Divinity: Original Sin Post-funding Update #49: Alpha Dated

It looks like our holidays will be full of betas and alphas of RPGs, given Larian too has a tentative release date for the backers alpha of Divinity: Original Sin, and has an actual video of Sven playing it for those of you that don’t want to deal with its bugs but still would like to see where the game stands at this point in development. Here’s a snip from the update:

We’ll be releasing a first chunk of the world, good for approximately 10 hours of play, known to the team as The Left Side Of Cyseal. (Which is pronounced by some as “Sigh Seal” while others say “See Zay-All”…)

It’s alpha that means place holders, rude balancing, some missing features, plenty of bugs etc. But, it’s playable, and you can play quite a lot. But you might also get stuck.

Don’t plan on playing this if you want a polished experience! Wait for the real thing instead! Even if you’re tempted!

Also, you need to be aware that savegames will not be compatible between different versions of the alpha and at first we will limit gameplay to single player. Multiplayer will open up but at a later date.

That’s a lot of disclaimers, but we know from experience that we can repeat over and over that something is not final yet still get mails from angry people yelling at us that they want us to fix their savegame because they don’t want to lose their hero. For the record, we won’t! 🙂

But, despite all the disclaimers above, we will be very appreciative if you do in fact play the alpha and give us constructive feedback. That’s why we decided to spread it to all of you. The group that has played Divinity:Original so far is very limited and we’re very much in need of extra opinions on what we did right & wrong and what we should fix prior to release.

Who can play the alpha?

For the moment, Kickstarter backers only. We might be opening up beta access at a later date for people who preorder, but with 20K backers, we’re sure we’ll know what to do on the short term 😉