Okay first i want to say that there is a lot about this game that i love, maybe its just the avid fan in me, but there is some stuff I really don't like. This game is BEAUTIFUL all the animations are stellar and well done IMO and the game seems to do a lot of what Divinity OG did well with some great improvements, and let me say thought i was gonna hate memory (which it is a little unforgiving, i honestly feel like a goldfish instead of sentient being with it) BUT it gives meaning to your choices even when determining which spells you keep and how you want to proceed and i love that. The game is great and i am happy i have bought it even in alpha status.
BUT there is some things i think can change to improve the game by leaps and bounds, and we will start with my Biggest problem with the game and idk if anyone else agrees with me or not but this magic armor and physical armor thing drives me NUTS. Don't get me wrong i understand why you guys tried this as a viable replacement option, i played the original which amounted to whichever team went first and successfully got their CC chain started would win. But man as it stands now this game is turn one toss a grenade to break "resistance bar" then proceed to chain cc them into the ground. Once the "resistance bar" is broken the people go back to being helpless toddlers in the face of CC. Now by no means am i saying the old system was perfect but it was much better then these "resistance bars" and i have no perfect solutions but maybe an idea to start with, go back to the old system with some minor tweaks like maybe your elemental resistance, say lightning would affect how you are affected by a stunning air attack, for instance say you have 90% air resistance then say you have a 45% chance to avoid the crowd control affects on top of the resistances to cc you already have. Like I said I have no perfect solutions to this problem but its pretty hard to get into the game when the fight starts with battle crazed guys then turns to a CC mop up after 2-3 turns.
Now there is some other stuff like the stats and stuff that i get sad with but that seems to be the running theme across many of the boards with people who have put much more time and effort into the numbers then i have so that is theirs to try and improve the game.
There is two more things i would like to talk about, and i don't know if you saw this coming or not, but the stealth mechanics in this game need some major tweaks to be viable. An easy fix to this is an ambush phase on successful sneak attacks to start combat, and when some people talk about this say even if its just to move your character into positions that are advantageous is enough to make this viable i disagree. I think a successful sneak attack that leads into ann ambush round in combat should be DEVASTATING, a surprise debuff that puts people in a bad spot and combat turns to boot along with chances to cause fear, a successful ambush should all but guarantee a victory in combat, similar in alot of ways to darkest dungeon (which i love), and i think the AI should be trying to get the ambushes themselves. But this should have a huge downside if failed where as a successful ambush gives enemies the disadvantage, an unsuccessful ambush should gives crushing debuffs for the aggressor. I really just want a viable sneaking system for the rouge types no matter how its done.
And my final thing i would like to drr in the game is really just about greed to be perfectly honest. I WANT MORE RACES!!! I LOVE the multiple race aspect of this game LOVE IT but i just want more. i want half giants, tree-kin, merfolk, undead, goblins and yes even orcs as playable races anything that you can think of i want it, i want a race that is primed for the elements one for each at least like a merfolk for hydromancers, a demon race for fire(kind of have that with the lizard race), an angelic bird race for air anything and everything would be GREAT!!!! Even if u need to unlock them through gameplay like ultra rare finds that affect accounts, or even DLC(though not preferred). . . You opened the door to an amazing amount of possibility with these races but you stopped just before making it CRAZY GOOD.
Let me finish by saying if i said anything ignorant i'm sorry this game makes me want talk for hours without even thinking and i want it to be sooo good and it hasn't disappointed even in alpha but i want a little more and i know that Larian can deliver. So please even if my feedback is not worth changing anything over listen to the people who have good ideas for this game, everyone wants this game to do well and i think that can happen with you guys
