Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[Axie]

Big fix...

 

[Tyrr]

Big fix...

They know what's important for their audience.

 

[Moink]

Can't wait for Polearm Master to still be broken after 6 patches.

 

[Swen]

Big fix...

Yeath this video is going to trigger the codex

 

[raeven]

Big fix...

Yeath this video is going to trigger the codex

Everything hot triggers the codex

 

[user]

Big fix...

Don't mind me, it's just another quote to improve visibility to trigger the codex.

 

[gurugeorge]

There's a newish AI mod, AI Allies, that's fun to play with and super easy to use (basically toggle spells to select and apply selectively in the manner of the Bless type of spell, one of 7 AI behaviours - i.e. melee, ranged, melee healer, ranged healer, melee mage, ranged mage and general/random, plus a spell to remove all AI).

If you're like me and really enjoyed the configurable AI in Deadfire and in the earlier Dragon Age games, it's kind of in the same area. It's actually quite impressive how "clever" the AI is - it's really interesting to see what tactics/spells your wee guys use, under what circumstances. The fully unleashed enemy AI from the Combat Extender mod, which I've been plugging, is quite something to behold as well. It seems Larian built in some pretty good, aggressive AI behaviours, but it's all a bit pussified out of the box.

Also quite nice if you have the no party limits mod and a big party - and as with all AI mods of this type, you get a stronger feeling of being your character if he's the only one you directly control while your companions feel more like their own people.

It's funny because coming off the back of BG/2 I actually hated that your companions in the first Neverwinter game were AI controlled, but over time I've come to appreciate it as a different style of gameplay that adds an element of the unexpected, even if you can tailor your people's AI and they generally behave as you want, they can often do things that surprise you and mix up the flow of events.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

"Wyll is BG3's only person of color"

And that's just the companions.

 

[Larianshill]

Remember what could have been.

 

[Florian Gheorghe]

I am really at the point of not playing anymore. Just like I did with everything Larian. I lost interest after a while.

 

[jackofshadows]

Funny thing about the culture war shennenigans is that the other side thinks BG3 is "problematic" and doesn't have enough represenatation.

https://www.themarysue.com/baldurs-gate-3-mod-makes-all-companions-black/

Poc = nigger. Wake up already.

 

[VerSacrum]

Remember what could have been.

Thoroughly disgusting character either way.

 

[Fedora Master]

Funny how the devil genes still can't override the nigger genes

 

[Jeskis]

Act 3 is a pure nosedive in almost everything. There are still a couple of quests that keep my attention, but the drop in quality is palpable. Also this is where music with English lyrics starts appearing and beside it being immersion breaking, it’s not good at all.

 

[Yosharian]

Act 3 is a pure nosedive in almost everything. There are still a couple of quests that keep my attention, but the drop in quality is palpable. Also this is where music with English lyrics starts appearing and beside it being immersion breaking, it’s not good at all.

Yeah it's shockingly bad, it's like a different studio developed it.

 

[Harthwain]

I ask for a proof of white ppl repression and you show a bunch of black ppl playing in movie

You don't see a problem with replacing HISTORICAL FIGURES with different ethnicities for the sake of modern diversity policy (which doesn't even make sense outside of America)? I can't tell if you're actually stupid or just a troll.

 

[raeven]

Act 3 is a pure nosedive in almost everything. There are still a couple of quests that keep my attention, but the drop in quality is palpable. Also this is where music with English lyrics starts appearing and beside it being immersion breaking, it’s not good at all.

I hear this POV a lot and I find it really surprising.

Act 3 seems like by far the strongest of the three. I'm kinda surprised that they put all of the best content at the end. Comparatively acts 1 and 2 were more empty and bland / generic overall. Act 3 is where all of the reactivity to your actions previously really comes up and there are at least ten battles that match or exceed the handful of setpiece fights that capped off the previous two acts.

I also liked how in act 3 you can see how the consequences of your decisions play out, rather than just immediately move on because the content is over with.

Idk I seem to be in the minority in this but acts 1 and 2 just felt like pretty good generic fantasy for me. Act 3 is what made the game an all time favorite for me.

 

[raeven]

I ask for a proof of white ppl repression and you show a bunch of black ppl playing in movie

You don't see a problem with replacing HISTORICAL FIGURES with different ethnicities for the sake of modern diversity policy (which doesn't even make sense outside of America)? I can't tell if you're actually stupid or just a troll.

Someone is easily offended. Snowflake-esque, almost.

 

[Harthwain]

Someone is easily offended. Snowflake-esque, almost.

?

 

[Fedora Master]

all of the reactivity

There is no reactivity.

 

[kigmathelm]

The whole woke criticism on my side comes down to the point that there is no actual diversity in the game. Everyone talks and acts like a modern human being, they just look differently and maybe want to fuck different things. FFS, you have half demon race and they're almost exclusively good guys.

Having well defined races / cultures is interesting, this 'everyone's actually the same with 21st century morality' shit is boring and not immersive at all. If they wanted to add more African looking people in the game - I'd prefer if they just added a new race or two which looked like that. Same with women that are essentially men without dicks in this game - no behavioral differences and in fact they more often seem to be type for melee combat.

While game has some good visuals - the Baldurs Gate looks really unremarkable and music is kinda meh. All in all, I had some good fun in Acts 1 and 2 mostly due to combat-loot-levelup loop, but at the half of Act 3 I kinda got bored. Think I might never actually finish it and rather dabble with honor mode.

 

[NaturallyCarnivorousSheep]

Act 3 is where the game falls off a cliff

The classic big city in RPG experience, yes. I fucking hate cities in RPGs

This game has a tiny selection of OK outfits. The vast majority look like weird overly designed high fashion horseshit. we cant just have a normal chain hauberk. It needs have buttons and shoulder pads and zippers.

That's how Swen likes them.

Not joking btw. Iirc some Divinity OS 2 dev log has him talking about how amazing the armour designs are because they have lots of details.

 

[Haba]

If only it was so.

 

[Swen]

 

[Percy]

ewww gross
and cringe