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On graphics fidelity, if they do something, great. However we can also tweak it with Sweet FX to get our individual desires. And with DOS, I did reduce some glare/brightness and brought up sharpness and contrast some.

I would always recommend in-game settings for:

Saturation
Contrast
Brightness
Gamma
AA
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This is not a void.

If anything its a spiral galaxy and those are full of stuff.
And there are all those stars in the background too.

It wasn't what I initially expected, but what I think we're supposed to be seeing is the maelstrom surrounding the void - Rivellon is essentially being menaced by a black hole (with the typical accretion disc around it).

The void is supposed to be eating all of the universe and all of the time, not just Rivellon.

And thats no black hole or its accretion disk either. Or a maelstorm.
Thats a colorful, nice, shiny spiral... thing. That generally looks like a spiral galaxy.
Although it isnt, of course, since there are no stars in it, just nice shiny color ... smudges.
And there are stars in the background - of course.

I was expecting something like a black hole, originally.

But its probably not a big deal since most of the customers wouldnt know a difference between... any of these things. (there is such a nice analogy i could use to illustrate it better, such a shame i cant use that, for decency sake)

Dear Neil Degrasse Tyson,
I would like to register a complaint about the appearance of a Negative Space Wedgie which appears in the game Divinity: Original Sin...


This ain't no natural phenomenon. I strongly suspect that such a thing can be eliminated by depleting the health of some big huge boss monster to zero.

I've a small adjustment suggestion - rename Witch class into something else, because male Witch sounds silly.
Alternative neutral gender name suggestions: Hexer, Occultist, Warlock.

Warlock would be good.



Stabbey, stop defending the devs like youre some teenage boy defending the honor of a playboy centerfold. They are grown men doing their job and are perfectly capable of seeing a few comments saying not everything in the game is immediately awesum!!!! - mkay?

Its a frigging void. Its supposed to look like a void. Not a shiny spiral galaxy thing.
And that has absolutely nothing to do with any of that stuff you wrote above.


Who are you talking to? To what are you referring or answering with this?
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You're right, I wasn't really that polite. Sorry. I apologize.

So what you are saying Hiver is that they should just show a black screen? You can't see black holes nor voids in space. They gotta show something.

And a galaxy looking object makes some sense as black holes are actually at the center of alot of galaxys.

So, could you describe us what a void looks like, brainiac (aka hiver) ?

I wasnt polite in return. Apologies in kind. - and some ninja editing.

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Von Rotten, talk to a black screen. The one in your head.


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anyway, devs...
Just one more smaller thing i noticed. Not a big deal, obviously.

I would even make you an illustration of an actual void as described in the story, but... what for? Whats the point...

It would appear that you are the one with a black screen in the head. You have a lot of posts stating how this is wrong and that is wrong without any feedback.

How about adding an actual description of how you would like to see it or be more clear on why you think it's wrong so that people actually have a clue as to what it is you are actually blathering about.

Also what if they are wrong in what they think they are seeing? Perhaps they think that is a void, doesn't mean it's right.

I already explained why that particular representation is wrong.

All my posts contain explanations, that is clear to anyone who actually reads then and has a brain to understand simple english words.

This thread serves for me to tell a few things to devs, not to convince random posters of whatever they want. Especially those who are telling me what im saying or thinking, because.. Those just go to ignore list.

The Lost Archaeologist

Here is the total XP you can get for escorting Wulfram back to Cyseal and reporting to Aureus:

335 - Accepting the escort quest
430 - Killing the first undead
260 - Killing the second undead
260 - Killing the third undead
430 - Wulfram reaches Cyseal safely
3000 - Telling Aureus that Wulfram made it back.
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4715 - Total


At level 3, that one quest (which has only three easy-to-kill enemies, that one quest alone gives you 39.3% of the total XP needed to reach level 4.

*****

Here is the total XP you can get for leaving Wulfram to fend for himself:

430 - Killing the undead standing over Wufram's corpse.


In a previous version, you used to get some XP for turning Wulfram's quest down, but that's been removed. Essentially, you get an order of magnitude more XP - more than 10 times as much. Only a grade-A moron would not do the escort quest.

That strongly discourages roleplaying a jerk. I'm not saying it has to change, and I do agree that getting a boatload of XP for NOT doing a quest would not make sense, but this is something to consider.


Also, that 3000 XP from Aureus is huge, way more than anything anyone else's quests give, at least 3 times more than the next highest thing I've found that early (finding a Star Stone). That seems a tad disproportionate.

xp rewards should also make sense. If you leave him to die you should not get the same xp as when you work for it.

thats what actually creates appropriate consequences, when there is a difference, not when whatever you do your reward is the same.