Deified Data
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About how long would a SP campaign last?
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Divinity: Original Sin |OT| Sandbox RPG. Co-Op friendly. Bread.
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Done again until the Germany match finishes. This game is astounding, a true successor to Ultima. I'm loving every second.
The one thing I'm disliking is when there is a quickly looping conversation in the background, it gets really annoying. Hopefully they patch them so they don't talk so much.
The one thing I'm disliking is when there is a quickly looping conversation in the background, it gets really annoying. Hopefully they patch them so they don't talk so much.
They promised at least 50 hours but it could be a lot more than that if you do absolutely everything.
Teleport it!
LurkerPrime
Member
Answer:
Do you have a Rain scroll? Use it over the ship. You can find one near a corpse north of where you start the game. There is a second one in the tutorial dungeon near the part where the game taught you about using water barrels or spells to put out fire.
Click on the chest to walk there, and the game will give you a hint.
Hehe, should have thought of that. Neither of my characters are strong enough. I tried manually attacking the rope and burning it, lol
Of course! good thing I saved it
I mean literally, with the teleport spell
I mean literally, with the teleport spell
Ah, don't have that yet. Will keep in the back of my head.
yes
voodoopanda
Member
Is there anywhere that gives a basic description of the different schools of magic and what sorts of spells you might expect?
Well, I seem to have to resort to a walkthrough constantly and I'm still in the city.
The game seems really nice, but I'm finding the lack of quest information a bit frustrating, at least for me. I have to look something up in a walkthrough and then I'm like "how the HELL was I meant to know to do that?"
I know it's probably just me
The game seems really nice, but I'm finding the lack of quest information a bit frustrating, at least for me. I have to look something up in a walkthrough and then I'm like "how the HELL was I meant to know to do that?"
I know it's probably just me
wanderingprostheyltite
Member
So how's the dialog writing quality in this? On par with the old Black Isle crpgs? Decent amount of humor present as well?
Try this also. Durante suggested it.
please check the value "LoadAppInit_DLLs" in the registry key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows".
You have to go to regedit.exe.
Set the value to 1. That fixed it for me.
Edit: Another screenshot.
Deified Data
Banned
Can anyone who's spent a bit of time with the game in early access tell me if any of the stats or skills are "dump" stats that go nowhere? I like building my characters without relying on guides, but before I do that I prefer to know if anything is just plain useless.
Chance Hale
Member
I decided to only downsample from 2880x1620 so I could still hit 60 FPS. In-game vsync is still weird and totally broken. Sometimes loads at half the refresh rate before fixing itself. And even then dropping one frame sends it plummeting to 30(even though I never drop below 58)
Always room for both
Always room for both
FallingEdge
Member
so is there a concept of farming for loot or is it just level up this char and then level up this char?
just kinda curious for end game stuff
just kinda curious for end game stuff
That forced co-op is already pissing me off. With the AI set to random the other character can meddle in quest which can result in unwanted results (he wanted to sell the shell at the start, I didn't, he won, I felt pissed...) and when I set it to loyal he's just brainless zombie-pet zombie with stupid comments in dialogs. Why Larian, why you pushed this co-op down our throat... *sigh*
I'm not a veteran of the old-school PC RPGs, but I did donate to the Pillars of Eternity kickstarter and I'm excited for that. Would this be a nice little warm up for that? This actually looks really interesting.
I'm not interested in co-op or multiplayer, I don't really know anything about this game. Just saw it pop up on Steam. So I guess I'm most interested in how it plays by yourself.
I'm not interested in co-op or multiplayer, I don't really know anything about this game. Just saw it pop up on Steam. So I guess I'm most interested in how it plays by yourself.
What kind of an AI Personality did you guys pick? I'm not sure if I'm digging Loyal. It's a bit dull having the companion agreeing with you all the time.
Can the companion affect the outcome of a quest if it's Random and he/she manages to out-charm my character?
And what's the point of having it on No AI? I'm guessing you make the choices for him/her?
Can the companion affect the outcome of a quest if it's Random and he/she manages to out-charm my character?
And what's the point of having it on No AI? I'm guessing you make the choices for him/her?
Post #2 in the Something Awful official thread is a nicely laid-out effortpost which consolidates a lot of game info. *Squeak squeak.*
I don't think I'm going to get a chance to play tonight. :/
I don't think I'm going to get a chance to play tonight. :/
Sort of? Probably not very much if you have say, teleport, I would imagine.
I played for 4 hours or so now, and so far I'm incredibly impressed. The UI, the battle system, the level of interactivity with the world, the humour (both in the scenarios in the game and developing naturally in co-op) and the sheer magnificent scope of it is all just as good (or even better) than I expected. And I expected a lot from this game.
Sadly, my co-op partner is a responsible person and so I need to stop playing now.
So good.
Sadly, my co-op partner is a responsible person and so I need to stop playing now.
So good.
I know the feeling (except for the baby part -- I'm playing this game right after dinner tonight)
Oh man oh man oh man
I am a veteran of the PC rpgs. Yes, this game is absolutely worth your time if you are interested in Pillars. To be honest, I would be happy if Pillars turns out this well.
it is, still doesnt work. oh well. no big deal
got it to work with forcealways on true
The tone is very different.
Most of the time the Black Isle RPGs were very serious.
Most of the time Divinity is pretty light-hearted and humorous. Im not talking about Fable type farts and gags everywhere though. I do think the writing is pretty good!
I'm not a veteran either, in fact, I'm not really into the traditional isometric dnd style cRPGs at all.
Now I'm taking a break after playing the game non-stop for 5 hours. Buy it.
Deified Data
Banned
Same here, minus the baby.
Been playing for 2 hours now, accidentally discovered the
- didn't know it existed so that came out of nowhere lol
Really liking it so far, need to take care of some other things right now though so I can't continue.
And I'll probably restart the game next time I play, not sure if I'm happy with my Knight+Witch setup.
Homestead
Really liking it so far, need to take care of some other things right now though so I can't continue.
And I'll probably restart the game next time I play, not sure if I'm happy with my Knight+Witch setup.
I'm really happy with it... =)
I think you misunderstood what type of game this is.
Divinity: Original Sin is a singleplayer (or 2 player co-op) 'oldschool' (although very modern in many ways!) RPG in the vein of Baldur's Gate or Fallout. There is no "end game" in the way MMO's or Diablo have, where you grind for better gear, pvp and such, never ending. You finish the story, you are done. Sure, there is lots of replay value, different choices to make, different character builds, do sidequests you missed etcc but ultimately you will go through the story and thats it.
Night Angel
Member
So, I've googled it and didn't find an answer... is there a respec option? I bought the game on sale yesterday because of this thread, so I need to know how comfortable I need to get with the game's systems before leveling up.
OmegaDL50
Member
I love this game.
Combat is amazing and I love the banter between my two characters. It makes them seem more lively and gives them personality. It scratches an itch very few create-a-character with preset personalities pull off.
Although my Graphics Card fan is rather loud when I play this game. I'm just using the games auto-preset which was set to Ultra so my PC should be able to handle it.
I mean not even fully modded Skyrim with ENB causes my GPU to make much noise.
I have a HD7950, I should be able to reasonably max this game out without issues.
Combat is amazing and I love the banter between my two characters. It makes them seem more lively and gives them personality. It scratches an itch very few create-a-character with preset personalities pull off.
Although my Graphics Card fan is rather loud when I play this game. I'm just using the games auto-preset which was set to Ultra so my PC should be able to handle it.
I mean not even fully modded Skyrim with ENB causes my GPU to make much noise.
I have a HD7950, I should be able to reasonably max this game out without issues.