Obsidian announced that the cRPG Pillars of Eternity will receive the fan-requested turn-based mode tomorrow. It will be a public beta going live on Steam and the Xbox PC app.

As you already know if you played the game, Pillars of Eternity is currently available only as a real-time with pause (RTwP) game, whereas its sequel, Deadfire , eventually introduced an optional turn-based mode. Fans had long requested this option in the first installment, and now Obsidian is delivering.

You'll have a number of settings to tweak in the new turn-based mode.

The announcement came directly from Josh Sawyer, the project director (also known for Fallout: New Vegas and, more recently, Pentiment ), who said:

There were a number of very reasonable criticisms of how the turn-based mode was implemen

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