

The Explorer Mode proved more forgiving, designed to still “reward clever thinking in and out of battle.” But it didn’t go nearly as far as the lowest rung of difficulty in Divinity’s peers – the Story Time Mode in Pillars of Eternity, or Story Mode in Beamdog’s Baldur’s Gate remasters. Killing off or ditching too many of Fort Joy’s potential companions in the first act can leave you with a severely underpowered party that will struggle to brute force their way through some of Divinity 2’s difficulty spikes.

It also, in my experience, requires a certain amount of selective roleplaying. The blurb asks for cunning, resourcefulness, and preparedness.

While Classic Mode is officially considered Divinity: Original Sin 2’s ‘normal’ difficulty, it’s far more demanding than the ‘normal’ you might find in any triple-A RPG. Is another 50 or 100 hours of this experience worth it? But, of course, there’s another significant investment involved in playing this uncompromising RPG: time. Copy that edited save file to where you got your original save file from and you are done.The upgrade is completely free for those who already own the game, which makes the purchasing decision easy for the many among you who picked up this Steam bestseller already. You should still have all the file paths from before, so just click on "Create Package" and your edited save file gets created. Delete the original copy of your save file from that folder and open the 2nd tab of the program. Back to the 3rd tab of the program, convert your "meta.lsx" back to "meta.lsf". Now that you are done with your editing, save your changes to meta.lsx. Open the meta.lsx and search for : and than change the value to the one you want, where: Next click on "Extract package", Onto the 3rd tab, your "Input file path" is the newly created "meta.lsf" and "Output file path" you set to "meta.lsx" in the same folder. "Destination / source path" will be that same folder. The "Package path" will be your copied save file in the designated folder.

Now we open the program previously downloaded and go to the 2nd tab. lsv file to another folder and rename the original to something like, just to make sure that if you mess up, you still have your original one. Than go to "C:\Users\Documents\Larian Studios\Divinity Original Sin 2\PlayerProfiles\Savegames\Story" Following this you can change the difficulty of your save to any of the difficulty available Proof
