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

[Abu Antar]

Any info on how the multiplayer split screen is supposed to work out in PS5? Are players tied to each other, can they go separate ways?

It worked flawlessly on console for the Divinity: OS. I played that one with my brother, and both of us enjoyed it.
From the trailer, it seems like players are free to visit different places. The question is just how free.

 

[Anonona]

The question is just how free

If the system is like D:OS 2 at least, then you are free to go everywhere and do any quest independently of each other, but one player cannot advance to the next chapter without the other. So it would be feasible for one player to go pick daisies on the fields while the other reach the end of the chapter and kills everything that moves, but both would need to proceed to the next chapter together. You could also break party and kill each other, even if there was no real reason to do, at least for the most part (there are some exceptions related to quests). This applied both to online/lan play and splitscreen (and any combination of both, as you could play online while playing splitscreen).

I would asume BG3 will have the same system, unless someone can confirm it won't be the case.

 

[Incognito]

Any info on how the multiplayer split screen is supposed to work out in PS5? Are players tied to each other, can they go separate ways?

It worked flawlessly on console for the Divinity: OS. I played that one with my brother, and both of us enjoyed it.
From the trailer, it seems like players are free to visit different places. The question is just how free.

Interesting, didn’t know that about D:OS since I played on PC.

I wonder how is story progress maintained. In essence this is a single player game, so there must be some barriers to keep both players actions from f’ing up the main storyline.

 

[Incognito]

The question is just how free

If the system is like D:OS 2 at least, then you are free to go everywhere and do any quest independently of each other, but one player cannot advance to the next chapter without the other. So it would be feasible for one player to go pick daisies on the fields while the other reach the end of the chapter and kills everything that moves, but both would need to proceed to the next chapter together. You could also break party and kill each other, even if there was no real reason to do, at least for the most part (there are some exceptions related to quests). This applied both to online/lan play and splitscreen (and any combination of both, as you could play online while playing splitscreen).

I would asume BG3 will have the same system, unless someone can confirm it won't be the case.

Thanks for clarifying. I never knew you could do this on the Divinity games and now I wanna try it.

 

[AwesomeButton]

3. Game still looks like Divinity 3 that nobody asked for.
4. No day/night cycles. Static gameworld in a 2023 RPG. Baldur's Gate 2 in 1998 had cycles.

I thought we had already come to terms with these

 

[Swen]

I will stay as far away as possible from any audio of this game and the game it's self.

Happy for their success though.

Going to lick so many tears here when larian haters will see the astounding critical and commercial success of BG3.

"muh RTWP" "muh day/night cycle" "muh Divinity 3" Suck it bitches!


Going to be glorious!

 

[Delterius]

How are you supposed to be a holy knight

have you considered having fun instead

 

[Percy]

H

How are you supposed to be a holy knight

have you considered having fun instead

He's a fucking Jannie

 

[whydoibother]

Based Swen continues to trigger Body Type 1 people who have never touched a Body Type 2 person in their lives.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

I find the obbligation to wear a skin suit triggering. I am a being of the ether. I will not be contained in a fleshy jail!

I seriously hope they are working on optimizing the game as we speak. Really, really hoping.

 

[Desiderius]

How are you supposed to be a holy knight

have you considered having fun instead

 

[Mr. Magniloquent]

I will probably get around to playing this before D:OS2. I still haven't made it off the beach, lol. I don't expect this game to feel like BG, but I do expect it to be a very high quality game. I'm annoyed that there will be cameos, but whatever. There is no way any of this game will be considered as part of the BG saga. It's BG in name only, and everyone knows it. I will still probably wait a year like I normally do. I'll be interested in not only playing a complete game, but when Larian inevitably improves its poor late chapters. I plan on using PnP restoration mods as well. Those should be out by then.

 

[Ryzer]

We all are going to buy a copy or two of it and gonna like it a LOT so that Belgium economy will be pumped up to superpower status.

 

[whydoibother]

We all are going to buy a copy or two of it and gonna like it a LOT so that Belgium economy will be pumped up to superpower status.

Real Belgian patriots, such as myself, already bought it when the early access released.

 

[Cryomancer]

Going to be glorious!

The unique glorious modern AAA game is Elden Ring.

There is no way any of this game will be considered as part of the BG saga.

Considering Woketards of the C*** recent history, be glad that they din't retconed Baalspawn saga as a transgender baalspawn fighting against patriarchy or shit like that.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

I am glad they retconned out the novels from the main continuity, though.

 

[whydoibother]

Going to be glorious!

The unique glorious modern AAA game is Elden Ring.

There is no way any of this game will be considered as part of the BG saga.

Considering Woketards of the C*** recent history, be glad that they din't retconed Baalspawn saga as a transgender baalspawn fighting against patriarchy or shit like that.

Isn't it very fitting and even traditional for Abrahamic lore inspired demons to be transsexual and in general sexually deviant?
Christian art and stories certainly portray the devil as the kind of guy to have a rimjob while getting a blowjob while pinching his nipples.

 

[Swen]

The unique glorious modern AAA game is Elden Ring.

Unique? Just Demon's souls in an open world.

Bg3 will be the game that popularizes crpg's, mark my words.

Bg3 will be like what the witcher 3 was for CDprojekt red, the game that makes Larian and shoots me into epic stardom alongside Miyamoto and Carmack.

 

[whydoibother]

Bg3 will be the game that popularizes crpg's, mark my words.

That was DOS 2. It didn't do FIFA or Call of Duty numbers, but it sold millions of copies at full price, as a cRPG.

 

[Percy]

The unique glorious modern AAA game is Elden Ring.

Unique? Just Demon's souls in an open world.

Bg3 will be the game that popularizes crpg's, mark my words.

Bg3 will be like what the witcher 3 was for CDprojekt red, the game that makes Larian and shoots me into epic stardom alongside Miyamoto and Carmack.

You're wrong and gay but thank you for trying

 

[whydoibother]

You're wrong

Elden Ring is just a *Souls game, with very little "new" in it.
BG3 will sell much more than you'd expect from the genre, and on multiple systems.
It is the most heavily marketed game Larian ever did, and I expect their fastest selling. They'll have a much easier time raising funds after BG3 releases so they can have their own Cyberpunk flop
Where's the wrong?

 

[Cryomancer]

Unique? Just Demon's souls in an open world.

That is exactly why is great. Open World is great and Demon souls is great, is greatness². A high quality of a AAA product without the handholding, linearity, low lethality rotation/cooldown managing style combat and tons of other problems which plagues modern AAA studios.

Their UI if their UI was made by bugsoft. BTW, Elden Ring has D/N cycle and enemies which only spawn at certain times.

Bg3 will be like what the witcher 3 was for CDprojekt red

So after Bg3, Larian will try to become a ESG company, hire a lot of diversity hires and produce completely bugged products?

 

[Terenty]

Holy downgrade, I swear it looks worse and worse graphically the more they show. Wtf happened to the lighting and particle effects?

Not gonna lie I was hyped for the game after playing a bit of the first iteration of EA, but now it looks so fucking generic and flat

Citation needed. Pull up an old vid for comparison.

I've owned the game since release and I don't see the downgrade. More likely it just seems dated now that you're comparing this 2+ year old modified Divinity engine to modern titles.

Most I can see in that vid is maybe lower resolution textures than PC.

I think it looks better here



The colours are richer, not as washed out, the lighting is on point, nothing looks flat.

I played the early access myself and was impressed by how it looked like, now it looks absolutely unimpressive

 

[Percy]

You're wrong

Elden Ring is just a *Souls game, with very little "new" in it.
BG3 will sell much more than you'd expect from the genre, and on multiple systems.
It is the most heavily marketed game Larian ever did, and I expect their fastest selling. They'll have a much easier time raising funds after BG3 releases so they can have their own Cyberpunk flop
Where's the wrong?

Where's the right?

 

[Delterius]

We all are going to buy a copy or two of it and gonna like it a LOT so that Belgium economy will be pumped up to superpower status.

Real Belgian patriots, such as myself, already bought it when the early access released.

its like printing your own money since belgium is now 2/3rds driven by LarianBonds