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Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]
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Rieser
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That's where you're headed in the game, with several quests ending with "we'll met again in Baldur's Gate" and such. I'd assume act 2 will be set there.
Heroic Liberator
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Well, bards are a joke after all.Holy fuck, what is this outfitI want to play a musician, not a court jester.
Holy fuck, what is this outfit
I was hoping since they're going for a renaissance-era style of clothing rather than the middle ages that they would include some more understated, realistic versions of this (which has some of the basic elements already). Something prestigious like a neck ruff and breastplate over striped pantaloons and slashed, paned sleeves. The Witcher had some of that.
But noooo, instead it's ankle booties and a cravat.
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Cryomancer
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NO, you guys are both wrong.
High level 5E is exactly the opposite of "everyone has oneshots", Each new spell level once two levels increase the damage of spells by about 3.5 points while each CR that creatures grow up increases their hp by in average 23 points. If you look into Strahd 2E stats, as a 16th level necromancer, he din't had much hit points however, he required +3 weapons to be hit, had contingency, decent AC, lots of undead immunities, great saves and resistances and so on. Exactly the opposite of Strahd in 5E which is extremely weaker than the generic vampire but has a lot of hit points.
The control based spells which many people claim to be OP now require concentration and enemies in this level tends to have legendary resistances, meaning that you need to burn out their legendary resistance before you could affect then with such spells.
This while in 2E, a simple sleep spell could end an low level encounter before it even started. And in 3E, at merely lv 7, you get Phantasmal killer. Your first save or die spell. In mid to high levels, you will get Cloudkill, Flesh to Stone, Disintegrate, Circle of Death, Finger of Death, Wail of the Banshee(...) all of this spells are either heavily nerfed or removed in 5E.
I played a lot of high level PvP in NWN1 and believe on me, was incredible fun.
BG2 is extremely better than BG1 and is not only due the higher xp cap. You can own your own stronghold, the quests are more interesting, investigating a strange sewer cult, dealing with strange shadows, visit other planes and so on.
The unique problem of high level D&D is that it trivializes iconic monsters.
Larianshill
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Victor, you're off your meds again.
Heroic Liberator
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His schizo pills don't work together with the ukropium he's been abusing lately))
Cryomancer
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Go play your 4E. I was addressing the point that 3E and 2E where full of "one shots" at high level which is nonsense. There are lots of protections against "one shots" in high level.
A question, did you ever played BG1/2?
How this thread is relevant to the war with Ukraine? Will you spam rate my posts here too since you have no argument? As I've said, you can span rate every single post, this would't change the fact that your ideology being a failed ideology which only produced misery and tyranny in the world and that if that ideology is implemented in your country, you will be the first to flee.
Heroic Liberator
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It isn't. I just explained your medical dilemma to Larianshill and you've already gone on a ukropium-fueled rant ITT)) I agree that we shouldn't go on one of your tangents tho, it not being the appropriate thread and all.
Delterius
Arcane
so we have 80% of act 1 in place
assuming the acts are kinda similar in size thats around what 26 percent of the game
bards
assuming the acts are kinda similar in size thats around what 26 percent of the game
bards
Larianshill
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I don't know where the 80% figure comes from. We also have the Sharran Fortress and the Moonrise Towers. Both of those must be at least as big as Grymforge.
Thonius
Arcane
Game is not real, they are waiting for WW3 or Covide 3.0 to tweet "haha got you money haha losers"
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I thought the game looked much worse than it did in patch 6, turns out I was right: https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=819163
Great job breaking it, Larian.
Great job breaking it, Larian.
jackofshadows
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Ugh, colors are threatingly approaching D:OS1 levels
The new lightning sucks too. Wtf is wrong with these hacks, they should go in the opposite direction with this.
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They somehow managed to tone down the eyes wrecking color palette, yet cranked up the brightness so the dungeons lost plenty of their charm.
Ugh, colors are threatingly approaching D:OS1 levels
Looks exactly like what happened with the earlier screenshots of Diablo 3. Everything just became too colourful.
Wasn't the case with DOS1, where Act 1 was by far the best. In DOS2, especially EE, its more balanced. But in the initial version, Act 1 (what we saw in the early access) was the most polished and had the most soul poured into it.
Near the end of act 1, while you're approaching what everyone thinks is the city of Baldur's Gate, Braccus Rex will pop up and scream "SIKE! This is LITERALLY D:OS 3". Then you'll look at the signpost and read "Cyseal" or something.
Thonius
Arcane
I was telling this right from the second patch. Consoles son.
Thonius
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And many other things
like making Halsin romanceable
That's me hoping for a proper 2e D&D mod for BG3.
Gargaune
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That does look much worse, what the hell got into them? I hope they're just tinkering with the renderer and will revert it.
And in the background, you'll hear a hop from "WALLNUTS, HOT WALLNUTS!" to "NOT IN THE MOOD FOR CHEESE?!?".
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