Divinity Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition

Yeah, I wonder if it's possible to change the difficulty settings somewhere so it doesn't apply to the armours. Multiplying health is still just difficulty-by-bloat, but multiplying the armor is just beyond unfun. It's a shit way to handle it to begin with, but this takes it from "mild annoyance to avoid instant lockdowns" to "annoying fucking bullshit that bogs combat down to sword-swinging and takes all the fucking tactics out of it what the fuck is this shit kill me reeeeeee".

Edit: Fucking ninjad. Thanks a lot, man. Fucking awesome.

 

Party is knight, polymorph, wizard & cleric. Not optimal setup but god damn would have been nice to know in advance what armour types these would counter for the most part. Only my wizard can do magical damage reliably every turn, both melee dwarves can do a petrify against magic armour every 3 turns and that's my party's entire magic damage repertoire. Every ability of knight, poly & cleric I started with or could buy was against physical armour so I'm completely out of the element game at this point. Just arrived at the

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Hideout in the swamp

and these enemy packs can be devastating, burning through resurrect scrolls atm.

 

How can i highlight corpses and containers guys?

 

I really want Helping Hand to return .

 

The gme is extremely geared towards hybrids. I don't think you're intended to have pure physical combatants. There are, for example, cross-ability skills, such as requiring Warfare 1 and Pyromancy 1, or Scoundrel 2 and Hydrosophy 2, but there's apparently nothing like Warfare 2 + Scoundrel 2. Really, even if you're pure warfare, even a single point in a magic ability is very advantageous, and Polymorph is amazing for anyone. It's a bit weird. I suspect they really want everone to be some kind of spellcaster, to take advantage of the gamut of options.

Yeah, again, a very odd omission.

 

This is what they said about D:OS and then everyone made it into the post-Early Access areas.

 

Or, you know, make physical based attacks/skills just as interesting as spellcasting.

 

Why the fuck does my party reposition at the start of fights?

 

Yeah probably gonna put 1-2 points in some magic tree for each character since it's just punishing me for not conforming. I guess the pure physical archetypes are still in for non-tactician.

 

arent they, more often than not, noticing stolen goods and want to search you? Or is that triggered by something special and I just didnt see what that is?

 

They do, but you can unlink the thief from the party and have him haul ass and they search the chars near them. Or just drop the stolen item on the ground, go through the search and pick it up after.

 

Where did all the skills go ?

Is there seriously only like 5-6 different skills to be had from chapter 1-3? Is that it? I'm at lvl 10+ on my skills, and im only finding skillbooks that require lvl 2-3 max.. wtf? Did alot get removed?

Also, I just had gay undead sex between me and fane... skeleton sex.

GG, Larian, GOTY

 

This is really annoying. Sneaking to attack some dude, fight starts, the party immediately moves to the sneaked guy's location, forming around him, instantly get blown up by AoE shit.
Nice AI Larian.

 

Getting consistent freezes when going back to Fort Joy now. Screen freezes, but music keeps playing and I can move the pointer. Guess I can't go back there any more.

Hasn't happened to me. If I sneak to attack someone, the rest of my party stays outside combat until I run them in manually.

 

Where is this file? I cannot find it.

 

Mmm, skeleton sex.

 

Ok, so do this:

1. File needs to be extracted. Don't know from where. Get file from here:
http://www.filedropper.com/character

2. Find the lines

new entry "HardcoreNPC"
type "Character"
data "ArmorBoost" "50"
data "MagicArmorBoost" "50"
data "Vitality" "50"
data "DamageBoost" "50"
data "Accuracy" "10"

3. Edit or delete the lines.

4. Put the .txt file here:

\Divinity Original Sin 2\Data\Public\Shared\Stats\Generated\Data

You will need to create the folders

5. ???

6. Profit

I just tested this. Deleted the lines so it looks like this now, also started a new game since the changes don't seem to apply to already existing saves:

new entry "HardcoreNPC"
type "Character"

The bugs on the ship lost 8 HP, the 2 guards start with 8 HP instead of 12 and only 13 armor. Will see how this goes from here.



All info courtesy of the good people of the Larian forum in this topic:
http://larian.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=611227&page=4

WARNING: The game returns a warning upon boot that you will no longer be able to play Multiplayer if you do this. Caveat Emptor.

 

It's like they read my complaint on the codex about the shitty D:OS implementation of the non permanent petrification spell and just to spite me they went out of their way not just to include it in the sequel but make it a fucking unique trait as well.
Turn a target to STONE!!! for 1 turn.
Well played, Larian!

 

Classic. I read the comments on Tactician and it appears it's not quite ready for prime time yet.

 

Is it just me, or is intelligence a nigh useless attribute? I made a spellcaster in a co-op game and I thought putting points into intelligence was the most reasonable thing to do, but now I realize it only increases the amount of damage you do with wands and staves. No added damage or range to your proper spells at all. Might as well invest those points in memory, wits (for initiative bonus) and constitution.

 

Am I wrong or dual-weapon skill applies to dual wands? Theoritically yes, but that's quite ridicoulus.

 

At least my skill descriptions (on a Summoner) say that the power of the summon is affected by Intelligence (and the Summoning skill, and level, presumably). They also seem to affect cooldowns -- I put everything into Int and now I get to summon a totem every round (default cooldown is 3 I think).