Larian Studios Forums Divine Divinity (English) General Bugged throwing spears

Hello.

As in Subject: I've recently purchased the Divinity Anthology, spend 2-3 hours learning the ropes, tested builds using the save editor, planned the exact character I wanted to play (type, skills, style of fighting, all that jazz) and... boom. Gamebreaking bug.

In my version (1.6A as I remember), throwing spears should deal a precentage of the base damage. They don't. Instead of (base DMG *60%/70%/80%/90%/100%), they deal flat 60/70/80/90/100 damage. Thus my char oneshots everything. On hard difficulty. Not very challenging.

I expect if I would play further, there would be a moment the throwing ends up dealing reasonable damage, and then get underpowered.

My questions:
-is there a way to fix it?
-is there a version of the game that is not broken by some other bug, and in which spears behave as they should?

Unfortunately, I don't know of any way to fix that. The original disk version of the game also contains this bug, though it was rarely ever noted (even in topic with people looking for exploits to get through tough fights, etc).

No DD for me I see. Shoot. Thx for replying anyway.

I must admit I don't know what to make of those Larian guys. On one hand, they do seem to put much love in their work, complex world, ambitious games etc....

but on the other hand, re-releasing their first game bugged? Gamebreaking bugs in basic mechanics on a ancient title still on sale? Unfixed for 10 years? After several patches? Well, if any of those big guys will actually read this... SHAME ON YOU!

You could simply avoid throwing spears. I avoided weapons with the Frost skill (random attribute) because it ignored the target's resistances, so made combat too easy.

When Larian started preparing for the anthology release they found that several backups were unreadable, and the original download version backup DVD accidentally contained the original disk version code with the download binaries, so Larian had to re-add higher resolution support and a few other compatibility fixes to the best version of the code that they had available. See the blog post Hatching the Anthology, or check out the Developer's Journal.

I'm sure someone else must have reported this at some point, but I don't recall it being mentioned when I was playing my first game (during which the original disk version patches were released). FWIW, not only did the publisher not pay Larian for any support, they told them they were not allowed to patch the game when it was first released (because they didn't release buggy games), so Larian made a couple 'hotfixes' on their own.

Use another weapon?