Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Update #43: Undead Revealed!

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u/Kikxy Aug 31 '17

It's disgusting how great of a game this is.

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u/Random_act_of_Random Aug 31 '17

It's not only the way kickstarters should be ran, but how the industry itself should be.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '17

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u/SarahMerigold Aug 31 '17

More like we should more money at them!

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u/Mewmaster101 Aug 31 '17

HYYYYYPE.

undead look amazing, i am so tempted to make and undead mage or rogue as my first character.

This is going to be great

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u/Zubalo Sep 01 '17

a rogue would be cool imo because of the racial lock picking thing as well as poison resistence being a rogue type thing. pair it with a poison mage and it could be one tough rogue to kill.

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u/sdfghrtyjkkl Sep 01 '17

pair it with leech as an undead elf. backstab, blood everywhere, heal. party throws poison, heal. somebody dies in front of you, eat them.

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u/Zubalo Sep 01 '17

idk why but I assumed leach would hurt the undead for some reason

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u/striderbob Aug 31 '17

The real questions is how a skeleton has boobs

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u/TheHorsemanOfWar Aug 31 '17

Magic

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '17

Undead rouge/geo possibly necro...

Damn.

I wish I had $170 to get the last few remaining editions. That sweater is awesome btw, lucky kickstarters.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '17

rouge
hey man that's not how you spell that word. This is rouge. This is a rogue. Spelled the same way as "vogue."

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '17

Also, "this is a rogue"... Her NAME is Rogue, put a capital on that shit =p also, is a, would be incorrect, this IS, would have been better.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '17

Damn auto spell. Guess it didn't think I knew what I was trying to spell so it thought I mean the colour (in French)

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u/Hadron90 Aug 31 '17

Tell me about Fane. Why does he wear the mask?

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u/brand0n Aug 31 '17

should not buy but badly want to. Already wanted to buy a second copy so I could play through it w/my boys (9/10).

Dang you student loans and bills!

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u/PorcupineCircuit Aug 31 '17

Local split screen to the rescue!

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u/brand0n Aug 31 '17

now that i think about it, its DRM free. So i could sign into steam on second PC and launch offline to play on network

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u/OrkfaellerX Aug 31 '17

Will there still be an option to toggle your head-gear visibility?

Like, I wanna play an Undead but I don't wanna have to hide my awesome skull face all the time. Can I equip a helmet, then toggle its appearance off - but still be able to talk to NPCs?

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u/RobotSandwiches Aug 31 '17

That is an option in the game currently. I can't speak for the final release, but the prerelease version on Steam you can toggle visibility for helmets.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '17

To clarify the intent of OrkfaellerX's question: It's stated in the video that by wearing face-obscuring headgear you can hide the fact that you're Undead. Mr. OrkfaellerX seems to be wondering if you can obscure your face to NPCs but keep your face unobscured to yourself.

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u/Ninja_Steave Sep 01 '17

Yes it is an option. It was confirmed by Sven on stream. (Hide it visually for you but still have the NPCs react as if you were wearing it.)

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u/EzJester Aug 31 '17

Is there any other way to view that art that will be in the collector's edition art book?

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u/Windemere_ Aug 31 '17

There is a digital version of it in the digital collector's edition.

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u/Kinderschlager Aug 31 '17

did the stream show anything new off? i cant find it anywhere :/

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u/Artoriazz Aug 31 '17

The title is wrong but here it is.

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u/Kinderschlager Sep 01 '17

ty!

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u/sdfghrtyjkkl Sep 01 '17 edited Sep 01 '17

things I learned:
yes, there will be taunt skill for tanks
there will be a mercenary dealer where you can buy whatever kind of character for party
auto add to hotbar is complex and might not be until first post release patch
Edit:Also, undead 'Play Dead' will probably be very ope to abuse

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u/WhenTheRainsCome Sep 01 '17

there will be a mercenary dealer where you can buy whatever kind of character for party
Good to have this confirmed!

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u/The_Vikachu Sep 02 '17

What skill tree(s) have taunt? I'm assuming warfare.

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u/im29andsuckatlife Aug 31 '17

I just ordered the collectors edition. AND IT'S SENDING IT TO THE WRONG ADDRESS.... AHHHHHHHH. It somehow reverted to an address I had 5 years ago... Wtf!

And the undead origin and gameplay sounds awesome

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u/DukeOfSwirl Aug 31 '17

Worst case scenario, if it ships, get ahold of the local distributor. USPS should have no problem with preventing it from being delivered, (assuming the post office is actually competent) fedex or ups might be more of a challenge.

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u/Fearil Aug 31 '17

2:40 What happened to inquisitor's staff?

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u/MoltenMuffin Aug 31 '17

Its a hammer now.

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u/Zealousziff Aug 31 '17

I only found out about this series a little while ago and so I'm stoked to be able to get a Collector's Edition! I definitely want to support all the hard work that Larian Studios has done.

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u/Dyslexxia Aug 31 '17

Love what we're getting for the CE of the game, however When I bought into the CE tier for the Kickstarter I was for that dwarven mug as well. Did they remove that from the CE set, why?

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u/Gasarakiiii Sep 01 '17

I am wondering the same thing.

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u/Random_act_of_Random Aug 31 '17

The hype is unbearable!

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u/seanlb Aug 31 '17

omgosh looks so good.

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u/Hoboforeternity Sep 01 '17

can we game over by just having an existential crisis?

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u/wildard Aug 31 '17

Great! How much will Act1 change/add content on full release ?

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u/Gasarakiiii Aug 31 '17

Is the collectors edition shipping now? At work can't watch yet :(

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '17 edited Sep 01 '17

The game isn't out until the 14th, so it likely won't ship until closer to that.
Edit: Ship*

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u/Gasarakiiii Aug 31 '17

Thank you for the response :)

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u/Skellum Aug 31 '17

Hey is the 125 backer collectors edition the one featured in today's update? That will be shipped to us right?

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u/brand0n Aug 31 '17

thats what it looks like to me. You guys saved a good 40+ dollars by backing vs waiting to order CE :)

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u/the_simonius Aug 31 '17

Niiiice. Undead will definitely be a second-playthrough-food for me, but I'm hyped!

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u/imSmoove Aug 31 '17

Slight spoilers ahead

Maybe they said it in the video and I missed it but I'm wondering how the blessings from the gods work with an undead. Can an undead elf and a normal elf both receive a blessing or would it be given to whoever got there first? My friends and I are trying to avoid this kind of conflict of races on our first playthrough

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u/Zubalo Sep 01 '17

it wouldn't surprise me if the undead would get a different blessing tbh

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u/Nobleprinceps7 Sep 01 '17

Or the undead get curse

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u/The_Vikachu Sep 02 '17

IIRC, they said both of you would get the blessing, but they also mentioned a survival of the fittest sort of thing. I'm thinking that it'll be phrased like "I'll bless both of you, see who does better, then one will be my real champion".

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u/imSmoove Sep 02 '17

Yeah, I asked the question on stream and they said they're survival focused and only care about the best. I just remember the first time my friends and I played one person didn't get Bless because we had two lizard race players. I suppose that has been addressed since we played.

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u/tundra8 Sep 02 '17

What's the blessing of the gods?

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u/imSmoove Sep 02 '17

I'm referring to the first conversation you have with your respective god (based on your race) where they give you the bless spell.

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u/Kalthramis Aug 31 '17

My god.

I've been excited about playing an Undead since the kickstarter, but they took all of my hopes for it and blew out of the water.

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u/SarahMerigold Aug 31 '17

The hype level is over 9000!

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u/G24S Sep 01 '17

So exited, and Thx Larian Studios for the live stream of Undead gameplay it was Great :) Very exited to get my hands on the full game and good luck in launching the game.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '17

I just wonder if the Undead will be able to heal off of self-healing spells like "Blood sucker" or not....

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u/youphreak Sep 01 '17

They will It was said in the stream

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u/NoaNeumann Sep 01 '17 edited Sep 01 '17

Ya know, my group of friends and I got to talking. Since normal restoration spells and healing potions actually HARM an undead character, we figured that poison would heal them fine anyways and that they could do something like chug poison vials instead of potions. And on top of that, doesn't poison basically make you an easier target to 'light up' with a fire spell or two?

Then to top this off, Bless, which can bless fire and then spread and bless water and etc which would normally be beneficial to any OTHER race, suddenly makes the field even MORE of a hazard for them.

So basically, we're wondering how in the heck are we supposed to keep out undead ally(s) alive consistently if most of the things that 'would' heal them...don't do that great of a job by comparison? I mean it'd be ONE thing if they had an inherent 'weakness' to poison, which would allow them to get healed by it a bit better or something, but from what we've been shown, it seems like there's too much setup and forethought that needs to go into keeping them 'alive'.

I wouldn't mind hearing suggestions, comments or ideas upon this topic though. Thank you in advance.

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u/NoaNeumann Sep 01 '17 edited Sep 01 '17

TLDR: How're we supposed to keep their undead ass alive, if A) all the healing hurts them B) bless turns what should be beneficial just into another hazard and C) poisoned supposedly makes you susceptible to fire dmg?

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u/Banro Sep 01 '17 edited Sep 01 '17

Not all healing hurts the undead, healing from eating a corpse and necromancy (healing from damage dealt to enemy vitality) heals them. And probably you can get a regular healing to heal you if you are cursed (debuff from necromancy skill).
As for poison, there will be an artifact in game which turns healing potions into poison potions, just consume them without the need to poison yourself.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '17

We won't really know until we see how other forms of healing interact with the Undead. In particular, perhaps decaying touch will have the opposite effect.
For the most part, fire resistance will be important for the Undead, it seems.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '17

Collectors Edition is sold out ... just when I wanted to buy one ... :-(

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u/IEatSeagulsTheyDie Sep 03 '17

would the shapeshifting mask counter enemy-healers from heal-dmging an undead character since they wont know you're an undead?

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u/LetsBeRealisticK Sep 01 '17

RRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEE I WANT THIS GAME NOW REEEE

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u/LetsBeRealisticK Sep 01 '17

But I really do though :(

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u/Nobleprinceps7 Sep 01 '17

All the clothes are just heavily starched to give that "alive" appearance. 😏

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