Divinity: Original Sin 2 Official Thread, where you eat a leg and learn a new spell!

[stasmtl]

Release date - September 14th, 2017

http://store.steampowered.com/app/43...riginal_Sin_2/




Yes, its turn based combat and normally I wouldn't be caught dead in that genre, but this game..this fuking game had me addicted, playing the alpha/beta version all night long, and i finished it about 3-4 times since then.

Beautiful graphics, story, spell animations, and as the latest addition to the game - it will be completely voiced for every single character/NPC. With more than 1,000 NPCs, developer Larian Studios decided from the off that it'd just be too much work. But it quietly changed its mind earlier this year, hired 80 actors, and recorded more than a million spoken words.

Play with friends in Co-op/split-screen, explore, create your own spells, make your own skill path, kill anyone you want, this game has everything.

Also, there is master mode, meaning you can create your own adventure/story and have your friends play it while you control it in real time, a la dungeons & dragons.

Create your own maps, environments, encounters, items etc:

http://www.divinity.game/game-master/

[bongowongo]

I really wanted to like and love the first game becuase it felt like Dragon age origins and has co op, but it was too whimsical .. The game lost me the moment it took me to some different dimension/portal. Remember being confused with the inventory system as well. Game just wasnt for me.

[stasmtl]

I really wanted to like and love the first game becuase it felt like Dragon age origins and has co op, but it was too whimsical .. The game lost me the moment it took me to some different dimension/portal. Remember being confused with the inventory system as well. Game just wasnt for me.

they reworked the inventory system, you can auto sort it now, create stacks etc.

this game genre isnt for everyone but I strongly encourage people to at least check it out. Its challening, exciting, there is a very strong chance you will wipe on one of the first enemy you face

[tnel00]

Actually in process of replaying DOS I right now in anticipation of this game. Needed to get reintroduced to all the backstory/lore of the series.

[dcbone30]

Hnnng. Loved the first one. I put like 85 hours into it and that was just a single play through with a buddy. Had no idea this one was putting a DM mode/quest maker deal in it, they are either too complicated (Unity mode) or too simplistic to make anything fun. I hope it doesn't detract from the main game as far as development goes, but these guys put out good work. I'll put another 85 hours into this one, maybe more if the community creates some cool content.

[stasmtl]

Hnnng. Loved the first one. I put like 85 hours into it and that was just a single play through with a buddy. Had no idea this one was putting a DM mode/quest maker deal in it, they are either too complicated (Unity mode) or too simplistic to make anything fun. I hope it doesn't detract from the main game as far as development goes, but these guys put out good work. I'll put another 85 hours into this one, maybe more if the community creates some cool content.

bro this is how much I have put into it, and it was only in their early access, where all we had was Act 1. Mind you, it was incomplete act 1, in early stages of the game. Granted I have completed it 2 times and then messed around some, I can guarantee you will not only have to put in more time in this game, you will WANT to.
There will be 3 acts, first is an introduction, second act is supposed to be HUUUGE and focused on the development of story/character, and third act is the conclusion.
And dont worry, master mode wont detract from anything, its a nice little bonus they're including with the release for people to play, but that mode isn't for everyone, its targeting a specific audience from my understanding. I will probably end up never touching it, no IRL friends who play.

[hackerwacker]

D:OS was one of the greatest rpg's in recent years. Anyone who hasn't played it should check it out even if you aren't normally into turn based RPG's.

I have 2 but i've been hesitant to play it too much since it's still in alpha. is it worth it yet?

[phaginator]

HNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG fuark OP, Divinity one of the GOAT rpg's.

Games, beer and guns thank you Belgium.

[stasmtl]

D:OS was one of the greatest rpg's in recent years. Anyone who hasn't played it should check it out even if you aren't normally into turn based RPG's.

I have 2 but i've been hesitant to play it too much since it's still in alpha. is it worth it yet?

2 weeks until release, wait it out. I hesitated to play the recent version of early access because I want to get fully into it upon release. Nobody likes a tease.

[Lord_Lemon]

Wanted to like this game because of the combat system but this game just put me to sleep everytime I tried to play it

[stasmtl]

a combat spotlight highlighting the possibilities of spells in battle

[dcbone30]

[img]http//i.imgur.com/feBhSvd.jpg?1[/img]

bro this is how much I have put into it, and it was only in their early access, where all we had was Act 1. Mind you, it was incomplete act 1, in early stages of the game. Granted I have completed it 2 times and then messed around some, I can guarantee you will not only have to put in more time in this game, you will WANT to.
There will be 3 acts, first is an introduction, second act is supposed to be HUUUGE and focused on the development of story/character, and third act is the conclusion.
And dont worry, master mode wont detract from anything, its a nice little bonus they're including with the release for people to play, but that mode isn't for everyone, its targeting a specific audience from my understanding. I will probably end up never touching it, no IRL friends who play.

I've since picked it up. It's awesome, even just the first 30 minutes of the game is pretty epic. We are probably going to restart when full release comes out, but just enjoying messing around and figuring out the new abilities and stuff.

[Phesper]

The first one was a bit too slow, but i heard that the second one is faster paced? can someone confirm this?

either way im playing it with my girlfriend and back logging it if i dont like it just to support the devs. its a great game even if its not my type of game

[dcbone30]

The first one was a bit too slow, but i heard that the second one is faster paced? can someone confirm this?

either way im playing it with my girlfriend and back logging it if i dont like it just to support the devs. its a great game even if its not my type of game

Can you explain a little bit about it being slow? It's a narrative driven, turn-based tactical RPG. It has exploratory elements, like in Skyrim how you can open every barrel and crate and maybe find something that initiates a quest. It's about as fast as it can be. If you don't like reading (or listening since they just announced full voiceover I think. like a million words of dialogue) or turn based combat, it's not going to be for you.

[Kumquatv1]

Loved the first one. That said I'm going to wait until the thing is polished and not early access. I want to play it in its full glory

[dcbone30]

Loved the first one. That said I'm going to wait until the thing is polished and not early access. I want to play it in its full glory

It's out in 6 days.

[stasmtl]

Loved the first one. That said I'm going to wait until the thing is polished and not early access. I want to play it in its full glory

The official "polished" release is on september 14th.

I've since picked it up. It's awesome, even just the first 30 minutes of the game is pretty epic. We are probably going to restart when full release comes out, but just enjoying messing around and figuring out the new abilities and stuff.

yep, when it launches, you start over, there is no carry over progress from early access.

[tnel00]

So how many people are going to make their character undead?

[everblue]

so is this basically a turn based version of Pillars of Eternity?

[2RDEYE]

so is this basically a turn based version of Pillars of Eternity?

I found the first one so much better than pillars of eternity. So much more flexible, better in everything actually. PoE I found incredibly boring, and pretty much a copy and paste of baldur's gate. But Divinity Original Sin is like a completely rebuilt, extremely polished, innovative isometric RPG.

[stasmtl]

So how many people are going to make their character undead?

i will either make one or have one in a party, comes in really handy because they dont need lock picks (they use their bony finger). Also interesting undead trait is that you cant heal them with regular spells, it damage them, but they are healed with poison damage skills.

[boxden]

I found the first one so much better than pillars of eternity. So much more flexible, better in everything actually. PoE I found incredibly boring, and pretty much a copy and paste of baldur's gate. But Divinity Original Sin is like a completely rebuilt, extremely polished, innovative isometric RPG.

This, except the inverse of mostly everything said, personally. The difficulty curve was among the worst i've seen and after like the first act i was formulaically dumpstering everything without any thought. But i am hopeful, the jump in gameplay sophistication looks as big as XCOM to XCOM2 and the rp stuff looks better too. I'm sure this game will be a blast

[dcbone30]

so is this basically a turn based version of Pillars of Eternity?

In the sense that it's a story/narrative driven cRPG, yes. Lots of dialogue, lots of random quests you can find, leveling up, spells, skills, items, stats etc. Although the tone is completely opposite. D:OS definitely has some comedic flair and doesn't take itself too seriously, whereas PoE was mostly serious/dark.

If you liked PoE AND you like turned base RPG's (IE shadowrun, xcom, wasteland 2 etc) you should like Divinity OS.

This, except the inverse of mostly everything said, personally. The difficulty curve was among the worst i've seen and after like the first act i was formulaically dumpstering everything without any thought. But i am hopeful, the jump in gameplay sophistication looks as big as XCOM to XCOM2 and the rp stuff looks better too. I'm sure this game will be a blast

Somewhat agree. I originally didn't even play past like the undead north of town in D:OS1 because, like you said, it was incredibly difficult. Once I figured some of the mechanics and stuff out, I was doing alot better. Several of the bosses definitely proved to be difficult, but mostly everything inbetween was getting steamrolled. Still a ton of fun either way.

So far, even without voice acting (which makes the game feel less alive), act I of D:OS2 is awesome.

[tnel00]

so is this basically a turn based version of Pillars of Eternity?

PoE is a poor mans DoS, and I say that loving both games

[matthew2474]

I played the first one a lot, and while I did enjoy it, I felt like it was over-rated to say the least. There was no direction for you characters development and while the contrast is having a too linear path, which is a problem trend that seems to be happening these days with rpgs (WoW for example with there extremely linear class system) I could never feel like I was powerful and I had a good rotation of spells down. It all just seemed way to much in the moment i guess you could say.

[Budjola]

no bad not brad game

[Actonspur]

Just can't get on with turn based combat. It was real time combat would be one of the best games ever

[Auburn RSX-S]

Slowly but surely making my way through DOS EE. Once you sort of figure out how all the combat/environmental and AI systems work, things get a bit easier and it seems like at this point, the goal is not to be smart in combat but figure out a way to exploit the AI systems.. unless that's considered a form of playing smart. A lot of fights feel like I'm cheesing the AI but the game is letting me get away with it sooooo....

I'm about 22 hours in and still feel like I've barely scratched the surface :|

No telling how long the actual game is in terms of where I am with the story. Also it seems I've beaten a few quests just brute forcing my way through (like the underground pirate cove area) vs actually going there for a quest. Wasn't until I found some random non hostile ghost and googled who TF he was that I relized I was supposed to go talk to him in town first or something.

So yeah if I had to leverage a major complaint against the game so far, it's that there is not much direction in terms of what I'm supposed to be doing. I'm just sort of wandering around.

[matthew2474]

Slowly but surely making my way through DOS EE. Once you sort of figure out how all the combat/environmental and AI systems work, things get a bit easier and it seems like at this point, the goal is not to be smart in combat but figure out a way to exploit the AI systems.. unless that's considered a form of playing smart. A lot of fights feel like I'm cheesing the AI but the game is letting me get away with it sooooo....

I'm about 22 hours in and still feel like I've barely scratched the surface :|

No telling how long the actual game is in terms of where I am with the story. Also it seems I've beaten a few quests just brute forcing my way through (like the underground pirate cove area) vs actually going there for a quest. Wasn't until I found some random non hostile ghost and googled who TF he was that I relized I was supposed to go talk to him in town first or something.

So yeah if I had to leverage a major complaint against the game so far, it's that there is not much direction in terms of what I'm supposed to be doing. I'm just sort of wandering around.

Can you be more clear on "exploit the AI system"? I don't see how it can be exploited, rather, like you said, you're playing it smart. Also, increase the difficulty if you have too. I do agree that there is no direction and it was my big complaint about the first game but the first game had way more direction so they def digressed in that area.

That being said....yeah I'm having a blast playing... They pretty much improved everything else in the game besides having a direction to go towards. Even the class system seems better, can't actually put into thoughts why but once I play more I'll explain in more detail.

[dcbone30]

Slowly but surely making my way through DOS EE. Once you sort of figure out how all the combat/environmental and AI systems work, things get a bit easier and it seems like at this point, the goal is not to be smart in combat but figure out a way to exploit the AI systems.. unless that's considered a form of playing smart. A lot of fights feel like I'm cheesing the AI but the game is letting me get away with it sooooo....

I'm about 22 hours in and still feel like I've barely scratched the surface :|

No telling how long the actual game is in terms of where I am with the story. Also it seems I've beaten a few quests just brute forcing my way through (like the underground pirate cove area) vs actually going there for a quest. Wasn't until I found some random non hostile ghost and googled who TF he was that I relized I was supposed to go talk to him in town first or something.

So yeah if I had to leverage a major complaint against the game so far, it's that there is not much direction in terms of what I'm supposed to be doing. I'm just sort of wandering around.

I beat it after about 85 hours of gameplay, playing co-op with a buddy. Not sure if it would have been longer or shorter by myself because sometimes we split up and did stuff separately.