Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[Eisenheinrich]

Do it!

Yeah, that must have been said by the second most clever person on the codex, right after you.

You sound butthurt. Did your mommy forget to hug you this morning before she sent you off to preschool?

Yes. And yes.

Too bad because she never loved you anyway. That's why your gay.

Aspiring gamer devs take notes. These are the morals people wanna see in video games.

 

[Alienman]

catering to the 1% weirdos is the way to go

Catering to the 1% weirdos would be devs catering to the most vile persons on this board. Which would result in the devs getting broke. You truly are the most clever person on the codex.

If you check the Steam forums, they really did, as there is a large player base that is disappointed with all the sexual stuff. They overestimated the 1% with 50%. Anyway, you know I'm right because you didn't quote the rest of what I said. It will be downhill from here on. Marketers will think this degeneracy sells, and this is on top of what BioWare already created. Every gaming magazine loves it and the nay-sayers will be silenced, as usual. There is already a massive call to protect the LGBT community - to clean up the forums.

Look, I enjoy the game (to a degree), but this is just way too much. I can tolerate the BioWare stuff, but Larian took it to the next level, and suddenly the focus has entirely shifted from telling a story about knights and sorceresses to shag your companions or having them shag you. It's disappointing.

 

[Swen]

catering to the 1% weirdos is the way to go

Catering to the 1% weirdos would be devs catering to the most vile persons on this board. Which would result in the devs getting broke. You truly are the most clever person on the codex.

If you check the Steam forums, they really did, as there is a large player base that is disappointed with all the sexual stuff. They overestimated the 1% with 50%. Anyway, you know I'm right because you didn't quote the rest of what I said. It will be downhill from here on. Marketers will think this degeneracy sells, and this is on top of what BioWare already created. Every gaming magazine loves it and the nay-sayers will be silenced, as usual. There is already a massive call to protect the LGBT community - to clean up the forums.

Look, I enjoy the game (to a degree), but this is just way too much. I can tolerate the BioWare stuff, but Larian took it to the next level, and suddenly the focus has entirely shifted from telling a story about knights and sorceresses to shag your companions or having them shag you. It's disappointing.

Atleast you can kill everyone you don't like.

 

[Silverfish]

Catering to the 1% weirdos would be devs catering to the most vile persons on this board.

My money's as good as the next man's.

 

[JamesDixon]

Aspiring gamer devs take notes. These are the morals people wanna see in video games.

What not having sex and perversion in games is a bad thing? Wow who knew that having good sense to not include divisive shit was terrible.

Besides your sentence doesn't make sense as it's GAME devs not GAMER devs.

 

[Silverfish]

Besides your sentence doesn't make sense as it's GAME devs not GAMER devs.

I don't know, man. That dude sounded more like a gaymer dev lmao.

 

[Desiderius]

You can loot them during the combat they are killed in without it being stealing, for some reason.

When you loot during the commotion, it's called a protest. It's mostly peaceful since the NPC killed them.

Here’s how you burgle (Tolkien-approved!) red stuff:

(1) Walk into a shadow with Asstarion.

(2) Hide to reveal red cones

(3) Go into TB, optionally using Shadowheart Stealth buff cantrip (or spell) if things look tight.

(4) Dash twice with Asstarion Thief subclass or once in if you went Trickster to go with Spellthief or Assassin because you’re a DPS tard.

(5) Loot all the stuff.

(6) If anyone is likely to miss the shit you burgled dash everybody toward an adjacent area then turn off TB with the furthest toon highlighted and stroll away like Verbal Kint.

 

[The_Mask]

Quest log says I can reuse the Adamantine Forge if I find more ore - which I did - but it doesn't seem possible to do so. Is it lying to me?

I don't know if you still have the same issue, but I had the exact same problem like... last night. All you have to do is either save and reload. Or perform a Long Rest. Up to you which.

After doing so, the lava should retreat, and the Forge should work once more. And you should be able to make 2 items.

 

[Desiderius]

Pickpocketing has another layer that can get a little tricky if you’re committed to not save-scumming since it doesn’t let you intervene or re-roll with Inspiration like dialogue checks. It’s worth holding off on risking plot critical targets.

 

[Justicar]

I will remember all trannies shilling for this shit game It's over for you gender benders.

 

[ferratilis]

Be careful, he'll throw potatoes at you.

 

[Zarniwoop]

How do they get this knowledge? Spyware inside the game?

And how do you finish it in a weekend? Speedrunners?

I have over 60 hours in this thing and I'm not even at the end of act 2. A weekend only has 48.

 

[Orud]

How do they get this knowledge? Spyware inside the game?

Cloud saving to Larian's servers is enabled by default iirc.

edit: Paladin most popular class by the widest margin. Deus vult.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Kind of weird how much effort went into "C'mon, use the tadpole bro. There's a tadpole skill tree and stuff. I even wear skimpy robes now".

I'm curious in what direction it will go. That's the benefit of the alien belgian mind and their shitty writing - it can go in direction unexpected for sane and decent people.

I was pretty horrified by the skimpy robes because when it changed from 'dream lover' to 'guardian' after EA I assumed they were getting rid of the sexual dimension altogether so my 'guardian' is a old white haired paladin looking guy.

I've only got myself to blame of course since the idea that Larian would miss the opportunity to create awkward sexual situations was clearly laughable.

Lemao I noticed the "guardian" was the opposite gender of your character but thought it was just the game going "go on, make a female NPC too". I assumed this guardian would be a second controllable character later and made a male duergar for my male orc.

 

[Reinhardt]

How do they get this knowledge? Spyware inside the game?

Cloud saving to Larian's servers is enabled by default iirc.

edit: Paladin most popular class by the widest margin. Deus vult.

plot twist - it's paladin of ghey sex god.

 

[Reinhardt]

Kind of weird how much effort went into "C'mon, use the tadpole bro. There's a tadpole skill tree and stuff. I even wear skimpy robes now".

I'm curious in what direction it will go. That's the benefit of the alien belgian mind and their shitty writing - it can go in direction unexpected for sane and decent people.

I was pretty horrified by the skimpy robes because when it changed from 'dream lover' to 'guardian' after EA I assumed they were getting rid of the sexual dimension altogether so my 'guardian' is a old white haired paladin looking guy.

I've only got myself to blame of course since the idea that Larian would miss the opportunity to create awkward sexual situations was clearly laughable.

Lemao I noticed the "guardian" was the opposite gender of your character but thought it was just the game going "go on, make a female NPC too". I assumed this guardian would be a second controllable character later and made a male duergar for my male orc.

yes, yes, that's exactly why you made male duergar.

 

[Tuco Benedicto Pacifico]

Steam forums are a mess

NO?!?

Kind of weird how much effort went into "C'mon, use the tadpole bro. There's a tadpole skill tree and stuff. I even wear skimpy robes now".

I'm curious in what direction it will go. That's the benefit of the alien belgian mind and their shitty writing - it can go in direction unexpected for sane and decent people.

I honestly think they did a tremendous job with the Guardian's ambiguity (especially during the whole Githyanki Creche debacle) and more in general every time an NPC of another faction comes to advocate for taking their side.
It doesn't matter how openly unlikable some of these may be, you always get the impression that their claims may have some legitimate merit and that there's isn't a "win-win" solution out of every single one of your issues.

 

[Tyranicon]

Okay, something really pissed me off in the endgame.

So you're roped into a series of very difficult attribute checks in the penultimate(?) confrontation. They get increasingly difficult and I'm assuming are intended to be impossible.

But a nat 20 is an auto success, so it is very possible with the magic of save scumming, and I wanted to see what would happen. By all accounts, it should end the game early.

Nope, nothing fucking changes. The game has to explain its grand, hyper-intelligent plan (it's stupid as fuck, by the way) and you have to fail and go into le epic finale.

Passing all four checks results in nothing different besides some animation. No dialogue acknowledging you passed, nothing.

Fuck you game.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

yes, yes, that's exactly why you made male duergar.

He looks pretty intimidating at least. He would wipe the floor with Lagole's wine aunt guardian. Then he would probably fuck her while I meditate in the corner. Become monastic my dudes.

 

[darkpatriot]

Most interesting graphs:

Racial choice

Class choice

It never even began for clericcels

Can't say I'm surprised that all the Charisma based classes are at the most popular ones. Seems like the most logical choice for a first playthrough if you ask me.

It is one of the reasons I don't like D&D for conversation or narrative heavy games.

D&D is a combat focused system, so if you want to have a talking focused PC you have to either compromise your combat capabilities or use a character that has Charisma as one of the important stats.

So you either arbitrarily limit your class selection or make a gimped character.

I think letting companions be able to make the skill checks in conversation would help alleviate this somewhat.



Although, I have noticed a lot of conversation skill checks aren't really meaningful. Many of them are straight up just flavor or there are still lots of options of resolving stuff to get the same outcome even if you can't pass conversation skill checks. I am still near the beginning, though, so maybe they become more important later on. If not, I guess the feeling that I have to make a character that is good at talking to people is more self-inflicted than reality.

 

[Ebonsword]

i wish swen make enough money to wrestle ultima IP out of EA's hands and make ultima 11 or something

What, so the Avatar can ass-bang Iolo? No thanks.

 

[Eisenheinrich]

Let's hope the new patch fixes the horniness issue. Seems to bother most people (aside from the bugs)

I'm not sure "horniness" is anything that can be patched, anyway.
The problem is that the entire system of relationship with companions seems to be designed as some sort of wannabe-dating sim, where approval is automatically equated to romantic affection, rather than considering the build up of friendship/trust/camaraderie the default for most companions and "romance" something that the player needs to actively chase.
It could work for a specific character when deliberately part of their narrative (i.e. "Selune is a slut and a creep by design") but it's really weird when extended to the entire party.
For instance apparently Halsin thought that offering him a drink during a celebration was equivalent to manifest romantic interest toward him and was really disappointed to learn that's not the case... and I already talked in a previous post about how Gale had this "Time to choose between me or Shadowheart" out of nowhere in the middle of Act 2, which was pretty fucking weird.

There is only one solution how this might be patched. You gotta up the threshold for approval (by a lot), maybe record some throwaway voicelines more, then make it a distinct player decision if you want to trigger the romance (or not).

 

[Dwarvophile]

How do they get this knowledge? Spyware inside the game?

The number I'm curious about is the STD's increase rate in Faerun, must be off the charts!

 

[Swen]

Some of these metacritic user reviews are really entertaining.

Wouldn't be surprised if some of the butthurt codexers would be review bombing there lol

Edit: seems it really makes final fantasy weebs mad

 

[Elthosian]

Aspiring gamer devs take notes. These are the morals people wanna see in video games.

What not having sex and perversion in games is a bad thing? Wow who knew that having good sense to not include divisive shit was terrible.

Besides your sentence doesn't make sense as it's GAME devs not GAMER devs.

For every person complaining about the sex there are three bitching that Larian didn't implement dynamic armor meshes so they could spend 3 hours in the character creation screen fapping to bigger tits. No way to please everybody there.

Some of these metacritic user reviews are really entertaining.

Wouldn't be surprised if some of the butthurt codexers would be review bombing there lol

Edit: seems it really makes final fantasy weebs mad

Excuse me, us real Final Fantasy weebs despise everything that came after X, maybe XII. Don't put us in the same bag as the filthy casuals that enjoy that popamole shitfest.