If any of your characters end up dressed like this, you’re doing very well. This piece is strictly quality of life stuff and helpful pointers about combat, party management and early quests for those who haven’t really played an Infinity Engine style game before. Any super amazing skill exploits I learned during pre-release play (when I’m writing this) will almost certainly be rendered useless or out of date. For a start I’m not all that great at divining the one true game-breaking path for RPGs.īut the main reason is that Obsidian will be releasing a balancing patch for Pillars of Eternity on launch. Right, Tell Me How to Min-Max Every Single Class Some of the miscellaneous control stuff under “Improve My Quality of Life, Then” could be useful, but the rest of Pillars of Eternity will probably just slip back on like a comfy pair of socks. If the names Baldur’s Gate, Planescape: Torment or Icewind Dale bring almost tangible memories of non-stop 20 hour play sessions rushing back into your brain-space, you won’t have a great need of anything here. Such things can be overwhelming, so this Beginner’s Guide hopes to get you started on the right track and help you enjoy the game. It uses Unity rather than the Infinity Engine, but otherwise shares a great many similarities regarding real-time-with-pause combat, stat-based character builds, gloriously unguided quests and the like. Pillars of Eternity is a party-based RPG styled closely after the Infinity Engine games of old.

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