The custom formation thumbnails are to the far right of the list, and always look like hexagonal formations-don't worry, when you box-select and move your party in the world, they'll organise themselves according to the custom arrangement you've specified. The little domino icon on the bottom left corner of your taskbar lets you set your default formation. The top edge of the grid is the edge that will face the enemy, so line up your tanks closer to the top. There you'll be able to place character portraits on a grid. You have two slots for custom formations, and you can bring up the customisation menu with the F key. With all that in mind, let's focus on how not to die.Ī good custom formation lets you start the fight with perfect positioning.
On higher difficulties, or if you're playing on expert mode, you don't get the benefit of the maimed status, you just die straight away if your health runs out. There are no lovely magic potions or phoenix downs that will bring them back in Pillars of Eternity. If your main character dies it's game over. If they're reduced to 0 health again, they're dead. A maimed character regains their endurance, but has only 1 health, and suffers severe penalties to accuracy and defense stats. If your health runs out you become maimed. Once the combat's over, the character stands up and their endurance quickly regenerates. If your endurance runs out in a fight your character will be knocked out until the end of combat. Health can be recovered completely by resting at a campfire or an inn. Incoming damage is applied to both pools, but while endurance regenerates between encounters, health damage stacks. Your endurance pool is reflected on your character portrait, and your health pool is shown as a vertical bar next to your character portrait. Endurance measures short-term combat damage, while the health bar shows you how close your characters are to death. It's an unconventional but intuitive system that simulates short-term and long-term damage. Before we get into tactics and team balance, let's look at exactly how health and death work in Pillars of Eternity.
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