Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 Pre-Release Thread [EARLY ACCESS RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Curratum]

The shitposters known as Frajaq, Auraculum and Curratum should be summarily tagged as "dumbfucks" for their impudent utterings against the Vancian magic system!

At the very least I'm not pretending to be a woman, and that an overusage of adjectives constitutes good writing.

I don't think anyone in here actually believes Lilura is a genetic female.

 

[MajorMace]

Ask your wife.

 

[frajaq]

Ability economy in BG3 should go with either:
1) Cooldown-based
2) Abilities separated by At-Will/Per-Encounter (with hopefully some horizontal growth instead of purely vertical)

 

[Orma]

Chad Swen changing d&d rules completely

vs

Virgin rus shovelware staying 100% faithful to some homebrew bootleg d&d

 

[Sergiu64]

It's not really that russky-junky anymore. I fully expected that so didn't play it until after it had been out for more than a year, even though isometric Pathfinder is basically my dream game. And at least when I played it, jank was down to a minimum. It's actually impressive how well stuff works considering the insane wealth of stuff implemented.

In my mind PF's biggest problem is that they implemented things with too few changes, meaning high level encounters are either a complete walkover or use "cheap mechanics" that can only be overcome with great patience or using exploits yourself.

I dunno, felt like hordes of trash encounters over and over. And with power levels of encounters and player characters being all over the place they would be either super difficult or super easy and boring. My gameplay was buffing all the animal companions then running over everything with them. And it got so boring... doesn't make for a good game imo.

 

[turkishronin]

The shitposters known as Frajaq, Auraculum and Curratum should be summarily tagged as "dumbfucks" for their impudent utterings against the Vancian magic system!

At the very least I'm not pretending to be a woman, and that an overusage of adjectives constitutes good writing.

I don't think anyone in here actually believes Lilura is a genetic female.

Is there any other kind of female, other than genetic?

Being a woman is a state of mind

 

[hell bovine]

this is the codex, of course there are no women here:

 

[Delterius]

lol nwn modules

Doesn't change the fact that Swordflight demonstrates the deepest understanding of the Vancian magic system.

Also, I'm a better writer than you, enjoy more fame than you, and have better taste than you.

thats not even me you haaaaaack

 

[vortex]

Vancian casting... a system so powerful and high IQ you can easily exploit in games by...resting a lot

It's by far better to exploit it than mana or cooldown system.

Being a woman is a state of mind

>hell bovine : this is the codex, of course there are no women here

 

[BING XI LAO]

I think I spent something like 18 months of ingame time playing throuigh BGT because I would cast Haste in every fight and then rest because of the fatigue.

 

[Volourn]

Vancian system is best system. Not complex, makes logical sense, casting spells should not be easy and should not be able to spam. If you spam rest (and game allows you to spam rest0 that is the game's fault not the magic system's fault. Should be simple. Can only rest once per 24 hours. Case closed.

 

[LESS T_T]

Interview with silhouettes:



02:04 - Mike Mearls mentions Neverwinter MMO as a contrast to BG3, in that while the former uses usual MMO system with cooldown with some inspirations from the tabletop ruleset, BG3 uses the tabletop ruleset as a starting point. Does this imply BG3 won't have cooldowns?

03:05 - Interviewer asks a straight question: will BG3 plays different with D:OS 2? And as expected Swen does not give a straight answer saying "it depends on how you look at it" and both games are similar in the sense that game gives player many systems and player use them to overcome challenges.

 

[DragoFireheart]

this is the codex, of course there are no women here:

RPG Codex:

Nerdy guys

Fat cucks

Trannys

And the occasional autistic teenager who somehow stumbled onto this forum.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Btw, I honestly can't think of that many examples of "systems the player can use to overcome challenges". Talking with animals, teleportation, crafting shit, moving crates, environmental combos, anything else?

 

[luj1]

Interview with silhouettes:

outside the frame ^ ^

 

[Dodo1610]

The only thing I learned from the BG3 Steam forum is that there are actually human beings that liked Dark Alliance, sadly these guys will be the only ones who will enjoy BG3

 

[Chaotic_Heretic]

I just looked up Dark Alliance. Oh boy...

 

[fantadomat]

All magic systems have their drawbacks:
The vancian system encourages you to either use the same generic damage spells everytime

Wow, you are fucking retarded. The only good use of a mage at lower levels is to cast spells like Horror, Web, Color Spray, Grease, Sleep, Dispel, Monster Summoning.. and only an occasional use of fireballs or magic missile to 'rrupt somebody.

Since when has Fireball become a lower level mage spell?
I tried both loadout through several 3.5 PnP campaigns, and the blast spell selection has been much more useful.

Fireball can be useful in some situations. Haste is useful in all situations.

And the most underrated school is illusion, if the DM is not a wargammer, its the most powerful school. it allows considerable roleplay opportunites and out of the box stuff.

It is a good school for a P&P game not for a PC game where you will kill the enemy anyway.

Also, I'm a better writer than you, enjoy more fame than you, and have better taste than you.

And more insane than most codexers . Never change Lilura.

 

[LESS T_T]

 

[luj1]

So now he likes dice?

 

[alyvain]

So now he likes dice?

Maybe he just has Harvey Twenty-Face problems

 

[Delterius]

Btw, I honestly can't think of that many examples of "systems the player can use to overcome challenges". Talking with animals, teleportation, crafting shit, moving crates, environmental combos, anything else?

VR

 

[AwesomeButton]

Virtual Reality?

 

[Lutte]

The only thing I learned from the BG3 Steam forum is that there actually are human beings that liked Drak Alliance, sadly these guys will be the only ones who will enjoy BG3

The steam forums aren't the only ones.

 

[Sentinel]

This Facebook guy on the E3 Gamespot stream talking about building safe spaces in gaming communities... his description of the AI that reads what you're typing and decides if it's offensive, and then doesn't let you post it if it is... that's some scary fucking shit. AI reading your input before you even send the message.