Thread 718295504

EVERYTHINGS ON FIRE

No mother it's just the Northern Lights.

>>718295504 (OP)
This wasn't even that bad. The duo nearby duo fight and trying to keep the hostages alive was more bs.

>>718295504 (OP)
Even worse, necrofire.
You have to waste a source point to remove it, but one little droplet of cursed blood on the other end of the map is able to reverse that for the entire screen. Really stupid mechanic.

>>718295597
Steamed hams?

This is what passes for good encounter design for lariat drones.

>>718296239
I remember searching for mods to remove the whole cursed surfaces mechanic but never found shit.
Did we ever get a mod to deal with the fucking surfaces covering the whole map?

>>718296642
>Did we ever get a mod to deal with the fucking surfaces covering the whole map?
ye

>>718296642
I didn't even looked, I just abused the necromancy skills to become temporary immortal while donge more damage when at 1 hp.

>>718296348
the oil voidling fight was funny, but if you want actually shit "encounter" design look no further than the revenants fight in arx

>>718295504 (OP)

on my second playthrough with a buddy we somehow managed to trigger two separate combat instances here making it even more of a clusterfuck

>>718298043
Absolute cancer.

>>718298043
literally just googled "revenants fight" and picked the first image, no idea who the nigga in the top left is

>>718298043
uhh, you left a pic of you with your shirt off on this screen, biglad.

Always loved divinity os2 but never got farther than the second act. What are strong/fun builds if I want to get back into it. Should I play as a custom character or play one of the preset guys

>>718295504 (OP)
>lil bro isn't playing bg3 instead

>>718295504 (OP)
D:OS 2 in a nutshell. They really botched that game up in terms of mechanics.

>>718295504 (OP)
No other game since has managed to capture the pure chaotic fun of the flaming tarpits in DoS2, its fucking amazing

>>718295504 (OP)
This looks like the sims

>>718298348
Make two characters lone wolves and also enable most of the giftbag features like 8 AP as max. Less hassle with gear, shorter turns and you have all the utility you need on two chars. You can still use the others to steal shit.

>>718295504 (OP)
For me it’s when the little retard you’re supposed to rescue decides it’s a great idea to chain lightning you to hit a single voidspawn

>>718296239
Why do retards even try to remove the necrofire knowing that the moment a fieblob gets hit or dies or uses epidemic of fire it'll all get cursed again?

>>718295504 (OP)
I need to go back and replay it. Had its issues, but I thought BG3 felt like a step backwards.

>>718295504 (OP)
I actually love this encounter, the chaos of trying to hold your position up top whilst all the chaos blobs come charging towards you is a lot of fun

DOS2 has the worst armor system ever made.

>>718298338
that guy pisses me off, he's literally 1-2 months away from having a ripped body

>>718298043
I don't remember having an issue in this fight. What was the catch again?
Meanwhile, the oil voidling was easily the worst encounter in the game, especially if you wanted to keep the npc alive.

>>718298348
How can you say you loved it, if you didn't even like it enough tot beat it?

Did people really get filtered by this?

>>718298927
It's the lizard spirits that will continuously respawn as long as there is fire in the area.

>>718295504 (OP)
Act 2 went on too long
They should have split all of the little biomes they did into entire smaller acts
Completely overshadows the start and end of the game and goes on far, far too fucking long

>>718298987
Cause act 1 is extremely good on its own

>>718299439
Okay. So you loved a small part of the game. But clearly, overall you didn't even like the game, let alone love it.

>>718298348
It's a Larian game so playing as one of the preset guys completely ruins them
It's better to
>play as your own fag (not undead)
>download a mod that uncaps party limit
>recruit every companion
>download another mod that lets you make companions controlled by AI in battle
It's gaming time, you'll get all of their story beats and canon NPC dialogue in conversations and encounters this way
Sure you're going to miss out on the whole "everyone is competing with each other" part but that part is extremely gay and the lever you need to reach which ends that section can be reached in one turn so it's entirely pointless anyway

*hires a mercenary to cheese the path of blood*
Nothin’ personnel Lucien

>>718295504 (OP)
i recently played os2, got to like chapter 5 and dropped it. and no, not because of mechanics. the story is... badly sewn together.

you are basically just bunch of nobodies, with no actual reason to stick together and the story pacing goes nowhere. compare os2 to kingmaker or wrath and its like story in os2 was written by crayons eating retard. also there are TOO MANY races. like that undead skeleton has its own race. what the fuck.

speaking of the fire encounter in OP, all you need is to spam some magic-armor-generation like frost armor and not move a single inch. you dont really take damage by standing still on a fire. the blobs are nothing burger. you slaughter them without struggle with ranged attacks.

and the NPC in this fight? yeah, not possible to keep them alive, they keep running in the fire, taking like 500 damage per single turn, no way to outheal it. in theory you can save scum the fight and prepare ahead some cheese like petrify spell, basically to put them out of combat without killing them, but if you play iron mode, there is no way to keep suicidal ai alive.

>>718299582
>playing as one of the preset guys
I did my first playthrough as Lohse and it was pretty cool.

>>718299646
>and the NPC in this fight? yeah, not possible to keep them alive
Why try to argue that the fight isn't that bad, only to say right after that you didn't actually beat the encounter?

>>718298043
Tornado trivializes this.

>>718295504 (OP)
I hate Larian so much

>>718299582
>not playing Fane
>not playing god king Fane
it's like you didn't even play the game at all.

>>718298348
Fane is stupidly powerful, especially with lone wolf

>>718300031
>play fane
>every single enemy caster uses heal on me
AHHHHHHHHH

>>718299819
there are fights in the game where you barely survive with 1 guy and then have to spend big cash to ressurect the rest. this is not one of them.

survival of random npcs you dont even need is nothing burger. suck their corpse for source and move along. you have universe to save.

>>718300091
kek, I used a mod called no more psychic enemies to nerf loremaster on enemies.

>>718295504 (OP)
You can chainteleport the guy out, then teleport the boss to the slimes, then teleport some more cultists on top of the slimes. you only need teleport desu

>>718300146
It's not a random npc. It's a quest npc, and if he dies the quest is failed.

>first zone of the game
>find some burning dude begging me to extiguish him
>find a stone tablet stating he is cursed to burn forever
>use scroll rain of blood
>use oil
>use fire
>doesn't work
>use rain scroll
>it works
does it not rain on that island or what?

>>718300354
You need to use blessed blood to remove the curse and then use rain if I rememeber right. On its own it doesn't do shit.

>>718300710
Im still mad they changed that. In the original Dos2 you could use blood to put out necrofire. Why did they change that?

>>718299491
I loved act 1 so much I played it like 13 different times with different builds, squads and larps in my head, I don't care that it upsets you. I'll never finish the game.

>>718296239
Oh no not a source point that resource you get to refill for free practically whenever the fuck you want throughout that entire act.

>>718300834
Probably because rain blood is pretty easy to get and also can heal your entire party when you have the leech perk.

>>718299582
Nah playing as the origins in OS2 was fine. Playing as your own OC just robbed you of unique origin character content since you were capped to a party of 4 anyway.

Can't you just use a chain of teleports to get the NPC out before the fight even starts? It's been years since I played this game.

Pretty sure you meant beans famalam

>>718300912
While source is easy to get (lol look at all those delicious corpses everywhere!) using it on Bless is a stupid idea because bless is fucking useless and blessed surfaces dont last half as long as cursed surfaces do

>>718299376
The wonky level scaling the game has kills the whole "open zone" thing they were going for in act 2 since enemies even 2 levels higher will wreck your party so you end up progressing in a similar order most play throughs anyway

I always just teleported the dude down, into a spot where I had stacked boxes where he couldn't escape.

>>718300912
It’s an opportunity cost.
That source and action point could be spent better doing literally anything else.

>>718298348
You can find some pretty easily online. I know Fextralife (yes, I know, shitty website) has a bunch of detailed ones that are pretty good.
I had the most fun with
>necromancy/hydro/warfare blood mage thing that just nukes the fuck out of people with Blood Storm
>elf archer (use Racial skill, then arrowheads for free damage buff)
>summoner
A lot of it is kind of picking certain meta skills that are really strong and good for everybody, like Armor of Frost, Adrenaline, Skin Graft, and Heart of Steel.

>>718295504 (OP)
NOOOOOO, IT WON'T STOP, THE FLAMES WON'T STOP

>>718295504 (OP)
The retarded schizo that posts this thread over and over doesn't even realize the issue is the myriad of suicidal NPCs involved because he played the game on easy difficulty. (and the NPC appears to already be dead)