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"The Divine is dead. The Void approaches. And the powers latent within you are soon to awaken.
The battle for Divinity has begun. Choose wisely and trust sparingly; darkness lurks within every heart."
Developer & Publisher: Larian Studios
Release date: 14th September 2017 (worldwide)
Platforms: PC (Windows) GOG + Steam
Genre: 3D CRPG
Price: £29.99/$44.99/44,99€
Players: Single + multiplayer
(online co-op up to 4 players, local co-op max. 2 players)
8800 AR - Divinity: Dragon Commander
0004 AR - Divinity: Original Sin
1218 AD - Divine Divinity
Divinity: Original Sin 2 ← current timeline
1238 AD - Beyond Divinity
1300 AD - Divinity II
The eagerly anticipated sequel to the award-winning RPG. Gather your party.
Master deep, tactical combat. Join up to 3 other players - but know that only one of you will have the chance to become a God.
Mature storyline
A much requested feature from feedback of the original game is less tongue-in-cheek and more grounded in reality storytelling.
As a result, Larian has stepped it up by making this world seem more believable with mature themes and tones.
Bleaker colour pallet, more gore, bigger and more powerful spells, social and political issues in-game and much more.
Origin stories
As you make your character, or choose from one, this time around you can tag him/her with an Origin story such as Red Prince.
But also with tags such as Rogue or Barbarian, and these tags will alter the way NPCs will react to you, availability of quests and some story events.
This is an optional part of the character creation process though it is highly recommended to choose tags to get more out of the game than you normally would.
You also pick an instrument your hero/heroine has throughout the game and then suitable music plays upon reaching a pivotable moment for that character.
Dungeon Master mode
The successor to the classic Neverwinter Nights DM system, D:OS2 takes it multiple steps further by allowing you to completely and totally
(re)create scenarios from original or pre-made assets.
You can build and share maps, characters, story events and as DM, on-the-fly change what happens to your dungeoneers through the powerful toolsets
that allows you to do almost anything you want with just a few clicks of a button.
As a dungeoneer, play along with your DM's crafted story, or go against the meta and play as your own and see how the DM will react accordingly!
The possibilities are, quite literally, endless with this mode (well, unless you run out of hard drive space, I suppose...)
Summoning and Totems
As a Conjurer, you can summon creatures from the Void but also now, summon Elemental Totems to aid in your battles.
Choose from a variety of Totems including the Flaming Totem, and these will act as "turrets" in fights that automatically fire on enemies per turn.
They're powerful spells for the summoner so feel free to mix'n'match different elements to really create havock with the spell elemental system.
Polymorphing
"Polymorphs are inspired by nature and their magic takes some of the best and worst aspects of other creatures and puts them to combat use.
For example, you can grow wings and fly over surfaces, and then chain that with the Flight skill for longer distance flight.
The Polymorph combat ability gives players one free Attribute Point to your avatar for every Ability Point invested."
One such spell, aptly named Chicken Claw, lets you turn any foe into a chicken. Others let you grow wings and fly, or cloak yourself in shadow to become invisible!
Talk to the dead, or rip their faces off
You can choose a skill that will let that character talk to spirits i.e. ghosts, who in turn can provide the party information about a quest, lore, or even begin new quests.
You can also obtain Source points from devouring a corpse to be used in battle. Additionally, if you have an Elf you can eat corpses for information that way.
Alternatively, the Undead race can literally rip the face off the corpse and use that as a shapeshifting mask.
This mask will let you wonder around without people freaking out or attacking at the sight of a spooky scary skeleton walking abouts.
Bonus: Undead also have a literal skeleton key; essentially infinite number of lockpicks as they use their finger to open those pesky locks!
Multiplayer co-op & PVP
Yes, there is PVP in this game. 'How' might you ask. Well, mighty inquisitor, just because you're co-oping it out with your friend, it doesn't mean you have to be goody-two-shoes all the time.
You can stop quest sharing and then plot against your own friend with or without them knowing, additionally with the aid of quests that might require you to assassinate your friend.
Lead them into a trap, blow them up in a mist of poison, or brutally murder them as they're in the middle of a conversation;
it's really up to you how you end their miserable life.
And if this sounds too harsh, or not exciting enough, you can duke it out online with or without randoms in the new Arena mode,
which is just exactly as it sounds like.
You vs. them on selected maps, pick a class and use the best of their abilities to best ye foes.
Next-Gen Tech
Powered by Divinity Engine 3.0, the game will utilise features such as physics-based rendering,
cloth physics and an all-new dynamic music system.
And lots more...!
Q. Do I need to play the original Original Sin to understand this game?
Q. Is this 4 player co-op?
Q. So I can create 4 characters?
Q. Is there controller support?
Q. I hear there's full voice acting, is there?
Q. Who is the music composer this time around?
These are based on Early Access estimates.
MINIMUM:
RECOMMENDED:
Official website
Larian Vault
YouTube
'Game Master Mode reveal' update video
'Reveal of the Undead' stream
'Origin Stories - The Red Prince'
'Origin Stories - Lohse'
'Origin Stories - Beast'
'Origin Stories - Sebille'
'Origin Stories - Ifan'
'Origin Sotires - Fane'
'Feature' trailer
Divinity Discord
Kickstarter that started it all
Special thanks to Naito for assistance!
