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

[Naraya]

So how bad it is exactly?

Apparently it's $60 bad.

 

[Shrimp]

The constant rolling gets old extremely fast.

I talk to a dwarf lady who claim she can cure me and instead trying to stab me with a poisoned wood. I rolled a 6 in a Agility check despite having 16 agility. Now I must pass three dialogue check in a row, each with a 50% succeed rate, to persuade her to give me the cure. I reload a dozen times and never make it. It's like the game is forcing make me murder this bitch.

It's gonna be extremely hard to play a good character, the game will force you to kill person you don't want to kill because you had a bad roll. All of the companions (except Gale I suppose) are evil doesn't help either.

Also it's hilarious that shadow heart tries to hide what she is up to and who she is worshipping, but in the character info page they straight up shows evil cleric on it.

FWIW they said the good-aligned companions will be added later. I have no idea if that means later during EA or if they'll only get added upon the game's full release.

 

[Quillon]

• Punishing dialog with frequent feat rolls practically demands save-scumming

game will need a mod changing this shit to deterministic

I couldn't be bothered reloading for failing rolls. If someone wants to win every roll, why not just enable a cheat engine or something?

you are not winning if you don't meet the req check.

also whole dice roll process is painfully slow, it will get old pretty fast, they need to at least make it faster/instant, optionally or whatever

 

[Horvatii]

people who think larian is the one profiting off of name recognition here are insane
dos2 has been one of the best selling games on Steam for years now, there hasn't been a D&D-licensed singleplayer RPG worth mentioning for two decades.

Name recognition, any fuckng name recognition, is the most valuable thing to marketers. They market to absolute lowbrow morons, bottomfeeder trash.
An NPC goes: hurr durr i know NAME, check it out. See XCOM licence bought by 2k after decades of nothing XCOM. See Jewlywood sequels and remakes. See McDonalds and Starwars. I am disgusted just typing this trash.

Divinity Original Sin 3 is not interesting. NO ONE knows what happened in DOS1. Aboslutely NO ONE knows what happened in DOS2. And none cares about DOS3. There is no narrative thread, no characters, no plot, nothing but gambling lootboxes.
Its a galactic mystery why DOS2 sold...

Larian mostdef payed for the licence. And they are profiting from the Bladder Gay name.

 

[Thonius]

Leveling screen is pretty lackluster. Compared to PFK and POE2 it's just bad.
Created warlock and I already tired of casting cantrip with mega gyga michael bay effects.

 

[Infinitron]

Released on Early Access:


https://af.gog.com/game/baldurs_gate_iii?as=1649904300

₪269 oy vey

Oh shit I just realized that's almost $80. But it's $60 on GOG because they don't have our currency.

Hmmm, anybody here want a GOG copy of Baldur's Gate 3 and still hasn't gotten it? If you gift me the game on Steam, I'll buy you a GOG key in exchange.

 

[Horvatii]

Waifu my ass. Dude has a stronger chin than me and a fucking chin cleft...

Here, have an elf waifu.

 

[BarbequeMasta]

The game is clearly not worth any money, is it worth pirating though or is it even worse than DOS2?

 

[Horvatii]

Game evokes a strong BANAL SHIT BORING fantasy trash feeling. Fail.

 

[Siel]

Translated an interesting post from former Larian dev on french forums CanardPc:

Maybe... Still I spent 2h trying to make them understand the difference between conjuration and evocation for flame effects that make absolute no sense... but unfortunately as I was saying subtlety before and as I can be less subtle now, there is not a single DD5 player in the game decision makers...
There are video game players that have a caricatural idea of what a pen and paper rp game should be based on their crpg experience...

Therefore they're trying to implement stuff that make no sense but they are certain that's how it should be.
And WOTC doesn't help because they agree to everything as long as money arrive...

 

[Shrimp]

• Punishing dialog with frequent feat rolls practically demands save-scumming

game will need a mod changing this shit to deterministic

I couldn't be bothered reloading for failing rolls. If someone wants to win every roll, why not just enable a cheat engine or something?

you are not winning if you don't meet the req check.

also whole dice roll process is painfully slow, it will get old pretty fast, they need to at least make it faster/instant, optionally or whatever

Pressing spacebar skips the dice rolling animation.

 

[kain30]

So, this game is BG3 in name only, isn't it?

 

[BarbequeMasta]

Translated an interesting post from former Larian dev on french forums CanardPc:

Maybe... Still I spent 2h trying to make them understand the difference between conjuration and evocation for flame effects that make absolute no sense... but unfortunately as I was saying subtlety before and as I can be less subtle now, there is not a single DD5 player in the game decision makers...
There are video game players that have a caricatural idea of what a pen and paper rp game should be based on their crpg experience...

Therefore they're trying to implement stuff that make no sense but they are certain that's how it should be.
And WOTC doesn't help because they agree to everything as long as money arrive...

This is as surprising as the sky being blue. The devs are just as clueless as the cucks choking on their limpdicks

 

[jf8350143]

The constant rolling gets old extremely fast.

I talk to a dwarf lady who claim she can cure me and instead trying to stab me with a poisoned wood. I rolled a 6 in a Agility check despite having 16 agility. Now I must pass three dialogue check in a row, each with a 50% succeed rate, to persuade her to give me the cure. I reload a dozen times and never make it. It's like the game is forcing make me murder this bitch.

It's gonna be extremely hard to play a good character, the game will force you to kill person you don't want to kill because you had a bad roll. All of the companions (except Gale I suppose) are evil doesn't help either.

Also it's hilarious that shadow heart tries to hide what she is up to and who she is worshipping, but in the character info page they straight up shows evil cleric on it.

FWIW they said the good-aligned companions will be added later. I have no idea if that means later during EA or if they'll only get added upon the game's full release.

The way companions joined you is already super forced, just like in DOS2. 4 of 5 companions just standing in some random place near the starting point and ask to join you the moment you meet them because "we were both on that ship".

If they add just 3 more companions it will feel like the starting area is crawling with them. It's just dumb to let you play as one of the companions.

 

[Quillon]

• Punishing dialog with frequent feat rolls practically demands save-scumming

game will need a mod changing this shit to deterministic

I couldn't be bothered reloading for failing rolls. If someone wants to win every roll, why not just enable a cheat engine or something?

you are not winning if you don't meet the req check.

also whole dice roll process is painfully slow, it will get old pretty fast, they need to at least make it faster/instant, optionally or whatever

Pressing spacebar skips the dice rolling animation.

does hitting space also roll the dice or do you still have to left-click to roll?

 

[Jenkem]

This should have been made by Beamdog.

 

[Shrimp]

• Punishing dialog with frequent feat rolls practically demands save-scumming

game will need a mod changing this shit to deterministic

I couldn't be bothered reloading for failing rolls. If someone wants to win every roll, why not just enable a cheat engine or something?

you are not winning if you don't meet the req check.

also whole dice roll process is painfully slow, it will get old pretty fast, they need to at least make it faster/instant, optionally or whatever

Pressing spacebar skips the dice rolling animation.

does hitting space also roll the dice or do you still have to left-click to roll?

No idea, I just pressed random keys since I figured there had to be some way to skip the animation.

 

[BarbequeMasta]

This should have been made by Beamdog.

Trading one garbage dev for another aint gonna change a thing. We have to just get the BG fix from our russian overlords pathfinder.

 

[d1r]

The constant rolling gets old extremely fast.

I talk to a dwarf lady who claim she can cure me and instead trying to stab me with a poisoned wood. I rolled a 6 in a Agility check despite having 16 agility. Now I must pass three dialogue check in a row, each with a 50% succeed rate, to persuade her to give me the cure. I reload a dozen times and never make it. It's like the game is forcing make me murder this bitch.

It's gonna be extremely hard to play a good character, the game will force you to kill person you don't want to kill because you had a bad roll. All of the companions (except Gale I suppose) are evil doesn't help either.

Also it's hilarious that shadow heart tries to hide what she is up to and who she is worshipping, but in the character info page they straight up shows evil cleric on it.

FWIW they said the good-aligned companions will be added later. I have no idea if that means later during EA or if they'll only get added upon the game's full release.

The way companions joined you is already super forced, just like in DOS2. 4 of 5 companions just standing in some random place near the starting point and ask to join you the moment you meet them because "we were both on that ship".

If they add just 3 more companions it will feel like the starting area is crawling with them. It's just dumb to let you play as one of the companions.

I still do hope that they're planing to create more unique companions later on, or at least temporary ones for each act, who don't come with a complex origins story, just for the sake of having more variety with mixing and matching your party without resorting back to soulless mercenaries from DiV2.

 

[Quillon]

• Punishing dialog with frequent feat rolls practically demands save-scumming

game will need a mod changing this shit to deterministic

I couldn't be bothered reloading for failing rolls. If someone wants to win every roll, why not just enable a cheat engine or something?

you are not winning if you don't meet the req check.

also whole dice roll process is painfully slow, it will get old pretty fast, they need to at least make it faster/instant, optionally or whatever

Pressing spacebar skips the dice rolling animation.

does hitting space also roll the dice or do you still have to left-click to roll?

No idea, I just pressed random keys since I figured there had to be some way to skip the animation.

well in best case atm you have to click/push a number for skill check dialogue, then hit space/left-click to roll, space to skip the anim and space/left-click to continue

just do it all pretty fast for me after I only click on the skill check dialogue, thanks

 

[Jenkem]

Well, at the least it should have been real time w/ pause...

Spoiler

 

[Robber Baron]

I really really want to be able to start the game with full custom party right away. Maybe there's a way to cheat it somehow.

 

[Shrimp]

The constant rolling gets old extremely fast.

I talk to a dwarf lady who claim she can cure me and instead trying to stab me with a poisoned wood. I rolled a 6 in a Agility check despite having 16 agility. Now I must pass three dialogue check in a row, each with a 50% succeed rate, to persuade her to give me the cure. I reload a dozen times and never make it. It's like the game is forcing make me murder this bitch.

It's gonna be extremely hard to play a good character, the game will force you to kill person you don't want to kill because you had a bad roll. All of the companions (except Gale I suppose) are evil doesn't help either.

Also it's hilarious that shadow heart tries to hide what she is up to and who she is worshipping, but in the character info page they straight up shows evil cleric on it.

FWIW they said the good-aligned companions will be added later. I have no idea if that means later during EA or if they'll only get added upon the game's full release.

The way companions joined you is already super forced, just like in DOS2. 4 of 5 companions just standing in some random place near the starting point and ask to join you the moment you meet them because "we were both on that ship".

If they add just 3 more companions it will feel like the starting area is crawling with them. It's just dumb to let you play as one of the companions.

I still do hope that they're planing to create more unique companions later on, or at least temporary ones for each act, who don't come with a complex origins story, just for the sake of having more variety with mixing and matching your party without resorting back to soulless mercenaries from DiV2.

One of their older dev posts said you'd have to commit to your choice of [origin] party members after act 1.
Interpret that however you want but I heavily doubt there will be more companions in the later acts, so I think you have no choice but to resort to mercs if you want new party members beyond the first act of the game.

I really really want to be able to start the game with full custom party right away. Maybe there's a way to cheat it somehow.

I think the way this was done in DOS2 was by opening four game clients and starting a multiplayer game with yourself. Maybe try that?

 

[Butter]

I really really want to be able to start the game with full custom party right away. Maybe there's a way to cheat it somehow.

That would be way too much fun.

 

[Doktor Best]

The constant rolling gets old extremely fast.

I talk to a dwarf lady who claim she can cure me and instead trying to stab me with a poisoned wood. I rolled a 6 in a Agility check despite having 16 agility. Now I must pass three dialogue check in a row, each with a 50% succeed rate, to persuade her to give me the cure. I reload a dozen times and never make it. It's like the game is forcing make me murder this bitch.

It's gonna be extremely hard to play a good character, the game will force you to kill person you don't want to kill because you had a bad roll. All of the companions (except Gale I suppose) are evil doesn't help either.

Also it's hilarious that shadow heart tries to hide what she is up to and who she is worshipping, but in the character info page they straight up shows evil cleric on it.

FWIW they said the good-aligned companions will be added later. I have no idea if that means later during EA or if they'll only get added upon the game's full release.

The way companions joined you is already super forced, just like in DOS2. 4 of 5 companions just standing in some random place near the starting point and ask to join you the moment you meet them because "we were both on that ship".

If they add just 3 more companions it will feel like the starting area is crawling with them. It's just dumb to let you play as one of the companions.

Ehh, that's not unique to Larian games. Companion recruitment always feels a little forced, be it in PNP or CRPGs.