Game master mode is inspired by Dungeons & Dragons, and Larian isn’t afraid of that comparison.
That wasn’t all Larian had up its sleeve, however.īy raising over $2 million in its wildly successful crowdfunding campaign for Divinity: Original Sin 2, the developer reached a stretch goal promise for something called “game master mode.” At an event last week, Larian revealed the depths of game master mode to Polygon, and in true fashion for the developer, it’s a whole new way to play that seems completely impossible for such a small studio to pull off. In the game’s initial announcement and Kickstarter campaign, that ambition manifested in the form of an expanded cooperative play mode, where players can take on the roles of different characters who may have varying motivations and even end up working against each other. But as a follow-up to 2014’s well-loved Divinity: Original Sin - a game we praised as “one of the deepest and most unforgettable games” of the year - Larian wanted to do something bigger than more of the same. That means status effects that were once blocked by armor aren't anymore, and "statuses from both the base game and other mods have been rebalanced for immediate application." It takes some other steps to speed up combat, like reducing the number of statuses that make you lose turns.From the moment that Divinity: Original Sin 2 was announced back in August 2015, there was little doubt that developer Larian Studios would produce an excellent single-player epic of a role-playing game. The biggest bullet point here is an overhauled armor system, which gets rid of OS2's mildly controversial separate armor and health pools to instead turn armor into a flat damage reducer.
Also, in a rare move for a mod this size, it's compatible with old save files and "bends over backwards to integrate with your favourite class mods, skill expansions and content packs." I really like the approach this mod has taken to Original Sin 2: It doesn't try to rework the game into a totally different thing, but mainly tries to tone down the most outrageous elements and make many of its systems work better together. It's racked up about 20,000 users and a 5 star rating since December, with frequent updates since then. Divinity Unleashed looks like it's a big hit on the Steam Workshop.
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