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

[Sharpedge]

Has anyone figured out the actual consequences of using the [Illithid] dialog options?

About to replay it and go full tentacle.

Maybe it's a MotB sort of deal giving you the possibility to go for an Illithid ending?

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I think every time you do it, the parasite bites a chunk out of your brain.

Other than that though, I have no idea what the end result would look like.

Ceramorphosis isn’t a positive thing. I’m not sure how it could be spun to be a positive thing, unless you can swing some kind of deal for the Illithid to implant your memories and personality in the new Illithid that takes you over or whatever...

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The very fact that you aren’t turning into an Illithid by day 5 should signal that something like this MAY be possible.

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In the Underdark there is a friendly mindflayer who you can ask to remove the tadpole. He fails, but in trying he tells you that there is something preventing the tadpole from going through its normal process. Imo its more likely that the "something else" is just using the tadpole as a convenient control mechanism and doesn't actually want mind flayers as its end result.

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I remember someone else also tells you this. Was it Halsin?

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I think so. The mindflayer also gives you a ring which can block the tadpole from influencing you any further. I am not entirely sure what it does other than disabling powers which the tadpole gives you.

 

[ADULF HITLOR FAN KLUB]

Can you actually travel on a non linear way and explore freely the country side like you can on BG 1

No. The entire first chapter takes place on a single map in the same fashion as in DOS2. It is kind of like a theme park where you go from one attraction to the next, mainly in the order you choose.

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

1. Gale says he wants to consume the amulet of selune. How do I give it to him? I can't find the option to allow him to eat it.

2. How do I activate this?

3. This shit was supposed to give me a cache location on the map, but didn't?

4. How to open??

 

[Lawntoilet]

Fantastic graphics
Not fun to play
Not Larian's best game, not WotC's best licensed game, and for sure not the best CRPG Renaissance game
3/10 would not highsea again

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

Because there's just one big ass map, there's no sense of adventure, but a sense of being locked in there on that map.

 

[Sigourn]

any more than they’re going to change Doom into an top down strategy game because of your dumb, barely-readable comment on a forum.

tbh a Fallout-like Doom RPG would be neat.

 

[Poseidon00]

4. How to open??

Have you tried making Astarion a thief rather than Arcane Trickster, or be one yourself and then unlock it?

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I dunno if this works, try it and find out.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

You jump across the small creek, go behind the statue, and pass a perception roll to find a hidden prayer. You walk over to the chest and read the prayer to unlock it.

Worster has me on ignore so he won't even know.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

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You jump across the small creek, go behind the statue, and pass a perception roll to find a hidden prayer. You walk over to the chest and read the prayer to unlock it.

Worster has me on ignore so he won't even know.

Yup. Me too. I answer his questions just so others won't and he'll be there scratching his head wondering why no one is helping him.

 

[Ontopoly]

WotC has already invested a ton into Baldur’s Gate in terms of campaigns and lore leading up to this. It’s years in the making, which makes it really unreasonable when posters blame Larian for it.

Fuck Mike Mearls just as much as swen. swen is a thief and mike mearls is teh isndie man that helped him do it.

No, they aren’t going to change turned based to real time

It's not about getting them to change, it's about letting swen know that not everybody treats him and his work like his cultists do. The more negativety he sees about his products, the better.

 

[Nerevar]

This game was pretty expensive.... Even more expensive than Grimoire really excited to play it though.

 

[Poseidon00]

Gale is a total bro. Probably one of my favorite npcs in a DnD game of all time. The rest suck but i'd fuck the gith.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Gale is a total bro. Probably one of my favorite npcs in a DnD game of all time. The rest suck but i'd fuck the gith.

Shadowheart is 200% adorable
I like Wyll


I'll probably use Gale on a different playthrough, I played as a wizard.

 

[Agame]

It's like when Star Stable

Have we found Larians target audience?

 

[Great Deceiver]

Played a little bit today and the opening sequence is certainly some hahahaowow.jpg level shit. Why didn't they just call this something else?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Played a little bit today and the opening sequence is certainly some hahahaowow.jpg level shit. Why didn't they just call this something else?

To trigger nostalgiafags, and it's very effective.
Based Sven.

 

[Poseidon00]

Shadowheart is 200% adorable
I like Wyll


I'll probably use Gale on a different playthrough, I played as a wizard.

Shadowhearts the one I haven't taken yet. I may roll a new character to try out some different outcomes.

 

[Poseidon00]

Shadowheart is 200% adorable
I like Wyll


I'll probably use Gale on a different playthrough, I played as a wizard.

By the way, can you use your fancy computer tricks to tell me what alignment Wyl was supposed to be before they gutted it? Curious about this given the conflict between his personality and class.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

It's not about getting them to change, it's about letting swen know that not everybody treats him and his work like his cultists do. The more negativety he sees about his products, the better.

yelling at him and saying his game is shit just because he didn't make a direct continuation of Throne of Bhaal is retarded and will make him tune you out as a psycho.

I really don't care if you criticize the game, but talk about the actual features you're criticizing since this is a thread discussing them and not a thread to complain the game exists at all.

Infinitron was autistic kind enough to create about 10 different threads on this, so use them.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Kind of funny because the actual BG3 will have more to do with BG1/2 than the planned BG3 would have.

 

[Sharpedge]

Has anyone here figured out

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how to open the book called the necromancy of thay?

Seems like something right up the alley of our resident necromancer fetishist.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

Kind of funny because the actual BG3 will have more to do with BG1/2 than the planned BG3 would have.

I think that if they did it RtwP and in the Infinity Engine, he'd still be bitching like crazy. He just likes to whine about things and has no real criticism about the game he's articulated iirc.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Has anyone here figured out

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how to open the book called the necromancy of thay?

Seems like something right up the alley of our resident necromancer fetishist.

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You need the gem from the spider caves

 

[Poseidon00]

Well I just got the

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cutscene with the person you dream of

and that was...interesting to say the least.

 

[aweigh]

I think that if they did it RtwP and in the Infinity Engine, he'd still be bitching like crazy. He just likes to whine about things and has no real criticism about the game he's articulated iirc.

For me the reason D:OS 3 doesn't feel like a Baldur's Gate game is because of the art and the aesthetics, the music and soundtrack, the area design and the stereotypically bad Larian-style quest and dialog writing.

I don't think many care about it not being RTwP or that it isn't a direct continuation. Anyway the game's decent for what it is; good time waster. GUI and interfaces need some serious work tho.