Larian Studios Forums Divinity - Original Sin Divinity Original Sin - Beta Request that walking/running speed be increased

Gyson all im pointing out is that in all my years of gaming, since the 80s on PC, through the years no matter what RPG whether single player or MMO, ive been there. Ive been at it a long time and no that doesnt make me some authority on the matter, what it does though is make me realize what feels natural in a game and what doesnt.

Ive played a ton of rpgs, a ton....and very rarely do i nitpick small aspects like run speed. Because generally its a well accepted notion by any crowd that the movement needs to scale with the world youre in, i dont know how else to put that.

I dont make it a habit of going into my RPGs finding things to nitpick, infact if you were to go to some of the forums i am fairly known on you would see that im the "guy who loves it all"...and i typically do, im a very open minded gamer who takes games for what they are rather than what i feel they should be.

Very rarely do i speak out about something that seems bothersome to me.

When i say it doesnt affect gameplay, im speaking upon its not the same boat as class buffs/fixes etc...which can drastically alter how games work due to balance.

The very second I logged into this game and moved, i felt a weird cumbersome feeling. It felt very slow, awkward, heavy, it didnt feel right. And so far the handful of people that i know who fired this game up that was the first thing they told me.

Now i get it, everything is subjective. But still when people come out of the wood work and say the exact same thing it has to hold some water.

And what i dont want to see is people turned off from this game that will be an amazing crpg. Because people are finicky about things like that, and this game just has a very very slow...feeling to movement, it simply feels like youre in slow motion. I get it some love it and are fine with it, but it doesnt mean it shouldnt be tweaked a bit.

Having a run skill imho has never been something good in my eyes because that is like a dev team saying "well were purposely going to make you run slow, but if you want to run faster here waste time putting points into a lackluster category".

I much rather speed enhancing gear perhaps, or spells that can be cast to increase run speeds. But the base run speed in itself, should scale and feel proper to the world around. The map is pretty massive, they could up the speed a bit, im not asking for 10x as fast...just a bit. You cant reason with that at all? Like not even an inkling?

Edit: My point im making is that if they increased the speed just a little, is someone going to really get mad and turn the game off and say "well they ruined my fun, im done here" ? Any type of increase in things such as run movement, should be either a happy outcome for many or simple a neutral care. I simply dont see someone getting all bent out of shape because of a slight movement increase, that makes no sense to me.