Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[axedice]

It's too much of a hassle to recruit Minsc, and all your companions are fully setup by the time you do so there is never a place for him in the party. He was sort of "let me try that build with these items as well" type of character. They should've added him in act2 along with Jahiera. I wanted to see their interactions in my first run out of nostalgia, and all I got was some weak banter and a bit of dialogue with nine fingers.

 

[Desiderius]

Bounty Hunter​

Creatures you hit with Ensnaring Strike (either ranged or melee) have

Disadvantage on their Saving Throw.

From character creation!

Suck it, Haplo!

 

[Haplo]

Bounty Hunter​

Creatures you hit with Ensnaring Strike (either ranged or melee) have

Disadvantage on their Saving Throw.

From character creation!

Suck it, Haplo!

Yeah, I know. I guess its useful in Act 1 or something.

Later on there are much stronger options, then a single target single strike with added CC, that takes one's Action and Bonus Action.
Also Spike Growth is nice.

But other options are much stronger later on. Or even early if you're a Warlock. Ranger does have some options, but as far as CC masters are concerned, he's not in the competition.

 

[Desiderius]

Bounty Hunter​

Creatures you hit with Ensnaring Strike (either ranged or melee) have

Disadvantage on their Saving Throw.

From character creation!

Suck it, Haplo!

Yeah, I know. I guess its useful in Act 1 or something.

Later on there are much stronger options, then a single target single strike with added CC, that takes one's Action and Bonus Action.
Also Spike Growth is nice.

But other options are much stronger later on. Or even early if you're a Warlock. Ranger does have some options, but as far as CC masters are concerned, he's not in the competition.

C'mon man, taking out the strongest enemy with disadvantage from the drop? Once the chain of disadvantage begins it's hard to stop but how many other effects have that first disadvantage *built in*?

Ranger builds on that like any other class does but it's always got that nice basic CC in the bag, and it's able to land that hit more reliably than many other classes using high ground and stealth. Weapon/ammo procs *stack* with it.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Alright, I've reinstalled this trash. Time to do an origin run or two.

First, I will play everyone's favorite faggot elf. Out of mercy on you all, I think I will resist the temptation to use him as my avatar here again though.

After that, I plan to try out Wyll using the white Wyll mod and the Anomen AI voice override.

We'll see how far I can get before giving up.

I gave up in the first few minutes lol.

I keep trying to find the time to play it and keep getting distracted by other things or better games.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

I keep trying to find the time to play it and keep getting distracted by other things or better games.

So what are you playing atm?

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

So what are you playing atm?

I've been too tired from travel and touching grass lately to play much of anything. I think the last enjoyable PC game that I dedicated a lot of time to was either replaying BG2 or replaying Stellaris. I tried Dragon's Dogma 2, but got rid of it until they patch it more. There's probably a visual novel or strategy game that I'm forgetting there too.

Other than this, it's been a slew of gacha scam RPGs, since they take like 5 minutes to play and don't try to force LGBT on me. Funny how when people are actually paying for the characters, the devs don't make them gay, black trannies.

I also have a whole bunch of games that I want to play. I still want to finish MGSR. I still want to finish Death Stranding. I got the Sabers of Infinity trilogy because I like CYOAs, but never finished them.

I'm still probably going to come back to this. I took the time to download the mods and troubleshoot it when one caused a problem. But it's difficult to justify spending the time on starting it, let alone playing all the way to Act 3.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

I also have a whole bunch of games that I want to play. I still want to finish MGSR. I still want to finish Death Stranding. I got the Sabers of Infinity trilogy because I like CYOAs, but never finished them.

Man, I just can't muster the will to finish games that easily anymore. Last one that I did manage to finish was the Rizian expansion for Suzerain, but otherwise meh. Picked up that Roman spinoff for the King Arthur game more recently, but didn't manage to get myself hyped or invested enough to play too much of that. Might try doing another playthrough of WotR atm since I haven't played any of the DLCs yet and I'll be waiting for the first DLC to drop for Rogue Trader before giving that game another try.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Might try doing another playthrough of WotR

Oh man. Even with that anti-woke mod, I don't know if I could manage.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Crom on his mountain, I did not think I would ever empathize with a damned cat.

 

[axedice]

BG3 is not bad, you're just getting old. With this attitude, you'll loose your manhood next.

 

[processdaemon]

I find Karlach to be one of the more annoying companions but if you're planning to free Orpheus the Karllithid option is the best way to have a relatively happy ending for everyone (or at least everyone that I care about).

 

[Haplo]

Bounty Hunter​

Creatures you hit with Ensnaring Strike (either ranged or melee) have

Disadvantage on their Saving Throw.

From character creation!

Suck it, Haplo!

Yeah, I know. I guess its useful in Act 1 or something.

Later on there are much stronger options, then a single target single strike with added CC, that takes one's Action and Bonus Action.
Also Spike Growth is nice.

But other options are much stronger later on. Or even early if you're a Warlock. Ranger does have some options, but as far as CC masters are concerned, he's not in the competition.

C'mon man, taking out the strongest enemy with disadvantage from the drop? Once the chain of disadvantage begins it's hard to stop but how many other effects have that first disadvantage *built in*?

Ranger builds on that like any other class does but it's always got that nice basic CC in the bag, and it's able to land that hit more reliably than many other classes using high ground and stealth. Weapon/ammo procs *stack* with it.

Its not even the best martial single target CC option, when Open Hand Monk with Stunning Fist and Topple spam exists. Not to compare it against the actual strong aoe CC casters.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

BG3 is not bad, you're just getting old. With this attitude, you'll loose your manhood next.

>If you can't enjoy a game full of blacks and faggots, your dick will fall off

 

[Hydro]

BG3 is quite unique that’s for sure. It succeeds in being a great game scratching those ol itches, while simultaneously being an utter shit with garbage writing and insufferable characters.

 

[Swen]

BG3 is not bad, you're just getting old. With this attitude, you'll loose your manhood next.

>If you can't enjoy a game full of blacks and faggots, your dick will fall off

BG3 is quite unique that’s for sure. It succeeds in being a great game scratching those ol itches, while simultaneously being an utter shit with garbage writing and insufferable characters.

Euh you know you can euh just kill or ignore all the characters you don't like right?

 

[Haplo]

BG3 is quite unique that’s for sure. It succeeds in being a great game scratching those ol itches, while simultaneously being an utter shit with garbage writing and insufferable characters.

Meh. Gameplay is king and that is excellent.

I pity the people who play combat, exploration and build oriented optimization games for the story / to analyze their writing or are so sensitive they cannot tolerate fictional characters they don't like.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

BG3 is not bad, you're just getting old. With this attitude, you'll loose your manhood next.

>If you can't enjoy a game full of blacks and faggots, your dick will fall off

Euh you know you can euh just kill or ignore all the characters you don't like right?

I prefer to mod them out. But even if I didn't, I think that playing BG3 makes you more likely to result in your dick falling off than not playing it.

 

[BlackAdderBG]

BG3 is quite unique that’s for sure. It succeeds in being a great game scratching those ol itches, while simultaneously being an utter shit with garbage writing and insufferable characters.

Meh. Gameplay is king and that is excellent.

I pity people who play combat, exploration and build oriented optimization games for the story / to analyze their writing or are so sensitive they cannot tolerate fictional characters they don't like.

Problem is when the game is 90% dialog and holding tab to loot 40 crates in a random house.

Also gameplay is mediocre as d&d5e is trash.

 

[Desiderius]

Bounty Hunter​

Creatures you hit with Ensnaring Strike (either ranged or melee) have

Disadvantage on their Saving Throw.

From character creation!

Suck it, Haplo!

Yeah, I know. I guess its useful in Act 1 or something.

Later on there are much stronger options, then a single target single strike with added CC, that takes one's Action and Bonus Action.
Also Spike Growth is nice.

But other options are much stronger later on. Or even early if you're a Warlock. Ranger does have some options, but as far as CC masters are concerned, he's not in the competition.

C'mon man, taking out the strongest enemy with disadvantage from the drop? Once the chain of disadvantage begins it's hard to stop but how many other effects have that first disadvantage *built in*?

Ranger builds on that like any other class does but it's always got that nice basic CC in the bag, and it's able to land that hit more reliably than many other classes using high ground and stealth. Weapon/ammo procs *stack* with it.

Its not even the best martial single target CC option, when Open Hand Monk with Stunning Fist and Topple spam exists. Not to compare it against the actual strong aoe CC casters.

Monk? I want to do my CC from up here in the shadows at the top of this cliff where nothing can touch me, not down there in the mess that needs controlling. One disadvantage leads into another, it's good to start with something that has it built in.

Casters sure can do AoE for things that stand in an area, but the things that need to be countrolled like to spread out and stand far away where *Range* is appreciated.

Hence the Ranger.

 

[axedice]

For act1 its not bad in rounds where you do not need the bonus action, but like all CC's chance to land is king and without items to support it sort of falls through the gaps as you progress. I think I used it once or twice, then forgot about it and used my spell slots to renew the hunters mark instead (due to conc. loss). Btw does it work with prone? According to the wording it shouldn't , since movement is not 0 like maim just but "prevented". If it actually 0s the movement speed, it would be very beneficial combined with monk/fighter spammable prones.

>If you can't enjoy a game full of blacks and faggots, your dick will fall off

It is not "full" of them, more or less the same ratio you'd encounter in real life. So whats the deal?

 

[Desiderius]

Hunter’s Mark is awful.

Yes, you have to land the attack, which is why you use the guy with high ground and stealth to get the chance to hit into the 90s or higher. What game are you guys playing?

 

[dukeofwoodberry]

I find Karlach to be one of the more annoying companions but if you're planning to free Orpheus the Karllithid option is the best way to have a relatively happy ending for everyone (or at least everyone that I care about).

It's true but I can't have her reddit tranny ass in my camp for the entire game. It's just so much simpler to kill her. Plus I like siding with the goblins because I'm tired of refugee sob stories. Plus I want Minthara (yes I know she can be recruited anyway now but that was a terrible change. All these horny incels crying their drow mommy was locked behind an evil choice.)

Sorry

Spoiler

Orpheus

tough break for you. I think it's kind of fitting

Spoiler

Lae'zell

is the one to lead her people anyway.

 

[dukeofwoodberry]

BG3 is quite unique that’s for sure. It succeeds in being a great game scratching those ol itches, while simultaneously being an utter shit with garbage writing and insufferable characters.

Meh. Gameplay is king and that is excellent.

I pity people who play combat, exploration and build oriented optimization games for the story / to analyze their writing or are so sensitive they cannot tolerate fictional characters they don't like.

Problem is when the game is 90% dialog and holding tab to loot 40 crates in a random house.

Also gameplay is mediocre as d&d5e is trash.

It's a bad and cringe setting for sure. Everyone being bi sexual is both weird, creepy and immersion breaking. The plot is convoluted and not very good, half the companions are terrible. But I'm telling you it makes the game a lot more enjoyable if you get rid of the really had companions ASAP (Wyll, Karlach, Gale.) Shart, Asterion, Lae'zell and Minthara are mostly fine.

Gameplay is some of the best in recent memory. 5e isn't the best and I think the most meta way to play (bursting every enemy down on turn 1 with high initiative and sorc/tavern brawler/swords bard builds) is pretty boring. But there's a lot of different ways to play and approach the combat. Building a more defensive/control oriented party is way more fun.

The only negative I really have to say about gameplay is I wish they gave enemies some defensive options to stop them from being bursted down on turn 1 but you have the option not to play that way

 

[BlackAdderBG]

The only negative I really have to say about gameplay is I wish they gave enemies some defensive options to stop them from being bursted down on turn 1 but you have the option not to play that way

They should had made some sort of armour system that prevents CC.