Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Tuco Benedicto Pacifico]

It's here bros. I can feel it. I can taste it. THE BEAR IS COMING AND SO WILL YOU!!

(years later I still can't tell if that song was deliberate or unintentional comedy).

 

[SmartCheetah]

Are the loverslab mods out yet?

Already included in the base game.

 

[Barbarian]

Three days left.

I still flip-flop on what to play first. I'm now psyopping myself to play a custom character, rather than an origin character.

I’m locked in bruv. It’s Durge Bard. Prolly gonna regret it

Probably. Bard makes no sense thematically.

Spoiler

There was also this video of Durge smashing Alfira's lute. And later talking about murdering her. No idea if both things you can opt out of doing - just a headsup that you might end up smashing lutes and killing your fellow bards instead of doing bardy things.

I'm going for Durge Assassin/Gloom Stalker. Or maybe pure-class Sorcerer. Not sure yet.

Maybe opt out of durge origin entirely. Actually waiting on spoilers about how much you can control it. Can't see myself enjoying a playthrough where I will often lose control of my character(specially in a game where reactivity is a main selling point).

 

[Achdulieber]

Meh, I guess I'll just watch some Let's Play retards before jumping to conclusions, but I am not optimistic. I wonder what completely uninteresting class/race, sorry, ethnicity, combo will be the obligatory Youtuber choice that everyone will play.

 

[whydoibother]

Can't see myself enjoying a playthrough where I will often lose control of my character(specially in a game where reactivity is a main selling point).

I can, but on a third playthrough. After I've seen the game as an altruistic hero, and as a self interested egoist. Then, for the third attempt, I can be the cartoon villain.
But if early spoilers suggest that Durge can be a self interested and pragmatic villain, rather than le random kill girl steal flute villain, I'll go second with him.

 

[Theodora]

3 days left niggas.

Told the wifu i need thursday night and friday off for gaming, and saturday my mother in law gets the oldest kid.

I have it good.

She knew she was getting an addicted gamer-faggot when she signed up.

Why isn't she playing co-op with you? u_u

 

[kris]

Why do e-celebs get to play early and we get cucked Swen? Fuck you.

Getting to play early is overrated. A wise man buy all games on sale after bugs been patched away.

 

[Grunker]

Spoiler

There was also this video of Durge smashing Alfira's lute. And later talking about murdering her. No idea if both things you can opt out of doing - just a headsup that you might end up smashing lutes and killing your fellow bards instead of doing bardy things.

cool bards are spies, not gayass "noes i made sad singersongwriter more sad"

 

[Grauken]

3 days left niggas.

Told the wifu i need thursday night and friday off for gaming, and saturday my mother in law gets the oldest kid.

I have it good.

She knew she was getting an addicted gamer-faggot when she signed up.

Why isn't she playing co-op with you? u_u

He wants all the loot for himself

 

[whydoibother]

cool bards are spies, not gayass "noes i made sad singersongwriter more sad"

When I think generic fantasy bard, I think Thom Merrilin of A Wheel of Time. He sorta kinda is a spy at one point. But more of a former politician, who got bitter and cynical about the court play, so went out to travel as a gleeman.

 

[Barbarian]

Spoiler

There was also this video of Durge smashing Alfira's lute. And later talking about murdering her. No idea if both things you can opt out of doing - just a headsup that you might end up smashing lutes and killing your fellow bards instead of doing bardy things.

cool bards are spies, not gayass "noes i made sad singersongwriter more sad"

Spoiler

If the big final spoiler is that Durge is actually an amnesiac Bhaal then a bard class would also be real silly

 

[Grunker]

Spoiler

There was also this video of Durge smashing Alfira's lute. And later talking about murdering her. No idea if both things you can opt out of doing - just a headsup that you might end up smashing lutes and killing your fellow bards instead of doing bardy things.

cool bards are spies, not gayass "noes i made sad singersongwriter more sad"

Spoiler

If the big final spoiler is that Durge is actually an amnesiac Bhaal then a bard class would also be real silly

only if you're a larper

 

[Theodora]

Getting to play early is overrated. A wise man buy all games on sale after bugs been patched away.

I would agree, but not it's not as substantial a difference with former Early Access titles.

 

[whydoibother]

Spoiler

If the big final spoiler is that Durge is actually an amnesiac Bhaal then a bard class would also be real silly

Not as silly as if you were a Cleric of Bhaal.

 

[Grunker]

cool bards are spies, not gayass "noes i made sad singersongwriter more sad"

When I think generic fantasy bard, I think Thom Merrilin of A Wheel of Time. He sorta kinda is a spy at one point. But more of a former politician, who got bitter and cynical about the court play, so went out to travel as a gleeman.

In our group's recent run of tomb of annihilation, one of my players essentially played a bard version of Cicero (so lore bard, obv). His "instrument" was rhetorical ability. Was a very cool character. Instead of insults his cutting words and vicious mockery was basically rational (but very polemic) arguments and demagoguery

 

[Grauken]

Why do e-celebs get to play early and we get cucked Swen? Fuck you.

Getting to play early is overrated. A wise man buy all games on sale after bugs been patched away.

There's something to be said to playing games when everybody else is doing it, that energy you can only get early on when the thread is moving at lightning speed, once all the bugs are killed and the audience have moved on, its a different kind of thing

Reminds me of the time when you talked in school about what you saw on a famous TV show the other day, these kinds of moments have become really rare in our fragmented media landscape

 

[whydoibother]

His "instrument" was rhetorical ability.

That is very cool. But requires the DM to allow it, so not really portable to a limited video game framework.

 

[Grunker]

His "instrument" was rhetorical ability.

That is very cool. But requires the DM to allow it, so not really portable to a limited video game framework.

I especially liked his demagoguery-takes. It felt very bardic to use absurd but appealing strawmen and the like to provoke enemies etc.

 

[processdaemon]

Why do e-celebs get to play early and we get cucked Swen? Fuck you.

Getting to play early is overrated. A wise man buy all games on sale after bugs been patched away.

You're not wrong in some ways, but I'm kind of looking forward to some of the Day 1 graphical bugs. I can play the game as intended any time after the first few months, I'll probably only be able to see the very worst of the glitch gore in the first week or so.

I will of course still be impotently raging at any quest breaking bugs though.

 

[Fedora Master]

Are there katanas in the game? Important question.

 

[Swen]

Who of you made this?

 

[Turisas]

I'm going for Durge Assassin/Gloom Stalker. Or maybe pure-class Sorcerer. Not sure yet.

Maybe opt out of durge origin entirely. Actually waiting on spoilers about how much you can control it. Can't see myself enjoying a playthrough where I will often lose control of my character(specially in a game where reactivity is a main selling point).

Very original. At least try to live up to your name and go glorious berserker.

The urge checks are apparently all intimidation, so you'll want at least decent WIS if you want to resist it occasionally. I don't think it was clarified whether giving in to it resets the difficulty every time or if it just increases/lowers over time based on previous choices.

 

[Grunker]

Who of you made this?

"As someone who has recently played a lot of Diablo IV, this looks a lot like Diablo IV in the sense that it has an isometric camera angle"

lol, if that's a codex troll it's actually p. good

 

[bobocrunch]

For those saying bard doesn't work for durge



Who the fuck are you? This is the best RP

 

[Barbarian]

I'm going for Durge Assassin/Gloom Stalker. Or maybe pure-class Sorcerer. Not sure yet.

Maybe opt out of durge origin entirely. Actually waiting on spoilers about how much you can control it. Can't see myself enjoying a playthrough where I will often lose control of my character(specially in a game where reactivity is a main selling point).

Very original. At least try to live up to your name and go glorious berserker.

The urge checks are apparently all intimidation, so you'll want at least decent WIS if you want to resist it occasionally. I don't think it was clarified whether giving in to it resets the difficulty every time or if it just increases/lowers over time based on previous choices.

13 wisdom + 1 from resilient feat(which will add proficiency bonus to wisdom saves). Hopefully it will be enough.

If they do this "here is how you are going to murder this vital npc with no agency or say on the matter" thing often than the origin is a no-no to me. Hopefully they will be more sophisticated about it. Having the choice of letting the urge take over when confronting particularly powerful foes for instance and then regretting it.

There is no confirmed info if there is such a "resist o'meter" that makes each save after resisting progressively harder. Just a rumour really.