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Larian's head writer has a simple answer for how AI-generated text helps development: 'It doesn't,' thanks to its best output being 'a 3/10 at best' worse than his worst drafts
new My worst drafts are a 5/10 but I might have lower standards.
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'I can finally do the thing I wanted to do in every previous game': Divinity's head of design teases a new mechanic without saying what it is
News "It stares you right in the face if you think about it."
Baldur's Gate 3's lead writer hopes we won't want to save scum in Divinity: 'Our ambition is certainly to make failure more interesting'
news F5 + F8, save scummers say "great" / Overwriting autosave, scummers behave!
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Baldur's Gate 3 composer Borislav 'Bobby' Slavov is coming back for Divinity: 'We wouldn't be able to stop him even if we wanted to'
news Slavov's return was confirmed, twice, during today's AMA.
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Divinity's reveal trailer was brutal and dark for a reason, Larian's writing director says: 'We want to give players the opportunity to be the light in that darkness'
news But not in the way that those dudes who got burned alive in the trailer were lighting up the darkness, I suppose.
For all the Divinity dev details Larian isn't ready to comment on, we got a firm answer about the game's controls: the studio's sticking to its guns on no WASD movement
news I can respect it.
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'I wish Wyll had gotten more content' says the Baldur's Gate 3 writer who wrote him, and splitting his story between devils and dads 'might have been a mistake in hindsight'
News I like Wyll fine, but he never feels like he gets the airtime that, say, Astarion does.
Larian swears off gen AI concept art tools and says 'There is not going to be any GenAI art in Divinity,' but it's still 'trying [AI] things out across departments'
News Anyone else nervous?
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