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

[NJClaw]

If the game starts off at level 1, I can't see how they'd fit +5 weapons in unless the game is absolutely epic?

Comparing to BG 1 and 2. I think the best you get in BG1 is a +3 from memory? You only get to +5s when you get to Carsomyr etc in BG2.

The best you can get in BG1 is the +5 scimitar from the gay black elf. But, yeah, aside from that single easter egg, the highest enchantment you can find is +3 (a quarterstaff and a two-handed sword, both in the expansion). There are, however, a lot of +2 weapons and some of them are extremely easy to find at the very beginning of your adventure.

BG3 will end at level 10, so "high level" items shouldn't appear at all. Also, even if the game goes absolutely epic, in D&D 5 even the most powerful artifacts don't go over +3.

There is the sword of Berserking in the base game.

Yeah, I was sticking to weapons without downsides. Otherwise, in the base game there's also the Backbiter.

 

[Ontopoly]

Why are you repeating what i said.....with a lot of words??? There hasn't been a good AAA rpg in a decade,also the AAA model is dying out.

Because the more words you use, the better. Try just writing a longer post next time. You don't even have to worry about grammar because it's just the codex and half these fucks won't even read it.

 

[Silly Germans]

How does character development in the 5th edition work ?

 

[Lacrymas]

LoL keep your triple garbage production while i enjoy the owlcat's pathfinder games . Talking about AAA as a good thing in 2020.....yeah the isolation must have driven you mad.

What are you even talking about, dude? I presume the process went something along these lines -> WotC wanted to make a AAA D&D video game, perhaps an RPG -> The only viable candidates were Obsidian and Larian -> Obsidian's track record is of financial failure with their only RPG franchise -> ergo Larian who have had 2 successful RPGs already -> perhaps Larian and WotC decided together a Baldur's Gate game would be the most appropriate due to being the D&D game with the most name recognition. This doesn't have anything to do with AAA "being a good thing" or me implying that, or whatever other nonsense goes through your head on a daily basis.

How does character development in the 5th edition work ?

Technically, it doesn't have any outside of leveling up. Feats are an optional rule (but Larian will use it), and a 20th lvl Ranger is not significantly different than any other 20th level Ranger.

 

[Tacgnol]

How does character development in the 5th edition work ?

Similar to previous editions, but you generally get less "power" per level up.

One of the big things about 5e is bounded accuracy, i.e. attack bonuses and AC doesn't increase exponentially. Idea is meant to be that low level monsters can still pose a danger to high level characters and vice versa.

There are also generally lots more caps on things like stats(cap at 20, most classes can increase that to 24 on a couple of abilities). Also most adventures generally finish at low/mid levels, it is pretty rare to go above 10.

Another thing is most of your features come from your class levels, as feats are an optional rule and aren't often used.

 

[User0001]

How does character development in the 5th edition work ?

It takes 20 seconds to create an account on https://www.dndbeyond.com/, and after that's done, you can start character-building in 5e.

 

[NJClaw]

How does character development in the 5th edition work ?

Technically, it doesn't have any outside of leveling up. Feats are an optional rule (but Larian will use it), and a 20th lvl Ranger is not significantly different than any other 20th level Ranger.

I wouldn't say that "a 20th level Ranger is not significantly different than any other 20th level Ranger": archetypes are (usually) extremely impactful and they are fundamental in determining what your character does. Let's forget the Ranger for a moment: an Assassin and an Arcane Trickster are both Rogues, but play out in completely different ways.

Even when archetypes are not that different from one another (Wizard's Arcane Traditions are not THAT impactful), they still do a better job than AD&D kits in giving the player the chance to create different characters with the same class.

When you compare two character with the same class AND the same archetype, however, there's not much that can differentiate them.

 

[Lacrymas]

That's exactly what I meant.

 

[Silly Germans]

So they got rid of all that multiclassing shenanigans with level dips to obtain feat xy ?

 

[Saravan]

LoL keep your triple garbage production while i enjoy the owlcat's pathfinder games . Talking about AAA as a good thing in 2020.....yeah the isolation must have driven you mad.

Yeah bro, you totally don't care at all. You have only constantly cried here since February.

I think it looked pretty entertaining and I'm glad that it's not some PoE style nostalgia milking spiritual successor. I can understand that some BG fans feel let down though.

Tell me a single thing you saw that makes you think of Baldur's gate games. The game is a fucking rip off and reskin of dos2

When you call your game "Baldur's Gate" — you make it RTWP.

But then how are boomers going to play it? You should be more tolerable toward old people with shit hand eye coordination. From now on everything should have a TB mode so all those poor disabled people could feel included.

What I think the edgier parts of the Codex are finding it hard to come to terms with is that this is what turn-based RPGs look like when they're commercially succcessful.

Don't you see? This is it. This is what you wanted BioWare to be. This is what BioWare could have become if they'd decided to make RPGs that are "turn-based with lots of C&C!" just like the Codex always said it wanted them to. The Biodocs are looking at Swen Vincke right now and saying, "In another timeline, that could have been us."

And that's why it's so appropriate that this is Baldur's Gate III, as different as it is from the original games.

So when Fallout changes subgenres it is heresy,but when BG does it is incline?!

 

[Ontopoly]

LoL keep your triple garbage production while i enjoy the owlcat's pathfinder games . Talking about AAA as a good thing in 2020.....yeah the isolation must have driven you mad.

Yeah bro, you totally don't care at all. You have only constantly cried here since February.

I think it looked pretty entertaining and I'm glad that it's not some PoE style nostalgia milking spiritual successor. I can understand that some BG fans feel let down though.

Tell me a single thing you saw that makes you think of Baldur's gate games. The game is a fucking rip off and reskin of dos2

When you call your game "Baldur's Gate" — you make it RTWP.

But then how are boomers going to play it? You should be more tolerable toward old people with shit hand eye coordination. From now on everything should have a TB mode so all those poor disabled people could feel included.

What I think the edgier parts of the Codex are finding it hard to come to terms with is that this is what turn-based RPGs look like when they're commercially succcessful.

Don't you see? This is it. This is what you wanted BioWare to be. This is what BioWare could have become if they'd decided to make RPGs that are "turn-based with lots of C&C!" just like the Codex always said it wanted them to. The Biodocs are looking at Swen Vincke right now and saying, "In another timeline, that could have been us."

And that's why it's so appropriate that this is Baldur's Gate III, as different as it is from the original games.

So when Fallout changes subgenres it is heresy,but when BG does it is incline?!

He's doing the industry a justice by calling out trash companies like Larian. And we've been shit talking Larian for a lot longer than February.

 

[DraQ]

It's either them or Obsidian. There is no-one else that can make a high-budget BG3 atm. Realistically speaking. Owlcat don't have the manpower even if they were given the license.

LoL keep your triple garbage production while i enjoy the owlcat's pathfinder games . Talking about AAA as a good thing in 2020.....yeah the isolation must have driven you mad.

I will put it simply so that you can understand:
There is no possibility of anyone making a low-budget BG3.
Not when everyone who has as much as heard about cRPG genre mentions BG.

And TBH other than... questionable selection of their antagonist source material Larian already seems to be doing better job than BW ever has - ditching RTWP idiocy, for example.

 

[garren]

The best you can get in BG1 is the +5 scimitar from the gay black elf. But, yeah, aside from that single easter egg, the highest enchantment you can find is +3 (a quarterstaff and a two-handed sword, both in the expansion).

Hmm wasn't the short sword of backstabbing +3 also?

 

[Ontopoly]

I will put it simply so that you can understand:
There is no possibility of anyone making a low-budget BG3.
Not when everyone who has as much as heard about cRPG genre mentions BG.

I wish no one big or small would touch Baldur's Gate. We should have stuck to spiritual successors and games influenced by them so that they could stand on their own instead of high jacking a name, shitting all over it, then acting like they're contributing. And because they have the IP they feel justified to shit all over it.

 

[vortex]

I wish no one big or small would touch Baldur's Gate. We should have stuck to spiritual successors and games influenced by them so that they could stand on their own instead of high jacking a name, shitting all over it, then acting like they're contributing. And because they have the IP they feel justified to shit all over it.

Yes. Preach brother.

 

[fantadomat]

It's either them or Obsidian. There is no-one else that can make a high-budget BG3 atm. Realistically speaking. Owlcat don't have the manpower even if they were given the license.

LoL keep your triple garbage production while i enjoy the owlcat's pathfinder games . Talking about AAA as a good thing in 2020.....yeah the isolation must have driven you mad.

I will put it simply so that you can understand:
There is no possibility of anyone making a low-budget BG3.
Not when everyone who has as much as heard about cRPG genre mentions BG.

And TBH other than... questionable selection of their antagonist source material Larian already seems to be doing better job than BW ever has - ditching RTWP idiocy, for example.

Honestly i don't think that BG name could move that many copies. If they sell well it will be because of DOS2 success,not because of BG brand. In reality the RPG fans that know their shit and would buy BG3 are very niche,sure there is a lot of youtube retards that parrot the same 5 lines about the games without even playing it. But i doubt that this type of hype will move many copies,those times ended with kickstarter.

Well RTWP supremacy sold,you are just butthurt and old .

Sounds of intense cock sucking!

Sorry mate,can't hear you from all that Swen's jizz in your mouth.

 

[Saravan]

He's doing the industry a justice by calling out trash companies like Larian. And we've been shit talking Larian for a lot longer than February.

Sorry mate,can't hear you from all that Swen's jizz in your mouth.

via Imgflip Meme Generator

 

[fantadomat]

He's doing the industry a justice by calling out trash companies like Larian. And we've been shit talking Larian for a lot longer than February.

Sorry mate,can't hear you from all that Swen's jizz in your mouth.

via Imgflip Meme Generator

Ahhhh another pampers filler being butthurt that they can't keep up with hitting a space bar.

 

[User0001]

He's doing the industry a justice by calling out trash companies like Larian. And we've been shit talking Larian for a lot longer than February.

Sorry mate,can't hear you from all that Swen's jizz in your mouth.

via Imgflip Meme Generator

Fanta and Ontopoly need to fuck each other in the mouth ASAP. No more of this will they, won't they? Rachel and Ross bullshit.

 

[fantadomat]

He's doing the industry a justice by calling out trash companies like Larian. And we've been shit talking Larian for a lot longer than February.

Sorry mate,can't hear you from all that Swen's jizz in your mouth.

via Imgflip Meme Generator

Fanta and Ontopoly need to fuck each other in the mouth ASAP. No more of this will they, won't they? Rachel and Ross bullshit.

I expect nothing less from a swedish faggot like you lol.

 

[User0001]

lol

 

[NJClaw]

He's doing the industry a justice by calling out trash companies like Larian. And we've been shit talking Larian for a lot longer than February.

You guys are single-handedly taking down Larian and the bad guys in the industry. Keep up the good work, we stand behind you!

 

[NJClaw]

Also, Onto, still love you, but the entire forum is shit talking Larian since (at least) D:OS. The only two threads about D:OS I read/posted in are literally about how people can't suffer going through the entire game. The only thread I saw about D:OS 2 is about how Kingmaker is a better game.

I think you are deliberately mistaking "well, at least we are getting a D&D turn based crpg" for "yes Larian is the best, please Swen fuck me in the ass".

 

[fantadomat]

He's doing the industry a justice by calling out trash companies like Larian. And we've been shit talking Larian for a lot longer than February.

You guys are single-handedly taking down Larian and the bad guys in the industry. Keep up the good work, we stand behind you!

Go get wrecked by corona chan,frog!

 

[NJClaw]

He's doing the industry a justice by calling out trash companies like Larian. And we've been shit talking Larian for a lot longer than February.

You guys are single-handedly taking down Larian and the bad guys in the industry. Keep up the good work, we stand behind you!

Go get wrecked by corona chan,frog!

I think I already got it, so that's not going to work

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