Divinity Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition

[Sitra Achara]

Audio podcast with ForkTong
http://5by5.tv/dlc/31

Haven't listened to it myself yet.

Jeff and Christian welcome David Walgrave, Producer on Divinity: Original Sin, to DLC this week to talk about understanding what a game developer does, the EVO 2014 fighting game championships, Raiden joining Mortal Kombat X, Tekken 7 announced, Hearthstone: Curse of Naxrammas pricing info, and more.

Then in The Playlist, Jeff goes a little crazy praising Divinity: Original Sin, which he calls one of the best games of ever. Christian tries to manage the slurping, but Jeff loves loving the throwback CRPG in all of its glory. Christian has some memories of Aladdin Genesis that he's revisiting himself, too.

For Tabletop Time, David talks about destroying his friends at Dominion, and Jeff is excited to play the newly announced Spiel des Jahres winners.

All that, plus YOUR phone calls.

1:37:54 Dragonlance for next project confirmed!

 

[Cyberarmy]

Edit: He is coming!

He just said mods goddammit, there goes my hopes...

 

[Metro]

Leadership didn't seem to have any effect for my party going from 6 to 7 on one of them.

 

[VentilatorOfDoom]

how much pickpocket skill do you need to, say, steal legendary items from a vendor

 

[Tigranes]

Lerk the totem revives the skeletons after a turn or two, I think.

Braccus died on first try, and didn't need to use any cheesy stuff. Two-hander crit'd for 400. Now wields the GIANT AXE OF BRACCUS.

 

[Watser]

Behold! First content patch incoming

Our small council just approved the patch that introduces extra AI personalities and more. Should be up in a couple of hrs

Twitter

 

[Jack Dandy]

My first playthru is finally about to begin!

 

[Zorba the Hutt]

Our small council just approved the patch that introduces extra AI personalities and more. Should be up in a couple of hrs

 

[Black]

Behold! First content patch incoming

Our small council just approved the patch that introduces extra AI personalities and more. Should be up in a couple of hrs

Twitter

Praise the Conduit/the Messiah!

 

[Kirkpatrick]

I've just finished the game, so, bloody great. Just in time for second playthrough.

 

[Grunker]

Anybody know a place where I can find a good summary of all status conditions in the game?

EDIT, nevermind:

Neutral
Chilled: Movement -44, Fire Resistance +10, Water Resistance -20
Warm: Fire Resistance -20, Water Resistance +10
Wet: Air Resistance -20, Fire Resistance +10, Water spells have greater effect.

Buffs
Blessed: +30% Chance to hit
Damage Boosted: Increased damage.
Fortified: +70% Armour
Hasted: Movement +64, Maximum AP +4, Start AP+4, Turn AP +3
Healing: Target is recovering health.
Invisible: Invisible for X turns. Attacking or being damaged ends the effect
Lucky: Lucky Charm +2
Raged: Increased damage, lowered defense.
Stat Boosted An attribute is temporarily boosted.

Debuffs
Bleeding: Take [varies] Damage over time
Blind: Unable to target enemies
Burning: Take [varies] Damage over time
Charmed: Target switches sides.
Crippled: -84 Movement, -4 Turn AP
Cursed: -30% Chance to hit.
Diseased: Constitution -3, Bodybuilding -2
Drunk: Intelligence -3, Lucky Charm +2, Initiative -5
Frozen: Unable to Act, Armour +100%
Knocked Down: Unable to Act, 100% chance to be hit.
Petrified: Unable to Act
Stat Penalized: An attribute is temporarily penalized.
Slowed: Movement -64, Maximum AP -4, Start AP-4, Turn AP -2
Stunned: Unable to Act.
Weak: Strength -3, -50% Damage.

 

[Decado]

The difficulty complaints are just fucking bizarre. I dropped down to easy just to see what the big deal is, and I was plowing through shit. If the game is too hard, put it on "Easy." If it is still too hard, go take up knitting you fucking idiots.

 

[Xeon]

how much pickpocket skill do you need to, say, steal legendary items from a vendor

Can you steal Rare and Magical items? I went to Cyseal and gave myself LV14 and put points to Pickpocket and I couldn't not pick any expensive items even with 5, I put points to Dexterity and maxed it with Pickpocket and still were not able to pickpocket any Legendary or Rare or any expensive equipment. always get caught.

Maybe there's another modifier beside those 2.

Edit:
Yea, I just added in 20 pickpocket which I am pretty sure is impossible to obtain legitimately and finally managed to steal a non identified Legendary Amulet valued 3860 I think. I couldn't steal a similar amulet valued 4100+. I think its based on value and not rarity, I went to Hunter's Edge and couldn't steal common Tenebrium weapons.

20 Pickpocket + 15 Dexterity.

 

[Lerk]

Lerk the totem revives the skeletons after a turn or two, I think.

Braccus died on first try, and didn't need to use any cheesy stuff. Two-hander crit'd for 400. Now wields the GIANT AXE OF BRACCUS.

My thanks for clearing that mystery up for me, old chap.

Also a pox upon Sitra Achara for raising my hopes (and dick) for Dragonlance. GOOD DAY, SIR.

 

[Excidium]

The difficulty complaints are just fucking bizarre. I dropped down to easy just to see what the big deal is, and I was plowing through shit. If the game is too hard, put it on "Easy." If it is still too hard, go take up knitting you fucking idiots.

It's a goddamn CRPG, difficulty varies a lot by how you develop your characters and play the game

 

[Jaesun]

So when will The Isle of Serpents Expansion Pack be announced?

 

[aleph]

Anybody know a place where I can find a good summary of all status conditions in the game?
Petrified: Unable to Act

Strange that petrified doesn't have any additional effects. Seems worse than knockdown which is more easily available.

 

[Grunker]

Anyone know if there's a place you can keep an eye out for the patch coming tonight? We're playing now but we're ready to quit for patching

 

[Monocause]

I'm surprised to see how positive was the game's reception on Steam. Expected tons of negative reviews along the lines of "turn based in 2014" or "too hard therefore it sucks".

Also - people, use the fucking spoiler tags when discussing stuff, even if you're just dropping names without going into plot details - or start another, spoiler-heavy thread specifically to discuss plot details and brag how much did you crit which boss for and what kind of a weapon did he drop. Ignoring the tag for no reason annoys your bros and is rather rude in general :S

 

[Decado]

The difficulty complaints are just fucking bizarre. I dropped down to easy just to see what the big deal is, and I was plowing through shit. If the game is too hard, put it on "Easy." If it is still too hard, go take up knitting you fucking idiots.

It's a goddamn CRPG, difficulty varies a lot by how you develop your characters and play the game

Yeah, this too. Most CRPGs are "harder" until you learn the game systems. I just pains me to see so many "gamers" who are so fucking dumb and impatient that they can't into the normal shit required to learn new systems. Every game is a system. Learn the system, and the game is enjoyable. Refuse to learn, and you will have a lousy time. It isn't rocket science.

 

[VentilatorOfDoom]

how much pickpocket skill do you need to, say, steal legendary items from a vendor

Can you steal Rare and Magical items? I went to Cyseal and gave myself LV14 and put points to Pickpocket and I couldn't not pick any expensive items even with 5, I put points to Dexterity and maxed it with Pickpocket and still were not able to pickpocket any Legendary or Rare or any expensive equipment. always get caught.

Maybe there's another modifier beside those 2.

Edit:
Yea, I just added in 20 pickpocket which I am pretty sure is impossible to obtain legitimately and finally managed to steal a non identified Legendary Amulet valued 3860 I think. I couldn't steal a similar amulet valued 4100+. I think its based on value and not rarity, I went to Hunter's Edge and couldn't steal common Tenebrium weapons.

20 Pickpocket + 15 Dexterity.

thanks bro, so pickpocket is useless

Spoiler

how do I get into the treasure room to the right in the knights tomb? throwing a pyramid or trying the rogue teleport doesnt work because the area is "blocked"

 

[Loriac]

Anyone know if there's a place you can keep an eye out for the patch coming tonight? We're playing now but we're ready to quit for patching

Just downloaded an 800Mb patch

 

[Doctor Sbaitso]

how much pickpocket skill do you need to, say, steal legendary items from a vendor

Can you steal Rare and Magical items? I went to Cyseal and gave myself LV14 and put points to Pickpocket and I couldn't not pick any expensive items even with 5, I put points to Dexterity and maxed it with Pickpocket and still were not able to pickpocket any Legendary or Rare or any expensive equipment. always get caught.

Maybe there's another modifier beside those 2.

Edit:
Yea, I just added in 20 pickpocket which I am pretty sure is impossible to obtain legitimately and finally managed to steal a non identified Legendary Amulet valued 3860 I think. I couldn't steal a similar amulet valued 4100+. I think its based on value and not rarity, I went to Hunter's Edge and couldn't steal common Tenebrium weapons.

20 Pickpocket + 15 Dexterity.

Have you tried being invisible or charming?

 

[Kirkpatrick]

So, what's behind the...

Spoiler

Forbidden Zone portal

?

They teased with party animals.

 

[Monocause]

thanks bro, so pickpocket is useless

I think it's worth it to put 1 point into it and hold on to some stat-boosting items. Occasionally you can nab a key or some other useful stuff.

Also, I know it's filthy apologist talk and I know this argument isn't really valid, but I'm tempted to say that smoothly pickpocketing a legendary, ridiculously rare and expensive item from a person trying to sell it and earn lots of dosh would either mean that the seller is insanely daft or that you're a godlike thief

edit: on the other hand, stealing anything while being disguised as a barrel, especially large works of art, would be rather tricky as well...