Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[Jenkem]

It's quite queer how the same people who rightly shit on WOTR for being pozzed, degenerate trash are now suddenly singing the praises of a game which is, apparently, even more full of degenerate trash... Is it the Baldur's Gate branding? Is it OK when it's D&D and not an offshoot? Is it because Larian?

 

[Lagole Gon]

It's because WotR is shit.

 

[Reinhardt]

any mods to make frog not ugly?

 

[Grauken]

It's quite queer how the same people who rightly shit on WOTR for being pozzed, degenerate trash are now suddenly singing the praises of a game which is, apparently, even more full of degenerate trash... Is it the Baldur's Gate branding? Is it OK when it's D&D and not an offshoot? Is it because Larian?

You're absolutely correct, they should embrace WOTR as well

 

[Lagole Gon]

any mods to make frog not ugly?

Just focus on the inner beauty.

 

[DeepOcean]

codex: "this game sucks!"

also codex: "the spankbank has been refilled"

I'm pleasantly surprised to see Shadowheart is not as flat-chested with clothes off as she is with her armor on.Try looking at her from the side with armor on, it's really startling how conservative the modeler was.

I'm more curious about the life of the Larian virtual pube stylist and the kinds of feedback he sends for Swen and the other team members.

 

[Lemming42]

Decided to restart the game as a Half-Orc Monk and holy fuck it's fun. Amazed how many people you can terrify into line just by glaring at them with [HALF-ORC] options, and for everyone else, Flurry of Blows makes them eat shit. Trying to go full non-lethal and yeah, the game definitely doesn't give a shit. Beat some Dwarf merchant dude into a coma because he caught me stealing, came back the next day after a Long Rest and he was chirpy as ever and willing to sell me shit.

Just met this wood elf druid guy, who I didn't meet last time around because I killed him or something in a major misunderstanding. I can't stop laughing every time I see his fucking face. It's like some shit from the old He-Man cartoon come to life. Why are Wood Elves from Yorkshire.

"Ey up we'll have to go to moonrise tower" hahaha his face looks like a chunk of ham wearing a cheap Amazon wig. Is this the highly-anticipated bear-fuck-guy? He'd need to transform into a bear before I'd even want to go anywhere near his fat sweaty face.

Still trying to settle on the least annoying party combo. Staggeringly, Gale and Shadowheart, who are both intolerable, seem to be the two best picks. I can't stand that guy with the stupid conrows who's hunting devils or whatever. Frog Lady and Vampire Boy are out because they're just fucking ridiculous, it's like Morrigan from Generic Age all over again.

"Orphaned Child: Can you help me? I'm drowning!
Me: ok
FROG LADY DISAPPROVES.
VAMPIRE BOY DISAPPROVES."

Starting to wonder about the viability of a solo playthrough where you just leave these people at camp and go off doing your own thing. My stealth skill is sound, my combat skills are ace, and I'm able to do most speech checks pretty reliably, so...

 

[Smashing Axe]

Playing a warlock right now with an Archfey pact. I have to say I've not noticed any patron interactions yet. Was this actually implemented?

 

[Reinhardt]

installing

 

[Raghar]

so is it gud?

That's mystery. But...

Wow I thought they are under attack by Russians.

For some reason it's massively torrented by Ukrainians.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Here is something you can solve - find a scroll of remove paralysis. I've been looking and I can't find one, and it's needed for a little sidequest.

If this concerns the tiefling who can't walk, you need to

Spoiler

cast Lesser Restoration, which is a second level cleric spell accessible by Shadowheart as soon as she attains third level.

"The looming threat of bearing children" lol

If you were designing a psywar meme to obviate the need for killing actual soldiers it would be hard to come up with a better one.

That is exactly the plot of the science-fiction short story "The Education of Tigress McCardle", written by C.M. Kornbluth and published in 1957. PRC on USA. Not one of his better stories, though.

 

[GhostCow]

I'm kind of annoyed that we got mostly ugly girls for companions when there are random npcs as hot as this one

 

[Yosharian]

I've just found out that a specific minor NPC that I like dies if you don't develop mind-reading abilities and foresee that you need to go on a time-sensitive sidequest to rescue him. There go five hours of gameplay.

Which guy?

 

[Lady Error]

But with a title like this I would expect it to be similar to the Infinity Engine games, which I would really love to play, which this game isn't AT ALL

Black Geyser is for you then. And I'm actually serious.

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/rpg-codex-review-black-geyser.147838/#post-8589130

 

[Yosharian]

Playing a warlock right now with an Archfey pact. I have to say I've not noticed any patron interactions yet. Was this actually implemented?

So I literally just found out that as a Warlock you get NO INTERACTIONS WITH YOUR PATRON.

No I am not joking.

 

[Yosharian]

But with a title like this I would expect it to be similar to the Infinity Engine games, which I would really love to play, which this game isn't AT ALL

Black Geyser is for you then. And I'm actually serious.

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/rpg-codex-review-black-geyser.147838/#post-8589130

Yeah I've heard really amazing things about that game

 

[Saerain]

I'm kind of annoyed that we got mostly ugly girls for companions when there are random npcs as hot as this one

Seriously, there are tons of gorgeous throwaway/background characters, it's bizarre.

 

[Nikanuur]

May Mielikki forgive me. I'm about to continue playing this because, rephrasing what one wise man said, "Even though I can't stand parts of the game, there are not many TB games on the scene to pass a big one."

 

[Perkel]

It's quite queer how the same people who rightly shit on WOTR for being pozzed, degenerate trash are now suddenly singing the praises of a game which is, apparently, even more full of degenerate trash... Is it the Baldur's Gate branding? Is it OK when it's D&D and not an offshoot? Is it because Larian?

People assume that people tend to look at games as average of its features but reality is that people like dislike particular features. Game can have amazing feature someone loves and 5 other features that are shit but for them this is the best game ever precisely because of that feature they like.

For me right now roleplaying aspect and combat are miles above competition in BG3. IDK about later but this is feeling I get from act1.

 

[Perkel]

tip: Right click bg3 on steam then add to properties --skip-launcher

 

[Surf Solar]

But with a title like this I would expect it to be similar to the Infinity Engine games, which I would really love to play, which this game isn't AT ALL

Black Geyser is for you then. And I'm actually serious.

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/rpg-codex-review-black-geyser.147838/#post-8589130

I know the game, it is 10000x times more true to the cRPG genre, also looks better because it has a non degenerate art style.

 

[Smashing Axe]

Playing a warlock right now with an Archfey pact. I have to say I've not noticed any patron interactions yet. Was this actually implemented?

So I literally just found out that as a Warlock you get NO INTERACTIONS WITH YOUR PATRON.

No I am not joking.

I haven't even noticed any subclass dialog options like the other classes have yet either.

I shoulda just bit the bullet and played Wyll

 

[Jenkem]

For some reason it's massively torrented by Ukrainians.

everyone who is playing this will transition before the end of the decade.

yeah, that tracks...

 

[Perkel]

I think I am getting hold of inventory management. I thought it was just like DOS one aka clusterfuck but they added ctrl/shift click which means you can mark most of your inventory for sale as long as you remember to store stuff you want to use in backpack/bag/purses. Moreover there is "wares" marking which marks them with icon for sale.

 

[Lemming42]

Went to meet that one-horned Tiefling everyone's on about. She seems fun so I invited her to join me, but my heart froze when I walked into that hut with the "paladins" and saw a guy called Anders.

Anders. My blood turned to ice in my veins and my eyes went wider than the average BG3 player's butthole as my mind reeled and my PTSD kicked in, forcing me to relive the whole of Dragon Age 2.

EDIT: Okay, after about five minutes with her, I really like Karlach. Only companion so far who hasn't made me want to put an icepick through their eye.