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

[Cyberarmy]

Two days left.

3 for 3rd worlder download speeds :/

 

[Darkwind]

Two days left.

Name checks out...

 

[Swen]

Just tried the Early Access version. I'm wondering, what options are you guys using for best anti-aliasing? Everything either looks blurry, or still have aliasing. Should I use DLSS? Kinda looks blurry there too, though

Stop being poor

 

[Swen]

U homos play on ultra wide?

 

[AwesomeButton]

U homos play on ultra wide?

Let me guess, you sold your house to pay for your PC and live in a cabin?

 

[whydoibother]

U homos play on ultra wide?

Are you playing Baldur's Gate with a wheel?

 

[whydoibother]

Two days left.

Name checks out...

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[AwesomeButton]

Are you playing Baldur's Gate with a wheel?

I thought that was a device used during romance scenes.

Also, rainbow RGB keyboard. Gaaay!

 

[Swen]

U homos play on ultra wide?

Let me guess, you sold your house to pay for your PC and live in a cabin?

I'm one of the richest in all of belgium.

 

[Serus]

Oh boy, Larian have "innovated" the "Doubly-Chosen One".

Mask of the Betrayer, Obsidian Entertainment. You're both the shard bearer/Kalach-Cha and the Spirit-Eater, what are the odds?

If people dislike chosen one stories, they should avoid fantasy

That's only true (maybe) when it comes to high fantasy Tolkien-esque stuff. Since when this is whole fantasy? It's certainly not in literature (there are whole sub-genres of fantasy that usually avoid the theme). It isn't even in games. There are still crpg with stories like: "party of random murder-hobos going on a quest a rampage to gain gold, fame and pussy". In the mainstream crpgs the chosen one theme dominates(?) but since when fantasy=mainstream fantasy computer/console games?

As a side note, I remember people writing that they want more sword & sorcery 15 years ago and we still don't see Conan-like computer RPG. One of closer ones was Battle Brothers and that says something considering it is barely a crpg in the first place.

 

[Grauken]

Oh boy, Larian have "innovated" the "Doubly-Chosen One".

Mask of the Betrayer, Obsidian Entertainment. You're both the shard bearer/Kalach-Cha and the Spirit-Eater, what are the odds?

If people dislike chosen one stories, they should avoid fantasy

That's only true (maybe) when it comes to high fantasy Tolkien-esque stuff. Since when this is whole fantasy? It's certainly not in literature (there are whole sub-genres of fantasy that usually avoid the theme). It isn't even in games. There are still crpg with stories like: "party of random murder-hobos going on a quest a rampage to gain gold, fame and pussy". In the mainstream crpgs the chosen one theme dominates(?) but since when fantasy=mainstream fantasy computer/console games?

As a side note, I remember people writing that they want more sword & sorcery 15 years ago and we still don't see Conan-like computer RPG. One of closer ones was Battle Brothers and that says something considering it is barely a crpg in the first place.

Most cRPGs are high fantasy though and that's what sells. So, chosen one narratives are here to stay whether you like it or not

 

[Herumor]

There's datamined content that might indicate otherwise.

Go on, spoiler away.

 

[whydoibother]

There's datamined content that might indicate otherwise.

Go on, spoiler away.

• Swen leaked in an interview that Dark Urge used to be the default custom protagonist, but was made its own origin after testers complained about forced evil
• The Dark Urge trailer reveals strong links to the past games, Bhaal and Bhaalspawn
• Swen leaked that in his Dark Urge playthrough, he attained divinity
• From this we can conclude the current default protagonist, Tav, who is probably just Dark Urge minus the dark urges, is also Bhaal-adjacent at least, and can go for divinity

 

[Larianshill]

There's datamined content that might indicate otherwise.

Go on, spoiler away.

Spoiler

 

[MerchantKing]

The singular "they" has been common English form for referring to an individual whose gender is circumstantially unknown or unknowable for quite a while now:

This use of singular they had emerged by the 14th century, about a century after the plural they.[4][5][2] It has been commonly employed in everyday English ever since and has gained currency in official contexts.

Seems like a tranny psyop.

 

[Reinhardt]

There's datamined content that might indicate otherwise.

Go on, spoiler away.

Spoiler

thanks for thumbnail. i wanna kill them all again.

 

[notpl]

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Fucking hell, all the cool class combinations have some sort of redundancy or no-fun-allowed rules.

Can use short swords/daggers as monk weapons and take Thief subclass to get an extra bonus action. It actually should work better in bg3 than it does in core 5e.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

the fuck does this mean. that we’ll break companions if we respec them? why even give us the option, then?

Yosharian

Yeah this confused me too, from what I gathered speaking to some other people it means that they retain their original story tags but they also gain new ones from their new classes.

It's just described in a fucking retarded and confusing way by the absolute special needs child that wrote this community post.

Regarding the SH/Wyll thing it is really difficult to know for sure what Swen meant by that, it could be that the subclasses are locked until you meet Withers or it could be that they are locked period. Who knows

I think it just means "we don't really recommend it because we wrote the plot based on their default classes and you're going to lose access to the custom bits, but you can respec the origin companions if you want to have an all-warlock party on your second playthrough or whatever"

 

[Yosharian]

Fextralife just confirmed you definitely can respec SH into other domains

 

[Sunri]

 

[Clockwork Knight]

^Her face when she finds out that contrary to what one might think, bears and humans have similar penis size.

 

[Late Bloomer]

I tried to do that class poll for fun, but it only takes me to the results someone else, when I click the link.

Click on the "share link" button. Highlight the new link that pops up in a window, right click it, and select open link in new tab. That should load up a fresh link. If it doesn't, then open your browser in a private window and try it that way.

 

[Gradenmayer]

Fucking hell, all the cool class combinations have some sort of redundancy or no-fun-allowed rules.

Just pick shadow monk, Swen even gave it an xcl00sive teleporting attack that never existed in tabletop.

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Everything is better than the base version of the monk. Only champion is more boring.

Monks got huge buffs by Larian. Extra ki, 1d6 unarmed off the bat, new spells (especially for 4 elements- their spells will level up).

 

[Reinhardt]

sdg sorceress?

 

[blessed king of longing]

Got halfway through ToB and decided to roll a new character for fun.

I got a 96.... Maybe I should play another playthrough before Bg3 comes out how many more days do I have? I could do BG1 Just get the tomes and XP cap and then export to BG2.

Not sure what your intentions here are. Why ruin the aftertaste of fine wine with a plate of dung?

the "fine wine" in question. the more i see of bg 1 & 2 the more i realize it's mostly just rose tinted goggle-posting. getting very difficult to take people seriously when they criticize BG3 writing/voice acting as goofy etc. it's like, compared to what?

lolwut, the protagonist in BG 3 isn't a traditional "Chosen One". You get randomly kidnapped by the Nautiloid along with thousands of other people you find again and again already in Act 1, most of whom have the same parasite as you. You're only special because you were at the wrong spot in the wrong moment, and you're not more important than anyone else with the tadpole in their brain

little do they know we are the Player, with all the capacity for meta knowledge and worst of all (for them), the ability to savescum