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

[Raeyn]

What? Since when is gaming a something shunned by society? Isn't gaming significantly healthier activity than pouring vodka into yourself?

Some of us can multitask and do both pretty well.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

tabletop gaming social taboo

What? Since when is gaming a something shunned by society? Isn't gaming significantly healthier activity than pouring vodka into yourself?

Gaming is the invisible killer

 

[Ryzer]

TOMORROW, BROS. TOMORROW!

And then for no reason at all, Steam servers crash.

And then GoG.

 

[d1r]

TOMORROW, BROS. TOMORROW!

I AM SO HORNY RIGHT NOW!

 

[AwesomeButton]

Gaming is the invisible killer

Social networks and today's surplus of entertainment activities are.

 

[Yosharian]

Heavy armour has no strength requirement? But why?

Because it's not 'fun'

But really these changes you are talking about are more or less irrelevant, or positive things (shove being BA is great)

The real issue is stuff like Haste and twinned Fireball and no spells per turn limit (tbf someone mentioned the last one)

Those are a real balance problem

 

[Sarathiour]

My niece and her girlfriends

Unless this is an ESL moment, which you would surprise me coming from you, you do realize that this description alone characterize this group of relative as belonging to an ultra-marginal group ?
Granted, this is also exactly the current target of Wotc, so not really surprising.

 

[Ryzer]

Who cares about balance?

Stop being a fag and accept the game being unbalanced. BG1 was unbalanced and so was BG2, it didn't stop you from playing it.

 

[La vie sexuelle]

Heavy armour has no strength requirement? But why?

Because RPG now is about soul soothing or psychotherapy, not arithmetic.

 

[MerchantKing]

>non-humans
Ruined

Lmao cool it with the anti gnomitism you gnome.

It's the tattoos part that ruins them. Only thing they're good for now is slavery.

 

[MerchantKing]

Heavy armour has no strength requirement? But why?

It hasn't had one since 3e outside of encumbrance.

 

[Ryzer]

My niece and her girlfriends

Unless this is an ESL moment, which you would surprise me coming from you, you do realize that this description alone characterize this group of relative as belonging to an ultra-marginal group ?
Granted, this is also exactly the current target of Wotc, so not really surprising.

Oh, that's why Wotr was so pink, it makes sense now.
I was wondering where does this purple/pink trend came from.
It turns out they were trying to attract the women crowd.

 

[Grunker]

Heavy armour has no strength requirement? But why?

Because it's not 'fun'

But really these changes you are talking about are more or less irrelevant, or positive things (shove being BA is great)

The real issue is stuff like Haste and twinned Fireball and no spells per turn limit (tbf someone mentioned the last one)

Didn't someone say Haste would be fixed for release?

The fact that you can cast two spells per turn (not just spell + cantrip) is fairly dumb if it's in on release.

 

[Yosharian]

Heavy armour has no strength requirement? But why?

Because it's not 'fun'

But really these changes you are talking about are more or less irrelevant, or positive things (shove being BA is great)

The real issue is stuff like Haste and twinned Fireball and no spells per turn limit (tbf someone mentioned the last one)

Didn't someone say Haste would be fixed for release?

The fact that you can cast two spells per turn (not just spell + cantrip) is fairly dumb if it's in on release.

Yeah but given how quiet they have been I dunno if any such fix is going to make it for release

Either they are being extremely fucking coy or they are not commenting on anything because they are desperately trying to get in last minute changes/fixes

I would not be surprised in the least if the release version is plagued with horrendous balance problems

 

[Grunker]

Heavy armour has no strength requirement? But why?

Because it's not 'fun'

But really these changes you are talking about are more or less irrelevant, or positive things (shove being BA is great)

The real issue is stuff like Haste and twinned Fireball and no spells per turn limit (tbf someone mentioned the last one)

Didn't someone say Haste would be fixed for release?

The fact that you can cast two spells per turn (not just spell + cantrip) is fairly dumb if it's in on release.

Yeah but given how quiet they have been I dunno if any such fix is going to make it for release

Either they are being extremely fucking coy or they are not commenting on anything because they are desperately trying to get in last minute changes/fixes

I would not be surprised in the least if the release version is plagued with horrendous balance problems

Probably. And given how massive the game is it will probably have fairly buggy quest behavior as well. When I played the EA the gameplay seemed pretty bugfree, but dialogue and reactivity had a lot of quirky behavior.

 

[Crispy]

Holy crap BREAKING NEWS, BALDUR'S GATE 3 HAS BEEN DELAYED SIX MONTHS



















hee hee just kidding

 

[Ryzer]

How big the day one patch will be ?

 

[La vie sexuelle]

>non-humans
Ruined

Lmao cool it with the anti gnomitism you gnome.

It's the tattoos part that ruins them. Only thing they're good for now is slavery.

Frog has tatoo only on neck. Rest are her natural melanine-dots.

 

[Tyranicon]

Heavy armour has no strength requirement? But why?

It hasn't had one since 3e outside of encumbrance.

Of course heavy armor has a STR requirement in 5e. Another (rare) way for STR builds to dunk on DEX wimps.

Although removing the disadvantage on plate is pure incline.

 

[La vie sexuelle]

How big the day one patch will be ?

100-130 aprx.

 

[La vie sexuelle]

Heavy armour has no strength requirement? But why?

It hasn't had one since 3e outside of encumbrance.

Of course heavy armor has a STR requirement in 5e.

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Although removing the disadvantage on plate is pure incline.

Disadvantage is not requirement.

 

[Tyranicon]

Heavy armour has no strength requirement? But why?

It hasn't had one since 3e outside of encumbrance.

Of course heavy armor has a STR requirement in 5e.

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Although removing the disadvantage on plate is pure incline.

Disadvantage is not requirement.

That's my bad for not pasting the entire chart. Disadvantage is for stealth.

 

[Yosharian]

Although removing the disadvantage on plate is pure incline

Who said anything about that?

 

[Grunker]

While the companions have generally been less shit during my EA playthrough than I expected (admittedly a very low bar), Karlach really is wasted potential. Her idea is cool, but then they waste it on a manic pixie girl. It's by far the most Dragon Age: Inquisition thing in the game that I've encountered. On paper veteran uber-soldier with war scars has the personality of a teenage instagrammer.

 

[Yosharian]

While the companions have generally been less shit during my EA playthrough than I expected (admittedly a very low bar), Karlach really is wasted potential. Her idea is cool, but then they waste it on a manic pixie girl. It's by far the most Dragon Age: Inquisition thing in the game that I've encountered. On paper veteran uber-soldier with war scars has the personality of a teenage instagrammer.

Imagine what such a companion could have been like in the BG2 era