Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

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Shadowheart gets captured and tortured

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I HATE forced failure like that.

If there was one thing that Larian could have NOT imitated from Bioware, it's forced failure.

 

[Poseidon00]

So in other words, everyone who you can ask to join you will join you.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

Popped open the main campaign file

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Minsc

^ It's not like we didn't expect it.

The funny part is that I find him annoying in BG 2 and BG 1 and almost never bring him.

He's a funny meme, but I think he's only as popular as he is due to the devs forcing him as a starting party member in BG 2.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

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Shadowheart gets captured and tortured

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I HATE forced failure like that.

If there was one thing that Larian could have NOT imitated from Bioware, it's forced failure.

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All I can tell you is that it may happen because there's strings related to it. No idea if it has to happen.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

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Shadowheart gets captured and tortured

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I HATE forced failure like that.

If there was one thing that Larian could have NOT imitated from Bioware, it's forced failure.

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All I can tell you is that it may happen because there's strings related to it. No idea if it has to happen.

True, there's always the chance Larian will surprise us. The amount of reactivity that's already there has already surprised me. Oh well. Just wait and see.

 

[Darkzone]

Stop scaring the normies off. Donate, get GD access and keep it there.

It's okay, I'll still answer his questions. It will annoy him to no end. I came to this forum to talk about RPG games. The good ones. And I got what I wanted in spades, had few good back and forths with some users. Sometimes I was wrong, somtimes I am right. It's nice to have an intelligent disscusion about our shared hobby.

Don't worry Stalin is racist, but only against whites. Nobody has killed more white people than Iosseb "the steely one" Jughashvili.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

Popped open the main campaign file

Which file? What did you use to open it?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Popped open the main campaign file

Which file? What did you use to open it?

Gustav.pak, the strings are stored in plain text so you just need to extract them

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Surprised by the Duergar making the cut, but I'm glad to hear about it.

 

[Shrimp]

Now that I think about it there's something about the maps I find a bit odd.
The overworld area has a couple of locations that seem like they'll serve as traditional map travelling points. They open up a world map with the accessible areas and a message telling you that you can't go anywhere because those areas are off-limits during EA.
However the first chapter/act of the story seems to only finish once you board a specific boat in the Underdark.

Maybe it's just wishful thinking, but it's making me wonder if the area you're travelling to at the end of the first act somehow will be directly connected to the areas you'll be able to reach through the overworld map travel or if they actually will include lesser side maps off the beaten path that you can travel to.

 

[Lacrymas]

Surprised by the Duergar making the cut, but I'm glad to hear about it.

Duergar are technically in the PHB, so yeah.

 

[Kazuki]

Have been playing this game about two hours so far i'm enjoying it, there's bug in there that will can be expected from EA.

It's a good TB game based on 5th edition, but i still to think why they decide to use Baldurs Gate name?

I know they use it for marketing and nostalgia reason, but with different ruleset and setting a hundred years after the two games. I think it more sensible to start naming franchise based on different city on sword coast. Maybe Waterdeep or Luskan?

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

I know they use it for marketing and nostalgia reason, but with different ruleset and setting a hundred years after the two games. I think it more sensible to start naming franchise based on different city on sword coast. Maybe Water deep or Luskan?

WotC has already invested a ton into Baldur’s Gate in terms of campaigns and lore leading up to this. It’s years in the making, which makes it really unreasonable when posters blame Larian for it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldur's_Gate:_Descent_Into_Avernus

 

[Lacrymas]

Not only Descent into Avernus, but also A Murder in Baldur's Gate and Heroes of Baldur's Gate. They are milking that dead horse for all it's worth.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

Side note: I restarted my game and it turns out you can pickpocket the strange "box" off of Shadowheart when you fist meat her.

 

[Kazuki]

Huh i see the blame solely on WoTC then?

So what kind a setting Larian will be based upon on if they given unrestricted access to Forgotten Realm if given chance or is there any Larian Pitch to WoTC after finishing up DoS2 before they given BG3 instead?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Side note: I restarted my game and it turns out you can pickpocket the strange "box" off of Shadowheart when you fist meat her.

I'm pretty sure that box has something important to do with the overall story.

 

[Poseidon00]

WotC has already invested a ton into Baldur’s Gate in terms of campaigns and lore leading up to this. It’s years in the making, which makes it really unreasonable when posters blame Larian for it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldur's_Gate:_Descent_Into_Avernus

"It will serve as a prequel to the video game Baldur's Gate III.[1] Christopher Perkins, Dungeons & Dragons Principal Narrative Designer, described the module as "Dungeons & Dragons meets Mad Max: Fury Road".[2]"

Christopher Perkins is the one who gave us 4th edition. If you want someone to blame for the decline of DnD and Baldurs Gate, it is the guy who thinks BG should be more like Mad Max.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

Side note: I restarted my game and it turns out you can pickpocket the strange "box" off of Shadowheart when you fist meat her.

I'm pretty sure that box has something important to do with the overall story.

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It does. The Gith are looking for it.

 

[vmar]

So is this a good combatfag game?

 

[Bester]

How do I control whether it's 1h or 2h? It always equips as 1h.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

So is this a good combatfag game?

It’s passable. It’s not as good as some games, but it’s better than D:OS.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

How do I control whether it's 1h or 2h? It always equips as 1h.

Should equip as two handed if you have no shield.

 

[AwesomeButton]

How do I control whether it's 1h or 2h? It always equips as 1h.

Probably depends on your race's size. Small races will wield it as two-handed.

 

[anvi]

The steam forum on the game is a big lol. 90% of the comments are negative and then there are a few die hards calling everyone trolls.

That's like every steam forum I ever saw.