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Even for expansions, when I know they are coming, like for Witcher 3, it makes me not want to play the base game until they come.

Note that the Steam reviews are all over the place. Watch some vids first. I can tell you that the mech combat feels impactful, more so than shots in X-Com or whatever. If the vids appeal to you at any level, then pick the game up after they do a quality patch. If you aren't sure I can tell you the story is cliche, but you can do a lot to customize your mechs subject to hard point limitations.A lot of people are having technical problems, NVidia released a new driver yesterday specifically for the game that helped some people. Also -popupwindow in your command line might help.

Yea, I heard many say that. I hope they implement something like press a button to skip animation or option to only play animation if something worthy of watching will happen - part blow up, pilot getting hurt, etc.

I am a Kickstarter backer and I don't regret that...I do wish you could speed up the pace of the game and it loaded faster. As of right now, it is too slow for me to really get into. I have disabled all the camera stuff and set the visuals to low and I am still not feeling it. Hopefully it will be patched to add speed up options and to improve load times.

Agreed. Also DLC is a term I DESPISE, why not call them expansions? I miss the days of old Gaming where an expansion meant add-on not DLC where the game was finished and then they decided to add more to the story or make a new story. EG Baldur's Gate and icewind Dale expansions were made and added on after the original game was sold.

Not enthused about the DLC plan... that's only half a year for making something sizeable whilst fixing the released game.

He's one of the reasons I stopped buying their games. The man is overflowing with talent, that much is exceedingly obvious, but I find his concepts and ideas of where he wants RPG games to go is far too distant from anything I'd be interested in.I get he's likely more than tired of the same old, same old...been there, done that. Repetition and iteration are two qualities you'll not find much of in most artists (present to be sure, but not something I would say they particularly value more than "it pays the bills").The man is top notch in his work, but it's work that no longer appeals to me (for whatever the heck that's worth lol).

Out of combat use of skills and spells is actually an an added value...

Josh sounds like he wants to develop a TellTale Adventure game rather than an RPG. Without the stats to represent a character it might as well just be an action game. He got rid of non-combat uses for spells and things like pickpocketing in Pillars of Eternity 1 which could add to story telling possibilities. I don't want a story told to me with multiple pre-ordained branches. I want to be able to make my own story using my stats and abilities and have the game recognize that I have done so.

As I always say if I want story I can play literally any other genre, even sports games sometimes have stories now. I play RPGs for the sole reason of actions being defined not by my skill but by my character stats.When I play Street Fighter I have to time my V-Skill to hit my enemy but when I play RPGs I want my character stats (dexterity, accuracy, speed, whatever) to define if I hit or miss. I don't want Link's sword hitting an enemy because of my timing, therefore I don't play Zelda, but I'm happy when Pillars of Eternity let my characters stats define what I can or cannot say, or how hard I hit an enemy.This is my supreme joy, this is why RPG is above everything else for me. I started with fighting games but it is because of stats and rulesets that RPGs became my favorite genre (both cRPG and jRPGs, but never Action RPGs since they are just action games for me).