Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

What the crap, you fight

Spoiler

Myrkul

at the end of chapter 2?! And after some anime introduction... This story is getting too retarded.

Nah is all a follow up of an official module. They are alive and well also

THis

((That's not Myrkul that's an avatar of it))

 

[Eisenheinrich]

Uh, two clicks on a certain paper doll and my, er, Cleric is scantily clad indeed and plenty arousing for my muscled male Halfling/Gnome MCs.

Haha, joke's on you. That was clearly sarcasm. I'm playing the same way (everyone is dressed like an old Sword-and-Sorcer-Pulpcover)

 

[gurugeorge]

So, what is the codex consensus? Is this game good? It's pure decline? Kingcomrade?

All games have shitty woke/SJW crap these days, such that if you want to play a modern game you're going to have to "hold your nose."

Many modern games aren't worth that effort.

This is. Somewhat. Sort of. Kind of most of the time.

 

[Tyranicon]

it's also the most thirsty class, making it ultra-degenerate.

Like more people will play Bard from now on. Byebye Paladin.

True actually, I didn't even think about that. I bet our resident Reddit ambassador Grauken and all the other faggots are playing Bard, disgusting creatures

The binary times of "muscled male warrior" and "salaciously clad sorceress" are long gone ...

I think most people here can agree this is the problem.

Currently we have "muscled female (?) warrior" and "salaciously clad femboy sorcerer."

I can't fap to this.

 

[Vyvian]

it's also the most thirsty class, making it ultra-degenerate.

Like more people will play Bard from now on. Byebye Paladin.

True actually, I didn't even think about that. I bet our resident Reddit ambassador Grauken and all the other faggots are playing Bard, disgusting creatures

The binary times of "muscled male warrior" and "salaciously clad sorceress" are long gone ...

I think most people here can agree this is the problem.

Currently we have "muscled female (?) warrior" and "salaciously clad femboy sorcerer."

I can't fap to this.

Sounds like a skill issue. Maybe you should apply yourself.

 

[MerchantKing]

Pathfinder Trannymaker is essentially turn-based with pause so it can be compared to BG3

It's a RTwP game. The turn-based post is practically just a mod. The Owlcat version of the mod is however is still inferior to the old turn-based mod that preceded it. Even WotR is just an RTwP game with TB mode just being an option.

 

[Fedora Master]

What the crap, you fight

Spoiler

Myrkul

at the end of chapter 2?! And after some anime introduction... This story is getting too retarded.

I TOLD YOU PEOPLE THE GAME BECOMES RETARDED

 

[cretin]

Companion content is ultra frontloaded. Halsin, Karlach, Minthara, Minsc and Jaheira have waaaaaay less content too.

Barbarian owns. This is how i broke the elf bitch out of her poz cage at the beginning:

Anyway, thoughts after restarting on tactician:

- tactician is the difficulty of choice IMO. Balanced was way too easy, OTOH - balanced in co-op actually seemed better, well, balanced (or it could just be that my friend is a retard)

- game isn't quite as pozzed as I took it to be in my initial impression. Dont get me wrong, its GAY. But I haven't had an onslaught of longhouse propaganda yet, beyond the boilerplate libshit universalist stuff. Seems to me the biggest problem is Larian was just way too generous with flagging player dialogue for buttsex greenlight, which is probably just a side effect of trying to fan service to a demographic of increasingly coomerbrained people who want to get to the porn and jack off without all that bothersome character development.

- The hirelings are pretty underwhelming. I needed a rogue to fill in after I slayed astarion for trying to suck on me while I was sleeping, and what I got was a selection of characters that looked like a reddit meetup. I ended up picking the drow ranger because he was the only non-cringe looking character, aside from his stupid ass hair. Really dumb oversight by Larian to not just let players generate characters here.

i mean you can just respec any companion from scratch into a rogue

yeah you can but rogue doesnt fit for any of them. Maybe Wyll (because of the implications)

 

[Space Satan]

Devs confirmed that most of Minthara's content have been locked due to bug.

Guesss I'll postpone the rest of my playthrough until that gets fixed then.

I wouldn't count on it. I'm not aware of any "dev confirmation".

Regarding several mintharas' issues

 

[MerchantKing]

What the crap, you fight

Spoiler

Myrkul

at the end of chapter 2?! And after some anime introduction... This story is getting too retarded.

Nah is all a follow up of an official module. They are alive and well also

THis

((That's not Myrkul that's an avatar of it))

It's out of place for a low to mid level party.

 

[Eisenheinrich]

Devs confirmed that most of Minthara's content have been locked due to bug.

So you CAN get her preggers?

 

[Space Satan]

People are digging funny things in the files

 

[Kiste]

Regarding several mintharas' issues

Link? That could have been in response to Penis D being too small.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Lying AND extortion? What the actual fuck is wrong with these people, there's a perfectly good Paladin option right there!

Reminder that Paladins are now about keeping whatever oath, not being good. Minthara, for example, is a Drow Paladin of Lloth, and therefore evil.

Also, if you break your oath, you become an Oathbreaker Paladin and get access to special abilities. So you're practically rewarded for it.

3E killed the Paladin class by making it more about numbers than roleplaying. 5E takes a dump on its grave.

 

[N'wah]

Lying AND extortion? What the actual fuck is wrong with these people, there's a perfectly good Paladin option right there!

Reminder that Paladins are now about keeping whatever oath, not being good. Minthara, for example, is a Drow Paladin of Lloth, and therefore evil.

Also, if you break your oath, you become an Oathbreaker Paladin and get access to special abilities. So you're practically rewarded for it.

3E killed the Paladin class by making it more about numbers than roleplaying. 5E takes a dump on its grave.

"Good and evil are not merely mirror images of each other. Just as the forces of evil have their unique champions, the paladin is intended as a unique champion of good. The paladin originates from a tradition of dynamic balance, in which the forces of good are few and elite and in which forces of evil are numerous and of lesser quality. Allowing anti-paladins blurs this basic relationship."

 

[Xamenos]

Lying AND extortion? What the actual fuck is wrong with these people, there's a perfectly good Paladin option right there!

5th edition Paladin are no more restricted by their allignment as long they follow their Oath.

This option is not at all consistent with the Oath of a Paladin of Devotion, who's supposed to protect the weak and innocent.

I even tested with a quicksave, not even picking that option pocketing the money and leaving her to her fate causes you to fall. Definite Decline.

 

[Desiderius]

Wyll’s good and look at all y’all standing in line to take a steaming dump on his head. What did you think would happen?

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

"Good and evil are not merely mirror images of each other...

He quotes, talking about a ruleset that literally made Protection from Evil into Protection from Good and Evil.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Why do you keep citing RtwP games

WotR is TB by design.

Yes, I'm sure it's been tested extensively in TB mode

Likely about as much as BG3 was tested on Tactician.

Yes, and I already told you encounters are designed relatively well

If your argument is that "encounters are designed well, but Tactician is badly balanced for a high difficulty", ok, that may be so.

You seem to suggest Tactician can be improved by buffing enemies a little more. That should be easily moddable, as enemies health seems to be getting a bonus accross the board.

In my experience straight buffs, and generally any measures that increase the rate of expenditure of resources for the player only results in the player seeking their replenishment more frequently. Usually it comes down to the practices of "rest-spamming" and "save-scumming". I'm not very interested in that kind of "difficult" because it doesn't bring any kind of new experience to the player. You use the optimized tactics and most effective action economy as before, only need to refresh those most-effective spells more ofthen.

I think you are deceiving yourself that you would play vastly differently if enemies were a bit tougher, than to take them down by nuking them with your melee guys and the power of RNG, tipped in your favor by buff spells. I think you would be playing the same, only resting or reloading more often.

The proper way to improve difficulty is by improving the behavior not the stats of enemies, but that has a higher development cost obviously.

All your comments on Larian "fixing" Tactician sound like lots of wishful thinking to me.

Finally, do you mean to tell us here that you are disappointed with BG3's encounters balance on Tactician, because it doesn't compare to KOTC2 of all games? This either disingenious or very naive, to put mildly. Which one is it?

 

[Lodis]

I hope waifufags realize that Shadowheart got railed by this tranny. And no I'm not just using that as a buzzword, this character is a literal tranny and even has a tranny VA.

Spoiler

 

[Mortmal]

So, what is the codex consensus? Is this game good? It's pure decline? Kingcomrade?

The best D&D game ever created and, in my opinion, the finest RPG ever made, especially considering I managed to complete it with the assistance of a Larian developer fixing my save. Nevertheless, it has the potential to become even better once Act 3 undergoes comprehensive testing and receives bug fixes.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

It's out of place for a low to mid level party.

Reminder that Decent into Avernus was for levels 1-13. That's going tinto the hells and basically participating in the Blood War at levels 1-13.

Again, this is 5E. The balance has been completely rewritten. The rules are complete garbage.

You can blame Larian all you like for bear sex, but this sort of thing is on WotC.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Devs confirmed that most of Minthara's content have been locked due to bug.

So you CAN get her preggers?

I hope that if yes, this will only work for elves and humans. I dare not imagine any of the other potential crossbreeds.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

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[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

It's out of place for a low to mid level party.

Reminder that Decent into Avernus was for levels 1-13. That's going tinto the hells and basically participating in the Blood War at levels 1-13.

Again, this is 5E. The balance has been completely rewritten. The rules are complete garbage.

You can blame Larian all you like for bear sex, but this sort of thing is on WotC.

I know well the 5th ed enough to say you are right on this. 5th has fun stuff however it lacks a lot of flavour on many things. In term of raw ruleset speaking about modern ruleset Pathfinder2E > D&D 5th edition.