People were not kidding about Arx being awful

[Tea Lady]

How was this part made by the same team as the rest of the game, it is tedious, unfun BS.

[Chaoslink]

Was also rushed. They ran out of budget to keep going when Arx was still far from done. It got rushed, leading to the mess that was Arx. Not as much of a risk for BG3, they made enough from DOS2 that they should have what they need to make BG3 the best game of the decade, or at least one of them.

[Razorblade]

Arx isn't bad once you know where to go. The gate ambush can be difficult, but once you're inside, you have instant access to all of your end-game gear.

No matter what direction you go in, 100% crit chance is going to decimate whatever you encounter. The levelling curve actually levels out for pretty much the first time in the entire game in Arx, i.e. level disparity between you and your enemies stops mattering all that much.

You have to treat Arx like Fort Joy: gear up, then have fun.

[OldMemes.biz]

Originally posted by Chaoslink:

Was also rushed. They ran out of budget to keep going when Arx was still far from done. It got rushed, leading to the mess that was Arx. Not as much of a risk for BG3, they made enough from DOS2 that they should have what they need to make BG3 the best game of the decade, or at least one of them.

I'm not discounting that, I totally believe it, but it's certainly odd when the game greatly exceeded its Kickstarter goal prior to even being fully financed through Larian. Something must have gone wrong between exceeding Kickstarter and getting picked up officially.

[Chaoslink]

Originally posted by OldMemes.biz:

I'm not discounting that, I totally believe it, but it's certainly odd when the game greatly exceeded its Kickstarter goal prior to even being fully financed through Larian. Something must have gone wrong between exceeding Kickstarter and getting picked up officially.

Nothing there I can speak on as I don't know all the details. All I can remember is that I read something that they expected something along the lines of maybe 25-40k sales for the game based on previous games and other criteria. They obviously broke that by a wide margin. However, I don't know how the funds from pre-launch affected their ability to finish the game. From my understanding, there was plenty of things they wanted to add that they just couldn't fit in, which suggests they ran out one way or the other. Where they would have gotten without kickstarter versus what we got who can say though. Might have been much worse otherwise.

[zulOkin]

capitalism kills

[OldMemes.biz]

Originally posted by zulOkin:

capitalism kills

Because budgets never run out and people don't rush things in any other economic system?

You're a little naive.

[SlantedRhetoric]

Originally posted by zulOkin:

capitalism kills

Chernobyl

[Xigua]

Probably another baddie getting wrecked by the combat due to a trash build.
Arx is great, act 4 is the best.

[Chaoslink]

Originally posted by Xigua:

Probably another baddie getting wrecked by the combat due to a trash build. :beshaha:
Arx is great, act 4 is the best.

I mean, ignoring combat entirely, the last act is a mess. There’s a sort of progression path to it, but you typically will only see it once you’ve done everything and know it. Finding that path when you first do the act is a real challenge. The only saving grace is that good builds shouldn’t have trouble doing things out of order since level doesn’t matter much by this point.

[Tea Lady]

Originally posted by Chaoslink:

Originally posted by Xigua:

Probably another baddie getting wrecked by the combat due to a trash build. :beshaha:
Arx is great, act 4 is the best.

I mean, ignoring combat entirely, the last act is a mess. There’s a sort of progression path to it, but you typically will only see it once you’ve done everything and know it. Finding that path when you first do the act is a real challenge. The only saving grace is that good builds shouldn’t have trouble doing things out of order since level doesn’t matter much by this point.

The combat is still a bit difficult here for my characters which means I have to bounce around looking for scraps of xp (I made the mistake of going for roleplaying over focusing on just going for the most experience), still trying to get to level 19.
That is not really the problem for me though...except for those level 20 demon's...

It felt like the game was almost over, crash land, fight through the harbour and gate and than things slow back down and you're just exploring a city??

It killed all the momentum.

I think I probably just burnt myself out trying pushing through to the end to find out I was still a day or more away.

[Stormwind]

Originally posted by zulOkin:

capitalism kills

Small wonder we all play Soviet-era games

[azaris]

I got to Arx, struggled through the first couple of fights to make it to town, quit, and started a new playthrough. DOS2 is one of those games that only has three Acts because the last one is godawful garbage where they expect everyone to min-max to the gills. This is just very bad design for a game that tries to tell a narrative then denies players the conclusion with extreme difficulty spikes at the end. I wish cRPG designers stopped doing it.

[Amix]

Let's ignore negative comments in this section. Negative thoughts will never lead you to success or fun. Here are some positive thoughts/suggestions that might help you.

1. In Arx, you must use source skill since the beginning battle at the gate with vampiric voidwoken.
2. Arx is very challenging but there are lot of powerful items scattered which will make battles easy.
3.Since the first act, Divinity Original Sin 2 is all about exploring. That said, Fort joy is more difficult & tedious than Arx because you do not have gold, equipment, no skills & definitely no source skills.

[failsafe]

I believe that most of this game is bit boring... yeah, I know, many players may say that I'm stupid, but this is just my subjective opinion. This is a walking simulator. You have to walk around the map to see which enemies can be handled at certain time. So you mostly walk. Arx is an apogeum of walking strategy, since battles have to be taken with greater care - well, that is unless you have really OP group.'

I have arrived in Arx month ago... and every day I promise to myself that I will try to push things forward... and I always find an excuse not to ;-P. Dont get me wrong, I love this game, but since I dont care that much about the lore/story I enjoy mostly battles, and I hate all this boring stuff between. Arx is a place where from first minutes I had a feeling that all this exists only to make game longer.

And some battles are pretty cool - like the one with Kraken in port or at the gates of the city. Both challenging, but interesting.

[OldMemes.biz]

Originally posted by Amix:

Let's ignore negative comments

Oh please.