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

[mediocrepoet]

I actually rack that up to the focus on the epic!!!1!
All the cosmic power crap pushes out any room for the mundane and more personal sorts of stories. It's why some people like myself generally prefer lower level games and some people unironically like Dragon Age 2.

 

[perfectslumbers]

I actually rack that up to the focus on the epic!!!1!

Yeah, Kingmaker was much better for roleplaying (although it gets pretty high powered at the end,) hopefully Owlcats next game is focused on the lower levels. Early game d&d is underappreciated nowadays, i really like the lethality and the tendency towards more down to earth problems.

 

[Cryomancer]

occasional mild criticism

Mild criticism? One of my posts criticizing owlcat https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...s-release-thread.139979/page-343#post-7513928

Dhampir mage/sorcerer with the absurd high-level munchkin powers in the game is already beyond most normal vampires. Especially since you don't have weakness to sunlight.

Yep. In chapter 2 a dhampir/cruoromancer "blood necromancer" following the lich mythic path is probably already stronger than Strahd in 2E(his level is 16 in 2E). But IMO weaknesses and hindrances are part of what makes a character more interesting. IMO vampires should be weak vs sunlight, vs fire, vs holy and have other drawbacks. Is sad that WoTC is getting rid of negative racial scores. They already got rid of prohibited schools for specialist mages, got rid of racial weaknesses... Again, not criticizing Larian, it is Wotc fault. But would be cool if they implement a homebrew way to get a great power at a great risk.

Think on slayer form but less powerful and permanent.

Yeah, Kingmaker was much better for roleplaying (although it gets pretty high powered at the end,) hopefully Owlcats next game is focused on the lower levels. Early game d&d is underappreciated nowadays, i really like the lethality and the tendency towards more down to earth problems.

Good news for you. There are no other mythic adventure path for then to adapt and as I've discussed in WoTR thread, the own developers said that was too hard to design mythic encounters. Most adventure paths from Paizo end around lv 15 which is not low level. Is the same lv cap of wake of the ravager, a game where you fight a freaking Tarrasque.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

And what about trains? Do you know about them? Or possibly vampire trains?

Them's just blood vessels innit

 

[Cael]

It is hilarious how retarded NPCs think there is no racial negative modifiers.

When the standard that everyone is measured against get +1 to all stats, and your Mary Sue race doesn't get +1 to some stats, those stats are effectively negative modifiers.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

It is hilarious how retarded NPCs think there is no racial negative modifiers.

When the standard that everyone is measured against get +1 to all stats, and your Mary Sue race doesn't get +1 to some stats, those stats are effectively negative modifiers.

Bro you expect them to think this shit through?

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Mild criticism? One of my posts criticizing owlcat https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...s-release-thread.139979/page-343#post-7513928

This game is amazing, I liked playing it, but honestly, I wish that OwlCat had taken other module to adapt.

Oh, wow. Don't be too hard on them now!

Yep. In chapter 2 a dhampir/cruoromancer "blood necromancer" following the lich mythic path is probably already stronger than Strahd in 2E(his level is 16 in 2E). But IMO weaknesses and hindrances are part of what makes a character more interesting. IMO vampires should be weak vs sunlight, vs fire, vs holy and have other drawbacks. Is sad that WoTC is getting rid of negative racial scores. They already got rid of prohibited schools for specialist mages, got rid of racial weaknesses... Again, not criticizing Larian, it is Wotc fault. But would be cool if they implement a homebrew way to get a great power at a great risk.

Yeah, so it's not an issue with BG3 or Larian and more an issue with WotC and your personal obsession with power fantasies and cliché vampires.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

When the standard that everyone is measured against get +1 to all stats, and your Mary Sue race doesn't get +1 to some stats, those stats are effectively negative modifiers.

That's right. Now shut up and get in your magic wheelchair, goy.

 

[Sunri]

I have free weekend so I'm installing this magnum opus to see for myself if this truly changed so much and is second coming of crpg Christ anyway why this game weights 92gb?

I will post photo relation later!

 

[mediocrepoet]

I have free weekend so I'm installing this magnum opus to see for myself if this truly changed so much and is second coming of crpg Christ anyway why this game weights 92gb?

That would be 84GB of sex cinematics and 8GB of everything else.

 

[Cael]

It is hilarious how retarded NPCs think there is no racial negative modifiers.

When the standard that everyone is measured against get +1 to all stats, and your Mary Sue race doesn't get +1 to some stats, those stats are effectively negative modifiers.

Bro you expect them to think this shit through?

Not really, but it is still disappointing to know that such mentally incapacitated specimens of humanity exist. The average chimpanzee would out-think the lot of them.

 

[Cryomancer]

why this game weights 92gb?

90 gb of Astarion motion captured sex scenes
2 gb of the rest

 

[Sunri]

why this game weights 92gb?

90 gb of Astarion motion captured sex scenes
2 gb of the rest

I will make sure to create a real sex fiend so we can appreciate them

 

[ERYFKRAD]

why this game weights 92gb?

90 gb of Astarion motion captured sex scenes
2 gb of the rest

So I take it WoTR is only 50 gb odd because the sex scenes are text only?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

ban wrath trannies from our glorious thread

 

[Sunri]

Ok I just woke up and game finished downloading so first thing that's annoys me is main menu music with this retard chanting aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb is this guy learning alphabet or something?

Not saying that whole theme is bad i like female voice later really cute just the beginning is bad

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Time to make character!

Why does my gnome clench her staff?

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Only 4 voices very limited selection

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Now time to pick up the class should I play

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Magic missile bot number 1?

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Magic missile bot number 2?

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Fighter\Rogue that will turn into magic missile bot at level 3 with their subclass?

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Here we got some variety Eldrich Blast bot!

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The last option Furry

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My waifu with one hard nipple

Average Larian fan

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Spells efects outside of combat are the same as in Pathfinder they just help you skillchecks nothing special and you don't even need to cast them just select them before rolling dice

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[rusty_shackleford]

if you need 500 different spells at level 1 you might just have ADHD

 

[CodexTotalWar]

Spells efects outside of combat are the same as in Pathfinder they just help you skillchecks nothing special and you don't even need to cast them just select them before rolling dice

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That only applies to abilities and spells that you can cast mid-conversation to affect the dice rolls though.

Sorcerers in 5E have a smaller spell list than Wizards and are generally mostly pew pew (not sure why they did that, but I guess WoTC needed to remind us that they're in deed WIZARDs of the Coast).

But there should still be a few good out-of-combat ones you can pick up that aren't just skill checks - Disguise Self, Minor Illusion, Detect Thoughts, etc.

 

[Ulfhednar]

if you need 500 different spells at level 1 you might just have ADHD

Don't let rusty frighten you. He ate too much paste. He's pretty harmless once you get to know him.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

if you need 500 different spells at level 1 you might just have ADHD

Don't let rusty frighten you. He ate too much paste. He's pretty harmless once you get to know him.

Don't forget to take your meds

 

[underground nymph]

Ok I just woke up

Ok, I think Meredoth has now a contender in the autism competition.

 

[FriendlyMerchant]

That was 2 1/2 years ago... there is still no release date for this game.
Owlcat kickstarted, developed and released WotR in less than 2 years. 25 classes, 5+ archetypes for each class, 9 mythic paths...

Sorcs... woooooow...

To be fair, cutscenes and all that crap take a lot of work. If they didn't have that large number animated dialogue cutscenes and bioware style events, they'd probably be done already. Pathfinder archetypes are mostly redundant with just one of the class abilities swapped for a different class' ability (i.e. vivisectionist is just alchemist with sneak attack die instead of bombs) and if you're lucky you get a new ability or two (i.e. Swordsaint has canny dodge). The mythic paths are probably the more distinct classes. Spells themselves are mostly just the same spells being recycled throughout all the classes. The same is true for the mythic path spells for the most part. At the same Owlcat already developed most of their assets in the previous game and were reusing them.

 

[Cryomancer]

ban wrath trannies from our glorious thread

Yep. But only if it also applies to Larian cultists. Lets see if they can discuss BG3.

if you need 500 different spells at level 1 you might just have ADHD

No, is just that a lot of iconic 5E spells are missing. And I'm not talking about high level spells. Look at this mod > https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/125

I suggest playing with that mod. It adds a lot of low level(1/2/3) spells which Larian din't implemented.

 

[Sunri]

That was 2 1/2 years ago... there is still no release date for this game.
Owlcat kickstarted, developed and released WotR in less than 2 years. 25 classes, 5+ archetypes for each class, 9 mythic paths...

Sorcs... woooooow...

To be fair, cutscenes and all that crap take a lot of work. If they didn't have that large number animated dialogue cutscenes and bioware style events, they'd probably be done already. Pathfinder archetypes are mostly redundant with just one of the class abilities swapped for a different class' ability (i.e. vivisectionist is just alchemist with sneak attack die instead of bombs) and if you're lucky you get a new ability or two (i.e. Swordsaint has canny dodge). The mythic paths are probably the more distinct classes. Spells themselves are mostly just the same spells being recycled throughout all the classes. The same is true for the mythic path spells for the most part. At the same Owlcat already developed most of their assets in the previous game and were reusing them.

Larian is also building BG III upon Dos II fundation its not like they are starting from 0


anyway

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Why my character is being sucked in??

Biggest change that i found so far now they gave drow lady new haircut

Before

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After

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Angry penis tail molesting Gale

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This game have worst trading system from the recent games i played why i can select only one item or I'm missing something

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Me after another hard day of casting magic missiles at everything

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[perfectslumbers]

Sunri is making bg3 look pretty fun. Way more effective than the trailers and demos Larian showed off. I'm excited now.