Since work on the principle Pillars of Eternity 2 base game wrapped, studio design director and RPG legend Josh Sawyer is now not concerned within the core artistic route of the game’s post-release content material. But that’s to not say he’s not a key member of the Pillars 2 crew; whereas he’s not the captain of the paid-for DLC expansions, Sawyer remains to be a guiding hand on the game’s free DLC God Challenges.
Talking to us at Gamescom 2018, Sawyer explains the thought behind these top-level challenges: “They are special modes where, for example, in the Berath challenge, any character that is knocked out for six seconds dies.” Think of those as mutators or modifiers in your marketing campaign that alter the core guidelines of the game, making development simply that little extra difficult.
And Berath’s problem isn’t the hardest by any means. “Magran’s challenge is even crazier. You can’t slow the game and you can’t pause the game, so everything has to be played with real time without pause and the AI system, which is really hard,” Sawyer says.
The game is quickly to patched with the primary two God Challenges in replace 2.0.1 – Abydon and Skaen – and additional gods, together with Berath and Magran, will probably be added over time. “We’re planning on introducing a God Challenge for every god, and that’ll all be through our free DLC,” says Josh, indicating that there will probably be 11 challenges for the 11 gods within the Pillars pantheon.
For those that had been fearful that Sawyer stepping away from the main function would have an effect on the game’s long-term high quality, it seems that there’s little to be involved about. “I’m the design director of the studio so I’m helping out on other projects, but I do wanna make sure Deadfire continues to get refined and features new content,” Sawyer says. “Even for people who don’t get the DLC, because I think people appreciated that in Pillars 1 that we kept supporting and trying to add things through our patches over time.”
Keep an eye fixed out for the primary challenges to be added to the game later this month.
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