Divinity Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition

[KateMicucci]

Hmm, after investingating the skills some more I'm thinking I'll probably re-roll and try to make a Dark Knight style character work. Seems that Warfare + Necromancy could actually be pretty fun with a 2-hander or even a Shield. Leech, Blood Sucker, Raining Blood, Shackles of Pain etc.

Preliminary powerlarping report:
Fire magic 1 seems good, always good to stack haste on all characters. Shapeshifting 5 unlocks a skill that lets you cast source skills for no cost for two turns.

Necromancy seems weird to me in general, lots of different skills. Seems like a death knight would work pretty well. In general, due to the cooldows of everything being quite long, it seems like you should try to make good use of the passive bonuses of each ability tree (like life leech for necromancy).

Unfortunately blood rain is Necro1/Hydro1 now. Which means not much blood. Which means blood sucker and leech aren't so good.

Not sure that even the life steal on necromancy is good. It only steals from vitality and only regens vitality. Maybe if you take the Hothead ability it would be decent to keep your health at max.

There is a necro ability that keeps you from dying for 3 turns but it's pretty deep in.

 

[Grunker]

Hmm, after investingating the skills some more I'm thinking I'll probably re-roll and try to make a Dark Knight style character work. Seems that Warfare + Necromancy could actually be pretty fun with a 2-hander or even a Shield. Leech, Blood Sucker, Raining Blood, Shackles of Pain etc.

Preliminary powerlarping report:
Fire magic 1 seems good, always good to stack haste on all characters. Shapeshifting 5 unlocks a skill that lets you cast source skills for no cost for two turns.

Necromancy seems weird to me in general, lots of different skills. Seems like a death knight would work pretty well. In general, due to the cooldows of everything being quite long, it seems like you should try to make good use of the passive bonuses of each ability tree (like life leech for necromancy).

Unfortunately blood rain is Necro2/Hydro2 now.

O_o not Hydro1?

Damn.

 

[Infinitron]

I've fished out the Power of Innocence orchestral version track (heard in a recent Kickstarter update) from the game's files. There are three slightly different versions of it (same for many of the tracks in the game): http://www.filedropper.com/powerofinnocenceorchestral

Feel free to upload to YouTube if you can manage it.

 

[AwesomeButton]

If you don't like breaking the game, then don't do it. Why is this hard for some people?

It's pretty clear that what the guy was doing in the video is not how the game was meant to be played

Can autism be cured?

 

[KateMicucci]

Hmm, after investingating the skills some more I'm thinking I'll probably re-roll and try to make a Dark Knight style character work. Seems that Warfare + Necromancy could actually be pretty fun with a 2-hander or even a Shield. Leech, Blood Sucker, Raining Blood, Shackles of Pain etc.

Preliminary powerlarping report:
Fire magic 1 seems good, always good to stack haste on all characters. Shapeshifting 5 unlocks a skill that lets you cast source skills for no cost for two turns.

Necromancy seems weird to me in general, lots of different skills. Seems like a death knight would work pretty well. In general, due to the cooldows of everything being quite long, it seems like you should try to make good use of the passive bonuses of each ability tree (like life leech for necromancy).

Unfortunately blood rain is Necro2/Hydro2 now.

O_o not Hydro1?

Damn.

I misrememberd, it is necro 1 hydro 1. Still a wasted point in hydro for a "meh" ability.

 

[Grunker]

Is it wasted though? At my phone so can't check, but their could be worthwhile stuff to get

 

[Kirkpatrick]

Anyone else with crappy hardware...does the game appears, dunno, faster, better optimized than D:OS to you too?

 

[Sentinel]

Nothing wrong with Chameleon turning you invisible in a fight as long as some enemy AIs are smart enough to counter it. If it trivializes every encounter in the game it might be a problem.

Likewise, nothing wrong with stealing giving you loadsamoney. That's basically what thieves do. If they were smart they even included a unique quest for people who steal a lot. I even think they should let you kill the merchants and loot their entire inventory if you so wish.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Anyone else with crappy hardware...does the game appears, dunno, faster, better optimized than D:OS to you too?

Game is very well optimized, much more so than anything shat out by Unity.

 

[Lacrymas]

Here's a question that hasn't been brought up yet - how's the roleplaying? C&C? Environment interaction outside of those for combat purposes? Exploration? Do the tags do anything besides giving you token flavor dialogue options?

 

[Anthedon]

Is Tactician difficulty harder than it was in the first game? Enemies all seem to have a fuckton of armor and HP so far.

 

[Grotesque]

Is Larian Studios the holder of the award "The most successful kickstarter story"?

 

[Quillon]

Too narrow character voice options for a fully voiced game...

 

[you know what time it is]

So far the only really annoying thing is how Levels seem to be the most important stat. Fighting lvl 4 magisters as lvl 3 party is a nightmare, on tactician that is.

 

[cvv]

That is pretty amazing. A surgical explanation of what I've always felt without being able to put my finger on anything.

 

[Grunker]

It's one of the best channels on the tube in general

 

[Urthor]

Is Larian Studios the holder of the award "The most successful kickstarter story"?

Runner up to Faster than Light. Also like, hey, Oculus Rift.

 

[Zarniwoop]

Wow, looks like you can choose the class of your companions when you meet them.. don't remember that from the Early Access...

 

[Lacrymas]

It's a bit of a surface glance, though, here's a much better music in video games channel -



Yeah, it's not musical analysis in the way a musicologist would do it, as it's not so in-depth to the point of only music students or theorists will understand it, but that's not the point.

 

[undecaf]

Wow, looks like you can choose the class of your companions when you meet them.. don't remember that from the Early Access...

It was there at least in the final version of EA. Can't remember the reasoning for it, though.

 

[Zarniwoop]

Yeah I got bored with the EA pretty quickly, haven't played in like a year at least so if they added stuff I didn't know.

 

[Krzysiek]

Is Tactician difficulty harder than it was in the first game? Enemies all seem to have a fuckton of armor and HP so far.

It is harder but not in good way. On tactician they basically give enemies: +50% to Vitality, Physical defense, Magic Defense and more initiative.

 

[Anthedon]

Is Tactician difficulty harder than it was in the first game? Enemies all seem to have a fuckton of armor and HP so far.

It is harder but not in good way. On tactician they basically give enemies: +50% to Vitality, Physical defense, Magic Defense and more initiative.

Good to know. I'll go with classic difficulty for my first playthrough then.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Is there a difficulty with a bonus to AI efficiency?

 

[Pope Amole II]

Is there a difficulty with a bonus to AI efficiency?

That's still tactician. While enemies are sturdier there, they also have special abilities unlocked (which they'll lack on the other difficulties). And that will change your combat approach a lot. It's pointless to play on any other difficulty. Unless you're a storyfag but since when divinity games are for storyfags?