Divinity: Original Sin 2 Pre-Release Thread

[Bubbles]

I'm pretty sure the term "origin" includes the character-specific quests you receive during the game, like the turncoat mission for the thief or the heiress stuff for the noblewoman in the prototype.

 

[Nekot-The-Brave]

I think (hope) that origins will be somewhat more than that. Like each origin has a major side quest associated with it and it gets explored and expanded throughout the game. However, I did speculate that origins will just be gimmicks over at the Larian forums :p

I suspect that origins will define how you as a PC will experience the game, such as how people react to you and what kinds of things you encounter in the environment/cities/etc.

 

[Roguey]

I'm pretty sure the term "origin" includes the character-specific quests you receive during the game, like the turncoat mission for the thief or the heiress stuff for the noblewoman in the prototype.

Extremely ToEE.

Avellone said he was stretched thin, I doubt he'll be writing more than an hour of content. (more than likely much less)

 

[Bubbles]

Hopefully he'll decide to phone in the WL2 novel instead.

 

[Lacrymas]

He also does have quite a lot of time. What is he stretched thin on, exactly? The writing on Torment should be done by now and he said that the PoE novel is ready and is at the editor at the moment. Wasteland 2 novel maybe?

 

[Bubbles]

And the Arcanum playthrough. If he has any free time whatsoever, he should spend it on that.

 

[Roguey]

He also does have quite a lot of time. What is he stretched thin on, exactly? The writing on Torment should be done by now and he said that the PoE novel is ready and is at the editor at the moment. Wasteland 2 novel maybe?

Yeah, the first draft of the Wasteland 2 novel was terrible.

https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/647217416905228288


If I'm reading that right, now it's four+ short stories and the novel itself.

Plus a Torment comic.

 

[Nekot-The-Brave]

Do you have a link to the first wasteland novel draft?

 

[Lacrymas]

The Arcanum playthrough? I had totally forgotten about that. Didn't he start it like almost 3 years ago? I would've thought he was finished with that by now.

 

[Bubbles]

The Arcanum playthrough? I had totally forgotten about that. Didn't he start it like almost 3 years ago? I would've thought he was finished with that by now.

 

[Roguey]

Do you have a link to the first wasteland novel draft?

He's not going to share that with the public, no.

 

[Fairfax]

He's not going to share that with the public, no.

Then how do you know it was terrible?

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

What is he stretched thin on, exactly? /QUOTE]

You mean between PoE novella, Wasteland novel, D:OS 2, Siege of Dragonspear, and writing short stories on bags of Doritos?

 

[Fairfax]

MCA effect: $32,315 raised on Kickstarter today + ~$2200 from the RPGCodex campaign + unknown PayPal pledges.

At ~$35k it's the best day since September 2nd.

 

[Nekot-The-Brave]

I was looking at that too.

 

[a Goat]

RPGCodex fundraiser should skyrocket now...

I was wondering why it was 9k out of sudden.

 

[Roguey]

Then how do you know it was terrible?

The fact that they told him "Hey you need to split the introduction into four or more separate short stories and write a new beginning."

It's not out of the ordinary; it's extremely unlikely for one to write a masterpiece with a first draft, especially one's first novel. That it started up as a novella, turned into a novel, and now a novel plus four+ short stories is just lol though. That's so Chris.

 

[Durandal]

Huh, seems like MCA is in D:OS 2, I wonder how the fundrai-

 

[Infinitron]

D:OS 2 Twitchcon livestream: http://www.twitch.tv/xsplit/v/17869440?t=2h08m30s

 

[Infinitron]

$1.7M with three days left. The $1.85M stretch goal is now in play.

 

[Lacrymas]

Shapeshifting mask is stupid, give us DM MODE!

 

[pakoito]

Did anyone use DM mode in VtM Redemption like ever?

 

[Lacrymas]

Did anyone use DM mode in VtM Redemption like ever?

Yes, actually. It was quite niche, but I think some people are still using it. It had some problems though, like being kind of limited.

 

[clemens]

Did anyone use DM mode in VtM Redemption like ever?

Yes! And it wasn't that limited, there were lots of mods, custom maps, etc. back in the won.net days. We used to have sessions with 8-10 players every other night.

 

[Lacrymas]

Yes! And it wasn't that limited, there were lots of mods, custom maps, etc. back in the won.net days. We used to have sessions with 8-10 players every other night.

I might be misremembering, it was a very long time ago :p I remember people having some criticism for it though, and that's why it didn't catch on more.