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[Durante]

Played some more yesterday. We are almost done with Cyseal now, 24 hours in. Probably 2 or 3 more hours to go in that area.

I think the game might be the most fun I've had in coop ever.

Hands down the best old school PnP feeling you can get on a PC imho.

It really is.

It should be explained better that you should save up skill points since you need to invest them cumulatively. At the very least there should be a one time respec option.

There is a respec option later. Comes with some drawbacks though (as, in my opinion, it should).

The camera is driving me insane. Why is rotation so restricted?

Because you haven't unlocked it in the menu ;P

[ and ] switches between party members. Additionally you can press F1 to select your first character, F2 for second, etc. Since we're discussing keybinds, for anyone who isn't aware, pressing the Home key will re-center your camera to the currently selected party-member and also reset the camera height (from the camera bug for example).

If we are discussing keybinds, is there really no way to switch to the second or third skill bar with the keyboard? That would be my pet peeve.

 

[Levyne]

It took me something like 45 minutes just to clean up all of my characters inventory bags today. Finally starting to exhaust map locations around Lucella/silverglen

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

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So, is the Source Temple the big stone area in the middle of the Forest, with the Dread Prince?

 

[Tash]

There is a respec option later. Comes with some drawbacks though (as, in my opinion, it should).

Sweeeeeeeeet and yup, I agree. Shouldn't be easy to respec.

Because you haven't unlocked it in the menu ;P

Wait, what? Seriously?! Now I feel super dumb
Need to check that once I am off work..derp-me.

It took me something like 45 minutes just to clean up all of my characters inventory bags today. Finally starting to exhaust map locations around Lucella/silverglen

Haha yeah, I did that too in the first town still, though. Took me ages.

I dragged a big crate to the crafting outdoor area and put everything in there that can be used for crafting nicely sorted in bags. Have one of my pyramids there, too.

 

[Durante]

Wait, what? Seriously?! Now I feel super dumb
Need to check that once I am off work..derp-me.

There's also the strategic camera view (toggled with "b"), which generally helps me more with any camera issues than free rotation.

 

[Arulan]

If we are discussing keybinds, is there really no way to switch to the second or third skill bar with the keyboard? That would be my pet peeve.

Sadly no. I've seen the issue brought up on the Larian forums though, let's hope they address it. In general I feel that anything that is UI-related and can be clicked on should have a keybind option; developers: feel free to go crazy with keybind options.

 

[Durante]

Sadly no. I've seen the issue brought up on the Larian forums though, let's hope they address it. In general I feel that anything that is UI-related and can be clicked on should have a keybind option; developers: feel free to go crazy with keybind options.

Yeah, I agree. It's not a big deal because the game is turn based, but there's really no reason to force people to fiddle with those tiny arrow buttons.

 

[Lafiel]

So Lucella mines...

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how exactly do you get past the gate on the east? I've managed to basically explore the whole available area using invisibility to sneak past the death knights to no avail

.

Hoping that going to the

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initiative town after completing the trail puts me on the right track to get past that

.

 

[SolVanderlyn]

Public service announcement: If you're going to kick someone from your game, at least do it right away, and not five to ten minutes into gameplay. I feel like some people are cruising along with multiplayer turned on, someone joins, they decide that they don't like you messing with their characters all of a sudden and kick you. I can't seem to get a decent drop-in game going.

 

[badb0y]

Combat is so fun but the AI wrecks me. Apparently the AI can synergize much better than I can.

Fucking scumbag bone archers. 1 throws poison arrow, the other throws fire arrow. GG my party.

 

[Leezard]

So Lucella mines...

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how exactly do you get past the gate on the east? I've managed to basically explore the whole available area using invisibility to sneak past the death knights to no avail

.

Hoping that going to the

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initiative town after completing the trail puts me on the right track to get past that

.

You need a password, it can be acquired

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earlier in the mines.

 

[tm24]

Spent an hour cleaning my inventory and crafting, Ive never had so much fun being OCD.

Just to double check, at crafting lv5, i can combine 2 blank elemental scrolls into a blank elemental skillbook, and then apply one of the named scrolls i have to make it into said named skillbook right?

Also, whats more beneficial, dumping your gear or smelting it down?

 

[Monooboe]

So Lucella mines...

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how exactly do you get past the gate on the east? I've managed to basically explore the whole available area using invisibility to sneak past the death knights to no avail

.

Hoping that going to the

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initiative town after completing the trail puts me on the right track to get past that

.

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You can explore beyond cave ins and maybe you will find something that in turn will help you speak to those you didn't say much.

I've been wondering about the pyramids, most forcefields can be bypassed by just throwing one of the thru it, there often is just one spot where it can land but it probably is cheating, which would be fine for a rogue like me but I'm just worried that not going about it the right way I might not trigger a script or something important.

 

[Styles]

Just discovered that I can change my party's formation..

*implodes*

 

[Ragona]

Quick question regarding hunters edge

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Ive just killed all the orcs in town after the stone war quest went boom..now i have the source hunters revenge quest left...norok is on the top level of the tavern but killing him does nothing..so how do i end the quest?

 

[Tash]

Just discovered that I can change my party's formation..

*implodes*

One single line is really helpful to get around a lot of traps, I discovered.

 

[Hey_Blinkin]

I really wish I hadn't made one of my main characters a sword and shield build. Just feels so worthless. 20 hours in and I'm seriously considering starting a new game. I would've done it sooner but I just now found out there are only the 2 extra party members you can recruit. I was hoping to swap out Madora for another mage.

 

[danthefan]

For wizards/witches, what's the best way to spend ability points beyond just leveling your different types of magic? Any must have skills?

 

[Orgun]

I really wish I hadn't made one of my main characters a sword and shield build. Just feels so worthless. 20 hours in and I'm seriously considering starting a new game. I would've done it sooner but I just now found out there are only the 2 extra party members you can recruit. I was hoping to swap out Madora for another mage.

Grab a Mage hireling from the Hall of Heroes. I found her annoying and replaced her with an archer myself

 

[TheContact]

I really wish I hadn't made one of my main characters a sword and shield build. Just feels so worthless. 20 hours in and I'm seriously considering starting a new game. I would've done it sooner but I just now found out there are only the 2 extra party members you can recruit. I was hoping to swap out Madora for another mage.

What don't u like about Ur sword n shield char? That's what I did for my main and he's the second strongest only to Madoras 2h

 

[Maxwood]

I have so many cheeses.
Do I need them? Absolutely not. But I can't help myself. Everytime I find some food in a wooden crate I have to pick it up.

Just found some dude at the King Crabb Inn who wanted us to join his Guild. In any other game I would have said yes without a second of a doubt, but in Original Sin... I'm actually role-playing. Haven't decided every aspect of they're personality yet, but it's getting there. Torcher my Wizard, he doesn't trust the fella.
But I don't want to miss out on interesting questlines either. Decisions, decisions...

The insane amount of repeating dialogue seems to be a lot less since the last patch, or have I gotten used to it?

 

[RVinP]

...The insane amount of repeating dialogue seems to be a lot less since the last patch, or have I gotten used to it?

This could be called streamlining, but I like would if the some of the text dialogs for NPC had a marker of sorts which says "Yeah you heard this already" as a suffix for the dialog options, if the same exact text caption you have heard before is supposed to come up again after you tap that text.

 

[Moff]

Quick question regarding hunters edge

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Ive just killed all the orcs in town after the stone war quest went boom..now i have the source hunters revenge quest left...norok is on the top level of the tavern but killing him does nothing..so how do i end the quest?

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talking to him with madora in the party should start a fight
maybe there are other ways to solve this

 

[lordfuzzybutt]

awesome, so my choice of Witch to start with is fine then. Any suggestions for the second starter? A Rogue maybe?

Yeah it is not a bad choice. If you don't want your characters' abilities to overlap much then someone with a range weapon like bow or crossbow might be good as this game has tons of cool special arrow types.

So Lucella mines...

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how exactly do you get past the gate on the east? I've managed to basically explore the whole available area using invisibility to sneak past the death knights to no avail

.

Hoping that going to the

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initiative town after completing the trail puts me on the right track to get past that

.

Nope the mine is self-contained, you can finish it before doing any other quests.
One tip:

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when finding yourself blocked, destroy.

What don't u like about Ur sword n shield char? That's what I did for my main and he's the second strongest only to Madoras 2h

Yeah, same with my sword n shield guy, just increase one hand and some maa skills.
But I do agree that powerful 1h weapon are much rarer than 2h. At least for me. But you can craft for yourself.

I have so many cheeses.
Do I need them? Absolutely not. But I can't help myself. Everytime I find some food in a wooden crate I have to pick it up.

You do need them for a quest But I am having this hoarding problem too. My food can feed the entire Cyseal for a week.

Also my crafting ingredients will sufficiently makes me a more successful trader than any vendors in the game. hmmm.

 

[Ragona]

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talking to him with madora in the party should start a fight
maybe there are other ways to solve this

i did that but she was like i feel pity for him now blabla...and nothing happened

 

[owlbeak]

Dig the grave in front of the healer's house.

Did this last night.

Result was unexpected to say the least! :]

 

[Zakalwe]

Ok, I think I may have bugged this...

Brandon.

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I took the quest from him, but before I found the Troll King I picked up some Tenebrium and the log updated telling me I'd found some ore in the Troll king's cave even though I hadn't been there.

Eventually made it to the cave, cleared it out, picked up some ore, but speaking with Brandon there's no option to hand him the ore, and it doesn't show up in my pack to trade it (even if I remove it from the safety box).

Sound like a bug Any ideas?

Thanks. :3

 

[Zukuu]

Ok, I think I may have bugged this...

Brandon.

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I took the quest from him, but before I found the Troll King I picked up some Tenebrium and the log updated telling me I'd found some ore in the Troll king's cave even though I hadn't been there.

Eventually made it to the cave, cleared it out, picked up some ore, but speaking with Brandon there's no option to hand him the ore, and it doesn't show up in my pack to trade it (even if I remove it from the safety box).

Sound like a bug Any ideas?

Thanks. :3

Try to

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make it into a bar.
I picked up some ore as well elsewhere, and the quest told me I got it from the Troll King. I smelted it and could give him the box without hassle. OR maybe you need more than a few ores?

 

[Shahadan]

Ok, I think I may have bugged this...

Brandon.

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I took the quest from him, but before I found the Troll King I picked up some Tenebrium and the log updated telling me I'd found some ore in the Troll king's cave even though I hadn't been there.

Eventually made it to the cave, cleared it out, picked up some ore, but speaking with Brandon there's no option to hand him the ore, and it doesn't show up in my pack to trade it (even if I remove it from the safety box).

Sound like a bug Any ideas?

Thanks. :3

In any case you need to give the box filled with ore/bars to a source hunter before talking to Brandon.

 

[Zakalwe]

Is it a conversation option?

I found the

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How to handle

book in the

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Geomancer's office

, and now it's showing up in trade, but giving Brandon ore or bars that way has no effect.

And yes, it's on my main character, I have 15 ore 4 bars, no options at all...

 

[Sentenza]

Is it a conversation option?.

It should just be the one about his retirement plan, if I remember right.
Be careful to keep just few tenebrium ores/bars in your inventory when you try this, because apparently he takes any amount you have.
The first time it costed me more than 30 bars and 10 ores. Then I tried again just with the ores (putting the bars on the ground) and it worked fine.

 

[Moff]

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well it needs to be in the safety box, that should prompt a dialogue with brandon.
I got my tenebrium from the mines , not the troll cave, and it worked that way.

you game sounds bugged

 

[Zakalwe]

It should just be the one about his retirement plan, if I remember right.
Be careful to keep just few tenebrium ores/bars in your inventory when you try this, because apparently he takes any amount you have.
The first time it costed me more than 30 bars and 10 ores. Then I tried again just with the ores (putting the bars on the ground) and it worked fine.

Ah, it worked!

If it's in the cage it won't trigger the event.
I was holding it without the

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Tenebrium ability

and it didn't trigger.
When I used the

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Gemoancer's book

and gained the

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Tenibrium ability

, it triggered.

Not sure if that's all intentional, seems like you should be able to hand him the ore even if you don't have the ability... maybe I'd bugged it somehow before and it fixed itself somehow... if others have been able to hand it to him under the conditionas that seeemd to prevent me then it must have.

I also had a weird bug where my Knight was holding the cage but I couldn't remove anything from the it directly to his inventory, only pass it to another character. And giving the cage to another character didn't show the option to pass it to my Knight. I sent everything to the homestead, including the cage, and picked it back up. Fixed it. Could have had something to do with that.

 

[ROBOKITTYZILLA]

Just discovered that I can change my party's formation..

*implodes*

Now that you mention it, that must be what the dice above my character portrait is for. All this time I had been controlling my characters manually as needed in order to navigate carefully around certain traps. This should help quite a bit.

 

[Sinatar]

Now that you mention it, that must be what the dice above my character portrait is for. All this time I had been controlling my characters manually as needed in order to navigate carefully around certain traps. This should help quite a bit.

Yea going single file is really handy when navigating tight spots.

 

[CHC]

Oh man so glad about the latest patch, downsampling is super easy now (no need to change desktop res). Also so glad they allowed the fonts to remain visibly sized at high resolutions.

Just starting the game in earnest now. I know people rolled their eyes at it but I loved the

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Chrono Trigger-esque

zone early on. I love when shit comes way out of left field like that, even if it is a bit goofy. I can tell I'm going to like this, the tone is a nice break from all the obscenely self-serious fantasy in other RPGs.

 

[Durante]

Oh man so glad about the latest patch, downsampling is super easy now (no need to change desktop res).

Oh wow, so the whole AlwaysDownsampleRes feature in GeDoSaTo lost its one use case

It was a strange idea to not allow resolutions higher than the desktop resolution.

 

[CHC]

Oh wow, so the whole AlwaysDownsampleRes feature in GeDoSaTo lost its one use case

You're just ahead of your time mannnnn

 

[Chaos17]

I really wish I hadn't made one of my main characters a sword and shield build. Just feels so worthless. 20 hours in and I'm seriously considering starting a new game. I would've done it sooner but I just now found out there are only the 2 extra party members you can recruit. I was hoping to swap out Madora for another mage.

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You will be able to re-spe your main characters for 1000 gold, don't waste your time to re-do the game. Just continue the story until you unlock that room.

Though, for the beigining of the game I never found my warrior useless until the mages got some awesome AoE skills and spam them, but that was in the end of game.

Ah, it worked!

If it's in the cage it won't trigger the event.
I was holding it without the

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Tenebrium ability

and it didn't trigger.
When I used the

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Gemoancer's book

and gained the

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Tenibrium ability

, it triggered.

Not sure if that's all intentional, seems like you should be able to hand him the ore even if you don't have the ability... maybe I'd bugged it somehow before and it fixed itself somehow... if others have been able to hand it to him under the conditionas that seeemd to prevent me then it must have.

I also had a weird bug where my Knight was holding the cage but I couldn't remove anything from the it directly to his inventory, only pass it to another character. And giving the cage to another character didn't show the option to pass it to my Knight. I sent everything to the homestead, including the cage, and picked it back up. Fixed it. Could have had something to do with that.

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You're unlucky, I just gave the blood box witht tenebrium in it and that was it.
Quest closed and he gave the skill to handle tenebrium.

 

[lordfuzzybutt]

The game has so many bugs when ending quests. Yesterday i had a bug when i

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told nadia and then she exposed lawrence. He then ran out and was confronted by the miners but then nothing happened. Reloaded and he was killed right the moment he came out. Quest closed.

 

[Hari Seldon]

Is there a point to crafting in this game? I'm going around collecting everything but the only thing I make is healthy potions. I am finding enough magical gear and scrolls and stuff to not have to craft anything so far. However I'm only level 6. Should I bother to keep hoarding crafting mats?

 

[duckroll]

It's been days now, and I still haven't found the way to get to the other side of the beach. Lol. Enemies in the forest area seem way too strong for me, but I hate fighting the undead, so I've been taking it slow. I cleared out two small areas today which led to different underground areas. Didn't seem to be able to do anything with them. One has a tomb I can't seem to interact with, the other has some elemental switch puzzle? I dunno!

 

[Durante]

Is there a point to crafting in this game? I'm going around collecting everything but the only thing I make is healthy potions. I am finding enough magical gear and scrolls and stuff to not have to craft anything so far. However I'm only level 6. Should I bother to keep hoarding crafting mats?

Crafting is very powerful, but you don't necessarily need to craft.

It's been days now, and I still haven't found the way to get to the other side of the beach. Lol. Enemies in the forest area seem way too strong for me, but I hate fighting the undead, so I've been taking it slow. I cleared out two small areas today which led to different underground areas. Didn't seem to be able to do anything with them. One has a tomb I can't seem to interact with, the other has some elemental switch puzzle? I dunno!

You suck.

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For the elemental puzzle, find the second one. It's quite close to the first.

Also, generally you should go to the north-west areas first. Though we did those last and still somehow managed to make our way through the entirety of Cyseal

 

[toastyToast]

I think I'm onto something worth the murder quest. Only problem is the next part is in

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Silver Glen and the guards warned me about leaving without a proper party.

Instead I decided to go west which is supposed to be the easiest area and do that quest from Aureus. I get there and it has level 6 enemies. Am I heading to the right direction for the lighthouse? I took the gate near the harbour.

 

[Casimir]

I think I'm onto something worth the murder quest. Only problem is the next part is in

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Silver Glen and the guards warned me about leaving without a proper party.

Instead I decided to go west which is supposed to be the easiest area and do that quest from Aureus. I get there and it has level 6 enemies. Am I heading to the right direction for the lighthouse? I took the gate near the harbour.

Assuming that is west, you want to go through the gate to the north. The time of day should change and it should start raining if you are in the right area. You should be facing undead enemies, not Orcs.

For the Light house you should exit the aforementioned gate and head north west relative to your position.

It's been days now, and I still haven't found the way to get to the other side of the beach. Lol. Enemies in the forest area seem way too strong for me, but I hate fighting the undead, so I've been taking it slow. I cleared out two small areas today which led to different underground areas. Didn't seem to be able to do anything with them. One has a tomb I can't seem to interact with, the other has some elemental switch puzzle? I dunno!

Northern beach? Head out of the eastern gate.

 

[Dario ff]

I have so many cheeses.

Nobody has as many friends as the man with many cheeses!

OT: Is Vsync a bit dodgy for anyone else? If I use it I seem to get drops to 30 in the forest areas and some other heavy graphical areas in the game, but I get a constant above 60 framerate with Vsync off. Problem is the tearing is really noticeable, which is really annoying in a game where you have to constantly pan the camera. What better solution do I have by using the Nvidia Control Panel?

 

[Gully State]

It's been days now, and I still haven't found the way to get to the other side of the beach. Lol. Enemies in the forest area seem way too strong for me, but I hate fighting the undead, so I've been taking it slow. I cleared out two small areas today which led to different underground areas. Didn't seem to be able to do anything with them. One has a tomb I can't seem to interact with, the other has some elemental switch puzzle? I dunno!

Thank heavens I'm not the only one that had this problem. Head northeast of town. It's east of the stream.

 

[Infinite_Daremo]

Fuck enemies that explode into lava whilst leaving a massive corpse which hides said lava and then having your tank walk into it....

 

[Sinatar]

OT: Is Vsync a bit dodgy for anyone else? If I use it I seem to get drops to 30 in the forest areas and some other heavy graphical areas in the game, but I get a constant above 60 framerate with Vsync off.

That's what V-Sync does... it keeps the framerate locked to a multiple of your monitor's refresh rate, if it can't maintain 60 it drops to 30. You alleviate this by turning on Triple Buffering.

 

[Maxwood]

You do need them for a quest But I am having this hoarding problem too. My food can feed the entire Cyseal for a week.

Also my crafting ingredients will sufficiently makes me a more successful trader than any vendors in the game. hmmm.

There's a Cheese Quest?! Tell me about this noble cause!
Slowly exploring the first town. So much to see and do.

But eh, is it just me, or did the game's performance go down after the latest patch from two-three hours ago? I've had no performance issues and everything went buttery smooth, even on ultra, but now it's all stuttery. Really annoying. :/