Divinity: Original Sin 2 Pre-Release Thread

[Arulan]

Might be interesting to play as a slowly-becoming-Faint. Memory, personality, slowly diminishing...

If they execute it properly, it could be one of the more interesting choices. The idea of playing as an Undead that is slowly losing his mind, his purpose, and his memories sounds fantastic. Now let MCA write it and we're good.

 

[Athelas]

The idea of playing as an Undead that is slowly losing his mind, his purpose, and his memories sounds fantastic. Now let MCA write it and we're good.

He already did.

 

[Bubbles]

He already did.

Durance wasn't undead.

 

[Zeriel]

Durance wasn't undead.

I both love and hate your posts, because I can never tell when you are trolling.

 

[Fairfax]

And of course more MCA footage for the Codex.

Loved that bit in the video
It did susprise me, though. I mean, PC Gamer's top 100 has ME2 at #2? Absolutely retarded.

 

[Nekot-The-Brave]

http://www.newgamernation.com/divin...view-with-swen-vincke-pax-prime-201509031219/



This interview confirms that it was Brian Fargo specifically who convinced Swen to return to Kickstarter.

Haha, I already knew this. Even had a post about it.

 

[Nael]

Swen has the best life.

 

[Shammy]

Loved that bit in the video
It did susprise me, though. I mean, PC Gamer's top 100 has ME2 at #2? Absolutely retarded.

That whole list of theirs was wacky, but hey gratz for Larian on making the list?

 

[pakoito]

Sawyer's expression in a nutshell: "Yes, yes, but is it BALANCED?"

One of these two man released this year the most acclaimed cRPG in a decade

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The eyes between 07:10 and 07:14

 

[Zeriel]

One of these two man released this year the most acclaimed cRPG in a decade

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The eyes between 07:10 and 07:14

D:OS was 2014 so I guess you mean PoE was the best game this decade.

 

[Sjukob]

Swen is still hedging his bets on the possiblity that they won't be implemented

When Swen was talking about D:OS 2 in videos , he stated numerous times that the game heavily focuses on roleplaying and C&C . What if we tell him that no romances means less roleplaying and less choices for players ? As for me I'm more interested in sexism and racism and hope to see a lot of it in D:OS 2 .

 

[Bubbles]

The eyes between 07:10 and 07:14

Indeed. You'd think that a man who has a few dozen people obsessively following his every move would have perfect body control by now.

 

[Zeriel]

Indeed. You'd think that a man who has a few dozen people obsessively following his every move would have perfect body control by now.

Implying these weren't intentional messages to be deciphered by his stalkers.

 

[Infinitron]

Here's a PAX interview I missed:

 

[pakoito]

D:OS was 2014 so I guess you mean PoE was the best game this decade.

EE.

 

[Nael]

Here's a PAX interview I missed:

Swen Vincke is the Micro Machines guy of the computer game industry.

 

[pakoito]

He's the Modern Major Gamedev General.

 

[Saxon1974]

Is there any benefit to kick starting this? Its going to be made and I don't want to pay over 100$ for physical stuff. I will probably just wait until they have it on sale. Other than supporting the devs and making the game bigger and better I don't see what you get by kick starting over just buying it later

 

[darthaegis]

Is there any benefit to kick starting this? Its going to be made and I don't want to pay over 100$ for physical stuff. I will probably just wait until they have it on sale. Other than supporting the devs and making the game bigger and better I don't see what you get by kick starting over just buying it later

The full game is cheaper than release price (well sure I don't know how much it's going to cost but it sure as hell won't be 26 €) and you get alpha and beta access.
edit: plus contributing for the likely MCA stretch goal

 

[Saxon1974]

But not cheaper than waiting a year for a sale. In addition; the final fully patched version will be at least 6 months after release. I dont care mich about the MCA goal. I have a huge backlog and little free time now for games anyway.

 

[darthaegis]

But not cheaper than waiting a year for a sale. In addition; the final fully patched version will be at least 6 months after release. I dont care mich about the MCA goal. I have a huge backlog and little free time now for games anyway.

no benefit then I guess.

 

[Saxon1974]

Any info on a new music composer? Curious if any sample tracks will be offered. I might have backed purely for Kirril's soundtrack.

 

[Crooked Bee]

No new info on the composer as far as I know.

But not cheaper than waiting a year for a sale. In addition; the final fully patched version will be at least 6 months after release. I dont care mich about the MCA goal. I have a huge backlog and little free time now for games anyway.

The idea is that it's cheaper to KS it now than to buy it on release. But if you're going to wait a year for a sale or don't care about the stretch goals, then obviously there's no reason for you to pledge.

 

[Ellef]

Kickstarter is just a glorified pre ordering service where I hope lots of people waste drop down $100+ so I get an even better game for €25 :D

 

[LESS T_T]

Creator Larian Studios LLC about 14 hours ago
(Swen here)

@ Stabbey: Lots of good points. Skill cooldown is something we'll be looking at in detail & it's certainly worth considering not linking it to the primary stats. Regarding the single-player - we probably did some miscommunication by focussing so heavily on the competitive (but obviously we're proud of it as it's something new), given the amount of worry out there & here. We're a bit surprised by that because we're very well aware that the majority of our players play our games in single player, and we though it'd be evident that we'd be stupid to ignore that. On the contrary - a lot of our effort is aimed at improving the single-player, definitely on the inter-party front. I hope that we'll be able to show you an update in the coming weeks that shows this.

Larian Studios LLC about 1 hour ago
@ Sirlach: We're no big fans of putting exclusive content in the game and instead prefer that if we add something, it's there for everybody who plays the game.
@ Keith Foo: From the get-go, the idea was to have equal hubs like Cyseal in the beginning, middle and end of D:OS 2. I can't look into the future of course so I don't know what will happen as production reality hits us.
@ phishmonger: We still need to create it so it's hard to give specifics, but the idea is that all of the lore that we've created to make the world of D:OS 2 goes in there i.e. the same stuff we're using to ensure everything remains consistent. There's quite a bit of it and It goes from things like a race's physiology & how they handle crime all the way to their attitude to other cultures or their sexual mores.