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

[Child of Malkav]

Where's the passage to the underdark through the temple of Selune? I thought the temple was where you get your lich guy who resurrects people. But there's no passage there.

You go where Polma is, the bodyguard of the priestess I think. It's a separate area that you reach by interacting with an ornate door. You either kill Polma or not, get the book near the bed and go left IIRC. Solve the puzzle and that's it.

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

Where's the passage to the underdark through the temple of Selune? I thought the temple was where you get your lich guy who resurrects people. But there's no passage there.

You go where Polma is, the bodyguard of the priestess I think. It's a separate area that you reach by interacting with an ornate door. You either kill Polma or not, get the book near the bed and go left IIRC. Solve the puzzle and that's it.

What's Polma? You basically told me nothing, I'm afraid.

 

[Bohrain]

Podcast interview with Swen: https://www.usgamer.net/articles/ax...incke-on-baldurs-gate-3s-early-access-release

The interview starts at 26:19.

Larian founder Swen Vincke returns to the podcast to discuss the initial feedback on Baldur's Gate 3's early access release, turn-based vs. real-time with pause, dice rolls, and more! Plus, Kat and Nadia share their impressions on Genshin Impact, the Monster Hunter movie trailer, and more!

It's a positive thing to hear that they'll let give you options whether you want the ability checks to work on a dice, loaded dice or be deterministic. The fact that you can savescum through everything regardless of your stats is something I dislike.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Got to the druid camp and seeing the Tieflings not only being pathetic, but also acting unbecoming of their fiendish heritage makes the storyfag in me want to abandon this Tiefling playthrough.

So how do I ally the goblins instead? Do I need to be a Drow?

 

[Child of Malkav]

Where's the passage to the underdark through the temple of Selune? I thought the temple was where you get your lich guy who resurrects people. But there's no passage there.

You go where Polma is, the bodyguard of the priestess I think. It's a separate area that you reach by interacting with an ornate door. You either kill Polma or not, get the book near the bed and go left IIRC. Solve the puzzle and that's it.

What's Polma? You basically told me nothing, I'm afraid.

Get inside the goblin camp in the main building where the goblins that you have to assassinate are and look around for an ornate door, that's what it's called. Then you will see Polma.
Polma is the bodyguard. You'll see it, big one.

 

[BarbequeMasta]

So far, story-wise, the game has literally no connection to the previous titles, so your comment is nonsensical.

It's more the fact that """""Baldur's Gate 3""""" is more similar to DOS2 than Baldur's Gate.

 

[Bah]

Got to the druid camp and seeing the Tieflings not only being pathetic, but also acting unbecoming of their fiendish heritage makes the storyfag in me want to abandon this Tiefling playthrough.

So how do I ally the goblins instead? Do I need to be a Drow?

Spoiler

I can't confirm that only a Drow can ally them, but the goblins immediately recognized my Drow and assumed I was with 'the absolute'. There might have been one deception/intimidate check involved, can't remember for sure.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Got to the druid camp and seeing the Tieflings not only being pathetic, but also acting unbecoming of their fiendish heritage makes the storyfag in me want to abandon this Tiefling playthrough.

So how do I ally the goblins instead? Do I need to be a Drow?

Spoiler

I can't confirm that only a Drow can ally them, but the goblins immediately recognized my Drow and assumed I was with 'the absolute'. There might have been one deception/intimidate check involved, can't remember for sure.

Spoiler

Will the game treat my PC as if he's into femdom if I play as a male Drow? Don't want to have to restart again.

 

[Bah]

So far, story-wise, the game has literally no connection to the previous titles, so your comment is nonsensical.

It's more the fact that """""Baldur's Gate 3""""" is more similar to DOS2 than Baldur's Gate.

From what I can see this is true. That doesn't mean its not a good game in its own right.

 

[Bah]

Got to the druid camp and seeing the Tieflings not only being pathetic, but also acting unbecoming of their fiendish heritage makes the storyfag in me want to abandon this Tiefling playthrough.

So how do I ally the goblins instead? Do I need to be a Drow?

Spoiler

I can't confirm that only a Drow can ally them, but the goblins immediately recognized my Drow and assumed I was with 'the absolute'. There might have been one deception/intimidate check involved, can't remember for sure.

Spoiler

Will the game treat my PC as if he's into femdom if I play as a male Drow? Don't want to have to restart again.

Haven't seen any indications of that with my Male drow.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Got to the druid camp and seeing the Tieflings not only being pathetic, but also acting unbecoming of their fiendish heritage makes the storyfag in me want to abandon this Tiefling playthrough.

So how do I ally the goblins instead? Do I need to be a Drow?

Spoiler

I can't confirm that only a Drow can ally them, but the goblins immediately recognized my Drow and assumed I was with 'the absolute'. There might have been one deception/intimidate check involved, can't remember for sure.

Spoiler

Will the game treat my PC as if he's into femdom if I play as a male Drow? Don't want to have to restart again.

Haven't seen any indications of that with my Male drow.

Might wait for the release of the Duergar race to side with the goblins though. I'm guessing that they'd be able to join the goblins as well since they are evil denizens of the Underdark akin to the Drows.

 

[BarbequeMasta]

So far, story-wise, the game has literally no connection to the previous titles, so your comment is nonsensical.

It's more the fact that """""Baldur's Gate 3""""" is more similar to DOS2 than Baldur's Gate.

From what I can see this is true. That doesn't mean its not a good game in its own right.

True, I admit I am harsher on this than usual just because the name annoys me.

 

[Sharpedge]

Got to the druid camp and seeing the Tieflings not only being pathetic, but also acting unbecoming of their fiendish heritage makes the storyfag in me want to abandon this Tiefling playthrough.

So how do I ally the goblins instead? Do I need to be a Drow?

Spoiler

I can't confirm that only a Drow can ally them, but the goblins immediately recognized my Drow and assumed I was with 'the absolute'. There might have been one deception/intimidate check involved, can't remember for sure.

Spoiler

Will the game treat my PC as if he's into femdom if I play as a male Drow? Don't want to have to restart again.

Spoiler

Any race can join the goblin camp, provided you make some persuasion checks. Alternatively, if you tadpole all the dialogues you get in without any conflict. I got in with a High Elf.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Since I've been reading the Forgotten Realms wiki articles for the different races of BG3, y'all can have a drawing of a Duergar king:

Edit: Fixed the image.

 

[Lawntoilet]

So what's the verdict?

It's much closer to "D:OS3" than to "BG3."
I liked it enough that I will revisit it when it's fully released, but not enough that I'll keep playing the EA. As far as 5e RPGs go, had more fun with the Solasta demo than with BG3 EA. I give it a score of a medium number out of a big number.

 

[Sweeper]

It's much closer to "D:OS3" than to "BG3."
I liked it enough that I will revisit it when it's fully released, but not enough that I'll keep playing the EA. I'd give it a score of a medium number out of a big number.

That's right.
IT FUCKING SUCKS DICKS
I FUCKING TOLD YOU SO

 

[Lacrymas]

So, what people are telling me is to wait for the definitive edition to come out.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

So, what people are telling me is to wait for the definitive edition to come out.

Watch some playthrough(s) and decide for yourself.

 

[Ninjerk]

It's much closer to "D:OS3" than to "BG3."
I liked it enough that I will revisit it when it's fully released, but not enough that I'll keep playing the EA. I'd give it a score of a medium number out of a big number.

That's right.
I FUCKING SUCK DICKS
I FUCKING TOLD YOU SO

Weird flex

 

[Pizzashoes]

I think they might improve the game with time.

 

[Sweeper]

Weird flex

Eyyy u talk to me lyke dat again whiteboi and Imma finna flex on yo mama.
Shieeeet whypeepo got me all fucked up n shiet.
U bettr wach urself.

 

[Gargaune]

Podcast interview with Swen: https://www.usgamer.net/articles/ax...incke-on-baldurs-gate-3s-early-access-release

The interview starts at 26:19.

Larian founder Swen Vincke returns to the podcast to discuss the initial feedback on Baldur's Gate 3's early access release, turn-based vs. real-time with pause, dice rolls, and more! Plus, Kat and Nadia share their impressions on Genshin Impact, the Monster Hunter movie trailer, and more!

It's a positive thing to hear that they'll let give you options whether you want the ability checks to work on a dice, loaded dice or be deterministic. The fact that you can savescum through everything regardless of your stats is something I dislike.

Seriously, as in you'll be able to swap between rolling against a DC or just meeting a static threshold?! Man, someone better check on Sawyer and take his shoelaces away... Honestly, if I understood you correctly I don't think I'm a fan of this either, it reeks of negligent balancing. If you're that worried about difficulty, just take the Baldur's Gate approach with the +6 loaded dice on Easy and call it a day.

On the other hand, if they're actually considering such sweeping mechanical changes in EA, can someone who's on their forums or reddit poke them about adding some proper rolls behind NPCs in Stealth? I know it's a long shot, but hell, why not throw it in there?

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

The more I play this the more I continue to miss the much more down to Earth style of BG1.

And proper portrait art.

 

[Sweeper]

Jim Salter? Yeah I'm thinking he's based.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020...access-mediocre-rpg-amazing-rendering-engine/

 

[Cryomancer]

How much Larian haters bought BG3?

And will Larian implement concurrent turns? Only watched videos. The combat seems too slow.