Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[Rhobar121]

Is Pact of the Blade working right? My pact weapon has a lower hit chance than my blast.

A bit of a stupid question, but have you activated the skill?

 

[Elthosian]

Did they invest at all on marketing? Like real ads and shit, not the good karma articles all over the net. I have as many adblockers as I can, don’t watch TV and barely check youtube, so no real way to know for me.

My guess is 100mil development budget and another 50 to 100 mil for marketing. I have no source on the development budget, completely my own guess.

Marketing budgets are often 50% to another 100% of the added cost, because marketing is the largest driver of sales. These marketing numbers are based on often cited budgets for various media, going from movies to big budget video-games.

But as you say, those are "normal" game numbers, does this apply here? Sony spent a lot on TLOU2 marketing but that included TV ads and actual physical ad placement. I haven't seen any of that for BG3 except for the featured banner in Steam and a couple promoted tweets that only showed up for me because I was already checking Swen's account.

Bear sex PFH got them the most attention and even that was little more than a YouTube stream that got picked up by a lot of people. They did bring a lot of media in and rented a castle (which someone somewhere said is not that expensive in Europe) but I doubt that costed more than a million. Unless they specifically paid for all those pieces praising Larian's DLC/DRM policy and the scope of the game, I don't see where they could have possibly spent 50 million marketing bucks. Maybe they had some funds allocated and decided not to waste the money after seeing the game went viral?

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

tactical combat, which surpasses Baldur's Gate 2 and even Solasta

 

[Fedora Master]

Is Pact of the Blade working right? My pact weapon has a lower hit chance than my blast.

A bit of a stupid question, but have you activated the skill?

I just re-activated it. No idea what was going on there, it clearly showed -1 from my 8 Str but now it's correct:

 

[Nikanuur]

...the famed reactivity and a billion dialogue choices...

Fabled Bioware / Black Isle of late used to teach us that the alternative routes meant also alternative yields. That violence was often neither the best option, nor the best rewarded one.
I mean, isn't this a story-telling element to strive for in *any* complex RPG be it tabletop or videogame? To inspire choices?
Now, I have a reason to believe that the said is not the case of BG3. I just scared grave-robbers away by Bluffing and that was it. No EXP for trying to solve the situation, nor any other reward.
In all honesty, I don't know if I meet them later. So, maybe there's a RP "reward". But meh, where's the inspiration. Next time, I'll likely just choose simple violence and I will be, in the very least, rewarded by EXP and loot.
After all, I read the--otherwise pretty good queue--in the dialogue options, and by that it served its purpose already.
Clicking on it served none :/

 

[CoronerZg]

So is there a proper armor replacement mod already? I'd like to try the game but the shit I'm seeing on these screenshots is a bit distracting. And hideous.

 

[vitellus]

Loving this graphical touch that we're all drenched in sweat, except for Karlach since she's already on fire all the time anyway.

I love this detail. I have been trying to go as far as I can possibly push it (i.e., characters down to 2-3 health). At a certain point, every dialogue shows the characters covered in blood and bruises.

Repelling Blast on Warlock is MVP.

i've had astarion looking like he's needing his combivir on more than one occasion and that's when i noticed the bruises. the graphics are nice, it allows for a lot of detail of the world which is why i spent near sixteen hours in the first act poking through everything and finding some good lore stuff and environmental stories, and i'm a dude who's not played anything really needing much oomph in the past few years so i am a little more easily impressed coming from wizardrys and ultimas

 

[jackofshadows]

huh, stuck in the chamber Nettie brings you to it seems. The stone door is open but I can't go outside. Great.

In this game there's no such thing as stuck with all the time (alright maybe there will be exceptions) teleports available.

 

[HoboForEternity]

i wish swen make enough money to wrestle ultima IP out of EA's hands and make ultima 11 or something

 

[Mortmal]

tactical combat, which surpasses Baldur's Gate 2 and even Solasta

Yes i am serious.

 

[Modron]

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

Yeah Elex 2 was the same way there were some random cultivators just walking around that looked far better than any companion.

 

[Talby]

Few hours in and I just can't seem to find the will to continue, I just stopped caring.

 

[Shaki]

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

Yeah Elex 2 was the same way there were some random cultivators just walking around that looked far better than any companion.

Cute girls are not for you goy, now go romance the tranny

 

[conan_edw]

Got my first crash and I'm still early on

 

[Gradenmayer]

It seems to be stutterring between transitions. starting conversation, load map or opening inventory etc.
anyone experienced or knows a fix or its just too heavy for my computer?

Use Vulkan instead of dx11, helped me with those issues.

 

[OttoQuitmarck]

i wish swen make enough money to wrestle ultima IP out of EA's hands and make ultima 11 or something

I think this could happen. We'll see what they do next. I imagine their next game will just be divinity: original sin 3

 

[OttoQuitmarck]

The game officially hit 600k concurrent players just now

 

[AwesomeButton]

10 hours in, I'm doing my first long rest. The camp shall be known as "cringe corner" from now on.

Also, my wife walked by and asked why are everyone dressed in S&M attire.

But no, seriously, it's not as terrible as many people described it here. The conversations made sense given how long we've been together with these party members. And you can avoid corny talk if you want to.

 

[Grunker]

Is Pact of the Blade working right? My pact weapon has a lower hit chance than my blast.

The visuals are bugged. You have to use it just before entering combat or once in combat. It's not actually active between fights even though the UI says so - which is in line with how it's worded ("Once per combat")

 

[lametta]

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

so CAN you make custom hirelings or NOT?
or i will have to respec shadowheart into ninja geisha fujiyama rogue and drow wombyn into sorceress?

Yes, the zombie you find at the beginning of the game both resurrects dead party members and lets you summon hirelings.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Ahahahaha!! Die rodent.


Hmmmm…..

 

[Barbarian]

This actually runs pretty well on my 3 year old laptop.

So I assume performance is all around great? Must be the reason I saw no complaint even here on whining central.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Jesus, Wyll's idle animation in camp... crazy moves.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

and people wonder why i dont play modern games

because you get insta-filtered, like that time you tried dork souls

everyone play Daggerfall Unity, it blows every other TES game out of the water and there's nothing else like it

Well it sure does surpass every other TES game (aside from maybe Sjyrim) in its inability to present any interesting content