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Dmn, I really cant wait for more screens <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />
Also what ive read about the transforming into a dragon and fighting in the air and stuff make my mouth fell open...

I personally do not expect that the whole world in the final game will be as "light" as the screens we got.

Hope there'll be nice weather effects and stuff too, like impressing thunderstorms and sunsets. I cant expect this from larian but it would make a game near perfect if its combined with the gameplay from DD and an even larger world.

grttz

yes the screens are of a real hot summer day. Maybe a little haze effect like in gta sa. But it realy looks good. And I am sure there will be other weather effects like wind fog and rain.(would be a shame to have speedtree trees without a little wind to move the branches). What also would be nice is that the seasons change depending on your progress not to fast that it seems to fast not to slow that you can cycle the seasons a couple of times during the game.

Seen the engine in action, it is idd a haze effect.

So if i inderstand it right we can even suspuct what i mentioned <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> gg, you made my day <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

hope there'll be an official announcement soon with more screens...and with the haze effect <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

grttz

I think I speak for all of us when I say that some new screenshots of the next-gen game would be nice. There has to be some new material available... We're all very anxious.. we wanna see more !!

any ideas on a release date ??

I dought we will see something new soon. The screens we saw where alpha alpha alpha alpha screens.
The only thing they could release now would be concept art or an article like those "peek of the week" or "making of" articles. Remember that they also haven't officially announced the game yet and that the screenshots are next gen games.

If I would guess the release date: Q4 2006-Q2 2007 or maybe later if they are also porting it to next gen consoles.

putting it on the website is kind of an official announcement imho.
The release dates you set there are quite long.. though... lemme think.. how long has it been since <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beyond.gif" alt="" /> has been released... over a year now isn't it, so thay've been working on the next gen kind for a year by now (excluding time for patching <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beyond.gif" alt="" />) they use an existing engine, saves them a year of work, so... som where Q2-3 2006 seems possible.. could be more the time you said though, depending on how things go offcourse.

edit... I reread the announcement, and I'm not so sure anymore if they wrote a new engine or use an existing one, so yu might be right morbo.. I only do hope that they make the engine revolutionary enough to compete with the gfx from in 2 years.
esp. the amount of polugons and quality of the textures should be kept high... what is unrunnable now, will be smoothly possible then.

They purchaced the engine Gamebryo. But they also had to write "neat" little addons to the engine. Well I also hope it's sooner but the last 10 % of the development tekes 90% of the time (testing, bugfixing, impovements...)

true, but releasing screenshots on the community doesn't take a whole lot of time does it.. just another 2-3 nice peaks into the 3D world of <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/div.gif" alt="" />

idd it has been a long time without some kind of new news about DD². Some screen shots or an article abut their progress would be nice.

They'll make the engine work almost perfectly first, then start building the world (and it will be vast) so maybe then we might get to see more screenshots, current screenshots are from a testlevel to test the engine, not from the game and will never be in the game.

In other words it's still to early to say or show stuff about/from DD2

ty for the elaboration <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />

About the vast world. I will be happy if it is as vast as GTA:SA and as detailed as <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/div.gif" alt="" /> (beware of the morrowind flaw, vast world no enemies and stuff to do ).

PS: a sea and sailing boat would be nice. Although polymorfing dragon has solved the travel thingy

Advertisement: Riding horses(oblivion) is for wimps , Real men polymorf into dragons. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />

Just a little thought....

ARe they ONLY working on DD2?!?!?!?! or do they perhaps have something happening that we dont know about yet????

Well theire as project X but that could have been "ketnet kick". But I think they might have something else in the conceptual phases.

I did a bit of snooping on the web and found that www.divinity2.com is registerd to larian. The bought it 20-apr-2005 and expires 20-apr-2008 so I guess we could see an official site real soon now. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Your link is wrong. It is www.divinity2.com. (Without spelling mistake). <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
This link opens the Larian main page.

BTW good news. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/kitty.gif" alt="" />

Barta

dow <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ouch.gif" alt="" />

It's still a wise move to register divinty2.com <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> many will make this pselling mistake <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
Seems someone else bought http://www.divinedivinity2.com/ <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" /> leeches!

It does not matter because the next game will not be named Divine Divinity 2.

Barta

ow yes and Lar never changed the name of a game under presure of the publisher <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />

ontopic: polymorfing to a dragon. do we start of at hatcheling and go up to Ancient Dragon