We’re going back to that idea in the Definitive Edition, rebalancing many of the combats in the second part of the game, since giving many enemies even amounts of Armours led to bullet-spongy feeling and also punished “3+1” type parties over full physical or full magic parties.įL: In Divinity Original Sin 2 you added both Blessed and Cursed surfaces, expanding the “elemental system” from the first game. That means that in an average combat there should be several obvious targets for either physical or magic damage dealers. Something that was in the design from the start, but that we’ve deviated from by the end of classic DOS2 was the idea that most characters should have disproportionately larger amount of one of the Armours. This gave us a combat systems that felt fresh and reactive, which is extremely important for a new game coming out in the age of easily available classics and tough competition.

The above led to the idea of fully deterministic status application, controlled by two bars that are depleted in the most natural way possible – by damaging the character with corresponding flavour of damage. Our new advanced AI, free from the shackles of custom scripts, was also very keen on using crowd control whenever it had the chance. Giving this kind of tool to players and AI controlled enemies in DOS2 made the combat swing too hard and too frequently. However, we felt that with fast pacing, we needed a more deterministic experience to shift tactical challenge from planning individual character’s actions to planning actions of the entire party for that round.Ī good example is the Love grenade in DOS1, that had 50% chance to apply Charm. Every character got to shine and threats were met with answers at a faster pace. We tried the reduced AP counts early on and having two big actions per turn was an immediate success. Pechenin: Armour arose both from our goals for crowd control gameplay and from changes to other combat systems.

What was your thought process behind adding this to the game? Should you guys make another Divinity do you feel that this will change to some degree or do you think it will be roughly the same? FL: Perhaps the biggest change from Divinity Original Sin to the second game was the addition of Armour.

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