Divinity: Original Sin Beta Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO THE NEW THREAD]

Stabbey already posted this two pages ago, dood.

 

I was quite impressed by the before/after:

Also, Swen is looking /exhausted/

 

ooooh, new environmental interactions! neat-o.

 

Swen's blog provides some interesting number.

60 000 'backers' counting KS and Early Access, so around 40 000 Early Access buyers, meaning additional $1.6M for Larian $40 per copy).
Seeing as 20 000 KS/PayPal backers gave them $1M ($50 per copy on average), and that have to use some of that money to pay for physical goods, Early Access is probably at least as profitable as KS for developers, if not more.

 

850k via kickstarter and somewhere around 1.12m from steam doesn't change the numbers much. plus kickstarter generates more costs for physical goodies production and shipment.

 

I also forgot that in Europe D:OS EA costs E40 ($52), so it more or less evens out.

EDIT: the larger cut, I mean.

 

and in ukraine and shady steam gift deals i costs only 20 bucks, soooo....

 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand downloading. !

 

This is the one game in almost a decade that I tried to avoid all spoilers. Having mostly succeeded, I must ask, how is it turning out? Instant classic?

 

well, the actual dungeons, like a certain somebody's lair, tend to be rather linear affairs, though that might be the case with the starter ones, and i am still pissed about certain storylocked doors, but otherwise it's pretty sweet.

 

Let's just say that if you are a typical OCD RPG player that wants to do everything there is, and more, in a game, you will spend more than 100 hours in D:OS and have great fun.

If you are a storyfag-immershun-cinematic-awesome-button player, you might be disappointed.

 

Well I'm a storyfag, but I do think that everything a game does and allows you to do is part of the story. So I guess I'm in for a treat.

Now the wait for the Steam deal because I'm poor and frugal.

 

ukrainian codex bros can gift it to you for 20 bucks

 

Wherever your a storyfag or not, it's a fun game.

 

20% vat in Europe makes that a wash.

 

200rats in game have unique dialogues....


D:OS rats confirmed to have more dialogs than Skyrim npcs....


Edit: power of "not spending money on stupid shit like v actors"


Now lets see how much dialogs there will be in pillars of incline

 

One Larian dev in the in-game World Chat is answering questions. Also the starting area looks a bit different now.

 

I keep forgetting about this VAT shit. Fucking taxes.

 

I have few ideas for game:

- after few hours of gameplay your lower part of body starts to randomly say words to you, with each hour played those voices are starting to make sence. After few more hours you can talk with them on various matters. Thanks to pet talk ability you have gained not playable "The Hive" companion. It grants drain blood and itch skills that you can use on enemy. Also to power up this companion you have to visit various brothels in DOS, also this companion can't use its abilities if you have wet status or you can even lose it if you use bathtub. In case if you use bathtub and you increased earlier its power. The Hive will choose randomly one NPC from its host pool and then he will take control over host mind, search player to have duel with him. If this fails and its pool was vast he can again try to take controll over one npc and again try to search for you. In case if your character is charismatic person you can convince The Hive to again join you and if you have super charisma , you can convince The Hive to stay in its last host and make that body your actual real companion that you can even romance with.
- new skill only for males: "Labia translation" which gives players ability to understand women. Famale nps have sometimes different dialogs or their answers for your questions are mosty yes and no. Also from all famales dialogs word "maybe" is errased

 

Storyfag that I am, I must say I had quite some fun with that little murder investigation... and I am relatively eager to see how that cult thing will turn out, might be ok.

 

I just want the editor to be well used into more than remakes (remakes are nice too).

Also a expansion for schedules and other stuff would be nice.
Mod modularity is a pipedream i'd love too (elder scrolls/weidu like moding)