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

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

I'm not sure to what extent but I think taking too many long rests has story-related consequences. I barely rested at all and I've seen a bunch of stuff that seems to be the result of resting too much when viewing other people's playthroughs.

I've rested 3 times total, I think. 8 hours into the game.

The game really tries to impress upon you how dangerous time passing is, so yeah it will probably have some sort of consequence, though I doubt it will be too heavy handed.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

At the very least, there need to be sort buttons in the inventory and I'm surprised it made it this far into development without them

Wait, are you guys not aware there's a sort button?
You can even sort the inventory multiple ways.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

I really hope there will be lots of companions.

There already are. Trouble is, they're mostly unlikable.

Once I figure out how to generate mercs, I'm going to test going it alone for my next playthrough.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

At the very least, there need to be sort buttons in the inventory and I'm surprised it made it this far into development without them

Wait, are you guys not aware there's a sort button?
You can even sort the inventory multiple ways.

Really? Where? I looked for it...

 

[rusty_shackleford]

At the very least, there need to be sort buttons in the inventory and I'm surprised it made it this far into development without them

Wait, are you guys not aware there's a sort button?
You can even sort the inventory multiple ways.

Really? Where? I looked for it...

Open the inventory and check near the top of the screen.

 

[Sharpedge]

At the very least, there need to be sort buttons in the inventory and I'm surprised it made it this far into development without them

Wait, are you guys not aware there's a sort button?
You can even sort the inventory multiple ways.

Its not easy to see, but yes it is there.

I didn't spot it until it was pointed out by this picture here.

 

[TemplarGR]

I have the feeling almost 3/4 of the time spent playing the game is doing unfun stuff, fighting the interface, rotating the camera etc

You mean, like in DOS 1 and 2?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Did anyone figure out how to get inspiration points yet btw?

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Did anyone figure out how to get inspiration points yet btw?

What are those?

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

I'm not sure to what extent but I think taking too many long rests has story-related consequences. I barely rested at all and I've seen a bunch of stuff that seems to be the result of resting too much when viewing other people's playthroughs.

I tried to rest the minimum possible too, but the encounters really exhausts every spells slots, each time . Oh and by the way charm person doesnt work.

That's what I thought too. Then I read the description, it says charmed creature won't attack YOU. Maybe they mean the caster himself? But will attack others?

Or maybe it's just broken.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Did anyone figure out how to get inspiration points yet btw?

What are those?

Basically fate points in many pnp RPGs except weaker. Arcanum is a cRPG example with fate points.
You can see it in the screenshot above at the top right.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

I stopped playing halfway through the game. Don't get me wrong: Baldur's Gate is certainly a good game. However, it suffers from the same lacks in world building and setting as Divinity Original Sin 2. Instead of depicting certain races - Tieflings, Aasimar, Elves etc. - as rare, secluded and enigmatic, they are thrown at you in quick succession and shown as everyday occurrence. Right in the beginning of the game, for example, you meet an entire settlement of Tieflings - in the vicinity of Baldur's Gate - who are just another kind of staple Humans who happen to have Horns. This 'sloppy' kind of writing was already present in DOS 2. A whole lot of potential was going to waste for quick "show effects" - stong abilities, powerful races and monsters were thrown at you in the first act, obviously to catch the attention of the players. It would have been very easy to start more slowly. Maybe to have the protagonists happen upon a human fisher's village after crashing, which is under attack by goblins. And a secluded druids grove that doesn't want to help. And then, somewhere in the third or fourth act, you might have come across Tieflings. Going fast and flashy is not always the best.

It's not about flash, it's about DIVERSITY.

And I agree, it's not Forgotten Realms to have tieflings everywhere. They aren't a real race, they're the offspring of humans and evil planar creatures. It's not that common, or it shouldn't be, in Faerun.

It's not game-breaking though, they just need to provide an explanation as to why this group of rare beings are all gathered together and I guess that could be because they're refugees (from somewhere)...

 

[rusty_shackleford]

I stopped playing halfway through the game. Don't get me wrong: Baldur's Gate is certainly a good game. However, it suffers from the same lacks in world building and setting as Divinity Original Sin 2. Instead of depicting certain races - Tieflings, Aasimar, Elves etc. - as rare, secluded and enigmatic, they are thrown at you in quick succession and shown as everyday occurrence. Right in the beginning of the game, for example, you meet an entire settlement of Tieflings - in the vicinity of Baldur's Gate - who are just another kind of staple Humans who happen to have Horns. This 'sloppy' kind of writing was already present in DOS 2. A whole lot of potential was going to waste for quick "show effects" - stong abilities, powerful races and monsters were thrown at you in the first act, obviously to catch the attention of the players. It would have been very easy to start more slowly. Maybe to have the protagonists happen upon a human fisher's village after crashing, which is under attack by goblins. And a secluded druids grove that doesn't want to help. And then, somewhere in the third or fourth act, you might have come across Tieflings. Going fast and flashy is not always the best.

It's not about flash, it's about DIVERSITY.

And I agree, it's not Forgotten Realms to have tieflings everywhere. They aren't a real race, they're the offspring of humans and evil planar creatures. It's not that common, or it shouldn't be, in Faerun.

It's not game-breaking though, they just need to provide an explanation as to why this group of rare beings are all gathered together and I guess that could be because they're refugees (from somewhere)...

Larian isn't responsible for this, basically everyone with any drop of demonic/devilish blood became a stereotypical tiefling. And there were a lot of them.
Technically they already were tieflings but the blood was heavily diluted. I know someone will reply with an AKSHUALLY... And I'm well aware.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

jesus christ. I can't believe people like this type of cringy romance in their RPG games. It was not so bad when it was just a few sentences to read, but actually watching it with uncanny valley level graphics is god-awful.

There’s an (IMO obvious) in game reason for it being this way. (Not the graphics, the writing.) Spoilers.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

Spoiler

Got myself poisoned by Nettie.
Couldnt get her to give me the antidote.
Reloaded, pickpocketed it from her.
Makes me swear to drink wyvern juice if I change.
Reloaded, stole the poison from her too.
She still forces you to swear.
Only option is to attack her. Well can't say I didn't at least try to be peaceful.

Spoiler

Kill her in one hit with her own wyvern poison.

Spoiler

I refused to take it and dodged when she tried to force me to take it and she relented. I agreed to take the poison if I started to change.

Spoiler

I killed the lying little midget, pickpocketed the druid with the key to the vault and stole the worthless spear thing from it.

 

[Sharpedge]

I stopped playing halfway through the game. Don't get me wrong: Baldur's Gate is certainly a good game. However, it suffers from the same lacks in world building and setting as Divinity Original Sin 2. Instead of depicting certain races - Tieflings, Aasimar, Elves etc. - as rare, secluded and enigmatic, they are thrown at you in quick succession and shown as everyday occurrence. Right in the beginning of the game, for example, you meet an entire settlement of Tieflings - in the vicinity of Baldur's Gate - who are just another kind of staple Humans who happen to have Horns. This 'sloppy' kind of writing was already present in DOS 2. A whole lot of potential was going to waste for quick "show effects" - stong abilities, powerful races and monsters were thrown at you in the first act, obviously to catch the attention of the players. It would have been very easy to start more slowly. Maybe to have the protagonists happen upon a human fisher's village after crashing, which is under attack by goblins. And a secluded druids grove that doesn't want to help. And then, somewhere in the third or fourth act, you might have come across Tieflings. Going fast and flashy is not always the best.

It's not about flash, it's about DIVERSITY.

And I agree, it's not Forgotten Realms to have tieflings everywhere. They aren't a real race, they're the offspring of humans and evil planar creatures. It's not that common, or it shouldn't be, in Faerun.

It's not game-breaking though, they just need to provide an explanation as to why this group of rare beings are all gathered together and I guess that could be because they're refugees (from somewhere)...

I skipped through their dialogue quite quickly, so I may be wrong here but I think it was mentioned that they were from avernus?

 

[kangaxx]

At the very least, there need to be sort buttons in the inventory and I'm surprised it made it this far into development without them

Wait, are you guys not aware there's a sort button?
You can even sort the inventory multiple ways.

Really? Where? I looked for it...

Open the inventory and check near the top of the screen.

Fuck, I assumed it would have been in the same place as in DOS2. Even after looking I couldn't find it.

That's some special needs gaming by me.

 

[Gargaune]

I saw on a BG3 stream that there is a context menu on NPCs, so can you murder your own companions at will?

Yes, you can kill basically everyone.
You can even sell the vampire spawn companion to a monster hunter.

Wonderful, thanks, I look forward to it!

 

[jackofshadows]

Here is her song. This is Lohse voice actress singing again I think.

Oh, for fuck's sake!

That's cool and all but no one is bothered by the fact that it's a MIDDLE OF FUCKING NOWHERE?! Where all accompaniment is coming from? Or it's some weird ass tiefling magic?

Critical cringe level, hope they'll cut that shit out or move her in some brothel where she belongs.

 

[kangaxx]

It's not game-breaking though, they just need to provide an explanation as to why this group of rare beings are all gathered together and I guess that could be because they're refugees (from somewhere)...

They're from Syria, but have mysteriously lost all their passports.

 

[AwesomeButton]

I cannot believe this is next generation adventuring and as someone else mentioned it is Sword Coast okay? so why does it look like mediterranean place right?

Too many RPG grognards were decrying the "typical western setting", and in his wisdom Swen listened. Now the Sword Coast was made to look like Swen's dream vacation in Greece.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

I stopped playing halfway through the game. Don't get me wrong: Baldur's Gate is certainly a good game. However, it suffers from the same lacks in world building and setting as Divinity Original Sin 2. Instead of depicting certain races - Tieflings, Aasimar, Elves etc. - as rare, secluded and enigmatic, they are thrown at you in quick succession and shown as everyday occurrence. Right in the beginning of the game, for example, you meet an entire settlement of Tieflings - in the vicinity of Baldur's Gate - who are just another kind of staple Humans who happen to have Horns. This 'sloppy' kind of writing was already present in DOS 2. A whole lot of potential was going to waste for quick "show effects" - stong abilities, powerful races and monsters were thrown at you in the first act, obviously to catch the attention of the players. It would have been very easy to start more slowly. Maybe to have the protagonists happen upon a human fisher's village after crashing, which is under attack by goblins. And a secluded druids grove that doesn't want to help. And then, somewhere in the third or fourth act, you might have come across Tieflings. Going fast and flashy is not always the best.

It's not about flash, it's about DIVERSITY.

And I agree, it's not Forgotten Realms to have tieflings everywhere. They aren't a real race, they're the offspring of humans and evil planar creatures. It's not that common, or it shouldn't be, in Faerun.

It's not game-breaking though, they just need to provide an explanation as to why this group of rare beings are all gathered together and I guess that could be because they're refugees (from somewhere)...

Larian isn't responsible for this, basically everyone with any drop of demonic/devilish blood became a tiefling. And there were a lot of them.
Technically they already were tieflings but the blood was heavily diluted. I know someone will reply with an AKSHUALLY... And I'm well aware.

Yeah, but this is a fantasy setting. There aren’t billions of people with even diluted fiend blood. There may not even be millions (in Faerun at least). Per 5e lore, tieflings are a minority even in cities.

For there to be an entire group of refugees like this is pretty rare and requires some explanation.

Maybe they’d be more common in Sigil or some other plane, but not in the prime.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

There's a few NPCs you encounter that seem to heavily suggest they'll be companions in the full game.

Spoiler

I assume the bard I missed is one of those.

I doubt that there will be more than the starting retards.

The wounded blm tiefling will certainly be one, later when the party reaches Baldur's Gate.

Spoiler

I think she might be the ranger

Spoiler

I murdered her and cut her head off, so it’s unlikely she’ll be joining my party.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

At the very least, there need to be sort buttons in the inventory and I'm surprised it made it this far into development without them

Wait, are you guys not aware there's a sort button?
You can even sort the inventory multiple ways.

Its not easy to see, but yes it is there.

I didn't spot it until it was pointed out by this picture here.

Ok, now THAT is truly some garbage UI design.

 

[Salvo]

It's not game-breaking though, they just need to provide an explanation as to why this group of rare beings are all gathered together and I guess that could be because they're refugees (from somewhere)...

They're from Syria

That does explain the red skin and the smell of sulphur