Divinity: Original Sin Release Date: Larian Studios announced today an official release date of June 20th for Divinity: Original Sin. Hand in hand with this announcement comes a new gameplay trailer highlighting just how many new features and worlds of content community support has leant this project.
Divinity: Original Sin is an upcoming single-player and cooperative multiplayer fantasy role-playing video game. The game will ship with the editor that it was created with, allowing players to create their own single-player and multiplayer adventures, and publish them online. The game was funded through Kickstarter and is a prequel to Divine Divinity.
Original Sin will be the next RPG in the Divinity universe. Divinity: Original Sin concerns two heroes: a condemned warrior released from his chains and a mystic heroine restored to life. The game touts turn-based combat, cooperative multiplayer, a highly interactive world and will ship with a full-fledged modding tool.
In addition, a huge update featuring a variety of improvements and additions to the game has been released for the Steam Early Access version. Here are the key features of this update:
- Complete overhaul of loot generation matrix. Expect much cooler treasure.
- Added 135 music tracks, including some all-time favourites from previous Divinity games
- Added a new "Way of the Rogue" ability and a variety of new Rogue skills
- Full overhaul of your Homestead at the End of Time
- You can create different user profiles, so your little brother or sister can play, too.
- Difficulty settings have been added, so players can pick which sort of experience they prefer.
- Added formations, both in turn-based combat and in real-time, for optimal tactical positioning
- All players playing Divinity: Original Sin can now chat with each other, making it easier to form multiplayer groups within the community.
- Added an "Illusionist Mirror" through which you can change your player's looks in-game
- Replaced "repair" with "blacksmithing" and charm/intimidate/reason abilities by "charisma"
- Amended stats of "Way of the Ranger" skill
- Skill stats now level up with the characters, e.g. a level 1 flare is still useful at level 15.
- Added plenty of new skill visual effects
- Skills now have certain requirements. You can still learn a skill by boosting the relevant ability artificially, but once you lose the boost, you won't be able to use the skill anymore.
- Full overhaul of all lighting, shading, and zoom. Get up close and personal!
- You can now give commands to each party member independently. Commands will be executed even if you're focused on another party member.
- Party members avoid traps. Traps can be disarmed with disarm trap kits (an alternative solution to blowing up the trap, which may destroy neighboring objects).
- Journal now tracks the recipes you've learned.
- You can switch between party members while trading.
- There is now an interface to assign companions to other players in multiplayer.
- Several stability and performance fixes were made, in addition to loads of bug fixes. Most of the remaining networking issues should be solved now, too.
Watch the new gameplay trailer here:
The game is expected to be released on June 20th.
