Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[Takamori]

I was disappointed at how little of Baldur's Gate we got to explore overall.

Compared to what? Baldurs Gate 1? That would be ridiculous, because the interpretation of the city there was highly abstract.
Judging from trailer material and concept arts, I was under the impression they basically rebuilt the whole of Baldurs Gate city accoring to the current campaign module maps of it.

Upper city is missing and (judging by the 5e maps) some sections of the lower city.

Upper city really feels like something that should have been in.

Act 3 is a mess overall. They should had done 1 or even 2 more acts to accommodate all the villains in the plot.
I feel like the entirety of Act 3 should had been dedicated to Bhaal plot and have Act 4 to focus on the final fantasy dad reject bane guy and the elder brain.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

The reason you aren't under the control of the elder brain is because Baldur as in the hero Baldur is a mind flayer his dragon friend broke him free of mindflayer control Shadowheart has an artifact that Baldur can use to disrupt the tadpole in your brain so you do not transform or become a thrall of the elder brain. This artifact is powered by Zerthimons son or something, he's a super powerful badass who is kept in stasis. The evil three have champions that are using the elder brain to do some generic bad guy shit just kill and control everyone. They are doing this with a powerful netherese artifact are you a bad enough dude to kill them and take their control gems and destroy the elder brain?

Why couldn't Larian just pick something less convoluted for a main plot is mindboggling. You can bring high level shit into a low level campaign without this sort of schizo writing.

 

[Space Satan]

 

[janior]

yennefer is way hotter though

 

[Alienman]

The performance is weird in the third act. The FPS seems to be fine, but you get these stutterings while moving. Very annoying. Is it loading in textures? AI related? Who knows.

 

[Justicar]

The performance is weird in the third act. The FPS seems to be fine, but you get these stutterings while moving. Very annoying. Is it loading in textures? AI related? Who knows.

belg*um related.

 

[Zayne]

Just did House of Hope

Thematically, the location is excellent: atmosphere, music, lore bits and so on. The fight against Raphael well, didn't get to see it. Larian forgot to give him Legendary Resistance, so poor demon had 80% chance to fail Hold Monster against my bard on turn 1.

 

[Takamori]

The reason you aren't under the control of the elder brain is because Baldur as in the hero Baldur is a mind flayer his dragon friend broke him free of mindflayer control Shadowheart has an artifact that Baldur can use to disrupt the tadpole in your brain so you do not transform or become a thrall of the elder brain. This artifact is powered by Zerthimons son or something, he's a super powerful badass who is kept in stasis. The evil three have champions that are using the elder brain to do some generic bad guy shit just kill and control everyone. They are doing this with a powerful netherese artifact are you a bad enough dude to kill them and take their control gems and destroy the elder brain?

Why couldn't Larian just pick something less convoluted for a main plot is mindboggling. You can bring high level shit into a low level campaign without this sort of schizo writing.

It would've been much better if they just kept to the dead three and they wanted to seize control of a netherese artifact. The illithid plot is shit because in the end out of nowhere the elder brain pull a I'M ACTUALLY IN CONTROL 4d chess move and you are like ok now you are dead thanks to my magical (insert whatever choice you went for) friend

 

[Tyranicon]

The reason you aren't under the control of the elder brain is because Baldur as in the hero Baldur is a mind flayer his dragon friend broke him free of mindflayer control Shadowheart has an artifact that Baldur can use to disrupt the tadpole in your brain so you do not transform or become a thrall of the elder brain. This artifact is powered by Zerthimons son or something, he's a super powerful badass who is kept in stasis. The evil three have champions that are using the elder brain to do some generic bad guy shit just kill and control everyone. They are doing this with a powerful netherese artifact are you a bad enough dude to kill them and take their control gems and destroy the elder brain?

Why couldn't Larian just pick something less convoluted for a main plot is mindboggling. You can bring high level shit into a low level campaign without this sort of schizo writing.

It would've been much better if they just kept to the dead three and they wanted to seize control of a netherese artifact. The illithid plot is shit because in the end out of nowhere the elder brain pull a I'M ACTUALLY IN CONTROL 4d chess move and you are like ok now you are dead thanks to my magical (insert whatever choice you went for) friend

I fucking hated that. It was such a brain-dead thing to do. Imagine something that smart, holding such a big idiot ball.

Also, those near-impossible checks you had to make? Absolutely no reaction if you pass them. I only found out much later that the final boss gets 10% less hp if you pass all the checks, but it's bugged.

This game bro.

 

[Takamori]

Just did House of Hope

Thematically, the location is excellent: atmosphere, music, lore bits and so on. The fight against Raphael well, didn't get to see it. Larian forgot to give him Legendary Resistance, so poor demon had 80% chance to fail Hold Monster against my bard on turn 1.

Yeah being able to CC him with Tasha was...

And damn the music in the fight was badass but ruined by this fact alone where I steamrolled his ass.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

yennefer is way hotter though

Yennefer might as well be ablowup doll considering all the magic she used to "enhance" herself. Remember that triss was allergic to magic so she's the only sorceress who is naturally hot and that's why all the catty bitches in her group hated her

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Also: I just convinced the surgeon to let the nurses kill him. That was fun.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Spoiler

It would've been much better if they just kept to the dead three and they wanted to seize control of a netherese artifact.

Spoiler

Pretty much. And that could've given them an opportunity to flesh out Bane and Myrkul's involvement more, showcasing the tensions within the three's alliance of convenience. And you can still have your fancy Dark Urge origin, but perhaps you could also have an evil ending path for the the non-Bhaalspawn origins where the PC can side with the Dead Three alongside a branching option of which of their champions you'd like to replace (+/- a choice of being their collective champion). And that in turn could've been split between a choice of upholding their alliance or betraying it for whichever deity you've picked to represent as its champion, with said deity ending up betraying the other two and coming out on top in the latter scenario.

 

[Morgoth]

To noone's surprise, Jim is an Astarion-enjoyer.

 

[Infinitron]

Another reason I suspect people dislike Act 3 is that the pacing is very odd. You're becoming more and more powerful in a story about high cosmological planar epic fantasy that goes all out on D&D camp, and then your culminating Act is mostly placed in... a city? Doing a lot of "normal RPG city quest" type stuff?

Nothing wrong with much of the content in itself, but it does feel like some of the content should be Act 2.

They should let players go to other places in act 3 instead of running around in a generic looking city. Chapter 1 and 2 are much better in this regard.

Angry gamers: "How is this a Baldur's Gate game tho, wtf?"

Larian: "You've only seen the first chapter, just wait for the final release"

*later*

Angry gamers: "Ah, shit"

 

[fizzelopeguss]

Absolute state of that fat cunt.

 

[Tyranicon]

So is it confirmed that going 0 Illithid does fucking nothing and gets you no reaction?

Lol, you think going full illithid gets you a reaction?

The entire will you/won't you with the parasites just comes down to one single binary decision in the endgame.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

At the end of the day Baldur's Gate just isn't an interesting city methinks

 

[Takamori]

The reason you aren't under the control of the elder brain is because Baldur as in the hero Baldur is a mind flayer his dragon friend broke him free of mindflayer control Shadowheart has an artifact that Baldur can use to disrupt the tadpole in your brain so you do not transform or become a thrall of the elder brain. This artifact is powered by Zerthimons son or something, he's a super powerful badass who is kept in stasis. The evil three have champions that are using the elder brain to do some generic bad guy shit just kill and control everyone. They are doing this with a powerful netherese artifact are you a bad enough dude to kill them and take their control gems and destroy the elder brain?

Why couldn't Larian just pick something less convoluted for a main plot is mindboggling. You can bring high level shit into a low level campaign without this sort of schizo writing.

It would've been much better if they just kept to the dead three and they wanted to seize control of a netherese artifact. The illithid plot is shit because in the end out of nowhere the elder brain pull a I'M ACTUALLY IN CONTROL 4d chess move and you are like ok now you are dead thanks to my magical (insert whatever choice you went for) friend

I fucking hated that. It was such a brain-dead thing to do. Imagine something that smart, holding such a big idiot ball.

Also, those near-impossible checks you had to make? Absolutely no reaction if you pass them. I only found out much later that the final boss gets 10% less hp if you pass all the checks, but it's bugged.

This game bro.

I feel like they wanted to appease the old fan base with Bhaal stuff but if you are going for an illithid plot then go balls deep with it focus. You have several books and material to work with and a creature exotic as an Elder Brain requires a whole lot of spotlight. If you wanted to tell the dead three story do a fucking expansion with it, start a new character if you dont wanna deal with 13-20 levels.

 

[Johnny Biggums]

Scratch would not stop until Halsin was buried in the ground.

Good boy patrols faggot companions? motherfucking INCLINE. Swen, I kneel

 

[Alienman]

On Bhaal and returning characters (chapter 3 spoilers).

Spoiler

Bringing back Sarevok just for him to sit in the dank sewers sure felt awkward as hell. That couldn't be part of his grand plan, right? Many gods, and characters I feel were wasted. The Minsc storyline seems off too. He comes way too late in the story, and the story surrounding him is very non-critical. At least Jaheira gets a bit more time in the group and has an impact on the general narrative. Got to say, the story is scattered as hell, there is no real nemesis, nobody I want to give payback to. Odin or whatever her name kidnapped one of the companions, and she decided that would be Halsin. Why not Shadowheart my "love" interest? Anyway, I couldn't care less, even if I saved him in the end. I don't even feel any great sense of evil towards the big brain. Sure, I get told it's bad, but I have not seen its power or anything. Oh well, time to kill the brain I guess

 

[Tyranicon]

Also, there's a big trap in the endgame that will fuck up players who are doing no reload runs.

Deciding to change into a mindflayer will set your physical stats to basically unusable levels, so if you're playing a martial class, RIP.

 

[Anthedon]

This is from a sword that is supposed to deal 1d8 psychic damage, but rolls 1d6 six times and adds all of that damage up. Seems a wee bit too strong.

 

[Grauken]

While larping here for a bit, I hope Larian is aware that they need to polish up the end quite a bit. And soon. I was most hyped act 3 would be this huge sprawling city

It might buggy, but it *is* yuuuuge.

That's what she said...

She lied to you

 

[janior]

they should add higher difficulty, game is way too easy so far, gives u too much loot too