The latest update from Realms Beyond focuses on the hand crafted artifacts to be found in Argea's History.
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Realms Beyond - Hand-Crafted Items
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But i would not be shocked if there was a year or two delay given the stated scope and suggestion that large amounts of the game are unimplemented. [If they were further along in development i would have expected more game-play videos].
Carnifex
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Given the track records of many other projects, and looking at the scope of this project, I wouldn't be surprised at all if a delay or two happens.
Yes, they could be delayed, but my understanding is most of what remains to be done is fleshing out content, which is far less time consuming that implementing and testing systems.
Small team, small budget; delays are probably inevitable. Perhaps an early release version plus DLCs for whatever they don't have the budget to implement initially.
This is exactly what I wanted to read! No randomly generated loot with just mixing pre- and suffixes. This was my main complaint about Divinity. The hunt for incrementally better equips gets old very fast. Give me some hand-placed loot with backstory and maybe trade-offs any day.
I also thought this was a very good update. Hand placed treasure, and hand made treasure, not pre-generated crap -- that is always the way to go. And finding artifact pieces also sounds cool. Like a mini collection game.
BoboTheMighty
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Random-generated loot isn't always bad. Would you want to buy a kinder egg knowing what you always get? ( love those things)
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They've already been working on this game for over a year, and I think some of the assets are carried over from the old Chaos Chronicles? It's not like the project is just starting.
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Randomized loot is sold as increasing a game's replay value, but how often do most people even replay CRPGs anyway? With the exception of something like AoD which is very short / meant to be replayed because of divergent paths, I'd bet most RPG players will play through a game once. IIRC there's even stats suggesting the majority of people who play longish RPGs never even complete them once.
I've played my favorite RPGs a few times but often long periods of time passed between playthroughs so I wouldn't necessarily remember exactly where handcrafted loot was anyway.
Yeah, this is a false hope. Randomized loot is the most boring thing there is. It takes away the main incentive to go exploring. What good does it do, if your new sword just does two more damage and is even called the same as before?
When I started playing Witcher 3 and found my first new sword I was thrilled, then a while later I found the same sword with just slightly (level-scaled) better stats. Same with Divinity. I love both games, but the loot was a major bummer.
Yes, and I will say that even though I'm not a big fan of BG in general, the one thing Baldur's Gate games pretty much nailed was the loot. Lots of magical weapons with unique lore behind them. While there's still a fair amount generic +1 weapons, at least you're not constantly tripping over fire swords that deal 1% more damage.