Divinity:Original Sin 2

24-09-2017 3:17am

Anybody know what to do with the tower with lightning in it at the north of the island?

You can teleport into it

Dave_The_Sheep · 24-09-2017 3:57am

I'm currently in a 4 player game.

I stole earlier only I got caught ... ish. Eventually. By an old friend of mine who had no problem sending me to jail. I failed the speech check, failed the bribe, got stuck in jail. I was resigned to sitting out my time until the lads could come help me out, but I found a lockpick, picked the door, left, crafted another lockpick, picked another door, retrieved my stash and escaped after convincing a fire slug to not attack me, to rejoin my teammates.

A small experience in terms of the whole game, but so early on it shows the flexibility of the game. Top notch entertainment.

Dave_The_Sheep · 25-09-2017 12:16am

On a less savoury note, I'm playing the dickhead in that particular 4 player game ... completely contrary to the good guy way I normally play RPGs.

Within the space of 3 minutes and 50 in-game yards... I talked to, then antagonised, then fought, then killed a blinded young magister (whose father was having a birthday the week after and he was invited) ... then found a bear corpse ... found the cub of the bear corpse, told that cub that his mother was still alIve (she wasn't) ... laughed at the happy hopeful head on him running off calling for his mummy ... followed him to her corpse and then (in front of the cub) turned the bear mother's corpse into a necromantic bloated re-animation.

I am not proud of myself.

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bigphil2 · 26-09-2017 10:12am

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

On a less savoury note, I'm playing the dickhead in that particular 4 player game ... completely contrary to the good guy way I normally play RPGs.

Within the space of 3 minutes and 50 in-game yards... I talked to, then antagonised, then fought, then killed a blinded young magister (whose father was having a birthday the week after and he was invited) ... then found a bear corpse ... found the cub of the bear corpse, told that cub that his mother was still alIve (she wasn't) ... laughed at the happy hopeful head on him running off calling for his mummy ... followed him to her corpse and then (in front of the cub) turned the bear mother's corpse into a necromantic bloated re-animation.

I am not proud of myself.

You Sir..are a Monster.

I fecked up a dialogue choice with a particular Source Hound and ended up frying her (then lied to her Mate and said she was fine and happy,i did give him a red ball to play with though)

Cina · 26-09-2017 11:10am

Loving this so far, but fighting Fort Joy pretty damn difficult on classic with Fane. Can't help but think I haven't got a good party layout.

I have Knight (undead), Rogue, Cleric, and Conjurer. Is that a bit crap?

degrassinoel · 26-09-2017 7:02pm

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

On a less savoury note, I'm playing the dickhead in that particular 4 player game ... completely contrary to the good guy way I normally play RPGs.

Within the space of 3 minutes and 50 in-game yards... I talked to, then antagonised, then fought, then killed a blinded young magister (whose father was having a birthday the week after and he was invited) ... then found a bear corpse ... found the cub of the bear corpse, told that cub that his mother was still alIve (she wasn't) ... laughed at the happy hopeful head on him running off calling for his mummy ... followed him to her corpse and then (in front of the cub) turned the bear mother's corpse into a necromantic bloated re-animation.

I am not proud of myself.

+1 for making me laugh out loud

Lone Stone · 26-09-2017 11:51pm

Dam i did some thing really bad that took away my pet pal perk haha... i miss pet pal

degrassinoel · 27-09-2017 11:50pm

anyone else find it hilarious that every so often Fort Joy gets referred to as "The Joy"?

I'm easily amused but that's had me in stitches

pxdf9i5cmoavkz · 28-09-2017 9:53am

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

On a less savoury note, I'm playing the dickhead in that particular 4 player game ... completely contrary to the good guy way I normally play RPGs.

Within the space of 3 minutes and 50 in-game yards... I talked to, then antagonised, then fought, then killed a blinded young magister (whose father was having a birthday the week after and he was invited) ... then found a bear corpse ... found the cub of the bear corpse, told that cub that his mother was still alIve (she wasn't) ... laughed at the happy hopeful head on him running off calling for his mummy ... followed him to her corpse and then (in front of the cub) turned the bear mother's corpse into a necromantic bloated re-animation.

I am not proud of myself.

What do you think about making a thread about your day to day?

ballyargus · 02-10-2017 5:24pm

Dallas Salmon Marinade wrote: »

Classic.

Tactician for the second play through. Honour mode (or whatever it's called) absolutely never.

You're missing an absolutely excellent game. But it's not required to understand this one, the stories aren't a continuation, etc. But it is definitely worth playing the first one if you have the time. It's really really good. Just the second happens to be really really really good.

I've started on tactician mode. I'm kinda regretting it. I've played through the likes of Baldurs Gate and IWD on hard mode with gimped parties (3 and 4 man jobs)

This is daunting. I've just gotten to fort joy, I've attempted the arena and I get spanked on every attempt. That said, I've not got any gear and should probably forage some decent armor and XP before giving it a proper go.

I'll do that later and if I'm still struggling then I'll drop it to classic mode. That will feel like an early defeat though.

wandatowell · 03-10-2017 2:21pm

Can anybody help me out with building a healer for my band of merry backstabbers??

Zillah · 03-10-2017 4:27pm

wandatowell wrote: »

Can anybody help me out with building a healer for my band of merry backstabbers??

Hydrosophist. There is a merchant with spells in Fort Joy. Necromancy also has a low level healing spell (oddly enough - it's quite cool thematically, though: you suck up all the blood on the ground around you), as does Conjuration (based on the number of allies around you, including summoned entities). I've done just fine without a dedicated healer, however, for a very long time. A couple of fights were tougher than others, but I've finally gotten a bunch of healing spells after lacking them for most of my run so far.

Lone Stone · 05-10-2017 7:32pm

finished it late last night with the red prince loshe sebil and beast, that last fight well **** me il just say make sure you have a spare hour or two for it bloody hell :eek: 133 hours play time.

Icyseanfitz · 06-10-2017 6:28am

Finished original sin 1 in co op tonight finally, very good game but some annoying bits, and the final fight + ending was a bit crappy.

Can't wait to jump into 2. Hopefully there improved on the first

pxdf9i5cmoavkz · 06-10-2017 11:49am

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

No shame in going down too explorer :pac:

Anyone know easy explorer is ? does it take away the challenge altogether?

It does. But that is the whole point to explorer mode. It's suited to exploring the world and not being too worried about being stomped in every fight.

The most difficult fight I had was when Dallis attacked Lady Vengeance and that was only because I was hell bent on taking her down and ignored everyone else

You discover something very interesting about her if you manage it.

30 hours in and have only just arrived at Driftwood.

Explore all of the things!

Dave_The_Sheep · 06-10-2017 2:50pm

Mason Kind Perfume wrote: »

The most difficult fight I had was when Dallis attacked Lady Vengeance and that was only because I was hell bent on taking her down and ignored everyone else You discover something very interesting about her if you manage it.

I didn't even know that was possible. We got our arses handed to us a few times in that fight (admittedly our summoner had just respecced and hadn't any spells on him at the time but still). Fair play.

Cina · 06-10-2017 3:41pm

I do recommend sticking with classic. It is fiendishly difficult at times and I've spent hours on single fights, reloading over and over trying to figure out how to beat them, but when you finally do it feels incredibly rewarding.

A great skill to get on all party members is the one that resurrects them to full health. If you get that and buy as many Res Scrolls off merchants you meet as you can it really helps.

Lone Stone · 06-10-2017 11:08pm

yea i have been trying a lone wolf undead run on tactitian well thats a tad hard for my liking :eek:

Sephiroth_dude · 07-10-2017 9:31am

Mason Kind Perfume wrote: »

It does. But that is the whole point to explorer mode. It's suited to exploring the world and not being too worried about being stomped in every fight.

The most difficult fight I had was when Dallis attacked Lady Vengeance and that was only because I was hell bent on taking her down and ignored everyone else You discover something very interesting about her if you manage it.

30 hours in and have only just arrived at Driftwood.

Explore all of the things!

Are you playing on classic or explorer?

Zillah · 09-10-2017 11:04am

Lone Stone wrote: »

133 hours play time

Uhm, I think I getting relatively near the end and I'm only at 50 hrs. I also feel like I'm doing a fairly slow and thorough playthrough (classic difficulty, so there isn't too much reloading). How on Earth did you get this much time into it?

On that topic I'm just finishing up

Bloodmoon Island

having done pretty much everything else in Driftwood, how much do I have left?

Cina · 09-10-2017 3:28pm

Zillah wrote: »

Uhm, I think I getting relatively near the end and I'm only at 50 hrs. I also feel like I'm doing a fairly slow and thorough playthrough (classic difficulty, so there isn't too much reloading). How on Earth did you get this much time into it?

On that topic I'm just finishing up
Bloodmoon Island
having done pretty much everything else in Driftwood, how much do I have left?

Uhhh, you still have 2 more pretty big areas to go

pxdf9i5cmoavkz · 09-10-2017 3:47pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Are you playing on classic or explorer?

Mason Kind Perfume wrote: »

It does. But that is the whole point to explorer mode. It's suited to exploring the world and not being too worried about being stomped in every fight

That's the only reason why I managed to take her down. I'm not patting myself on the back or anything. Summon spawns before the fight and then your first toon climbs up the nearest mast and uses teleport on her. She has a knockdown skill so spread your toons out a tad.

98% of fights in Explorer mode are really easy with a few exceptions. I'm not bothered with the combat aspect of the game. Am more interested in all the quests and discovering the variations to completing a quest. Most of my time is spent pressing F8

If you manage to take her down in Tactician mode then you are beyond Godlike. In real life and in the game.

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Has anyone else felt like going on a murderous rampage in Act 3? I feel that with all these groups fighting each other and different agendas etc.. etc.. that it's better if they're all dead...

Sephiroth_dude · 09-10-2017 5:43pm

[QUOTE=Mason Kind Perfume;104917572 I'm not bothered with the combat aspect of the game. Am more interested in all the quests and discovering the variations to completing a quest.[/QUOTE]

Same here, when I eventually get the game it will be played on explorer.

Zillah · 09-10-2017 7:10pm

Mason Kind Perfume wrote: »

Has anyone else felt like going on a murderous rampage in Act 3?

That's most rpgs for me. You all seem annoying or bad people so I will apply the philosophy of Marge's uncle Arthur. Seventy five federal marshals couldn't bring me down.

Zillah · 10-10-2017 1:21am

Can I get some input from someone who has finished The Nameless Isle please?

So I've been wandering around, and I have no idea what's going on on the island yet. I came to a bit where there are loads of people fighting and there are tons of

Shriekers

(attacking but not killing all of the people to whom I am neutral). My character says something to the effect of

"We will need to find a purging wand"

which seemed silly to me, as we could just walk up and deal with them using

source vampirism

, which I did. But no one will talk to me because they're all still fighting each other. Ahead I find

Alexandar

and

Gareth

having a show down, and I can say things like

"Alexandar is the key to all of this!"

and he says things like

"I was mislead, I am sorry"

. And I'm forced to choose sides or try to convince them to change their mind and I haven't a bloody clue why I would do any of that.

Nothing is making any sense and I have a horrible feeling I wasn't supposed to be able to get past the

Shriekers

the way I did, is that the case? Should I reload and explore more before going there? It all feels weird and nonsensical.

pxdf9i5cmoavkz · 17-10-2017 10:54am

Mason Kind Perfume wrote: »

Has anyone else felt like going on a murderous rampage in Act 3? I feel that with all these groups fighting each other and different agendas etc.. etc.. that it's better if they're all dead...

Well. I did it. Everyone who tried to manipulate me into doing something for them against another group found themselves dead.

The only change I can see so far is with Malady. A pity since I liked her.

Zillah · 17-10-2017 2:15pm

Game really loses the run of things towards the end; too many threads not quite tying up very well. Still good though.

My only major complaints are the endless parade of loot and the crappy level scaling. They just have everyone in the universe, from the mook guards to the bloody shop assistants, level at the same speed as you. It really does suck the fun out of being a world-striding baddass to see an illiterate level 20 peasant selling beans at the side of the road. It's also no fun to sort through a pile of legendary swords and toss 95% of them into a pile for the pawn shop and pick out the one that is marginally superior, and to repeat that process once or twice per level. It's also quite annoying to see basic level 20 armour provide fifty times the protection that the legendary Armour of Braccus Rex, just because the latter showed up earlier in the game.

18-10-2017 12:56pm

The exact same thing happened with this that happened for me wth the original. I loved it, played it non-stop, got to the end of the first area and then completely dropped it...

quarryman · 19-10-2017 3:36pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The exact same thing happened with this that happened for me wth the original. I loved it, played it non-stop, got to the end of the first area and then completely dropped it...

Yep. Did the same. TWICE.

bigphil2 · 19-10-2017 5:20pm

Handy Hint: Dont start a fight with a Troll if you haven't quicksaved in the last 90 mins..

ballyargus · 19-10-2017 10:03pm

Sorry - what the hell happened to all my gear and cash when I left fort joy?? The party splits up on the boat but when you ask them back. The loot is gone and so is the money.

Where's the money Lebowski????

SeantheMan · 19-10-2017 11:48pm

ballyargus wrote: »

Sorry - what the hell happened to all my gear and cash when I left fort joy?? The party splits up on the boat but when you ask them back. The loot is gone and so is the money.

Where's the money Lebowski????

My chars all had their individual gear I left them with. So not sure.

Also....on the 2nd Island...to the very north some crazy witch is flying around.
I quicksaved just before it....and she 1 shotted my whole lvl13 party.
But now when the game restarts or loads up....it's at the 'FIGHT' screen ....instead of before the fight was initiated.

I think my previous save to that is a bit back

I'm really enjoying the game. But I completely forget half the sidequests.
Not on purpose though.
I start one and make some progress...but need some item to do the rest.
So I go to find the item ..but on the way I open up another 2 quests...and do the same for them....and on and on.
I can't remember where the original one was or who the people were.

In other games you'd be able to select the mission in your journal and you'd get a waypoint marker. But that's a bit too hand-holdy for me.
I should be paying closer attention I guess.

Final gripe....refilling on source is a pain.
I have a teleportation pyramid by a source fountain...but goin back and clickin on it 12 times is annoying.

Cina · 20-10-2017 9:23am

SeantheMan wrote: »

My chars all had their individual gear I left them with. So not sure.

Also....on the 2nd Island...to the very north some crazy witch is flying around.
I quicksaved just before it....and she 1 shotted my whole lvl13 party.
But now when the game restarts or loads up....it's at the 'FIGHT' screen ....instead of before the fight was initiated.

I think my previous save to that is a bit back

I'm really enjoying the game. But I completely forget half the sidequests.
Not on purpose though.
I start one and make some progress...but need some item to do the rest.
So I go to find the item ..but on the way I open up another 2 quests...and do the same for them....and on and on.
I can't remember where the original one was or who the people were.

In other games you'd be able to select the mission in your journal and you'd get a waypoint marker. But that's a bit too hand-holdy for me.
I should be paying closer attention I guess.

Final gripe....refilling on source is a pain.
I have a teleportation pyramid by a source fountain...but goin back and clickin on it 12 times is annoying.

Yeah you do get overwhelmed with quests in Reaper's Coast but I found towards the end, as you continue to explore the areas, that a lot of them will progress simultaneously and close up.

There are some quests that don't close even when you finish them which really annoys me though!

Oh and that witch is horrific, even on level 15 I couldn't take her, so I figured out another way

teleport her over to Jahan while she's mid conversation with one of your character's and he'll mince her!

EDIT: Also, source becomes much easier to get later on!

Sephiroth_dude · 20-10-2017 12:33pm

SeantheMan wrote: »

In other games you'd be able to select the mission in your journal and you'd get a waypoint marker.
.

Not having any way point maker would annoy me personally.

Zillah · 22-10-2017 1:12am

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Not having any way point maker would annoy me personally.

It's the style of the game. They don't hold your hand. Everything feels much more authentic. When I think of Skyrim style markers/hand holding now it seems so cheap and easy.

Sephiroth_dude · 22-10-2017 11:43am

Zillah wrote: »

It's the style of the game. They don't hold your hand. Everything feels much more authentic. When I think of Skyrim style markers/hand holding now it seems so cheap and easy.

So when you get a new quest you just have too remember where to go?

Zillah · 23-10-2017 4:02pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

So when you get a new quest you just have too remember where to go?

You have a journal and a map. People will often put an X on your map. You have to work out where to go before you can remember where to go.

Sephiroth_dude · 23-10-2017 8:19pm

Zillah wrote: »

You have a journal and a map. People will often put an X on your map. You have to work out where to go before you can remember where to go.

Ahhh well that I could live with .

Dave_The_Sheep · 20-11-2017 1:30am

Coming to the end of my first single player playthrough (the bear situation was in multiplayer). Single player you read a lot more and get a lot more of a feel for the characters and quests, etc.

Absolutely brilliant game, can't see it being beaten for my GOTY. It's firmly ensconced itself in my top 5 of all time.

I didn't use Beast and Lohse in my playthrough, but really looking forward to almost immediately starting again with a different set of characters and abilities (I've more or less ignored Geomancy, Pyro, Necro and Polymorphism skillsets, not to mention not having a 1H + shield character).

Xenji · 20-11-2017 12:44pm

Only got around to starting to play this at the weekend, loving it so far, brings me back to the days of playing the likes of Baldurs Gate, Planescape: Torment and Icewind Dale.

I actually found the first act a bit tough going as I went the ranger route with Sebille and not finding a decent bow till I talked to

Zaleskar

, been putting luck points on her as well and now its plain sailing after getting some decent equipment on my party, it has really sucked me in now.

Sephiroth_dude · 20-11-2017 1:54pm

Xenji wrote: »

Only got around to starting to play this at the weekend, loving it so far, brings me back to the days of playing the likes of Baldurs Gate, Planescape: Torment and Icewind Dale.

I actually found the first act a bit tough going as I went the ranger route with Sebille and not finding a decent bow till I talked to
Zaleskar
, been putting luck points on her as well and now its plain sailing after getting some decent equipment on my party, it has really sucked me in now.

What difficulty you playing on?

Xenji · 20-11-2017 8:03pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

What difficulty you playing on?

Classic mode, will probably go with Tactician mode on the second play through.

The_Valeyard · 20-11-2017 9:17pm

really tempted to buy this

20-11-2017 9:34pm

I need to give up "infinite" games like Overwatch and get back into this. I loved it but suddenly stopped at the end of the first area.

20-11-2017 9:34pm

What was the story with those pigs on fire running around? I never found even a hint of what that was about

Xenji · 20-11-2017 9:38pm

Deleted User wrote: »

What was the story with those pigs on fire running around? I never found even a hint of what that was about

They are a quest, you need to use bless on them.

ballyargus · 21-11-2017 10:29am

The inventory management in this game makes it an absolute pain.

I was loving things up until reapers coast. After two weeks away from the game I've returned and it's a pain to even get my party and gear organised.

It really takes a away from a game that excels in other areas: combat, voice acting etc

The_Valeyard · 21-11-2017 11:04am

SHould I buy this?

ballyargus · 21-11-2017 11:21am

The_Valeyard wrote: »

SHould I buy this?

I would, but on Sale. It has it's flaws, quest management and inventory management are chief among them. It's combat is sophisticated enough to keep you coming back. How it's classed as a perfect 10 by Gamespot I'll never know.

It' not in the same league as the vintage games of yore either but it is still well worth playing. A few mods would really help out it's flaws.

Dave_The_Sheep · 21-11-2017 11:34am

Didn't really have any problem with the inventory management myself. Found it fairly easy to keep tabs on things, particularly where you can view by only the types of items you want, sort by whatever etc.

The_Valeyard wrote: »

SHould I buy this?

Short answer, yes. It's superb.

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