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

[Steezus]

we get it junmarko, ur edgy.

anyway, how many of you are planning to coop bg3?

I find cRPGs in coop to be an absolute slog. Granted, I only tried it with both DOS 1 and 2, which I don't particularly like, but still. I want to play on my own time.

Never, ever do this. Faggots will insist on playing in coop with you, nolife on the first and maybe second day and then somehow never have time to play. I know better now and just tell them to fuck off.

100% accurate to my experience. They go hard as fuck for 72 hours and then you never see them again. In many games you are then stuck with the shitty characters they created and have to "pilot" them for the rest of the game. Most people are absolute fucking flakes and totally unreliable is what I've learned in life. Co-op turn based RPG is just asking to be frustrated & disappointed. Hard pass!

But why do you guys play coop with random morons you met on the internet?

It's the same with IRL friends. Everybody plays at their own pace and often both playstyles are at odds with each other.

 

[Grauken]

Please post pictures of your niece and her gfs.

Thanks

 

[AwesomeButton]

This Morgana Evelyn channel got me curious. Was someone really obsessed enough to feed a voice generation algorithm with Shadowheart's lines? Because I don't see how else he is making the videos in that voice.

I wouldn’t call it an obsession because It’s not that hard to do nowadays, but yes it’s probably AI.

How difficult is it though? I watched a report showing how one journalist partook in an experiment to get himself completely replaced by AI while he was technically working from home. Specifically for getting his voice right, he went to a private company which was using proprietary tools and Machine learning algorithm for getting voices to sound good enough.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Please post pictures of your niece and her gfs.

Thanks

Who the black dude in the back?

 

[Grauken]

That wasn't even true 20 years ago and now even less so. My niece and her girlfriends run a D&D round and it's not something particularly unique in their age group.

I forgot to mention childish people with peter-pan syndrome like yourself, that's right.

You're not the smartest bulb, ey?

 

[Grauken]

Who the black dude in the back?

Diversity hire

 

[Frank Capicoli]

Please post pictures of your niece and her gfs.

Thanks

Who the black dude in the back?

His bull.

 

[MerchantKing]

You ready for sexy times?

>non-humans with tattoos
Ruined

 

[ERYFKRAD]

>non-humans
Ruined

Lmao cool it with the anti gnomitism you gnome.

 

[Kiste]

Please post pictures of your niece and her gfs.

Thanks

Who the black dude in the back?

Obviously the babydaddy of the tiny pumpkin in the middle.

 

[Grunker]

The more important question, Who's dumb enough to ask a friend to play a video game instead of going to party and have fun? Baldur's gate 3 in top of that.

Don't answer I know it: Codexers.

Uh, why not both??? Comes across as roleplaying having a social life if you think it's not common for people to play games with their irl friends where interests align...

Because the first thing that happens whenever you tell a woman with a social life, you play tabletop or video games is this:

My current girlfriend is the youngest I've ever dated (I usually date very close to my own age), and her take on it was pretty funny. As most beautiful women she finds my nerddom kind of cringe, but she's also admitted she wished tabletop gaming wasn't a social taboo because she'd love to play Dungeons & Dragons since it looks so fun. Which had me laugh

 

[Swen]

The more important question, Who's dumb enough to ask a friend to play a video game instead of going to party and have fun? Baldur's gate 3 in top of that.

Don't answer I know it: Codexers.

Uh, why not both??? Comes across as roleplaying having a social life if you think it's not common for people to play games with their irl friends where interests align...

Because the first thing that happens whenever you tell a woman with a social life, you play tabletop or video games is this:

My current girlfriend is the youngest I've ever dated (I usually date very close to my own age), and her take on it was pretty funny. As most beautiful women she finds my nerddom kind of cringe, but she's also admitted she wished tabletop gaming wasn't a social taboo because she'd love to play Dungeons & Dragons because it looks so fun. Which had me laugh

Post pics of gf, thanks

 

[Grauken]

Post pics of gf, thanks

BG3 is soon here to slake your thirst

 

[Ryzer]

The more important question, Who's dumb enough to ask a friend to play a video game instead of going to party and have fun? Baldur's gate 3 in top of that.

Don't answer I know it: Codexers.

Uh, why not both??? Comes across as roleplaying having a social life if you think it's not common for people to play games with their irl friends where interests align...

Because the first thing that happens whenever you tell a woman with a social life, you play tabletop or video games is this:

My current girlfriend is the youngest I've ever dated (I usually date very close to my own age), and her take on it was pretty funny. As most beautiful women she finds my nerddom kind of cringe, but she's also admitted she wished tabletop gaming wasn't a social taboo because she'd love to play Dungeons & Dragons because it looks so fun. Which had me laugh

She told you that because she loves you in spite of that not because of that, you simp. Do you seriously think she likes emasculate men playing fantasy games with dragons and stuff for 5 years old? come on get on with reality.

 

[Grauken]

She told you that because she loves you in spite of that not because of that, you simp. You think she likes emasculate men playing fantasy games with dragons and stuff for 5 years old, come on get on with reality.

I think the incel thread is more your speed

 

[Grunker]

The more important question, Who's dumb enough to ask a friend to play a video game instead of going to party and have fun? Baldur's gate 3 in top of that.

Don't answer I know it: Codexers.

Uh, why not both??? Comes across as roleplaying having a social life if you think it's not common for people to play games with their irl friends where interests align...

Because the first thing that happens whenever you tell a woman with a social life, you play tabletop or video games is this:

My current girlfriend is the youngest I've ever dated (I usually date very close to my own age), and her take on it was pretty funny. As most beautiful women she finds my nerddom kind of cringe, but she's also admitted she wished tabletop gaming wasn't a social taboo because she'd love to play Dungeons & Dragons because it looks so fun. Which had me laugh

Post pics of gf, thanks

 

[Tyranicon]

I feel like there's a lot of changes to the pnp rules due to Larian being too lazy to implement them in the game.

For example, the Paladin's Divine Sense.

PnP:

The presence of strong evil registers on your senses like a noxious odor, and powerful good rings like heavenly music in your ears. As an action, you can open your awareness to detect such forces. Until the end of your next turn, you know the location of any celestial, fiend, or undead within 60 feet of you that is not behind total cover. You know the type (celestial, fiend, or undead) of any being whose presence you sense, but not its identity (the vampire Count Strahd von Zarovich, for instance). Within the same radius, you also detect the presence of any place or object that has been consecrated or desecrated, as with the Hallow spell.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to 1 + your Charisma modifier. When you finish a long rest, you regain all expended uses.

BG 3 (EA version):

Tap into your spiritual awareness to gain advantage on attack rolls against celestials, fiends and undead. Duration: 2 turns. Bonus action. 1 use per short rest.

 

[Gradenmayer]

This Morgana Evelyn channel got me curious. Was someone really obsessed enough to feed a voice generation algorithm with Shadowheart's lines? Because I don't see how else he is making the videos in that voice.

I wouldn’t call it an obsession because It’s not that hard to do nowadays, but yes it’s probably AI.

How difficult is it though? I watched a report showing how one journalist partook in an experiment to get himself completely replaced by AI while he was technically working from home. Specifically for getting his voice right, he went to a private company which was using proprietary tools and Machine learning algorithm for getting voices to sound good enough.

There are online services that train like 10 voices per month for 10-20$ sub fee. Like elevenlabs.

If you want really good recreation you can pay 100$-200$ to make a hand tuned model that sounds really genuine.

There are some locally ran systems, but I didn’t dig beyond image generation- pc does not have the chops for it. But it’s probably a set-up time worth of 10 hours+ however long it takes to feed model the audio and give it feedback.

 

[Ulysa]

The more important question, Who's dumb enough to ask a friend to play a video game instead of going to party and have fun? Baldur's gate 3 in top of that.

Don't answer I know it: Codexers.

Uh, why not both??? Comes across as roleplaying having a social life if you think it's not common for people to play games with their irl friends where interests align...

Because the first thing that happens whenever you tell a woman with a social life, you play tabletop or video games is this:

My current girlfriend is the youngest I've ever dated (I usually date very close to my own age), and her take on it was pretty funny. As most beautiful women she finds my nerddom kind of cringe, but she's also admitted she wished tabletop gaming wasn't a social taboo because she'd love to play Dungeons & Dragons since it looks so fun. Which had me laugh

Please let her know there are a lot of beautiful women that play whatever they want even if it looks nerdy. Poor girl jesus christ.

 

[Grauken]

I feel like there's a lot of changes to the pnp rules due to Larian being too lazy to implement them in the game.

Grunker linked this in the other BG3 thread that gives an overview of all the differences
https://bg3.wiki/wiki/D&D_5e_Rule_Changes

 

[Grunker]

Do you seriously think she likes emasculate men playing fantasy games with dragons and stuff for 5 years old

u can't read lol

As most beautiful women she finds my nerddom kind of cringe

What she likes is my 193 centimeters, my income, my status, my fitness and the fact that I'm very sociable. My nerddom and receding hairline she can live with. But I think she's genuinely kind of sad that social conventions bar her from trying D&D.

After getting older, I have a theory that a lot of women are secretly fantasy nerds. Would explain the massive weird adult normie female Harry Potter fandom we have in our country. One of my friends once got his normie girlfriend who had never played a video game to play Dragon Age and she got absolutely addicted to the story/characters.

 

[Grunker]

I feel like there's a lot of changes to the pnp rules due to Larian being too lazy to implement them in the game.

Grunker linked this in the other BG3 thread that gives an overview of all the differences
https://bg3.wiki/wiki/D&D_5e_Rule_Changes

*not all. Don't think it's 100% complete.

 

[Mr. Magniloquent]

This thread is a shitpost extravaganza even by Codexian standards. Take this crap to GD or chat.

 

[Grunker]

The more important question, Who's dumb enough to ask a friend to play a video game instead of going to party and have fun? Baldur's gate 3 in top of that.

Don't answer I know it: Codexers.

Uh, why not both??? Comes across as roleplaying having a social life if you think it's not common for people to play games with their irl friends where interests align...

Because the first thing that happens whenever you tell a woman with a social life, you play tabletop or video games is this:

My current girlfriend is the youngest I've ever dated (I usually date very close to my own age), and her take on it was pretty funny. As most beautiful women she finds my nerddom kind of cringe, but she's also admitted she wished tabletop gaming wasn't a social taboo because she'd love to play Dungeons & Dragons since it looks so fun. Which had me laugh

Please let her know there are a lot of beautiful women that play whatever they want even if it looks nerdy

Social conventions are the reasons a lot of people don't do a lot of things.

 

[Grunker]

This thread is a shitpost extravaganza even by Codexian standards. Take this crap to GD or chat.

It's a waiting room at this point, just wait until after release.

Spoiler

when the shitposting will commence in earnest