Pillars of Eternity has all the time been revered as an excellent CRPG, and at present marks its tenth birthday. It’s additionally lately returned to many players’ consideration, or blipped onto their radars for the primary time, because of the high-profile launch of Avowed, which is ready on this planet of Eora that PoE created. With each of those moments in thoughts, Obsidian has simply introduced an enormous shock for followers of the RPG. Regardless of it being exhausting at work supporting Avowed, getting The Outer Worlds 2 prepared for launch later this yr, and little doubt concocting some new tasks for the long run, Obsidian has discovered the time to develop a game-changing function for good outdated Pillars of Eternity. Later this yr, it’ll be getting turn-based fight.
Pillars of Eternity launched in 2015 as a non secular successor to the early Baldur’s Gate video games, however with the newer Baldur’s Gate 3 (top-of-the-line RPGs ever created) choosing turn-based fight, it appears that evidently Obsidian needs an analogous expertise for its personal masterpiece. In a put up on the developer’s boards, it says it’s “excited to discover this new strategy to expertise encounters in Pillars of Eternity.”
Even for people who have accomplished PoE as soon as, twice, or a dozen instances, this offers followers an excuse to dive again in, and maybe makes it a extra tantalizing prospect for any Baldur’s Gate 3 enjoyers to leap throughout now that Pillars is again within the public consciousness once more because of Avowed.
Obsidian says that followers will be capable to take a look at the turn-based fight system within the close to future, and that it ought to arrive for everyone “later this yr.” It’s undoubtedly shocking to see a ten-year-old recreation receiving such a big new function, particularly when Obsidian seems to have quite a bit on its plate already.
Pillars of Eternity additionally acquired a reasonably sizable patch at present to coincide with this announcement, which incorporates visible enhancements, questline fixes, and plenty of bug squashing. In the event you’re a daily participant, or pondering of hopping in quickly, yow will discover the total checklist of modifications right here.
Till we hear extra about Obsidian’s formidable turn-based transformation of Pillars of Eternity, check out another wonderful single-player video games and fantasy video games.
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