GrandHarrier
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Is there a good way to mix Scoundral and Man-at-Arms? Seems like you could make a fun Rogue build that way but I don't think I wanna dump that many points of STR into it.
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Divinity: Original Sin |OT| Sandbox RPG. Co-Op friendly. Bread.
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Shorty11857
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God I am awful at this game, just walked out the open gate in the town and got killed in the first fight. My rogue seems so useless, get a backstab that does barely any damage then get 2 shot by enemy
Deified Data
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From the sound of it this game is still in an advanced stage of early access, despite being the "final release"? What with the soon to be patched partner AI and companions. Maybe I'll just start when the game's done and hold off for now.
PoweredBySoy
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I had asked this in the beta thread, but since I'm still confused about it I'll ask it here as well.
My confusion stems from the fact that you play this game with multiple characters - characters with different attributes and talents. How much of the game is determined by which character you're currently controlling? For example, one of my characters has Lucky Charm ability, and one does not. Will I only find "lucky finds" if that specific character opens the chest? Or what about Perception? Will my Perception benefits of one character only occur if I'm actively controlling them?
Common sense would tell me that my character with a high Charisma would get better prices from a vendor if they were the one talking and doing the selling - but I'm not even sure that is true. Easily testable I suppose.
But there are examples like this that open a can of worms so to speak - one which could potentially lead me to constantly swapping the active character to do even menial tasks.
Also, do benefits and Abilities stack? Is there any reason whatsoever for more than one character to have the Lucky Charm ability?
My confusion stems from the fact that you play this game with multiple characters - characters with different attributes and talents. How much of the game is determined by which character you're currently controlling? For example, one of my characters has Lucky Charm ability, and one does not. Will I only find "lucky finds" if that specific character opens the chest? Or what about Perception? Will my Perception benefits of one character only occur if I'm actively controlling them?
Common sense would tell me that my character with a high Charisma would get better prices from a vendor if they were the one talking and doing the selling - but I'm not even sure that is true. Easily testable I suppose.
But there are examples like this that open a can of worms so to speak - one which could potentially lead me to constantly swapping the active character to do even menial tasks.
Also, do benefits and Abilities stack? Is there any reason whatsoever for more than one character to have the Lucky Charm ability?
Black-Wind
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Uhhh, wut now? I have never played a Bioware game to begin with so I'm not sure how I'm singling them out. If anything I'm pointing at the JRPGs that I have played with the system ...
I'm just trying to find out whats in the game as I have no clue how their "relationship" system works and I take it people here have a better grasp on it. And from what people are saying there's either "no romance" or "Non-Bioware romance ...?" and I have nothing to reference for that cause I have never played their games.
Like i said, it's not a deal breaker so IDK how I'm the enemy here for asking about it :/
Ahhh, thanks! That was really hard to see.
TharpDaddy
Member
So what is everyone using for their companion conversations? AI (loyal/random), no AI, or disabled all together in options?
Or co-op yeah, should have mentioned that.
Or co-op yeah, should have mentioned that.
There's certainly a lot of stuff to explore and do there. Especially if you're mental like us and want to look into every single container and steal everything which isn't nailed down.
Coop
Games like this and Bethesda games, where every container has a chance of containing minor sundries is the bane of OCD people like me.There's certainly a lot of stuff to explore and do there. Especially if you're mental like us and want to look into every single container and steal everything which isn't nailed down
Are there any stat repercussions to stealing? Except for getting caught while stealing, of course.
I got to a secret place early in the city,
and.... traps, traps everywhere, then more traps, so many death.
Game is really fun, coop can be a little tough when it come to dialogue ( even more so when your friend doesn't really pay attention... ). Pace is a little hard on my coop partner, many many many dialogue with very few intensive to fight ( which is why knowing about that secret place from a video, I made us go there to get a little change of pace ).
hidden in one of the cemetery tomb
Game is really fun, coop can be a little tough when it come to dialogue ( even more so when your friend doesn't really pay attention... ). Pace is a little hard on my coop partner, many many many dialogue with very few intensive to fight ( which is why knowing about that secret place from a video, I made us go there to get a little change of pace ).
skullmuffins
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Anyone else finding the mouse wheel scrolling sensitivity to be super low? Is there any way to fix it? For example, on the video settings page it takes a dozen flicks of the mouse wheel to scroll to the bottom. The control settings page is far worse, every use of the wheel literally scrolls the page by a couple millimeters - it would take around 80 scrolls to get to the bottom of the page.
GrandHarrier
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Thinking of trying a lone wolf build; Rogue and Enchanter. Is giving the enchanter leadership a good idea to boost the Rogues damage?
Lucky find certainly doesn't help my container opening OCD, either.
Steal things. You'll have plenty of money soon.
And I think the lack of explicit tutorials is to get you to explore and experiment. This is a sandbox rpg, you're supposed to root around in it. It's amazing, the discovery is a huge part of the fun.
'OH NO I OPENED THE CHEST WITH THE CHARACTER WITHOUT LUCKY FIND' is something i think waaaay too much while playing the game.
Sir Garbageman
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Right. Thankfully My ocd acts as a benefit here and I make sure to use my lucky finder (ranger, sneak) as my main explorer and my skull splitter (knight, valiant) as my aggro grabber, so I don't ever have to deal with that.
Thank god.
Because it's bad enough opening and stealing everything I see... If I had to worry about who I was using to do it too...
Annnd, I'm now restarting for the third time because I just realized that you can fully customize your characters' starting skills and attributes, and not have to made do with some useless skills.
At least I haven't sunk to my Baldur's Gate 1 lows, where I restarted at Candlekeep for two weeks until I was finally satisfied with my character.
At least I haven't sunk to my Baldur's Gate 1 lows, where I restarted at Candlekeep for two weeks until I was finally satisfied with my character.
HP_Wuvcraft
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None of my games installed on my SSD work.
Definitely, there are some pretty funny dialogues with animals
Chance Hale
Member
That's what I'm wondering, I've managed to steal quite a few paintings worth around 550 each which seems high considering where I am.
There are sorta crafting tutorials. I forget the exact name, but one of the book series tells you what to do in a way.
Also ventured out to the west and have been having some brutal fights. Skeletal Archers are a nightmare in groups.
Vlodril
Member
played about 4 hours today coop with a friend. definitely delivers. hell we havent explored half the town yet. what was stiking to me was you generally do not get so much time passing without combat in aaa games and its something we really enjoyed.
Any ideas where can i find the soundtrack on the steam client?
Any ideas where can i find the soundtrack on the steam client?
My Kickstarter backer code was accepted but none of my characters have any of the reward items and I can't find the soundtrack anywhere. Please don't make me restart, Larian!
edit: I just checked the official forum and it looks like Kickstarter backers were supposed to get that stuff via the Source Hunter DLC which should have been automatically applied to your game. It didn't work for everyone (anyone?) so they're going to try to fix it tomorrow.
edit: I just checked the official forum and it looks like Kickstarter backers were supposed to get that stuff via the Source Hunter DLC which should have been automatically applied to your game. It didn't work for everyone (anyone?) so they're going to try to fix it tomorrow.
So good. It really shines since it really was built for PC, and PC only. The iconography used in the game is also very unique and interesting. The only recent game I noticed to have used such extensive iconography was Destiny (If anyone here has played the Alpha)
Even Blizzard with their army of designers has fallen into the trap of reusing icon assets (If you have played RoS, you'll see that they've reused a good portion of passive skill icons for Crusader's spell/talent icons).
I think Larian created >=1500 unique icons (based on a icon sheet posted on their twitter account) for this game.
Chance Hale
Member
It's kind of annoying the dialogue options reset every time you click on an NPC.
And Pet Pal is amazing and I can't imagine playing the game without it.
And Pet Pal is amazing and I can't imagine playing the game without it.
WarMacheen
Member
So, what's the consensus on this game, worth the price? Saw it today on Steam and never really paid much attention before. Just read that it is turn based combat....eh
Black-Wind
Member
Im gonna wait for it's price to drop personally seeing a I already have a ton of games to go through but that's just me though ..
Moff
Member
soo, I caught up with almost anything I did in the bete and added a few hours.
gotta say, the town is the best part of the game, I hope there will be more towns than the first one.
out in the wild is ok, but pretty much standard RPG, good, but not that special, but gameplay in the town is amazing, so much stuff to do and manipulate.
one question though about an early side quest,
gotta say, the town is the best part of the game, I hope there will be more towns than the first one.
out in the wild is ok, but pretty much standard RPG, good, but not that special, but gameplay in the town is amazing, so much stuff to do and manipulate.
one question though about an early side quest,
I found the book of the dead for the philisopher ghost, but its blank? is that a bug or am I missing something? I am supposed to take a quiz about the content of the book. did that work for anyone and the book was displayed properly?