Divinity Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition

[Cyberarmy]

I was waiting for another patch before I started playing the game. Are there any other major issues that urgently need fixing?

I think its better to wait for new companions before a playthough now after waiting this long.
They told it'll be coming at the end of Ausgust (probably going to be late a week or two.)

 

[Roguey]

Hehhhhhhh so I hear the new patch makes leech completely worthless and caps all resistances at 80%, making zombie completely worthless too (not to mention fucking over people who craft items to give themselves sky-high resistances). Who would have thought that Larian Studios has some of the stupidest people on the planet who can't even rebalance a game correctly? Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Since a mod on the forum said the companions won't be making it in till September I'll get started on this right after they hotfix the issue where loading a game resets your your hp to its base value regardless of hp-increasing items.

 

[Mangoose]

Hehhhhhhh so I hear the new patch makes leech completely worthless and caps all resistances at 80%, making zombie completely worthless too (not to mention fucking over people who craft items to give themselves sky-high resistances). Who would have thought that Larian Studios has some of the stupidest people on the planet who can't even rebalance a game correctly? Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Since a mod on the forum said the companions won't be making it in till September I'll get started on this right after they hotfix the issue where loading a game resets your your hp to its base value regardless of hp-increasing items.

Wow, so you can read the first page of Steam comments. "So you hear" indeed.

 

[Mangoose]

Cap of resists is most likely a bug, anyway, because you need 100% fire resist to get through lava, which is required for some puzzles/secrets/etc.

 

[Roguey]

I love how that's the only thing you can take issue with. Good job with your complete and utter failure, Larian team.

 

[Infinitron]

Time to rub it in.

This isn't an inXile/Larian beta. The goal sounds like a release candidate-quality demo

This isn't an inXile/Larian beta. The goal sounds like a release candidate-quality demo

This isn't an inXile/Larian beta. The goal sounds like a release candidate-quality demo

This isn't an inXile/Larian beta. The goal sounds like a release candidate-quality demo

This isn't an inXile/Larian beta. The goal sounds like a release candidate-quality demo

This isn't an inXile/Larian beta. The goal sounds like a release candidate-quality demo

 

[Mangoose]

I love how that's the only thing you can take issue with.

Not really, already detailed other issues earlier in the thread.

 

[Roguey]

Time to rub it in.

That sounded like the goal, but it turned out it wasn't and I was wrong. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Still better than the Larian alpha/Wasteland 2 "beta."

 

[Saduj]

I finished the game without having high resistances until the very end, which seemed like overkill by that point, and leech was way overpowered.

I don't know why someone would put so much time and energy into hating a game he's never played. Roguey is saying "I told you so" from a position of complete ignorance. Having played the game, the changes sound completely reasonable to me.

 

[Zed]

Time to rub it in.

That sounded like the goal, but it turned out it wasn't and I was wrong. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Still better than the Larian alpha/Wasteland 2 "beta."

not really. everything is severely broken and the systems are shit.

 

[Mangoose]

I love how that's the only thing you can take issue with.

Oh, and loading the game doesn't change your max hp. It just sets your current hp to its unmodified value. Just have to heal up.

 

[Infinitron]

I don't know why someone would put so much time and energy into hating a game he's never played. Roguey is saying "I told you so" from a position of complete ignorance.

This.

I've usually been the first person on Codex staff to speak up for you, Roguey, because I value your perspective. But this new thing you're doing where you're basically refusing to play games while shitting on them, and now not even making yourself useful by participating in Pillars of Eternity discussion, is starting to stretch even my limits.

Seriously, get a grip, or you'll eventually be treated just like every other garden variety shitposter. Go play Blackguards or something and complain about how shitty the system is - just stop talking out of your ass.

 

[Gord]

Actually capping the resists might be a good thing (even if potentially unintended).
100+ resistance providing massive healing is exploitative and makes late game trivial.
OTOH capping the resistances should keep the challenge. Wouldn't necessarily cap it at 80% though - and of course talents like Zombie should keep on working.
I think immunity should still be doable for resistances (probably with the help of potions) - but remove the healing - your chars aren't elementals.

 

[Abu Antar]

I think he's played Divinity: original Sin, liked it so much that he felt ashamed and is now covering it up with these posts.

 

[Roguey]

I've usually been the first person on Codex staff to speak up for you, Roguey, because I value your perspective. But this new thing you're doing where you're basically refusing to play games while shitting on them, and now not even making yourself useful by participating in Pillars of Eternity discussion, is starting to stretch even my limits.

So I can't talk about how dumb it is for Larian to nerf leech and zombie into uselessness even though I'm pretty sure there's universal agreement about how that's a bad decision and obvious even to someone who hasn't even played it, yet Larian released the patch as it was? Like how could they not notice?

Go play Blackguards or something and complain about how shitty the system is - just stop talking out of your ass.

I will never play Blackguards.

I am thinking about giving Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games a try since GOG gifted it to me ages ago, but I'm waiting until tomorrow to see if Larian releases a hotfix.

 

[Ulminati]

I don't know why someone would put so much time and energy into hating a game he's never played. Roguey is saying "I told you so" from a position of complete ignorance.

This.

I've usually been the first person on Codex staff to speak up for you, Roguey, because I value your perspective. But this new thing you're doing where you're basically refusing to play games while shitting on them, and now not even making yourself useful by participating in Pillars of Eternity discussion, is starting to stretch even my limits.

Seriously, get a grip, or you'll eventually be treated just like every other garden variety shitposter. Go play Blackguards or something and complain about how shitty the system is - just stop talking out of your ass.

Come now, Roguey's just trying to be fair. How can he praise a beta he's entirely ignorant of if he doesn't shit on games he hasn't played as well?

 

[Mangoose]

I've usually been the first person on Codex staff to speak up for you, Roguey, because I value your perspective. But this new thing you're doing where you're basically refusing to play games while shitting on them, and now not even making yourself useful by participating in Pillars of Eternity discussion, is starting to stretch even my limits.

So I can't talk about how dumb it is for Larian to nerf leech and zombie into uselessness even though I'm pretty sure there's universal agreement

There's no universal agreement, you just read the comments from the first page of the Steam page.

 

[Mangoose]

Actually capping the resists might be a good thing (even if potentially unintended).
100+ resistance providing massive healing is exploitative and makes late game trivial.
OTOH capping the resistances should keep the challenge. Wouldn't necessarily cap it at 80% though - and of course talents like Zombie should keep on working.
I think immunity should still be doable for resistances (probably with the help of potions) - but remove the healing - your chars aren't elementals.

Nah, you still need 100% resist for certain optional areas that are blocked off by lava.

 

[Roguey]

There's no universal agreement, you just read the comments from the first page of the Steam page.

I've read multiple forums pal.

Show me where people are saying "Leech and zombie are still great and worthwhile talents to take!"

It's especially absurd for zombie because that's obviously an oversight. The whole point of taking that thing is losing your access to normal heals while gaining access to a larger amount of poison healing but welp can't do that now.

 

[Gord]

Nah, you still need 100% resist for certain optional areas that are blocked off by lava.

That's why I said that you should still be able to reach immunity - if not by equipment alone, then at least by drinking an additional potion.
However, healing through resistance >100, while somewhat cool, is trivializing many encounters.

 

[Sitra Achara]

Actually capping the resists might be a good thing (even if potentially unintended).
100+ resistance providing massive healing is exploitative and makes late game trivial.
OTOH capping the resistances should keep the challenge. Wouldn't necessarily cap it at 80% though - and of course talents like Zombie should keep on working.
I think immunity should still be doable for resistances (probably with the help of potions) - but remove the healing - your chars aren't elementals.

Nah, you still need 100% resist for certain optional areas that are blocked off by lava.

You sure about that? I only recall 2-3, and they were solvable using TK or Featherfall.

Spoiler

The chest in the Cyseal villa
The chest in the Hiberheim prison
I think there was another one in the endgame temple thing?

 

[Mangoose]

There's no universal agreement, you just read the comments from the first page of the Steam page.

I've read multiple forums pal

Doubt it. The only issues you cited were from the first comments you can glance at.

 

[Mangoose]

You sure about that? I only recall 2-3, and they were solvable using TK or Featherfall.

Spoiler

The chest in the Cyseal villa
The chest in the Hiberheim prison
I think there was another one in the endgame temple thing?

Spoiler

Pretty sure there's another chest in Hiberheim besides the prison. It was right before Boreas, where you had to traverse a bridge of lava with sentinels on the sides. Pretty sure TK/featherfall/tactical retreat/etc didn't have the range to clear the lava. When I got inside the room though I used TK to get the chest, which was in a room of lava.

 

[Mangoose]

It's especially absurd for zombie because that's obviously an oversight. The whole point of taking that thing is losing your access to normal heals while gaining access to a larger amount of poison healing but welp can't do that now.

Also capping resistance wouldn't affect Zombie. High resistance would decrease the amount of healing you get from Poison damage. Zombie issue is probably a bug.

And as far as Leech, it works fine. It was drastically OP before. Now it's not.

 

[Mangoose]

Anyways I just got 95% fire resist on Madora so I have no idea what those people are talking about.