Pathfinder Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous Pre-DLC Thread [GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Desiderius]

Still I won't excuse Owlcat since I believe that early game saturation with gays was there simply to secure higher ratings with reviewers.

Why? In my opinion this is the clearest sign what they actually think about all of this Western shit.

For me it means that they cared more about journos giving them good reviews over some users getting fed-up with the barrage of woke bullcrap. I also think that you can't say that the game is unfairly attacked for being woke, since Owlcat itself is responsible for this.

TBF not just journos. Gamergate was VC driven. TPTB have crushed any meaningful pro-worker left with this shit. Probably told by Rus govt(?) that they had to put it in for Western markets too.

As with Linus tho it’s not like it’s under duress. Their ignorance or insouciance is on them.

It's imperative on us to push back on it because it's absolutely an affront and will get worse until we do.

 

[Desiderius]

Dude, I cannot. They did they same exact fuck-ups they did the last game.

Dogshit optimization with shitton of memory leaks, visual glitches and game ruining bugs (including bugs that were fixed in the first game, like enemies becoming immortal for no reason). How fucking retarded do you have to be to make the same bugs AGAIN?
Half of the damn game you will spend on loading screens! Why does it have to load in to every open world battle, house, map, crusade encounter? Holy shit!

I'm not one to bring up the "upgrade your toaster" argument, but I'm playing this at 1440p with all options maxed out, on a machine that's a bit over 7 years old. The only newer component is a 1080ti (2017), which I bought second hand in 2020. I'm just saying it's not all that about the optimization. And yes, you need an ssd, damn it.

My machine was struggling with BG3 so took to a repair shop in bad part of town and had them upgrade system with existing tower/monitor. $1,470 BG3 and this run great. Hope to last another ten years.

 

[LannTheStupid]

took to a repair shop in bad part of town and had them upgrade system with existing tower/monitor

"Bad part of town" - they upgraded your system with stolen hardware, didn't they?

 

[AwesomeButton]

Is this game better than BG2 for those who have finished it or are in the late game?

If you don’t answer I’m going to make a thread and I don’t care how many times Infinitron retardo’s it.

I don't need to finish it. In some metrics, it definetly is better than any IE game. Particularly those measuring how close it is to a PnP experience.

 

[ArchAngel]

I agree with your main point (there could have been more detail and reactivity), but I don't think the neathers should be depicted as all that brutal.

I refer to Wendy as a brute because of her alignment. Simple and evil rarely gets you anything else. I'd expect most other mongrels to have a sense of down-to-earth pragmatism.

Yeah Finnean's an okay backstop early in the game, but +1 gets old pretty fast.

He goes up to +3 at least.

How? I've been pulling him out and talking to him regularly but the convo hasn't been updating with anything new.

Hey man, we don't need to know stuff like that. Leave your private stuff inside your house.

 

[Desiderius]

Nope im just saying that since they are Anti Putin it trumps their Easterness because they look to the west so to speak and moves them back into Westerdation territory.

I know I'm saying that's nerdish retardation/obliviousness combined with Slavic backwardness. Need to step things up to keep up with their design chops.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Funniest bug ever.

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I can't use the ESC button to bring up the menu needed to save or quit the game.

The quicksave button still works though.

 

[BrotherFrank]

Will edit in my pc specs later but i have a potato pc and have found this game remarkably well optimised, especially in comparison to kingmaker.

potato pc specs

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4670 CPU @ 3.40GHz 3.40 GHz
Installed RAM 8.00 GB
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
NVIDIA GE Force GTX 750 ti

Short loading times and smooth performance on medium settings with shadows off resulting in only drezen giving me problems where keep experiencing slow downs and memory leaks.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Is this game better than BG2 for those who have finished it or are in the late game?

If you don’t answer I’m going to make a thread and I don’t care how many times Infinitron retardo’s it.

I don't need to finish it. In some metrics, it definetly is better than any IE game. Particularly those measuring how close it is to a PnP experience.

Actually I remember I made a thread a while ago which can contribute to answering your question: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/what-makes-a-baldurs-gate-to-you.132106/

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Working miracles, no big deal for him.

Minor Aeon spoilers

 

[Zayne]

Act 4 is excellent, haven't been enjoying cRPG this much since Mask of the Betrayer.

Quests are awesome, the Alushinyrra itself is beautiful, landscape changing with camera rotation is ingenious.

But the best aspect is a quiet sense of dread when you're walking in a "civilian" location with full buffs on because you can be attacked by hordes of ravaging demons at any moment.


Still not enough Mythic-specific content for Azata though. Yeah, I got to stage a "slave rebellion", without any slaves participating. No consequences either, except for flowers growing in the Fleshmarket. Everyone acknowledge that I've killed Minagho, but noone cares that I've single-handedly crippled Alushinyrra's economy. And anyone could've killed slavers there using [Attack] dialogue option (which I did aswell, because fighting the whole Fleshmarket at once was too much for me). Couldn't even save fallen azata in Arushalae quest, just spawned some more flowers. Aivu is still nice, but I've expected him to be the cherry on top, not the main dish for mythic path.

Should've chosen trickster instead.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

O-Ok...

Camellia spoilers

 

[Heroic Liberator]

And something to trigger the "muh SJWs" crowd:

Reactivity to my PC being a half-orc.

 

[Fedora Master]

Makes sense since she's

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a sociopath

just like most SJWs

 

[Desiderius]

O-Ok...

Camellia spoilers

Doesn’t get much lower than the cannibal friendzone. That’s a big red x in the old quest log there, champ.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

I don't like how edgy her character is tho. Feels a bit caricatural.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

O-Ok...

Camellia spoilers

Doesn’t get much lower than the cannibal friendzone. That’s a big red x in the old quest log there, champ.

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Well, it's my PC who friendzoned her given that he refused her advances during that ritual. Only a qt succubi is befitting of my PC's affection.

 

[Desiderius]

O-Ok...

Camellia spoilers

Doesn’t get much lower than the cannibal friendzone. That’s a big red x in the old quest log there, champ.

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Well, it's my PC who friendzoned her given that he refused her advances during that ritual. Only a qt succubi is befitting of my PC's affection.

Nice theory wrong species. She’s using you as emotional tampon you’re the one in the friendzone.

My CN Archie Trickster boned her in the last beta and then froze her out. Might be interesting theoretically to see where the writers take that one but my guess is that it’s a path unlikely ever to be revealed.

Killed her once and was pretty anticlimactic so I’ll end up telling her to knock it off on non-lawful playthroughs and lay down the lawl when lawful.

 

[Desiderius]

I am already planning to play an Oracle Purifier in a subsequent play through, but are latter acts filled with fire or energy resistant enemies? Am I punching myself in the face by focusing on fire spells?

You take Ascended element and ignore it, but you can't skip the feat really.

There are also ways to convert all damage to a particular type, e.g. braces which turn everything to electricity.

The HoMM is great. All y’all are a bunch of prejudiced miserable fucktards. Make them keep developing into a gem.

A3 is fine, A5 is a boring slog. Your mage does 100kk (not a type) in a 5x5 AoE, yet you keep losing the auto-resolve and have to play it.

Funniest bug ever.

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I can't use the ESC button to bring up the menu needed to save or quit the game.

Had that happen often, sometimes you're lucky enough to be able to use the gear icon.

I’m not taking Ascended Element on Purifier. I did that with Waves and Cold on Seeker and ended up just doing Holy damage all the time anyway.

 

[Rafidur]

Big Spoilers Question (act 3 lich)

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I raise Staunton but he doesn't have mythic abilities, making him much weaker than the other companions. Is this normal?

 

[The_Mask]

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Well, it's my PC who friendzoned her given that he refused her advances during that ritual. Only a qt succubi is befitting of my PC's affection.

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A succubus is an instrument of Chaos. Regardless of your morals, stay on the side of the law, brother.

 

[Desiderius]

Still I won't excuse Owlcat since I believe that early game saturation with gays was there simply to secure higher ratings with reviewers.

Why? In my opinion this is the clearest sign what they actually think about all of this Western shit.

Western lol, what a maroon. Ask the wokels how western they are. They hate the West more than you do dumbass.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

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Well, it's my PC who friendzoned her given that he refused her advances during that ritual. Only a qt succubi is befitting of my PC's affection.

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A succubus is an instrument of Chaos. Regardless of your morals, stay on the side of the law, brother.

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I wish I could convert her to Lawful Neutral, if not Lawful Evil. But eh, a devil can have his non-LE playthings (and since the PC is not a born devil, it's not like he has the same sort of disgust for demons) and be amused by the succubi's self-denial of her Abyssal nature.

 

[Saark]

Yeah, none of the raised companions seem to be gaining Mythic Powers, making them inherently worse than other companions (at the start, anyway). Unless the additional Lich powers benefit not just animated dead but the Grave Guards as well, they're never worth taking. Number 3 and 4 are actually pretty solid, though.

I think its by design, as you're probably "supposed" to outfit your merry band with your undead companions and then empower/heal them with your new-found lich skills, but it never seemed worth it to me.

 

[smaug]

Can I do Wintersun at level 10 ?