Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire

Bugged quest towards the end of the game has cut off my progression. I am guessing inadequate beta testing on the part of the developer.

A year or so later, I opened my old save to see if they've improved the optimization since then. I'm at Neketaka, the first big quest hub. Initial load, two minutes? Fine. Walk into a bar. 20 second load screen. Walk downstairs to the discrete encounters area. 10 second black screen. Walk back upstairs, 10 seconds black screen. Exit to city map. Choose another area inside town. 30 second load screen, followed by 20 second black screen. This is like wading through a swamp made out of molasses while one toddler clings to each of your ankles. Just like it was a year ago. The load times wouldn't be long if they weren't so frequent. But they are, and it's unplayable. Supposedly you can fix this by dropping $1k on a SSD, or at least that's what the (paid?) trolls in the Steam forums always say. But yeah no, I'm not doing that. I can play Divinity: OS2 on this machine. I can play lots of things. Pillars of Eternity 2's loading management is uniquely horrible, and has been for a very long time. If you played Pillars 1, it's like that at first, but it gets worse over time. Much, much worse. I've completely lost faith in the developer. +1 star because it's a pretty snazzy load screen I guess.

Ruined by the combat

In POE, you need iemod to stop autosave, or your hard disk would cry. As for POE2, save/load is just disasterous. Even if you have SSD, you may still meet many problems, such as ctd, lag, etc.

The Mac OS X port does work.