/v/ - Video Games

I'm waiting for Linux release.

wow. What a jaded lot of defeated husks I've stumbled upon here.

I'm waiting for a cute girl to play co-op with me.

If you're going to make a thread about a new version of a game being released, you should at least give the rundown on what it changes.

>>15392932

what changed you fucking faggot

why should I fucking care?

an rpg with no cute girls is worthless

>>15393026

>>15392991

well, OP is a fucking faggot so I found it myself

"You have probably noticed a big update that came to Divinity: Original Sin 2. The big update is the Definitive Edition that was added.

People that have bought Original Sin 2 when it came out, get this for free. It is an optimized, revised, rebalanced version of the game, with a couple of new features, overhauled Arena mode, better UI, better journal, rewritten dialogues, and much more

If you would like to know what exactly "much more" is, we have tried to document it here, in over 50 pages: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IcADAJsLeHHXYjCnR5MwCm9GTWRdKzRtIYcCqO_RI6U/edit"

>>15393050

>People that have bought Original Sin 2 when it came out, get this for free.

Larian never lets a nigga down, best dev

Still waiting for fitgirl to repack it.

>>15392932

Mark,do your fucking job and delete this thread,if he's not a shill he's doing a template thread anyway

>>15393074

Larian are pretty cool. They straight up take the time to help you with modding if you talk to them on their Discord.

>>15393050

Apologies. Was playing the game. It's largely the same game only it has a bunch of improvements.

Quick rundown is this:

- graphics are much better now if you have a HDR capable rig

- Act 3 was completely redone, as many people complained that it wasn't up to par with the rest of the game

- a lot of rebalances

- game was made more difficult for lone wolfers who complained the game was too easy

- some UI changes

- a bunch of new animations

- performance vastly imrpoved (not that it was ever bad)

- new free DLC content about some squirrel or something

- some changes to the way item worth is generated

>>15393219

yea fuck rules,am i right guys?

>>15393233

Here's your (you) budy,now you can go back to cuckchan with the same fucking threads and pepe edits

>>15393153

>new changes to the way item worth is generated

>more difficult for lone wolfers

This could be good or bad. Lone wolf essentially bypassed some of the issues with the loot treadmill, which was a big part of why it was easier.

>>15393246

The only change made regarding Lone Wolf is that characters with Lone Wolf can no longer increase stats beyond their soft caps. No other changes, so I'm not sure how much or how little of an impact that will make.

>>15393256

The only thing you miss out on, as far as I know, is some of the character-specific quests and dialogue, which range from "meh" to "Jesus Christ which Tumblr bitch wrote this?"

>>15392932

>got to the room right before the final boss, then decided to stop for the night and finish the next day

>RL shit came up and I didn't get a chance to play for another two weeks

>ended up forgetting I still needed to finish

>eight months later start it up again

>get my shit kicked up because I no longer remember what anything does, and I have nothing else left to fight to refresh myself before the boss

Maybe with this version out I'll have incentive to play through again and actually finish this time.

>>15393429

What an utter assclown. It doesn't cost anything, firstly. Secondly, what would be the purpose of a /v/ where talking about the games you're playing is anathematized?

>>15393350

I'm also using the update as an excuse to play on tactician difficulty. Definitely keeps things more interesting.

>>15393598

They give a pretty good reason why the other party members aren't traveling with you once you leave tutorial island, without spoiling anything I'll say that you aren't all necessarily fighting on the same side for the same reasons.

>>15392957

M-maybe I could be your cute girl anon

>>15392932

>try dos2 when it first came out

>took me a bit, but started getting things under control

>build my characters

>looking forward to exploring the island beyond the prison center

>oh wait, there's literally nothing here except a ruin, a hideout, some witch, and the harbor

>thought it was going to be larger than this

>oh man, this cave witch is tough, i bet i have to come back to her later once i leveled up

>oh shit, it's the other witch from the opening of the game

<wait, why am i fighting her

<wait, why is it so fucking easy

<wait, i fucking murdered her? what?

>okay, well, at least i made the circuit

>proceed to kill guards even though there are ones who genuinely think they're doing a good thing and i don't want to kill but the game doesn't allow me to reason with them

>fight my way to the harbor

>leave the island

<a glance at a thread and i read that i can't go the fuck back

<those prisoners will never be freed

<i will never save that dragon

<i will never get the alleged super cool armor

>stupid boat fight where everyone fucking dies

>new area has no set-up, it's right into more fighting

Dropped it there. Lame.

>>15394665

Did you not read the text that clearly said, "IF YOU LEAVE THIS ISLAND YOU WILL NOT COME BACK?" before you hit okay?

>>15394718

Lame and gay.

>>15394720

Maybe give Fortnite a try, it's made for your kind.

>>15394720

I think retarded people shouldn't be able to play games.

Sorry.

I still haven't finished the first game. Dropped it after that snowy area IIRC, might play it again soon

>>15393078

>fitgirl

Enjoy your bitcoin miner you dumb nigger

What's up with all the faggots ITT getting triggered over an OS2 thread?

>>15394840

but i have found spears

Fucking overrated bullshit, with shit gameplay mechanics.

Seriously, you are always walking on fire or in the middle of a poison cloud.

>>15395044

>not just dousing the fire

>not just blessing the poison cloud

>>15395051

yes

>>15394993

I just suggest you to not go necromancer.

Teleport spells, and other that enhance your movements are the most important one.

This game is not much about the power of certain skills, but more a matter to find the best position where to place your party members.

So you need to approach this game with a different mindset from your average JRPG.

>>15395072

>not just SUCCing the source back

Also playing with curse was incredibly fun.

>>15395056

Dousing the fire usually means creating myst and puddles of whaters that unavoidable become electrified soon after that.

This game made the terrain effect way too much invasive.

>>15395071

Is just fucking annoying. Those effect do little damage but are always there. When one goes away something else electrify blood, or create new poison mysts, that often explode setting everything on fire again.

is like battling constantly on a freaking barbecue grill. On a long run become just cringy.

>>15395062

I'm talking about the first game, anon.

>>15395088

Electric blood is pretty fucking metal.

>>15395088

>This game made the terrain effect way too much invasive.

It's just as fucking invasive against your opponents.

>>15394993

>Put Lone Wolf on both of your characters

>Make one a tanky 2H wielding warrior

>Make the other a support mage (you can dip into all spell schools but utility and buffs are key)

Summons are also nice to bait abilities and general meat shields.

>>15395112

Lone Wolf is best skills.

You can send the other awful, totally uninteresting characters to go fuck themselves.

>>15394993

You can do lone wolf and go full on constitution + Retribution. You'll struggle at the start, but you'll eventually be unkillable while the enemy kills them self on you.

>>15395110

Wait a minute, that filename.

imgur.com/Ltt3uxA

>How Larian Studios changed their character art for Divinity: Original Sin in response to community feedback

Hmm, let me Google that

Oh, of fucking course it came from reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/GirlGamers/comments/1xamvk/how_larian_studios_changed_their_character_art/

>>15395118

Well now the faglike scrub play makes sense.

>>15395168

>Implying i'm not perfectly aware that you already know that.

The source (of the image) is irrelevant.

The pandering is fucking real. Half the inhabitants of the city you reach after the ship get destroyed spoiler are engaged in medieval gay marriage.

>>15395199

And you can gas em all.

>>15395210

>can't spoiler

You should have stopped one post before that.

Now you are the jester in this thread.

>>15395240

> if you own the game faggot

Why should i? You mutt!

>>15395225

nah you're still the faggot redditor

>>15394665

>dropped the game because of his own lack of an attention span

That's pretty epic. If you would have kept playing though, the prisoners do get "saved" in the ending.

>>15395239

Spare yourself the pain.

They reduced everything that was fun in the first (sin) game to enhance instead the obnoxious parts.

>>15395299

There is any mods for the character creation?

>>15395299

What's wrong with their faces and bodies?

>>15395306

The more, the better.

>>15395315

Now you mentioned it, will they put back the cutted out game contents? Like the obviously missing races?

>>15395110

remember to save the boobplate!

http://archive.is/7FIvh

Is this game worth it if you only play single-player? And if I were to play co-op, can you play with Steam players if you get the GOG version?

>>15395455

>Is this game worth it if you only play single-player?

I think so, but play it yourself and see.

>And if I were to play co-op, can you play with Steam players if you get the GOG version?

Yeah, so long as you're on the same version of the game.

Sweet, I guess I should give this another pirate to check it out. Hopefully the last chunk of the game is improved. All the QoL changes are enough for me to download it again.

>>15395352

>director is a fan of elves

>divinity 2 kills the elves, has the orcs enslaved, and the goblins wandering around in tribes causing issues

>D:OS is a huge hit

>D:OS2 brings backs the elves, kills the orcs, and the goblins

>now we have the "morally grey" story and the son didn't go evil, despite that being the main point of two games

>>15395509

>>15395509

> the son didn't go evil

Whoa wait a minute. Pretty sure the Alexander being evil consumes the majority of the story in OS1.

>>15395590

OS2*

>>15395590

I guess, blatantly. The whole thing with him, and was widely known in Divinity 2, was that he was the anti-christ, and leader of the black ring. Unless there was some major history rewriting and a mass propaganda campaign, it should be well known that the Divine's son is an evil bastard and leader of what amounts to Chaos.

>>15393153

Did they fix the godawful armorsponge combat where debuffs and shit are worthless because it's all armor damage?

>>15395088

Then get high ground and fuck with enemies from afar, excluding your melee characters who can have elemental shields to protect from whatever status you're throwing on enemies.

>>15395282

Lone wolf is boring because it gives you less options per turn overall, you get 6 AP for 2 characters which is 12 AP as opposed to 4 AP for 4 characters which is 16, not including the possibility of using glass cannon on one or more of them for even more. My setup is:

>Red Prince (protagonist) - sword and board tank with a fuck ton of armor but low health. Uses strength scaling polymorph skills.

>Fane - glass cannon physical damage mage with warfare, necromancy, corpse explosion, high int but low elemental skills. Polymorph for the ability that resets cooldowns and the one that makes source skills free, use them to give one character double turns for two turns.

>Lohse - glass cannon summoner with no int, high summoning, casts all the buffs/debuffs or environmental effects which don't scale with anything.

>Sebille - glass cannon assassin, pretty straightforward

Also every character has nether swap and teleportation since they only require 2 aerothurge and their utility doesn't scale with anything (I don't often use teleport for the damage).

>>15395455

I think it is actually not worth it in co-op, you get the most fun out of playing on the hardest difficulty and taking a lot of fights which require careful planning and a lot of restarts, which isn't fun when you feel the pressure to just get through things quickly with a friend.

Finally got around to playing the first one, it feels like I'm running around in a kids toybox there's nothing at all interesting about the world, the combat while sort of fun is kind of boring at the same time and the spells are boring and lame. I put 20 hours, got to the forest and dropped it, I don't understand the dicksucking the game gets. I don't mind the turn based combat but why did I have so much more fun with Baldurs gate and Icewind dale?

>>15396061

If it's anything like the Definitive Edition for the first game they were so obsessed with "balancing" they took out all the fun and forced you to rely on a single strategy which was already overpowered in the original.

>>15395643

Wait you're talking about Damian. He's a kid Lucian raised but he was not actually his son. Completely different entity.

>>15396147

Edit read that wrong. If you were playing the Definitive Edition you now know why. Not that the original was much better, just a bit more fun since you could do a plethora of broken skill combinations instead of just one or two.

Larian devs' idea of balance is all wrong. Instead of focusing on creating win/lose situations during battle they focus on the minutia and preventing fun combinations. Compare this to Etrian Odyssey 3 which is seemingly broken once you get dual classing but then you realize that the devs anticipated it and gave you a lot of freedom in avoiding lose conditions during boss fights.

Sage for double post.

>>15396061

Sounds like you were never a fan of CRPGs to begin with. If I mentioned Ultima, would you know what I was talking about?

>>15395282

I remember enjoying the fuck out of the Shapeshifting skills and Geomancer skills. Shapeshifting is utility/movement/positioning and Geomancy is tanky/CC/damage. Summoning is incredibly tedious, so I'd recommend staying the fuck away from that.

>>15396061

First one isn't that good. Combat and balance are so-so and the story/writing are bad.

In any case, they apparently fixed the biggest gripe I had with the game which was the ridiculous stat scaling, so I'll be giving it another shot.

>>15395677

The armor serves the purpose of preventing status effects at the start of the battle. In OS1, you could make builds that would effectively gaurantee you a victory on turn one by status locking the enemies. It's just a new style of play to adapt to. Once you get into it, it's hard to see anything wrong with it.

>>15396181

Did you not read my post, I mention I had more fun with fun with BG and Ice wind dale and I understand they play completely different but I love crpgs. Don't cry reddit on me.

>>15396227

>First one isn't that good. Combat and balance are so-so and the story/writing are bad.

I'm just gonna uninstall there's too many games out there for me to waste time on this.

>>15396147

>>15396179

Didn't realize they had changed so much I remember years back people saying the original D:OS is better than the EE. Well either way they're the same game devoid of anything interesting.

waiting for a repack before I pirate it

>>15396403

i hope you purchase after you play. they really do deserve it

>>15396254

The armor is a shitty solution to the fact the combat is complete ass. You spend an eternity chipping away at ridiculous amounts of armor that only bloat in size as you go, just so that when the armor is finally gone, you can stunlock the enemy and quickly dispatch him since all those skills you have can FINALLY be used for something useful. Worse yet, physical and magical armours are separate, so it doesn't even make sense to have a fun mix-and-matched party, and instead it's better to either go full physical or full magical (with an odd one to heal and buff), ignore half your skills since they're only useful AFTER you deplete the armor (and where only stuns matter anyway), and then repeat the same thing the whole game.

Tbh it's why I dropped the game after Act 2 was over. For one, the writing was kinda shitty, but it was the combat that really ruined the game for me – I dreaded every encounter not because I thought I wouldn't win, but because I knew I'd waste fifteen minutes breaking down some asshole's ridiculously large armor gauge, using the same skills and tactics as always, and that there'd be five more fights like that after him at the very least. The level scaling of equipment was also attrocious. Really, I have a hard time seeing this as any more than a 4/10 game, and I can't understand why everyone seems to be sucking its dick.

>>15396451

I ran with two physical and two magical characters and I didn't think it was that bad to have a split. Most enemies had less of one kind of armour or the other, so if I picked my targets properly it ended up just as good as a party dedicated to one or the other.

>>15396451

>for one, the writing was kinda shitty

Take a look at the diversity hires they've got after the first one if you want a laugh. Also Sven (the owner) was disappointed so few of his customers were women, so you can imagine the reason for that.

Why even play games nowadays when you have to wait years for the “definitive edition” of games to get the “full” experience. They’re just Jews.

>>15396506

>Why even play games nowadays when you have to wait years for the “definitive edition” of games to get the “full” experience.

You're not wrong but

>They’re just Jews.

It's free.

>>15396386

>no way to sort items

I played it at launch as well and I remember that there was sorting by type.

>>15396451

But you fight multiple enemies in every fight, some of which have more physical and some of which have more magic armor. Have your mages take out the ones with less magic armor and the physical attackers take out the ones with more magic armor. I don't think its an ideal solution but I like it more than the willpower/bodybuilding system. I'd prefer something similar to DOS2's except where everyone has much less armor but it regenerates each turn.

I bought Divinity Original Sin a year back but never really got into it. I'd like to give it another shot. Any fun builds to try?

>>15396673

Wait till you see the new docks fight. 10 vs 4. Thankfully half of the enemies have no physical armor though. A bunch of them do have the ability to regenerate armor though.

>>15396697

Make one of your characters a trickster demon that uses invisibility, telekinesis, pickpocket, mobility skills (teleport), and all the scrolls/grenades your party finds. No weapons or traditional skills, just constantly mess with enemies and setup useful things for the rest of the party like sneaking up on their mages and dropping a teleporter pyramid next to them so everyone else can jump in right on top of them. Pickpocket enemies with grenades or special arrows too, and let this character be the one who does all the talking/crafting since they don't need combat skills so you might as well give them everything else. And the telekinesis can be used to stack barrels/crates next to a doorway to prevent anyone from coming in, save for the ones you teleport into your death trap.

Also in DOS2 get teleport and nether swap on your entire party because you only need 2 aerothurge.

I'm playing the first game's definitive edition right now for the first time, and I've experienced an incredible amount of bugs. They can all be temporarily fixed by reloading a save or the game, but it gets incredibly annoying after a while. I hope the sequel is getting proper bug fixing treatment this time around.

>>15396673

Or if you specialize, that's all 4 party members instantly nuking down whatever is weak to their damage type first. Yes, the other type might linger around longer, but the important thing is to take out or disable as many as possible as fast as possible.

>>15396784

Pirate version, I'm assuming?

>>15397222

Nope, legit version. (ID probably changed because phoneposting.) Also playing it in online co-op.

Off the top of my head:

>Character stat points you've added will randomly disappear, needs game restart to fix not just save file load.

>Co-op player will target an enemy for an attack but often renders him facing the wrong direction and attacking an ally (attack still works, just looks weird).

>NPC conversations that are supposed to become dual-dialouge occasionally skip the co-op partner entirely. No options, no rock-paper scissors.

>Battle music constantly stops working, sometimes all sound stops working and you fight in silence.

>Some quests involving paying someone to do something don't actually work, you lose the money and don't get what you paid for.

I know there are more bugs we encountered but I can't keep track of them all anymore. Overall we can still play the game fine, it just gets annoying once the hilarity of it wears off.

>>15396386

I havne't played 2 but in the 1 you could pick up barrels and crates which is what I used for my crafting room.

>>15396697

Ranged rogues can deal ridiculous damage to both individuals and groups. With a supply of special arrows they are very versatile too and since you really only need to invest skill points in expert marksman and bow you will have a lot of extra points to devote to things such as crafting, leadership, utility skills and magic.

>>15397222

You really think pirated versions add a bunch of bugs for no reason.

>>15397398

Of course not but pirate versions are often of the release which typically has bug that are later patched out. In any case I've put 100+ hours into this game and I can't remember a single bug so not sure whats going on with that guy.

>>15396700

>dock fight

Just got through it. Geomancy + Polymorph > all. Medusa Head is the most OP skill in the game for early/mid game Tactician. Get a few enemies bunched up, Teleport a few more in and then kill all your pretty little statues at your leisure. If you've never tried Polymorph, I strongly suggest you give it a shot. You only really need 2 points in it to get the good stuff.

Had quite a few issues with this game.

1. I’ve never truly been a fan of DnD style Roleplay. I like being immersed in a world, not having it read to me like a CYOA book. The whole “The result is effectively the same but you get to choose different ways of getting there.” Shtick just feels like a giant waste of time and at that point why not just play the game on fast forward, blowing past all the dialogue because who really gives a shit, the game doesnt.

2. It touts itself as being open world, and perhaps it is, but again it just feels as if there is nothing to really explore or experience besides killing some mobs, picking up a bit of loot and/or lore and then never going back to that place ever again.

3. Kind of an extension of 1-2, The game doesnt evolve. Once you have finished everything an area has to offer, it might as well be deleted from that playthrough entirely. Nothing changes, nothing grows, nothing respawns. Give me something at least to make the world actually feel alive and breathing rather than just different levels shrouded in a veil of “Well you can return to the place so it must be open world.”

4. The only replayability this game really has is if you want to create a new build. Still the same battles, still the same outcome, its just a chance to see the different animations and visuals of different attacks.

5. The story sucks, I had no interest in it at all for the 80 hours I played it. “The voidwoken are trying to kill the gods so its up to you to become the next great saviour of the world.” Cliche as a motherfucker. Tag on the fact that it seems to me the game itself doesnt really even give a fuck about the story, either. Here’s why.

6. What the fuck is up with character development in this game? Every single time I meet an interesting character I actually want to know more about its either they have no fucking character, its told in a few pieces of dialogue that aren’t really even revealing of who the fuck the guy is, or I got to fucking kill them which effectively renders their personality, story, and existence an absolute waste of potential.

I could go on for a few more but the point is this, The game just doesn’t give a fuck about itself beyond its combat. Its like a JRPG with the exception of an interesting and worthwhile story that holds your attention. Its a fucking waste of potential. Plain and simple.

>>15395112

I'm pretty sure they nerfed lone wolf builds. I had a warrior and ranger party that kicked ass but I don't think it's going to work as good anymore.

I've yet to play through D:OS2 because my faggot friend decided he'd take control away from my character to force me to kill some fucking guards with him.

>Playing through Prison

>Me, faggot and some other guy playing

>faggot and other guy have been murder hoboing a little but keeping it within certain boundaries

>come across two guards trying to help some kids

>I begin talking to them and they ask to me to take the kids to safety on a boat, I say sure.

>faggot attacks the guards and begins combat

>slightly annoyed but just gonna deal with it

>I walk away to go and take the boat like they asked

>faggot pisses himself in fear as he thinks the guards are going to kill him

>Takes control of my character off me to help him kill the guards

>I quit the game right there and don't speak to him for weeks

It still pisses me off to this day.

>>15395677

Nice ID

how do I find a friend to play this with me?

>>15399420

>how do I find a friend?

Tell me when you find out

>>15399238

yea the soft cap is at 40. (lone wolf builds are still op)

>>15398638

>The voidwoken are trying to kill the gods so its up to you to become the next great saviour of the world.

So you played 80 hours and totally missed the story… like what the living fuck? The Godwoken is the one who killing the gods, who aren't gods at all, meanwhile voidwokens are some ancestor race who got assraped by their own nobility and later by demons.

>I’ve never truly been a fan of DnD style Roleplay.

I've never truly been a fan of video games, so let me tell you why they are racist and sucks. - Kotaku

>It touts itself as being open world, and perhaps it is

So it is or not? Open world doesn't equal being a The Sims game. As many redditor and newfag here think.

>The only replayability this game really has is if you want to create a new build.

Thats the fucking point…

Your whole comment is like an IGN article…

>>15398508

Keep meaning to try polymorph but keep going for utility. Already gave myself a point in it this playthrough but I'm full of skills that seemed more necessary.

For the docks fight wound up going fill disco inferno. Opened the fight with a fireball to the 5 monks, then proceeded to burn all the ground that led to my party. By the time they got close enough, they'd have no magic armor so that's when I'd start petrifying, sleeping, shock stunning, etc

>dropped

We don't speak ebonics here.

>>15400090

Ebonic would be "djruapt"

>Want to play Lone Wolf build in 2 because I enjoy the idea of having my MC be overpowered with a buff/healslut support

>Need an elf in my group for lore dump meat

>Don't want to bring Sebille

>Don't want to be elf myself cause of the dindu tier tribal armor

Any mod that lets others than elf eat flesh or alternatively makes elf armor more appealing?

>>15398508

>Geomancy + Polymorph > all

Never really touched polymorph, what's the playstyle with that mix? Do you use both for utility and defense, then do a strength build with melee damage focus or is it a magic damage build through the offensive geomancy spells?

Main warfare + casual polymorph + casual necromancy + casual scoundrel is what I'm currently considering for a melee build.

Scoundrel for adrenaline rush and cloak and dagger teleport, necromancy for healing and meatshields, polymorph for mobility, CC and invisibility

>>15400176

Why you don't just use the mask which allowes you to change form?

>>15400234

Oh if I just change to elf I can eat corpses? Everybody can use it, not just Fane right?

I've not even finished chapter 1 in the past and didn't really play around with the mask.

>>15393074

thank fuck I would've killed myself if they went full jew with paid content. My autism would've want to purchase the meaningless DLC because I can't be satisfied with "only" the base game.

I will never ever buy games again, fuck dlc games and their money grabbing schemes so much

>>15400306

Yes, it's for everyone.

Chapter 1? You mean the tutorial island?

>>15400511

>Chapter 1? You mean the tutorial island?

Yeah I've tried to get past it twice, I end up getting all autistic about doing all the quests and finding all the secrets before leaving, then I get bored.

>>15400084

My party for my second playthrough was Geomancer/Warfare tank dude, Hydro/Warfare, Rogue and Warfare/Pyro. The fights went like this: put up fire spark aura > put up venom aura > everything's been stripped of magical armour > Geo/Hydro dudes CC everything and mop up at my leisure. If you're trying to do 2 pure casters and 2 pure physical DD, you're not gonna have a good time. But Geomancy and Necromancy can deal both physical and magical damage, so having 2 casters and 2 hydrids works really well since you can handle enemy casters through physical armour strip. Meanwhile a party with 2 physical and 2 hybrids would be able to handle enemy fighters with magical armour strip.

>>15400176

Polymorph is mostly for utility. 2 points in it to pick up Heart of Steel, Spread Your Wings, Spider Legs and Medusa Head. For a build with a stronger focus on Polymorph, you'd probably want to play a caster and pick up the talent that gives you crit/accuracy at full health and the talent that lets your magical skills crit. So you'd build say a Pyromancer, dual wield fire wands and put your skill points into Poly, Pyro and Dual Wielding. Then for stats you'd get a fair amount of Wits and the rest in Int. Another thing that could work now that having points in Retribution makes enemies more likely to target you is invest heavily in Polymorph and Necromancy with some Geo/Hydro points for the self-sustain and just tank the piss out of everything.

>>15402252

I don't think you can an elf, but you can a lizard and a skeleton.

>>15402252

Sebille is an elf you can an

>>15402252

You can turn an edge lord elf girl into a loving house wife.

does the direct connect coop still work for pirates?

>>15402653

>mage nether swaps my healer and his rogue

>healer surrounded by enemy gang bang team

>rogue no lubes my archer with adrenaline

>send my rogue to take down the mage boss

>mage boss puts her ass in a corner where my rogue can't backstab

>>15402252

>Can I violently impregnate an elf

You can try but they would reject bodily life and die

>>15394755

Got any proof? No? Then fuck off.

>>15396516

>every single one of them are clearly nerds and not hamburger helper tier diversity hires or tumblrinas with neon hair that can only code depression quest and depression quest 2

This is why they are a competent studio also they listen to and respect their userbase

>>15408980

I wanna play as that guy on the right

Is this game constantly online?

can you pirate this?

>>15411470

Then play as an elf. The game doesn't allow that level of reaction in dialog, iirc, but that is how you are going to feel. You can get some very nice stuff from elvish cannibalism.

>>15411340

> none of it is obstructive so far nor very subversive either.

All that shit doesn't happen until later.

>>15411705

The OCs all have major quests associated with them and a reasonable amount of unique dialog only available when used as a PC. The skeleton in particular is fairly plot-centric and also has one of the stronger source spells, though chargen spells are better the most of the other OCs.

>>15411785

cheers

>major quests associated with them

are they still doable if you were to recruit them with a custom character?

>>15411833

yes, BUT you only have so many party slots and there's a point in the main story where you lose access to whichever characters you aren't using.

>>15411705

Fane and Red Prince are really interesting companions, Lohse and Fane are the best as PC, but custom characters get the most powerful source ability by a long shot.

>>15402719

>>15402653

Whats the problem? That all sounds like very well designed AI making smart choices.

>>15411340

When you reach this world's Commiefornia, don't sweat. You can gas them. GAS THEM ALL! Really… it's a legit option…

>>15411340

>I haven't had this much fun in an RPG in ages

Seriously. It's living proof that games really have been becoming shit and the issue was never that "you're just getting older". Larian is one of the last studios that's actually bothering to make real games for people who know how to enjoy them anymore.

>>15411470

That's actually Sebille. She eats corpses, as all Elves do in the game. It heals them and allows them to view the memories of the deceased.

>>15411702

Corpse eating doesn't give anything special from what I recall. Gives a few skills, which you may or may not be able to use due to your point distribution. Has some very minor impact on some quests. Lets you find a very small amount of random, low quality loot. Overall, I'd say corpse eating is equivalent to the passives other races get.

>>15414153

Not complaining. It's good that the AI can make choices that makes your life harder.

>>15417820

>not going fire and geomancer lizard with a drop of poison

>>15397362

Using random chest was my makeshift solution to address the issue so far. I just hoped that there is something better out there. I guess I will have to make the quartermaster mod after all.

>>15417820

Corpse eating might not be a huge game changer, but getting a free first aid skill at the beginning of the game can be a huge help.

Can you still initiate combat then have your rogue stay out of combat to rape any target before being placed into combat with you for another turn to rape another target?

>>15421578

Don't believe so. If you get within vicinity of your party members' fight, you're put into combat.

>>15397088

In the definitive edition at least you can sort the storage chest. I did it earlier today.

>>15421578

If you have a high initiative, then you can do something similar to what you want. Initiate combat with your main group while the rogue is hiding somewhere. Then, when the round is about to end jump into the fight. Doing so puts you last in the current round's turn order, and then your high initiative lets you go first next round. You can make sure the round pauses at the end by having your tank wait in hiding too but come out early. With escapist you can escape after your burst at the end of your second turn, and then initiate combat again the teleport cubes help here before the round ends. So you're getting an effective 2 turns each round, cool downs refreshed/healing opportunity between bursts, and you aren't there for the enemies to wail on during their turn. The high initiative + last turn trick is pretty good, but I feel like the escapist abuse makes it a bit too strong. It gets even worse if you bring two rogues that have the escapist. They can use an infinite amount of turns at the end of a round by just tag teaming in and out, and nothing other than a misclick can stop them.

I never played CRPGs before, what's some beginners tips?

>>15392932

This game is a treat.

I was measuring this game's performance and so was using different classes and origins, and they were all fun, except ranger.

Also this >>15413999.

I have a feeling that the player was supposed to choose Ifan.

Which races are best for what? The elf +1 ap skill seems really good for any build, but the free blood pool definitely makes it a must have as an archer or necromancer. Lizards seem to get the worst end of everything. The 10% poison/fire resist might be okay once you stack resistances in the end game. Humans seem pretty solid all around, and I think they fill a melee role pretty well. They've also got +1 barter which is pretty good to have. Dwarves seem like they'd fit best as mages if you want to bring one, but other races might be better at that. Undead rogue sounds cool for the infinite lockpicks, but nails are common enough that it's somewhat wasted. Play dead is a really good skill to have for a squishy melee though. Their poison potions only ever seem to heal about half of the listed number so they feel kind of squishy. I do appreciate the ease at which you can get the potions though. For dwarfs I think wizard is probably the way to go.

>>15427872

>Lizards seem to get the worst end of everything.

>can burn the ground for 1AP

bruh

>>15427872

Elf for damage oriented builds with Polymorph fuckery to instantly kill everything on the screen. Lizard for Pyro builds. Human for crit builds, either spells and/or 2H; it's not too hard to get over 40% crit without any points invested in Wit by the time you reach Arx. Dwarves for tanking, summoning or geomancy. Undeads are in a odd position and I'd say either pick Fane and no other undead or go with 4 undeads. Reasoning is that having a party with undead and the living results in very inefficient healing throughput where you can't use most of your hydro or geo healing skills without hurting the other side of deceased spectrum. With that being said, undeads are good at everything once you shapeshift them.

For the origin characters, Beast makes a good Aerothurge (which is a crazy good since it combines both offense and CC), Fane is the best god damn caster due to being able to take 2 turns in a row, the rest have shit abilities, and custom characters are god tier support/tanks/healers because of their bubble skill, which is basically god mode.

>>15394952

Retards who can't stand vidya threads. You can thank 2nd exodus for that.

man, the whole game would've been so good if the music wasn't so fucking shit. Give me something dark that actually fits with the theme

So I started playing this recently and 10 hours in realized that I can't really win against anything properly because I thought the combat would be similar to the first one so I'd invested a lot into CC and skills that seemed fun. My party skills were too spread out with Sebille doing most of the damage, so I always ended up dying before I could punch through the enemy armor. Didn't really want to start a new game 10 hours in, so I started cheesing my way through the fights I couldn't win with Telekinesis and a reinforced crate since I read that you get free respecs after the first act.

Now I'm kind of wondering what I should make of my main char. She's now polymorph/summoner/scoundrel/other stuff from equipment with tons of initiative and memory but summoning shit is kind of tedious even if it can be pretty effective. She has basically 0 damage output but a lot of support skills. My party is Fane as geo/pyromancer, Sebille as pure rogue and Beast as a 2h/warfare warrior and I'm playing an elf.

I'm playing on tactician btw.

Still kind of on the fence with the game though. The combat has a little more depth than the first one but sometimes the LoS for skills is a bit wonky and a shit ton of the fights involve ambushes with the enemy spawning in high places and ganking you with ranged attacks. These are just minor gripes though and I'm probably just frustrated because I've spent a ton of money in game for skillbooks that haven't been worth it. I just need to get better at the game.

>>15431477

You get free respec when you beat the first chapter. It's not so difficult that you won't be able to do it with any old build.

>>15431644

Well it felt like the enemies could cut through me like a hot knife through butter with one hit while I could barely get one kind of armor down on one enemy with my whole team. Then the enemies CC my guys and I get to watch while they slaughter them. I did get past the first act but only with the help of the crate and even then I died constantly from a couple of hits. I'm probably gonna put shitloads of points into constitution now so that my characters aren't made out of paper, probably wits too so they get to actually do something before they're assraped.

I went into it expecting it to be as easy as the first game on tactician but it was a lot harder and more punishing with the new armor systems and the height system.

>>15431793

Upgrade your gear. +Thievery gear can let everyone in your party steal from vendors, which lets you get a lot more gear upgrades. Make sure you have someone with Lucky Charm maxed out and always wearing +Lucky Charm gear, as it provides a crazy high amount of extra good loot at lvl 5+. Generally speaking, you don't want to invest all of your skill points into a single skill. For example, a Scoundrel would benefit from 1 or 2 points in Warfare, Geomancy for extra passive damage, AoE skills, mobility, tankyness, and CC. Also, keep in mind you can combine elemental skill books with non elemental skill books for new skills; a Scoundrel skill book + Geomancy skill book gives you Venom Coating, which gives you extra poison damage on each hit, which is extremely useful when attacking knight-type enemies since you'll be able to strip their magic armor while beating on them, which allows for both magical based CC and for extra health damage from your Venom Coating.

Summoner is one of the few all or nothing skills, the Incarnate you summon gets an absolutely massive power boost once you reach 10 in Summoning. And like you figured out, since you don't need anything other than points in Summoning itself to make the skill useful, a Summoner can double up as a support or a tank. In any case, your party is clearly suffering from the split between physical and magical armor splitting. Having Fane as a Geo/Necro with a bit of Warfare would probably increase your party's damage output significantly.

God tier opening tactic in spoiler: open up with Teleportation on a melee enemy and put them as far away as you can, preferably on top of either another melee or a caster. Then cast Fossil Strike to slow both of them down, effectively giving you 2 turns of soft CC on 2 targets while doing a bit of dmg.

https://teambrg.com/divinity-original-sin-2/dos-2-skills-list-guide-faq/

Anyone have any ideas? Definitive edition crashes at launch, no error or anything just closes. I've tried verifying game files, reinstalling, disabling antivirus, updating drivers, and pirated it to no avail.

>>15432257

Thanks for the tips. I fiddled around with the magic mirror and I think I'll keep the summoning for my MC because the incarnate champion is an absolute beast. The party is a little more viable for combat now. Figured out the level requirements for weapons in the middle of the fight with Mordus because beast kept missing and it turned out he had a 15% chance to hit because of his weapon. My only free "weapon" was a broom but he managed to save us from a wipe with it and Battle Stomp Managed to win since I'd pulled Mordus out because I thought the possessed dwarves would get unpossessed if I killed him first but they never even joined the fight. They just exploded after it.

Gonna take your advice on the multiclass stuff and lucky charm. I've already been steling from the vendors with Beast, he takes the stuff while others distract people. I hated using the broken telekinesis+reinforced crate trick but I'd have hated it more to start the game over 10-15 hours in.

>>15432312

Have you tried running it as an admin?

>>15432312

Crashes at launch? Could be a problem with your graphics card. Should see if you can run other games. Could you run Original Sin 2 previously? If so then fuck the definitive edition and just play an older version.

>>15432312

Okay listen here you little nigger it crashes either becasue you are

1. nigger

2. didnt install drivers with visual c++

3. you are actually retarded nigger

>>15432362

Yes

>>15432368

Thinking of just modding and replaying the old version at this rate

>>15432390

I did that you double nigger

>>15432411

okay let's check the list.

What does the crash say

Run game in windowed mode

Run game in admin

What graphic card are you using

Reinstall direct x

Reinstall redist all years

Reinstall drivers

Are you using gog or steam

Are you white

Have you installed patch

If none of the above works you gotta reinstall whole windows you probably have virus (which you 100% have from the problems you have listed)

>>15432312

Never mind just installed the pirated copy and with update. Pirates win again

>>15431793

Teleport is one of the best moves in the game. It does a nice chunk of physical damage, can hit multiple enemies, can group enemies for other aoes, and isn't blocked by armor. There are a good number of things that only have one type of armor in act 1. I'd advise getting a character with medusa head, both battle stomp and bull rush for any character with a melee weapon, and adrenaline rush on every character. You should probably grab glass cannon on a few too because you probably don't have enough armor to block a full hit anyways, and it's 50% more time you can be attacking each turn (more if you have to move). Also, pump thief up. The amount you can steal grows exponentially with each level, and robbing vendors can easily pay for everything you need. Try to buy/loot some gear (belts and gloves) that have +thief. You might consider saving before turning in a quest that rewards the right gear type, and then save scumming until one shows up. If you still have any of the origin characters left to recruit you can ask them to be a shadowblade, and they'll have thievery be their civil ability. You can rob every vendor an extra time for every origin character you treat that way I think it should total a good 10-15k gold each run. Lucky charm is also a must have. Don't be afraid to use runes because you can extract them freely. Look into which crafting mats to get from vendors.

Start encounters in ways that favor you. For example, try sending just one guy in while everyone else delays their turns a ways back. Then run back. You'll have the enemies in a mostly straight line for better aoe placement, and 3 of your characters will effectively move twice. I've found summoner to be really good because it is flexible with its damage. You can do any damage type as long as you can make a puddle for it. Their damage is also really good. The incarnate is a REALLY good way to save on time and repairs if you ever need to break a door. Blood incarnates with range infusion make really good archers, and if you throw power infusion on they can aoe and cc too. Elves make a pretty great summoner because their +1ap innate makes a pool of blood at your feet you can use to summon enhanced minions. Also, necro is good for a lot of physical damage too, and with elemental affinity the blood pool reduces ap costs of it all by 1.

>>15433268

smh fam

>>15433641

>the executioner is an unfeeling blond-haired white guy

Well at least it was satisfying to watch her get sliced.

>>15433768

>not getting loads of divines from vendors/+8 lucky charm

Oh nevermind. I just leapt ahead and spoke to the spirit of some street artist's dad who says his son sucks and he did it better. Quest activated.

Man, honestly despite the crap this game keeps surprising me.

>>15393737

Yeah, but you eventually end up fighting event he ones you DO bring with you anyway, so why bother?

>>15395214

unfortunately this. I knew the writing would be shit since it's a Larian game, but I had at least hoped that the combat would be good.

>>15395239

WTF actually happened to her?

>>15433768

honestly this. Larian has a bad habit of pushing pro-homo bullshit in their games.

>>15435159

>WTF actually happened to her?

She hit the wall at 20 and got fat and nasty.

>>15433768

By the way you must be a lazy player if you aren't full on Divine tier shit at this point. I perosnally didn1t even give a crap on the bull dyke, just laughed her off as the wizards fried her "wife".

>>15435159

If you do their side quests, they will side with you instead. Unless you do something totally against what they stand for, like gassing arx will always make ifan turn against you on the spot.

>>15436888 (heil'ed)

Go to fitgirl and torrent the new version, Hitler-anon.

I'm doing the Black Pits, doing the fight with the 3 prisoners. Since I have the Torturer talent, I had the brilliant idea to Teleport the 2 magisters and source hounds far away and root them in place with Worm Tremor. If I do that, I can just keep them rooted and keep the prisoners alive easily. Good plan, right? So I teleport the bastards and root them, and I start healing the 3 prisoners. And then one of the magisters attacks his ally that has Shackle of Pain up and kills all 3 prisoners through friendly fire. If the AI didn't randomly attack corpses and barrels, I'd rate it A+.

>>15438745

I just did that fight. Kill all the guards except the shackle dude (use teleport + worm tremor on him alone), and then use living on the edge on all 3 of the prisoners at once. It's a really good spell so having it learned on more people isn't a bad thing, and 2 necromancy isn't too hard to reach.

new CTDs introduced in the definitive edition niice

>>15436888

classic edition and definite edition are incompatible with each others. The saves don't update and none of the mods work either. Not even Nvidia DSR will work with the DE.

>>15450502

By bending over and taking my cock up your ass, faggot bitchboi.

Now bend over.

>>15450417

Team comp?

In any case, I think there's two general ways to approach the fight.

First is to go full retard and kill good 'ol Braccy before shit starts going down. Good methods for this are using casters, preferably Fane with Apotheosis. You drink your god damn tea and pump his ass full of 3 Source spells. Another method is to use Overpower + Shackle of Pain. Another method is spam Bone Widows on his ass with summoners.

The other strategy is to bunker down with Smoke Clouds/Blessed Smoke Clouds (Aero/Scoundrel skills, or Necro skill + Bless). Kill whatever gets close to you and tank the damage. Works best with a custom character and their Dome of Protection skill. Once you have every buff in the game and the other 2 sides have weakened each other, you wait your turn with all your characters and bum rush out of your bubble.

>>15393046

>pedo posting through tor

Every time.

>>15393544

For (you), Nintoddler, a bump, and some dubs.

>>15456841

The problem with 4 pre-made characters is that you have to do the story part 4 times each times but at least I get to chose their personality. I miss that from the first game, the tag system is a poor replacement.

>>15453049

WAIT A MINUTE WHAT

THE SELF-SACRIFICE WORKED?! And why is Lucian alive? I killed him! Are you telling me that they gave you the option to purge the Source after killing Lucian and Rex but didn't think to write it out in case you chose not to side with the despot but instead do it yourself?

Divinity Original Sin 2 is a game best played once and with the same choices, it seems, because the minute you diverge you're left with a mess. What nonsense. Evidently the game was written for you to certainly be the new Divine. What's the point of even giving the option then?

>>15450417

I don't even know how you managed to lose one of the easiest fights in the game.

Seriously, the hardest fight in the entire game is the one next to the fire slugs on Act 1. In fact, the hardest part of the game is Act 1 (mainly because you dont have skills to choose from nor the money to get them), the rest is really damn easy.

>>15457266

The best ending and most fullfilling one is the evil one. The sacrifice is awful and the others just maintains the status quo.

>>15457298

Since you posted while I was posting I'll add to your shit.

There are explanations, if you didn't find any or didnt play with the correct character going to the correct places then you won't get jack shit in those small parts at the ending, like for example Ryker gets a special ending if you helped him or the succubus and a few more cases like that. God King is more or less explained if you follow Fane's story, you also find his daughter so you should know why she's alive. The veil is never closed unless you do the true sacrifice ending (there's two sacrifice endings).

I do agree that the epilogue feels quite rushed though and it's a damn shame. Act 3 is really bland and Act 4 too short with nearly nothing in it, you can tell they ran out of time and probably money.

>>15457324

The sacrifice ending is as it says, you sacrifice all your source to close the veil and save the world in exhange of becoming a silent monk. You also make powerless Lucian and Fane's daughter, but they rule the human world as gods or at least they disguise themselves as such to control the masses.

They tell everyone that you and your team were the true heroes bla bla bla but you're all a bunch of retards now. However, the true sacrifice makes Malady appear and LMAO MAGIC remove silent monk status from the party and they are on a further adventure on the fixed ship and noone knows To Be Continued bullshit.

Now for the evil one, the most important step is on Act 3. If you enter the Academy through the main door and not the secret passage (I swear, explorers getting fucked here should be a damn punishment for the devs) you will find a big voidwoken that speaks to the party giving you the option to join the god king. Obviously your entire party is against it but you can convince them, it's easier to convince if you make them evil on your run being a major dick. Now the ending is just a big "fuck you" to everyone and everything, you become the second in command of the entire void army, you get to live, you get to be a true god alongside God King, bonus points for the ending if you do it as Fane. You fuck the world and give the world to it's previous owners, the voidwoken.

Also God King is noone less than the king that was above all the previous gods, he banned Fane from discovering how to use the veil or how to open it because he knew this would happen. The other gods saw the potential of the veil and started sucking power out of that, the King tried to stop them after making Fane an exiled but he got fucked by all the gods instead and got sent to the other side. So what do you expect he's gonna do? Want revenge on the stupid gods who ruined the eternals and created the races Divinity know of based on their image, so ofcourse the God King wants to destroy everything related to them due to hatred.

I may be wrong on a few things or too so apologies for that, it has been really long since I played the game but I have quite a few hundred hours on it.

>>15457298

I don't hink killing the God King is possible lorewise, he and his people went through some WH40k warp-shit-fuckery in the Void…

>>15457352

>However, the true sacrifice makes Malady appear and LMAO MAGIC remove silent monk status from the party and they are on a further adventure on the fixed ship and noone knows To Be Continued bullshit.

Oh I got that ending. Alright then. Basically the same epilogue, though.

>If you enter the Academy through the main door and not the secret passage (I swear, explorers getting fucked here should be a damn punishment for the devs) you will find a big voidwoken that speaks to the party giving you the option to join the god king.

WHAT!? WHY

WHY WOULD THEY NOT FIX THIS FOR THE DEFINITIVE EDITION

I totally missed this! That sounds cool, too. I never even saw something like that in the game. Such crap, man. Such absolute crap.

>that truth of the God King

He's the perfect parallel to the Divine'd player then. He would have made a great final boss if they had better budgeted and thought through their game more. Classic last struggle, especially if you were going as Fane.

I think I did actually discover this during the course of the game but it was only in a couple lines of dialogue and really should have been a more pressing point for the rest of the game especially with Fane. Man I really would have liked this so much better as the ending. Proper concluding and really thematically choice.

The evil ending is kinda funny, though. Can't imagine the living Mary Sue Malady I liked her actually would appreciate that.

>>15457372

Yeah but technically so does the protagonist kinda. I somehow doubt Lorian wanted to make the Azathoth of cosmic enemies where hope is pointless and everything is gonna get eradicated regardless.

>>15457409

Don't get blinded by this game. The Divinity series lore is more fucked up than TES lore and not in the good way. Even the most hardcore fans don1t know what the flying fuck happening or what the order or how the time or timeline works in the series. For example, the things you experienced in this game are total different in the first game. Braccus tomb on a total different island, he isn't a mage, has a sister who ensure his immortality, but you slay her so technically he shouldn't be able to return. The God King is nver mentioned, but the series big bad the Void Dragon is probably him, which mean you beat his ass many time during the series. most of the races appear then gone, then appear then gone… the whole thing is a cluster fuck!

And let's not talk about Dragon Commander!

>>15457409

>Malady

I hoped there would be a romance option to fuck her half-elf half-demoness ass, but fugg… maybe in the DLC… That bitch just begging for a good spank!

>>15457427

Sounds like the most schizo-fun game lore ever created. Amazing what wonders perpetual inconsistency can produce.

>>15457435

Agreed.

>those multiplayer bugs

That actually sounds really fun if not totally crazy. Maybe vanilla was best because of things like that. Can't imagine the unpredictability was great for moments when you had the upper hand, though.

>>15457443

Meant to reply to this:

>That actually sounds really fun if not totally crazy. Maybe vanilla was best because of things like that. Can't imagine the unpredictability was great for moments when you had the upper hand, though.

>>15457501

Thanks, anon. I gotta try this out. I despise Steam but mods are always aces.

>>15457427

Part of it is that they refuse to add new characters, or concepts, and when they do, it frequently ends up being one off stuff. Source is all over the fucking place, and so are ZIg Zag and Balthazar, or whatever that guy's name is.They use level scaling, but don't scale threats properly for it in story, Bracchus in OS is weaker than a giant spider and her brood. I know gameplay and story segregation is a thing, but there are areas where you can keep it to a minimum. I'm still curious as to why Elves are alive in this game when they said it is after Divinity 2, but at the same time, there are dragons, so it should be before the events even leading to Divinity 2 since dragons fucked off or died, and dragon knights were hunted to near extinction.

Dragon Commander is just frustrating. It was the other half of what Divinity 2 was supposed to be, but also rushed out because they needed the funds for OS. It turned out to be the right decision because they royally fucked up the RTS portion in some fundamental ways.

game fucking sucks. the way armor works ruins the entire game

So how pozzed is this (((Western))) game anyway?

>>15457764

What do you mean? Explain more, mate. I'm interested.

>>15458125

You can straight sex or same sex as romance option, but that's about all I saw. Also if you're a christcuck you might get triggered over the theocracy subtext.

The only thing i hate about the game is the wet-rag looking armor. Even with the end game armor everything looks annoyingly glossy.

Also you end up usually wearing what you can get your hands on, so you end up having these mis-matched sets of glossy armor that look like you got them from good-will.

Every time I looked at my character I felt a bit disgusted with how i looked.

>>15457764

>I'm still curious as to why Elves are alive in this game when they said it is after Divinity 2, but at the same time, there are dragons, so it should be before the events even leading to Divinity 2 since dragons fucked off or died, and dragon knights were hunted to near extinction.

There's one dragon knight and a polymorphing undead that takes the form of a dragon. There are no actual dragons and IIRC not all elves got fucked over in Divinity 2.

>>15459386

Can I get n artist at least? This is my fetish.

>>15459391

Learn to reverse image search

>>15459409

You act as if you get remotely similar results depending on who's searching.

>>15459508

>>15459489

>only using sauce-nao

scrubs

>>15459519

>And to be honest its kinda ruined by having that stupid-looking blowjob face

It really depends on the artist, some of them I feel just go fucking crazy with it to piss off the reader. This one isn't so bad.

>>15459572

In one panel it almost looks like she's sporting the Alien™ tongue-mouth, though.

>>15459589

I would argue that it depends on the denomination as well as the country involved. I don’t think many christians in Estonia are too worked up about Tolkien.

But for the sake of staying ontopic I’ll let it drop. There wasn’t anything more subtly SJW, like what Hollow Knight did?

>>15459614

>There wasn’t anything more subtly SJW, like what Hollow Knight did?

Not that I noticed. No gay couples, no gommunism, I'm pretty sure the majority of the characters were white.

It was kind of weird when I noticed there was a same sex romance option. I picked a team with Fane, Dwarf and, Ifan because seemed like the most interesting characters to have. You get to chat up your party members mid-way through the game. So, I was was talking to the Dwarf about how good a friend he was and then I saw the romance option and necked myself for not picking a female party member.

>>15459659

The only goy in this world would be Michael Jackson going by your logic.

>>15459678

Oh i didn't get to the city at the end I just ended up dropping the game after driftwood.

>>15457310

>Ryker gets a special ending if you helped him

Doesn't he automatically turn on you, even if you play nice with him?

>>15459662

You didn't get to act 3. There's 3 gay couples within the first 5 minutes of reaching the city. Two of them are in-your-face as it gets.

In any case, my 4 pyro party finally got to act 3 after breezing through act 2, and let me tell you that pyro fucking sucks so far in a3. Half the shit you fight is either immune to fire or immune to poison or immune to earth. The other half has mobs with fire immunity auras. Not that Pyro or Geo are that good to begin with. All of the Geo earth skills have super long cooldowns and all the poison skills are limited in range or targeting. Pyro only has Fireball and Laser Ray worth using on a regular basis. Fire Whip has a small range and no Z level tolerance, Supernova and Flaming Tongues are only useful in very niche situations, and Searing Daggers, Ignition, Spontaneous Combustion and Flame Crescendo all deal low damage. The Source skills are also less than impressive: Fire Slug gets 1 or 2 shot by everything, Epidemic of Fire bounces to my party half the fucking time and Meteor Shower doesn't do much damage against humanoid sized targets. The biggest surprise skill for this playthrough has been Black Shroud. Plop that down on my party, have everyone cast Flaming Tongues and just fire off Laser Rays to melt down targets. Anything that tries to get in melee range gets blasted by 4 Flaming Tongues and then gets Blinded and fucked over by Medusa Head. Biggest disappointment has been the fact that I take so much god damn damage from setting everything on fire, to the point where having the whole screen covered in fire is usually equally detrimental to me and to whatever I'm fighting. This has been especially true as I progressed through the game since EVERYTHING HAS A FUCKING TELEPORT SKILL. Hell, now that I'm in act 3, it feels like half the stuff I'm fighting either has 2-3 teleport skills or can teleport every round.

>>15460390

I know all of this already. Point is that in act 3 half of the stuff is immune to fire and/or poison, and Flay Skin/Burning/Bleed Fire don't break immunities. Epidemic of Fire deals good damage, but it chains to my party way too often, even when I have 5+ enemies clumped together with my party entire party 15 meters away. And by the time you're in act 3, it's a miracle to go through a round of combat without an enemy dropping a cursed surface, which immediately turns the world to necrofire due to the "fire trumps everything except Bless and Global Cooling/Tornado" rule of surfaces. Flame Crescendo is a more AP efficient way of dealing damage compared to wanding, but you run the risk of blowing yourself up if you don't pick and choose what to put it on. Meteor Shower most definitely isn't a "I win" button, at least not with the definitive edition nerfs. Ifan's my crit caster, and even if I prep a mob with Flay Skin, Necrofire, Bleedfire and buff Ifan with Firebrand, Peace of Mind, Encourage and Apotheosis, it still doesn't kill lvl 18 mobs unless they're huge. And that's with 54% crit chance and 165% crit multiplier. And that's after having stripped an enemy's magic armor, having spent at least 5 AP on buffs and 3 AP on debuffs and having stripped the target's magic armor. All of that work and it STILL doesn't fucking kill a target.

>>15460429

It is, works fairly well, too. Problem is that staves rarely have Cleave on them and that losing out on a shield in tactician mode is bad for business. Not only that, but your damage is going to be shit unless you're using a fire staff. So you need to find a fire staff with a socket, preferably with cleave on it. It's a huge pain in the ass.

>>15460429

Oh boy you have NO idea how much fun this melee INT build is. It destroys EVERYTHING, but beware: it's a fucking glass cannon, melee NPCs will look for you due to your low armor value meanwhile you also want them for their low magic armor value however do not be mistaken, thanks to Warfare skills, if you put the mage alongside anyone else that deals phys damage, you can actually fucking knockdown anyone with warfare skills while dealing magic damage, similar to how rogues can do a backstab with warfare skills. Have you ever seen a battlestomp that backstabs or a battlestomp of fire? And this is not a mod or anything, this is vanilla.

Anyways, the proper build for the monk should be something like 10 Pyro 10 TwoHanded (remember, even if it's elemental the weapon is Two Handed meaning you get the damage bonus from this, also the Crit multiplier works) and 3 warfare. You want to rush 1 pyro and 2 warfare as soon as possible, then you can ignore that last point of warfare till you have access to tier 3 warfare skills so you can meanwhile increase pyro and twohanded to 5 both and probably more.

Talents that you want are, Demon, Executioner, Opportunist, Hothead (optional), All Skilled Up, Comeback Kid. The most important ones are Executioner, Opportunist and Comeback Kid if you get focused too much, if you dont get focused you can wait for Comeback Kid and apply Demon before so you can blow up without much concern of your well being.

The race you want to play as while doing this is a lizard for the extra fire resistance. Keep in mind that you really need a FIRE staff for this to work, so you will be kinda forced to check on every shop constantly hoping for one to come which is pure RNG, can always install a mod to fix the shops (reset shop mods). Also, for when you find a typical enemy with fire inmunity since you have only fire damage, it's worth keeping a secondary staff of water to wack on this one target.

>>15460543

>Epidemic Fire chains to my party way too often.

How? It never did that to me.

Crescendo is great if you combo it with teleport or swap, you know when it will blow up unless you don't take into account terrain + DoT or you kill it with AoEs.

>All of that and it still doesn't kill a target

My nigga, I do not know what's wrong but it seems that with what you have, you should obliterate everything. Do you have little Fane to give Ifan double turn for maximum Fuck You?

>>15460559

>comeback kid

Meh, I have a pile of rebirth idols for that.

I just checked and it seems I've got a half-way decent firestaff for Lohse. Just arrived in Driftwood, so plenty of shit to turn into cinders, I guess.

Speaking about Lohse, this time around I'm not rocking any OC steel donuts and intended for her to be a paladin, of sorts. Sword&Board, hydrosophist and a bit of dabbling into the rest for utility.

But now, she turned into a fractal swiss army knife with piss-poor melee damage. Most fights resolve like this:

>dump blood rain

>let Fane summon the bigboi and shit buffs down his throat

>wait and teleport until everyone's clumped up

>lock everyone into the meatgrinder via torturer+worm tremor

Most of the time I'm not even bothering with sending my archer to an elevated position.

>>15460559

>Anyways, the proper build for the monk should be something like 10 Pyro 10 TwoHanded (remember, even if it's elemental the weapon is Two Handed meaning you get the damage bonus from this, also the Crit multiplier works)

Do spells scale with the damage bonus from two handed? Does the crit damage take effect on spell crits?

>>15460753

>Do spells scale with the damage bonus from two handed?

I do not remember, but I think they do.

>Does the crit damage take effect on spell crits?

Yes. What's more, even if you don't have spell crit talent, you can still crit while doing any warfare skill or normal attack.

>>15460723

Paladins are great, yeah sure your damage is not that big unless you use your shield throw but it's an amazing healer that won't get focused, will never die and will apply CC to everyone and everything.

Is a summoner build still viable in definitive edition? I want to try something new as I mostly play tanky characters usually.

>>15461510

Summoner was OP as fuck in vanilla, I think they nerfed it a bit if I remember right. It should still be OP.

>>15461605

They buffed summoning

>>15461510

Viability should have gone up, if anything. Mostly due to Retribution increasing the odds of enemies attacking you, and due to totems scaling better. Enough Memory for skills, 10 in Summoning, maybe 2-3 points in another school for utility/defensive purposes, and then the rest in Retribution. Pick up talents like Comeback Kid, Morning Person, Unstable, and Living Armour (incredibly powerful with Soul Mate, Cannibalize, and Rallying Cry). The main thing though, is that you do NOT want a 4 summoner party. Summons are nice and all, but you need someone specialized in either burst damage (Rogue or Rangers), crowd control (Hydro/Aero) or utility (Warfare/Necro/Geo) to supplement your summons. 4 beefy summons are nice, but 3 beefy summons with a bunch of auras is better.

>>15461636

>They buffed the strongest thing in the game

For what reason? It's literally the only class that can have ALL the elements at his disposal, he can answer ANY weakness at any time without needing to fuck the build into something like 5 5 5 5 on the elements but only 10 on summoning with tons of fucking free skills, a class that can go ultra fucking tanky without requiring INT or STR and can go full CON that never fucking dies. On top of that, it has access to Soul Mate and Mind Control which are really strong skills.

Why is this thing buffed?

>>15461510

Any build is viable but summoner got a damage buff if I recall correctly. Summon damage now scales additionally with Intelligence.

Did they do anything to improve conversations with NPCs when playing multiplayer? The first game would include both players in the conversation. I played OS2 when it released. One player would start talking to an NPC, and everyone else could listen in, but they couldn't make any contribution to the conversation. Might as well not have multiplayer as far as the roleplaying was concerned.

>>15462202

Nah. Any role playing has to be done between players.

The party isn't even really a party when it comes to NPC interactions. If one player initiates a conversation and exhausts an NPC's dialogue and interactions, if another player talks to that same NPC, it's as if no one spoke to them before. It's a good way to get multiple attempts at persuasion checks but it also doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

>>15470536

It reworks some of the classes, fixes a shit ton of bugs, focuses on making Act 3 not shit and ,I haven't played since it came out so I don't know if it was in the original or not, a whole new tutorial section to the start of the game.

I literally can't stop restarting.

I wanted to start over after playing through part of Act 2 as Red Prince. Wanted to start over as an OC or something. Partially because BIG DWARF TITS.

I guess I want to do a Rogue with party members being Ifan, Lohse, and probably Red Prince?

I hate missing out on that piece of shit overpowered Flesh Sacrifice that Sebille has though.

Fuck.

I hate this game.

>>15470854

Also should mention that my last team was:

>2hander poly RP (useless)

>Ifan hydro/geo/necro general 100% support and tank (useful as fuck)

>Summoner Lohse (boring as fuck)

>Ranger Sebille (overpowered as fuck)

>>15453049

whats up with the last pic?

>>15471083

What do you mean what's "up" with it? It's one of the main characters of the game.

>>15471090

but the 3D looks like shit.

>>15471097

Is this game worth buying?

I found NWN and its expansions, NWN2 and some other crpgs 'okay'.

>>15471976

o-okay

>>15471974

It's like NWN meets Ultima 7. It's seriously one of the best new series of the generation. One of only 14 games gamespot gave a perfect 10 to and one of the only games metacritic gave the 'must play' tag to.

You can always pirate it if you want to try it for yourself. The games definitely are not for brainlets though as the combat is strategy-based.

>>15471974

>worth buying

No, but it's worth playing if any of it catches your interest.

It's more fun with friends. not sure if it's the case with the current versions, but you could play online with a pirated copy just fine when I tried it.

>>15470877

>>15470854

Rogue Sebille is top tier since you can Flesh Sacrifice, teleports-behind-you-nothing-personal-kid, and still do 2-3 attacks. But OC characters get Dome of Cheating, which is overpowered as fuck. A good Rogue build for Tactician difficulty would be something like 3 Scoundrel, 10 Warfare, 2 Poly, 2 in Aero, rest in Dual Wield. Can also do a hybrid build with 3 in Warfare, 2 in Geo and max out Scoundrel instead, where you use various weapon buff skills to strip both armors. Important skills utility skills are Chameleon Cloak, Spread Your Wings, Spider Legs, Nether Swap, (Blessed) Smoke Cover, Venom Coating/Aura, Sparking Swings/Aura and Firebrand (you probably want someone else to give your Rogue the fire buffs). Talents would be Pawn, Glass Cannon, and Opportunist.

>2hander poly RP

Poly plays best with a shield, a bit of Geomancy and the rest in Warfare. Stack the fuck out of armour, Overpower > Shackles of Pains > Reactive Armour. Can also act as a hybrid to target magical armour with Geo spells and Medusa Head/Flay Skin. Also has great CC, survivability, and mobility. But it takes a while to get going, so you're probably better off going with 2 Poly and rest in Warfare until act 2.

>>15471974

Did you not like Mask of the Betrayer? In any case, DOS2 if fairly well made but still has a fair amount of flaws. I don't think it's worth buying, at least for whatever the full price is right now.

>>15460390

>>15460543

>>15460403

Would elemental arrow heads stack with the firebrand?

>>15473789

Firebrand yes, Venom Coating yes, Sparking Swings no. If you bother with crafting arrows, Rangers can compete with casters in terms of elemental damage output. It's a bit silly.

And on the subject on crafting: Ambidextrous + Glass Cannon + scroll spam is retarded damage output. Some scrolls have lower base AP cost than spells to cast, most notably Epidemic of Fire. With Ambidextrous, you can cast 1AP Epidemic of Fire. And since scrolls and grenades now properly scale, you can do some crazy shit. The downside is that you need to craft and shop a lot, which is a huge pain.

>>15426873

I don't know what it's like now, but ranger was one of the better classes. Arrow Storm in particular can really fuck shit up, particularly large enemies.

>>15459282

They talk about how much was cut in Divinity 2 here. You can see some of the stuff come back in Dragon Commander. I can't remember where they talk about killing Dragon Commander for OS1, though.

>>15476521

Thanks, this explains a lot. It's a good game all the same. I suppose it just could have been significantly more. At least we can enjoy what we got.

Starting a new run on tactician, settled on sebille, Fane and Lohse.

Should I bring along Red Prince or Beast? Need another front line physical party member.

>>15487040

Why not go origin? That's the best front line source ability you can get.

>>15487180

custom***

>>15487040

>Sebille

>Fane

Excellent taste

>Lohse

why

>Red Prince or Beast?

Beast is really great. Gotta enjoy sea-faring dwarves. However, despite the absurdly posh accent and delivery Red Prince is the better choice I think.

>>15487040

Fane is the best unit in the entire game followed by any elf, so Sebille's good.

Lohse is the best human you can get and her being a jester is a nice change to what usually happens on dialogues.

Red Prince is far better than Beast. Not only Prince has a better storyline, he has a better passive thanks to his racials and he unlocks a dragon at the end of the game that can be summoned.

I really tried to like this. I want to like it so badly but it moves so slowly. Does the new update do anything to address the pacing of the game?

>>15495645

What do you mean by move slowly, walk speed? There's a mod to increase movement speed.

>>15495775

everything, movement speed is slow, gameplay is glacial

Do the elf characters wear only leafs or do they get steel armor and such as well?

not buying if that's the case.

>>15496057

Why would you care about elves?