A most enjoyable, and frustrating little game. Yes, I know it's Yet Another Roguelike, but it's got a great deal of 8-bit-like charm, and pretty good music.

Performance can be greatly improved by turning bump mapping off, if you have as low-powered a laptop as I do.

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I was an early backer and just got and redeemed my Steam key. Now, I'm just waiting for Yet Another Motherboard :><: to arrive, so I can play it...

Here's a good link about PoE's character generation:
http://www.polygon.com/2015/3/25/8284763/how-pillars-of-eternity-rewrites-the-rules-for-role-playing [External Link]

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He is not part of the dev team, he only did beta testing along with other guys, I am very angry at him because of this.

If anyone doubts just go google around the game forums and you will see no post by him anywhere, plus no mention of his work in the game, because he didn't work on it, only I did work on the level design (thats why he does not have the [developer] tag, if he really was a dev he would have one, no?).

Also I dont even believe any dev would post a review on their own game, that is the most idiot thing ever. I don't need any fake reviews, I would prefer to have zero reviews than have fake reviews written by myself.

If you still dont believe, ask Valve or whatever, they will say you this game is associated with only an individual, no company at all, which would be required for a dev team of 2 or more people I think. This game was done by myself and a couple of freelancers artists I contracted who probably don't even have Steam accounts or play games at all.

This game has no DLC, no in-app purchases, nothing, you pay once and get all content.
If wanted to just get some money I would have made a kickstarter asking for 1 million dollars and then deliver a turd here, complete with 50 DLC packs, and then I would already have shilled the game with 100 fake reviews.

Now let's end this conversation please, let's talk about the game, not about this stupid rumors. Give me feedback so I can improve the game, thats why this is a "Early Access" game.

Btw I'm also going to release a free demo soon so that everyone can check it before buying.

Now I am definitely interested. I've never played a game quite like this, and it certainly looks intriguing.

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Quoting: melkemind

Quoting: coesetaAlready bought the BI DLCs :&amp;gt;

@ Eike
But 2k never ports the games in house, they always let it port by Aspyr, Feral or VP. Don't get me wrong, the ports always have a good quality so no complaints from me :)
But lets not forget about Nordic Games or Deep Silver. They are also really Linux friendly and still have some games in the making. Can't wait for The Guild 3 and Spellforce 3 ;)

Since Nordic games is doing their ports in house, it will be interesting to compare performance and quality with the outsourced ports.

I'm also curious to see if Deep Silver hires VP or one of the others to do Saints Row IV.

Nor should we forget Paradox, which has released a pile of programs, including their flagship Europa Universalis IV (which came out for all three platforms on the same day), Crusader Kings 2, Cities in Motion 1 + 2, Mount & Blade:Warband, Knights of Pen and Paper, and DLC for all their Linux games, with more to come (Hearts of Iron 4?).

Just giving credit where credit is due. :whistle:

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I groused about VP's wrapper for TW2, but they did work hard to improve the wrapper to the point that the game became completely playable for me, and (motherboard woes :><:) (again :'( ) have kept me from using the latest beta version.

Of course:whistle:, I had already purchased B:I in my dual-boot days, so it has, of course, showed up in my library, and, because I played it in the week after purchase, it will count as a Windows sale :S:.

Oh, well. I have bought a lot of pure Linux games; I don't feel too guilty :D.

Not much. :'(

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The new features sound wonderful. I've been following this game since it was announced that a formerly proposed commercial product was going FOSS. It has gotten better and better since the first alpha, and, while it's a long way from a proper, AAA RTS, there are so few proper RTS games for we Linux games. Along with MegaGlest and Warzone 2100, this is a most welcome FOSS RTS game. Huzzah!

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Paradox is a totally Linux-friendly developer since Crusader Kings 2, their first Linux game. Their offering a free DLC, adding significant content to the amazing EU, is one reason that I think as highly about them as I do.

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I've always been a gamer, and have used Wine a lot, and played (and still play) the Linux-cliented Neverwinter Nights from my beginning to use Linux in 2008.

I, using the PlayOnLinux script, installed Steam for Windows, and then installed Skyrim from within it. It runs very well indeed, along with all the Workshop content I have installed. I even installed Oblivion from within the same Steam window, and it runs perfectly. It is a bit of a crapshoot to try Windows Steam games. Some work and some don't, but it's usually worth a try.

These days, with the 1000+ Linux games on Steam, and probably hundreds more coming in the rest of 2015, there is literally no reason to dual-boot for me. I had kept my Windows partition for The Witcher 2, X-COM, Borderlands 2, Empire:Total War, and Bioshock Infinite. All except the last now have Linux versions, and Bioshock Infinite is coming Real Soon Now. Add those to Torment and Pillars of Eternity and many others Steam is promoting as coming soon to SteamOS (which is to say, coming soon to Linux), I have every reason to stay with Linux and avoid the Most Annoying OS I Have Ever Used.

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Quoting: SkiskiI'm back to dual booting again due to Lightroom being unusable in Wine.

Have you tried Darktable?
http://digital-photography-school.com/darktable-vs-lightroom-does-it-measure-up/ [External Link]

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I am hornswoggled at the sheer number (whatever it really is) of Linux games in the two short years since Steam for Linux came out. When it started, most all the games had already been released on various Humble Bundles. How that has changed. Crusader Kings 2 was the first true AAA Linux game Steam offered, and when Europa Universalis came out for all three platforms the same day, it was amazing to me.

Yes, they might not use the latest OpenGL versions. They still look great to me, and I've been depending on, shall we say, low-res games for so long (since '08) that I'm delighted beyond my wildest hopes to be able to play CIV V, Empire:Total War, X-COM, getting totally humiliated in Borderlands 2, and the raft of 90s games which have been cheap(you do, of course, get what you pay for).

The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades. :D

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