Expansions are the big deal for me. Hopefully, that Times level is coming with TR4.

Not to mention: I hope this is functional. After the many technological trainwrecks of 2023 especially I just assume that it won't be, and hope to be proven wrong.

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Stellaris stopped working for months for me. Got patched eventually...

Not a good track record all around for Paradox in recent years.

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Quoting: eldaking

Quoting: suchNever heard of Double Eleven before, so I started digging... and this appears to be a support studio. Lots of ports, made stuff for other games, published an indie, but nothing remotely suggesting they have what it takes to make a game like this (which is not easy to make).

Tl;dr: not the PA1 dev, no experience in the genre (from what they share), and the latest in a slew of (poorly made) games published by PDX...

I'd be cautious.

They have been working on the first Prison Architect since 2016, initially to port it to consoles (that was before Paradox got the license!) and then were brought by Paradox to update the game and develop new content - I think they made all the DLC released for it (a few mid-sized expansions afaik, haven't played any of them). I'd guess that for all purposes they were the studio that got the PA license after the sale.

So yes they used to be a support studio working on ports and making stuff for existing games - including Prison Architect. So they do have experience not only in this genre but in this very franchise... which is not necessarily reassuring, as they mostly did DLC and the original design came from Introversion which was a very different company.

Huh, that's interesting. Not a peep about any of this here, oddly enough:
https://double11.com/games [External Link]

That PDX DLC is much maligned in the community from what I've seen - as stuff just bolted onto the game for no other reason than to sell more of said stuff.

So... we'll see. Hopefully it's good. Worst case scenario I'll try to find the latest Introversion build of PA1. I did play a bit of it back then, so it's been quite some time.

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She's also making music for an upcoming MMO. Not my bag, but her music very much is.

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Never heard of Double Eleven before, so I started digging... and this appears to be a support studio. Lots of ports, made stuff for other games, published an indie, but nothing remotely suggesting they have what it takes to make a game like this (which is not easy to make).

Tl;dr: not the PA1 dev, no experience in the genre (from what they share), and the latest in a slew of (poorly made) games published by PDX...

I'd be cautious.

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Quoting: d10sfanA shame that they went with Paradox, they release way too many dlcs, and their recent releases have been pretty lackluster.

I think what happened is that Introversion made PA1, it was a hit they needed after some financially shaky years, and then it made a complete flop, so they sold PA off. Technically a choice, sure, but I'm fairly positive they were happy about sacrificing PA for a modicum of financial security.

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Quoting: junibegood

Quoting: GuestI got so excited for a moment seeing the headline. The things I would give for them to mash PoE 2's combat and multiclass system with the original game.. Had so much fun with the systems in 2 but not so much the setting and plot, the exact opposite with the first.

I agree 100%.

That was also true with Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 (although in that case number 2 had superior mechanics and writing), and Beamdog improved BG1 significantly by including class kits from BG2 in BG1 Enhanced Edition. If we wait 10+ years, maybe they will do a PoE1 Enhanced Edition and make our dream come true. :grin:

EE is how I play them these days (well, EET, because why not at that point?), but I have to interject that BG1EE has very little to do with the feel, design, and any sort balance BG1 tried to maintain. EE has no design to it, no cohesion, just stuff thrown in pretty much at random, because it seems cool - and that's not even going into the new story/character content (which I can't stand - it's awful in its own right as well as ill-fitting). In that way, I wouldn't call EE an improvement. I think that's probably why people call it inferior to BG2(EE), because when judging it on those terms it has to be, yeah.

I very much recommend playing vanilla, unmodded BG1 at least once - it recreates the feel of low-level, low stakes D&D adventuring impeccably. When judged on those terms even BG3 can't possibly match it (nor should it try - it's unashamedly maximalist, right down to the way things are in its source - 5e).

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Quoting: jams3223An update is also coming for Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, and it might also get full Steam Deck compatibility.

I much prefer just mapping the m+k controls instead of their controller setup for consoles if that's indeed what they're planning. It does the job, but it's not something I want or need on a device with touchpads.

I still get cold shivers remembering that time I tried BG on a Switch...

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Quoting: JarmerPillars 2 is probably my favorite rpg I've played in the past 5 years. And I've played a LOT of rpg's. It was just sooooooooooo good. I am very excited to see how Avowed turns out. And I never did play Pillars 1, I just can't stand real time combat, so without the turn based mode implemented in PoE2, I just can't do it. Too bad because updates like this make me want to go back and try it, but ......... nope.

It's been a while, but I think you can set the game to pause if certain conditions are met. Obviously not TB, but it's something.

Unless I'm misremembering and mixing it up with BG.

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As much as I like that game I could be talked into erasing Dusk from existence if it meant erasing "boomer shooter" along with it.

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