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Divinity: Original Sin |OT| Sandbox RPG. Co-Op friendly. Bread.
- Thread starter Casimir
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I just got the 'Divinity Original Sin Digital Collectors edition', also forwarded the 2nd copy to a friend.
so..there it is, now I have contributed to the game too.
I think it has to do with Co-op. :/ Sorry.
Hah, thats great.
I didn't have much time yesterday to play so I'm really looking forward to playing a bit later. Looove the addition of the voices and didn't expect
the seashell
Damn, that's a shame. Hope it gets fixed soon, it's so frustrating. Puts me off playing when there's constant yapping in my ear of the same line over and over again.
They're mostly small boni like Leadership +1 vs Sneaking +1. Or crafting vs Charisma etc. Nothing to worry about much imo.
Charisma seems like a waste of a stat, right? All it does is giving you a few points head start when the RPS game starts, or did I miss something? I think even with 0 Charisma you can charm / reason / intimidate everybody.
I think very often, maybe each time you reload. I've been save scumming a bit to see what each vendor has to offer for my characters respectively. Just quick save before you talk to him and load again after you've browsed him.
davidsaurus
Member
Not sure what is meant by "it has to do with co-op" - as it certainly occurs in singleplayer.
You can turn down the voice dialogue in audio options. The quality and enjoyment of the experience went up drastically for me as the ambient and music audio are very good.
I'm at work and so can't try this out myself yet but I and a lot of other people were having problems with co-op dialogue where only the initiator is in the conversation while the other player tries to figure out wtf is happening. Supposedly if you are not the person that initiated the dialog you can press 'L' and then click on 'Dialogues' you can read the conversation as it plays out.
Well you can Call it small but if i want one character to be a crafter i don't want charisma.
So is there a list of all the bonuses?
I didn't find a way to make it readable either. I solved that by trial and error. I think the right combination is
Answer: 2, 2, 1 (not a 100% sure anymore tho).
I think that's a bug. I ended up just guessing and got it right, heh. Though it is quite amusing that
a book on the Philosophy of Death, of all things, is a void.
Moff
Member
yeah I didnt solve that either. even with loremaster. a bug maybe?
That worked, thanks!
It is and isn't. Dialogue rps fights you get your charisma bonus as additional points for each round of rps you win. Considering that winning rps against a non human opponent is essentially random it's actually extraordinarily valuable if you don't want to reload repeatedly to get perfect conversation outcomes.
Looking at your second comment I suspect that's not an issue for you.
The text made it seem like it was addressing a co-op issue? Either way its good that bugs are being addressed.
Well the hoarding of healing items, consumables and spells is something that's kind of a standard reflex for me in almost every game.
Reason why I do it vary;
- Saving up items for use against potential hard enemies/bosses later on
- As a challenge; I like playing and finishing max payne games without taking a hit for example so I'm always stocked up on pain killers without using them
- Or just like you said, hoarding them up and never using them because you forget is something that also happens a lot
The most often psychological motivation I've seen is people find that using items that aren't inherent to their character sheet (consumable resources) is 'cheating'. It's a silly idea though; the items are in the game to give you tactical options for situations you couldn't anticipate.
I'm just trying to encourage people to look at the game more holistically. It's a beautifully designed game on hard with real tactical possibilities...I'm almost wanting to not even take a companion in my duo game if I wasn't worried about large encounter sizes late game.
Just try not to keep getting spotted all the time while doing it.
FallingEdge
Member
Is there an easy way to compare equipment of other party members when bartering? Right now, I have one of my mains talk and when wanting to compare a weapon of one of my teammates, I have to switch to them in the barter menu and compare the stats that way as opposed to just hovering over an item and it showing to me via popup.
Just try not to keep getting spotted all the time while doing it.
But that's what fleeing and using the pyramid to get back faster is for!
Yeah I planned to do the same cycle but normal is too easy so now I'm just collecting them. I'll probably start a new game on hard and see if anything changes.
SniperHunter
Banned
saw the trailer for the first time yesterday and it blew me away
looks fantastic
looks fantastic
That's what I'm loving about this game...it can surprise you. It's also more fun to finish a fight than to reload...something about the specific narrative of the combat flow that feels more memorable when you bust out that rain scroll, or create the smoke cloud that actually screws you over then have to use a clutch cc to save your rogue buddy.
Haven't enjoyed combat situations like this since original x-com to be quite honest. Edit: I'd add shining force 2 to that list as well.
clockworkinyou
Banned
Is there a place to report bugs? One of my main characters is stuck in a doorway.
That was my strategy. She reisisted 90% of what I threw at her. Tried rain + chill to freeze, all types of KD, stuns... tried casting rain pre-combat then chill or stun, tried charging in with a kd to initiate...
Eventually beat her by teleporting her to my melee and stunning her summons.
Yeah, I am guilty of this as well, quite frequently.
doniewhalberg
Member
Guys, trying to keep as much of the mystique to the game as possible, figuring everythin gout myself etc., just wanted to check if something is bugged or if it's just that I've not found the right solution...
I haven't had such a good time with a game in so long. I just sat and played for 3 hours there, I pretty much never break the 2 hour mark with games these days. I sat down after lunch and there went the afternoon. Really fantastic. Similar to a few psoters above, I found that I had specced identical to a companion, have started the game about 5 times trying different builds but I lvoe that part of the fun, feeling utterly lost and just fumbling around to see what happens when I do X, and so on. Really hope this does well for larian.
in the forgotten crypt, the tomb makes the opening noise, but doesn't, and nothing happens.Is this what's supposed to happen?
I haven't had such a good time with a game in so long. I just sat and played for 3 hours there, I pretty much never break the 2 hour mark with games these days. I sat down after lunch and there went the afternoon. Really fantastic. Similar to a few psoters above, I found that I had specced identical to a companion, have started the game about 5 times trying different builds but I lvoe that part of the fun, feeling utterly lost and just fumbling around to see what happens when I do X, and so on. Really hope this does well for larian.
Opening the stone coffin tomb thing you mean? You need to drag the lid.
If it's the place I think it is,
it might be that you're not so much opening the sarcophagus as you are just poking at it. Try treating the lid as separate (quite heavy!) object.
doniewhalberg
Member
haha! Cheers guys, I'm at the
pirate cove
The tombs in the tutorial dungeon just opened by clicking on them, I never considered dragging the lid off.
Ready to move on to the next major area, but still have things to do in Cyseal. The combat is still badass. That last boss battle
felt insurmountable, but then I won and it felt great. Starting to need more action bars. Wish you could enable more instead of having to page through the main one.
under the church
This game is SO GOOD. It's an Obsessive Compulsive's best nightmare. Haven't been this addicted to pulling cheese and femurs out of dusty old barrels since Morrowind. There are just so many amazing, pointless things you can do in this game. I also really like how most of these things do not involve killing, combat, or even drama.
The game most certainly lacks polish in some areas (or mostly just needs to be patched to iron out many of the tiny niggling problems, most of which have been mentioned in this thread), but the core "gameplay" which is hard to generalize in a single word is so satisfying. This game begs for imaginative use of the tools it gives you, and even expects you to break them.
The thing I'm most excited about are the wonders that will arise over time from the modding community, because there is so much potential for awesome with the systems they have built.
Thank you based Larian!
The game most certainly lacks polish in some areas (or mostly just needs to be patched to iron out many of the tiny niggling problems, most of which have been mentioned in this thread), but the core "gameplay" which is hard to generalize in a single word is so satisfying. This game begs for imaginative use of the tools it gives you, and even expects you to break them.
The thing I'm most excited about are the wonders that will arise over time from the modding community, because there is so much potential for awesome with the systems they have built.
Thank you based Larian!
Is crafting worthwhile at all? The default for a ranger has many crafting skills but I don't think I really want to do it unless the items are really bad ass. I was thinking of changing at least 1 of those skills out for stealing skill, maybe lockpicking except I don't think there are many locks to pick?
It seems like rangers would benefit a lot from crafting, what with all the sweet arrowheads they can shoot out. Lockpicking is handy to have. Pickpocket can be so good it's broken, from what others are saying.
I think i can´t complete The grieving orc quest anymore. Talked to him and thought i would like that armor and closed the dialoge. Dug up besideds him and killed him but the quest isn´t completed. Dug up 3 more graves on the beacht but it seems it isn´t the right one and i´m not able to find it anymore.
Ivory Samoan
Gold Member
This is pretty much the perfect summary, it's like if XCOM met MGS then went on a date in BG and had a baby named Divine.
Finn of Ooo
Member
Anyone have tips for making a good character? I wanted to go pyro + witchcraft but it feels like I'm useless. All I can do is cast flare over and over again because all the early enemies are undead who are immune to bleed.
I'm enjoying playing the game quasi-ironman. Short of a complete party wipe, I'm not reloading for decisions or bad rolls, etc.
It's led to some things that I don't think I would have normally done:
*really early early spoilers.. like first hour of the game*
It's led to some things that I don't think I would have normally done:
*really early early spoilers.. like first hour of the game*
- Given the option to throw the clam back into the water or not, I wanted to throw him back but thought it would be fun if my party member disagreed with me. Ended up in a rock paper scissors situation and she actually won. Oh well. Sold the clam.
- Clicked on the door behind the guard in the warehouse and it opened up new dialog where I could intimidate him to let me in. Ended up winning that rock paper scissors and getting into the warehouse. Got a nice chunk of xp but lost 100 favor? Weird. Ended up robbing the place blind. Again not something I would have normally done but hey.. stick with it. Interesting side note with this, just for the heck of it, I thought I'd reload to see if the charm option did anything different (it didn't seem to.. rock paper scissors again) but afterwards he saw me stealing the things because I didn't close the door and attacked. He is REALLY strong. One shot my poor summoned ice golem.
- Clicked on the door behind the guard in the warehouse and it opened up new dialog where I could intimidate him to let me in. Ended up winning that rock paper scissors and getting into the warehouse. Got a nice chunk of xp but lost 100 favor? Weird. Ended up robbing the place blind. Again not something I would have normally done but hey.. stick with it. Interesting side note with this, just for the heck of it, I thought I'd reload to see if the charm option did anything different (it didn't seem to.. rock paper scissors again) but afterwards he saw me stealing the things because I didn't close the door and attacked. He is REALLY strong. One shot my poor summoned ice golem.
Specialize in elemental schools that compliment each other. So, Fire and Earth go well together because Earth has spells that affect the enemies and additionally set up combos for Fire. Also, the undead aren't immune to burning.
The correct grave can't be found without the orc showing you where it is, I think.