Spoilers for Act 1.

Hi, so I finished Act 1 yesterday and defeated Tarkis Arri. During the conversation if you choose "Any last words?" she basically gives a shoutout to Nerat for their "aid without which we couldn't get far".

After you meet with Tunon you are tasked with finding out which Archon is treacherous and gather evidence.

This line from Arri seems like a literal first-hand confession that Nerat was colluding with the rebels, yet it is not listed anywhere. I replayed the scenario but nobody seems to care that she basically testified against Nerat.

What gives? In my mind this is a huge piece of evidence that the characters just completely ignore...

I only completed Act 1 so light with the spoilers please.

So like the title says, I took the quest to >!follow Insipid Moniker!<into Darkened Hollows where I was blocked and needed to find the way past it. I did so but now the teleporter wont work to get me back there, or if I go further into the game it only lets me go into the Fractured Depths. I know that there is the console command "areatransition" but I'm really not sure what to type in to get back to the starting area of Darkened Hollows. Can anyone help? Or even just provide a list of all the location IDs, specifically for Bastards Wound since I am pretty sure this wont be the first time the teleporters give me grief, given everything else I've read from people's experiences. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I played a character until gathering Barik, Verse and Lantry and found that my characters spells (the frost and lightning spells you start with) were missing and I couldn’t remake them in spell creation, as if I’d lost the frost and lightning cores. Think it may have happened after speaking to Graven Ashe and The Voices of Nerat.

After looking for a solution online I couldn’t find a similar problem so I started a new game only for the same thing to happen.

Anyone know the cause and possibly the fix for this? I’d like to continue playing but I’ll likely uninstall if not.

I wanna spell my brains out and was wanding how to achieve the highest posible lore, no matter balance or usefulness, i need the highest lore possible

Hey all! I could use your advice.

My girlfriend and I have recently gotten into our own D&D-like shows and audiobooks. I’ve constantly been finding myself wishing for that same open-end gameplay for videogames, and was directed to Divinity Original Sin 2 & BG3. (I know it’s not exactly the same, but it’s close enough from what I’ve heard.)

However those games feel very complex for me, as the closest I’ve played to an RPG is Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3 which approach gameplay very different differently.

From there, I found this game suggested on a YouTube video. I figured I would give it a try, but feel very out of my comfort zone, like the game speaks a lingo I don’t understand. Do you have any advice for getting into the gameplay when I’m not used to games like this at all?

been struggling with the game loading screen freezing but waiting seemed to be the only thing that fixed it. Now I'm stuck inside the forge interior, every time I try to leave the loading screen stuck, I mean really stuck. It doesn't freeze or give the "game stopped responding" thing

I don't know what else to do, I remember playing this game way back and being fine with it, on the same pc

I want to make the archons as Kindred in a vampire the masquerade v5 game does anyone have any advice on how I would go about this

I am the part of the game where >!Bitter Quip !<is being accused of murder. Did you find them guilty or innocent based on their explanation and what were the consequences?

This isn't a financial decision. It's an if I like the game & am going to play it type decision.

For reference - I absolutely love Wasteland 3. The dialogue was a good balance of enough but not too much... which I found was not the case with Baldurs Gate 3.

I really didn't enjoy Divinity OS 2 at all. I found some of the more elaborate puzzles to be trial & error, rather than logic based..

I'm not assuming that's great info to base anything on, and obviously trying the game out is the real test.

But most importantly, I'd love to know why you love the game?

Hi, y'all! I'm making this post partly to gauge interest, but also to solicit some feature suggestions. It's been over 2 years since I released my first Tyranny mod, Bag of Tricks. I wasn't at all happy with how it turned out, so semi-recently I started working on a 2.0 version where I re-wrote everything. This also didn't turn out well, as working with the in-game UI is a total mess. This leads me to the point of this post.

I'm working on a 3rd party combined mod manager and mod UI that runs alongside BepInEx for Tyranny. The premise is that while the game is off, you can install/uninstall and enable/disable mods like with any mod manager. While the game is on, you can adjust mod settings similar to WeMod. The manager communicates with the game through a mod called TMMCore, which is also planned to contain some general QoL improvements to the game. It would also be very easy for other modders to integrate the menu into their mods (yes, I realize there are barely any mods for this game. Let a man dream).

With all that said, two questions:

1. Would anyone even be interested in a thing like this?
2. Does anyone have suggestions for QoL life improvements to add to the mod?

I will say that this is something I'm going to continue making just because it's fun, regardless of people's interest. And I've gotten to the point where it's mostly finished anyway.

Preview of Mod Manager (design not finished)

!For context, I am working my way up the investigation while temporarily aligning myself with the Chorus. I did the Stalwart quest first and was absolutely horrified with the plot twist. Why didn't I have the option to rebel right then and there after finding out about the heir? That would make more sense than having the [Betray Alliance] option at the very start of the quest without having much knowledge about the situation.!<

!After that debacle, I decided working with the Chorus just isn't worth it. I went to the burning library next, and after getting the Silent Archive with the intention of double crossing the Chorus, my Fatebinder, WILLINGLY handed the scroll, a scroll full of forbidden knowledge that Kyros herself deemed so contraband that she elected to destroy it with an Edict, to an agent of the Voices that can actually read that stuff. Now, Nerat has the knowledge of the Silent Archive and with my Fatebinder is okay with it. What gives? That point is where the [Betray Alliance] makes the most sense or am I just overthinking it? I feel like I am being railroaded to if I decided to skip that betrayal option from the start of a quest.!<

!I feel like I have to put down the game for a while because my common sense doesn't seem to match my Fatebinder's.!<

Game has been humming along until now, I've played at least ten hours, and nothing that I know of has changed (unless they updated to break it overnight) but suddenly I'm just getting black screen on boots. It seems to boot to the menu, runs through the obsidian splash art (can hear it playing) and main theme, and the hand cursor shows up, but I can't do anything. I've tried restarting, reinstalling, verifying the game cache... Not sure what else I can do here. I do switch between having it on an external monitor and not, but that hasn't been a problem.

Suboptimal is okay.

Winning speach checks is my favourite.

I am trying to complete the assault on the citadel quest, but there is no icon for Vendrien's Well on my map? I "sided" with the disfavored (chose the lie option to meet them there), on the way out of camp Barik freaked out and almost left my party so I told him I would fight with the disfavored... only now there is no map icon to travel to Vendrien's Well Citadel? Did I break the game somehow?

From all the search results, it's seems like the consensus is that Dual Wield isn't worth it, the reason why I'm asking is sometimes threads about builds always get hijacked by min-max idiots who act like that 2.82 damage is life or death for some reason. I'll be playing on Hard Mode and I'm familiar with CRPGs, I like the fantasy of a Dual Wield Fatebinder, soooo do the min-maxers here actually have a point here?

Is it possible to make a heavy armored Fatebinder that uses a greatsword and magic?

I just started and I NEED that disfavored armor with the skull helmet and everything!

Can I get that armor without killing disfavored soldiers to loot it?

This legitimately isn’t me complaining about “oH wHy CoUlDn’T tHeY vOiCe It FuLlY?”, the game is perfect for its genre.

I’m asking because I have a very hard time getting through the text-only sections since my eyes get exhausted very easily and then my reading comprehension just completely DIPS lmao.

Does anyone know of any text-to-speech add-ons that can maybe help with this?

Hi everyone,

I sided with Chorus Act 1, had Tunon pledge fealty and accused Nerat (then killed them), claimed all spires except Ocean spire (did the stone sea one last). When I go to Oldwalls Breach, all the npcs are dead, and there isn't a way to enter to claim Ocean spire - anyone know the way around this (happy to do another playthrough if I locked myself out) or what choices lock this out?

I went to lethians crossing and burning library on Nerat's missions if it helps.

Thanks

So I started a first playthrough couple of weeks ago without spoiling me with information from the net.

Act1 was interesting and I legitimately got annoyed by the constant fighting between the 2 factions, I though I could do something about it and get them work together at some point but didn't find how or when. So when I finally reached the first spire and defeated Tarkis I choose the option to claim the Spire for myself because yes I did all the job alone and deserved it.

Bad news, I, without knowing it at that time, just started an anarchist way. I ended up being hostile to everyone and spend most of my play fighting and killing everyone. But that's not what I wanted to do, I mean I'd play Grimdawn or whatever diablolike if I want to just smash anyone on my way. I tried to find a way to improve my relationship with each factions but, not knowing if it was possible, I felt I wasn't playing the game I wanted to play.

So around half of the game, I decided to start again.

This time I, against my own jugement, I sticked to be friend with one side, the Chorus. I though the game would be much deeper with interesting plotting and quests... and no. I ended my playthrough killing all the archons and pledging allegance to Kyros and felt I missed something, the quest and plotting weren't really interesting the way they were presented with this alliance, the game didn't allow me to get what I wanted and manage situation the way I wanted. Everytime I felt I had to break my alliance with Nerat to do better but I always though that this would simply make me again hostile to everyone. So I sticked with him until I had the opportunity to end his crazy life.

I felt unacomplished at the end of this playthrough, so I went on the net and started reading a bit about it, discovered about the 4 ways to play the game (disf, chor, rebel, anar) which gave me more sense on what I was doing and wanted to start again but wihtin the rebel way.

So I started again the game with the objective to rally the rebels and failed miserably. The first requirement list I found on the net wasn't complet. So I started again, ensuring the conquest steps were the ones needed and I... failed again, because I missread one step and couldn't get the invitation letter from Tarkis. Hopefully I took one save and manage to salvage it, get the correct option and finally got the rebel to side with me.

And then from there, I finally had the impression to play the game, not just half of it. I'm still 3/4 of the run but I had much more fun, interest in the questing and lore than the 2 firsts try i made.

And here I am finding this situation confusing that the game I though I would play when I bought it isn't the natural one, it's the hidden one, the one you can't possibly do the first time unless really lucky.

I still have more to explore, mainly on character side with Barik and Verse and probably going to do another run after that one, maybe finishing my anarchist run but I feel something is wrong with the game on this particular point that the game somehow force you into it if you decide that the 2 archons are pissing you to much. I really thought that wouldn't be a big deal to say fu.. to them but I was wrong...

Hi, so I’ve seen this game kicking around a bit and it has an interesting concept to it. I’m told it’s unfinished though; how unfinished? How many hours would this game be, does it have satisfying endings? What exactly is meant by ‘unfinished’?

Hi. I am a big fan of RPG games, and I think Obsidian Entertainment generally know what they’re doing, based on the two games of theirs I’ve played before, that being Fallout New Vegas and Knights of the Old Republic II.

So I had moderately big expectations for Tyranny, and having recently played it I would say they were mostly met, and I think Tyranny is a pretty swell RPG.

The first thing I liked is how the game incorporated your choices from the introductory Conquest of the Tiers into the dialogue in the game. It’s a small thing, really, I don’t think it majorly changed anything apart from some  reputation, but it did come up frequently, and not just in the beginning. It made me feel like I “lived” through the Conquest even though it wasn’t really represented in the gameplay, but it came up often enough to make it feel “real” and I think that was cool.

The second thing I thought was great and fresh was the setting. I think western RPGs have a bit of a style overload when it comes to “traditional western late medieval” aesthetic. You know, knights, full plate, jousting, things like that. So I like that Tyranny went more in the ancient direction, sort of cusp of the Iron Age.

It actually played well into the story, and I loved how “smelting iron” was in itself presented as a bit of a mystical thing, with the Forgebound. I could see that actually working like that back in the day, where you had a clash of a bronze age culture and a culture that knew how to smelt this new metal and scale up industrial production with it, and how that might have seen a bit magical or mysterious. I did also like that the game noted, truly to life, that bronze is actually STRONGER than (at least early) iron, but iron has the edge in that it’s easier to make if you know how, and easier to make lots of it.

Another thing – I like how your role as a Fatebinder, a judge and executioner in one, made it easy to justify you passing judgement on passerbys, or offering your opinion in moral dilemmas. Often it feels a little artificial, because why would a random nobody care for your opinion if you’re just a  random adventurer/soldier, but here passing judgement is LITERALLY YOUR JOB, and it makes it fit.

As far as the story itself is concerned , I liked it bringing up some of the less-than-pretty concepts about waging war, but I also liked how the Kyros’ Empire wasn’t like moustache-twirling evil, but rather... ruthlessly concentrated on utility? It literally had a state-mandated compulsory charity laws, where it said “in times of lean you will be fed, in times of plenty you will feed others”.

I also liked the Edicts, and how you could subvert them, although I think in the end it was a little too easy for some, like literally the first time I’ve read “the line of the regents falls” line I was like “d’oh, it says nothing of them dying, abdicate and that’s it”, and was a bit disappointed when that was literally just the solution. Not that complicated, really, which lessened the feeling of accomplishment.

I did like the companions, too, especially Lantry. Lantry was an interesting character, because he was a coward and to a certain degree an opportunist, and those are usually traits that paint the character negatively, but Lantry was presented beliveable enough and quirky enough that I grew to really like him, and understand his decisions. >!He wasn’t a sleazy dirtbag screwing people over for profit, he was just an old man with a realistic-ish appropriation of his own (and his country’s) chances in the face of an overwhelming adversity.!<

Verse was an interesting person too, there was some unexpected depth to her that you got to discover in her personal quest. It’s interesting, because >!at first glance she seemed to be an unrelenting psychopath!<, but in the end I almost felt like Barik annoyed me more with his unwavering cultural supremacism.

That being said – is it just me, or did some companions got more shafted than others in the quest department? Lantry had his own quest, and the Bastards’ Wound was partially connected to him too. Barik and Verse had their own quests. But I tried talking with all of them often and I don’t think Sirin or Kills-in-Shadow had their own quests?

Now, there were also some things that I didn’t think worked so well.

For example, I played on the >!rebel (Tiers) path and it sometimes seemed like the game had schizophrenia, because a lot of characters loyal to Kyros seemed to ignore, for a really long time, the fact that I have openly and brazenly defied him, by throwing my lot in with the guys who are literally caled “Oathbreakers” by Kyros’ forces, and by killing some of Kyros’ top lieutenants.!<

!Overall, it sometimes felt to me like the game was written with the baseline of staying loyal to Kyros, and then the rebel path was like a path applied ontop of it.!<

Also – while I liked the Bastards Wound storyline, >!what with both the leaders being sneaky covert absolute psychopaths, I did think it was structured in a bit of an illogical way. I told one of them I’ll help BEFORE I was 100% sure he was an absolute psychopath, and then couldn’t back out of it once I learned that and side with Reef-Talon, even though logically in the world of the game I don’t think there should be anything that stopped me from that. I mean, just because I said I would help shouldn’t mean I ABSOLUTELY MUST, people and promises (unfortunately?) don’t work that way.!<

Despite those small gripes I think Tyranny was a pretty good RPG, with enough freshness in it’s setting and worldbuilding to make it stand out a little. I had fun the entire way playing it.

How did you like Tyranny and how it compares to the other Obsidian games/other rpgs generally?

Otherwise, if you think it could be fun seeing a new player discovering the game for the first time, you can check out my blind playthrough here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6AaQvxE1pg&list=PLp4TpsJ7HUWUxjukIOb8KpBwdLzKwezL7

I would like to hear your reason for being his fans. For me, first he is a boss who actually leave me a quite loose leash and being most generous when I choose the rebel path. Second, because he is awfully sexy!