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

[Robber Baron]

The memes write themselves

 

[Wulfric Pinewood]

Cyberfunk is delayed to november. He he he

 

[Infinitron]

Swen talking about the reaction system - the ability to react to enemy actions during their turn and similar events. The UI isn't ready yet. Larian could take a look at what Solasta has done here.

 

[Infinitron]

Interview is over.



And how appropriate that the EA showcase is later today. Will BioWare even be there?

 

[Dishonoredbr]

It's already been mentioned now probably but oh god am I happy they've completely dropped DOS2 style dialogue.

Best change.. Divinity 2 "second person dialogue" is bad and anyone who thought was a good idea must be stupid or something..

 

[vortex]

I suppose abusing the tadpole skill will eventually come with some sort of permanent mental instability issue. Like you're going to identify yourself as a Dragon or something.

Hey, are you insinuating DraQ already has that mental instability issue ?

 

[Dodo1610]

Mark Darrah made some Dragon Age shitposts recently so i think there is a small chance Bioware will show some DA4 teaser but not more.

The BG3 Livestream was great it's pretty clear that Larian is on the right track to make a great DND game. I feel sorry for the poor writers who had to rewrite every single line of player dialogue though in 3 months


Lae'zel is my waifu

 

[Wulfric Pinewood]

What a fucked world. Now this Larian game looks like real nice return to Baldur's Gate and DnD FR at all, and Cyberfunk 2077 turned into delayed transtrain where you create women with penis and jump around shooting at poor negro/asian people to collect credits and mount additional penis or three to your head etc. And we could have just Witcher 4 . Meh. Breathtaking , for fuck sake.

 

[Infinitron]

Up on YouTube:



Gamespot interview also:

 

[Lacrymas]

I'm also not sold on the anime jumps, but I guess we'll have those.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

Mark Darrah made some Dragon Age shitposts recently so i think there is a small chance Bioware will show some DA4 teaser but not more.

The BG3 Livestream was great it's pretty clear that Larian is on the right track to make a great DND game. I feel sorry for the poor writers who had to rewrite every single line of player dialogue though in 3 months


Lae'zel is my waifu

*You say that was a worth sacrifice because at least isn't gonna be ass to have single conversation with a npc. And that you gonna pray for their souls*

 

[Thac0]

Level design seems really great and lots of situations where the stats come handy. I liked all the encounters and there doesn't seem to be a lot of barrels unlike Dos2. I don't like it that Tadpole checks seems to be way easier than others but hopefully it has a big drawback at some point.
Haven't really been excited this bad for a game for a long time. Are cunning actions now only considered as a bonus action for Rogues and an action for the other classes?

Yes, in 5e everyone can take the dash, disengage or hide action, rogues can take them as bonus action through cunning action.
They might or might not have expended this to jump and throw, which would be fine from a balance standpoint, rogue isnt OP or anything and throwing daggers every turn fits their flavour.

Githyanki Psionics.

You know the mage handcantrip, and the hand is invisible when you cast the cantrip with this trait.


When you reach 3rd level, you can cast jump once with this trait, and you regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the misty step spell once with this trait, and you regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.

Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for these spells. When you cast them with this trait, they don't require components.


Also: the bonus action spell economy is wrong (you can’t cast magic missile or any levelled spell after misty step only cantrips)

but i suppose they simply have to fix that like they have to fix magic missile miss.

Removing the bonus action and action spell rule is an incredibly common house rule. I dont like it but I have played at tables that do it and I accept it by now. Since Critical role handles stuff like that you can expect that not to get changed.

 

[underground nymph]

i mean 3d and free camera are totally justified now given all the opportunities their environment provides and which one should seek and utilize to succeed.
i guess this game is gonna be huge incline. hope they’ll polish out lighting as well as other declines and annoyances i’ve noticed so far (like anime-style jumps, actions and casting).

 

[Dodo1610]

Some previews have gone online
https://www.pcgamer.com/larian-show...rting-spiders-and-a-glimpse-of-the-underdark/

 

[Infinitron]

Some previews have gone online
https://www.pcgamer.com/larian-show...rting-spiders-and-a-glimpse-of-the-underdark/

That's just a recap of the stream. I don't think any other websites have previews, or at least they're not allowed to publish them yet.

It's a useful recap though so let's copy it here:

Larian shows off more Baldur's Gate 3, including teleporting spiders and a glimpse of the Underdark

We're about 5-6 hours into Baldur's Gate 3, and a party of level 3 adventurers are hanging out in a leafy, sun-dappled forest. Our hero Swen (a wizard named after Larian's Swen Vincke, who's controlling the demo) is joined by Shadowheart, Gale, and Lae'zel—a cleric, a mage, and a fighter.

Our intrepid band of adventurers have parasitic tadpoles lodged in their brains that will eventually turn them into nightmarish Mind Flayers, and they're looking for a cure. This first scene takes place in your camp: a place where you can rest, regroup, and chat to your party. Lae'zel isn't pleased about us resting. She wants to get on with the search for a cure. Gale is pessimistic, staring into the fire, lamenting the situation. And who can blame him?

The character models are fantastic, and although the cinematics still need some polish, Larian has done a fantastic job bringing your party to life. They already seem like people I want to hang out with and get to know.

The next morning the party sets out into the forest. As Vincke plays, he zooms the camera in and out. Zoomed out, it's reminiscent of classic Baldur's Gate. Zoomed in, the camera lingering behind your character, I'm reminded of Dragon Age. At either height, the level of detail is impressive.

One of the goblins attacks a barrel of fire wine near us, which douses us in flames. But luckily Shadowheart, our cleric, has a water spell to hand, and she extinguishes the blaze. The goblins are eventually defeated, and we make our way up the hill towards the big windmill we saw earlier.

Another group of goblins are camped up here, laughing at a distressed gnome they've tied to one of the windmill's fans. "We're teaching this 'ere pipsqueak how to fly!" says the leader. We can walk away and pretend we didn't see anything, but maybe the gnome has some useful information?

Having Lae'zel in the party, a tough-looking Githyanki warrior, we get a special intimidation option. The dice rolls in our favour this time and the goblins run away with their tails between their legs. We find a switch to stop the windmill. Vincke says we could actually make it go faster if we wanted to, but we spare the gnome the trauma and cut him loose.

The gnome tells us that he's on his way to the Underdark, a location you may remember visiting if you played Baldur's Gate 2. This opens up a sequence of quests that we'd have missed if we hadn't rescued the hapless gnome, and it's also a clue that an entrance to the Underdark might be nearby.

We took a beating, so we return to our camp. You can take a short rest anywhere in the world, but to get back to full strength you have to go back to your camp for a proper snooze. In the night a man approaches dressed in fine clothes. He says his name is Raphael and he has something to tell us. Vincke says this moment, and other important narrative beats, can occur at different locations. Here it's at the camp, but it might not be for you.

Raphael whisks the protagonist away to a grand, fire-lit hall with a loaded feast table. Transforming into a devil, he offers to remove the tadpole from our head. If we don't accept, he says, our skin will sunder and our guts will dissolve. Gross. We refuse, but he seems unconcerned. He's convinced we'll come crawling back when we can't find a cure elsewhere.

We wake up back in the camp and continue our adventure. Vincke 'disconnects' the party and sends Lae'zel off to a nearby goblin camp, built around an old ruin. She does some cool, acrobatic leaping between rocks, sneaking into the camp. She embarrasses the camp's leader by using a spell to knock him on his arse and poisons a pot of booze, triggering a scripted event where the goblins have a party, drink it, and die. At least there won't be a hangover.

The party gets back together and later find themselves in a dark, shadowy cavern. As we enter, a character passes a survival check and correctly guesses that this particular cave is home to large, possibly hungry spiders.

And not just any spiders, but phase spiders. If you played the old Baldur's Gate games you'll know these horrible things well. Not only are they giant, fanged spiders, which is bad enough, but they can teleport too. And if you run into the queen, she pops out eggs that hatch into tiny, teleporting spiders. Luckily you can sneak through the cave and avoid them.

However, in this demo, Vincke decides to fight them. It's a tough battle, and things quickly get hairy. But he has an ace up his sleeve. In the cave there's a deep chasm in the ground, with an eerie blue light emanating from it. Remember when we said there might be an entrance to the Underdark in this part of the world? Well, this is it.

We leap into the chasm, using a spell called Featherfall, which lessens fall damage. And suddenly we find ourselves in the Underdark, a colossal underground world filled with immense pillars of rock, giant mushrooms, and weird glowing flora. Vincke says we could spend hours in here, and that it has its own quest hubs. But, alas, the demo ends.

He also says it's possible to miss this location entirely. You don't have to visit the Underdark to complete the story. You might even go into the spider cave, clear it out, collect the loot, and not even realise that glowing chasm was an entrance to anywhere. This is a very Baldur's Gate way of designing a world, letting you discover things for yourself, with little hand-holding.

Baldur's Gate 3 will be released in Early Access soon, and I can't wait to see more of Larian's take on one of PC gaming's most beloved RPG series.

 

[moon knight]

The UI looks horrible

 

[Dodo1610]

Nope, a German website talks about a separate presentation for the press.
https://www.gamestar.de/artikel/baldurs-gate-3-gameplay-preview-hoert-auf-fan-kritik,3358979.html

 

[Lacrymas]

Underdark = Unterreich, mmmmm I don't think I like that.

EDIT: That separate presentation seems like it's behind a pay-wall.

 

[Robber Baron]

Underdark = Unterreich, mmmmm I don't think I like that.

They came first for the Duergar and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Duergar.

 

[Lacrymas]

Leave it to the Germans to try to make a Reich out of everything.

 

[pomenitul]

If you put a paper bag on 'Baldur's Gate III' (the title), the game starts to look fuckable.

 

[d1r]

If you put a paper bag on 'Baldur's Gate III' (the title), the game starts to look fuckable.

Ay. This game has a serious image problem. There is nothing that somehow stands out, indicating, that this actually is BG3, and not DiV3. They're playing it way too safe here.

 

[Artyoan]

If you put a paper bag on 'Baldur's Gate III' (the title), the game starts to look fuckable.

We would fuck it no matter what it looked like.

 

[Lacrymas]

Only irredeemable optimists thought this was going to be anything like BG outside of the same series of ruleset.

Speaking of, I don't think Solasta can compete with this.

 

[Robber Baron]

They still haven't shown how the world map works(or if there's one at all) and if we will be able to travel between locations freely