Game News Divinity: Original Sin Kickstarter Update #58: Beta Released!

[SuicideBunny]

they really need to work on that combat participation detection...

 

[Stabbey]

I think it may even be the case that companions sitting in the Hall of Heroes will also gain experience. (I think that's a good thing, because there's only a limited amount of XP in the game because nothing respawns. If they didn't keep up, then you'd probably be forced to only use certain companions all the time.)

No, it doesn't make sense, but it's one of those concessions realism has to make to fun sometimes.

 

[SuicideBunny]

I think it may even be the case that companions sitting in the Hall of Heroes will also gain experience.

that would be a weird thing to do considering that your other character can still miss out on xp just because he stands too far behind.

 

[Stabbey]

I think it may even be the case that companions sitting in the Hall of Heroes will also gain experience.

that would be a weird thing to do considering that your other character can still miss out on xp just because he stands too far behind.

That was fixed ages ago in the alpha.

 

[SuicideBunny]

That was fixed ages ago in the alpha.

nice. but you still trigger the absent from combat dialogue if you stand 3 steps behind the other and manage to kill everything on first turn.

 

[Durante]

At least Larian know what beta means, well, vaguely. The "we'll still add companions" part is a bit dubious if you want to follow the real definition of beta, but it's still much better than "here's our beta, 20% of the game where we'll still change everything".

 

[Roguey]

Perhaps they thought "more generic shovelware - Roguey on the RPGCodex" wouldn't provide much of a sales boost. Still think it was worth a try though.

That's not what I'd say. It looks like it'll be okay/good content-wise and a mess systems-wise which is the most I can expect when it comes to non-JES RPGs.

 

[Cenobyte]

I believe it works like this: If a monster gives 250 experience to Source Hunters "Roderick" and "Scarlett" when you kill it without companions, it will still give "Roderick" and "Scarlett" 250 experience if Jahan and Madora are in the party as well, and they will also get 250 experience.

Yes, that's how it works. There's no party XP, it is tracked individually per character.

On a side note, I'm having a blast playing the beta. The game is really shaping up nicely. My only real concern is that the inventory becomes way too cluttered after a while, even with the available options for sorting. I think a keyring to store all those keys and a journal for the books might really help here.

 

[hiver]

Does anyone else gets that music and sounds disappear in the tutorial cave?
or that "take all" command for picking up items doesnt work?

or should i report it as a bug?
Im expecting a lot of players had it so far...

 

[clemens]

Does anyone else gets that music and sounds disappear in the tutorial cave?
or that "take all" command for picking up items doesnt work?

or should i report it as a bug?
Im expecting a lot of players had it so far...

I don't kow if it's specifcally related to the tutorial tomb, but I played several hours this afternoon and at one point I noticed that the music was gone too. The sounds for the menus were still there, but no ambient sounds, music nor effects... We just reloaded the game and it went fine again until we stopped playing, so... don't know what it's about. (We were in Cyseal market at that time, so probablyt nothing to do with the tutorial area... or it just took me a long time to even notice the musci was gone.) My coop buddy didn't have any trouble, though.

 

[nikolokolus]

Music and sound have intermittently dropped out for me too. Re-load seems to be the only fix.