Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[Abu Antar]

Haven't had time to play. Took a look at concurrent user data: 678k.

Dayum.

 

[whydoibother]

What the hell. Act 1 also has a gigantic underdark map? How freaking big is this game?

And the Underdark map has a dwarf fortress, iirc.
Doing the fungal civil war right now, shit's all kinds of Larian with the poison and exploding mushrooms.

 

[Elthosian]

Haven't hadxtime to play. Took a look at concurrent uswr: 678k.

Dayum.

Me neither. For some reason my body wanted to play Furi and I couldn't say no

I just arrived at the grove after losing a companion, seemingly forever

 

[Abu Antar]

Haven't hadxtime to play. Took a look at concurrent uswr: 678k.

Dayum.

Me neither. For some reason my body wanted to play Furi and I couldn't say no

I just arrived at the grove after losing a companion, seemingly forever

I put in a few hours in INSOMNIA, and beat Injustice 2.

I see that there is an eight character party mod.

All we need now is for it to properly work in MP.

 

[Fedora Master]

They didnt give Dragonborn tits. That ain't lore accurate!

 

[Grauken]

I see that there is an eight character party mod.

Enticing but it might make things too easy

 

[whydoibother]

Oy vey, the surfacers are stealing our secrets!

 

[Elthosian]

I see that there is an eight character party mod.

Enticing but it might make things too easy

Yeah, I might do a 5 character party just to have some more variety, but the game doesn't seem overly hard so far even on Tactician. Worst thing that has happened to me is losing allied characters during fights but even that gets accounted for with some reactivity so I wouldn't enjoy just steamrolling through every encounter.


Btw, seems like the excitement about the game is getting to console players. The game made it to the top 2 pre-ordered titles in PSN and I'm hearing that some Xbox players are trying out WL3 and DOS2 in the meantime

 

[Abu Antar]

I see that there is an eight character party mod.

Enticing but it might make things too easy

100% true. I won't use it for single player sessions, but we are six people who want to coop, and we are looking at ways to have everyone join.

 

[Grunker]

Lotssa Codex bros playing this one though it seems

yeah, but most of us are completely asocial

I have curated a Steam friendo list of IRL friends and Codex friends most prestigious

 

[Darkwind]

I see that there is an eight character party mod.

Enticing but it might make things too easy

Yeah, I might do a 5 character party just to have some more variety, but the game doesn't seem overly hard so far even on Tactician. Worst thing that has happened to me is losing allied characters during fights but even that gets accounted for with some reactivity so I wouldn't enjoy just steamrolling through every encounter.

This was a problem in Solasta too. 4 character party is extremely limiting in D&D but an 8 character party is a cakewalk. My solution to this other than cranking up the difficulty was to take a very aggressive playstyle. Instead of being very thoughtful and strategic I would go balls out and that compensated for the added firepower of the other characters. YMMV of course but for me it was a nice tradeoff, especially so in BG3 where companions have interactivity. Solasta that was minimal at best by comparison.

 

[Reinhardt]

btw anyone killed cambion in prologue on tactician? any gud loot? he bitchslaps our tentacled friend in 2, max 3 rounds.

 

[Grunker]

It's both kind of cool and kind of annoying that 90% of the people you do-gooder help in this game end up spitting in your face either because their situation after being helped is still shit or they just downright don't believe that someone would actually help them

 

[Cyberarmy]

btw anyone killed cambion in prologue on tactician? any gud loot? he bitchslaps our tentacled friend in 2, max 3 rounds.

You can use command spell on him to make him drop his weapon, then use it against him. I killed him in last sec before his other cambion buddies arrive. Mind flayer turns on you the moment he dies though. His sword is really good for starting area.

There are some barrels on that room for extra damage and you can use mage hand to throw him for extra shit. You can bufff with bless before fight and then refill that slot with restoration pod. Also there are lots of fiery surface that you can dip your weapon and shove cambion onto.

 

[Reinhardt]

btw anyone killed cambion in prologue on tactician? any gud loot? he bitchslaps our tentacled friend in 2, max 3 rounds.

You can use command spell on him to make him drop his weapon, then use it against him. I killed him in last sec before his other cambion buddies arrive. Mind flayer turns on you the moment he dies though.

what is this "spell" thingy?

 

[Tyranicon]

Going beyond a four-person party would absolutely trivialize the game.

Thinking of doing a solo run just because I hate how bad the pathfinding for companion AI is.

 

[whydoibother]

I call this one Divinity Original Sin 3

 

[VentilatorOfDoom]

btw anyone killed cambion in prologue on tactician? any gud loot? he bitchslaps our tentacled friend in 2, max 3 rounds.

same loot as always
1) you can save and reload in combat
2) cast shield of faith with shadowheart on him immediately
3) heal him

 

[Cyberarmy]

btw anyone killed cambion in prologue on tactician? any gud loot? he bitchslaps our tentacled friend in 2, max 3 rounds.

You can use command spell on him to make him drop his weapon, then use it against him. I killed him in last sec before his other cambion buddies arrive. Mind flayer turns on you the moment he dies though.

what is this "spell" thingy?

Shadow comes with Command but unprepared.

 

[gongal]

"Dude let me show you something amazing! Wow, you won't believe it wow"
"Ok..."

*turns into a gay cuddling cutscene*

Is this all there is to these garbage characters (and game)? Does Swenerino know about other things to human relationships than pounding dudes in the ass? Is this a common behavior in his household?

 

[Vic]

never get too friendly with guys in modern rpgs

 

[Grunker]

btw anyone killed cambion in prologue on tactician? any gud loot? he bitchslaps our tentacled friend in 2, max 3 rounds.

I did, but it cost many reloads. Key for me was Bless on flayer, faerie fire on big guy and my Bard’s vicious mockery so he missed he flayer.

If you want the cheesy route you can use explody items

 

[whydoibother]

 

[retinoid]

It's 7 times better so it makes sense.

 

[Nerevar]

Having the Lathander relic makes the undead area so much easier.