Divinity: Original Sin 2 has taken Kickstarter by storm, even GOG.com got swept up by the potential awesomeness and pledged $10,000 themselves! The finally tally on the Kickstarter website is 42,713 backers which have pledged $2,032,434 altogether and the updates from Larian Studios say there is approximately $43,000 in PayPal only pledges. With all that cash the community has smashed each and every stretch goal in their path.
The game will now be developed with the additions of Strategist Mode, Pick a Skill Tree, Racial Skills, Undead Origins, Pick a Skill Tree 2, The Hall of Echoes, Dedicated Mod Support, Love and Hate, Shapeshifting Mask and Game Master Mode in mind. Basically the RPG world should have been ecstatic before now add in the little fact that RPG writer extraordinaire Chris Avellone is pitching in to write one of the playable origin stories and it’s basically like Christmas, the Fourth of July and New Years had a baby named RPG Gamers Wet Dream – Divinity: Original Sin 2. Congratulations to the team at Larian Studios, we can’t wait to see how this game shapes up. Also if you still want to get in on the crowd funding action you can head on over to their PayPal page here and pledge away.
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PRESS RELEASE
Thanks to the support of backers around the world, the Divinity: Original Sin II Kickstarter campaign has been a resounding success, quadrupling its initial funding goal and reaching over $2 million to unlock the final stretch goal; Game Master mode.
Larian Studios has been been humbled and awed by the enthusiasm of its backers who have given Divinity: Original Sin II the ability to reach far beyond its original scope.
Some of the highlights the community made possible include:
– Chris Avellone joins as a writer after the community connects him and Larian Studios.
– Strategist Mode, to put the tactical abilities of even the most seasoned veterans to the test.
– The Undead as a playable race. Why should the living have all the fun?
– The Hall of Echoes, a new playable area in the land of the dead.
– Love & Hate relationships, for even deeper roleplaying experiences.
– Racial abilities, new skill trees, and dedicated mod support.
With the latest addition of Game Master mode, you’ll be able to craft your own dungeons and then control them as your friends play, placing enemies on the fly, manipulating the environment, and doing everything you can to utterly annihilate them…or, we suppose you could give them a “fun” experience.
Even with the campaign over, don’t forget that GOG.com has invited everyone to have a say in creating a character for Divinity: Original Sin II. With their $10,000 pledge GOG.com gets to design a character, but they have welcomed everyone in the community to participate.
Haven’t played the first game? Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition will be coming to PC, PS4, and Xbox One in October. The Enhanced Edition adds controller support with split-screen play, full voice-overs, reworked visuals, new quests and characters, and even a rewritten story with a different ending. And, existing owners of Divinity: Original Sin will receive the Enhanced Edition completely free.
Be sure to follow Larian Studios and the development of Divinity: Original Sin II onTwitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitch.
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