Divinity Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition

[Perkel]

Anyone has more pics like this one? I'm collecting.

In DOS2 Larian should completely remove quest log. It supposed to be that way in original original sin pitch.

Quest logs are bane of RPGs.

 

[Gord]

Diablo had better co-op. Trust me on this. Cause playing it single player in Hell leads to more deaths, while playing it with friends aids your survival much more and it's more fun.

Amusingly, D3 was at first much harder on co-op than alone (unless your partner was overlevelled).

Notice the pattern - co-op made the game easier in those games. Not harder.

Amusingly, i would also say that co-op making things harder is a sign of good co-op. It's the same way that Magicka co-op is much harder than playing solo, but it's still much better than solo.

Oh come on, you are comparing apples and oranges here, people.
Diablo and D:OS have a completely different focus and goal in their co-op component.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Black Pure gold you have there. Borrowing IQ: Room temperature for further use.

 

[Perkel]

Diablo had better co-op. Trust me on this. Cause playing it single player in Hell leads to more deaths, while playing it with friends aids your survival much more and it's more fun.

Amusingly, D3 was at first much harder on co-op than alone (unless your partner was overlevelled).

Notice the pattern - co-op made the game easier in those games. Not harder.

Amusingly, i would also say that co-op making things harder is a sign of good co-op. It's the same way that Magicka co-op is much harder than playing solo, but it's still much better than solo.

Oh come on, you are comparing apples and oranges here, people.
Diablo and D:OS have a completely different focus and goal in their co-op component.

More like two different ideologies.

- Co-op means playing easier
- Co-op means enjoying game with people

Only one is closer to PnP

 

[Grunker]

Stop bullying me lah.

What's this 'lah' shit you keep repeating. What does it mean?

it's weaboo for "i'm special"

 

[Perkel]

I can't wait for mod that will de-retard armour from those horns and shit.

 

[Athelas]

I don't see that happening without replacing the character model (at least the male one) with one that doesn't resemble a walking refrigerator.

 

[Perkel]

That is also a thing. But as you said i don't see it being changed considering how this can fuck up animations and other stuff.

 

[Perkel]

Looks like editor will need some serious work before it will be usable to people beside creating pretty landscapes. I hear integrating anything into mc is pain in the ass. Also ton of crashes problems with dependencies and so on.

So more or less half a year before first real small module will hit.

 

[PowerTorment]

Looks like editor will need some serious work before it will be usable to people beside creating pretty landscapes. I hear integrating anything into mc is pain in the ass. Also ton of crashes problems with dependencies and so on.

So more or less half a year before first real small module will hit.

Well they managed to make the game with this thing so something must be working. And with such tools there is probably a lot of magic you need to know before being productive. That goes for all the engines/editors I have worked with over the years. Asumming Larian fix any blocker bugs that happened in the deployment to the public and they make more tutorials I think we will see modules much sooner.

 

[Perkel]

Yeah but something tells me this isn't really 1:1 editor they use. Maybe they reworked a bit their engine for public release purpose and thus it affected stability.

But don't take my worlds as some bad things. It's their first toolkit released to public it will take a while to iron it out.

 

[Crooked Bee]

There's a bunch of goblins with unique names

Spoiler

standing around the totem at the goblin camp

but I can't speak to any of them even after passing the test - is it supposed to be this way?

Also, what's with the statue

Spoiler

of the troll king in the cave below?

 

[Roguey]

so where's the megadungeon in phantom forest? i scoured every inch of it to no avail, am sad

http://www.larian.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=511603&page=3

The Knight's Dungeon, the Inner Sanctum (Temple of the dead), the Druid Dungeon(Alchemist) were originally all part of the mega dungeon but when we realised we were never going to make it at the density level we aspired to, we decided to modify their function. We have the other parts of the dungeons on our HDDs but they're not that much fun so we decided not to include them. As I said before, it's a game, not a shopping list and "Killing your darlings" is an inevitable part of any production as is shifting priorities.

I think there's more than sufficient content in D:OS as is. There certainly is more than we planned for and I hope people do realise just exactly how easy it would be to construct a few extra boring dungeon levels just for the sake to living up to the "letter of the law". Or maybe we could have cut up some of the existing dungeons and split them in different levels. We opted not to do that because we thought it'd deteriorate the game and tbh, didn't consider it a big deal. A lot these resource shifts had to do with implementing other feedback we got during the beta which we thought was more important. You may agree or disagree with that, but it's one of those things developers sometimes have to do. I certainly don't regret making other areas more dense and adding more freedom at the expense of these dungeon levels.

Larian lied, people cried. "Haha, let's promise to add a level to a dungeon for every 1000 backers we get after 10,000 to create hype and enthusiasm and then just cut that reward after we have their money." You wanted a carrot and instead you got the stick.

You know which game actually managed to create its megadungeon?

I expect Volourn to hate it. And Rougey can't recognize a good game if it hits her with a shovel on the head.

There's a relevant quote in my sig.

 

[Chaotic_Heretic]

There's a bunch of goblins with unique names

Spoiler

standing around the totem at the goblin camp

but I can't speak to any of them even after passing the test - is it supposed to be this way?

kill them forxp?

 

[Black]

You can only talk to the goblins if they're not doing whatever it is the totem wants them to do.

 

[Crooked Bee]

You can only talk to the goblins if they're not doing whatever it is the totem wants them to do.

Ahaha, yeah, that worked. Thanks.

 

[Perkel]

You know which game actually managed to create its megadungeon?

No i don't. Tell me.

 

[Markman]

There's a relevant quote in my sig.

Josh can talk and cant deliver as usual, but you're more than welcome to let me know when he makes a decent game one day.

 

[Arkeus]

Yeah but something tells me this isn't really 1:1 editor they use. Maybe they reworked a bit their engine for public release purpose and thus it affected stability.

But don't take my worlds as some bad things. It's their first toolkit released to public it will take a while to iron it out.

We'll see. Given their rates of updates, i am fairly positive they are going to put making the editor tutorials and updating it as a priority.

 

[Perkel]

I am assuming they probably use middleware they can't put into public release thus engine for public needs to be reworked thus creates problems.

 

[Arkeus]

Something fun i didn't realize in the game: animals like rats only run away from characters without pet pals. Just unlink the pet pal character and no more rat running.

 

[Perkel]

I wonder how much of these little things we will find in game.

Game looks like is packed with those little things

 

[Black]

 

[t]

I'm not a dan of reading all this inane bullshit steam comments.

 

[Black]

Too bad!