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Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 Pre-Release Thread [EARLY ACCESS RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

Spectacle

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Sure today cities are build by stupid planning. In such conditions the cities grow naturally. It is not about efficiency but about how unnatural it is. Also calling that mountain a fucking hill when it is bigger than the city is retarded. If it was actual hill it would have been a natural position for the elite and the military buildings. The city would have grown toward it,not around it.

East of the city, high above the scattered slums and cut-rate inns that stretch along the trade road, rises the steep yellow granite of Dusthawk Hill. This cliff-skirted hill is one of the last known refuges of the Chionthar dusthawk (use the hawk statistics), a once-common raptor whose numbers precipitously declined over the last century as regional turmoil and the ever-spreading slums outside Baldur's Gate consumed its habitat.

Local legend holds that the dusthawk was Balduran's favorite hunting bird, and that the Chionthar population is descended from his own personal hunting hawks. When the dukes of Baldur's Gate realized that the dusthawk was on the verge of extinction, they declared the hill, which included both the hawks' cliffside nests and their hunting grounds, to be off limits to unlicensed hunters. Despite the fences and cliffs that cordon off most of the hill, trespassers remain common, the demand for dusthawk hunting birds having exploded among the wealthy.

Many in the Outer City resent the hill being turned into private land. Several camps and slums were cleared as a result, their dwellers losing everything. The homeless resent the patriars for being willing to spend money giving hawks a home, but not them. Others resent the Flaming Fist guards who keep them from trapping on the hill. Stringy rabbits and scrawny quail made poor meals, but they were meals, and now many hunters have none.

Rumors hold that werewolves lair in the sea caves under Dusthawk Hill, pretending to be ordinary smugglers—or ordinary animals—while plotting against the city. Whenever a grisly murder captures Baldurians' imaginations, someone is always quick to claim that it must be one of the Dusthawk werewolves who did the deed.

As if quasi-medieval dukes would even care - or notice! - a species is going extinct. I despise trying to give modern sensibilities to such societies. It ruins mah immershun.
Real world medieval nobles loved to set aside large tracts of land as their personal hunting preserves, so that hungry peasants wouldn't wipe out the game animals.
 
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Speaking of poaching,
During World War I, occupying German troops killed 600 of the European bison in the Białowieża Forest for sport, meat, hides and horns.[27] A German scientist informed army officers that the European bison were facing imminent extinction, but at the very end of the war, retreating German soldiers shot all but nine animals.[27][28] The last wild European bison in Poland was killed in 1921. The last wild European bison in the world was killed by poachers in 1927 in the western Caucasus. By that year, fewer than 50 remained, all held by zoos.
:argh:
 

Storyfag

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Sure today cities are build by stupid planning. In such conditions the cities grow naturally. It is not about efficiency but about how unnatural it is. Also calling that mountain a fucking hill when it is bigger than the city is retarded. If it was actual hill it would have been a natural position for the elite and the military buildings. The city would have grown toward it,not around it.

East of the city, high above the scattered slums and cut-rate inns that stretch along the trade road, rises the steep yellow granite of Dusthawk Hill. This cliff-skirted hill is one of the last known refuges of the Chionthar dusthawk (use the hawk statistics), a once-common raptor whose numbers precipitously declined over the last century as regional turmoil and the ever-spreading slums outside Baldur's Gate consumed its habitat.

Local legend holds that the dusthawk was Balduran's favorite hunting bird, and that the Chionthar population is descended from his own personal hunting hawks. When the dukes of Baldur's Gate realized that the dusthawk was on the verge of extinction, they declared the hill, which included both the hawks' cliffside nests and their hunting grounds, to be off limits to unlicensed hunters. Despite the fences and cliffs that cordon off most of the hill, trespassers remain common, the demand for dusthawk hunting birds having exploded among the wealthy.

Many in the Outer City resent the hill being turned into private land. Several camps and slums were cleared as a result, their dwellers losing everything. The homeless resent the patriars for being willing to spend money giving hawks a home, but not them. Others resent the Flaming Fist guards who keep them from trapping on the hill. Stringy rabbits and scrawny quail made poor meals, but they were meals, and now many hunters have none.

Rumors hold that werewolves lair in the sea caves under Dusthawk Hill, pretending to be ordinary smugglers—or ordinary animals—while plotting against the city. Whenever a grisly murder captures Baldurians' imaginations, someone is always quick to claim that it must be one of the Dusthawk werewolves who did the deed.

As if quasi-medieval dukes would even care - or notice! - a species is going extinct. I despise trying to give modern sensibilities to such societies. It ruins mah immershun.
Real world medieval nobles loved to set aside large tracts of land as their personal hunting preserves, so that hungry peasants wouldn't wipe out the game animals.

Yes. Hunting preserves. Not, you know, preserving preserves. Their whole reasoning was *completely* different.
 

Cael

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Sure today cities are build by stupid planning. In such conditions the cities grow naturally. It is not about efficiency but about how unnatural it is. Also calling that mountain a fucking hill when it is bigger than the city is retarded. If it was actual hill it would have been a natural position for the elite and the military buildings. The city would have grown toward it,not around it.

East of the city, high above the scattered slums and cut-rate inns that stretch along the trade road, rises the steep yellow granite of Dusthawk Hill. This cliff-skirted hill is one of the last known refuges of the Chionthar dusthawk (use the hawk statistics), a once-common raptor whose numbers precipitously declined over the last century as regional turmoil and the ever-spreading slums outside Baldur's Gate consumed its habitat.

Local legend holds that the dusthawk was Balduran's favorite hunting bird, and that the Chionthar population is descended from his own personal hunting hawks. When the dukes of Baldur's Gate realized that the dusthawk was on the verge of extinction, they declared the hill, which included both the hawks' cliffside nests and their hunting grounds, to be off limits to unlicensed hunters. Despite the fences and cliffs that cordon off most of the hill, trespassers remain common, the demand for dusthawk hunting birds having exploded among the wealthy.

Many in the Outer City resent the hill being turned into private land. Several camps and slums were cleared as a result, their dwellers losing everything. The homeless resent the patriars for being willing to spend money giving hawks a home, but not them. Others resent the Flaming Fist guards who keep them from trapping on the hill. Stringy rabbits and scrawny quail made poor meals, but they were meals, and now many hunters have none.

Rumors hold that werewolves lair in the sea caves under Dusthawk Hill, pretending to be ordinary smugglers—or ordinary animals—while plotting against the city. Whenever a grisly murder captures Baldurians' imaginations, someone is always quick to claim that it must be one of the Dusthawk werewolves who did the deed.

As if quasi-medieval dukes would even care - or notice! - a species is going extinct. I despise trying to give modern sensibilities to such societies. It ruins mah immershun.
Real world medieval nobles loved to set aside large tracts of land as their personal hunting preserves, so that hungry peasants wouldn't wipe out the game animals.

Yes. Hunting preserves. Not, you know, preserving preserves. Their whole reasoning was *completely* different.
Next the sjws will be telling us that the Queen of England have all those jewels because she cares for the environment and don't want people to build more mines.
 

Spectacle

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Yes. Hunting preserves. Not, you know, preserving preserves. Their whole reasoning was *completely* different.
If you use your brain when reading the text it's obvious that the dusthawk breeding grounds are preserved so that the supply of dusthawks to use as hunting birds doesn't dry up.
 

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Yes. Hunting preserves. Not, you know, preserving preserves. Their whole reasoning was *completely* different.
If you use your brain when reading the text it's obvious that the dusthawk breeding grounds are preserved so that the supply of dusthawks to use as hunting birds doesn't dry up.

Oh come now, we can both see the "the demand for dusthawk hunting birds having exploded among the wealthy" is a clear afterthought to "a once-common raptor whose numbers precipitously declined over the last century as regional turmoil and the ever-spreading slums outside Baldur's Gate consumed its habitat."
 

vortex

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It will have integrated co-op from the start and something else I guess - support for gamepad controllers.
Baldur’s Gate 3 will have co-op multiplayer
https://www.pcgamesn.com/baldurs-gate-3-co-op

It's a slam/Swen dunk like DOS2.

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HoboForEternity

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Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.

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Are you for real claiming that BG EE is somewhat relevant here? Afterthought port vs game developed from the start to accommodate unwashed console masses?
 

Atchodas

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BG3 = reskinned DOS2
That would be very good game by default

However I'm sure they gonna make it even better since they gonna use the same engine as for D:OS2 just newer version of it

Also new fags who are complaining about COOP in bg3 are hilarious since both BG games had coop
 

jf8350143

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5e is the closer thing to 2nd edition ever existed, they removed thaco and stuff like “10 pages of rules for grapple someone”, they also tried to stop the bloating avoiding to release manuals after manuals while at the same time keep certain stuff because “is tradition”.
Designs also accepted “linear fighter, quadratic wizard” while managed to limit caster a little (many buff spell require concentration you can only concentrate 1 spell at time).
DM also have more freedom and they can homebrew stuff easily: because designer realized putting tons of rules for stopping asshole DM don’t work.

In short traditional stuff written with modern design.

apparently pink hair hipsters know D&D better than rpg codex.

From my experience at least half of the people butthurt about 5e is because "mages aren't as ridiculous as before and I actually need to play some other class to be OP as fuck? WORST SHIT EVER!"
 

Atchodas

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From my experience at least half of the people butthurt about 5e is because "mages aren't as ridiculous as before and I actually need to play some other class to be OP as fuck? WORST SHIT EVER!"
Meh in most new RPG games using spells is like gimping yourself compared to auto attack monsters you can build, I would appreciate some OP mages for once
 

Tao

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Is always the same misconception: people mistake to be impactful with to be op. Just like playing jungle in LoL f.e.
 

Chippy

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Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
Wonder if they'll say anything before the end of the year? Otherwise it might be: 2019 the year BG3 was announced! In a most unexpected move, Larian chose not to tell us anything about the game until approximately one year later; by which time, fans old and new didn't really give a fuck anymore...
 

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