Divinity Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition

[Murk]

I feel like I missed out on wrecker's cave cuz I went in solo. No scripted death or teleport, and I just went through and fought like... uhh 3 fights? Mostly just egg clutches. Then the last fight, which was p lol.

 

[eggdogg]

After restarting numerous times. I am having the most success and fun playing a 2hander necro origin character, lone wolf perk, with fane as my sole companion. Using fane as a ranger sniping from on high while my char runs around killing fools.

 

[Chaotic_Heretic]

Yeah 2Hander warfare/necro with Lone wolf works p. well.

But

Spoiler

when you unlock 3 source points and get arrow storm skill book... ranger becomes physical damage king

 

[AwesomeButton]

The ranger? Screw using any magical arrows it will only gimp you. I actually think the default attack does the most damage.

This is exactly right.

 

[Grunker]

Dafuq?:

Spoiler

Killed magisters for Hannag. Saved Gwydians family. Saved Gwydian. Can only tell Gwydian "I don't know where your family is." Go to his family, see his goodbye scene. He tells me "I have no idea where Hannag is" and leaves. Wut? Is that very confusing line of events intended behaviour?

 

[Daedalos]

Playing a ranger full lone wolf with Red Prince as water/storm mage. Absolutely smashing everything

It's almost a speed run on tactician lol. Things just die.

 

[Shadenuat]

The ranger? Screw using any magical arrows it will only gimp you. I actually think the default attack does the most damage.

This is exactly right.

Ofc, because they're elemental. Give a lightning arrow to character with 15+ Aeroteurge and it will do as much damage as Chain lightning. Then pump Huntsman maybe and stand on a cliff. Can also use bow with same element, elemental arrows & talent that does more damage depending on a surface enemy standing on.

Although that's all more in a realm of "well what other stupid thing can I do with my characters since I played everything".

In basic party good arrows are Knockdown, Lightning & Frost depending on your characters. You can use Shock spell to Shock people, and then your Ranger can use lightning arrow to change Shock to Stun and Chill to Frozen.

In physical party, use Elemental arrows on blood - it will give you bonus Physical damage, and Knockdown arrows.

 

[AwesomeButton]

A charming arrow won me the Malady combat, where there was one turn left and she was badly injured, but I made sure the Gheist wouldn't harm her.

 

[Calis]

Downloading now, hope to find some time to play. Too lazy to go through forum, Codex consensus so far?

 

[Grunker]

A charming arrow won me the Malady combat, where there was one turn left and she was badly injured, but I made sure the Gheist wouldn't harm her.

Also came down to the wire for me. The best encounter designs are still the height of this game for me, as was the case in the first game.

 

[Jarmaro]

I think I will stop playing. There's nothing interesting anymore in Driftwood.
Combat became dull repetetive, new skills aren't looking interesting, itemization is putting me off, plot is a bit above average.
At this point it's wasting precious life time to play Divinity: Orginial Sin 2.
Well, I hope someone had fun.

 

[Iznaliu]

The more I'm reading about this, the more I feel as if this was rushed out the door.

 

[Black]

I read that for many people the further they got in the game, the slower the loading times. Can anyone confirm? Apparently it's due to the game remembering all the shit you sold to vendors and crap like that.

 

[Grunker]

Confirmed

 

[Quillon]

Loading times isn't much of an issue since its once per session for most people I guess, saving time's getting longer is tho.

 

[Roguey]

The more I'm reading about this, the more I feel as if this was rushed out the door.

Three years for a same-engine sequel isn't rushed.

 

[Vibalist]

Dafuq?:

Spoiler

Killed magisters for Hannag. Saved Gwydians family. Saved Gwydian. Can only tell Gwydian "I don't know where your family is." Go to his family, see his goodbye scene. He tells me "I have no idea where Hannag is" and leaves. Wut? Is that very confusing line of events intended behaviour?

I really applaud Larian for making a game where quests can be done out of sequence (as opposed to the linear borefests most other RPG's are), but someone forgot to test these things. You'll routinely break or mangle quests if you don't do them how they're intended to be done. I didn't run into this problem, but my bet is that you skipped some NPC who was supposed to 'set off' some part of the quest, and now the remaining sequences are fucked up.

I know this doesn't solve your problem, but expect this to happen at least three or four times during the rest of the game. My best advice is to check the D:OS 2 wiki and see if you missed some conversation or event. I had this issue where Ifan was supposed to have a quest specific conversation with Hannag, but nothing happened until I talked to some irrelevant dwarf who was hiding in Wrecker's Cave, as she was apparantly the only person who could trigger the conversation (even though the information she had was something you could come across in many other places).

 

[Vibalist]

The more I'm reading about this, the more I feel as if this was rushed out the door.

Three years for a same-engine sequel isn't rushed.

And yet everything is broken.

Here are a few other fun issues I've run into:

- Characters forget memorized skills at random times for no reason.
- When I rearrange my hotbar skills become unmemorized. I had to forgo a particular spell because it kept disappearing whenever I wanted to move things around.
- The journal constantly makes references to things you don't know what are when you do quests out of sequence. Go to dungeon X and pick up item Y, and the quest log will update with something like "I finally found item Y for person Z", even though I haven't met this character yet.
- General performance seems to drop the further you get into the game. I'm in act 3 and suddenly the game is stuttering whereas before it ran smoothly. Sometimes it freezes for 5-10 seconds when quicksaving.
- Like I just mentioned, quests are broken and important events will sometimes not trigger. Several important CNPC quests can be impossible to complete.
- The fucking journal has about 10 entries that should be closed because I have already completed the quest, but they just stay there.

I don't know what they did during those three years or the one year of early access, but they seemingly didn't give much of a fuck about bug fixing or optimization.

 

[fantadomat]

I read that for many people the further they got in the game, the slower the loading times. Can anyone confirm? Apparently it's due to the game remembering all the shit you sold to vendors and crap like that.

I haven't encountered such a problem.Loading is rear as whole in the game.Still didn't see any significant increase in times.If there is some it will be around a few seconds.

 

[Grunker]

Dafuq?:

Spoiler

Killed magisters for Hannag. Saved Gwydians family. Saved Gwydian. Can only tell Gwydian "I don't know where your family is." Go to his family, see his goodbye scene. He tells me "I have no idea where Hannag is" and leaves. Wut? Is that very confusing line of events intended behaviour?

I really applaud Larian for making a game where quests can be done out of sequence (as opposed to the linear borefests most other RPG's are), but someone forgot to test these things. You'll routinely break or mangle quests if you don't do them how they're intended to be done. I didn't run into this problem, but my bet is that you skipped some NPC who was supposed to 'set off' some part of the quest, and now the remaining sequences are fucked up.

I know this doesn't solve your problem, but expect this to happen at least three or four times during the rest of the game. My best advice is to check the D:OS 2 wiki and see if you missed some conversation or event. I had this issue where Ifan was supposed to have a quest specific conversation with Hannag, but nothing happened until I talked to some irrelevant dwarf who was hiding in Wrecker's Cave, as she was apparantly the only person who could trigger the conversation (even though the information she had was something you could come across in many other places).

I did it pretty much by the numbers. Get quest -> meet next step (family) -> talk to apprentice -> return to family. Haven't spoken to quest giver yet, maybe it'll sort itself out

 

[Roguey]

And yet everything is broken.

Here are a few other fun issues I've run into:

- Characters forget memorized skills at random times for no reason.
- When I rearrange my hotbar skills become unmemorized. I had to forgo a particular spell because it kept disappearing whenever I wanted to move things around.
- The journal constantly makes references to things you don't know what are when you do quests out of sequence. Go to dungeon X and pick up item Y, and the quest log will update with something like "I finally found item Y for person Z", even though I haven't met this character yet.
- General performance seems to drop the further you get into the game. I'm in act 3 and suddenly the game is stuttering whereas before it ran smoothly. Sometimes it freezes for 5-10 seconds when quicksaving.
- Like I just mentioned, quests are broken and important events will sometimes not trigger. Several important CNPC quests can be impossible to complete.
- The fucking journal has about 10 entries that should be closed because I have already completed the quest, but they just stay there.

I don't know what they did during those three years or the one year of early access, but they seemingly didn't give much of a fuck about bug fixing or optimization.

They tried to do too much, it always happens.

 

[Lacrymas]

That's why you wait a few months/a year for them to fix everything. Most RPGs (if not games in general) release in early beta phases nowadays. You also need to wait for mods to fix everything else that needs fixing.

 

[Black]

The ranger? Screw using any magical arrows it will only gimp you. I actually think the default attack does the most damage.

This is exactly right.

Blood arrows + ranger skills.

 

[Malpercio]

That's why you wait a few months/a year for them to fix everything. Most RPGs (if not games in general) release in early beta phases nowadays. You also need to wait for mods to fix everything else that needs fixing.

Nowadays? Bugs in RPG are pretty much a stable. It's like everyone forgot about IE games' fixpacks. I don't think DOS2 is much worse than many similar games.

 

[Black]

Finally finished the game in coop with RK47.

Heavy spoilers below;

Spoiler

One-shot him with the Rain of Arrows, and I became THE DIVINE. he got really butthurt that he didn't get to watch the ending

People who say that initiative doesn't matter, it literally makes you Divine

So did RK slaughter everything that no longer served any purpose?