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

[vortex]

Chris should return to Planescape .. he was born to work on that sort of fantasy setting.
But I know the stars aren't aligned.

If Swen will get Planescape 2 licence, I'm sure he'll invite Avellone to work.

 

[J_C]

I'm still not entirely sure why they seemingly haven't gone the safe route and added both RTWP and TB like POE2. Seems like it'd be the easiest way to please both crowds by far.
If they actually did go the RTWP+TB route and thought radio silence was the best course of action, I'll probably have to question the employees responsible for PR and marketing.

Was there any game which implemented both styles in a successfull way? It seems to me that one of the modes always feels like a tacked on feature (Arcanum or PoE2).

 

[Strange Fellow]

Was there any game which implemented both styles in a successfull way?

Fallout Tactics (ish), X-Com Apocalypse (more ish). Though judging by what I've seen and heard of Deadfire, if you consider that 'tacked on' neither of these games will qualify.

 

[FreeKaner]

At this point I'll be surprised if this isn't Skyrim.

 

[Xeon]

What will Planescape 2 be about? I thought it ended in a completed way iirc.

 

[Tuco Benedicto Pacifico]

Was there any game which implemented both styles in a successfull way?

Fallout Tactics (ish), X-Com Apocalypse (more ish). Though judging by what I've seen and heard of Deadfire, if you consider that 'tacked on' neither of these games will qualify.

I'll take those as confirmations that "let's try both at the same time" never works particularly well.

At this point I'll be surprised if this isn't Skyrim.

That's... quite the logic jump to make.

 

[fantadomat]

What will Planescape 2 be about? I thought it ended in a completed way iirc.

Tormented soul and its path to redemption ?

 

[Cael]

Was there any game which implemented both styles in a successfull way?

Fallout Tactics (ish), X-Com Apocalypse (more ish). Though judging by what I've seen and heard of Deadfire, if you consider that 'tacked on' neither of these games will qualify.

I'll take those as confirmations that "let's try both at the same time" never works particularly well.

It works very well for FOT. You basically get to move until combat starts (usually because someone attacked someone else) and then it is individual or party based TB. The only problem is unrelated to the RT+TB mode of operation and had to do with how reaction fire was implemented. A FOT style RT+TB coupled with an XCom style reaction fire would be a perfect system.

Other games people forget about that uses RT+TB includes:
Dark Sun (both Shattered Lands and Wake of the Ravager) - in fact, one of the quests in WotR involves a RT race while combat is pure DnD style TB
Temple of Elemental Evil

 

[turkishronin]

At this point I'll be surprised if this isn't Skyrim.

Skyrim but without open world

 

[Mortmal]

https://steamdb.info/app/1086940/history/?changeid=6444968

Heh, Larian manually removed "Turn-Based" tag applied by users on the game's Steam page. That's suspicious.

Once they manually add action tag we are set.

 

[Reinhardt]

What will Planescape 2 be about? I thought it ended in a completed way iirc.

TNO understands that he don't like it in Blood War too and escapes again.

 

[Rinslin Merwind]

I remember someone from dev team (maybe even Swen himself) said in one of countless interview that "everyone will be pleased" or something like that. However, attempt to please everyone can result in pissing everyone and silence about gameplay isn't helping at all.

 

[Reinhardt]

everyone will be pleased

Create your own waifu?

 

[Rinslin Merwind]

Create your own waifu?

Nah, question was about combat.

 

[Reinhardt]

So not only create your own waifu but you can also chose positions?

 

[Cael]

So not only create your own waifu but you can also chose positions?

You can also make her a proselytising cleric...

 

[Delterius]

At this point I'll be surprised if this isn't Skyrim.

That's... quite the logic jump to make.

i called that like 100 pages ago

 

[vortex]

What will Planescape 2 be about? I thought it ended in a completed way iirc.

Wild guess it would happen hundreds of yrs after the events of Torment.

 

[Delterius]

What will Planescape 2 be about? I thought it ended in a completed way iirc.

Wild guess it would happen hundreds of yrs after the events of Torment.

knowing planescape it would happen hundreds of years sideways from torment

 

[Sentinel]

https://steamdb.info/app/1086940/history/?changeid=6444968

Heh, Larian manually removed "Turn-Based" tag applied by users on the game's Steam page. That's suspicious.

How do you know the change was done by Larian? Looking at the tag history they seem to fluctuate according to what people tag it as. For example, on June 13th, "Dungeons and Dragons" tag was removed. On June 17th, "Turn-Based" was added (and then removed 2 days later).

 

[Krzysiek]

Summury of E3 from polish journalist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPwTewsWE7I
and in 20:05 they talk about BGIII. The only new information is:

In BGI and BGII each character/companion gain levels separately, in BGIII the whole party will gain levels at once.

 

[Sentinel]

EXP tables have been the same for every class since D&D 3E haven't they? I know they are in 5E. Kind of a misleading line.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

re:companions
It would probably be easier to make a list of companions that wouldn't be available in 100 years after the end of BG2.
Many of them are of classes that either stop aging or age slowly at higher levels.
Aging just really isn't that big of a problem in the FR universe for people that are powerful enough to challenge quasi-gods

 

[Sentinel]

Yeah these changes aren't made by Larian. It's just the tags algorithm re-adjusting the order according to popular tags. So Sandbox supposedly fell down to the 9th most relevant tag, while Rogue-like went to 8th place.

And despite the site saying that the 12th tag "Turn-Based" was removed, this isn't true as it can still be seen on the store page:

 

[norolim]

inXile CEO Brian Fargo told IGN. "You know, both me and Feargus were chasing (Baldur's Gate III license) for years. [...] I got very, very close at one point."