Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General NO DAY/NIGHT CYCLE confirmed by devs?

They also say that there will be no random encounters at the end. Double sad.

They also say that there will be no random encounters at the end. Double sad.

okay, sure, my opinion is trivial compared to yours.

wtf is wrong with gamers these days. i'm out of here, Larian.

okay, sure, my opinion is trivial compared to yours.

wtf is wrong with gamers these days. i'm out of here, Larian.

All the camp scenes shown were at night. There is a concept of days in the game and it's quite possible certain quests/events/area are set at night as the story progress.

People keep saying the game is a clone of DOS2, but I see more a clone of Dragon Age personally.



It says no procedurrally created encounters are in the game. BG1/BG2 random encounters were all handcrafted as were the ones in Dragon Age Origins, Pillars of Eternity 2 and even Pathfinder Kingmaker. They just trigger randomly while you travel.

Will Divinity Original Sin 2 have a Day and Night Cycle?

No, we have no plans to introduce a day and night cycle. What we're trying to do at the narrative & scripting level is really complicated, so to even contemplate adding yet another extra dimension of complexity to that gives us a headache. The impact of the player origins combined with a higher level of freedom than the already insane amount of freedom you had in Divinity: Original Sin, added to the options required for multiplayer mode already means that our development is going to be hugely complex. Until we tame all of that, we won't add an extra layer. Perhaps for another game, but definitely not for this one.

During the original Divinity: Original Sin crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, the very last stretch goal mentioned a day and night cycle, NPC schedules and weather systems. All of these could have impacted NPCs, monsters and magic. Do you still discuss the possibility of making a truly simulated game world at some point in the future?

Adam: I do in my own head constantly. I think it's a very different game. One of my favorite games of all time is Ultima Seven and it was the first game that I played that had proper NPC behaviors. You could wait for someone to go to the pub and then you could rob their shop. I love stuff like that, but a game that's built like that does very different things. We are very, very story focused as well and there's things that you lose. Also: multiplayer. We're a multiplayer game and day-night cycles in multiplayer becomes incredibly complicated. We're doing so many really complex things already that we know are going to be really good that, on top of that, it wouldn't fit this game.

I love simulated worlds and we have a lot of that stuff in there. We don't do the day-night cycle but we do the things where things in the world happen because you caused them to happen and they can happen off-screen. So, there are things happening off-screen. The world isn't just what you see on your screen. There are events that happen and things that will, because of the choices you've made, things will happen elsewhere. Those are real, those are systemic. Our systems are running in the background the whole time. There are incredibly deep systems. Some of them don't make sense for this game, but yeah, we think about it and we've talked about it.

I read from reddit that it's been confirmed that as a vampire you can "harvest" people while they sleep, which would hint that a night / day cycle will be somehow implemented. Not sure if it's the same as BG where you can just rest for 8 hours by pressing a button. Then again this game seems to have some sort of a time limit with the tadpole, so maybe resting at will won't fit into that very well.

You feed from your companions at camp.