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00:00I'm here today to talk to you about the upcoming turn-based combat mode beta test for Pillars of Eternity 1.

00:30This is a big undertaking. This has been a lot of work primarily from Nick Carver and Jesse Barkenko.

00:47Special shout out to Kurt Decker, who's also been adding a lot of work of his own recently.

00:51This turn-based mode is something that we wanted to do because turn-based mode is received so well in Deadfire.

00:57That being said, there were a number of very reasonable criticisms of how turn-based mode was implemented in Deadfire.

01:03Nick and Jesse are trying to address those as well as they can.

01:06One of the major changes is that action economy is a lot more accurate to the real-time with pause game.

01:15It's not a one-to-one translation of time, because we did try that,

01:19but it does match the spirit of what dexterity should do, what recovery time should do, everything like that.

01:25The number of turns you get to take per round is no longer tied to the round, but to your speed and recovery.

01:29That feels like it has much greater parity with the real-time with pause mode.

01:37So a lot of people commented that free actions felt abusable, which is true.

01:41That is now restricted and limited, so that will feel like a significant change.

01:45Of course, a lot of people did complain that the turn-based combat mode could feel quite slow.

01:59This is because all the combats in Pillars 1 were designed around a real-time with pause combat system with large numbers of enemies.

02:07The change here is that lethality has been increased.

02:10This is one of the most popular mods that people have made in Deadfire,

02:13so it's just a core part of the turn-based mode in the Pillars 1 turn-based combat system.

02:22And then finally, you have the ability to toggle between turn-based and real-time.

02:26When we implemented the system in Deadfire, we erred on the side of being relatively conservative,

02:30because we weren't quite sure what it was going to do.

02:32For this implementation in Pillars 1, we simply have a toggle.

02:36It's available in the Options menu, but we will be adding an option to the HUD directly,

02:40so if you want to switch it very easily from combat to combat,

02:43you can do it as much as your heart desires very easily.

02:46This is a public beta, so please, please, please play it.

02:50Give us your feedback.

02:51Your feedback will directly drive the changes that we make prior to making this a permanent part of Pillars of Eternity in an upcoming patch.

03:02Thank you very much for listening, and I sincerely hope you enjoy the changes that the team has made for Pillars of Eternity 1.