not currently streaming, but some buds and I streamed the beginning of the game last night
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/174842575
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Divinity: Original Sin 2 |OT| Dragons & Dungeon Mastering
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not currently streaming, but some buds and I streamed the beginning of the game last night
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/174842575
fluffydelusions
Member
What is everyone's favorite classes so far?
cartoon_soldier
Member
I read somewhere that if you are an undead it is better to have a full team of undead. Is that true?
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
I could see it being easier, as you would not have to worry about mixing poison and traditional healing at all. Also poison clouds for everyone. I'm not worrying too much about it though, just rolling with Fane and 3 living types.
did anyone try co-oping with randoms? It sounds fun to either be the bad guy who tries to kill the host or being "invaded" by someone who's gonna find a clever way to end your life.
does this whole co-op thing work well? I wasn't exactly a fan of the co-op system in the first game but it seems much better in this one. (I'm assuming you can no longer mess with other players in a way that could end their run - like removing/destroying all their items)
does this whole co-op thing work well? I wasn't exactly a fan of the co-op system in the first game but it seems much better in this one. (I'm assuming you can no longer mess with other players in a way that could end their run - like removing/destroying all their items)
base shagohod
Member
Good enough! Thanks
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Ya know, that's kind of a good point. If you got your mask on and whatnot, even super smart AI shouldn't be throwing heal spells at you unless you somehow make it obvious you are undead.
The Illiterati
Member
When I load the game, it initially takes about 15 seconds and gives me some error about Larian Support Server failing. I can click okay and the game proceeds as normal, but this is irritating every time. Anyone else have this or know how to stop it?
Maybe they can smell you
Sevenfold
Member
If like me you loved the combat in DA:O and thought it lost its charm in 2 and Inquisition then perhaps. For me it was being able to play DA:O like a third person action game then zoom out and play the encounters like chess. Not the same in the sequels. Killed the series for me. DOS is different and you were vague but I love both games so er... i dunno.
Maybe watch a couple of early game videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd1zlRF4mDk
texhnolyze
Banned
It's so challenging even on classic difficulty, every battle is a difficulty spike lol. I couldn't imagine how it is on tactician mode.
Anyway, 9 hours in but I'm still not sure how should I spend my money. A couple of my party is still running around in their rugs, and I still haven't bought any skill book yet. Money is kinda scarce in this game compared to D:OS1 when you can basically steal the paintings and golden stuff to make easy money in early game.
Yeah, I do. Sometimes just one, sometimes everyone. Apparently, there are also banters between them (outside of dialogue box) though they're kinda rare.
Anyway, 9 hours in but I'm still not sure how should I spend my money. A couple of my party is still running around in their rugs, and I still haven't bought any skill book yet. Money is kinda scarce in this game compared to D:OS1 when you can basically steal the paintings and golden stuff to make easy money in early game.
Yeah, I do. Sometimes just one, sometimes everyone. Apparently, there are also banters between them (outside of dialogue box) though they're kinda rare.
On the first reviews, 9.4 from Mulitplayer.it
MasterMenace
Member
Going to wait for the inevitable enhanced edition 1 or 2 years from now with all the rebalancing and patches. Learned my lesson from the 1st one.
Avallon
Member
HELP!
I am completely paralyzed by the amount of choices present in the first 5 minutes of the game! What class do I play? What abilities do I use for said class? What's my perk? Do I play custom or Origin? Do I pick up everything I can find no matter how useless it seems? Do I steal things? Do I fight the first npc? Do I act snarky? Do I behave? Do I follow the origin prompts during dialogue choices? Do I need all these pots?
I'm not looking for answers to all these questions, but I am seriously stuck in the first room of the game. I constantly feel like I've made a bad decision and either reroll my character with a different class or reload my save and don't steal that book this time. I started picking up everything I could find that wasn't red, but then I noticed that most of that stuff has zero value and a weight cost.
Someone give me some words of encouragement and maybe a few tips about how to not be completely overwhelmed by everything.
I am completely paralyzed by the amount of choices present in the first 5 minutes of the game! What class do I play? What abilities do I use for said class? What's my perk? Do I play custom or Origin? Do I pick up everything I can find no matter how useless it seems? Do I steal things? Do I fight the first npc? Do I act snarky? Do I behave? Do I follow the origin prompts during dialogue choices? Do I need all these pots?
I'm not looking for answers to all these questions, but I am seriously stuck in the first room of the game. I constantly feel like I've made a bad decision and either reroll my character with a different class or reload my save and don't steal that book this time. I started picking up everything I could find that wasn't red, but then I noticed that most of that stuff has zero value and a weight cost.
Someone give me some words of encouragement and maybe a few tips about how to not be completely overwhelmed by everything.
MasterMenace
Member
Refund it and go play a hand holdy game?
LurkerPrime
Member
Had my first crash in Fort Joy. Got encumbered, and as I was going to do something about it the game just crashed to desktop with no error message.
I'm blaming my lucky ooze barrel, personally.
Shadowblade (rogue/polymorph) is exactly what I wanted to make. Very happy with it so far, lots of stealth and stealing, and spells for days. SSS-tier.
I kind of want an Inquisitor though. I have a weakness for heavy armour, giant two-handers, and dark magic.
When you get into combat stance your bones rattle.
That's my headcanon.
In terms of settling on a character, just pick one you like and roll with the punches. Set what sort of person they are beforehand; like, are they honourable or no? Use that to decide whether you allow stealing or murder, and that will guide your playstyle.
And seriously, don't worry about playing optimally, DOS2 is designed to be played in many different ways. It lets you play pretty much however you want. Just try to have a balanced party and you'll be able to weather and storm.
I'm blaming my lucky ooze barrel, personally.
Shadowblade (rogue/polymorph) is exactly what I wanted to make. Very happy with it so far, lots of stealth and stealing, and spells for days. SSS-tier.
I kind of want an Inquisitor though. I have a weakness for heavy armour, giant two-handers, and dark magic.
When you get into combat stance your bones rattle.
That's my headcanon.
You can take the red things if you're hidden (press c to hide) and out of view (not in an NPC's red cone of vision, press shift to view it IIRC). It's stealing, but uh, you're doing it so it's OK.
In terms of settling on a character, just pick one you like and roll with the punches. Set what sort of person they are beforehand; like, are they honourable or no? Use that to decide whether you allow stealing or murder, and that will guide your playstyle.
And seriously, don't worry about playing optimally, DOS2 is designed to be played in many different ways. It lets you play pretty much however you want. Just try to have a balanced party and you'll be able to weather and storm.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
make a skellington cuz it's about halloween times
For what it's worth, these are the "canon classes" of the characters:
Red Prince: Fighter - Warfare, Geomancer
Lohse: Enchanter - Hydrosophist, Aerotheurge
Ifan: Wayfarer - Huntsman, Geomancer
Sebille: Rogue - Scoundrel
Fane: Wizard - Geomancer, Pyrokinetic
Beast: Battlemage - Aerotheurge, Warfare
If you're so overwhelmed, lower the difficulty to explorer and just go with the flow, play however you feel like.
Managed to try the 2-player coop real quick (i.e. played it for 4 hours straight)
Holy fuck. This is AMAZING. The attention to detail is just mind-boggling and the way coop works is just insanely well thought out. I'm genuinely going to be comparing every other coop game to this for the rest of my life.
The situations we got ourselves into were just ridiculous and the ways we managed to actually survive (some of lol) those situations were beyond ridiculous. I didn't realize stealing bread would end with the whole goddamn fort attacking us, nothing better than fighting 10 guys, actually doing fairly well all things considered then getting killed by the very last enemy after 45 minutes of fighting.
Gonna play more coop with another friend tomorrow and if all goes well, we should be able to play 3-player coop on Sunday. Can't fucking wait!
Holy fuck. This is AMAZING. The attention to detail is just mind-boggling and the way coop works is just insanely well thought out. I'm genuinely going to be comparing every other coop game to this for the rest of my life.
The situations we got ourselves into were just ridiculous and the ways we managed to actually survive (some of lol) those situations were beyond ridiculous. I didn't realize stealing bread would end with the whole goddamn fort attacking us, nothing better than fighting 10 guys, actually doing fairly well all things considered then getting killed by the very last enemy after 45 minutes of fighting.
Gonna play more coop with another friend tomorrow and if all goes well, we should be able to play 3-player coop on Sunday. Can't fucking wait!
texhnolyze
Banned
The sole reason they made Enhanced Edition back then was mainly due to the DX11 and console version. Most, if not all, of the EE improvements, are already in the base game of D:OS 2. They'll surely still do rebalancing and patches but I don't think it's gonna be in the same way as it was in the first game with EE. Maybe they'll release a GOTY edition later, but I highly doubt it'll be called Enhanced Edition.
Golden_Pigeon
Banned
Are you starting over every time ?
Thank you, even the wiki hasn't had this updated. Been looking for this!
Tomorrow at least, yeah. We'll probably continue one of the playthroughs on Sunday.
I don't mind tbh. There was a ton of stuff I didn't get to see on Fort Joy yet.
I'm running about 4 different games of it over the course of the weekend. Not including my own solo playthrough
It's pretty amazing so far. I'm still figuring out how to complete very simple, basic quests on the island and the attention to detail is already making my head spin. Like, some guard asshole killed my cat "companion" with a bow and I'm still trying to figure out why, and if it will matter somehow, and I love it. Reminds me of Ultima VII like no game has before (didn't play DOS1).
Now to find a goddamn shovel.
Now to find a goddamn shovel.
fluffydelusions
Member
GAF...conjurer or wizard? help me choose
Yeah I'm playing as an elf female in one of my playthroughs and Lohse has been extremely thirsty
cartoon_soldier
Member
Restarted Huntsman with Sebille taking chicken poly this time around. May need to mess around with rogue next.
Agreed.
Shouldn't happen unless they're a special type of NPC you would expect it from or you do something to give it away like stepping in poison or taking off your headgear.
Fusion Pizza
Member
Played singleplayer for a bit to get my bearings then I tried out coop with friends. That's some seriously fun gaming right there. The systems are interesting, still learning what all the magic is about. I rolled a conjurer, really enjoying summoning different kinds of Incarnate from different ground effects.
Also tried out some of the PVP modes, only did one game of DM and Kill the King, enjoyed both!
Also tried out some of the PVP modes, only did one game of DM and Kill the King, enjoyed both!
There are quite a few choices to make in the game, and that's one of the beautiful things about the game!
Santiako posted a very useful link of default classes for the companions:
Red Prince: Fighter - Warfare, Geomancer
Lohse: Enchanter - Hydrosophist, Aerotheurge
Ifan: Wayfarer - Huntsman, Geomancer
Sebille: Rogue - Scoundrel
Fane: Wizard - Geomancer, Pyrokinetic
Beast: Battlemage - Aerotheurge, Warfare
I have always had good luck running 2 mages, 1 tank and 1 archer in my party, which worked fine in the regular (classic) difficulty in the previous game, and in the EA for me. However, there are many, many combinations possible, even on higher difficulties. for example I am going to use loshe (aero/hydro), red prince (pyro/geo), ifan (warfare/tank) and sebile (ranger/scoundrel) on my first playthrough.
My two cents for general tips would be:
- Do not be afraid to pre-pull enemies by sniping them or dropping a fireball on their face. Starting fights on your own terms is very advantageous in DOS.
- Stay away from undead classes, at least in your first playthough as they use different mechanics than "living characters"
- Hybrid classes are not a 50/50 splits like in other RPGs, but I would not spread my skills too thin, if possible. However, once you know more about the one point wonders (like teleportation, fortify or armor or frost), it makes your characters much more powerful!
- For your mages, I would recommend going geomancer / pyrokinetic (kindoff like fane, but he is an undead so you can make a companion pick the same skills) as well as aero/hydrosophist (Loshe in her default class). The reason behind it is that the oil + fire or poison + fire and rain + shock combos are very useful, once you strip your opponent's defenses
- Have at least 2 characters that can heal (restoration from hydrosophist school and first aid from huntsman school, if you want to go the 2 mage, 1 ranger and 1 tank route)
Some other abilities work great together: decaying touch (necromancy) + restoration (hydrosophist): Makes healing spells hurt your opponents, and healing is % based, so you can see how that could do a lot of damage to high HP targets (like bosses hehe). Tactical retreat + huntsman abilities: archers benefit from height bonuses, so tactical retreat can get you a vantage point and you can snipe people to oblivion (sebille is really good as a ranger because she also has a racial trait which boosts her damage, and as a ranger she shouldn't be in the from lines). Sneak + snipe (huntsman skill) allows you to open up a fight by dealing lots of bonus damage to a single enemy right away. Lastly, Backlash and throwing daggers also does a lot of damage, but I do not use a dagger rogue so I can't attest to that.
Best of luck on your playthrough!
His Majesty
Banned
MisterShine
Member
Courtesy of Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DivinityOr..._you_can_fully_respec_every_aspect_of_you_and
Your party gets a full respec at the start of Act 2! Nice.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DivinityOr..._you_can_fully_respec_every_aspect_of_you_and
Your party gets a full respec at the start of Act 2! Nice.
Pyros_Eien
Member
Throwing Dagger was nerfed pretty heavily actually since EA and is one of the reasons I thought my rogue was doing bad damage before I looked more carefully at the numbers since I was using it every turn like in EA. It used to do more than a normal attack, but now does less, so it's only good if you need a ranged attack, but with Scoundrel movement bonus and The Pawn, I haven't really needed a ranged attack so I unslotted it and have been using other skills instead(kinda wish I took Chloroform instead but no big deal).
Damage is good though, isn't as braindead as during the EA with the various nerfs, but still does high damage and the burst mode with all cooldowns up is generally enough to delete a target which feels good considering kill speed is otherwise kinda low from the other classes with the armor absorbs and stuff.
Get home to play and it's crashing instantly on launching.
Jag
Member
I was going to do custom, but realized that even with Origin, you can totally customize your character. So there is no downside to it. Having your own character have an origin is really more about dialog choices and so far it has added some flavor to the game (I took Ifsan as a Ranger/Poly)
TatteredHat
Member
Ended up starting as an undead lizard summoner/geomancer with lone wolf, so it's just me and Fane in the group.
It's stupidly effective so far, lol
It's stupidly effective so far, lol
Jay Shadow
Member
I went custom, just cause I figured math wise if I ended up playing twice I'd cover all origin characters in my party without any repeats.
Thanks for the update! I'll have to look at my skills more carefully then, in case other combos may have been visited by the nerf hammer.
Sanctuary
Member
Not really feeling the pseudo Mass Effect 2-3 system they have going on with armor in this game. It effectively neuters CC in such a huge way that it goes from "really strong" to "almost pointless" for the player. Yet the enemies, especially melee have no problem blasting through the protections of my casters to knock them down in a single action. It takes me however 3-4 total actions to even get CC to work, and it usually only lasts for 1-2 turns.
That would be fine if direct damage had been buffed to compensate, but because of the layer system, it's even weaker than it was in the previous game. This is just on classic. I can't imagine how annoying it will be on tactician.
That would be fine if direct damage had been buffed to compensate, but because of the layer system, it's even weaker than it was in the previous game. This is just on classic. I can't imagine how annoying it will be on tactician.
fluffydelusions
Member
Alright I'm liking conjurer so far. I think it's the most fun class I've tried.