Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[whydoibother]

Just found Gandrel the monster hunter.

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Handed the vampire scum over. Watching him get confused, before being king hit and dragged off was more satisfying than killing him

But do you get a tadpole this way?

 

[AwesomeButton]

BG3 is nearing a 750 000 concurrent players peak. It's all-time #9 right now.

Still, it doesn't look likely to reach the 880 000 of Hogwarts Legacy, but this can be forgiven at this point.

 

[Tyranicon]

Anyone know

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how to take Lae'zel to the inquisitor? Can't find him anywhere in the Creche

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Only way is to first give the artifact to the captain, i know it's counterintuitive and sounds a very bad idea yet its mandatory to the story , then only you can access the part behind the foirce field. There's also a very good artefact to find past them if you did lathander's blood quest, also the only way to get it

Weird design.

Yes unless there's another way to bypass the forcefield , but i havent found yet.

Late to the conversation, but you can pickpocket or just kill her and the entire area too.

 

[Grunker]

durge update Barbarian

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where did you get your info from? I'm now into Act 2 and have had no Wisdom saves, no rampaging, killing of romance/companions etc. It seems your info was faulty.

In fact, to elaborate on this, durge had a fair bunch of reactivity at the beginning of the game, but I haven't seen a single durge interaction in ~20 hours.

 

[Grunker]

The voice acting is hit or miss but pretty good in general, however this fella steals the whole show

Someone give him a main antagonist role some day

 

[Alfgart]

Serious question my fellow based gamers. I'm sure the game is great, I loved both D:OS games, but I really can't stand woke writing and blatant faggotry. I could not play Pathfinder:WotR for more than 1 hour for example. Would you recommend to get this now?

 

[Jermu]

Serious question my fellow based gamers. I'm sure the game is great, I loved both D:OS games, but I really can't stand woke writing and blatant faggotry. I could not play Pathfinder:WotR for more than 1 hour for example. Would you recommend to get this now?

yup, you can purge pretty much everything that annoys you

 

[Doktor Best]

BG3 is nearing a 750 000 concurrent players peak. It's all-time #9 right now.

Still, it doesn't look likely to reach the 880 000 of Hogwarts Legacy, but this can be forgiven at this point.

This is absolutely insane for a turnbased crpg to be honest. Say what you will about Larian but they do prove the point that there is a market for these kinds of games like no other crpg rennaissance developer.

 

[MerchantKing]

ONLY TWO MORE DAYS

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

This UI man.
There's a teeny tiny button that switches between trading (selling straight for gold) and bartering.

Yeah, the UI is definitely not the most user-friendly. Solasta's is much cleaner in comparison IMHO.

If you play with a controller, the UI elements get bigger, including fonts and the like. Just like in D:OS 1+2

 

[Fedora Master]

If you play with a controller

 

[agris]

Lol, I went to check my mod's page and was greeted by this message on the nexus:

View attachment 39698

No need for such praise, I just turned three textures transparent



Thanks, agris

I expect that, buried within the site's EULA, your new designation of Mod Author gives Nexus the right to repackage your mod into any collection they so choose, and prevent you from truly deleting it from their servers and/or restrict how they package and use it.

Not that it matters for this, and it's cool you went ahead and made it. Glad something positive came from our discussion!

I still think my chance of playing this is very small. I loath Larian's design sensibilities, and love / cut my teeth on BG1/BG2 when they were released. When I look at screens of BG3, not only do I not see a successor to BG3, I see a toy meant for children. Yes, BG1 and BG2 had childish moments. I don't wishcast them into some grimdark nostalgia fever-dream (plus I replay them enough to know this isn't true), yet the combination of Larian's eye-bleedingly ugly UI and horrendous writing, plus the trash fire that all AD&D versions after 2e are has left me feeling more than ambivalent about BG3.

 

[Orud]

Serious question my fellow based gamers. I'm sure the game is great, I loved both D:OS games, but I really can't stand woke writing and blatant faggotry. I could not play Pathfinder:WotR for more than 1 hour for example. Would you recommend to get this now?

So far I find the game less 'in your face' about that than WoTR, outside of the character generator. If you don't want to accidentally put a dick on your female char, either leave the genitals on 'default' or when the game launches the first time and -literally- asks you to show or hide genitals , click 'no'.

If you like D&D and the D:OS games, you'll love this.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Serious question my fellow based gamers. I'm sure the game is great, I loved both D:OS games, but I really can't stand woke writing and blatant faggotry. I could not play Pathfinder:WotR for more than 1 hour for example. Would you recommend to get this now?

It's less gay than WotR for my 18 hours of playing it.

However, I get the impression that all companion NPCs will be either hetero or homo, depending on your own gender. If you're male the males will be homos, the women hetero and vice versa. So, if you wake up from long rest from something pushing against your backside, you've been warned.

 

[Ahnx]

they do prove the point that there is a market for these kinds of games

They do prove the point there's a market for nudity, porn and zoophilia, that's all.

 

[Larianshill]

Act 3 comes with some extremely difficult decisions.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

If you play with a controller

It's a turn based rpg. A console genre, or at least, very comfortable to play with a controller. Plus, it does makes the UI much more comfortable.

 

[Gregz]

Feels bad that there are no real bros in the game, well, since everything seems to have sexual undertones. Down with romance and up with bromance, I say! I just want an adventure partner of the same sex that don't want to cross swords naked, if you know what I mean. Someone to watch your back, without you having to watch the guy watching your back so you don't get raped.

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

 

[d1r]

Is someone already in Baldur's Gate?
How big is the city?

 

[Renfri]

can you fuck both minthara and shadowheart?

Something I am trying to find out

 

[OttoQuitmarck]

Lol, I went to check my mod's page and was greeted by this message on the nexus:

View attachment 39698

No need for such praise, I just turned three textures transparent



Thanks, agris

I expect that, buried within the site's EULA, your new designation of Mod Author gives Nexus the right to repackage your mod into any collection they so choose, and prevent you from truly deleting it from their servers and/or restrict how they package and use it.

Not that it matters for this, and it's cool you went ahead and made it. Glad something positive came from our discussion!

I still think my chance of playing this is very small. I loath Larian's design sensibilities, and love / cut my teeth on BG1/BG2 when they were released. When I look at screens of BG3, not only do I not see a successor to BG3, I see a toy meant for children. Yes, BG1 and BG2 had childish moments. I don't wishcast them into some grimdark nostalgia fever-dream (plus I replay them enough to know this isn't true), yet the combination of Larian's eye-bleedingly ugly UI and horrendous writing, plus the trash fire that all AD&D versions after 2e are has left me feeling more than ambivalent about BG3.

This game is better mechanically than BG1 and BG2. Not even kidding. The UI and writing is whatever. Exploring feels super rewarding as well.

 

[ind33d]

wait, BG3 shows literal physical d20 dice rolls ingame? the devs realize the d20 system is just a percentile-based simulation of reality, right? why would you use dice to generate random numbers if you're already at a comput... never mind

 

[jaekl]

they do prove the point that there is a market for these kinds of games

They do prove the point there's a market for nudity, porn and zoophilia, that's all.

I'd say piggybacking off of the hard work and legacy of the people who made famous, well-regarded classics makes your product much more popular than actually making your own thing. Which is why barely anyone creates anything new and interesting anymore. Reboots, remasters and reimaginings is all we deserve.

 

[AwesomeButton]

love / cut my teeth on BG1/BG2 when they were released

Same here, but I've reached a reconciliation with BG3 by adopting the viewpoint that BG and BG2 in their attempt to emulate PnP gave birth to a subgenre of cRPGs which started a life of its own. While they will always be the best at their own thing, Larian's BG3 is running in a different lane. It's not trying to outdo them as a BG-like game, it's outdoing them in the broader task of being a better PnP adaptation to the videogame medium. And I think it's objectively better at that.

How much was BG2 a Baldur's Gate? It was really a new adventure in the same setting that took on the title of the previous game for marketing reasons. BG3 is doing the same. Plus it's got the city of Baldur's Gate actually in it.

Judging by the first big map, which I'm 2/3 done with, BG3 has such production values and quality of its content that it will be one of those games that simply everyone plays sooner or later. It's good enough for various groups of players to find something to keep them in it.

 

[agris]

Lol, I went to check my mod's page and was greeted by this message on the nexus:

View attachment 39698

No need for such praise, I just turned three textures transparent



Thanks, agris

I expect that, buried within the site's EULA, your new designation of Mod Author gives Nexus the right to repackage your mod into any collection they so choose, and prevent you from truly deleting it from their servers and/or restrict how they package and use it.

Not that it matters for this, and it's cool you went ahead and made it. Glad something positive came from our discussion!

I still think my chance of playing this is very small. I loath Larian's design sensibilities, and love / cut my teeth on BG1/BG2 when they were released. When I look at screens of BG3, not only do I not see a successor to BG3, I see a toy meant for children. Yes, BG1 and BG2 had childish moments. I don't wishcast them into some grimdark nostalgia fever-dream (plus I replay them enough to know this isn't true), yet the combination of Larian's eye-bleedingly ugly UI and horrendous writing, plus the trash fire that all AD&D versions after 2e are has left me feeling more than ambivalent about BG3.

This game is better mechanically than BG1 and BG2. Not even kidding. The UI and writing is whatever. Exploring feels super rewarding as well.

Care to explain? Points I'd be interested in:

• Why is BG3 TB combat superior to BG1/2's RTwP
• Why is BG3 itemization superior to BG1/2's?
• Why is BG3 spell system superior to BG1/2's?
• Why is BG3 character system superior to BG1/2's?

I think it's important to keep in mind that fans of BG1 and BG2 liked the systems in those games. That doesn't mean they were perfect - not by a long shot - but starting from the premise of "well they were trash in the original games" for any of the above is not going be persuasive.