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I'm not really sure how this happens

I won't lie and say divinity was polished by any mean, but I've replayed it on launch and post relase many many times and I can really only think of 2 things that "break" quests, one of them is an extremely valid and common complaint that breaks nameless isle. if you find a secret tunnel and go inside, it skips the "finding the door" part of the quest and automatically moves alexander and sallow man. people complain a lot about this and it causes so much to move and it's an extremely valid complaint because you're punished for exploring

BG3 somehow has MULTIPLE of these in the first two acts, its fucking insane

I was looking at forum posts of old bugs and quest issues from early access and there was thousands of these. I just think whatever scripting they use for quests just isn't comprehensive or something

im very curious what they were actually doing the past 4 years

the only substanstial changes I can see are the additons of classes overtime, and changing sneak from a bonus action to a full action

i by no means think the game is bad but its like, more buggy than a launch skyrim playhtrough

ontop of the story very obviously being the result of; as spooky said; them refusing to change the story/being locked into it since 2017

I got that nameless isle bug you were talking about btw

lol

it makes me think that maybe they couldnt change the plot too much because of WotC or some other reason, because it's actually so bad/contrived in parts it doesn't make sense how they'd leave it

yeah

That fucking sucked

if i saw you playing i would of told you not to

i got it on my first playthrough too

it's a very commonly known thing

Gareth instantly dead

it's not a "bug" it's just

a flag

but you'd think they'd learn

to not do that shit

I like the combat in this way more than divinity

So I’ll probably finish this

No matter how shit it goes story wise

its ok gareth doesnt show up anyways after that rlly

except at the end of the game where he and every other main npc you had shows up and prays to you for the final battle giving you unlimited source just for the final battle

i think its easier to like and get into the combat in this for a few reasons

one is that action economy is a lot easier/harder to maximize because no ap system two is that buffs are extremely limited so they don't expect you to prebuff, three is it doesnt have divinites fucking awful armor/CC system so and i think four, the most important one- is that in D&D you are given your new abilities via level up, so you can't pull a rusp and just ignore every skillbook vendor

you are FORCED to get new spells and abilities

I think divinity’s armor system is fucking ass

It’s so bad

if you know how to play it it works, but it essnetially forces you to play

full physical

or full caster

Which is bad

And not fun

the only reason i don't hate it that much is that archer can be magic and there's a physical damage caster

(necro)

and it just so happens necro is the strongest in the game so it feels balanced and fine

With coverage

though

Where as with divinity it’s same type or bust

on normal difficulty in divinity you can have a split team it doesnt matter

you should just not do 3/1

(like what you did)

Oh sorry yeah

My bad

2/2 or 4

i mean its not really your fault

I think nothing in that game is intuitive

its very much a trial by error game

which if you enjoy that can be very fun

but if you don't its very bad

if you're not thinking "what am I doing wrong, how can I improve my combat"

No I do not enjoy redoing the same fights

i didnt mean like that

i mean like, learning from where you're lacking

"my mage is useless, how can I make them useful?"

Yeah I’m retarded

the game gives you infinite free respecs purely for that reason

True

Yeah

Should’ve had better game sense

i dont think that means you're "bad" or "dumb"

How else is one to interpret that

.

(I mean by time it was a problem I was fed up with the game anyways)

if you enjoy expiermentation, and learning from your mistakes

then you will enjoy the game

if not then you won't

is how i put it

the terrain and CC system lends itself into that too

the games difficulty scales not only with your actual characters but it expects you to learn and understand its systems, from 3->4 you don't actually get that much stronger but the fights scale a lot more

because by that point they expect you to know to combo your abilites, use source skills

etc.

its why they have the arx filter and the giant refugee camp before it with skillbook vendors of all types

Well I got past the apparent filter

To run into something even worse