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Divinity: Original Sin |OT| Sandbox RPG. Co-Op friendly. Bread.
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Mr. Luchador
Member
A few little things that have 'bugged' me lately:
Crafting using the inventory - having to drag and drop items onto each other. If it works - great! If it doesn't... things start to move around all over the place.
Inventory - There's no real way to organise and 'lock' your stuff in a set place. So it's a little messy at times.
Elemental Warfare - I love that they've tried this and there's some insane combos, but was really disappointed when I tried to electrify a stream and nothing happened. It doesn't seem to take actual natural elements into consideration. There were 5 bad guys trying to cross the stream and I thought 'OH YEAH', but nope... nothing.
Crafting using the inventory - having to drag and drop items onto each other. If it works - great! If it doesn't... things start to move around all over the place.
Inventory - There's no real way to organise and 'lock' your stuff in a set place. So it's a little messy at times.
Elemental Warfare - I love that they've tried this and there's some insane combos, but was really disappointed when I tried to electrify a stream and nothing happened. It doesn't seem to take actual natural elements into consideration. There were 5 bad guys trying to cross the stream and I thought 'OH YEAH', but nope... nothing.
Black-Wind
Member
Decided I'm gonna start over today.
Noticed that I love my Mage ... and Ninja ... so much so that I want to combine them. I wanna make a Mage- Rouge and a Rouge- Mage. One with Fire and one with Air.
Mainly cause I'm tired of putting up with this weak ass mage companion. He basically can't move and attack or do more than one attack at a time because it eats all his ap >_>
At least this way I could have at least 1 reliable transport skill ready a set up some AOE things faster.
Noticed that I love my Mage ... and Ninja ... so much so that I want to combine them. I wanna make a Mage- Rouge and a Rouge- Mage. One with Fire and one with Air.
Mainly cause I'm tired of putting up with this weak ass mage companion. He basically can't move and attack or do more than one attack at a time because it eats all his ap >_>
At least this way I could have at least 1 reliable transport skill ready a set up some AOE things faster.
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Deleted member 125677
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Got the game through a good deal (dunderdeal), and am finally ready! Don't have too much time available this week-end, but I guess I'll squeeze some hours in come Monday.
Been playing an hour or so, and it definitely brings me back to the golden age of pc rgps (baldurs gate etc.), good feels.
My computer struggles a bit with the game (GTX 770, i5 760 @ 2,8gHz). I guess it's a bit CPU heavy?
Been playing an hour or so, and it definitely brings me back to the golden age of pc rgps (baldurs gate etc.), good feels.
My computer struggles a bit with the game (GTX 770, i5 760 @ 2,8gHz). I guess it's a bit CPU heavy?
Dunkelgrau
Member
Is it possible to loot everything on the ground?
I'm inclined to agree.
It feels like the inclusion of the scrolls is a mistake. The scroll icons are green so it's probably a Marksmanship skill but it's impossible to actually craft Marksmanship skill books.
Agreed. It's doubly impressive when you consider that at the same time you also have games which don't manage to implement a working "save anywhere" systemMan, there's quite a lot of well-done programming in this game that constantly impresses me:
- Very seamless terrain streaming: The performance is still being optimized, but I've never seen terrain popping in except for the northern part of Cyseal. If there's multiple LOD levels I can't really tell, all I've seen so far is just it loading the higher quality textures.
- Pathfinding: Can walk from one edge of the map to the other while avoiding already-detected traps and hazards without ever getting stuck in a wall so far. This is kinda expected since the older games had to implement quite a few hacky workarounds to pathfinding AI so the performance was good in older systems, but I'm still really surprised at how good it works here. Navigating an area like Black Cove completely unharmed after the whole place was secured is just really impressive to me.
- I have no idea how huge these save-files must be, because they save literally everything. I haven't been able to break the game at all yet by reloading while doing anything, and all the corpses and items scattered across the world are all still in their spots. I heard some people broke NPCs scripting, but I've tried saving/reloading during lots of scripted sequences and I couldn't get them to break either. It puts it into perspective quite a bit when lots of AAA games lately are afraid of giving you anything else than Autosaves or checkpoint-based systems.
- A vector-based combat system with AI that works well with it and with terrain as complex as this is no small feat.
These aren't really anything ground-breaking, but the polish and attention to detail on these aspects help the game shine a lot.
TL;DR; I'm surprised a cRPG actually works as intended for more than 90% of the time.
Also, I'd add the whole networking implementation to your list, in particular having someone fight a turn-based battle while the other player is doing something entirely different (or fighting a different battle, and then being able to merge those if they meet).
Two programming thumbs up.
lordfuzzybutt
Member
You'll not be able to finish some quests related to him. But otherwise no.
Do not tell me the
cat
My only complaint here is how the game apparently only loads highest resolution textures when an object gets closer to the camera. Some rocks/doors/walls look terrible until I scroll them towards the bottom of the screen. They even go back to the low detail texture when I move the camera back to where it was!
(I'm not talking about zooming in, just panning so that the object is closer to the camera)
TheContact
Member
This game is already great but it would be so much better with a day/night cycle
Mr. Luchador
Member
Yeah, especially consider the Journal has Day 1, Day 2, etc. I have no idea when the day changed.
Sentenza
Member
That and NPC scheduling.
LurkerPrime
Member
Kirill Pokrovsky, the composer for Divinity, fell ill during development of Divinity: Original Sin. Because of this, they decided to remaster (I think) some older songs and put them into the game, rather than ship with less music or delay the release.
Since this is a prequel, there is probably more references than that, though it would take a better Divinity loremaster than me to figure them out.
Gotta save something for the sequel!
Oh that's a shame. Not that I mind listening to old tracks, Kirill is a kickass composer and I can listen to the tracks forever.
This might be considered a spoiler for a character:
Is Bellegar, the world's greatest rhyming wizard in the game?
Or expansion pack! The way they seem to have set the game and engine up lends itself extremely well for expansions.
I opened the
treasure box by Braccus
killing Cassandra
low-level crap
Yes, seemed like he's involved in some optional content
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Final dungeon:
So I got into the Temple via so many hidden Blood Stones. I am not in the mood for some final puzzle crap, which this looks to be. Instruct me, GAF.
Mr. Luchador
Member
Did they say if there would be a Creation Kit or not?
LurkerPrime
Member
Larian did one better. The game launched will full modding tools, the same thing Larian themselves used to develop the game.
Go and be merry! (It's listed under Tools in Steam, and it's called The Divinity Engine.)
Mr. Luchador
Member
... man, I feel dumb now. Can't believe I didn't notice this, do you access them via the normal game menu?
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
You go into Tools in Steam and install it.
Mr. Luchador
Member
Thank you!
if you want to skip the pretty pointless puzzles. just go to the library and
-light all candles except the middle one
-wait for a lightning.
-light only the middle one.
-wait for a lightning
-turn on ANY three candles
-wait for lightning
Seriously, you'll miss nothing by skipping it. I went through it the normal way despite having figured out the candle puzzle myself by trial and error and it was not worth it. You can expect some awesome level 4 loot in the chests you will miss... :X All you get by solving the other tedious puzzles, are hints that point towards the solution of the candle riddle (and that very vaguely)
-light all candles except the middle one
-wait for a lightning.
-light only the middle one.
-wait for a lightning
-turn on ANY three candles
-wait for lightning
Seriously, you'll miss nothing by skipping it. I went through it the normal way despite having figured out the candle puzzle myself by trial and error and it was not worth it. You can expect some awesome level 4 loot in the chests you will miss... :X All you get by solving the other tedious puzzles, are hints that point towards the solution of the candle riddle (and that very vaguely)
Intheflorsh
Banned
Invulnerability allows you to walk on hot magma letting you bypass most of those awful sentinel puzzles. Too bad it has a 10 minute cooldown...
101%+ fire resist heals you when you walk through lava.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Thanks.
veloxStrix
Banned
No way this is ever coming to consoles? :c
Guess I have to boot up that gaming PC I've been ignoring... xD
Guess I have to boot up that gaming PC I've been ignoring... xD
TheContact
Member
Regarding the quests in Hunters Edge
should the first thing I do be to go rescue the prisoner being tortured? He had me lead him out of a secret passage but the enemies there are 2 levels above me. Am I under leveled or am I doing this too early? Also if I do this does the whole town hate me and can I still figure out the crime of who stole the blood stones? I tried to do that first but ran into sentinels that proceeded to destroy me easily
Haven't actually tried co-op yet, but I saw all of this behavior while experimenting with split parties as well and was surprised nothing broke.
I couldn't even find a clock either in the interface, I'm not sure what kind of timer the journal is based on. If they want to expand on a sequel with Day/Night/Weather/NPC schedules, it would be amazing for quest possibilities and even combat. Hopefully it sold well enough to allow them to be as ambitious as possible on the next entry.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
So holy crud,, the final bosses.
It's only that one fight trying to rescue those prisoners. I was surprised too when I saw them, ended up fighting them after gaining a level but probably didn't make that much of a difference. Doing this quest won't hurt your standing between either side
into the Wizard's house, you'll get an item that will help you without getting into a fight
Moff
Member
Put your mouse cursor over the action points section of your character stats screen. It will explain the numbers in detail. You don't have to be in combat.
Thanks!
Intheflorsh
Banned
Is there something special you need to due during the (late, late game)
fight?
trife/lelandra
I can only go so many turns without the void sucking up everything and having the game go command line...
Moff
Member
I'm stuck on the stolen Bloodstones.
Edit: Figured it out. I needed to loot the
I know that Garrick was guarding them, and some orc killed him and threw him into the grate outside the Knight's Tomb, I went in there and opened the casket and saw a star stone animation but now I'm unsure what to do.
Edit: Figured it out. I needed to loot the
corpse in the Tomb for the horn.
Dominic_Shade
Member
Go a few steps away from the tomb. There's a body you can investigate. It's easy to miss, but it's there and will trigger the next step in the quest.
GodParticle
Member
Is adding points to abilities tied to your level? For example, I put points in the hydrowhatever and the next time I leveled up it doesn't give the option to add my new point to it
Each new level costs n points. You need 2 points to raise to level 2, 3 to raise to level 3, etc.