Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[Grunker]

Even when threatened with death by Wyll the supposed angry Karlach reacts with abject sadness and panic - *not* wrath. She's the Dragon Age: Inquisition character of the crew.

 

[Swen]

If you can't find an ability hit 'L'. You drag every single active to your hotbar from there.

I wish I had gotten the hang of that sooner. UI gets so much more manageable once you empty everything from the hot bar and just drag what you want to where you want it

Most of the UI ciriticism is from retards who don't even know how it works.

Solasta's UI is superior in terms of functionality.

Solasta's UI just looks better but I don't see why it's so much more functional.

 

[Grunker]

If you can't find an ability hit 'L'. You drag every single active to your hotbar from there.

I wish I had gotten the hang of that sooner. UI gets so much more manageable once you empty everything from the hot bar and just drag what you want to where you want it

Most of the UI ciriticism is from retards who don't even know how it works.

Solasta's UI is superior in terms of functionality.

Solasta's UI just looks better but I don't see why it's so much more functional.

Heh, I think it's the opposite. Solasta's UI barely looks like a UI, but it works in every way.

 

[Joggerino]

Brotherhood? Friendship? Camaraderie? None of those relationships are possible because the second you make any friendly gesture most NPCs will suddenly try to pound you in the ass or shove their dicks in your mouth, sometimes without much romance in between.

 

[Maculo]

The gith (angry alien girlboss) and demon (angry alien girlboss) are both the same character

lolno. One is the arrogant-idiot-that-will-either-grow-with-her-folly-or-be-consumed-by-it while the other is manic pixie dream girl personality in a veteran soldier's body. They're almost complete opposites (and one of them is the worst companion in the game).

If you think Lae'zel is meant to be a "girl boss" you really fail at reading even the most basic intentionality in writing. No wonder video game writing is often non-subtle - gamers can't even read the most basic cardboard cutouts right.

I find Karlach more useful than Lazael in act 1, but god, I wish Larian edited Karlach down a little.

 

[Grunker]

The gith (angry alien girlboss) and demon (angry alien girlboss) are both the same character

lolno. One is the arrogant-idiot-that-will-either-grow-with-her-folly-or-be-consumed-by-it while the other is manic pixie dream girl personality in a veteran soldier's body. They're almost complete opposites (and one of them is the worst companion in the game).

If you think Lae'zel is meant to be a "girl boss" you really fail at reading even the most basic intentionality in writing. No wonder video game writing is often non-subtle - gamers can't even read the most basic cardboard cutouts right.

I find Karlach more useful than Lazael in act 1, but god, I wish Larian edited Karlach down a little.

I respecced Lae'zel into Polearm Mastery + Sentinel and it's mad fun.

 

[whydoibother]

Even when threatened with death by Wyll the supposed angry Karlach reacts with abject sadness and panic - *not* wrath. She's the Dragon Age: Inquisition character of the crew.

She has a Nietzschen outlook on fighting and danger. Very gay, as the old german would've said. Laughs in the face of death. Looking for smiles, hugs, adventure, doing well by herself and by her friends.
More of a Robin Hood than an angry monster, and I don't know how people are missing it.

 

[Reinhardt]

so gayl not only fag, he also destroys your magic weapons?!

 

[Haplo]

Combat-wise, how close is this game to Divinity Original Sin 2?

I've only played D:OS2 for around 5-6 hours, but the combat was a bunch of great ideas implemented really poorly.

It's turn based, and the similarities end there.

I wouldn't go so far. But the DnD framework definately curbed Larian's mechanical fantasies a lot and made for a de-bloated game that is much better structured, sensible and logical.
While preserving some Larian's signature barrelmancy and surfacemancy (although in a more restrained and balanced manner).

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

How many of you have fucked Froggy?

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

so gayl not only fag, he also destroys your magic weapons?!

It's obnoxious. But you'll learn more as his quest progresses.

 

[whydoibother]

so gayl not only fag, he also destroys your magic weapons?!

During Act I, depending on how many times you rest, he will ask you to sacrifice some named magic items. Don't worry, there's many of these, and most won't be useful for your party. I only had to sacrifice 2 items in total.
In Act II, this trait of his changes.

 

[Maculo]

The gith (angry alien girlboss) and demon (angry alien girlboss) are both the same character

lolno. One is the arrogant-idiot-that-will-either-grow-with-her-folly-or-be-consumed-by-it while the other is manic pixie dream girl personality in a veteran soldier's body. They're almost complete opposites (and one of them is the worst companion in the game).

If you think Lae'zel is meant to be a "girl boss" you really fail at reading even the most basic intentionality in writing. No wonder video game writing is often non-subtle - gamers can't even read the most basic cardboard cutouts right.

I find Karlach more useful than Lazael in act 1, but god, I wish Larian edited Karlach down a little.

I respecced Lae'zel into Polearm Mastery + Sentinel and it's mad fun.

I may try that. I made her an eldritch knight to grab shield and control spells.

 

[Reinhardt]

But you'll learn more

no

 

[Reinhardt]

so gayl not only fag, he also destroys your magic weapons?!

During Act I, depending on how many times you rest, he will ask you to sacrifice some named magic items. Don't worry, there's many of these, and most won't be useful for your party. I only had to sacrifice 2 items in total.
In Act II, this trait of his changes.

nigga u wot. i'll better sale them than feed to some fag.

 

[Nerevar]

The story is pretty ridiculous when Shar is more of a good god than Selune.

They did a beamdog where you just have to agree with faggotry no option to disagree or even mention it. Madness. I'll finish this faggot game but the haters were 100% right.

 

[Grunker]

The story is pretty ridiculous when Shar is more of a good god than Selune.

wat. Where in the fuck did you get this idea

In fact it's one of Shadowheart's weakest writing points - the writer has no way to explain her character traits (written as mostly neutral good, generally not a psychopath) with all the mad evil Shar shit you constantly encounter. She'll constantly be like "Pfeh, *Selune* am I rite" yet be quiet as a mouse after you run into some straight up nightmarish cartoon evil style Shar-fuckery. One time she even

Spoiler

says "he's kindda right" in a ridiculous scene where you are basically talking to the Sharran version of Pinhead while he's cutting up some innocent dude, despite her being mostly written as neutral good

It's like you people are playing a different game

EDIT: They get Shar's appeal right in a few instances - notably Thorm's motives for turning towards her - but sadly, Shadowheart's writing is mostly not good enough to make her sharism believable. They could have just had her react to psycho-sharrans with disdain and talking about they mercies of oblivion from the cruelness of the world instead. But they didn't.

 

[Kiste]

Boys, I have the perfect solution for everyone who is worried about getting gay romanced: make a nonbinary character!

Just flow between male and female depending on who is romancing you. You can fuck the vampire elf AND the frog girl and it will never be gay!

Praised be Swen! He found the perfect solution to appease both, homos and homophobes!

 

[sosmoflux]

Even when threatened with death by Wyll the supposed angry Karlach reacts with abject sadness and panic - *not* wrath. She's the Dragon Age: Inquisition character of the crew.

She literally says she was about to cut his head off. She squares up like Abby in Last of Us 2.

It's like you people are playing a different game

Yeah maybe the problem is you, cucko.
You've consumed too much goyslop and can't parse simplistic tumblr girlboss tropes.

 

[Strange Fellow]

wat. Where in the fuck did you get this idea

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and predict that it's got something to do with Nerevar's favourite subject.

 

[Herumor]

The story is pretty ridiculous when Shar is more of a good god than Selune.

Shar is pretty much evil though. The game keeps hammering you with this, regardless of how Shadowheart tries to spin it up as a good thing.

I mean, seriously, the shadow cursed lands are fucked up beyond measure. How exactly do you spin this as a good thing unless you're already one of her zealots?

 

[AwesomeButton]

Did we really need 2 identical angry masculine girl boss stereotype characters right from the get go?
The gith (angry alien girlboss) and demon (angry alien girlboss) are both the same character

Just kill one. People have been playing restrictive "click-all-my-dialogues" RPGs so long that they are afraid to use their freedom.

 

[Nerevar]

Selune sends a female deva to seduce Kethrics daughter who is also a girl. At that point Kethric was an avid Selune faggot. That seems much more evil than anything Shar did in the whole game.

 

[Abu Antar]

Wtf is that damage that Anders is dealing? He basically one shots anything he attacks.

 

[Grunker]

Wtf is that damage that Anders is dealing? He basically one shots anything he attacks.

It's Paladin smiting. It's just as OP in your hands.