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

[whydoibother]

With the game being multiplayer and all you can make a full party of Barbarians and play football with a goblin as the ball

But sadly the systems so far don't seem to allow for a barbarian wielding a barbarian wielding a barbarian wielding a barbarian wielding a goblin.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

With the game being multiplayer and all you can make a full party of Barbarians and play football with a goblin as the ball

But sadly the systems so far don't seem to allow for a barbarian wielding a barbarian wielding a barbarian wielding a barbarian wielding a goblin.

Mods will fix it

 

[Reinhardt]

Of course you can give Netherese magical nukes and the Necronomicon to a lv 1 wizard. But that makes absolutely ZERO sense. Do you have an idea about how much high and even epic level Red Wizards of Thay are attempting to get such artifacts? Getting an incomplete copy of a copy of few necronomicon pages is should be near impossible for low level PC's.

YOU KNOW HOW MANY LVL 2 FIGHTERS ARE ATTEMPTING TO GET LONG SWORD +1? IT SHOULD BE ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBRU FOR LEVEL 1 FIGHTER TO GET ONE!

 

[Lacrymas]

For comparison, would you say the same about Frodo gaining the One Ring, one of the most if not the most dangerous artifacts in all of Middle Earth? I will even argue that the ring was more dangerous and useful seeing as the hobbit could at least use it to turn invisible even if it leads to corruption.

Nothing Larian can defecate out in terms of writing will be like the One Ring.

 

[Reinhardt]

A Barbarian throwing a druid gnome at the enemy and then it shapeshifting into a bear sounds pretty dope, so why not?

When I play this game I will toss casters at everything.

is there any goblin cesspits in the game?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

A Barbarian throwing a druid gnome at the enemy and then it shapeshifting into a bear sounds pretty dope, so why not?

When I play this game I will toss casters at everything.

is there any goblin cesspits in the game?

We'll make them, one goblin at a time

 

[aleph]

A +5 longsword and lv 9 spell scrolls should be way more common than partial copies of Necronomicon. If a +5 longsowrd is out of grasp for a lv 4 nobody, necronomicon should be even more.

There are no +5 weapons in 5E, bonuses stop at +3.

 

[Fedora Master]

The "+1" thing has in-universe implications. The number indicates the amount of material FROM OTHER PLANES that went into crafting the item. So no, low level characters shouldn't have easy access to +2 and above.

 

[Lacrymas]

There are no +5 longswords in 5E btw.

 

[aleph]

Meredoth

Yes, I know Victor, bigger numbers are better, if there aren't any sky high bonuses, you don't like it

 

[AwesomeButton]

So game will release in 2023, let's average it out and say it will release in May 2023. There is a year and about 3 months until release. So I assume Paladins and Bards are basically guaranteed (is there any other classes left in 5e? Monk?), including the testing buffer for the second new class we are looking at 1 class for every 6 months till release. Amazing progress.

That's also what, 2.5 years of early access? That's vaporware territory.

I'm hoping Swen will make Monk a DLC, so I will not buy it.

 

[Cryomancer]

bigger numbers are better, if there aren't any sky high bonuses, you don't like it

Wrong. I prefer smaller numbers. In fact my favorite edition is AD&D 2E and one of the reasons is smaller numbers. But +5 is not a big number. Come on. Is not as if you have the same number bloat of DDO.

Blast a living enemy with 1d6+12 negative energy damage per caster level up to 25d6+300 at caster level 25. A successful Fortitude save reduces the damage by half. The ray also suppresses the life force of any living creature it strikes, granting it 1 negative level. And that ludicrous number is multiplied by your spellpower. I at lv 11 managed to do more than 1200 damage when the negative ray hit a critical hit

IMO DDO is a good game but the number bloat is one of the biggest problems.

For comparison, would you say the same about Frodo gaining the One Ring, one of the most if not the most dangerous artifacts in all of Middle Earth? I will even argue that the ring was more dangerous and useful seeing as the hobbit could at least use it to turn invisible even if it leads to corruption. Unless magic Tony Stark in BG3 can shoot beams out of it, to me it seems more like a plot device than anything else.

Frodo gains it exactly cuz he is the least likely to be corrupted by the ring. And the entire campaign is about destroying the ring and they try to be stealth. If the one ring was just a side content in the first movie, that would be silly, right?

 

[Mitleser2020]

So game will release in 2023, let's average it out and say it will release in May 2023. There is a year and about 3 months until release. So I assume Paladins and Bards are basically guaranteed (is there any other classes left in 5e? Monk?), including the testing buffer for the second new class we are looking at 1 class for every 6 months till release. Amazing progress.

That's also what, 2.5 years of early access? That's vaporware territory.

There are 3 unreleased classes left: Paladin, Bard and Monk.

Here is class-focused video from November 2020 based on datamining which gives an idea of Larian's implementation of these classes.

 

[kangaxx]

Have they published a second act yet?

 

[Lacrymas]

I'll make an educated guess and say they won't include act 2 in the EA version.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

The "+1" thing has in-universe implications. The number indicates the amount of material FROM OTHER PLANES that went into crafting the item. So no, low level characters shouldn't have easy access to +2 and above.

That explains max +3, can't get more planes than xy, xz and zx on cartesian.

 

[Fedora Master]

The "+1" thing has in-universe implications. The number indicates the amount of material FROM OTHER PLANES that went into crafting the item. So no, low level characters shouldn't have easy access to +2 and above.

That explains max +3, can't get more planes than xy, xz and zx on cartesian.

Im referring to the only real version of DnD of course: 3.5
Tried to find the source but Google insists I should look at 5E instead

 

[Salvo]

Have they published a second act yet?

What do you think

 

[kangaxx]

I'll make an educated guess and say they won't include act 2 in the EA version.

Yep fair enough, I have 'switched off' and ignored this game since about a week after EA release, so asking from a position of ignorance.

 

[luj1]

so lets see

- game is flashy like some korean mmo
- low level cap + 5ED
- game is more of a movie than a game
- current amount of content is pathetic

 

[Anonymous Wife Scholar]

so lets see

- game is flashy like some korean mmo
- low level cap + 5ED
- game is more of a movie than a game
- current amount of content is pathetic

Do not worry anon it is okay anon because it is true anon but game is saved anon by cute Shadowheart wife anon! It is true anon! It is!

 

[luj1]

you should probably go get some help before its too late

 

[underground nymph]

so lets see

- game is flashy like some korean mmo
- low level cap + 5ED
- game is more of a movie than a game
- current amount of content is pathetic

It actually looks very good at times. Dungeons is where it excels visually. But overall I agree that it needs some color palette toning down as well as fx and all the other fancy stuff. Blood spills are especially ridiculous.

 

[Anonona]

Frodo gains it exactly cuz he is the least likely to be corrupted by the ring. And the entire campaign is about destroying the ring and they try to be stealth. If the one ring was just a side content in the first movie, that would be silly, right?

Yeah, but I would guess that companion quest would revolve all around finding a way not to blow up, it is his motivation. If you are playing as him, then it probably would be pretty important for the player to get rid of it. I could be wrong though, I haven't even played the game, but I had the impression that the bomb may be his main concern even if you are not playing as him. I'll make an educated guess and say that probably in the full game not solving the bomb problem could have some kind of consequence, even if is just the character's death.

 

[Lacrymas]

Frodo gains it exactly cuz he is the least likely to be corrupted by the ring. And the entire campaign is about destroying the ring and they try to be stealth. If the one ring was just a side content in the first movie, that would be silly, right?

Oooo, how did I miss this. Frodo gets the ring from Bilbo at first and then he volunteers to do it at the Council, it has nothing to do with his imperviousness to corruption. If anyone is the least likely to be corrupted, it's Sam.

Also, I thought more about this whole "the One Ring is the most powerful artifact and a bunch of lvl 1 hobbits get it" argument. Here's the thing with that, the lvl 1 hobbits can't use it to rule the world unlike Sauron, Gandalf, Saruman, Galadriel, etc. The most they can do is degenerate like Gollum because they aren't high enough level to use its other powers besides invisibility (a shitty one at that because Sauron instinctively knows where you are if you use it).