Divinity: Original Sin Pre-Release Thread

[Mangoose]

What do you guys think about there not being a five-foot-step or similar mechanic that works with (or rather, against) attacks of opportunity?

 

[Mangoose]

You've had me on your ignore list for quite a while, yet you keep unhiding my posts and responding to them. That's dedication.

It's called being bored and trolling the troll

 

[tuluse]

We could find out where he lives and break his legs, but I'm not sure how that would help.

Well we won't know until we try, will we?

 

[felipepepe]

What do you guys think about there not being a five-foot-step or similar mechanic that works with (or rather, against) attacks of opportunity?

Is that final? I don't know, there's supposed to be sklls and traits to manipulate AOO chances, so it might work anyway... And I hope that are some exceptions, like flaking doesn't causes a AOO.

 

[Mangoose]

What do you guys think about there not being a five-foot-step or similar mechanic that works with (or rather, against) attacks of opportunity?

Is that final? I don't know, there's supposed to be sklls and traits to manipulate AOO chances, so it might work anyway... And I hope that are some exceptions, like flaking doesn't causes a AOO.

Yeah that's right, ForkTong did mention a skill in the video. Didn't specify how it worked though. I'd prefer it to be an active skill rather than just a passive +% bonus. lar_q?

 

[Arkeus]

Reflections

What an exciting couple of weeks we've been having. We've been telling a couple of journalists, that didn't believe us, that we had no idea if this campaign would even reach its goal. "Oh come on," they said. "You're just in it for the stretchgoals. Everyone takes half of what they actually want as a funding goal!"

Well we didn't. We were genuinely amazed to reach our goal and our first stretchgoal. The success of this Kickstarter does give us a morale boost. It tells us that we're making something that people are looking forward to, and are supportive of.
In his blog, Swen looks back on the past couple of weeks of running a Kickstarter campaign, and what we have learned from this.

Read it here: http://www.lar.net/2013/04/19/one-week-to-go/
A Kickstarter's Anthology

Thomas also made a digest of all the things we've done in the last 3 weeks. An amazing trip in video format that made all of us smile.

So here is a compilation. A collection if you will. Our greatest hits. Our best of. Our gold records. I'm taking this analogy too far so here's the video.

GamersDissent

Etalyx from GamersDissent has posted his longest video yet. That's what happens when you get to preview an RPG!
We have been playing together with a couple of people this week, and it is already lots of fun to play this with someone that hasn't seen the game yet.

If you haven't seen it yet and you have an hour to spare, give this playthrough a look, or a listen, that works too. You'll hear that we were genuinely having fun.

Live Stream On PCGames.de

We're going into overdrive next week. Well actually, it already starts tonight. We're doing online coop playthroughs with Youtube channels, independent journalists, and magazines, such as Games.on.net, Kotaku, RedPandaGamer, Jesse Cox, Quill18, DenOfGeek, TotalBiscuit, Gamer.no, Jeuxvideo.com, Angry Joe, Gamespot, GMBox, Kanobu...
We will announce when they're online and here's the first announcement:
We will be playing live with PCGames.de this coming Monday at 17:30 (GMT+1) so that's:

• 19:30 in Moscow
• 17:30 in Berlin
• 16:30 in London
• 11:30 in New York
• 8:30 in Los Angeles

Kirill's Concert On Youtube

We know some of you are waiting for the recorded Kirill's concert on Youtube. It's coming. We will post the full edit with high quality video material next week. We want to thank everyone that watched the live stream on our twitch.tv channel. If you missed it, and you cannot wait for the Youtube version, it's still available there.
In Closing

 

[catfood]

lar_q , ForkTong , guys you need to open up an unlimited $30 digital tier now that you're going to get all that coverage, because I don't know how many people are going to be willing to fork over $35 for it. Or even better add a few extra thousand spots for the $25 tier.

 

[Jack Dandy]

Holy shit, all these Let's Plays.. Larian are really going all out with it this final week. Best of luck!

 

[Jashiin]

lar_q , ForkTong , guys you need to open up an unlimited $30 digital tier now that you're going to get all that coverage, because I don't know how many people are going to be willing to fork over $35 for it. Or even better add a few extra thousand spots for the $25 tier.

This. 35 dollar is NOT an impulse buy. It's only a 5$ discount on the eventual product.

 

[catfood]

In other news only 100k to go til the next goal.

11,770
Backers

$550,052
pledged of $400,000 goal

6
days to go

 

[Monty]

And $10k paypal.

 

[MicoSelva]

Kirill performing Update Song live was awesome.

EDIT:
*sigh* @ AngryJoe
I guess it's for a good cause, so... Nope, still can't stand this guy.

 

[felipepepe]

Warning to Larian, take a VERY pacient guy to co-op with AngryJoe...

 

[Infinitron]

http://www.lar.net/2013/04/19/one-week-to-go/

Man, time goes fast! It seems like yesterday that I packed my suitcase to go on a press-tour to prep our Divinity: Original Sin Kickstarter campaign. I can’t believe it’s almost over.

This morning David, Divinity: Original Sin’s most excellent producer, told me that the first thing he did when waking up was checking the Kickstarter counter. He followed up with an “of course, that’s not really the first thing…”, but then saw that I didn’t buy it and sheepishly admitted, “yeah, ok, it’s the first thing I did.”

I frowned at him, giving him my “what kind of life do you have”-look, but then grinned, in an equally sheepish manner and admitted ”yeah, me too…”

For the last three weeks, life has been – “what are they writing, what update is needed, how can we be covered there, can we get this translated, somebody call that guy, how can we get the counter up, can we do this, are we really sure we can do this, ok, let’s do it, what is the Engagor thing telling us, what does the Codex think, what does the Watch think…” and so forth.

BRO LEVEL OVERWHELMING

 

[norolim]

Damn. So much coverage. Suddenly that $800 looks more likely...

 

[evdk]

Warning to Larian, take a VERY pacient guy to co-op with AngryJoe...

Or send someone choleric who will murder him publicly during the stream and watch the money pour in.

 

[MicoSelva]

Larian: $1,25M stretch goal is that we'll hire an assassin to kill Angry Joe!

Larian's Divinity: Original Sin campaign breaks all possible Kickstarter records, ending on $150,000,000.

 

[Mangoose]

Hm I'll revisit the AoO/5footstep thing next week, they're probably too busy to talk about it atm. Just hope I remember.

 

[felipepepe]

Video will probably be 5 minutes long, is the most that AngryJoe's DDA allows him to focus on anything.

 

[Jaesun]

Still ANY coverage and any new backers so I can get my &^$%($ 1 Mil stretch goal is good. By any means.

 

[Arkeus]

Somewhere else Swen said he was disappointed with Diablo 3 because after playing it for an hour or two he hadn't been killed and therefore it was too easy. In another video he mentioned that his idea of balancing character death was a permanent -1 constitution for each death and he had to be talked out of it. In every fight they fought it was mentioned the battles were supposed to be harder and mentioned that magic was getting nerfed to take at least a full turn to cast so it could be interrupted.

It's clear these guys are all about making their game really challenging. That's not necessarily a problem and no doubt will get fined tuned but it does feel like they are going to be hardcore about it.

The guy who complains on SA has some BRO information about Larian (not that it surprises anymore).

 

[felipepepe]

Yeah, that was on the Matt Chat interview.

 

[imweasel]

We're going into overdrive next week. Well actually, it already starts tonight. We're doing online coop playthroughs with Youtube channels, independent journalists, and magazines, such as Games.on.net, Kotaku, RedPandaGamer, Jesse Cox, Quill18, DenOfGeek, TotalBiscuit, Gamer.no, Jeuxvideo.com, Angry Joe, Gamespot, GMBox, Kanobu...

That is quite a bit. They must be sending out the current build to these guys and I wouldn't be surprised if it shows up on some torrent site eventually.

 

[evdk]

We're going into overdrive next week. Well actually, it already starts tonight. We're doing online coop playthroughs with Youtube channels, independent journalists, and magazines, such as Games.on.net, Kotaku, RedPandaGamer, Jesse Cox, Quill18, DenOfGeek, TotalBiscuit, Gamer.no, Jeuxvideo.com, Angry Joe, Gamespot, GMBox, Kanobu...

That is quite a bit. They must be sending out the current build to these guys and I wouldn't be surprised if it shows up on some torrent site eventually.

That might actually raise even more awareness, just put some KS watermark in it.

 

[Stabwound]

I used to think it was dumb when people would be rooting and celebrating every little increase in a kickstarter campaign, but here I find myself doing the same for Original Sin. If anyone deserves a successful campaign, it's Larian and this game, and I'm fucking bothered that they are putting so much effort into this and possibly not getting even the second-last stretch goal with the final one being virtually an impossibility at this point.

I think what annoys me is that people give millions of dollars to games that don't really need it (wow if we get $500,000 more Mr. Dumbfuck will join the writing team!), and these guys have a great fully-functioning game and they're struggling to even hit stretch goals that would greatly improve the game itself.

This sucks.