Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[Rhobar121]

so whens the definitive ultra directors cut edition coming out? because it is right?

Fixing up Act 3 proper, and adding act 4.

The last thing the game needs is a longer gameplay.
The game is very long anyway

 

[Daedalos]

so whens the definitive ultra directors cut edition coming out? because it is right?

Fixing up Act 3 proper, and adding act 4.

The last thing the game needs is a longer gameplay.
The game is very long anyway

Weird thing to complain about a game being long if its good most of the way, which it is. At least the main story proper.

 

[Desiderius]

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https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=930410#Post930410

This reads like a sound analysis. But I fear 'fixing the plot' is out of the question at this point. What should be possible is for Larian to learn from their mistakes, for their next games. They should make damn sure that they have a good backbone for the story in place, next time. It should be good enough to withstand and enable all story branches that are added, changed and removed later on.

Nothing will change in their next game with all the simps praising BG3. What BG3 has shown is that you do not need a good story for RPGs. Just pack waifus and genital customizations in and you are done.

Don't forget bestiality. What a world we live in today!

codex is spreading

Wow...they're even harder on the game than here...Weird.

There's a huge misconception that the place is critical to RPGs and unfriendly to games and their devs. This is wrong; the place is extremely forgiving to everything, strictly hating on Larian. If you are an indie dev and need a shoulder to cry on for your(justified) poor sales, the Codex is always here to help. A simple example: here's how a low-level quest is designed in BG3 - a beautiful scenery with cliffs and waves, you need to rescue some kid from harpies. They use all the abilities from the book: charm, skirmish, dragging you to the sea with a perfect use of the Z-axis during combat, while you hear a superb audio environment with real sung voices from professionals. In other RPGs, we are still at the "collect 10 rats' tails for the innkeeper in its basement" stage, and I am not exaggerating. There's plenty of horrible fucking retro-pixelated shit with a fake 8-bit style and dated design, but they will get a free pass, and no one will spam rate anyone posting in those threads. Only Larian games get that amount of criticism, probably because they are too progressive and too successful.

And Wyll gets an Inspiration from it while having the perfect ability to own the fight (Armor of Agathis) which makes the (Wet) Harpies suicide themselves on him (if he fails the save and gets enthralled it turns on the multiattax that kill them).

Good marriage of cash and talent. Progressive lol. Decadence isn’t progress. Decadent ages do produce good art as people imagine the next (better) one.

 

[Swen]

Why are trannies culturally appropriating my game bros?

 

[Reyvik]

Why are trannies culturally appropriating my game bros?

I mean it is fine if it was a good deity cloister but when taking into account the fact that they worship Shar, which is probably the most nihilistic goddess of FR, any act of misgendering and being just unkind should be considered in tune with what she represents. It is silly that all these evil cults that kill and maim people on a daily basis frown upon modern issues like misgendering or being homophobic. What kind of fucked up morality is that

 

[Desiderius]

Why are trannies culturally appropriating my game bros?

Your game is helping millions come to terms with the (pretty awful) reality of grooming and exploitation going on in front of their faces.

It's a public service really.

frown upon

Those "frowns" serve as the means to kill and maim entire civilizations, nations, and cultures. It's what the Q in BLTQ+ stands for.

 

[Shaki]

Why are trannies culturally appropriating my game bros?

I mean it is fine if it was a good deity cloister but when taking into account the fact that they worship Shar, which is probably the most nihilistic goddess of FR, any act of misgendering and being just unkind should be considered in tune with what she represents. It is silly that all these evil cults that kill and maim people on a daily basis frown upon modern issues like misgendering or being homophobic. What kind of fucked up morality is that

Evil brainwashing cult turning people into trannies and promoting faggotry, hmmm, for sure that sounds really weird and not related to the modern world at all.

 

[MerchantKing]

Why are trannies culturally appropriating my game bros?

Why did you make a tranny game?

 

[Alienman]

Basically discord groomed.

 

[Desiderius]

Educated indeed.

Takes a lot to remove one from every last one of one's senses.

 

[dukeofwoodberry]

Like I said before, in these games you cannot have a single faction that is opposed to faggotry, transgenderism, ect... Opposition to that cannot exist in any form. BG3 is probably the most liberal mainstream game of all time. Picking your genitals at the beginning kind of gave that away

 

[Desiderius]

Those things are degenerate and characteristic of illiberal ages like this one. Liberalism is every man a king in his castle (distributed power). Degeneracy is what people turn to when that power is too concentrated. Especially the powerful themselves (heavy lies the head…).

Eventually that power destroys itself from within, which is what the Cult of Shar depicts.

 

[TheHeroOfTime]

But Shadowheart is not trans, she has a coochie, I saw it on the inventory menu

 

[Lacrymas]

Nocturne "is" trans (in a setting in which belts which change your sex exist), not Shart.

 

[Infinitron]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1086940/view/3975056106332669474

Hotfix #17 Now Live!
Version Number: 4.1.1.4494476

Hello everyone,

We’ve got another hotfix for you today, fixing a few bugs, blockers, and issues. Poor Gale - we know your pain, sometimes it’s easy to read something into a situation that wasn’t there. We’ve sat him down and explained that if someone doesn’t offer him a shoe to eat every time, that doesn’t mean they never will. You’ll find him more likely to stick around now.

Please note that with new patches and hotfixes, some installed mods may become temporarily incompatible. If you experience any issues after installing the latest update, please check if the issue persists with all mods uninstalled. If it persists, please reach out to our support team with your report.

Thank you for taking the time to submit these issues to us. If you have any bugs to report, please reach out to our support team. Thank you for playing Baldur’s Gate 3!

PERFORMANCE AND CODE

• Fixed black and colourful visual artefacts sometimes appearing for 1 frame on PS5 when switching scenes or opening and closing UI windows.
• Increased the compression of savegames, which should fix several issues caused by large savegame files.
• Reduced the size of save files by removing summons that don't exist in the game anymore.
• Guarded against crashes caused when certain character resources (Actions, Bonus Actions, Superiority Dice, etc.) were added and later removed by a mod or cheat engine.

GAMEPLAY AND COMBAT

• In Honour Mode, the aura of Cazador's
  
  now properly dissipates after he's
  
  . Sorry!
• Fixed the camera sometimes zooming in while jumping or casting projectile spells.
• Fixed the ability to walk through open doors when you click beyond them from far away.
• Fixed Thieves' Tools in the camp chest or inventory of a companion who is waiting at camp not being accessible when lockpicking.

UI

• Safeguard Shield's Saving Throw modifier is now correctly reflected on the Character Sheet.

FLOW AND SCRIPTING

• Gale will no longer permanently leave the party if you don't offer him any magic items while talking to him – unless you're abundantly clear that you don't plan on ever doing so.
• Fixed characters getting stuck 'in a story event', preventing you from controlling them, after getting killed in the fight with Grym.

 

[Hagashager]

Shadowheart is not Trans, she has a Trans friend.

Worth noting that while the Trans friend is a Sharess (initially) she never betrays Shadowheart.

I'm seeing a lot of, "The Trans characters are all weird sorcerers, necromancers and obviously fringe-of-society weirdos! What's Larian trying to say here????"

Nothing, is the answer. The vast majority of influential Trans icons are horror fans, wikkans, counter-culture witches and other non-conformist people. Larian's not making a statement here, they're reflecting what is actually popular in Trans communities currently.

 

[dukeofwoodberry]

Shadowheart is not Trans, she has a Trans friend.

Worth noting that while the Trans friend is a Sharess (initially) she never betrays Shadowheart.

I'm seeing a lot of, "The Trans characters are all weird sorcerers, necromancers and obviously fringe-of-society weirdos! What's Larian trying to say here????"

Nothing, is the answer. The vast majority of influential Trans icons are horror fans, wickens, counter-culture witches and other non-conformist people. Larian's not making a statement here, they're reflecting what is actually popular in Trans communities currently.

Why are you capitalizing trans?

 

[Hagashager]

Is that a good faith question or is this setup for calling me a faggot?

 

[Modron]

Why are you capitalizing trans?

Probably following the official guidelines of some Airline.

 

[Desiderius]

Shadowheart is not Trans, she has a Trans friend.

Worth noting that while the Trans friend is a Sharess (initially) she never betrays Shadowheart.

I'm seeing a lot of, "The Trans characters are all weird sorcerers, necromancers and obviously fringe-of-society weirdos! What's Larian trying to say here????"

Nothing, is the answer. The vast majority of influential Trans icons are horror fans, wickens, counter-culture witches and other non-conformist people. Larian's not making a statement here, they're reflecting what is actually popular in Trans communities currently.

Nonconformist my ass

Just because licking that jackboot is your kink doesn’t make you a nonconformist. *Non*-conformists don’t get to police speech and thought or want to.

 

[Desiderius]

Is that a good faith question or is this setup for calling me a faggot?

WTF does good faith mean here?

 

[Hagashager]

Shadowheart is not Trans, she has a Trans friend.

Worth noting that while the Trans friend is a Sharess (initially) she never betrays Shadowheart.

I'm seeing a lot of, "The Trans characters are all weird sorcerers, necromancers and obviously fringe-of-society weirdos! What's Larian trying to say here????"

Nothing, is the answer. The vast majority of influential Trans icons are horror fans, wickens, counter-culture witches and other non-conformist people. Larian's not making a statement here, they're reflecting what is actually popular in Trans communities currently.

Nonconformist my ass

Just because licking that jackboot is your kink doesn’t make you a nonconformist. *Non*-conformists don’t get to police speech and thought or want to.

I agree with you. That's not how they see it.

To me, personally, "Non-Conformist" is a buzzword like "Counter-Culture". It's functionally meaningless.

Ironically, most of the LGBTQ+ group is extremely, uncompromisingly conformist. If only they knew how close to McCarthy they really were.

 

[Elttharion]

Shadowheart is not Trans, she has a Trans friend.

Worth noting that while the Trans friend is a Sharess (initially) she never betrays Shadowheart.

I'm seeing a lot of, "The Trans characters are all weird sorcerers, necromancers and obviously fringe-of-society weirdos! What's Larian trying to say here????"

Nothing, is the answer. The vast majority of influential Trans icons are horror fans, wickens, counter-culture witches and other non-conformist people. Larian's not making a statement here, they're reflecting what is actually popular in Trans communities currently.

If they wanted to portray what is popular among trannies every trans character would have a few meters of rope in their inventory.

 

[raeven]

Once upon a time, the codex was a place that championed choices and consequences in games. Championed games that let you play different roles, with genuinely different outcomes and playstyles depending on those roles. Sometimes, even championed RPGs that were more tactical, had multiple party members, and/or were turn based compared to the garbage that we were being fed for the decade between Bloodlines and wasteland 2.

Sometimes with the criticism of this game I wonder what ppl are even comparing it to? This is the kind of game we wanted for years on end and thought would never be possible again, and now that we have it this forum is just non stop bitching about it as if there are a ton of options out there for turn and party based RPGs with actual choice, consequences, and role playing.

Never underestimate the butthurt people feel for something cool and niche they like becoming popular, I guess.

I agree that the combat can be on the easy side , although honor mode has been changing that and kicking my ass. Overall this game has way more to offer on the "role playing" front than BG1 and BG2 ever did, and that's worth celebrating imo.

But sure, complain about there being too many gay people I guess, how edgy.

 

[user]

This is the kind of game we wanted for years on end and thought would never be possible again, and now that we have it this forum is just non stop bitching about it as if there are a ton of options out there for turn and party based RPGs with actual choice, consequences, and role playing.

Don't know... even the broken-ass Rogue Trader managed to retain my interest more than BG3. I usually restart these games an autistic number of times to try new builds and C&C, but this one didn't do it for me. Not excited to make a new build for my main, or make different choices like choose the grove over the camp etc, not going illithid and so on. It also kind of lacks the BG grittiness I remember and was fond of.

PS: Wouldn't mind if every single character in the game was gay and trans at the same time, as long as I was happy with the rest of the game.