Funnily enough, it would be pretty accurate for this game.
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Divinity: Original Sin |OT| Sandbox RPG. Co-Op friendly. Bread.
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So started this up with a pal on hard. The party is my main (Cleric style), a mage type, a two handed warrior type, and his main (a rogue).
This game is fucking hard. I'm having to rely on scrolls/pots for most fights. Scrolls especially as only being able to do one thing a turn is painful.
I love it.
This game is fucking hard. I'm having to rely on scrolls/pots for most fights. Scrolls especially as only being able to do one thing a turn is painful.
I love it.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Just got to the final dungeon.
Cheesed the hell out of the battles surrounding it, but so worth it.
Invisibility + the ability to store Barrels in your inventory = amazement.
Cheesed the hell out of the battles surrounding it, but so worth it.
Invisibility + the ability to store Barrels in your inventory = amazement.
You don't need them . You can break down any door you can pick, you don't need much (if any) sneak skill to actually steal anything (you can just use your companions to distract NPCs). Pickpocket is the only really useful skill.
TheContact
Member
In the second map there's an npc named Roy who has some animals
he's selling at Sacred Stone for slaughter. I killed Roy and told the cows not to pursue the golden fields because I figured they would die and sent them back to Cyseal. Just wondering what would have happened if I told them to go find the golden field
Just finished the game. Clocked in at 82+ hours according to steam, including 5-6 hours of beta, save scumming and having the game idle in the background every now and then. So roughly 72-75+ hours pure play time including exploring everything and doing every side quest I stumbled upon (the only one that was left in my quest log was the
).
Its really been a pleasure to play and the beginning was just stunning and so much fun I couldn't believe it. I was looking forward to play further, whenever I didn't play it and was always thinking about it. It's rare a game does that. Easily GOTY material and with a few patches and changes or mods, it's gonna be a true cRPG classic to behold. I hope we see more battle systems that are inspired by this game. It's the best non-action RPG combat I've ever played. I want more of that. The freedom the game offers, both inside and outside of combat are just astonishing. The soundtrack is also just amazing. 'Nuff said.
It has a few downsides, but those pale in comparison to the amazing whole package the game has to offer. While serviceable, the story was kinda weak. It was pretty uninspired and it ended pretty anti-climactic. Divinity II handled that way better imo. The loot system is pretty boring. I don't even mean the randomized loot in general, but rather that you have little to no variation on what you can have on the items. A belt will always have the same modifiers and nothing unique. Not even legendary ones. Would have loved to have some unique effects on legendary gear, other than just more stats or being able to cast flare... That's is pretty meh. Immunity to stunned/poison etc is okay, but if it's the only modifier you can hope to see, it's not very exciting either.
The balance is also a bit off. The beginning had the right challenge, but became from the mid-game onward way too easy. It's rather simple to fix that with a bit of number-tweaking some abilities and talents. The journal should be a bit clearer on how to progress exactly. Not by much, but some information recorded was more helpful than other. Should just be a bit more consistent. Tiny buttons (for quests) really need to be addressed for a few specific parts of the game. Requiring Perception for some parts of the main quest is also ludicrous (e.g.
). And FUCK slip. Seriously.
Other than that, it was a pure pleasure to see the hours fly by, when I was exploring the world of the game. Hope Larian has a big success with the game, so we can see more games. So far I enjoyed all games I have played by Larian (mostly Divinity series) and I hope to see more.
...and with that I'm in dire need to step back a bit. Just checked the "who posted" list. Holy shit... xD
weresheep
Its really been a pleasure to play and the beginning was just stunning and so much fun I couldn't believe it. I was looking forward to play further, whenever I didn't play it and was always thinking about it. It's rare a game does that. Easily GOTY material and with a few patches and changes or mods, it's gonna be a true cRPG classic to behold. I hope we see more battle systems that are inspired by this game. It's the best non-action RPG combat I've ever played. I want more of that. The freedom the game offers, both inside and outside of combat are just astonishing. The soundtrack is also just amazing. 'Nuff said.
It has a few downsides, but those pale in comparison to the amazing whole package the game has to offer. While serviceable, the story was kinda weak. It was pretty uninspired and it ended pretty anti-climactic. Divinity II handled that way better imo. The loot system is pretty boring. I don't even mean the randomized loot in general, but rather that you have little to no variation on what you can have on the items. A belt will always have the same modifiers and nothing unique. Not even legendary ones. Would have loved to have some unique effects on legendary gear, other than just more stats or being able to cast flare... That's is pretty meh. Immunity to stunned/poison etc is okay, but if it's the only modifier you can hope to see, it's not very exciting either.
The balance is also a bit off. The beginning had the right challenge, but became from the mid-game onward way too easy. It's rather simple to fix that with a bit of number-tweaking some abilities and talents. The journal should be a bit clearer on how to progress exactly. Not by much, but some information recorded was more helpful than other. Should just be a bit more consistent. Tiny buttons (for quests) really need to be addressed for a few specific parts of the game. Requiring Perception for some parts of the main quest is also ludicrous (e.g.
Source Temple button in the teleport maze
Other than that, it was a pure pleasure to see the hours fly by, when I was exploring the world of the game. Hope Larian has a big success with the game, so we can see more games. So far I enjoyed all games I have played by Larian (mostly Divinity series) and I hope to see more.
...and with that I'm in dire need to step back a bit. Just checked the "who posted" list. Holy shit... xD
Dwarven Defender
Neo Member
Intheflorsh
Banned
The benefit of lockpicking is that weapons rapidly degrade if you simply smash through everything. Of course that stops being an issue if you have a character invest in blacksmithing and have him/her fix your weapons on the fly. It's definitely a skill worth ignoring.
Linearskillz
Member
Agree with pretty much everything except
Just
put Nine Inch Nails in your shoes
Intheflorsh
Banned
Whaaaaaat
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Final dungeon:
Help?
It won't let me inside the inner chamber. It says I can enter, need to collect my memories, but then it never lets me in.
Help?
You need to
have used enough Blood/Star stones to unlock more places of your homestead / memories to enter.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
I apparently am only missing one portal and one Elemental Room. I really didn't think Blood Stones that were optional would be so important. I think I have all the story stones.
Crimsonsky
Member
...and with that I'm in dire need to step back a bit. Just checked the "who posted" list. Holy shit... xD
I didn't even know there was a "who posted" list. I'll be damned, learn something new everyday.
Walking also works.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Star Stone Locations:
1) Murder quest/Jake's room
2) Bracchus Rex
3) Road to Silverglen
4) Black Cove
5) Immaculate Church
6) Boreas' treasure room
7) Goblin Village
What am I missing?
1) Murder quest/Jake's room
2) Bracchus Rex
3) Road to Silverglen
4) Black Cove
5) Immaculate Church
6) Boreas' treasure room
7) Goblin Village
What am I missing?
There's one in Hinterheim Prison (Iron Maiden), Immaculate Trial (automatic), Maradino's Lair, Loic's cellar had two?
There any reason I made the game, and my wife joins into my game, but she seems to be the party leader? She can set followers to follow her but I can't get them to follow me and I can't access their inventories.
I also can't put custom markers on the map?
Edit: May have figured it out, whoever's portrait is on the top left is party leader.
Actually not the case. I don't know how it works. I kind of would rather her control Madora instead of me but she can't set her that way. So I either have full control or none at all.
I also can't put custom markers on the map?
Edit: May have figured it out, whoever's portrait is on the top left is party leader.
Actually not the case. I don't know how it works. I kind of would rather her control Madora instead of me but she can't set her that way. So I either have full control or none at all.
Allnamestakenlol
Member
Esc > manage characters (I think)?
Anyone seen this? Game font changes. Big Post coming.
Sadly I can't test it, I keep getting a msvcr110.dll is missing whenever I try to open lstools. Maybe if someone tries this they can PM me the modified Game.pak with the changes made to the font.
Horrorscope said:http://www.larian.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=515969#Post515969
How to:
Download LSTools, install and run.
I used this version: https://mega.co.nz/#!Rwd1zLaJ!29VAX82KYe4ibOIu2aRrxw_ZK4dEEh4YDgeWZCLg6Lo
Unpack Game.Pak found in your main D:OS folder.
(Notice I made a backup and added a .org extension)
Save it wherever you want to. (I'm using e:\temp\Game Unpack)
Go into the unpacked folder you created, ..\public\game\gui\fonts
There are the 8 fonts used in game. There is the LSX which makes the most sense to edit that in LSTools, I just haven't had immediate success going that way. So what I simply did was find a TTF Font that I liked and renamed it to match those 8 names exactly. So the game is still looking for the same font names, it's just that those fonts were changed with something else.
Then Repacked the game folder: (Made a folder called Game RePack)
(For Source Paths choose the Unpacked Game Folder you made, compression doesn't seem to matter)
Repackage...
And take the re-packed Game.Pak and copied in over the games actual Game.Pak.
Done.
So the main thing is finding a font you like.
Tip: Also be prepared to redo this after a game update. I just found that out.
Horrorscope said:Some Before/Afters:
Before:
After:
Before:
After:
Bonus After: (NPC Dialog, nice and clear)
It is just bolder and clearer, Combat log, Inventory/Stats.
Horrorscope said:
Since the grids don't resize/scale we have to make it fit in with what they give us. So we can put slightly larger fonts by design in vs what the game ships with. The main thing we are looking for is a crisp, easy to read, bulky font, so it can be read well against a moving background.
Here is another font that works well:
Here are some comparisons of the smaller sections of text, with our stats:
Original:
Liberation, a clean bold font:
Poetsen One, a fat but clean font:
Somewhat subtle, but really still quite a bit clearer. Popup chat, much easier to read against a living background.
Sadly I can't test it, I keep getting a msvcr110.dll is missing whenever I try to open lstools. Maybe if someone tries this they can PM me the modified Game.pak with the changes made to the font.
The Illiterati
Member
Hit 70 hours. I've completed the
Had some trouble with it so I went back to the desert area to explore some. This is the first time I've felt a little aimless, is this area basically unconnected to the main quest?
mines, witch's cabin/Hiberheim, the immaculate initiation and I'm up to the fight with Mangoth.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
This might be my favorite WRPG of all time when I am done with it, there's just so much to do and see and explore, the atmosphere is excellent, the graphics and music top notch, the co-op best in class, and don't even get me started on how well it scratches my D&D itch. So glad I let myself be convinced by you guys to buy it.
The section where you find
the White Witch, right outside the first cell. There's a torture device that you destroy which pops out a bloodstone.
Thanks for this. Useful to know. Still for some reason only one person can make map flags? Not sure how it decides who, I've just been making sure I am 100% fully loaded in before she joins.
I was also automatically assigned the character on the right in character selection, where as I've seen in videos they are assigned the left one. As I said, she joined my game though so I'm not sure why it would be like that. If she joins my game as I'm on the first loading screen she seems to take game leader for some reason.
With the manual assigning of characters it's not a huge issues, just takes a bit longer to get into the game the first time as the loading screens are very long for me.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Got them all, still nothing.
Does it happen when you attempt to load previous saves (especially quick saves)? I quick save A LOT, but the past few days I've experiencing CTD's when loading saves. They might have introduced a bug.
Speaking of bugs. DO NOT DESTROY THE CHEST TO THE LEFT OF THE BED ON THE 2ND FLOOR BROTHEL BEDROOM. You'll save yourself some heartache by not doing so, trust me.
Mr. Luchador
Member
Found a bug in Coop.
Don't talk to the Companion Guy in the Hall of Heroes at the same time as your Coop buddy, or it'll bug the newly recreated companion out of the game.
Don't talk to the Companion Guy in the Hall of Heroes at the same time as your Coop buddy, or it'll bug the newly recreated companion out of the game.
Dominic_Shade
Member
No, killing the Rat King is absolutely a valid way to finish that quest. I killed him in the basement of the orc's tavern, so there was no NPC around to call me out, heh heh.
Still in the first zone, i'm closing on the murder suspect
, i've done the lighthouse,
and some other fights around town, and explored most of it and yet every unexplored area I come across (in which my remaining quests seem to be) hav monsters one or two levels above me.
Is it supposed to be like that or did I miss something ?
the Healer apprentice
the cave under the graveyard
Is it supposed to be like that or did I miss something ?
I managed to do it differently!
I provoked the Ratcatcher into a fight and killed him, that got me further into in the quest and he wasn't considered an innocent.
What level are you?
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
So, apparently Gruntila has a Blood Stone.
A huge new complaint about this game is how they seem to just litter Blood Stones in the weirdest places.
5 on all characters.
Intheflorsh
Banned
Again, I'm not 100% sure about that.
She's definitely using them in a scene, but I'm not sure she actually is carrying one.
Also, did the door actually say you needed bloodstones? It could be there's some other criteria (like clearing out Hunter's Edge).
Hmm, there should be lots of level 5 encounters
towards the northwest
Are we talking about the Phantom Forest dungeon?
Source Temple
I think the criteria is to
Open all rooms in the homestead, so even if you have used more bloodstones you still need to go through the cutscenes where Zixzax shows you to a new room, enter and exit the room. If you have not finished the "invasion of homestead" quest then that might be th problem.
Black-Wind
Member
Ok ... I think I screwed up.
I'm completely stuck at the White Witch battle where the enemy summons a ton of
They have kicked my ass harder than anything in this game. My whole team is at level 9 so I wonder if that's the problem. I mean, fuck .... I simply can't keep up with their DPS. There's too many
my people and the boss guy is immune to too much shit for me to stall his summoning.
I turned around at the
because I noticed that everyone there was 3 levels above my party and taking 2 of them on at once was cutting it close ... thought I would be at the right level for the
though.
PS: Does the effects of yous skills lessen the higher level something you're fighting is? I mean ...I have no clue how my level 9 tactics aren't working on things at level 12-13 and I can't get new skills till level 10. :/
I'm completely stuck at the White Witch battle where the enemy summons a ton of
earth elementals.
earth summons crippling
Knock someone down- a cleric asshole undoes that, try to play the field- doesn't matter cause boss dudes gonna summon rock folk non-stop ... and cleric asshole is gonna inspire them asap.
I turned around at the
Troll cave area
Witch
PS: Does the effects of yous skills lessen the higher level something you're fighting is? I mean ...I have no clue how my level 9 tactics aren't working on things at level 12-13 and I can't get new skills till level 10. :/
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Getting so annoying. I've found three in the last hour and none of them work.
I think your problem is either the
invasion
Sentenza
Gold Member
Just in case there is someone else hre who finds the randomized loot one glaring flaw of this game, I'd like to point that I just started a feedback thread about it on the Larian forum (mmh, I hope it sin't against the rule to point it).
I could have probably argued my point a bit better, but right now I still feel sleepy, I'm going to work in minutes and I guess I covered the basics of what my argument for hand-placed loot, anyway.
I could have probably argued my point a bit better, but right now I still feel sleepy, I'm going to work in minutes and I guess I covered the basics of what my argument for hand-placed loot, anyway.
Thanks for the link, when I'll have some more time I'll argue against you there
Sentenza
Gold Member
D:Thanks for the link, when I'll have some more time I'll argue against you there
Tu quoque, Brute, fili mi?
First defending NWN2 user interface, now random loot. You are a force for evil in the world.
Actually, what I'd like to argue for is randomization but with the random key fixed at game creation time. And maybe a more tuned loot engine / tables in order to better fit a given party's needs.
The reason I like having randomness is because I think it makes the incredibly versatile battle system of the game shine even more. Since you have to more or less deal with what you are given, everyone will find some unique ways of accomplishing their goals, instead of a "perfect" gameplan developing after some time (like e.g. for the IE games).
I think we agree on gridless TB systems though? Because some people also think that's evil
The reason I like having randomness is because I think it makes the incredibly versatile battle system of the game shine even more. Since you have to more or less deal with what you are given, everyone will find some unique ways of accomplishing their goals, instead of a "perfect" gameplan developing after some time (like e.g. for the IE games).
Don't forget RTwP!
I think we agree on gridless TB systems though? Because some people also think that's evil