Larian Studios Forums Divinity - Original Sin Divinity - Original Sin - Enhanced Edition Disappointed by the lack of support/patching.

It feels more like a beta. This should be the ultimate finished version. Why aren't there more bugfixing patches?

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There is another update in the works (no ETA).

The first issue has rarely happened in testing, but the programmers and QA have not been able to reproduce the problem, so have not been able to fix it.
A temporary attribute boost such as from the Man At Arms skill Encourage can also reset the character stats properly on the client system.

For D:OS, the EE involved [...] switching compiler versions,

Launching game without skills/talents happens to me on a regular basis.

I also read that the health bar issue has been around since before EE. It has been 4 months without even one patch and no official announcement of a patch. Not a single patch has been reported here since EE came out. Pretty abysmal support.

This is on PC btw.

And yet you couldn't be bothered to actually do anything (besides complain). Fortunately for you, a couple other people did contact support with PS4 saves and details which allowed those problems to be reproduced and fixed. Hopefully that is the same problem you are having.

Doing due-diligence research on any game before buying is required, usually. This game is a single-player game developed for the PC originally and as such I have none of the bugs you mention--I don't do co-op. The EE adds newer multiplayer features that were never a part of the original game--at least that interested me, at any rate. Trying to add in console support and multiplayer simultaneously was a very ambitious undertaking on the part of Larian--certainly that's got to have been more challenging than a day-night cycle *cough*...;)

But the four months is not really important at all--what's important is that you now know that another patch is being worked on even as we speak--and that's the critical issue. We all want what we want yesterday, but rarely do we ever get it, etc.

Of course, Larian could pull a M&MX Uplay surprise and just up and announce that they are *done* with the EE just like UbiSoft did after six month of sporadic M&MX patching, eh? So be thankful there's at least another patch coming...! Support is the name of the game--time frames don't mean a thing when support is dropped. How many *years* now has Larian been actively coding and supporting this game...? And the company still hasn't stopped even though they are on to newer pastures, atm, with a new game. So right now I can't see that you have a reason to be upset--it's going to be fixed. Larian's support is laudable and an example to the industry--very much like CDPR's significantly extended support and improvement of its games.

Since apparently answering a question asking why there weren't more patches by saying there is, in fact, another patch in progress isn't good enough, I'll explain it in more detail, though you'll undoubtedly say it is irrelevant, even though you brought it up in the first place.

If an Enhanced Edition is a couple minor additions (ie adding DLC to the base game by default) with predominantly the same code base, then there are limited opportunities to introduce new issues, and any outstanding known issues can be fixed.
For D:OS, the EE involved switching from DirectX 9c to 11, switching compiler versions, engine improvements and optimizations, the addition of full voice acting, controller support with a separate UI, dynamic local split screen, significant new skills and balancing changes, harder difficulty modes with adjustments to all combat encounters and some environmental and puzzle changes, there were changes and additions to quests and dialogue throughout the game, especially with a rewritten ending an a small epilogue region added, etc.
The patch process matches that of a new game because it is essentially a new game.

But the four months is not really important at all--what's important is that you now know that another patch is being worked on even as we speak--and that's the critical issue. We all want what we want yesterday, but rarely do we ever get it, etc.

So essentially this "Enhanced Edition" added a ton of crap and bugs and was obviously rushed to release without proper QC and playtesting. Here we are four months later having seen ONE patch that fixed pretty much none of the serious issues with this release and we are supposed to be content with "we are working on a patch"?

Here's an idea, don't release a $60 game if you have no idea if it even works. You can make excuses about all the cool "new features" causing the crashes and corrupt save files all you want but bottom line this game is a piece of shit that should never have been released. Four months and one failed patch attempt later and this game is still shit.



Are you serious? So you're telling me that even though I paid $60 four months ago when the game was released I shouldn't be super pissed that the game can not be played at all by me on PS4? You think what is important is that I know another patch is being worked on... MONTHS LATER? Is it now acceptable for developers to release games MONTHS before they are ready and make their paying customers wait an indefinite and ridiculously long time before they can even play the game they now own?