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Divinity: Original Sin |OT| Sandbox RPG. Co-Op friendly. Bread.
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Penalty only if you get caught doing it. Items aren't tagged 'stolen' or anything. If you do get caught, the penalty ranges from instant fight to the death with the owner/guards, through to the owner/guards giving you two, three friendly warnings before arresting you. Depends on their opinion of you. If you want to try stealing something important but aren't sure you can pull it off, consider trying to boost their opinion beforehand with bribes (or just savescum, obvs).
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
This game is all sorts of amazing. No map markers, quests that are more than just Go Here And Do X Then Report Back and humor aplenty. The fact that my wife and I finally get to play a quality RPG together that isn't hack and slash is all kinds of amazing.
Also, it's a great mood gauge. When she's pissed, her character is suddenly telling me to go eat an rotten egg. When she's in a good mood, it's all "Hey sugar, want to me identify your loot for you?"
It's great! Only complaint is the pixel hunting can be a be tiresome, due to the fact that the ALT highlight doesn't highlight everything in the area. Other than that, this is damn near a perfect game so far.
Also, it's a great mood gauge. When she's pissed, her character is suddenly telling me to go eat an rotten egg. When she's in a good mood, it's all "Hey sugar, want to me identify your loot for you?"
It's great! Only complaint is the pixel hunting can be a be tiresome, due to the fact that the ALT highlight doesn't highlight everything in the area. Other than that, this is damn near a perfect game so far.
He makes some fair points, but is there any need to be so unpleasant about it? His writing style is so obnoxious.
Not if no one sees you
oh really.....buahahahahahahahah Cysea is done for ( I hope since the game kicks my ass to much too lol)
Any tips on a newbie to both the game and probably genre? I'm liking the game but it sort of feels overwhelming like the first time I tried playing Morrowind did.
I also getting killed in combat even by enemies lower in level. Some fights seem to have too many of them and I barely kill one when 2 or 3 more come up on me.
Find some companions so you have a party of 4.
Use spells/arrows/skills to incapacitate troublesome targets (stun, knock down, freeze, charm, etc..).
Focus fire on one target at a time.
Get some summons to even the playing field.
Take note of al l the elemental combinations and exploit them: poison + fire = explosion, water + ice = slippery icy surface, etc...
Seems like friendly fire doesn't take it into account even if it has positive effects. Just had to counter charm my charmed other main character and there was some banter about aiming properly and whatnot after that. A bit silly, but eh doesn't really matter.
Last night though I had Madora leave my party after battle because apparently I threw a fireball on her one time too many. She was rocking 120% fire res + fire shield so there shouldn't have been any dmg to her. Was a pretty confusing fight with perma slow on me and spiders hopping all over the place so not quite sure what went down. Reloaded a save anyway.
Fake Edit: Just tested this outside combat too. Leaves party even though all the fire does is heal her. Bah.
Anyway about Frederick
Last night though I had Madora leave my party after battle because apparently I threw a fireball on her one time too many. She was rocking 120% fire res + fire shield so there shouldn't have been any dmg to her. Was a pretty confusing fight with perma slow on me and spiders hopping all over the place so not quite sure what went down. Reloaded a save anyway.
Fake Edit: Just tested this outside combat too. Leaves party even though all the fire does is heal her. Bah.
Anyway about Frederick
seems like the dude went and died on me somehow and left me with a broken quest? I did some other stuff before finding the imp and making him some pumpkin-apple potion and when he went to see him he was already dead. The imp did note this though and went his way, but the quest about finding Frederick's blood stone still remains which I have also in my inventory. Second Fake Edit: eh looks like bug after some googling
About companions how do dismissing them works? Or if they die in the battlefield and I just let them there? Are they lost forever, even if I dismiss them?
Also how exactly does running from battle work? Is it individually, can't there be a group escape? It seem a bit confusing or tedious to me, maybe I am not getting it.
No group run, but let's try to get to the point where you're not having to!
Speak with them to dismiss them.
If you leave them on the battlefield they'll stay there until you return to resurrect them.
If you dismiss them I think you can ask them to rejoin you, but I've never tried it.
No group run, but let's try to get to the point where you're not having to!
LOL, I'll try to get on that tonight. I sort of forogt/confused the tutorial dungeon and thought that was the cemetery crip place in Cysea. I'll try to get to level 3 or 4.
Also when they say I can/should go out of town , towards the west, after level 3. Do they mean northwest near the closed item shop or more southwest through the beach? I am still getting clobbered lol
This is not cool, I will have to keep this in mind when I will make a new playthrough.
Thank you for your testemony.
Now that is a real bug. You should report it.
lordfuzzybutt
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Anyone has this problem? When I am going around in game the FPS is good, GPU usage is 100% and everything is smooth. But whenever I enter a battle, the FPS drops significantly, and GPU usage goes down to ~40%. When the battle is over the FPS shoots right back up. Really annoying. Any idea?
My guess is my CPU might be bottlenecking my GPU, is there anyway I can measure CPU usage in game?
My guess is my CPU might be bottlenecking my GPU, is there anyway I can measure CPU usage in game?
I have a similar issue, just that the Imp doesn't respond to me making the potion either. Frederick died because he tried to be heroic and help me fight the spider queen, which didn't turn out well for him
I sadly didnt get to play much last week, due to exams but damn just seeing this game still being #1 in steam charts makes me happy.
I hope they make alot of money with this game and get the credit they deserve, so they keep making games with all their passion and whatever ideas they come up with.
Also happy they keep patching rapidly and adding new stuff + cant wait to see community content in the future.
I hope they make alot of money with this game and get the credit they deserve, so they keep making games with all their passion and whatever ideas they come up with.
Also happy they keep patching rapidly and adding new stuff + cant wait to see community content in the future.
Excellent! Thanks for the info.
I agree that this is a cool feature. Exploring the world is fun. But exploring the skills and spells not so much. There should be information about the spelllist in the game. I don't really know where I have to put my points and the game gives you no method to know that in advance. The spellbooks make it even worse, as vendors have not all of them and there is a little bit of RNG. And you can't see in your spellscreen what is available.
I searched the web and there is just one incomplete spelllist on the wikia page. My problem is, that I'm a MinMaxer. I usually restart all CRPG after I understand the system. I have restartet the 4th time and I'm again at the point that I consider restarting.
Was choosing a Rogue wrong? What does that Flurry spell do, it seems to be really strong. But I need the information what it does, so I can plan my where I put my points. Shall I put more points in the Warrior-skills instead of the Rogue-skills
I know this is a personal problem and in some time there will be a complete description of all spells on the web. But the game is right know a little bit of a let down if you like to plan your chars in advance.
It's going to be really hard to like Dragon Age 3 after playing this. Might just wait for it to be dirt cheap on Origin with all DLC if I even bother.
Anyway can someone tell me how close to the end I am? As in half way or three quarters or whatever. Just curious because I can't believe how long this game is. So much content.
Anyway can someone tell me how close to the end I am? As in half way or three quarters or whatever. Just curious because I can't believe how long this game is. So much content.
I have done most of "Act 2". I believe all I have left to do is close a portal that is making hellfire rain on my homestead.
I'm finding my rogue/witch to be all sorts of powerful. The single target damage is insane.
It's going to be really hard to like Dragon Age 3 after playing this. Might just wait for it to be dirt cheap on Origin with all DLC if I even bother.
Anyway can someone tell me how close to the end I am? As in half way or three quarters or whatever. Just curious because I can't believe how long this game is. So much content.
Anyway can someone tell me how close to the end I am? As in half way or three quarters or whatever. Just curious because I can't believe how long this game is. So much content.
I have done most of "Act 2". I believe all I have left to do is close a portal that is making hellfire rain on my homestead.
skullmuffins
Banned
The mortician mentions something about Thelryon paying a bunch of money to rent a hut from him despite all the undead around
I know certain enemies can only be hurt with tenebrium weapons, I think thats what I read, the void creatures, but.. My two characters that have that type of damage on their weapons still get the "invulnerable" thing when they go to hit these void dog things. Maybe I'm just not supposed to do that part yet, we'll see.
Planning on finishing the game today, hopefully.
Planning on finishing the game today, hopefully.
Ploid 3.0
Member
Oh my goodness. I had a little under 2 gigs to download then felt like playing another game which paused the download I thought (download while playing a game wasn't checked), and exit the game since I wanted to continue downloading but it started all the way over from the beginning. Not just % but 0/6.4 GB, feels so bad man. I had 7 hours to go, now back to 20.
Stupid steam! I'm hoping it's just a UI error and it's just calculating how much longer it has to go if it started from the beginning. Turned off auto update so hopefully it won't happen again.
Stupid steam! I'm hoping it's just a UI error and it's just calculating how much longer it has to go if it started from the beginning. Turned off auto update so hopefully it won't happen again.
I hope we get to hear some sales figures at some point. Seeing them in the top spot for sales for a week now and knowing they got to 160k sales at one point...they're making some good money, and they deserve it.
Larian's plan was to use the funds from Dragon Commander and Divinity OS to catapult to their next RPG, to make it their Magnum Opus of RPGs as it were. But D:OS got way bigger than expected gameplay wise and is closer to the opus they planned for their next game.
I'm not sure what else I could want from an RPG in this vein, D:OS is ticking all the right boxes, but I really hope that Larian gets enough from this game to have the option to experiment and strive for their vision.
Larian's plan was to use the funds from Dragon Commander and Divinity OS to catapult to their next RPG, to make it their Magnum Opus of RPGs as it were. But D:OS got way bigger than expected gameplay wise and is closer to the opus they planned for their next game.
I'm not sure what else I could want from an RPG in this vein, D:OS is ticking all the right boxes, but I really hope that Larian gets enough from this game to have the option to experiment and strive for their vision.
Purchase by EA. Original Sin 2 to be like Dragon Age 2 confirmed.
Linearskillz
Member
Haha, they just got their freedom. I don't imagine Swen would sell unless the buy offer somehow guaranteed everyone's early retirement.
It's great to hear it's still selling strongly. I can't wait to see what they do next.
The only things I would want in sequel with larger budget:
-cinematic zoom in conversations like Mass Effect (toggleable for people that want text windows)
-full voice acting
-day/night cycles impacting world and spells (as originally planned in D:OS)
-controller support
-native 4 player coop support
That is it. Keep everything else the same. Combat is perfect. Open works design broken into chapters is perfect. Production values are great. This game is already A material. But I'd love these additions.
Full voice acting limits the writing a lot, or adding content easily post-recording. Full VA for important NPCs/player banter only is a thing I'd agree to.
Nope.
Just do it like BG2. Some of the most important story beats are voiced and random stuff for companions.
Please no. They would have to dumb down the whole interface to make it work with a controller.
Also full voice acting is a bad idea.
No..no no no. I think full voice acting is one of the worst things to happen to gaming. It's not like I hate the concept itself. I hate the fact it takes a ton of resources to do, limits what you can do (Need to add a new line? Well gotta get the actors back), and if the acting is bad it really hurts the game. For a small studio they should not go down this route.
LurkerPrime
Member
It's amazing that there's already offers to buy them; I guess no one expected such a lesser-known dev to all of the sudden make such a hugely talked about, chart-topping game. It may even be a market disrupting product.
Also, I'm disappointed to report that there are still people complaining about Larian's dedication to improving the game.
(Don't you dare patch your games, developers - lest people think your game is buggy.)
Fortunately Mass Effect 4 already exists.
I have no wish list for their next game, I only hope it's as good as Divinity: Original Sin.
Also, I'm disappointed to report that there are still people complaining about Larian's dedication to improving the game.
(Don't you dare patch your games, developers - lest people think your game is buggy.)
Fortunately Mass Effect 4 already exists.
I have no wish list for their next game, I only hope it's as good as Divinity: Original Sin.
I don't understand you guys. VO readings are not that expensive of an addition and you could always just turn on subtitles and have an option to turn it off if you want. Just like in pretty much every other modern game, if you read faster or you don't want it, you press a single button t skip the dialog. That's pretty much how every other modern bigger budget game in existence work.
You know this game is popular because it's NOT that right?
It's not like I asked them to turn it into a cover based shooter. I don't really understand how anyone can think it would be a bad thing to have more cinematic style dialog conversations rather than remaining with stagnant overhead camera views and text windows.
I get that that sort of thing is more expensive than a more modest budget has room for. We were talking about what they might do with a bigger budget.
No, clearly people are not flocking to this game because "Finally a game without voice acting and modern presentation!" People clearly like it for combat and for the world Larian build and for their nice production values. Adding VO and/or cinematic dialog would do nothing ot change these elements at all.
Sometimes old school crpg fans really come off like hipsters (i.e. everything old is automatically cool simply because it's old and not mainstream popular).
Fine but controller support would require reworking and dumbing down the interface. So fuck controller support. I am also against adding full voice because I actually like reading in crpgs but controller support is a worse offense to me.
Apparently you never played Xcom with a controller. I have mapped pretty much every function in this game to a mouse with 6 buttons. I don't even use the keyboard at all. The idea that you couldn't make this same interface work with a controller is just untrue. And the idea that games played with a controller automatically require "dumbing down" is a really bad cliche argument that doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
I would be fine with a little more variety to the repeated quips and such (shopkeepers) for sure.
Xcom sure has a lot of exploration and inventory management. Oh wait no it doesn't.