[Gaming] Baldur's Gate 3

Squidleybits

Squidleybits

I am not super far along. I made a drop character and every npc has something to say about it! Some have said surprisingly good things.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Apparently having Lae-zel in your party is just an invitation to ALL kinds of UI-locking bugs. Uuuuugggh. Look, just get used to hitting F5 before and after every single fucking thing in the world.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

GasBandit said:
Apparently having Lae-zel in your party is just an invitation to ALL kinds of UI-locking bugs. Uuuuugggh. Look, just get used to hitting F5 before and after every single fucking thing in the world.
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When this happens, you can hit F5 to save and F8 to immediately load that save, it'll fix the bug
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Baldur's Gate 3 delivers the most immersive social simulation environment pertaining to what it's like to be a woman - unless I am actively and deliberately unpleasant to them, every single person in my social circle assumes I want to have sex with them.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

GasBandit said:
Baldur's Gate 3 delivers the most immersive social simulation environment pertaining to what it's like to be a woman - unless I am actively and deliberately unpleasant to them, every single person in my social circle assumes I want to have sex with them.
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...You don't?
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Bubble181 said:
...You don't?
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Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2 have traumatized me when it comes to party social dynamics. I'm too afraid that if I form a relationship they'll either fly off the handle about something and become the game's final boss, or cause some OTHER party member to switch sides for no other good reason other than the integer that represents my relationship to person A is higher than the one that governs their own, or just literally rocks fall everybody dies.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

GasBandit said:
Baldur's Gate 3 delivers the most immersive social simulation environment pertaining to what it's like to be a woman - unless I am actively and deliberately unpleasant to them, every single person in my social circle assumes I want to have sex with them.
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Ah, you've met Gale.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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It's not just gale! Astarion too, even the githyanki is down bad for me and barely able to take no for an answer.
 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

In the movie Starship Troopers when Michael Ironside is introduced as the new Lt. I swear the music from that scene in in BG3.
 
Tinwhistler

Tinwhistler

GasBandit said:
It's not just gale! Astarion too, even the githyanki is down bad for me and barely able to take no for an answer.
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Heh, Lae'zel was hot for me, but I could never initiate sex with her. So finally, I decided to choose the "end this fling" option and then followed it up with "seriously, no more sex." (more? we never had sex). That night, I get the githyanki sex option. heh
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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I need to just stick to hirelings and leave everybody at camp and just never talk to them. That's what I need to do.
 
Far

Far

Ravenpoe said:
No they just back off and stop flirting with you.
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I've found this true of everyone save Halsin. Everyone other than Karlach I've told hey, let's just be friends, and they've all respected that. Halsin keeps trying to make it happen though.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Act 2 Dark Urge spoilers

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Why do people keep thinking I'm evil? I don't look that evil...

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What? No, lots of non-evil people can turn into murder-monsters
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Playing with Snuffles means I have to be in discord, which means I have to be in desktop mode, which hurts performance a little, but it's still perfectly playable.
 
Dei

Dei

Everything I've heard says Steam Deck struggles on Act 3, but I've been mostly fine in Act 2 when I'm playing in bed.
 
Dei

Dei

Here is something to be wary about depending on how short on space you may be on your Steam Deck. I didn't notice that my quicksaves were never respecting the limit of 25 I set on them, and I had 200+ quicksaves and a save folder that was 12gb.
 
Frank

Frank

So folks have datamined a HUUUUUGE amount of cut content (especially act 3) including stuff that the Larian CEO was talking about as little as two weeks before launch. Hopefully that means the eventual Definitive Edition cleans a lot of that up.

Still the best game I've played this year (and hopefully the year they finish the Definitive Edition).

Oh, and now for some gripes. 5th Edition Wizards are fucking lame as hell. They're trumped up Sorcerers. Everyone is just a trumped up sorcerer. The spreadsheets I used to keep for my 3.5/Pathfinder Wizard in tabletop to keep all his spells and his different configurations. It's funny how I've owned basically every 5th edition book printed by WotC but I've never actually gotten the chance to actually live roleplay it. I had no idea Wizards were so Sorcerish now, even having read the books. I also hate the term spell slots.....it just feels so inelegant and takes me out of it.

Also I wish switching party members was easier. It's such a slog to walk over to one, kick them out, walk over to the other, bring them in, level them up, kick them out, go back to the old party member, bring them back in.

BG1 and 2 just had a menu option.
 
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GasBandit

GasBandit

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Frank said:
Also I wish switching party members was easier. It's such a slog to walk over to one, kick them out, walk over to the other, bring them in, level them up, kick them out, go back to the old party member, bring them back in.
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I might not be remembering correctly, but didn't baldur's gate 1 entail finding wherever the hell it was in the world the person you want was hanging out? And then asking them to rejoin?

I do wish you could have more than four people in the group though.
 
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