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

[Shadenuat]

no more silver swords pls if there are any just shoot me *know*.

 

[Goral]

"but there's no word on when Baldur's Gate 3 will be released, and the only platforms Larian will talk about are PC and, wait for it, Google's stream-dream, Stadia."

Only PC announced at the moment and won't be a Stadia exclusive, however epic is still out there.

Get fucked Epic.

That's the most interesting bit of all this. Game will definitely be better than originals (it's not that hard) but it's a clear cash grab, going after a sequel of a well known franchise. I would prefer something completely new. It's also a shame that a company like Larian didn't get VTM license or Fallout (if you want to make a sequel use a good setting at least) for that matter but that ship has sailed.

 

[LESS T_T]

Oh this game apparently does NOT use Divinity Engine, from VentureBeat interview:

Baldur’s Gate III will not use the same game engine as the Original Sin series. “We’ve been in development on this game for several years already. It’s not the same engine as those two, but it is our own engine. It’s built on the technology that we already have,” Vincke said.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Is the fact that Illithids will be the main enemy enough evidence that it's going to be shit and the ruleset butchered with low level characters fighting something like Illithids?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

There was a kinda subtle hidden subplot in BG2 regarding Illithids and Githyanki. You encounter both of these groups multiple times throughout the SOA (Still haven't reach ToB yet). One such example is a group of Illithids called the Hidden which you can find a member of during Jan's personal quest. They are fighting a group of Githyanki called the Seekers who are hunting down the Hidden and they seem to have connections to some nobles of Athkatla. Others can explain it better than me and have somewhere on the Beamdog forums. I wonder if any of that is going to come into play here.

It's explained in detail in Planescape sourcebooks. Githyanki and Illithids wage wars in the Astral Plane all the time. The Gith were once enslaved by the mind flayers.

Githyanki were slaves then became free and thought "gee, maybe we should be just like the illithids"
and that's how Githzerai were born

 

[Ramnozack]

There was a kinda subtle hidden subplot in BG2 regarding Illithids and Githyanki. You encounter both of these groups multiple times throughout the SOA (Still haven't reach ToB yet). One such example is a group of Illithids called the Hidden which you can find a member of during Jan's personal quest. They are fighting a group of Githyanki called the Seekers who are hunting down the Hidden and they seem to have connections to some nobles of Athkatla. Others can explain it better than me and have somewhere on the Beamdog forums. I wonder if any of that is going to come into play here.

It's explained in detail in Planescape sourcebooks. Githyanki and Illithids wage wars in the Astral Plane all the time. The Gith were once enslaved by the mind flayers.

I know this, was talking about a specific group of Illithids called the hidden who have contacts with nobles in Athkatla, having seen the trailer, I thought it would make sense that Illithids were infilitrating cities and we saw some evidence of that in BG2

 

[Space Satan]

Mind Flayers are one of the most boring and tedious enemies. neverending stacking of protections was SO FUCKING BOTHERSOME in BG2

 

[Sergiu64]

Holy symbols with hands/gauntlets I can think of include Helm, Bane, Kiaransalee, Torm.

 

[hexer]

And let's fucking face it: Minsc WILL be a party member. He lives within the city.

The timeline is set 100 years after BG 2 TOB

 

[Infinitron]

The Divinity Fallen Heroes spinoff makes more sense now if this game isn't isometric. They're giving something back to the fans who wanted more of that.

 

[HoboForEternity]

Oh this game apparently does NOT use Divinity Engine, from VentureBeat interview:

Baldur’s Gate III will not use the same game engine as the Original Sin series. “We’ve been in development on this game for several years already. It’s not the same engine as those two, but it is our own engine. It’s built on the technology that we already have,” Vincke said.

improved gamebryo from divinity 2 ?

So skyrim's engine lol

 

[hexer]

What if that teaser is gameplay engine footage?

 

[d1r]

Mind Flayers are one of the most boring and tedious enemies. neverending stacking of protections was SO FUCKING BOTHERSOME in BG2

Well, be glad that you will be fighting them in 5E now

 

[razvedchiki]

return to the pathfinder thread plz nothing to see here.

 

[LESS T_T]

Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1086940/

 

[hexer]

The timeline is set 100 years after BG 2 TOB

I know. And within a series of comics that take place in the "current" timeline, due to wild magic at work, Minsc is once again alive.

OK didn't expect that XD

Regarding the symbol, maybe it's some cultists who helped the illithids get into the city

 

[Ziggy]

Is the fact that Illithids will be the main enemy enough evidence that it's going to be shit and the ruleset butchered with low level characters fighting something like Illithids?

I ran a 5e campaign once with an Elder Brain being the main villain. Started them off with a classic, rats in taverns basement, but those were cranium rats, like in Torment (also made a rat king, a bunch of rats with their tails tangled together, and that mess levitated and shoot psychic damage). Later on had some psychic thralls troglodytes, and a deep gnome with drafted on limbs from other creatures. Then the campaign fell apart, as they do, but there's plenty of options for low level enemies that are connected to mind flayers.

 

[Infinitron]

GOG: https://af.gog.com/game/baldurs_gate_iii?as=1649904300

 

[Sergiu64]

Regarding the symbol, maybe it's some cultists who helped the illithids get into the city

Yeah, I get a sense its something new. Could be related to some new god reshuffle. Cyric's symbol has a skull too for example.

 

[Incantatar]

D&D without missing in combat, because that's no fun. What drugs are they on?

 

[TT1]

BG3 plot is a continuation of Descent into Avernus. Stop going crazy about it.

Sven confirms in an interview that the game will continue the story of both previous games, with "Descent into Avernus" serving as a non-obligatory prequel, setting up the state of the city.

Yes, because DIA is a "sequel" from the games

 

[Mortmal]

The only symbol of triangle + skull I could find was Myrkul. Nothing with skull + handprint.

Skull+ handprint, probably bane then. Reformed church of bane , they aren't bent on mass slaughter anymore, just financials and world domination

 

[Ziggy]

gonna say every other page in this thread i guess, a hand and a skull gotta be Vecna

 

[AwesomeButton]

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/20...d-from-the-creators-of-divinity-original-sin/

He promises “a whole bunch of new systems” but won’t name them, pointing us to the 5th edition D&D rulebook for inspiration. “We have carte blanche and can take whatever we want. They have cool systems they’ve developed over time. When you play it you’ll start to figure out that there are many more systems than Original Sin 2 had. You can fool around and say ‘if I do this and this and this… ha! It worked!’ You’ll get that feeling.”

The butthurt when this comes out will be glorious.

 

[Shadenuat]

Oh this game apparently does NOT use Divinity Engine

so not turn based.