Never too late. Just got given it from my friend.

Still not late. Have had this game on my backlog for quite a while and soon getting into it once so finish my current projects. Thank yous!

Just got into the game after waiting for a good deal for awhile and ps+ just gave it to me 🤷🏼‍♂️ the game is amazing and thanks for the tip! 🫡

Still not late i just got this game

@@YaBoiWhoDis Nice! Hope you have fun with it!

Best tip in whole comment section.

Isn’t a problem when everyone is moving around?

Best tip always in the comments...

Can this be done on console?!

Don't tell me how to spell

That's a great shout! Exactly the sort of tip worth sharing - Matt

"Toggle" is an excellent example of why the English language sucks. Oh, "toggle"? Oh, yeah, sure, just toggle it... That aside, the hand has to be on the keyboard anyway, not just for pausing but also for scrolling, menus etc. So I'm not sure how much "easier" any kind of toggle makes it than a button at once's own convenience (wow, what a feature! DLC-worthy).

BFKC Not a single word in your comment made sense. What the hell is wrong with "toggle". And how on earth can anyone think freeing up a finger doesn't make things easier?

Wlerin I think he complains that it is a noun and a verb at the same time? It is a weird complain, but not completely nonsensical.

hes a little slow

Picked it up, have regretted my character creation 6 times now, help!

Hah! The curse of every RPG :) Don't think I've ever completed one without re-rolling at least once - Matt

geoge, I', there with ya. Rolled a Druid/Priest that I hated, a Pure Wizard that can't do much at the beginning anyway, and finally settled on a trusty Paladin for the melee tanking, heals and all around awesomeness. Hope you find a good one and roll with it. Remember, you get other teammates with various classes to play with later in the game if they join you, so if you find yourself liking their playstyle more to your main character, next time roll up one of their classes and see if you like it more.

Brother Mutant73 , made me a lifegiver druid. I'm sticking with her. Figured I'd give some life back after all :)

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Meiko Graveyard I mean you can just toggle all the auto pause options in rtwp, but yeah turn-based is how I wish I could play all of their games, even though it feels crappy and added last minute

Snake_XIX I like the turn based On Divinity but not on this

I feel like turn based was added to help out people playing on consoles because real time kinda sucked and drew me out of the first one, but more options are better for anyone who wants to play however they like

It's easier to manage for some but it slows the pace of combat down to a halt.

@@Djeveldyrker why would it be hard to manage RTwP when you can imitate TB by pausing whenever and making adjustments. Just curious. I am new to this genre, trying to figure out things. Thanks in advance for your reply.

Thank you! Glad to have you on board - Matt

POE is great, but divinity is better

@@resmarted Sorry mate but I totally disagree. I believe it's super subjective in the end but I've tried both Divinities, spent 100+ hours in the 2nd one and can't really say I enjoy it. The character development is really bad, balance is totally off, most combats are super one-sided (especially if you're 1-2 levels behind). PoE is much more hardcore in terms of mechanics but rewards with great balance and combat experience. Divinity for me is much more creative (new mechanics, interactions with environment), much better exploration and probably dialogues and etc. Both have their strengths but my personal choice would always lean towards good combat and balance.

I know the chances of you responding are slim cause of how old this is, but compared to divinity how did you like pillars 2?

Nathan Silas unless you play path of the damned with up scaling and iron mode then the ai it's fine. But in pod you really need to micro everyone and some parties and classes are better than others (cough shapeshufter druid with barb or monk multiclass)

frking100 - true, but that's the lure of PotD anyways, it needs to be a micromanaging hell because that's what people expect from it ^^

POTD doesn't need to be micro management hell if you got tactics and focus fire. Also certain classes like monks and rogues make POTD easier to micro. Since if they keep attacking, enemies keep dying. so less micro. Chanters are also pretty easy to use or paladins. It is the caster classes and multi classes that make microing an issue in POTD.

I never understood why they went with the system they did, Divinity has a much better system to understand and it's not entirely overwhelming. Turn based just works better than real time for these kind of RPG games, real time i feel only works if the game is solo based. If a game tries to be DnDish its combat should also resemble DnD (Turn based).

I really love the AI controls. It's so much like FFXII's Gambit system...which was the intent.

KryHea did they make the ai auto function with more than just the first few skills this time? (Can u customize auto actions like in ff12)

The behavior editor is amazing but also pretty confusing. I’m starting to get the hang of it and it is SO satisfying watching everyone perform well from how you’ve programmed them.

Honestly it is an CRPG xD that is a given.

that's what ruined the game for me, the lack of XP. I like to go off and kill stuff, be evil, do whatever, kill ships. But you get 0 XP, so it just sucks.

@@jordach545 Levelling up in this game is much quicker than the first, the game would be far too easy if you could level up through just combat. But you do receive some exp from combat against enemies you haven't fought yet.

@@tonykirk8295 that's the thing. I get it, it totally works for most people. But I get bored and have ADD. I wanna kill people for looking at me the wrong way. Also, hunting ships. I wanna get XP for defeating a ship.

that applies to pretty much any rpg on pc

Doors have always been op in games

This. I was getting destroyed in the first PoE game until I figured this out

Yeah. You're supposed to be the same Watcher and in fact it does have a save import feature. There are some returrning characters. Eder, Aloth and Palegina are all returrning companions.

@@azraeldusk2154 Thanks nice to hear - generally I am a fan of continuation between games where possible.

how about i beat the game already and never knew.... jesus i hate myself now

this tab highlights items are in every similar rpg game, it was even in the original baldur's gate and every game since

Fixpont that's not true. It wasn't in the original games, just the enhanced editions.

You didnt play the first one?

You got 980 hours left of gameplay to go lol

On poTD, you need some kind of healing. Replacing a cleric with a paladin may work. It depends on if you are using the priest/druid aoe heals or if you only have 1-2 melee getting damaged. Summons have always been useful to block the battle line, it just depends on how long they last. It's better to get the summons out early rather than late.

Thanks. Regarding summons, is the beckoner subclass for chanter (double number of summons with half the HP) worth?

If you don't know how a class works for low and high levels, I suggest getting the main class with no sub class. You won't lose out. The base classes are the most balanced. I haven't tested Beckoner POE2, so I'm going to look it up right now. guides.gamepressure.com/pillars_of_eternity_2/guide.asp?ID=43051 Gamepressure's POE1 guide was great, so their POE2 guide may be useful now as well. For summons, in my experience with the POE1 engine, their use isn't so much as damage as places you put to block enemies, to buy yourself time to nuke or react. And while more summons can block more terrain, the same can be said for just summoning up those big wyrms and ogres. They take up a lot of real estate too. The beckoner subclass for chanter looks like it is specialized to pump out drake and ogre summons with fast brisk phrase singing. So long as your chanter isn't downed or paralyzed, he will still sing phrases and thus as time goes on, the chanter gets very reliable party healing (winds of death) and so on. It's almost equivalent to everyone having a fighter's self regen buff. I would not take beckoner, though, if it reduces the life on my summons. It's too specialized then and ideally I want my summons to stay on the battlefield cause they will literally roadblock hordes of enemies, for me. Just by living. If they go poof.... here comes the horde. Chanters are also nice in that they can react to a lot of situations with their defensive buffs and active spells. They got some spike/spot healing for situations where your party is getting smashed. They got summons to stall enemies. They got self heal auras and party auras. They got spells that can remove afflictions from you and buff your party with dps like Aefyre. A chanter has almost as many powerful buffs as priests, but can keep using it so long as they are still alive. Very good for "sustain parties" that don't like to die a lot. A chanter + paladin's spike heal is equal to maybe 1 priest in POE1 for healing. It's about the same, so far, for Poe2.

Playing on Veteran now, there is never enough healing, got a priest, a druid and a paladin in the party, all with healing abilities

Andrew Furletov, you just have to stack deflection on one character using a shield. Even a small one will let you evade a lot more damage. In situations where you aren't surrounded, you can switch to higher dps weapons. Druid healing doesn't get good until level 4 moon well usually. The priest 3rd level spell consecrated spell is also the primary heal. And chanters are also pretty good for aoe regen.

Look at 7:02 on the video, where it says Ship Equip and Cargo....that IS your stash, it's sorted all the food and drink for you, so you just drag it up to the top window, food in the food section and drink in the other. Like he says, make sure you put the high morale food/drink in the left slots, or else your crew will continue to lose morale on voyages because they don't like the more bland stuff to eat.

D L A berserk barb is one of the best dpsers in the game I have mine decked out with mordwyn and the dragon sabre that heals every crit he can pretty much solo anything as long a xoti casts the plus 20 accuracy and if you multiclass him as druid or monk it just eats through anything

I have transitioned to 3 melee, 2 caster parity from 1 tank melee, 5 ranged. In POE1, ranged classes were tactically nice for focus fire and because melee engagement was nasty and hard to focus fire. It also made it improbable to stack deflection and attack speed on everyone. The choke points were pretty much mandatory against 10 plus enemies in potd poe1 before they made the encounters easier.

Neketaka 😉

No and no

Long Nguy it has a pretty heavy price....

Click on the icon "I" or "II", "III" ect in the inventory menu, or while in combat select a caracter, click on the weapon and select his secondary weapon that will show up.

Get close enough to “board”. You can do that by choosing the enter combat choice (the one that doesn’t immediately board). Hen get close enough to the ship by either closing in to ramming speed or stopping close enough to safety board. It’s a little longer, but you don’t get injuries that way (unless you’re hit by grapeshot). Secondly, you just have to wait out the day and night cycle, either by moving around at sea or on land. Be sure to have a good surgeon to speed up time, and also put the crew member in the resting slot so you don’t get any penalties. 5 months late but hope it helps if you haven’t already figured it all out.

YES! OH GOD YES!

Better than your english at least

Play PoE1 to get a feel for how the combat in the game series works because it's an upgraded version of that in PoE2.

@@VGHistory1 by this logic wouldnt be better to just try POE2?

Hey! Thanks for the feedback - we'll consider that for future uploads. Hope nothing major got spoiled for you! - Matt

No problem! Nothing really got spoiled because I stopped but I saw the portraits of potential future party members and noped outta there! Keep up the good work :)

kirkuleetz Thanks for this comment. Not watching it if contains spoilers. Have no interest in ruining the game for myself.

How about you STFU, you precious flower? In the "old times", they also showed screenshots and plenty of other crap... "Spoilers" are overrated and a particularly modern and slightly narcissistic phenomenon, especially in its heightened paranoia and the way it's put forward.

Finished the game, now replaying on veteran difficulty, only just learned how to highlight chests

no...n1. they very clanky to play now and low res graphic can be hard to bear on our modern pcs and monitors 2. we already played them to death and want new stories and lands based up on game mechanics we liked back then. 3 they asking fro same STYLE of game not the exact same game 4 . or they asking fro hd remakes.

Majesty 2

Thank you! That's really useful feedback - we'll look into it - Matt

😂

it's a matter of taste. if you want a more relaxed gameplay, go Turn-Based...if you want to be stressed out sitting on the edge of your seat, go Rtwp... If you want to control every action of the fight, go Turn-based. With Rtwp you will need to turn AI off to control everything. If you don't pause enough, you might get screwed. that's pretty much it.

The sensible people will be playing post DLC imo :P

@SonOf McGringus damn how come ? I’m only a few hrs in. Haven’t even finished fixing my ship yet.

You need to play the first game to understand the lore of the 2nd. People are lying when they say you dont.