Pillars of Eternity II Archives

While Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire is no slouch on the difficulty scale, there are always players who want punishing levels of difficulty from their RPGS And thanks to a new player mod from maxolina, you can now ramp up the difficulty scaling for enemy NPCs by nine levels. In the base game (without mods), enemies only[...]

Critical Role's Matt Mercer has done a few voices for the cast of Obsidian's Pillars of Eternity, and he will be returning for sequel Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire This time, however, he's bringing the rest of Critical Role with him The confirmation came to us thanks to the Critical Role PAX East panel yesterday. For those of you not in[...]

One of the major elements of Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire is exploration, and because you'll be exploring the Deadfire Archipelago this time around, you need a ship We've known ships were coming to Deadfire for a while now, but the latest backer update for the game shows us exactly how ships will work Specifically,[...]

Obsidian Entertainment and Versus Evil have announced a release date for Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire and it'll be here soon The game will launch in April and pre-orders are now live on Obsidian.net, Steam, and GOG, and THQ Nordic will be handling the global distribution of the game's physical edition The physical Obsidian Edition of the[...]

In the final days of their crowdfunding campaign, Obsidian's Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire has hit the goal for the floating replacement for the strongholds in the original Pillars. From the announcement post on their Fig.co campaign page, "Yes, we can finally confirm what we've been keeping secret this whole time: a new and exciting feature that[...]

Today the campaign for Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire has reached 279% of their original crowdfunding goal by hitting $3M Along with this stretch, they've also hit 26K backers, which is the most of any game in the past 12 months Deadfire has now joined the ranks of Psychonauts 2 and Wasteland 3 in achieving a crowdfunding goal of[...]

They have quite a few projects being funded at the moment, including Wasteland 3, Psychonauts 2, and Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire. After the closing of Steam Greenlight and announcement of its replacement, Steam Direct, Fig the gaming crowdfunding site has announced their Fig Finishing Fund initiative The Finishing Fund will commit up to $500,000 USD to help[...]

Credit: Obsidian Entertainment I got a chance to talk with Josh Sawyer, Game Director and Narrative Lead for Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, about some of the changes we can expect to see out of the sequel and a little bit about a future stretch goal for the project's Fig campaign you may remember me posting about[...]