{"id":517725,"date":"2026-04-07T14:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/517725\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:17:08","slug":"pillars-of-eternity-gets-turn-based-combat-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/517725\/","title":{"rendered":"Pillars of Eternity gets turn-based combat update"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 11 years later, Obsidian’s old-school-style role-playing game Pillars of Eternity<\/a> has added a turn-based combat mode on PC.<\/p>\n

The turn-based mode update<\/a> went live yesterday after months of testing<\/a>, and it adds a fully featured alternate combat mode with turns “influenced by character speed”. This means very fast characters have the potential to act twice in a round rather than just once. Turn-based mode can be selected when starting Pillars of Eternity or it can be switched to in the menus while you’re playing. It’s flexible like that.<\/p>\n

Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

Obsidian adding turn-based mode so long after Pillars of Eternity was released is a welcome surprise but it’s not wholly unexpected, as Pillars of Eternity sequel Deadfire got the same treatment in 2019<\/a>. The new patch also introduces a number of tweaks and fixes, and the Korean localisation has also been made available (and updated) in all versions of the game.<\/p>\n

Pillars of Eternity was a return to the Baldur’s Gate<\/a>-like experiences of the past before Baldur’s Gate 3<\/a> came and conquered all. In fact, in our Pillars of Eternity review<\/a>, we said: “Pillars of Eternity is the Baldur’s Gate 3 we never got, returning to the Infinity Engine style of role-playing with flair.”<\/p>\n

Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire was equally well received, pushing the previously land-based adventure into the ocean for a tropical, piratical take. “Layers of rum-and-sunshine soaked RPG adventuring to lose yourself in,” Bertie wrote in our Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire review<\/a>. “Does it really matter if it doesn’t quite tie together in the end?”<\/p>\n

The Pillars of Eternity series would indirectly continue in 2025 with the release of Avowed, a third-person action role-playing game set in the same Eora world<\/a>. Whether it will continue any further, we’ll have to wait and see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 11 years later, Obsidian’s old-school-style role-playing game Pillars of Eternity has added a turn-based combat mode…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-517725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}