{"id":162927,"date":"2025-11-04T20:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/162927\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T20:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:04:13","slug":"pillars-of-eternity-to-receive-surprise-turn-based-mode-in-new-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/162927\/","title":{"rendered":"Pillars of Eternity to receive surprise turn-based mode in new update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Fallout: New Vegas and the recently released The Outer Worlds 2<\/a>, has announced that it’s revisiting an RPG it released over a decade ago for a new update. Pillars of Eternity, a throwback isometric RPG, is receiving a turn-based mode<\/a> as part of a new public beta on PC.<\/p>\n

The new mode slows the game’s “real-time with pause” combat down, building on the optional turn-based mode the developer included with Pillars of Eternity: Deadfire, a sequel from 2018. The game’s director Josh Sawyer digs into the thinking behind the update in a trailer<\/a> Obsidian released alongside the update announcement, but in brief, the mode attempts to faithfully adapt characters’ stats for turn-based combat, while making it easy to switch from real-time to turn-based modes on the fly.<\/p>\n

Obsidian last returned to Eora, the setting of Pillars of Eternity, in the excellent Avowed<\/a> from earlier this year. That game translated the series’ world and combat systems into a first-person RPG in the style of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Besides releasing The Outer Worlds 2, Obsidian is also actively developing Grounded 2<\/a> in early access.<\/p>\n

Pillars of Eternity’s turn-based mode will be available in a public beta for PC starting on November 5. Obsidian is looking for feedback on the new mode ahead of a planned update to the game at some point in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Fallout: New Vegas and the recently released The Outer Worlds 2, has announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[18,19,17,94266,94264,94263,82,94265],"class_list":{"0":"post-162927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-mode-attempts","12":"tag-obsidian-entertainment","13":"tag-pillars-of-eternity","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-turn-based"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115493225328568904","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}