Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[chaplain_crabtree]

Hardest fight I had was the one against the Sharran temple. Everything else took me a few tries, this one took a few more.

On the subject of abuse, I don't know if I should even say that I beat the game.

For most of the tough fights I did this:
- Darkness on my own party, so the AI can't target us, especially the archers
- When it's my turn: step out, throw a spell / shoot an arrow, step back in

It became boring quickly, too.

You guys were not playing honor mode I reckon. You should try it, it does improve the game a lot.

Can you still experiment with party composition and roleplaying in honor mode or will I need to optimize my party to the point where I can't pick party members I actually like?

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

Can you still experiment with party composition and roleplaying in honor mode or will I need to optimize my party to the point where I can't pick party members I actually like?

Can't you respec anyone into any class with Shivers? That's how I fixed Minsc's retarded 12 strength.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Hydro]

I'm interested too. Larian promised to do it, or you're hoping for a mod?

All the "difficulty enhancement" that are currently available only in Honor mode (Legendary actions and so on) are supposed to become selectable options in "Custom mode" when Patch 7 drops.
Which should be in September.

That should be also when "official mod support" is introduced, but the exact benefits of it are still unclear, in the end.

This and the upcoming rimjob animations is the stuff I am so exited about

 

[dukeofwoodberry]

Hardest fight I had was the one against the Sharran temple. Everything else took me a few tries, this one took a few more.

On the subject of abuse, I don't know if I should even say that I beat the game.

For most of the tough fights I did this:
- Darkness on my own party, so the AI can't target us, especially the archers
- When it's my turn: step out, throw a spell / shoot an arrow, step back in

It became boring quickly, too.

You guys were not playing honor mode I reckon. You should try it, it does improve the game a lot.

Can you still experiment with party composition and roleplaying in honor mode or will I need to optimize my party to the point where I can't pick party members I actually like?

There are plenty of viable parties in honor mode. If you build everyone like crap you're in trouble but you have a lot of choices. Definitely don't need 4 full optimal builds. I'd recommend someone with counter spell and good spell DC.

 

[KeAShizuku]

Look yes I played BG2 when I was 15 and yes the Aery romance is pretty cringe but it's nothing compared to BG3 subreddit.

 

[Tuco Benedicto Pacifico]

Look yes I played BG2 when I was 15 and yes the Aery romance is pretty cringe but it's nothing compared to BG3 subreddit.

From the Larian forum, again:

To Larian Studios,
I was lucky enough to receive an invitation to try the beta test of patch 7. I admit that one of the first things I did once the patch was installed was to look at the new TAV expressions during kisses with Ascended Astarion.
I wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart for this change. You have no idea how much joy I felt seeing my TAV happy again. Moreover, with these new expressions, I could really appreciate the work that was done on the kissing animations. I couldn't stop kissing Lord Astarion!
The previous expressions had taken away my desire to play, but now I have found the serenity to do so again. I thank you again and again for everything.

This is the last reply out of a 59 pages thread where thirsty autistic goth girls threw a tantrum for weeks because "Ascension Astarion was mean to them and this takes away from their agency over the romance".

The place has a vague semblance of normality up to the early access phase, but now that the fangirls took control of it it's completely insane.

And obviously it's absolutely frowned upon to ever confront them on their being completely mental ( yes, I tried. I was promised a permanent ban at the next offense).

 

[Fedora Master]

Girls. Sure.

 

[Tuco Benedicto Pacifico]

Girls. Sure.

Well, that's what most of them are CLAIMING to be, at the very least.

 

[processdaemon]

The place has a vague semblance of normality up to the early access phase, but now that the fangirls took control of it it's completely insane.

And obviously it's absolutely frowned upon to ever confront them on their being completely mental ( yes, I tried. I was promised a permanent ban at the next offense).

Yeah, the Astarion fangirls are something else. They even have their own weird theory about how Astarion doesn't actually make their spawn into a slave, despite the game outright stating that vampires don't make their slaves into their equals as early as Act 1.

Girls. Sure.

I believe they're women, at least for the most part. It's not like there have never been horny women in RPG fandoms, it's just that the Astarion obsession has escalated to some kind of fever pitch because his stans have all found each other and egg each other on in their echo chambers.

 

[I eat frozen vegetables]

Girls. Sure.

Girls. Sure.

Well, that's what most of them are CLAIMING to be, at the very least.

Guy in Real Life

 

[babayaga]

You guys have no clue how many actual women simp for Astarion. Simply go to archiveofourown.org and see how many fanfics there are about him. (It's showing almost 18 000 results and that's A LOT)
BG3 is like a new sims game for them. They can't get enough

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

You guys have no clue how many actual women simp for Astarion. Simply go to archiveofourown.org and see how many fanfics there are about him. (It's showing almost 18 000 results and that's A LOT)
BG3 is like a new sims game for them. They can't get enough

They simp specifically because he's a fag. These corrupted, degenerate things think a normal man too boring of a concept, not perverse enough. Fucking western white women. Dogs and faggots, anything less just doesn't cut it anymore. It's like the coomer meme, but for real and worse, way worse.

 

[babayaga]

You guys have no clue how many actual women simp for Astarion. Simply go to archiveofourown.org and see how many fanfics there are about him. (It's showing almost 18 000 results and that's A LOT)
BG3 is like a new sims game for them. They can't get enough

They simp specifically because he's a fag. These corrupted, degenerate things think a normal man too boring of a concept, not perverse enough. Fucking western white women. Dogs and faggots, anything less just doesn't cut it anymore. It's like the coomer meme, but for real and worse, way worse.

Daddy issues

 

[Barbarian]

I know wymmin have a fetish for vampires(as well as werewolves, pirates and bick-dicked billionaires).

But flamboyant gay vampires? Are you guys sure these "fangirls" are not actually "fantroons"?

 

[babayaga]

I know wymmin have a fetish for vampires(as well as werewolves, pirates and bick-dicked billionaires).

But flamboyant gay vampires? Are you guys sure these "fangirls" are not actually "fantroons"?

Some def are but there aren't enough troons to write all these fanfics

 

[Barbarian]

I know wymmin have a fetish for vampires(as well as werewolves, pirates and bick-dicked billionaires).

But flamboyant gay vampires? Are you guys sure these "fangirls" are not actually "fantroons"?

Some def are but there aren't enough troons to write all these fanfics

Isn't half of the zoomer population in the 'kwa "bisexual" already? Lord knows how many genderbenders there now with all the troon fever.

 

[babayaga]

All the porn and sex on TV and Tiktok mindbroke them

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

because you'll only need to defeat a few defenders, having killed the rest of them earlier, group by group.

You do that by starting the fights manually? Sounds like meta gaming abuse, in a game that's already so prone to abuse.

Clearing out the tower by this method does not employ any exploits, unlike your darkness strategy, and does not require any metaknowledge; it merely consists of fighting each group of enemies as you encounter them, as you would normally in a dungeon.

 

[Old Hans]

merely consists of fighting each group of enemies as you encounter them

I just was add how much I dislike this system. For instance, showing up to moonrise towers and immediately killing the guards out front and no one ever notices, because no one ever leaves their little engagement bubble

 

[mediocrepoet]

merely consists of fighting each group of enemies as you encounter them

I just was add how much I dislike this system. For instance, showing up to moonrise towers and immediately killing the guards out front and no one ever notices, because no one ever leaves their little engagement bubble

As I recall, in one of the early pre-release streams Sven triggered combat and it engaged skeletons/zombies from an entire dungeon and caused a very slowly playing out clusterfuck that he had to reload out of. Unless I'm misremembering, they might have dialled it back because of things like that.

 

[Barbarian]

I used barrelmancy in my honor mode playthrough sometimes. I mean the game pretty much both supports it and stimulates it - abundance of explosive barrels outside combat areas that you can collect and place around freely with no response from non hostile characters.

Next playthrough I plan to avoid it, and only use it during combat if ever. For both challenge and realism.

It is cheese in the end. Npcs should react to your character openly filling the room with explosive barrels at least.

The original series was guilty of such cheese with rogue traps being extremely powerful, but devs later fixed it by restricting the amount of traps you could place.

 

[processdaemon]

I know wymmin have a fetish for vampires(as well as werewolves, pirates and bick-dicked billionaires).

But flamboyant gay vampires? Are you guys sure these "fangirls" are not actually "fantroons"?

Some def are but there aren't enough troons to write all these fanfics

Yeah, and I'd say that usually any romance fandom where there's more horny fanfics than drawn/animated porn is female dominated and that definitely seems to be the case here. Case in point, Ranni from Elden Ring has around 2800 entries on Rule 34, and around 800 on AO3, Astarion has around 300 on Rule 34 and over 19,000 on AO3.

Plus when I've argued with them it feels like a more feminine obsession, similar vibes to Solasmancers from the DAI fandom. Not saying guys can't get fixated on their waifus, the two just seem to present differently.

 

[Hydro]

So it’s girls with issues, furries and fags who Swen catered to, lol. What a great businessman this guy is.

 

[PunchYouInTheFace]

So it’s girls with issues, furries and fags who Swen catered to, lol. What a great businessman this guy is.

15 millions of "girls with issues", "furries" and "fags". Well...

I'm gonna say "you're retarded" is the more likely case here, hydrocuck.

Cope, babe