverage, no long term goal, and no short term solution. There is no world in which they survive without deus ex watcher, and any moral advantages they might hold derive entirely from being so ignorant that they might be innocent like a moronic 30 year old with the brain of a toddler.
The game clearly shows you that RDC are the best faction for a long-term survival of Deadfire. Queen and co gorge themselves up while their own people starve in the Gullet and keep up a caste system that just doesn't work anymore, VTC will mine for oil adra and then frick off, leaving behind a ruined and drained region, pirates are fricking pirates.
Maybe, but they're fricking fish people.
Maia is hot. Tekehu is hotter, but I will not ruin an entire region for fish bussy.
>Maybe, but they're fricking fish people.
Natives are also fish people and VTC are Italian Black folk. So pirates are right choice.
Frick the Deadfire, VTC is the ONLY faction capable of solving the issue of the broken wheel and saving all of kithkind.
Also, RDC explicitly mention that they will search for the way to fix the Wheel as well. So it's VTC and RDC who have at least a plan for the future.
>and blah blah le colonialism and le imperialism are... le bad? Le noble savages are le good
deadfire being problematic in letting you side with colonists and shitting on the huana has been a recurring argument among normie fans since release what are you smoking lmao
either VTC or RDC work but it depends on how you want the region to look in the future
VTC would probably be a mix of vailian settlements and allied huana tribes more liberal than their game counterparts on shit like castes if they even still exist
RDC would try to turn the area into another assimilated Rauatai province
>deadfire being problematic in letting you side with colonists and shitting on the huana has been a recurring argument among normie fans since release what are you smoking lmao
Just the vibe I got from the devs. Personally I hated every faction. Hated both flavors of fish Black folk, hated the pirates, hated the Valians mostly because I couldn't stand the creepy soul magic shit and didn't want to help them advance animancy. I did the "frick you all" independent ending, which I at least appreciate them adding, although I didn't like that it was Mr. Bones' Wild Ride. What the frick was Eothas's whole deal? I'm serious, I can barely remember the plot of the game, though I remember a few set pieces along the way.
I played the vanilla base game too, none of the DLC, if that explains why I thought it was all so forgettable. Maybe that's where all the cool shit is.
>Just the vibe I got from the devs
Uh oh, this sounds like mental illness.
They're C*lifornians
And?
>Just the vibe I got from the devs
Not separating the authors from the media is a mental illness
>played the vanilla base game too, none of the DLC
Your loss, yes dlcs are easily among the best three game had to offer, and yes they are very related to the main story
>Not separating the authors from the media is a mental illness
That's precisely my point, modern leftoid developers are incapable of separating their personal opinions from the art that they create. It's obvious how they expected you to view the setting and not subtle or nuanced in any way.
moron midwit
>t. salty fishBlack person
>It's obvious how they expected you to view the setting
And somehow you missed it and keep making shit up
>le colonialism bad, le imperialism bad, le noble savages
Literally not in the game
Eothas is revolution incarnate and so he sets out to create the most revolutionary moment in the history of the world. None of the gods have true agency and he is no exception.
>Combat is the only good part (assuming you play on POtD with upscaling)
I am and I just posted a webm showing off the combat. You are wrong.
genuinely avatargay, is there a single combat system you actually like.
ToEE
KotC
Wizardry
Battle Brothers
BG3
Sil-Q
Cogmind
Banner Saga
idk man lots of stuff
More like none of you understands the combat mechanics so you see 0 fun in creating custom parties to get the most out of them
Working within restrictions makes the already way too easy combat more interesting. Once you have custom mercs even potd is baby moron mode. Deadfire gives you a shitload of companions due to sidekicks already, you have lots to work with. You're free to play how you wish but don't pretend you're not a moron.
>combat romp
Anon, Deadfire has milestone progression. You don't even get exp for fighting. You play deadfire for the fun cities, cool dungeons, very original setting, and sick art/music. Less companions just means less of that. Maia is one of my favorite companions ever.
While people love to shit on companions, I find them to be not that bad. I mean, conversations between them are pretty funny, and honestly I love the whole concept of Xoti as a religious fanatic gf. They really should've expand sidekicks instead of recycling same characters from previous game which, with their storier complete, could be better as NPC's and that way they wouldn't be so out of game's story and setting.
Eder and Pallegina fit the context of the game, Aloth is completely shoehorned and has no reason to be there.
>Maia
she is a bretty cool guy
>Maia is one of my favorite companions ever.
That's because you're a troony
Deadfire companions are dogshit. The combat is fun. OP is right.
>The combat is fun
I'm playing it right now and I'm just beating every encounter by spamming amplified wave over and over. It's really not good. It's almost hilarious how silly and broken it is. I am in the unique situation of playing Deadfire and PoE1 consecutively, like literally just now. I'm not ever using prayers against debuffs in deadfire, that's all gone. Most dungeons are more interesting in other ways. More interesting geometry, more story telling, that sort of thing. Enemy variety has taken a massive dip which is dissapointing.
>I'm playing it right now and I'm just beating every encounter by spamming amplified wave over and over
I remember the guy that kept complaining deadfire was too balanced. Mind you, the version you're playing is the "hard" version where the difficulty was more than doubled, on release it was even easier to steamroll the game and shit like this still gets posted. Some of the people that post here are dumb as shit and don't play anything. Reminds me of that post Sawyer made complaining that the people playing his games are morons and encounters he thought were trivial stumped them. All the crying over PoE1 nerfs probably made him hesitant to make difficult encounters.
You're both talking out of your prolapsed asses.
This is the only fight nearby I could record. It is indeed true.
>Huh? My monk/cipher straight up stopped using it because spamming stunning surge with the mortars did more damage and harder CC
Ascendent cipher is a different animal.
Sometimes beginners don't realize how systems work, it's like they operate on a lower plane of existence.
I was asccendant, the mortars still ended up stronger with the extra weapon damage when ascended, esp.counting it meant most enemies were just permanently stunned.
If you haven't played through the whole game yet the combat does get more interesting in the expansions and Forgotten Sanctum specifically has some fights where you actually have to worry about what the enemies are doing (disintegrations, spell reflection, arcane dampener etc.).
T b h those villagers look like some scrubs
So I'll be saying you are cherry picking
Not that i haven't seen people soloing ultra bosses under a minute
But that's not really indicative of anything apart from the "muh balance man ruined my build" being crybabies
>So I'll be saying you are cherry picking
On the contrary, that party will become even more broken down the road as the multis come online.
>even more broken
Even more broken compared to what?
I'm just saying showing off by disposing random butt naked hobos isn't impressive at all and is not indicative of anything being broken
>arguing with an avatargay
>Even more broken compared to what?
If this was PoE1 none of this would be possible. When I hit level cap in deadfire, which happens around midgame, all the companions will be able to solo the game individually.
>none of this would be possible
what exactly? you keep insisting that we saw something that should leave us in total awe, but I'm saying we've yet to see anything impressive
>all the companions will be able to solo the game individually.
on potd w/ scaling? base game? probably if you really know what you are doing
toughest optional content as well? it is an impressive feat which few achieve, but yeah it's possible [at least for some of the companions I saw people do that], what is it supposed to prove exactly?
>on potd w/ scaling?
You keep repeating this as a scope. Deadfire is REALLY not a hard game. You morons said llengrath would be hard as well and surprise, it wasn't and all that was required is basic knowledge of how the game worked.
I really don't know why you are angry and what you are trying to prove
all I said is that your weebm shows you beating on a bunch of nobodies, so I fail to see how is that supposed to illustrate the point that "your builds are broken" or "the game is really easy" or smth
I agree that the critical path for deadfire is REALLY not hard, but then again the game does offer hard optional challenges and people even if few have already beaten those challenges with every flavor of artificial self-imposed constrain as well, you can find much more impressive vids on youtube
all i'm saying is you failed to provide any impressive evidence yet that's all
come back when you have actually interesting webms to post
>amplified wave
Huh? My monk/cipher straight up stopped using it because spamming stunning surge with the mortars did more damage and harder CC
Deadfire does have a problem where characters usually have 1 trick that's better than everything else in 90% of fights so you just keep using that one thing in everything but boss fights.
I think going from abilities having seperate nr of uses to everything using power pool charges was a mistake because it also leads to just spamming the most efficient thing.
I enjoy character building in Deadfire more but poe1 combat was better.
>tranime avatar
Fake opinion discarded
instructions unclear. started playing underrail.
yum goyslop i love throwing grenades
>yum goyslop
you do you.
moron, there's a console command that will do that in a second.
I played an Ascendant Cypher with a scattergun who could end every fight in 10 seconds.
Frick Josh Sawyer and his "balanced" game, lmao.
Just use cheat engine for gold.
>make balanced team
>don't have fun
>remake the team as a martial gank squad
>have fun
It's crazy how many games go like this. I played Tactics Ogre and it was slow until I replaced my army with undead terror knights and just auto'd everything. RTw/P is like that too, BG1 being bullshit about it with you throwing slings on your mages to keep them useful.
I do that kind of thing a lot but with ranged, which also means I get to make some of them arrow casters and the others magic casters.
DF is such boring shit though
>dual flintlocks yay
>all mechanics related to dual flintlocks are complete ass
>let's check out the dual flintlock guy even though he is an obnoxious aggressively gay blue furry maybe a dual flintlock mechanic and pirate stuff will make up for it
>he also has a mechanic that makes his head randomly explode
>ok so a character designed for me to hate it in every way, I guess I will hate it and bench him forever
I just made a riposte paladin and basically everyone else was disposable filler after that and could have any garbage le balance build.
Maia is the sexiest but the whole rest of the game being so boring drags her down to where none of it matters.
>almost the white haired elf
>nope, she's an official "Half Ass Companion". Rarely do I see a game that gives you OFFICIAL half ass companions and tries to sell it like it is a good thing.
>Ooo, maybe I'll put her on the half assed boats
DF is a burning trashpile. I might take OPs advice and load maia up with a ranged squad just to put it down quickly one day, but since I'd rather play literally anything else that day is extremely far off.
why is it always a palatard
Unironically, I would take a paladin over a thousand people seething about paladins.
>verification not required
you are the only one then, because no one likes palatards
Imagine the kind of butthole that wants to larp as always being morally superior and you'll have your answer.
Imagine being this assblasted about concepts like "be a good person" and "do the right thing" lmao
He's right and you don't want to be a good person, you want to feel like a good person while acting like an butthole, which is always the case with paladins.
>we're reaching levels of projection that shouldn't even be possible
Palatards wank over exercising authority, no being do-gooders. Any adventurer can be good. It's like the rpg version of a cop.
>Palatards wank over exercising authority, no being do-gooders. Any adventurer can be good. It's like the rpg version of a cop.
You're are describing lawful neutral, not lawful good.
Here, I looked it up for you because the real irony is the paladin orders were in fact one of the rare high spots in this otherwise below mid woke fiasco, and I can admit that because I am objective about this trash pile game, whereas flaming woketards are not, and cannot be because their worldview is fricked, cucked, and simped to the max.
"The Steel Garrote is a feared paladin order dedicated to Woedica. They work with powerful individuals and business interest to hunt down those who violate contracts, especially if said contracts were endorsed by a priestess of the Exiled Queen. They were founded in the Aedyr Empire and are active throughout the region - branching out as far as the Dyrwood and the Vailian Republics."
The Steel Garrote Subclass Information
Heal for a portion of the damage dealt to afflicted targets.
Gain Garrote ability.
Favored Dispositions: Rational & Cruel
Disfavored Dispositions: Benevolent & Diplomatic
I guess I didn't need that subclass for riposte per se, it has been some time, but merc fighter types appeal to me, and the garrote is essentially force choke so a paladin with also a cc dot instead of a smite was appealing. They're different enough from the standard religious paladin that terrifies you types enough to where I had to come back and laugh at you some more.
For someone who hates woke shit so much, you sure type like an obnoxious homosexual.
That's fine, I'm still dunking on pseuds on their home court and all you can do about it is:
>f-f-aggot
Rekt
There he goes again with those gay words.
this is the final redpill
the only problems with the game are
>ydwin is not being a full romanceable companion
>the ship combat
>zero sea monsters
>nerfing the fun builds like ranged monks with the ice bow
aside from that what was there to really hate, the way they did items was great.
the story is simple but interesting
none of the companions were actually bad
the classes and combat were deep
>nerfing the fun builds like ranged monks with the ice bow
Just give the monk dual shotties instead
I liked Deadfire, it wasn't the best CRPG ever though.
That said the seething codexgays who sperg about Sawyer, or like above were embarrassingly talking about the game being "colonialism bad" when the natives are shown to be the worst faction make me bump it up just to spite them.
>That said the seething codexgays who sperg about Sawyer, or like above were embarrassingly talking about the game being "colonialism bad" when the natives are shown to be the worst faction make me bump it up just to spite them.
I call this mentality the "prison of irony", since you end up orbiting people who you don't know and can't be sure are even being honest. Don't fall into that trap, like what you like, hate what you hate.
>I call this mentality the "prison of irony", since you end up orbiting people who you don't know and can't be sure are even being honest. Don't fall into that trap, like what you like, hate what you hate.
More than one BG3 fanboy has posted on /vrpg/ about how they only bought the game to "own" the people who said they disliked the game, or the more it was criticized the more they liked it. I cannot fathom such a mindset.
I buy anything bethesda fans say they dislike, this has by and large put many high quality games in my hands. It's like a litmus test to determine whether a game is for toddlers or adults.
"If you don't like Morrowind, you have no heart. If you like Skyrim, you have no brain." -Vladimir Putin
Every single morrowind fan owns and plays skyrim. In fact, I would not be surprised to find those two games are 90% of what they play. Following this logic, anyone who does not like morrowind, or is not aware of it, is more likely to have not played Skyrim.
>Every single morrowind fan owns [Skyrim]
This is likely true.
>and plays skyrim
Speculation. Maybe they think it sucks.
>In fact, I would not be surprised to find those two games are 90% of what they play
I would be quite surprised if that were the case. You're projecting here.
>Following this logic, anyone who does not like morrowind, or is not aware of it, is more likely to have not played Skyrim
This is very tortured logic, and likely wrong. I am certain that there are millions of zoomers who think that Skyrim is a great game, and have never played Morrowind because it's too old for them.
Wait, you can't tell on your own what games you are interested in and use Bethtards as a Quest Compass? lol, this is hilarious.
Yes yes, let the hate of me calling your shitty game shit flow through you.
Continue to do this, and never pay off your worthless liberal arts degree until the day you die in ignominy.
> Don't fall into that trap, like what you like,
The steel paladin was really a fancy mercenary fighter, more about completing contracts for the primary schizo or femdom goddess or w/e she was supposed to be than anything traditionally paladin. That is the one that used garrote and riposte build. Did any of you even play the game?
It's all absolutely in the game, you're just illiterate and don't even understand what a sympathetic or negative portrayal is.
>when the natives are shown to be the worst faction
They're all the worst faction.