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Hello! I'm a newcomer here, as I was told by a friend about this game just today. I immediately fell in love with the concept - it looks just like the type of game I've always wanted to play!

However, I have many questions about this game that the FAQs do not seem to answer, so I made this thread to ask them, hoping that at last some may be answered.


1) When the character turns into a dragon, will he/she be only able to fly constantly, or can dragons also land on the ground and walk on it? This is pretty important as the gameplay would change a lot depending wether the dragon form can also walk or not!

2) I've read that if your character is male or female, the dragon form's appearance will change too. What is the visual difference between a male dragon and a female dragon?

3) Will you be able to alter the plotline with your decisions, being "good" or "evil" and eventually leading to a different ending?

4) How much importance to the plot is given in this game?

5) When we create our character, are we able to customize our dragon form too, or only the human form?

6) Does the dragon form wear armours or items, too?

7) I've read that the screenshots here come from a pc version running on dual core with a 8800 GT. I know of some games in which dual core or single core doesn't make too much difference, but I also know other games which are so optimized for dual core, that a single core just won't run properly even if your pc meets all of the other system requirements. How much importance is given to the dual core, for the performance?




Thanks in advance, and apologies for making so many questions. :P

Hi and welcome my friend
Glad to see the community growing in these sides.

1.I'm not sure too sure on this one but I don't think the dragon, can walk in dragon form but they can land on ledges and change back into human form.

2.Don't have a clue

3.I think decisions will alter the ending not sure how much it will alter it but its an RPG so any decisions will also come with a consequence.

4.Don't get what you mean.

5.If you mean customize by apperance I don't think you can do anything to the dragon except for skills and armour.

6.Yeah the Dragons can were armour as well.

7.I don't know I'm not a comupter gamer.

Hopefully somebody will be able to answer them better than me!
Hope my post at least helps a bit.

Thanks for the answers, DivineGamer!!
Actually, I just found out on a fansite that indeed, the dragon form can not walk on terrain but only fly (bit of a shame, but I suppose they wanted to keep the "human battles -> ground" well separated from "dragon battles -> sky"). I think maybe this question could be eventually added to the official website's FAQs?

Oh, and I'll be waiting and hoping that others of my questions can be cleared! Specifically, the one about the visual difference of dragons according to their gender; and the one about the dual core vs single core.



I basically mean if it will have a good, branched, long plot or if it will be more centered on hack'n'slash and exploration mechanics.

I'll quote part of a preview of an E3 2009 Divinity 2 at Gamespot

''According to Claas Wolter with publisher DTP, it should take at least 40 hours to finish Divinity 2, though it could take you a lot longer depending on how many side quests you tackle.''

Hope that answers it?

Larian has not gone into any detail describing the dragon (technically a wyvern) form, though there are a fair number of screenshots showing the dragon. I didn't notice any distinctive features that could indicate a gender difference (like size, shape or colour), but then I wasn't looking for that, either. I think the only videos showing the transformation have been with a male character.


I don't know if the main plotline can lead to different endings, but there are many paths through various quests (some quests have up to a couple dozen possible solutions). The quests were not designed with stereotypical good and evil options; there are just choices, which have consequences that may or may not be obvious.

Most of the recent previews of the game (such as at Gamespot) at least mention a few practical examples of the quest options from the start of the game. There is also an old forum topic that is more on the theory of design than the game itself: Moral dilemma's in RPGs.


The last time someone asked about the minimum specs for the game Larian was still testing various configurations. Presumably if the game can take advantage of dual core processors that will be mentioned with the minimum and recommended system requirements (which should be available on or before the German release).

Ah, Raze, you made a good point in that the dragons of this game look wyvern-like. This gives more meaning to the fact that dragon combat is only aerial, since a creature shaped as a wyvern looks more flight-oriented (and somehow more anatomically convincing, maybe) than if it had four legs and two wings.

Speaking of the gender differences, I found these two dragon concepts for the game. This one: http://www.gamershell.com/static/screenshots/8323/407406_full.jpg and then also this one: http://www.gamershell.com/static/screenshots/8323/407404_full.jpg .... Now, do their faces look just a little bit different, or maybe it's actually the same dragon but the different pose confused me?

The fact that dragon form can wear specific armour too, is a very good thing. X3 I only hope the keyboard&mouse controls will be good... otherwise, would it be possible to play with a joypad on the pc version too?

Those are concept arts mate.

I remember from snippets that the character can be either male or female - and so does the dragon (I think it's natural, isn't it ).

Also I think I can remember something about dragon armor and human armor ... Although I'm not fully sure ...

3 - I don't think it can be altered totally.

5 - Only the human form, I believe, since the dragon form is part of the plot, actualkly.

1 - You must become a human in order to walk around, that's how I understood it. On the other side, a human cannot fly.

Only dragon knights (ie the main character) are wyverns, the rest of the dragons have 4 limbs in addition to wings. Larian thought the transformation would look better / be more logical, and the form itself be more closely associated with the human form if the human legs became legs and arms became wings.

I am assuming the PC version will have gamepad support. I think they said awhile ago both the PC and XBox interfaces were included in their test builds. Even if they remove the XBox interface as an option on the PC, I doubt they would remove gamepad support.

They mentioned the PC game would have the 'Video for Windows' logo. AFAIK gamepad support is a must then.

Good, because watching a gameplay video, this game really feels like it should be played with a joypad. Ok, controlling the human character with the keyboard is acceptable (left, right, forward, backward), but when you're controlling the dragon character, it really looked to me like a joypad would've been more suitable, what with the levels of movement (left, right, forward, backward, up, down) and all.






Ah, so the wyverns are actually the dragon knights, and the "real" dragons have four limbs and two wings. So dragon knights are like a species of dragon of their own, then?
Since the whole concept of turning into a dragon is pretty fictional in itself, I don't think it really mattered to make them turn into wyverns so they'd still have four limbs like when they were humans. However, I like that they turn into wyverns because it makes more acceptable that the dragon form can only fly. Given a wyvern's shape, we can consider them just like swallows, who always are in the air and are never ever seen walking on ground. Had the dragon form showed four limbs and wings, it would have been much harder to accept that they don't like being on ground. But a wyvern is allright. Wyvern: the fantasy version of swallows! :P

By the way, Raze, where did you find about this interesting information??

According to the creatures and npc section of the new site there are also other wyverns (as enemies) in the game as well.

Oh, now I saw that. I also saw that information about why the player's dragon form has two legs and two wings, is given in a FAQs in the website. So, the dragon knight do not transform into wyverns, but really in dragons with two limbs and two wings.
(So, my cute avatar here is actually a wyvern's face?)

Another question: lots of talk is given about how dragon slayers have glowing eyes. Will we get that when we use a specific spell? Also, will we get that in dragon form, too?

Right. They're not wyverns as far as the game is concerned, just a special kind of dragon.

The eyes let you see the dead. You get them early on in the game, as shown in one of the convention videos. They are part of your becoming a full-fledged Dragon Slayer IIRC. They're probably just always "on."

The dragon knights are humans that work for the dragons, and were given the ability to transform into a dragon. The dragon knights are wyverns, but wyverns are not necessarily dragon knights (and apart from being dragon-like with wings and two legs, the form your character takes looks fairly different than the enemy wyverns). Given the scarcity of dragons, I doubt there will be more than a handful of dragon knights in the game, unless they have some secret stronghold somewhere.

Larian may have also considered the 'always flying' status when determining the form for the dragon. IIRC this was first brought up by someone after a few screenshots were released, and Lar replied that the wyvern style was done deliberately (see Why oh Why?).


The wyverns in the game are reptilian, so I would guess your avatar is from a different creature.

Well I hope that a gamepad will not be mandatory on the PC :-/

Btw, is there any info about the saving system? Can we save/load at any given time or will the game use save points?

The default PC controls use the keyboard for movement and combat, and the mouse to control the camera.

You can save pretty much at any time (other than during cutscenes or in the middle of conversations, presumably).

Not to split hairs but the enemy wyverns do seem to have eagle heads, whereas the transformed players looks like a dragon minus the extra legs.

I think flixerflax has a point - the monsters called as wyvern in this game do look like my avatar here. Besides, it's a good choice, since medieval wyverns often looked like that, and the wyvern as a sort of dragon is a more modern depiction.

This of course causes the problem of how to define a dragon with two limbs and two wings as opposed to a dragon with four limbs and two wings. I propose to call them "drakes", in this forum, to avoid confusion. So we will have: wyvern -> birdlizard monsters of the game; dragons -> four limbs and two wings, the main creature of the game; drake -> two limbs and two wings, it's a dragon knight turned into a dragon.

About the game controls. I would really like to know if the pc version will indeed feature a good joypad support? Maybe it's just my impression, but I think that flying around with keyboard controls may be a bit unpractical, at last for me. Besides: if there will be joypad support for the pc version, will it also be possible to change the pc interface to the same interface of the xbox360 version?

...Oh, and are we sure that the dragon knights are humans who work for the dragons?

I think it depends on the definition of the word "Wyvern".