They are significantly better, on PC at least, but they do get a bit longer in time as you progress and your save expands. Booting up Deadfire into an actual save took like 15 seconds compared to like 60+ seconds in PoE for me.
Don't skip out on The White March, really exceptional expansion. Both in terms of story, mechanics and design.
Hopefully that translate well to console version, does it still have to do loading even on small houses/areas?
Yes, but the loading for areas is way way better too. Rarely will an area transition last up to just 10 seconds.
This is something I forgot to mention. PoE barely had any kind of AI systems, what they eventually patched in was barely worth using. You didn't really have any other option but issue commands for every single party member for every little thing. Meanwhile Deadfire has probably one of, if not, the most robust customizable companion AI systems out there. The generic profiles are already pretty good but the customizable gambits mean you can automate every little action imaginable, but it's still very straightforward so anyone can create their own custom routines big or small.
Where did you see it officially announced for GamePass? It isn't listed anywhere
Hello fellow controller PC user!! :) But yea, that's great to hear.
Interesting. Welp, I'm always looking to try new things so why not, I'll definitely keep this one on my radar.
I think I like the "story" overall, but hate how the player experiences it. The main quest feels like something you return to periodically when you've exhausted another dozen hours of (excellent) factional sidequest stuff—rather than something inevitable and inextricable from the rest. It's just kinda weird that there's this
Versus Evil is the publisher, but they published the game on PC too. I don't think we know who is actually handling the port development.
