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

[d1r]

I never really noticed it, since I was still in the DiV2 mindset while playing game, but all classes are actually able to cast spells from scrolls. Is that normal in 5E or another liberty they took with their 5E interpretation?

 

[Delterius]

every time you find a +1 item, swen becomes stronger

The issue is more about +1 items at vendors, rather than them dropping in the world. They don't drop THAT often. The magical items I got were unique stuff that are static drop at set locations, like the speaking with the dead medallion, or the dagger, or the goblin brand gloves.

mind precedes reality

you still resist but soon you'll be swen pilled

you'll do the switch smile every time you find a 0.05% improvement in your life

imagine

the power to forever bloom over slightly more practical plastic boxes in your kitchen

join

die

join

die

 

[Swen]

every time you find a +1 item, swen becomes stronger

It's true

 

[whydoibother]

I never really noticed it, since I was still in the DiV2 mindset while playing game, but all classes are actually able to cast spells from scrolls. Is that normal in 5E or another liberty they took with their 5E interpretation?

I never even attempted to cast scrolls with my other characters, I imagine the spells will just miss if a warrior uses them? Not sure how the mechanics are in 5e.

 

[Lacrymas]

You can't read scrolls if the spell on it isn't in your class' spell lists.

 

[Tyranicon]

Ok so the most important question of this thread so far:

Do gith have cloacas? They lay eggs, so it stands to reason.

Anybody find out yet?

 

[Saerain]

I'm so annoyed with this common complaint about the companions being selfish and evil. It seems consistent with every alignment to stop the incoming nuke before feeding the homeless. At this stage they all still believe they're on the verge of posing a threat to everyone, I'm only surprised there hasn't been a suicide attempt yet. Maybe Larian hasn't succeeded in impressing upon people how dangerous illithids are just yet.

That's all, thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Ok so the most important question of this thread so far:

Do gith have cloacas? They lay eggs, so it stands to reason.

Anybody find out yet?

Ask Sawyer, he's the expert on cloacas.

 

[whydoibother]

Ok so the most important question of this thread so far:

Do gith have cloacas? They lay eggs, so it stands to reason.

Anybody find out yet?

They are descended from humans, and got "corrupted" in the astral planes, so maybe they kept some bits. They have breasts. They wear pants and underwear that suggests human bits.
I always imagined them as humans who turned a bit draconic over their interdimensional shenanigans.

This thing comes out of an egg, and it is a mammal.

 

[Shrimp]

I'm so annoyed with this common complaint about the companions being selfish and evil. It seems consistent with every alignment to stop the incoming nuke before feeding the homeless. At this stage they all still believe they're on the verge of posing a threat to everyone, I'm only surprised there hasn't been a suicide attempt yet. Maybe Larian hasn't succeeded in impressing upon people how dangerous illithids are just yet.

That's all, thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

I think they're more concerned about their own life and well-being rather than the thought of potentially endangering random people.

 

[whydoibother]

I'm so annoyed with this common complaint about the companions being selfish and evil. It seems consistent with every alignment to stop the incoming nuke before feeding the homeless. At this stage they all still believe they're on the verge of posing a threat to everyone, I'm only surprised there hasn't been a suicide attempt yet. Maybe Larian hasn't succeeded in impressing upon people how dangerous illithids are just yet.

That's all, thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

I think they're more concerned about their own life and well-being rather than the thought of potentially endangering random people.

Its just that every normie roleplays a paladin, even when their character is a warlock or a thief. Its the urge to be a completionist. Gotta feed the homeless, else you failed the quest, and didn't 100% the game.

 

[Joseph Stalin]

PFK presentation is really not up to AAA standards, for me even PoE2 is not up there. DAO, DAI, Skyrim, Witcher3 that's literally all there is to fantasy AAA "RPGs". And yeah AAA does not equall good only expensive and heavy on marketing

What do you consider "presentation" and what are these standards? In my mind, presentation is superficial things like animations, voice acting and graphics. All of which are, and I'm being terribly generous to the game here for some reason, thoroughly mediocre at best in Skyrim.

If Skyrim really has "AAA presentation" the bar certainly isn't very high. If it's about (marketing) budget, why would anyone care about "presentation" at all?

Bethesda were so cheap with Skyrim it doesn't even have an intro. Every single previous Elder Scrolls game had one.

 

[Thac0]

I'm so annoyed with this common complaint about the companions being selfish and evil. It seems consistent with every alignment to stop the incoming nuke before feeding the homeless. At this stage they all still believe they're on the verge of posing a threat to everyone, I'm only surprised there hasn't been a suicide attempt yet. Maybe Larian hasn't succeeded in impressing upon people how dangerous illithids are just yet.

Lawfull good and Chaotic good might prefer to help first, depending on the interpretation of the alignment. A CG character might be reckless enough to not give a fuck about the imminent danger, and a LG character could hold to a specific code that puts honor before his life.
But yes for every other alignment disliking the choice to help first is consistent.

 

[Joseph Stalin]

So this should be the sword coast eh, some miles south of Baldurs Gate? Why does everything in Chapter 1 looks like it‘s set in the Mediterraneans with all that cacti and semi-italian villas?

It's not the Sword Coast - it's somewhere to the East.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Ok so the most important question of this thread so far:

Do gith have cloacas? They lay eggs, so it stands to reason.

Anybody find out yet?

You are not following the thread close enough, this was already answered:

The great benefits of the "cinematic experience", wow.

Michael Bay would be proud. The comparison was quite well-put.

 

[Joseph Stalin]

I assume all companions will have their own quest lines, yes. I don't think 12 seems like that far-fetched a number though I guess it is possible that there might only be around 8. Either way my point is I heavily doubt that the 5 companions currently available will be the only ones in the final release.

D:OS2 has 6, soooo.

D:OS2 companions really are structured like 4+2, the core team was supposed to be 1 lizard, 1 dwarf, 1 human, 1 elf - like on the mask, and they are similarly tied to the plot. The Bard and the Eternal seem like DLC characters, each with their own gimmick, and each with extra information and tied differently to the plot.
This looks like it might be 6+2, with 6 core characters, and two extra "gimmick" characters later? If you are an optimist, anyways.

Oh for fuck's sake just say it - Minsc will be a party member. Probably another one or two characters from the previous games as well, like Coran, who is literally living right now in Baldur's Gate.

 

[Ontopoly]

So are we finally allowed to say this game resembles bg in no way or are people going to keep telling me "It's too early to tell, how can you know without more information?"

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

How terribad is it?

Apparently there are several people who actually expected it to be a direct sequel to BG2 who will scream endlessly about how horrible it is, but allow me to give you a realistic scale of badness per Codex most talked about games:

Planescape: Torment
Fallout
Arcanum
Mask Of The Betrayer
Baldur’s Gate 2
Pathfinder: Kingmaker
Baldur’s Gate 1
ToEE
Baldur’s Gate 3
Icewind Dale
Pillars of Boredom
Dragon Age: Origins
Mass Effect
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Divinity: Original Sin
NWN2 (OC)
NWN1 (OC)
Dragon Age 2
Mass Effect: Andromeda
A literal piece of dog shit
Skyrim
Oblivion
Fallout 3

This is my personal scale, based partially on whim, so aspies itt, I know, you disagree, but let’s not get off topic.

The point is that I would personally rate this above Icewind Dale on this list. Mostly because the turn-based combat is a lot more engaging than real-time combat, even though I enjoyed the infinity engine games.

 

[Raghar]

wtf is the difference between trade and barter?

One hobo says to another, I give you this sock, and you give me a shotgun.

Trade is when one country uses printed money to gets China physical products.

 

[Joseph Stalin]

How terribad is it?

Apparently there are several people who actually expected it to be a direct sequel to BG2 who will scream endlessly about how horrible it is, but allow me to give you a realistic scale of badness per Codex most talked about games:

Planescape: Torment
Fallout
Arcanum
Mask Of The Betrayer
Baldur’s Gate 2
Baldur’s Gate 1
Pathfinder: Kingmaker
ToEE
Baldur’s Gate 3
Icewind Dale
Pillars of Boredom
Dragon Age: Origins
Mass Effect
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Divinity: Original Sin
NWN2 (OC)
NWN1 (OC)
Dragon Age 2
Mass Effect: Andromeda
A literal piece of dog shit
Skyrim
Oblivion
Fallout 3

This is my personal scale, based partially on whim, so aspies itt, I know, you disagree, but let’s not get off topic.

The point is that I would personally rate this above Icewind Dale on this list. Mostly because the turn-based combat is a lot more engaging than real-time combat, even though I enjoyed the infinity engine games.

Where's Icewind Dale II? And Storm of Zehir?

 

[Sailor Woedica]

 

[Tyranicon]

Ok so the most important question of this thread so far:

Do gith have cloacas? They lay eggs, so it stands to reason.

Anybody find out yet?

You are not following the thread close enough, this was already answered:

The great benefits of the "cinematic experience", wow.

Michael Bay would be proud. The comparison was quite well-put.

My ENHANCE abilities are not quite there yet. I can't see shit. And cloacas already look like weird, horizontal vaginas anyways.

Eh, I'd stick it in anyways. You only live once.

 

[Joseph Stalin]

Ok so the most important question of this thread so far:

Do gith have cloacas? They lay eggs, so it stands to reason.

Anybody find out yet?

You are not following the thread close enough, this was already answered:

The great benefits of the "cinematic experience", wow.

Michael Bay would be proud. The comparison was quite well-put.

My ENHANCE abilities are not quite there yet. I can't see shit. And cloacas already look like weird, horizontal vaginas anyways.

Eh, I'd stick it in anyways. You only live once.

Your comment brought about thoughts of religions believing in reincarnation. Which, in turn, reminded me how the entire Legacy of Kain series is one, giant "Jesus Christ, reincarnation would be the worst kind of Hell" message. Talk about being politically incorrect, Postal had nothing on those guys.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

Where's Icewind Dale II? And Storm of Zehir?

Never got around to SoZ, but I should. IWD2 is pretty much grouped with IWD. I need go back and play both IWDs again sometime, since it’s been years since I’ve touched them.

 

[Robber Baron]

I still find it amazing that you can jump without breaking sneak