We’d still sometimes walk to a clicked location instead of attacking there.Īnd there were new problems: my summoned incarnate would fail to join a combat encounter with the rest of the party, in one instance even exiting the encounter without my noticing, causing its spawn duration to rapidly tick away and be wasted.

We would also still see attacks, projectiles, and grenades fail to do anything, or get stopped by non-obstacles along the way, maybe at times because we misclicked and targeted the ground due to a finnicky hitbox, and at other times for no discernible reason at all. We still had desync issues where my connecting friend would not see his weapons equipped, but only rarely. To be clear, this is a much more polished and stable game, but many underlying problems haven’t been solved. There’s a lot of jank, and to make things a little more frustrating, much of it is the same jank from the previous entry in the series. Because they’re stuck in the previous century of game design. While Larian is breaking ridiculous new ground with the awkward voice chat moment of entering into an adult romance with a companion in a co-op game, everyone else is just sleeping on the job. But I don’t see anyone else making the next Ultima 7. That a small studio relying at least partly on crowdfunding pulled off this cooperative CRPG experience is quite hard to believe.Īnd yet it is a small studio making a deeply ambitious CRPG, which makes it unsurprising that despite the thickness of Larian Studios’ face in rereleasing this as the “Definitive Edition”, it is still as riddled with bugs as the “Enhanced” DOS1 was. And there are too many little improvements to the interface and mechanics to count. The plot isn’t as convoluted - though it is still messy. The voice acting and tone no longer have the off-putting cartoonish intensity I had complained about, and the game is probably funnier for it. This is better than, or on par with, DOS1 in just about every way.

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