Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

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which also speaks volumes about the decline the codex has gone through since it's beginning, because this would've been the stuff that would surface first here back in the day. Now it's all copy-paste from twitter and reddit

I'm postponing datamining and modding for when I've had enough fun playing, and I'm still only in Shar's temple.

 

[Zeltak]

BALDUR'S GATE 3 CRITICISMS:
- A man came on to me and it made me feel funny and I can't get it out of my head
- I saw a black man at the grove
- There is at least one woman in the game
- Gay gnomes
- The game has too many cosmetic customisation options

Meanwhile Larian's unacceptable bottom-of-the-barrel low-effort third act remains chiefly unassailed in the RPGCodex's most populous thread for discussing the game

You missed "Combat on Tactician is easier than KOTC2".

Difficulty curve is bad. Doesn’t have to be KOTC2 but if I’m sleepwalking after lvl 5 with a hasted single classed fighter with no need to even think twice about my choices then something is wrong. This is on tactician btw.

Hope some dude makes a lower supplies mod after autistically calculating the perfect amount for challenge.

 

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Larian shot themselves in the foot assuming no one would play an evil run (which is funny considered how much Dark Urge screams of being the intended default) while their own statistic shows that 35 percent of player sided with the goblins against the Druid Enclave

Adam Smith said it himself in that interview - the real heroism is to play Dark Urge and resist. Which sadly hints at a developer- and writer-favored playthrough and character. Hopefully I'm wrong.

 

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but random fetch quests mean more exp! and more exp = more power! all evil people should do more random fetch quests!

What did Saruman do, except rise to the top of the corporate hierarchy?

 

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Lmao @ codex autists pretending to give a shit about actual game mechanics. Keep sperging about culture war shit. When LARIAN forums unironically has more insightful posts you should feel embarrassed.

Codexers are above concerning themselves with mechanics in a 5e game as easy as BG3.

 

[Zeltak]

Lmao @ codex autists pretending to give a shit about actual game mechanics. Keep sperging about culture war shit. When LARIAN forums unironically has more insightful posts you should feel embarrassed.

Codexers are above concerning themselves with mechanics in a 5e game as easy as BG3.

Fair enough.

 

[MerchantKing]

Larian shot themselves in the foot assuming no one would play an evil run (which is funny considered how much Dark Urge screams of being the intended default) while their own statistic shows that 35 percent of player sided with the goblins against the Druid Enclave

Adam Smith said it himself in that interview - the real heroism is to play Dark Urge and resist. Which sadly hints at a developer- and writer-favored playthrough and character. Hopefully I'm wrong.

The "resist" part is meh. Most of the time it's just flavortext resulting in a normal custom character playthrough. There's really only a few parts where the durge can matter.

 

[Johannes]

but random fetch quests mean more exp! and more exp = more power! all evil people should do more random fetch quests!

What did Saruman do, except rise to the top of the corporate hierarchy?

He wore a faggot cloak

 

[frajaq]

congrats to the one codexer that did this mod, it reached far and wide with seething

 

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My new favorite type of poster are these guys who claim Codex is under assault by comprador infilitrators sent to stifle RPG discourse and when you check their stat history it's always some shit like this:

Codex's most dedicated RPG discusser.

Serbian vatniks are a dime a dozen here. Doesn't deserve further comment.

 

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I reached the place where Jaheira is in act 2.

I talked with the paladin, and now the place is under attack. Should I have done something else?

You should kill that "paladin" during the first combat, or you'll lose the NPC that's the BG3 equivalent of Cromwell from BG2. That's more motivation than anything that might need a spoiler tag

 

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Minthara being bugged pretty much confirmed by now.

We can write this one off as tradition - Viconia's romance was bugged in the original BG2:SoA.

No it wasn't. Jaheira was the bugged one.

They both were: http://www.ironworksforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=56140

 

[Rhobar121]

Minthara being bugged pretty much confirmed by now.

We can write this one off as tradition - Viconia's romance was bugged in the original BG2:SoA.

No it wasn't. Jaheira was the bugged one.

They both were: http://www.ironworksforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=56140

How nice that Larian maintains traditions and people say that BG3 has nothing to do with its predecessors.

 

[Johannes]

congrats to the one codexer that did this mod, it reached far and wide with seething

Now I want to see the Pallevagina one, anyone got a pic?

 

[Elttharion]

congrats to the one codexer that did this mod, it reached far and wide with seething

Looks like nexus removed the mod, I tried to find it and couldnt. Its the same person who did the portraits for Wotr.

I probably wouldnt use it but its funny how much people mald nowadays because others are modding their own games.

 

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Can you make custom companions in this game if the stock NPC's gayness is too much to bear?

Speaking of overpowered, I'm reposting the exploit for a full custom party: https://youtu.be/ILW0FDkJcCs

 

[Lagole Gon]

Can you make custom companions in this game if the stock NPC's gayness is too much to bear?

You can get hirelings, but tbh there isn't that much gayness if you don't push for it. haven't had any issue to guess which dialogue option is the romance one (pro-tip: it's always the first one, duh).

People who complain in this thread that they had gay sex in the game deliberately clicked to do so. They are just ashamed and make excuses, trying to convince themselves that the game forced it on them hence spamming here all the time.

Yes, the game allows you to have sex since barely meeting an NPC, but you have to choose a clear option to do so.

Lies.

The game thinks me and Gayle had some "night together", despite the fact that I kept my distance and refused anything remotely romantic.

This is very concerning and has disturbing implications. I will never add "sleep" to his spellbook ever again.

 

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Difficulty curve is bad. Doesn’t have to be KOTC2 but if I’m sleepwalking after lvl 5 with a hasted single classed fighter with no need to even think twice about my choices then something is wrong. This is on tactician btw.

Yeah, it's combat for normies. If you need to give yourself a dice bonus it's enough to quaff a couple of potions and buff yourself with spells.

Keep in mind that most people play with Karmic Dice on (it's on by default). This actually makes combat harder for them in the long run, because Karmic Dice works for combat rolls as well.

 

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Lmao @ codex autists pretending to give a shit about actual game mechanics. Keep sperging about culture war shit. When LARIAN forums unironically has more insightful posts you should feel embarrassed.

Codexers are above concerning themselves with mechanics in a 5e game as easy as BG3.

Fair enough.

Seriously speaking, the tips and tricks thread is for discussion of builds and mechanics. Truth is I don't think this would improve my experience of this particular game as much as pure RPing through it.

 

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Minthara being bugged pretty much confirmed by now.

We can write this one off as tradition - Viconia's romance was bugged in the original BG2:SoA.

No it wasn't. Jaheira was the bugged one.

They both were: http://www.ironworksforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=56140

How nice that Larian maintains traditions and people say that BG3 has nothing to do with its predecessors.

In BG2 you needed to kickstart your romances because of bugs. In BG3 you can't dodge your companions fast enough when you're in camp.

 

[Shaki]

Normal people starts with frienship first, not sexual relationship.

the stress and feeling of imminent danger to suppress sexual desire completely, esp for a woman

It's not stress, she just didn't want to tell you you're ugly bro

 

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congrats to the one codexer that did this mod, it reached far and wide with seething

Now I want to see the Pallevagina one, anyone got a pic?

I'm too polite to would write to Josh, that the improved Pallegina portrait in Deadfire is simply using the original one from PoE.

 

[Parabalus]

I'm up to act 3 now and haven't seen the companions interact with each other a single time. That's extremely lazy

They talk to each other pretty often, both in dialogue and in exploration quips?

I haven't seen this at all. Maybe I just chose companions that don't talk to each other much? I was using Karlach, Shadowheart, and Astarion up until I got Jaheira and dropped Karlach.

Since redditors and Larian forum users nearly don't waste the same amount of time sperging about niggas and fags in the game, the most deep delving into the issues of BG3 are to be found there (which also speaks volumes about the decline the codex has gone through since it's beginning, because this would've been the stuff that would surface first here back in the day. Now it's all copy-paste from twitter and reddit).

And one of the main problems seems to be that companion banter in and out dialouge is so much RNG based, that you will never hear all of it in one playthrough ... or ever. With the bugginess of act 3 taken into account, we might see more of that with future patches.
The current consensus is that most players want their companions to chime in whenever given the chance instead of the current iteration where you have to play the game 10 times to hopefully catch all the dialogues. Which is a stupid concept to begin with in a 70+ hour game.

Companions seem to chime in whenever something is relevant to them - using frog, Shadowheart and vamp.

Finding this much better than Bioware style where they give unsolicited opinions on everything.

 

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Normal people starts with frienship first, not sexual relationship.

the stress and feeling of imminent danger to suppress sexual desire completely, esp for a woman

It's not stress, she just didn't want to tell you you're ugly bro

Stop outing yourself as a virgin bro.

 

[FalloutBR]

as much as i like the game it could've def use at least 6 more months of dev time
standards for quality are so low nowdays it gets a pass

Completely agree... final Act of the game is really bugged. Ending felt pretty rushed, some of my companions only had like a single line to say, some choices in the end lead to clearly underdeveloped outcomes.
There arent even ending slides to show what happens after.
Some people datamined the game and found out a lot of content that was cut out from the part of the game, including a scene where Withers would gather the whole party 6 months after the final battle and narrate what happened...