Divinity: Original Sin Pre-Release Thread

[ForkTong]

Can a group of 6 players still use a summon spell? As in, if you use a summon in combat, you would now have 7 players.

I think we should change that UI. If you summon an elemental, it just sits as a smaller portrait next to yours or something like that. Food for discussion.

 

[Kaldurenik]

Can a group of 6 players still use a summon spell? As in, if you use a summon in combat, you would now have 7 players.

I think we should change that UI. If you summon an elemental, it just sits as a smaller portrait next to yours or something like that. Food for discussion.

Good idea

What if you have a henchman will it be the same in that case? Maybe you can make the UI for the characters abit smaller (or maybe allow one to scale it?)

 

[Jaesun]

Can a group of 6 players still use a summon spell? As in, if you use a summon in combat, you would now have 7 players.

I think we should change that UI. If you summon an elemental, it just sits as a smaller portrait next to yours or something like that. Food for discussion.

Yeah, them showing up as a character on the left side of the screen seems unnecessary, it's not like you will be needing to check their inventory etc...

 

[AstroZombie]

The UI should definitely be scalable(if it isn't already). It takes up way too much space.

 

[Turisas]

The UI should definitely be scalable(if it isn't already). It takes up way too much space.

Hold and drag for seamless resizing & moving would be optimal, like Morrowind.

 

[Kitako]

The UI should definitely be scalable(if it isn't already). It takes up way too much space.

I think in the first videos at start of the campaign the UI looked a lot smaller. I don't think they manually resized it, it just look like all the youtube preview were made a lower resolution (and so, bigger UI) for the sake of video recording.

 

[felipepepe]

Where did you actually get the whole "six players in custom modules" part?

The engine supports up to 5 players connecting to another game => 6 players. Our campaign is 1 host + 1 friend joining, but modders can make a 6 player mod. I'll have to check on the exact number, could be 4 max, but I do believe it was 6.

But how many characters it can support? is there a hard limit, or we can have 6 players, each with one henchmen and one elemental, up to 18 people attacking stuff? Or perhaps even further...

 

[Jack Dandy]

Forktong, can we get any kind of confirmation on whether you'll have an optional WASD\keyboard movement for the non-combat portions?

 

[Jaesun]

Why would anyone want WASD movement when you just click on the ground where you want to go?

 

[Jack Dandy]

I find it much more comfortable to use keyboard for movement, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Why would anyone want WASD movement when you just click on the ground where you want to go?

Racing minigames.

 

[evdk]

Why would anyone want WASD movement when you just click on the ground where you want to go?

Racy minigames.

You know that's the real answer.

 

[BobtheTree]

WASD controls are only good for games where your perspective of your character remains fixed (first person or over the shoulder views). When the direction the player character is facing is independent of the camera, it's almost always terrible.

 

[Jack Dandy]

The camera in the game is fixed, though. You can't rotate it.

 

[Volrath]

The camera in the game is fixed, though. You can't rotate it.

Fantastic.

 

[felipepepe]

Just do a Rock n' Roll Racing remake. With stats, C&C and turn-based combat, because

 

[Wizfall]

Just do a Rock n' Roll Racing remake. With stats, C&C and turn-based combat, because

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/rock-n-roll-racing-3d
Not turn based and no C&C though

 

[Angthoron]

Maybe we should direct all our fundraiser money on making a romanceable Swen NPC.

 

[evdk]

Only if he will be tastefully romancable by the imps.

 

[Angthoron]

Or it could be a DLC...

"The Swen Song"

 

[SCO]

Finally the codex doing it's job; bitching about features that will likely not be included.

 

[Monkeyfinger]

Why do people want massive party sizes like 18 or w/e

This is a top down turn based game with a grid and movement. Are you people even thinking about how long it would take to manage a party of that size and watch them all move around the map 1 by 1?

 

[Delterius]

This barely qualifies for codexian bitching, though.

 

[Jaesun]

Why do people want massive party sizes like 18 or w/e

This is a top down turn based game with a grid and movement. Are you people even thinking about how long it would take to manage a party of that size and watch them all move around the map 1 by 1?

Who is suggesting a party size of 18? I didn't see that.

A party of 6 however (in user made mods) would be fine, and hopefully the ability to summon if possible. That might drag combat out but it would be worth trying out. Gold Box have 6 party characters and they worked just fine IMHO. Plus I'm going to try a FRUA mod with this engine and see how it goes.

 

[SCO]

This game could do a Lords of midnight remake with unlimited 'parties', moving things into the realm of strategy.
(though, tbh it would probably need at least all four cardinal directions fixed cameras, not only a 'north' pointing one). And a bit of abstraction of battles (say, only a skirmish inside the larger battle represented around the leader, with a minimap representing the larger armies and strategic movement).