Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[Fedora Master]

Prism Pentad

I loved those novel, really great. Some of the best D&D-based fiction I remember

Shame about their effects on the setting.

 

[Eisenheinrich]

Lawl, i had to redo the last fight in the tutorial three times because i HAD to loot everything but that stupid Ilithid kept getting killed by the demon who then proceeded to wreck my party members, so i just resorted to leave the Gollum brain behind as cannon fodder while i made my escape with the booty. Sadly, only at the last second i realized the dying Ilithid dropped loot also, but too late now, i ain't gonna try THAT.

I'm out in the open now and everything is so frikking bright, fuzzy and bloomy. Shiiet imma fiddle with the graphics settings to tone that shit down. Found the elf waifu laying around but i don't see the Gyth bitch. She has some loot that belongs to me.

If it's comforting to you, the starting area is rather bright and lush, yes. You will soon stumble upon darker areas in Act 1. Act 2 is darker in tone as a general and more eerie/gloomy.

 

[Grunker]

My casual gamer friends have begun playing this and like 70% of them fall for the miscommunication that makes people believe they do *either* Underdark *or* Mountain Pass, and as a result they're underleveled when they reach Act 2.

Larian really screwed up with that shit.

I was going to the Mountain Pass, but I got a very brutal warning of not going there.

That’s the warning people misunderstand. It’s there because going there can change quest states of quests in areas prior - but once you’re done with those you absolutely should explore both Underdark, Grymforge, Mountain Pass and Monestary

 

[Grauken]

Prism Pentad

I loved those novel, really great. Some of the best D&D-based fiction I remember

Shame about their effects on the setting.

Well, in P&P RPGs you can ignore all and everything you don't like. Not like anybody wants to play in Sigil after the faction war for example

 

[Incognito]

Good video about how a normie found BG3 and finally gets introduced to crpg's

 

[gurugeorge]

Good video about how a normie found BG3 and finally gets introduced to crpg's

Man, this guy is supposed to be a "likable darling" for many, but I can't stand his taste about almost anything.

His schtick seems to being the The Disinterested Observer. Like when he rails against "games with little people." Or, "[...] traditionally I just never vibe with, like, straightforward mediaeval fantasy. You know, just like, dragons, orcs, and elves and - brown leather clothes ... and wagons."

Humour via Man-from-Mars gerrymandering, one might call it.

 

[HammyTheFat]

My casual gamer friends have begun playing this and like 70% of them fall for the miscommunication that makes people believe they do *either* Underdark *or* Mountain Pass, and as a result they're underleveled when they reach Act 2.

Larian really screwed up with that shit.

I was going to the Mountain Pass, but I got a very brutal warning of not going there.

That’s the warning people misunderstand. It’s there because going there can change quest states of quests in areas prior - but once you’re done with those you absolutely should explore both Underdark, Grymforge, Mountain Pass and Monestary

Wait so after I finished the grymforge I should have run to the mountain pass instead of taking the elevator?

Fuck no wonder someone here said they managed to level up to 7 before getting to act 2. I was a few thousand xp away from 7 after doing EVERYTHING in the underdark and the rest of act 1 so I had no idea how he did it.

 

[Elthosian]

Culture warriors really pissed off this game is such a success.

You say we’re mad about bestiality, we say we’re sad about the codex slurping down the most egregious popamole shamelessly

Your efforts would be greatly appreciated at the FFXVI thread, where the forces of decline slurp the popamole undeterred.

 

[Grunker]

My casual gamer friends have begun playing this and like 70% of them fall for the miscommunication that makes people believe they do *either* Underdark *or* Mountain Pass, and as a result they're underleveled when they reach Act 2.

Larian really screwed up with that shit.

I was going to the Mountain Pass, but I got a very brutal warning of not going there.

That’s the warning people misunderstand. It’s there because going there can change quest states of quests in areas prior - but once you’re done with those you absolutely should explore both Underdark, Grymforge, Mountain Pass and Monestary

Wait so after I finished the grymforge I should have run to the mountain pass instead of taking the elevator?

You absolutely should - even if you don’t want the sidecontent, the monestary has at least one sequence that is pretty integral to the plot.

You don’t have to - everything in the game is pretty much optional - but the game expects you to do it IMO

 

[Herumor]

I loved those novel, really great. Some of the best D&D-based fiction I remember

The only good Dark Sun novels are the ones written by Lynn Abbey: "The Brazen Gambit", "Cinnabar Shadows" and "The Rise and Fall of a Dragon King".

 

[Reinhardt]

Btw you need to understand the game is "hard" on balanced for most normies.

Lots of reviews like this

it's not on ps5 yet so it's not sdg...

 

[Fedora Master]

This is a propos of nothing but Mystra really is a dumb bitch
- Hands the Netherese plenty of rope to hang themselves with magically, ignores their horrible dystopian magocracy, then gets butthurt when they inevitability fuck everything up
- Gets kicked out of the Astral by Ao himself, gets her stupid ass killed AGAIN because she tried going back anyway
- Let's her "champions" (fucktoys) run around the Realms causing havoc and murdering each other
- Still plays favorites with the likes of Elminster
- If you aren't Elminster, she fucks you and then tells you to blow yourself up Mystra Ackbar-style

 

[HammyTheFat]

You absolutely should - even if you don’t want the sidecontent, the monestary has at least one sequence that is pretty integral to the plot.

You don’t have to - everything in the game is pretty much optional - but the game expects you to do it IMO

For some reason I was assuming that the mountain pass entrance was the same as the elevator and that both lead directly to the shadowlands. I don't know why I was thinking this. Fortunately I stopped about an hour into act 2 so I can just reload my save from where I'm standing at the elevator.

 

[Abu Antar]

I wasn't going to wipe out the goblin camp. I was even friendly, and managed to get in there. But then one dude had to tell me that I should lick his boots, and that was that. Some gobbo kids got in the way, and they bit the dust.

 

[Fedora Master]

I loved those novel, really great. Some of the best D&D-based fiction I remember

The only good Dark Sun novels are the ones written by Lynn Abbey: "The Brazen Gambit", "Cinnabar Shadows" and "The Rise and Fall of a Dragon King".

I enjoyed the one that is part of the Abyssal Plague series. In every other setting that shit was an apocalyptic threat, on Athas has it was Tuesday.

 

[Grunker]

You absolutely should - even if you don’t want the sidecontent, the monestary has at least one sequence that is pretty integral to the plot.

You don’t have to - everything in the game is pretty much optional - but the game expects you to do it IMO

For some reason I was assuming that the mountain pass entrance was the same as the elevator and that both lead directly to the shadowlands. I don't know why I was thinking this. Fortunately I stopped about an hour into act 2 so I can just reload my save from where I'm standing at the elevator.

Everyone assumed they were mutually exclusive including me - it’s communicated catastrophically poorly

 

[Fedora Master]

Btw you need to understand the game is "hard" on balanced for most normies.

Lots of reviews like this

I told you. I also said most people won't finish the game.

 

[Grunker]

People are figuring out ways to recruit Minthara AND Halsin. Sounds like bugs but may not be

 

[gurugeorge]

Btw you need to understand the game is "hard" on balanced for most normies.

Lots of reviews like this

Nobody is complaining that it's easy on normal. Hell make normal the new story mode for all I care.

We're complaining the hardest difficulty is so easy

But again, this game should be really easy to difficulty mod. I fully expect a good and polished mod within like a year if the modding is flexible enough.

Reducing kill XP (NOT quest XP) by something 25% would probably solve one-third of the issue by itself.

Lol, you want a difficulty above tactician, Swen says normies want a difficulty below story-mode

Owlcat understood and had all those gradations right from the beginning. Curious though - in DOS2 once you took Tactician you were committed to it because more was changed than just hp, AI tricks, etc. (or so the story goes). I wonder why they didn't have the same thing in this game?

 

[Tuco Benedicto Pacifico]

His schtick seems to being the The Disinterested Observer.

Well, except for anything Nintendo-related, where he does a 180° turn and immediately becomes the most obnoxious fanboy, raving about "muh childhood memories" and "Nintendo's magic touch" and all that crap.

By the way, yes, this rant about "small people on screen" was harder to listen to than usual, I'll admit. The sperg detector went completely out of scale.

 

[Grauken]

I loved those novel, really great. Some of the best D&D-based fiction I remember

The only good Dark Sun novels are the ones written by Lynn Abbey: "The Brazen Gambit", "Cinnabar Shadows" and "The Rise and Fall of a Dragon King".

Prism Pentad was better

 

[Desiderius]

Protection from Evil and Good will keep Mind Flayer in Nautiloid alive while you use Command:Drop to get the fire sword. SH can reslot spells on the fly.

Can also nuke everything with Fluid tanks if you want.

 

[Alienman]

God, I hate the monk class. Naked dudes that punch stuff harder and have better defenses than any of my fighters decked out in armor. It's such a BS class that I would easily install a mod right now to remove them if there were one. I'm at a point now where I have to fight a bunch, and they are stronger than any kind of warped creatures from hell. Which makes the whole experience feel like shit. Elder demon from hell? Cosmic horror from the black abyss of space? No match for an emaciated githyanki.

 

[gurugeorge]

I wasn't going to wipe out the goblin camp. I was even friendly, and managed to get in there. But then one dude had to tell me that I should lick his boots, and that was that. Some gobbo kids got in the way, and they bit the dust.

I checked out what happens if you go with the flow with the BDSM fag - and you actually get a nice permanent buff if you lean in all the way with the BDSM thing, so I decided to stay on that save track. My in-character excuse is that Shadowheart was getting all hot and bothered by it

(Sorry Grand Inquisitor, mea culpa )

 

[Eisenheinrich]

People are figuring out ways to recruit Minthara AND Halsin. Sounds like bugs but may not be

There was a detailed description on how to do it some 30 or 40 pages back.