General Maxson
Arcane
Can you tell us will there be skills or just stats in the game? And how will skills develop? Like when you use them, or during level up?
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Divinity: Original Sin Pre-Release Thread
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Can you tell us will there be skills or just stats in the game? And how will skills develop? Like when you use them, or during level up?
There are skills. They don't "level" by using them. Currently, only some skills have more than 1 level, but skills where that doesn't make sense, don't.
On the other hand, there are things that you can do that don't require skills. E.g. lockpicking is not a skill atm, you just need lockpicks and dex gives bonuses to success.
On the other hand, there are things that you can do that don't require skills. E.g. lockpicking is not a skill atm, you just need lockpicks and dex gives bonuses to success.
The money should go the other way
catfood
AGAIN
Doesn't being a patron also automatically give you GD access? I can see why one would want to donate in that case.The money should go the other way
Stay out of GD, we don't want you to run away.
It would be great if you got XP for defeated but not killed enemies. I am really tired of defeating = killing in RPGs. Why doesn't anyone run away or surrender in these worlds? Does adrenaline make everyone axe-crazy and unable to formulate words after initiating a fight? Imagine if it worked that way in the real world. What do You think, ForkTong?
Arkeus
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The whole luring monsters into town to distract guards was a favourite tactic of mine on a Neverwinter Nights persistent world. The uber-level guards would pummel the monsters for me and I'd loot them afterwards. One day, one of the server staff spotted me doing this and banned me because being creative = hacking apparently. 
Awarding XP for fleeing enemies will dimish peoples compulsive need to chase down everything for maximum XP. As long as it's in some way implied ot the player that signifigant loot won't be lost by letting people flee and they get a message about xp gain from fled enemy, it should turn fleeing enemies into a feature rather than a tedious chore to maximize gain from a fight.
Awarding XP for fleeing enemies will dimish peoples compulsive need to chase down everything for maximum XP. As long as it's in some way implied ot the player that signifigant loot won't be lost by letting people flee and they get a message about xp gain from fled enemy, it should turn fleeing enemies into a feature rather than a tedious chore to maximize gain from a fight.
You're right, we should also add "lose consciousness" to the the list of possible combat results (die/lose consciousness/surrender/flee). But frankly, ANY variety here would be better than what we get in RPGs now.
winterraptor
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Don't forget to include the rape button.
Kem0sabe
Arcane
Realy want to know more about the single player. Still, they are just starting their campaign, so 21 days of updates left.
SCO
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How speedy is the TB combat? Some games (notably SJRPG) can be unbearable with their large casts of enemies and interface that uses animations that delay the next turn for mundane details (like for instance, +10xp over the npc after a hit; yes this is dumb, yes this happened).
A option to affect the speed of combat animations would be nice. The ToEE trick of making AI controlled npcs attack simultaneously if their turn is adjacent on the initiative list too.
A option to affect the speed of combat animations would be nice. The ToEE trick of making AI controlled npcs attack simultaneously if their turn is adjacent on the initiative list too.
Did you watch the video?
I think simultaneous turns for enemies are not in, but the combat animations are rather fast and there's little delay between player's turns (I'd actually prefer something a bit slower).
All combat encounters shown so far had <10 participants, though.
All combat encounters shown so far had <10 participants, though.
Arkeus
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The gamepost demo finished with a 'bigger' fight, and it did seem slow.
I am hoping that they do something about that, as the combat slowing to a crawl when there are lots of enemies can be a pain.
Well, I wouldn't expect combat getting faster with increasing numbers of enemies, but I get Your point. SCO's suggestion (simultaneous turns) could help there.
None of this "unconscious = defeated" nonsense, bring back the 1 GP = 1 XP standard and you've already solved the "incentive to kill and loot everything" problem 
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