Divinity Original Sin Enhanced Edition
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This game. Just started, I bought it during the steam sale but didn't want to start during TI and then Naxxramas so waited until that was done. Anyway, now have 10hours played and I feel like I haven't done anything. I'm still fucking around in town playing detective, the fucking curse of having to loot and check EVERYTHING before progressing. It's really like the old school RPGs where you do a tutorial dungeon and then straight into a massive town with a ton of quests and shit to do.
Anyway pretty cool so far. I'm waiting a couple of levels to get a ranger merc, the mage companion looked annoying, asking me to not do deals with demons, well fuck you too, I'll do what I goddamn please, and I already have a mage anyway figure I won't need 2.
For a kickstarter project this looks incredibly well done. There's a lot of little things I'd change especially UI wise and what not but nothing that screams "goddamn budget shit", voices are alright, story seems fine, dialogues are nice, graphics are decent and combat is pretty fun with the elemental combo stuff.
Anyway pretty cool so far. I'm waiting a couple of levels to get a ranger merc, the mage companion looked annoying, asking me to not do deals with demons, well fuck you too, I'll do what I goddamn please, and I already have a mage anyway figure I won't need 2.
For a kickstarter project this looks incredibly well done. There's a lot of little things I'd change especially UI wise and what not but nothing that screams "goddamn budget shit", voices are alright, story seems fine, dialogues are nice, graphics are decent and combat is pretty fun with the elemental combo stuff.
I finished at 116 hours.
Eventually I hit a puzzle that was flat out broken and had to look up the solution. After that I had sort of lost my confidence that puzzles were clever and began being suspicious that stuff was broken every time I got stuck.
It very much reminds me of temple of elemental evil. I had so much fun with that game but I never had any clue what was happening. I just wandered and shived down anything that attacked me and had a grand old time.
Did the same, figured I'd stumble across the solution so just kept wandering and blasting anything in my way. I had no idea what was going on or what I was supposed to do for pretty much the entire game.
Eventually I hit a puzzle that was flat out broken and had to look up the solution. After that I had sort of lost my confidence that puzzles were clever and began being suspicious that stuff was broken every time I got stuck.
It very much reminds me of temple of elemental evil. I had so much fun with that game but I never had any clue what was happening. I just wandered and shived down anything that attacked me and had a grand old time.
Caliane
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yeah its REAL easy to do Lucella "out of order".
the map layout itself is convoluted. And many obstacles have alternate ways to get in or around, which let you sequence break. For the most part, this isn't really a problem. But you might miss a quest or two, and some dialogue might not make a ton of sense if you do. The game isn't perfect about adapting dialogue to reflect, when you do something out of order.
"actual" lucella order.
the map layout itself is convoluted. And many obstacles have alternate ways to get in or around, which let you sequence break. For the most part, this isn't really a problem. But you might miss a quest or two, and some dialogue might not make a ton of sense if you do. The game isn't perfect about adapting dialogue to reflect, when you do something out of order.
"actual" lucella order.
enter zone, and see runaway. he directs you to the witches hut. go there. Find the barrier and leave. Head to Silverglen. At Silverglen you need to infiltrate the Immaculates. do the Immaculate trial cave. Back to silverglen. Go through the tunnel. Visit Sacred stone. Back to the witch's hut. Do Hiberhiem in its entirety. (I'm not sure if cathedral or Mines is intended here. But do both, now.)
Obviously, some mini areas in there too. Troll cave, void demon area, mirror puzzle. And really, ALOT of that can be done entirely out of order. you can enter the witchs hut IMMEDIATELY, and do hiberhiem by killing the mushrooms, or getting the scroll just north of the hut, in that shrine area.
Most of us probably visited Sacred stone last.. But.. when you get there, they talk about hiberhiem as if you haven't been there, and the mines, etc.
nothing really stopping you from heading over to hunters edge halfway either. ha.
Obviously, some mini areas in there too. Troll cave, void demon area, mirror puzzle. And really, ALOT of that can be done entirely out of order. you can enter the witchs hut IMMEDIATELY, and do hiberhiem by killing the mushrooms, or getting the scroll just north of the hut, in that shrine area.
Most of us probably visited Sacred stone last.. But.. when you get there, they talk about hiberhiem as if you haven't been there, and the mines, etc.
nothing really stopping you from heading over to hunters edge halfway either. ha.
Xexx
Vyemm Raider
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I just finished mine and i need the blood for that ho to down those knights. I killed Loic(sp?) and had miner headmaster beaten to death lol i think killed a bunch of people after milking them for money! I am unsure what to do next tho, i can check out troll cave i guess but i remember being in there and the portals sending me in circles.
Needless
Toe Sucker
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I'm so lost in this game, I haven't played an SRPG like this since i played BG2 many moons ago.. By the time i got to the first town i already pissed some npc off for clicking on a door that was locked lol
I see that you can make a sort of "Paladin" esque build but is it possible to make a necromancer/shadowknight type character? I want to remake as 2 "evil" type of characters and just be an asshole to everything/everybody
I see that you can make a sort of "Paladin" esque build but is it possible to make a necromancer/shadowknight type character? I want to remake as 2 "evil" type of characters and just be an asshole to everything/everybody
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Well you can make whatever you want, you just pick the skills you want. SK would be Witchcraft+Man at Arms(but you obviously don't take the fire/holy shit, just the melee attacks), Witchcraft in general is the necro-like school, it has a bunch of debuffs like bleed blind curse weakness as well as undead summons and also get a cool 50%dmg buff at lvl 1 that's insanely good all game. Balancing your stats is gonna be troublesome though with int/str spread, possible but you'll either focus on one and have the other as a secondary or be meh at both.
If you don't want too much overlap you could go with a rogue for the other char with like some magic if you want or whatever. For a good rogue you want to remove points from pretty much everything but 1scoundrel and 2 sneak. Iirc that leaves one point to put in whatever, doesn't really matter. You don't really need too much dex, at least not right away as backstabs have +20% chance to hit with the Heartless bonus so you never miss anyway, still want 8 for 100% on lvl 1 skills though. Scoundrel lvl 1 or 2, no need for more, Sneak you want 5 but 2 base is enough to get 5. Sounds a bit min max but rogues are a bit weird if you don't min max them they're pretty garbage.
If you don't want too much overlap you could go with a rogue for the other char with like some magic if you want or whatever. For a good rogue you want to remove points from pretty much everything but 1scoundrel and 2 sneak. Iirc that leaves one point to put in whatever, doesn't really matter. You don't really need too much dex, at least not right away as backstabs have +20% chance to hit with the Heartless bonus so you never miss anyway, still want 8 for 100% on lvl 1 skills though. Scoundrel lvl 1 or 2, no need for more, Sneak you want 5 but 2 base is enough to get 5. Sounds a bit min max but rogues are a bit weird if you don't min max them they're pretty garbage.
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Well I'm at 40hours and I think I'm about halfway through or so. I spent like 10hours finding the classes I wanted to play though and I explore everything fully. 20hours seems extremely short, even skipping stuff I don't know how much you can skip with the limited xp and stuff. Maybe on easy and you just blast through every fight in 2rounds and shit but if you're actually trying to play the game it'd definitely take longer.
Needless on rogues well so far I'm very happy with mine, she kills 1mob every turn at least and if it's a round when I'm buffed with Oath and in range of mobs I can generally kill 2 per round. You do need 5 sneak asap though as that's your main source of damage(optimally you reload the vendors until you find sneak items at lvl 2 and 3 so you have 5 by the time you leave the city), and you obviously need backstabber/guerilla traits as well as position correctly. But the low reliance on skills means you can get away with only 1 or 2pts in Scoundrel and not much in dex either(just enough to equip armor/daggers) and since you only need 2 sneak to get 5 with +2 from items and +1 from cautious perk, that leaves A LOT of points to assign into other shit and diversify.
Not the most interesting gameplay though, just sneak, click, sneak, click, rinse repeat. I have a few skills but they're long cooldown disables, I use them in hard fights. I make up for the boring gameplay with my mage, I'm on my 4th bar filled with shit, have something for every situations ^^.
Needless on rogues well so far I'm very happy with mine, she kills 1mob every turn at least and if it's a round when I'm buffed with Oath and in range of mobs I can generally kill 2 per round. You do need 5 sneak asap though as that's your main source of damage(optimally you reload the vendors until you find sneak items at lvl 2 and 3 so you have 5 by the time you leave the city), and you obviously need backstabber/guerilla traits as well as position correctly. But the low reliance on skills means you can get away with only 1 or 2pts in Scoundrel and not much in dex either(just enough to equip armor/daggers) and since you only need 2 sneak to get 5 with +2 from items and +1 from cautious perk, that leaves A LOT of points to assign into other shit and diversify.
Not the most interesting gameplay though, just sneak, click, sneak, click, rinse repeat. I have a few skills but they're long cooldown disables, I use them in hard fights. I make up for the boring gameplay with my mage, I'm on my 4th bar filled with shit, have something for every situations ^^.
Rime
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I'm 37 hours deep and I'm maybe halfway done with the second major zone. There are a few "level check" fights in the main story I don't see how you'd complete if you haven't been actively doing sidequests.
Dandai
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I beat it somewhere around 80 hours and did almost every side quest I came across. I put it on hard, but all that really did was made the game front loaded on difficulty. By the time I was 6-8 and had a wide variety of skills, there were few true challenges (but they were there!). Quick save is your friend. I wouldn't recommend trying to play the game with a "hardcore" or no save/no death play style.
Overall, I couldn't recommend the game more if you enjoy RPGs, especially turn based. Much of the writing is campy, but I attribute that to Larian being a euro studio with a foreign (to Americans anyway) sense of humor. If you've played any of the previousDivinitygames you know what you're in for as far as writing goes.
Overall, I couldn't recommend the game more if you enjoy RPGs, especially turn based. Much of the writing is campy, but I attribute that to Larian being a euro studio with a foreign (to Americans anyway) sense of humor. If you've played any of the previousDivinitygames you know what you're in for as far as writing goes.
Zaphid
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Please tell me there's a tree that blasts anyone who comes close with lightning until you ask it to kindly stop
Guess I'll finally pick this one up, sick of Dota for now so this could keep me busy for quite a while.
Is there any difference between steam and gog.com versions?
Guess I'll finally pick this one up, sick of Dota for now so this could keep me busy for quite a while.
Is there any difference between steam and gog.com versions?
I agree with you here. The game is pretty rough at the start (it didn't help I had no idea I could recruit more companions) but then smooths out. But then every so often you'll get into a storyline driven fight that is a real pain in the ass and you have to just kind of get lucky to not get frozen/stunned/slowed and hope your knockdown/stun/charm works.
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I found it pretty easy at the start, but I guess the only group I took past Cyseal town stuff was my double lone wolf combo so you get a lot of health bonus from that early on. Still the way I was playing I wasn't really taking much damage, spider/fire elem tanking, rogue stealthing at the end of every turn and mage casting stoneskin/heal on himself when focused or on the pet.
Becomes harder later on when mobs actually have special effects and shit and have like Inspire in every pack and what not. Not like super hard but I find the difficulty to be adequate.
Btw slight spoilers and question on the quests:
Becomes harder later on when mobs actually have special effects and shit and have like Inspire in every pack and what not. Not like super hard but I find the difficulty to be adequate.
Btw slight spoilers and question on the quests:
What's the order supposed to be once you get to the forest? I cleared a bunch of the forest stuff, talked to the guys in the village and shit so I know about the mines and the goblins but I also found the scroll to dispell the barrier so I went there instead and have cleared most of the frost area shit. I've been rotting for like 4hours too but that's not a big deal, though I'm wondering if that means I should have gone to the mines first, I guess? There was a white stag in the snow area and my character implied I knew him from before but never seen him. The goblin shit looked like lvl 12 though and the snow shit is like lvl 10 so it seems more logical to do snow first.
Raign
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Pyros:
You did it in the right order, the right way is to do the frost area first, then the test of the immaculates, then the mine I believe. I did it all ass backwards as I did not find the scroll until late and as such was WAY over leveled in the snow area. You will get cured of the rot in the text of the immaculates, or, if you have a blood stone, you can just use that... there is one in the frost area.....
Sidian
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Two quick questions.
It appears all my waypoints disappeared? It only shows 3 of them at the moment (cyseal east, cyseal church, cyseal silverglen road) yet I can't scroll through all the other waypoints. It's like, all the other waypoints I discovered are all gone. Bug...or am I just retarded? Also, how the heck do you enter Luculla Forest. I went to the bridge just past the fire area and it won't let me use it.
It appears all my waypoints disappeared? It only shows 3 of them at the moment (cyseal east, cyseal church, cyseal silverglen road) yet I can't scroll through all the other waypoints. It's like, all the other waypoints I discovered are all gone. Bug...or am I just retarded? Also, how the heck do you enter Luculla Forest. I went to the bridge just past the fire area and it won't let me use it.