Last night, could not launch your game all night. Good start for an 80 dollar game. EA is not an excuse for that at that price. Tonight, got it to work by shift right clicking the actual run file to run as admin. And even then only the DX11 one works with any level of competence. Again no excuse.
Character creation is fine. Hardly explains enough. Not enough options, but you promised more races/classes. A lot of things have been made strange, like thurmaturgy being an intimidation thing for no reason.
In game, runs like butts. Our group runs the gamut of computers. Windows 7 and 10. Moderate to high end. High end can't get above 35 frames on a computer that obliterates current games.
Combat was a bit confusing at first. Specifically the two characters going at once on a speed tie thing. Can see the possiblity for coolness when waaaay fixed though
Conversations. Jesus christ you got these wrong. Important ones should drag the whole party in, like in a real DnD game, and choices should be anyone. If you are going to deceive, your CHR character would be the one to speak up at the table. Why the hell do you think any conversation wuld be solo and the roll only up to one person? Have you played DnD? So yeah, most conversations need an overhaul.
Music is good. A little close to Div but still doing it own thing.
Game is hard enough but I question if you are cheating on your npcs stats like you did in div. Too many casts for too much damage at levels 1 and 2. I know low level DnD, and a lot of these seem wrong.
Lastly. The short rest blockage is really dumb. Warlocks and later sorcerers are actually useless without the short rests, since otherwise they get one spell in a fight twice and then sleep for a whole night. Don't know who thought that was a good idea, but stop, and allow short rests whenever. They use up time before EVERYONE gets genuinely sleepy, so it's no more abusable then real DnD,
People are broken in most conversation and too many cutscenes are silent or off looking.
Basically, I can the the SKELETON of something awesome here, To think you thought this was release worthy is worrying, and we would likely return this for a while if not past our 2 hours. We still might try. This is just slightly better then launch Wolcen since it is actually playable.
I hope these improve QUICKLY. So far this is a black mark on a company I always trusted explicitly. And that makes me sad.
Important parts if nothing else: the bad solo conversations and the stupid short rest restrictions
