Gaming => RPG => Topic started by: Sir Dracu on 18 June 2018, 13:16

Title: Divinity: Original Sin II
Post by: Sir Dracu on 18 June 2018, 13:16
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With stunning graphics, an enthralling story and the freedom to choose your destiny, Divinity: Original Sin II Definitive Edition will be available free for previous owners for PC 31st August, 2018!
Title: Divinity: Original Sin II
Post by: Sir Dracu on 21 June 2018, 17:41
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Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition will be completely free to everyone who owns Original Sin 2! Without the support of everyone who bought the game already, and without all the feedback we’ve received from you, we couldn’t have made this new and improved edition of Divinity: Original Sin 2. As a little "thank you" to you all, we’re ensuring you'll get to enjoy all of the improvements without spending a cent more! Because we know some of our will want to still play the original version, both versions will remain available on PC and you'll be able to select which one you want to play.


We don't have the space (and you don't have the time) to go into detail about each of the changes coming to the Definitive Edition, but here are some of the broad strokes you can look forward to:
Narrative

We received some criticism on the last part of the game and so we took that to heart. We had a long look at how we could improve it and came up with quite a list.


Almost 150k words of text have been changed and we've recorded over 130k new words, fixing some voices and text that weren't quite perfect in the original game. We've created new situations and dialogues to give you a greater sense of reactivity across the world, and have bumped up our use of the tag system across most conversations. Finally, we’ve worked on the personal journeys of the origin characters, polishing their quests and situations to better communicate how your decisions impact their story.

Tutorial

Our adventures at PAX showed us that we were giving our players a lot to learn in a very short space of time. To address this, we’ve added a brand new deck at the beginning of the game with its own characters and gameplay and we've worked on the tutorial messaging.

Combat

Combat is an integral part of your adventure in Divinity: Original Sin 2, so we’ve worked on rebalancing some of the fights in the game to make the challenge curve flow better and avoid harsher spikes of difficulty. The overall experience will now be smoother and make you feel like your experience in earlier fights has prepared you for what comes later, while still offering you new challenges. We’ve also added some brand new fights (be careful of Edouard's surprise in Kemm's garden) as well as reworking the Kraken in the Harbour scene. Because we all want to see a showdown with that big, tentacled bully!

Story Mode

If combat is not so much your thing, you can try Story mode. This is a new mode designed for players who want to focus on the dialogue, reactivity and atmosphere in Original Sin 2. It's a more casual difficulty mode that's easier than the existing Explorer mode. You'll be able to switch between Story, Explorer or Classic modes throughout the game, so you can adjust it as you go if you feel a specific battle is too difficult or too easy.

Balance

Here are some specific balance changes you can expect to see in the Definitive Edition:

Economy changes - We’ve updated the prices of many items in the game. Unique items were usually too valuable, while armor prices now better reflect their utility in combat and the cost won’t vary so heavily.
We slightly reduced the damage on some of the three Source point skills. (Skills like Arrow Storm and Meteor Shower will still be super cool, but not an 'I win' button.)
Totems will now gain intelligence as they grow in levels. This will help their damage output scale better towards the end game.
Lone Wolf abilities and attributes will now be capped at the normal cap levels. Currently, Lone Wolves can increase their abilities and attributes past the soft caps of 40 and 10 respectively. In Definitive Edition, this will no longer be possible - you will only be able to double your points to the cap and not beyond.
The Torturer talent will allow you to apply status effects through magic or physical armor.
The difficulty of persuasion encounters across Arx have changed. Most of these encounters were unproportionally hard compared to the result.
We buffed some underused skills. Petrifying Touch, Sucker Punch, and Infect are getting increased damage. Mosquito Swarm will have a shorter cooldown and and Door to Eternity will last longer.
AI will be more likely to attack players with Damage Reduction abilities. These abilities usually resulted in the AI avoiding you rather than ever doing damage to the AI.
High quality wands will create surfaces.

Performance

Working on a console version of Original Sin 2 has allowed the team to strengthen the Divinity engine and improve performance for the Definitive Edition.

We’ve changed our physics engine and new tools have been developed to help test the optimisation of the game. This includes a tool that uses a character model to go through the world of Original Sin 2 line by line, checking for memory usage and fps issues. Since Fane is the character model used by the tool, our Technical Director has started to call him the “Safekeeper of Performance”! (A title Fane doesn't understand, but wholeheartedly accepts.)

Music

Not to be outdone, Bobby and the team have been hard at work on changes for the Definitive Edition too. Origin theme music will play in new parts of the game, so if you’re the Red Prince (for example), you will hear your personal musical theme while on the Lady Vengeance and that theme will develop as you progress through the game! Bobby's team also made plenty of improvements and changes to complement the new writing and rework of Arx too. Don’t forget that the Soundtrack is available in a limited run on 180 gram Vinyl! You can pick up a copy at Black Screen Records here: http://blackscreenrecords.limitedrun.com/products/614915-borislav-slavov-divinity-original-sin-2-original-soundtrack

Sir Lora, the Squirrel Knight

Of course, not everything in the Definitive Edition is an improvement. There are rumours that an apocalyptic cult of squirrels, the Knights of Drey, are trying to bring about the end of the world by summoning the Great Acorn, which will be the doom of all tall peoples! (Yes, even dwarves.) At least, that's what we've been told by Sir Lora, the Squirrel Knight. The coming of the Acorn was foreshadowed in the original version of Divinity: Original Sin 2 and now it appears to be imminent. Sir Lora arrives with his own small story arc, and will be a mini companion you can recruit in your game. He's there as a pre-order bonus for Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition, but if you own Original Sin 2 on PC before the launch of the Definitive Edition, then you will receive Sir Lora for free as soon as the Definitive Edition goes live!


And much more!

In addition to all the smaller changes not listed here, we have done some significant work on the UI and Journal for the Definitive Edition. The Journal in particular has been no small task, as we’ve completely overhauled the system and re-written huge parts of it to help guide players.
Title: Divinity: Original Sin II
Post by: Sir Dracu on 19 July 2018, 09:00
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Title: Divinity: Original Sin II
Post by: Sir Dracu on 21 August 2018, 03:00
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Title: Divinity: Original Sin II
Post by: Sir Dracu on 30 August 2018, 17:35
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Title: Divinity: Original Sin II
Post by: Sir Dracu on 04 September 2018, 12:48
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Title: Divinity: Original Sin II
Post by: slicker on 05 September 2018, 20:07
Ce istorie zbuciumata! wow. bravo lor ca au ajuns aici.
Title: Divinity: Original Sin II
Post by: wolfenste on 08 October 2018, 14:45
Ce recomandati Divinity Original Sin 1 sau Kingdoms of Amalur? Am vazut let's play si par placute amandoua si nu stiu cu care sa incep. Care e mai scurt?
Title: Divinity: Original Sin II
Post by: slicker on 08 October 2018, 17:23
Eu acum termin OS2, varianta imbunatatita si ma distrez la nebunie. Kingdoms e undeva pe lista, dar parca ceva nu imi placuse la el acum ani buni si l-am abandonat. Eu recomand Original Sin :)
Title: Divinity: Original Sin II
Post by: Sir Dracu on 08 October 2018, 20:34
In Amalur esti in god mode 1 hit kill pe toti dupa vreun sfert de joc, chiar si cu modul YSA.
Title: Divinity: Original Sin II
Post by: wolfenste on 09 October 2018, 16:40
Atunci asta sa fie, Original Sin dar incep cu 1. Amalur ramane pe altadata.
Title: Divinity: Original Sin II
Post by: KodiaK on 11 November 2018, 21:56
Cine e interesat PM me.
Title: Divinity: Original Sin II
Post by: Sir Dracu on 20 November 2018, 08:58
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Title: Divinity: Original Sin II
Post by: slicker on 20 November 2018, 11:08
Yay!