Larian's Divinity AMA Live Coverage – All the news as it happens

As for this game, we’re likely to know significantly more by the end of the day, but currently we have a few snippets that we’re sure about when it comes to Divinity. For one thing, Divinity will be a turn-based RPG, probably in the style of the Original Sin games and Baldur’s Gate 3 where real-time exploration focused down into turn-based combat.

We also know that Divinity is likely to release into early access, again much like those previous games. Vincke told us Larian wants to do early access, which has been the studio’s “blueprint” for its last three games, and which helped all three improve “massively” as development continued: “Players being invested in it increases the pressure and their participation in it, so you get something really cool out of that process.”

If you’re noticing a theme, it’s that Baldur’s Gate 3 and Divinity: Original Sin 2 are pretty foundational pillars of this new Divinity game. In fact, Vincke says that those games are “the blueprint” for the next one, and that Larian’s previous work has constantly been feeding into its future work, unlocking new techniques and technologies. Divinity is likely to feel pretty similar to DOS2 and BG3, and that’s very muhc by design.

Now to get you caught up with all things Divinity. I’m not about to give you a total rundown of the exceeding long and complex history of the series. Suffice to say that Divinity has been many, many things over the years, from ARPGs to traditional RPGs, to the complex and almost Spore-esque tactical event that was Dragon Commander. The story spans thousands of years, jumping forward and backwards seemingly at will, and the whole thing is so complex that Vincke actively suggests you shouldn’t go back and play the old games. If you like the idea of getting caught up, YouTuber Mortismal has a whole series of lore primers and timeline videos, that should just about tide you over until the AMA actually starts if you start watching right now.

The Divinity Series – Lore Primer & Overview – YouTube

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To stick with the basics, if you’re not familiar with the inner workings of Reddit, here’s how this is all going to go down. AMA stands for ‘Ask Me Anything’, and it’s an opportunity for members of a community to pose whatever question they want to whoever’s hosting the event. While Larian’s Divinity AMA isn’t live just yet (and therefore there’s no link to point you towards), you’ll be able to find it on the r/games subreddit, where you’ll be able to read it at your leisure. You’ll need a Reddit account to ask any questions yourself.

In Larian’s last big AMA, those answering questions included game director Swen Vincke and now writing director Adam Smith, both of whom I’d expect to be on duty again today. Publishing director Michael Douse is also no stranger to social media, so he could be the kind of person who shows up to add some comments.

Crucially, while you can ask whatever you like, there’s no guarantee that you’ll get your answer. Divinity is very much the focus, and there’s only so much a handful of devs can hope to respond to in the limited amount of time AMAs tend to run for. There’s no sense of what that runtime will be today, but the Baldur’s Gate 3 event ran for around two hours.

Before we start, it’s worth a little background info. Larian revealed Divinity, a continuation of the franchise it had been working on for years before it exploded into the mainstream with Baldur’s Gate 3, back at The Game Awards in December. Some of this AMA will be focused on answering community questions about the game itself, in a manner pretty similar to the version Larian did for Baldur’s Gate 3 back in 2020.

Other aspects will be about the studio’s design processes. After the reveal, Larian found itself in the midst of a controversy surrounding its use of generative AI in Divinity. Despite suggesting that no AI content would make its way into the final game, and director Swen vincke saying that he’s yet to see significant optimizations due to the technology, the studio’s ‘developer first’ philosophy was called into question. This AMA is Larian’s opportunity to discuss that situation with some more nuance, and the topic is likely to take up some notable bandwidth.