Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[cpmartins]

Come on some of you fucks must be almost done already with the game, how is this shit past the EA gate? Is it as bad as the DOSes or did they learn a thing or two?

 

[jackofshadows]

There isn't a proper combat log

There is, it's just off by default. UI art style sucks though, yeah.

Do we know how difficulty operates? I'm hesitant to choose tactician due to the D:OS 2 experience but if it exhibits a better enemy behavior without HP bloating I think it'd be better

Can be changed on a fly

I leave Laezel to look for a way to cut the rope, and I get a notice that I've left her to her fate.

Probably just a bug. There're lots of little bugs like that I'm noticing and more. Due to million changes during the last months I imagine it's all very unpolished. For example when creature is prone the game is still show you the red arrow for possible opportunity attack.

Gotta say tactician kicks ass, Swen wasn't lying. I walked past SH and I think there was no chance to beat the demon lord w/o her (before he was a total pushover).

 

[Theodora]

Did any Linux user managed to run the game with proton here? Is stuck at "running" forever. I don't wanna to install M$ spyware only to test thsi dating sim.

BTW, why is this Larian Launcher 430Mb? Why does a launcher needs to be so big? There is motion captured astarion sex scenes in the launcher too?

edit : Seems like the greatest problem with Linux is in the launcher, --skip-launcher is not working. Did anyone know how to skip this bloated launcher?

Haven't tested personally, but apparently the version of proton has been the issue with 1.0 not launching on Steam Deck -- maybe try using an experimental build? Seems to have fixed it for others. (Good luck!)

 

[Grunker]

There isn't a proper combat log

There is, it's just off by default. UI art style sucks though, yeah.

Do we know how difficulty operates? I'm hesitant to choose tactician due to the D:OS 2 experience but if it exhibits a better enemy behavior without HP bloating I think it'd be better

Can be changed on a fly

I leave Laezel to look for a way to cut the rope, and I get a notice that I've left her to her fate.

Probably just a bug. There're lots of little bugs like that I'm noticing and more. Due to million changes during the last months I imagine it's all very unpolished. For example when creature is prone the game is still show you the red arrow for possible opportunity attack.

Gotta say tactician kicks ass, Swen wasn't lying. I walked past SH and I think there was no chance to beat the demon lord w/o her (before he was a total pushover).

Demon was a mighty bitch for my Bard even WITH Shadowheart. Forced a couple reloads

Faerie Fire and Vicious Mockery mvps.

 

[ArchAngel]

Can you have a male DM voice? Whoever thought there are good female DMs that we want to listen to when there are so many cool male voices that could be used for this?!
Also VO in general is pretty bad and hard to listen too at every step.

 

[KIss My Ass]

sent it spiraling into the final stages of death

anywayyy, i hope everyone is having fun. how did you all decide upon what to role?

You put a dick on your female character. Admit it.

 

[Raghar]

Demon was a mighty bitch for my Bard even WITH Shadowheart. Forced a couple reloads

Faerie Fire and Vicious Mockery mvps.

He should be immune to vicious mockery.
He's demon, not imp. He should have simple anti-bard resistances.

 

[Raghar]

Can you have a male DM voice? Whoever thought there are good female DMs that we want to listen to when there are so many cool male voices that could be used for this?!
Also VO in general is pretty bad and hard to listen too at every step.

What do you mean by DM? Do you mean narrator? I think one of D:OS games had male narrator.

 

[Theodora]

You put a dick on your female character. Admit it.

I haven't made my character yet because the person I'm cooping it with is asleep in the other room and I'm waiting for him to wake up.

And I didn't mention the tranny bit, to spare you the inevitable outcome of that line of conversation. Now please stop shitting up the release thread.

 

[lycanwarrior]

 

[Cryomancer]

Will be more Larian cultists trying BG1/2 and writing hilarious reviews?

I wanna update my iconic topic with more ridiculous reviews :

Larian cultists reviewing BG1/2 - NOW with IWD:EE reviews :​

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/larian-cultists-reviewing-bg1-2-now-with-iwd-ee-reviews.141531/


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We also need a tag for Larian cultists, like a barrel with a arrow in his upper left image and written "larian cultist" to tag Larian cultists, like we have for Bethestards.

 

[lycanwarrior]

Installing the game, likely won't get to it until tomorrow.

 

[Robber Baron]

What the hell is that hugeass version watermark at all times on the screen

 

[KIss My Ass]

You put a dick on your female character. Admit it.

I haven't made my character yet because the person I'm cooping it with is asleep in the other room and I'm waiting for him to wake up.

And I didn't mention the tranny bit, to spare you the inevitable outcome of that line of conversation. Now please stop shitting up the release thread.

You initiated contact with me first. Stop responding to me. And I've been posting on-topic this entire time. Why don't you make like your BFF mebs and detonate a nuclear bomb while sitting on it?

 

[Drakortha]

Holy sweet Jesus, give me strength. The camera is worse than Neverwinter Nights 2. I swear. Feels like I'm fighting it at every turn. And as I said earlier, the controls make for a mega-unimmersive experience. A controller is a no-go since the UI gets magnified by 10 by just having it plugged in.

In general, I'm not too impressed. Yes, the whole thing gets dragged down by the annoyingly designed character controls and camera. But I don't like how you are just dropped into this world. I know none of these people. Why should I care about anything that is going on here in this backwater forest? Druids doing weird druids things, okay? Why am I not on the road to Baldur's Gate yet already? It feels like I'm just meandering around, killing a goblin there, talking to a demon person here.

Also, having everyone act like there are the most experienced ever in their field of "expertise" while they are level 1. Yeah okay. Just too much that breaks the experience so far for me.

But a game like this only comes about once in a generation! Even if you don't like this kind of game, you should buy it anyway to support it. Buy it twice, even. Larian are the developer that CDPR fronted they were. They have Pedigree to back them up. BG3 is undoubtedly the game of the decade! It's going to change the genre forever!

I can imagine the thousands of normies who are playing BG3 right now after hearing all that buzz marketing while they now scratch their heads at all the prententious shit the game throws at them. Yet they will tell themselves the game is only going over their heads because the game is just so grandiose. They have no other choice. They couldn't think for themselves, and now they bought this trash at full price. So they'll lie through their teeth, even to themselves, to avoid extreme butthurt buyers remorse.

 

[Drakortha]

What happened with the tone in this game? Why does it look and feel like a Marvel universe themed park?

And this is supposed to be Baldur's Gate 3? Even the announcement trailer promised something darker in tone, and was more reminiscent of the old Baldur's Gate. Of course that illusion got shattered the moment Swen the monkey revealed the DOS3 gameplay in a livestream. But this is what you all wanted, so this is what you get.

Never forget that the Codex shilled and memed this shit (and still are) and rallied against anyone who called this trash game out for what it was (and still is).

 

[Dr1f7]

Come on some of you fucks must be almost done already with the game, how is this shit past the EA gate? Is it as bad as the DOSes or did they learn a thing or two?

i'm about to begin my second playthrough, just not sure how i want to design my second character yet

the writing is really top notch, I especially liked one specific encounter/cutscene, where a short ugly man was standing on a platformed pedestal screaming something like 'The crown was stolen from me! and now they want to lock me up in the dungeons!', with a red white and black flag hanging behind him, and a large crowd of men clothed top to bottom in white with strangely low intelligence stats was cheering him on. The game gives you a few options for taking care of this problem, and, heh, none of them ended well for said short man and his company

 

[cpmartins]

Come on some of you fucks must be almost done already with the game, how is this shit past the EA gate? Is it as bad as the DOSes or did they learn a thing or two?

i'm about to begin my second playthrough, just not sure how i want to design my second character yet

the writing is really top notch, I especially liked one specific encounter/cutscene, where a short ugly man was standing on a platformed pedestal screaming something like 'The crown was stolen from me! and now they want to lock me up in the dungeons!', with a red white and black flag hanging behind him, and a large crowd of men clothed top to bottom in white with strangely low intelligence stats was cheering him on. The game gives you a few options for taking care of this problem, and, heh, none of them ended well for said short man and his company

Hm, somehow I don't believe this scenario actually exists within the game. At least, I hope it doesn't.

 

[The_Mask]

You initiated contact with me first. Stop responding to me. And I've been posting on-topic this entire time. Why don't you make like your BFF mebs and detonate a nuclear bomb while sitting on it?

Ah, yes. About that topic... are you going to point out that female voice lines weren't locked to female characters and vice versa, going all the way to BG II? Or should we?

At least if you're going to shit post, put some effort into it. You're gonna make us blush otherwise.

 

[ArchAngel]

Can you have a male DM voice? Whoever thought there are good female DMs that we want to listen to when there are so many cool male voices that could be used for this?!
Also VO in general is pretty bad and hard to listen too at every step.

What do you mean by DM? Do you mean narrator? I think one of D:OS games had male narrator.

In D&D it is called DM, person that in addition to choosing all actions of NPCs, also describes to players what they see and hear.
They put a generic female with british accent in that role when there could have been so many good male options for this.
Also so many female NPCs have same generic VO like the female DM. For this reason alone I do not see myself playing BG3 without turning off voices first.

 

[cpmartins]

Some guy in Communist Spyware saying not to enable cross-save on steam because the servers are overloaded and the game will fail to save locally because of that.

 

[Strange Fellow]

To the true RPG gamer, nothing is more distressing than the sound of a woman. How dare those Belgians cause us such anguish.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

To the true RPG gamer, nothing is more distressing than the sound of a woman. How dare those Belgians cause us such anguish.

Get on with the times, chuddie. We don't say "woman". It's "Body Type B".

 

[Dodo1610]

Why Larian?, Why?

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

tfw no half elf goth gf