Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[Rhobar121]

Pierre sends his regards!

Ngl, I would watch a video of BG3 normies trying to play KotC, it would be funny af

It would be funny if anyone played his games

It's interesting that on average less than 1 person plays it. As far as I can see, even autistic people from Codex don't play it.

 

[JarlFrank]

I played through it more than once, actually:

 

[Latro]

Pierre sends his regards!

Ngl, I would watch a video of BG3 normies trying to play KotC, it would be funny af

It would be funny if anyone played his games

It's interesting that on average less than 1 person plays it. As far as I can see, even autistic people from Codex don't play it.

It’s a single player rpg and the early backers got the exe directly from Pierre rather than steam

 

[Rhobar121]

The game has surpassed 95% positive on Steam.

 

[Shaki]

Pierre sends his regards!

Ngl, I would watch a video of BG3 normies trying to play KotC, it would be funny af

It would be funny if anyone played his games

Greatest games are like high art, you don't "play" with it, you just buy it, stuff it somewhere in a dark basement so it's protected from light and eyes of the unworthy, and enjoy being better and more sophisticated than plebs, because you own it.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

I played through it more than once, actually:

>Hot Cleopatra

 

[Sunri]

I played through it more than once, actually:

And how many times you played slave princes Sarah? sussy

 

[Rhobar121]

I wonder why Swen hasn't published the sales results yet.
The game certainly sold very well, so there is no reason to hide it and they could use it to promote the PS5 version.

 

[Sunri]

Old bg got some new players

 

[Hagashager]

Dependant on tobacco/alcohol abuse. If they are clean, they age like east asians: uncertain age between 20 and 50, and then polymorph into deep gnomes at 51.

YES! I live basically in a Russian ghetto. I'm surrounded by Orcs and this is exactly it. The females are hot when young and still very presentable as MILFs and then suddenly they transform into horrendous harpies that are not even remotely reasonable to look at. I'm always amazed how that works.

Its the same wizard that visits men when they turn 33 and casts curses on their knees and back. The distance between "best shape of my life" and "better do some stretches before i move this chair" is literally 24 hours.

It's unsettling how accurate this is.

The very next morning after my 30th birthday I woke up with chronic pain in my shoulders and knees that has never gone away. Two years out and it's just a fact of life now.

 

[Lagole Gon]

Murder Tribunal spoiler:

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Sarevoks pose... what a perfect metaphor.

Hands covering his face in shame, legs open, something forced into his butt possibly.
He wasn't exactly a shakespearean character, but he also wasn't some generic bhaal cultist, what the fuck.

 

[Sunri]

Murder Tribunal spoiler:

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Sarevoks pose... what a perfect metaphor.

Hands covering his face in shame, legs open, something forced into his butt possibly.
He wasn't exactly a shakespearean character, but he also wasn't some generic bhaal cultist, what the fuck.

He is a grandpa now give him some slack

 

[Lagole Gon]

Murder Tribunal spoiler:

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Sarevoks pose... what a perfect metaphor.

Hands covering his face in shame, legs open, something forced into his butt possibly.
He wasn't exactly a shakespearean character, but he also wasn't some generic bhaal cultist, what the fuck.

He is a grandpa now give him some slack

He looks like he's mocaping one of the edgier Illusion games.

 

[AwesomeButton]

So I killed Ketheric.

Lesbian love endures.

Halsin told me he is glad to be had.

An elven man in a red dress told me "You'd make a fine fist!" and frolicked away without further explanation.

And I haven't even spoken to Withers yet. And Gale has an exclamation mark above his head...

 

[Barbarian]

Murder Tribunal spoiler:

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Sarevoks pose... what a perfect metaphor.

Hands covering his face in shame, legs open, something forced into his butt possibly.
He wasn't exactly a shakespearean character, but he also wasn't some generic bhaal cultist, what the fuck.

He is a grandpa now give him some slack

He looks like he's mocaping one of the edgier Illusion games.

How is he even alive after so long.

I know he is basically a nigh undead semiwraith living on the fragment of a soul, but still. And having kids and grandkids? Why even.

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Even wearing the same helmet and armor from the first game. As if he hasn't learned anything or changed at all after all that happened. They completely took a dump on his redemption arc and moody endings he had in ToB

 

[whydoibother]

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Even wearing the same helmet and armor from the first game. As if he hasn't learned anything or changed at all after all that happened. They completely took a dump on his redemption arc and moody endings he had in ToB

There was some Wizards book about the Baldur's Gate characters, and he was in it I think he was a homeless junke and went back into Bhaal worship.
So its not Larian changing the plot, they are following up from that one book.

 

[Barbarian]

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Even wearing the same helmet and armor from the first game. As if he hasn't learned anything or changed at all after all that happened. They completely took a dump on his redemption arc and moody endings he had in ToB

There was some Wizards book about the Baldur's Gate characters, and he was in it I think he was a homeless junke and went back into Bhaal worship.
So its not Larian changing the plot, they are following up from that one book.

Wasn't it established that that BS was noncanonical fanfiction despite being published by Wotc? Afaik larian itself didn't follow up on some of the shitty writeups on that for other returning characters.

 

[whydoibother]

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Even wearing the same helmet and armor from the first game. As if he hasn't learned anything or changed at all after all that happened. They completely took a dump on his redemption arc and moody endings he had in ToB

There was some Wizards book about the Baldur's Gate characters, and he was in it I think he was a homeless junke and went back into Bhaal worship.
So its not Larian changing the plot, they are following up from that one book.

Wasn't it established that that BS was noncanonical fanfic despite being published by Wotc?

It was established people at Larian have read it. Someone was tweeting about it.
No idea if it was taken, but its a possible reason for why that guy was in that place wearing those clothes doing that job.

 

[Hagashager]

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Even wearing the same helmet and armor from the first game. As if he hasn't learned anything or changed at all after all that happened. They completely took a dump on his redemption arc and moody endings he had in ToB

There was some Wizards book about the Baldur's Gate characters, and he was in it I think he was a homeless junke and went back into Bhaal worship.
So its not Larian changing the plot, they are following up from that one book.

I am genuinely flabbergasted at that book's existence and the damage it has done. I keep getting gaslit into thinking it's not real, it's not canon, it's in the dustbin of history then WHAM, shit gets brought back up as the excuse for why the latest piece of Baldur's Gate city lore is as scuffed as it is.

Shit's canon man! The book is real man! They lied to us man!

 

[Shaki]

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Even wearing the same helmet and armor from the first game. As if he hasn't learned anything or changed at all after all that happened. They completely took a dump on his redemption arc and moody endings he had in ToB

There was some Wizards book about the Baldur's Gate characters, and he was in it I think he was a homeless junke and went back into Bhaal worship.
So its not Larian changing the plot, they are following up from that one book.

Wasn't it established that that BS was noncanonical fanfic despite being published by Wotc?

It was established people at Larian have read it. Someone was tweeting about it.

7-man cuck squad strikes again

 

[Barbarian]

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Even wearing the same helmet and armor from the first game. As if he hasn't learned anything or changed at all after all that happened. They completely took a dump on his redemption arc and moody endings he had in ToB

There was some Wizards book about the Baldur's Gate characters, and he was in it I think he was a homeless junke and went back into Bhaal worship.
So its not Larian changing the plot, they are following up from that one book.

Wasn't it established that that BS was noncanonical fanfic despite being published by Wotc?

It was established people at Larian have read it. Someone was tweeting about it.
No idea if it was taken, but its a possible reason for why that guy was in that place wearing those clothes doing that job.

Some of the crap in there would have been even worse if they had followed up on it.

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Imagine Imoen showing up as a vampire randomly. Irenicus and Bodhi are still alive somehow even. Though you are right that both Viconia and Sarevok seem to have been brought back on that basis, which was utter shite - both remaining one dimensional villains ignoring all changes some players uptook.

 

[Takamori]

I'd be more inclined to not shit on Sarevok if his encounter was like really well done. But given it took 2 turns to nuke him, it just made me wonder what the fuck happened.
Yeah got some sweet loot thats it oh yeah previous bg badass.

 

[whydoibother]

But given it took 2 turns to nuke him

Sounds like you minmaxed the fun out of your game.
He has 3 spirits, you saw them. Each of them dying gives him a different boost. If you talked your way past the guards, they enter the fight behind you too.
In my game, he started with some "legendary resistance", which was +20 to the next saving throw I think? And a spirit cast Sanctuary on him too. So he lasted a bit, as I didn't know the mechanics and killed off the spirits, buffing him further. He had maybe 30 AC.

 

[Barbarian]

I'd be more inclined to not shit on Sarevok if his encounter was like really well done. But given it took 2 turns to nuke him, it just made me wonder what the fuck happened.
Yeah got some sweet loot thats it oh yeah previous bg badass.

Literal main antagonist of the first game. Dude really deserved more respect.

Though the best treatment for him would probably be some note or book of his antihero roaming as in ToB ending. He became something of a wandering warrior getting involved in wars and adventures in search of feeling fully alive again if I remember correctly. Should have gotten a glorious death facing off against a dragon or demigod somewhere.

Instead dude is inexplicably back to his old self and reduced to being a popamole miniboss playing second fiddle to his granddaughter(wtf).

 

[AwesomeButton]

My expectation is that the flexibility comes from the character statistics, equipment, and skills I choose, and that I can make a variety of characters that focus on doing different combinations of things well. All while using the standard combat mechanics. High defense, low defense, high damage, low damage, high mobility, low mobility, range focused, melee focused, consistant damage, spikey damage, etc...

You have passive "talents" (in Deadfire "passive abilities") that give you a bonus to each of those - defenses, damage, mobility, damage bonus with proficient weapons... For the fighter in particular, he is designed to be more or less the center of gravity because of his engagement slots and high deflection. Combat in PoE revolves around engagement because of how the AI behaves. It rarely breaks engagement. So if you want to have a very active fighter you can't go without some active abilities. At least knockdown, so you can knock someone down and move away while he is prone, to avoid the AoO. Compared to the IE games fighters, you have more options for building your fighter in PoE.

You may feel that the PoE fighter lacks that obvious edge in terms of accuracy compared ot the IE games. In the IE games STR gives you both a higher chance to hit and higher damage with weapon attacks, and the fighter character is built for STR, to improve both. In PoE ofc, Mr. Balance has fixed, or "fixed", that. The difference in Accuracy (not counting bonuses from items, spells, talents, etc.) between classes in PoE is 5 or 10 - any class will start with either 30/25/20 Accuracy. Consider 5 as +1 to THAC0 (although in PoE there is no absolute cap to Accuracy or to Defenses, the to-hit dice is d100) and you see how much more even the field is. This may be the root of your feeling that the Fighter isn't that impressive in combat compared to the other classes. Still, you can build a fighter for Accuracy, and he will hit hard, but this will happen somewhat at the expense of his Defenses.

In PoE you had to focus on a specific set of stats and general capabilities if you went passive abilities only. It has been a few years, but some stats were only really useful you were doing special abilities, and the passives focused on a specific type of fighter (defensive, IIRC, but it has been a few years so I might be misremembering a bit).

PoE isn't a game where you get much from pumping and dumping base attributes. However some stats appear to gain a little more from pumping than others do. The bonuses to defenses seem least important as they will soon be surpassed by what you gain per level. The bonuses to durations and AoE of abilities seem most important. Still I'd say it's the wisest to have a roughly even distribution, to help you in attribute checks during scripted interactions, etc.