Yesterday I started Divinity in couch co-op with a friend. We reached Cyseal but we don’t know what we are doing. I mean, game is good and hard but we are lost. We don’t know were to go. We don’t know what to do. We find it too complicated a bit overwhelming. Is it normal or we are getting to old already? Any tip?
I'd argue that it's not normal, but it's also not too uncommon since people with a low attention span aren't exactly rare.
Few tips.
- ACTUALLY read/listen what the NPCs tell you to do and it becomes basically impossible to be at loss of where to progress.
- There's content to get at least three levels inside the starting city alone. Make it four if you are a completionist who knows how to look around.
- Every time you spot a place where enemies are higher level than you, it means you are moving in the wrong direction and skipping easier content somewhere else. Especially in the first hours of the game, it would be advisable to move elsewhere.
- There's absolutely no reason to NOT hire a full party of 4 characters (which usually you'll control two for each player in co-op) unless you didn't get the trait "Lone Wolf". EXP isn't even divided among party members. You'll get the same exact amount for EACH character regardless of how many you are.
- Every time you are put in front of a choice (and your party memembers start to argue about what to do) don't lose too much sleep over it and go with your feelings. There isn't really a right or wrong way to go about things.
anthraticus
mentioned, the best course is to talk to every npc, which will open many objectives and eventually you will progress. Given this need to investigate things, some people find it tiresome and slow to progress, but this non-hand-holding is a crux of CRPG games.
