Divinity: Original Sin 2

wordy · 16 Sep 2017 at 15:06

What has everyone gone for as the starting Character?

Tombstone · 16 Sep 2017 at 15:09

wordy said:
What has everyone gone for as the starting Character?

Undead Dwarf Necromancer

Pighardia · 16 Sep 2017 at 15:40

wordy said:
What has everyone gone for as the starting Character?

Fane. Usually I wouldn't like to play as a predefined character, but I really liked his look and origin.

I haven't even nearly got to grips with classes yet!

martin363 · 16 Sep 2017 at 17:44

Fane, I played through Fort Joy and the island in kickstarter, so playing undead gives it renewed life. And yes, get a healer!!

chroniclard · 16 Sep 2017 at 17:53

Playing Lohse as a wizard. Party needs a healer though, 2 wizards, fighter and shadowblade at the moment. But shadowblade is just using an insane crossbow, seems a bit OP.

manic111 · 16 Sep 2017 at 19:45

Played through the first one with my flatmate, absurdly excited for him to come home so we can play the second...such great games

strumpusplunket · 16 Sep 2017 at 20:05

Itching to play this sooo badly, but it's going to have to wait until Christmas, when I have more time.

Cromulent · 16 Sep 2017 at 20:21

I'm going to have to get the eternal edition of this so I can play the first game as well.

Pighardia · 16 Sep 2017 at 21:55

https://www.nexusmods.com/divinityoriginalsin2/mods/8/?tab=1&navtag=https://www.nexusmods.com/divinityoriginalsin2/ajax/moddescription/?id=8&preview=&pUp=1

Removes the bush/rock sneaking animation for those interested

Glanza · 16 Sep 2017 at 22:32

Started again this morning for our coop play through as teammate wanted to change class, just put 11 hours in with a few breaks and got to Driftwood, some parts I've really enjoyed others have had me nearly smashing my head against the desk in frustration, not played a game that does all that in years.

MouthBoy · 16 Sep 2017 at 23:59

13 hours played so far and I am now out of the first area Fort Joy. Still seems like I could have spent a while more there but game is urging me to move on. I am playing a Wizard with Fane, The Red Prince and Beast in my party. Working well at the moment but I may drop the Beast for a healer if I can find one. DOS1 I found that I had to start a lot of fights again due to RNG, but DOS2 I am not finding this at all. Great stuff!

Pighardia · 17 Sep 2017 at 00:10

How does everyone rate the companions as characters?

I rate all of them pretty high tbh. Beast is probably the best of them, but none of them are duds imo. They all seem really well written and well implemented in to the game and I'm interested in seeing more of all of them. I really like how you can play the game with any if them as your main character too... I like that very much!

In terms of combat I haven't really played enough to judge them, but I'm finding Lohse a pretty strong summoner/healer

thedude23 · 17 Sep 2017 at 16:04

Is there an easy difficulty?

kinger8938 · 17 Sep 2017 at 18:22

I really liked the look of the original game got it at launch but never got far

found the intro a bit of a slog? Solving a murder I think? And wasn't really sure what I was doing. Always get the feeling I'm missing out and should try again!

Tombstone · 17 Sep 2017 at 18:28

Lol, 30 hours played now and we have just reached a dungeon in our co-op game which looks SOOOO much like a dungeon from the Dungeon Keeper series of games. The aesthetics of the dungeon are superb, it really does look exactly how you imagine an AD&D dungeon would look in reality. Game just gets better and better.

Pighardia · 17 Sep 2017 at 19:08

Really got to grips with it today. Absolutely brilliant game.

chroniclard · 17 Sep 2017 at 19:27

smeaney said:
13 hours played so far and I am now out of the first area Fort Joy. Still seems like I could have spent a while more there but game is urging me to move on. I am playing a Wizard with Fane, The Red Prince and Beast in my party. Working well at the moment but I may drop the Beast for a healer if I can find one. DOS1 I found that I had to start a lot of fights again due to RNG, but DOS2 I am not finding this at all. Great stuff!

I use Beast and made him a cleric.

Unsure if you can ever respec or respec companions....

Pighardia · 17 Sep 2017 at 19:43

Atm I've got -

Lohse as a healer/pyro
Ifan as a ranger
Beast as a tank/geomancer.

And the ones I don't use much

Red Prince is a Knight(too similar to beast)
Sebille is a rogue (too similar to my character)

I would respec if I could.

Edit - have I missed any companions? It kind of feels like there were more origin character to choose from

Mercutio · 17 Sep 2017 at 19:47

kinger8938 said:
I really liked the look of the original game got it at launch but never got far found the intro a bit of a slog? Solving a murder I think? And wasn't really sure what I was doing. Always get the feeling I'm missing out and should try again!

Some of the "puzzles" really aren't very obvious at all. Worth consulting a guide for the exact parts you feel there's probably something else you need to do rather than giving up

Alternatively, look at the map at areas you haven't explored very well. Often it's a wee corner you hadn't looked at that opens the access to somewhere else.

Steves1982 · 17 Sep 2017 at 19:51

kinger8938 said:
I really liked the look of the original game got it at launch but never got far found the intro a bit of a slog? Solving a murder I think? And wasn't really sure what I was doing. Always get the feeling I'm missing out and should try again!

I found it exactly the same.

I've just reinstalled to give it another go. As you say, feels like I'm missing out otherwise.