Baldur’s Gate III
4-Aug-23 4:06am
#1 Bleed_DukeBlue
Anyone else playing this? It’s still early, but I’m already pretty sure this will not only be my game of the year but also one of my favorite games of all time. Larian impressed me a lot with Divinity: Original Sin, but this is just a masterpiece so far. Also, it has cross save, so you can play on PC and then move up to five saves over to PS5 via the cloud when that version comes out (although you have to buy both versions to do that).
#1 Bleed_DukeBlue
Anyone else playing this? It’s still early, but I’m already pretty sure this will not only be my game of the year but also one of my favorite games of all time. Larian impressed me a lot with Divinity: Original Sin, but this is just a masterpiece so far. Also, it has cross save, so you can play on PC and then move up to five saves over to PS5 via the cloud when that version comes out (although you have to buy both versions to do that).
22-Nov-23 2:33am
#181 Feeb
Archer wrote:
Having three rangers in your party is ridiculous. But insanely fun.
I just finished tactician and I had 2 ranger thieves dual wielding one hand crossbows and SS. They do ridiculous damage and are easy to protect. Load one up with all the tadpoles and the last hit is really nasty.
I honestly hated the end sequence. From the point of no return onward the game really stopped being fun. It felt very fair until this point - then welcome to hell. I’m ready to take this down a notch and playthrough it with a monk I think.
#181 Feeb
Archer wrote:
Having three rangers in your party is ridiculous. But insanely fun.
I just finished tactician and I had 2 ranger thieves dual wielding one hand crossbows and SS. They do ridiculous damage and are easy to protect. Load one up with all the tadpoles and the last hit is really nasty.
I honestly hated the end sequence. From the point of no return onward the game really stopped being fun. It felt very fair until this point - then welcome to hell. I’m ready to take this down a notch and playthrough it with a monk I think.
22-Nov-23 10:30am
#182 Feeb
Holy crap the HPs! I did not realize tactician and medium cut it by half at max level compared to easy. The Orin fight is still insane.
#182 Feeb
Holy crap the HPs! I did not realize tactician and medium cut it by half at max level compared to easy. The Orin fight is still insane.
22-Nov-23 11:33am
#183 Archer
Yeah the end stretch is a bit much even on normal. I'm sure on tactician its a real dog. I'm not there yet.
And normal and tact don't cut it in half, that is actually the normal dnd hp numbers for those levels. Story mode just adds a multiplier to make them bigger and make the game way easier.
#183 Archer
Yeah the end stretch is a bit much even on normal. I'm sure on tactician its a real dog. I'm not there yet.
And normal and tact don't cut it in half, that is actually the normal dnd hp numbers for those levels. Story mode just adds a multiplier to make them bigger and make the game way easier.
22-Nov-23 1:33pm
#184 Feeb
Archer wrote:
Yeah the end stretch is a bit much even on normal. I'm sure on tactician its a real dog. I'm not there yet. And normal and tact don't cut it in half, that is actually the normal dnd hp numbers for those levels. Story mode just adds a multiplier to make them bigger and make the game way easier.
I’ve never played anything but tactician. It’s good I did that because this is making me lazy and impulsive. You can’t multiclass on easy I didn’t know that- but it’s silly cause I just increased the difficulty prior leveling and then switched it back.
The end sequence is so overwhelming and populated - to be fair lot of it is designed to flee through- but that set piece at the gate is an insane battle.
#184 Feeb
Archer wrote:
Yeah the end stretch is a bit much even on normal. I'm sure on tactician its a real dog. I'm not there yet. And normal and tact don't cut it in half, that is actually the normal dnd hp numbers for those levels. Story mode just adds a multiplier to make them bigger and make the game way easier.
I’ve never played anything but tactician. It’s good I did that because this is making me lazy and impulsive. You can’t multiclass on easy I didn’t know that- but it’s silly cause I just increased the difficulty prior leveling and then switched it back.
The end sequence is so overwhelming and populated - to be fair lot of it is designed to flee through- but that set piece at the gate is an insane battle.
22-Nov-23 1:53pm
#185 Archer
Feeb wrote:
I’ve never played anything but tactician. It’s good I did that because this is making me lazy and impulsive. You can’t multiclass on easy I didn’t know that- but it’s silly cause I just increased the difficulty prior leveling and then switched it back.
Yeah, you can also get away with never ever healing yourself on easy or normal as well because of that same trick. Just change the difficulty and it auto heals everyone, lol. Not sure why you would want or need to do that though. But its there. You can even do it mid fight for some reason, but I guess that also heals the enemy units too. I saw video about this the other day on reddit.
They will also be adding Honor mode to this soon too. I think next month when they release the Xbox version. Which will have perma death and some other options as well like no manual saves. Basically ironman mode. I'm looking forward to giving that a shot.
#185 Archer
Feeb wrote:
I’ve never played anything but tactician. It’s good I did that because this is making me lazy and impulsive. You can’t multiclass on easy I didn’t know that- but it’s silly cause I just increased the difficulty prior leveling and then switched it back.
Yeah, you can also get away with never ever healing yourself on easy or normal as well because of that same trick. Just change the difficulty and it auto heals everyone, lol. Not sure why you would want or need to do that though. But its there. You can even do it mid fight for some reason, but I guess that also heals the enemy units too. I saw video about this the other day on reddit.
They will also be adding Honor mode to this soon too. I think next month when they release the Xbox version. Which will have perma death and some other options as well like no manual saves. Basically ironman mode. I'm looking forward to giving that a shot.
22-Nov-23 3:43pm
#186 Feeb
Oh wow. I didn’t notice that toggling it set your HP back up. I tried honor mode or something similar with divinity. Not much fun at my skill level.
#186 Feeb
Oh wow. I didn’t notice that toggling it set your HP back up. I tried honor mode or something similar with divinity. Not much fun at my skill level.
22-Nov-23 5:31pm
#187 sinnie
oh my god. I sat down to play for about an hour and 8 hours later I need to get off the chair and make dinner.
#187 sinnie
oh my god. I sat down to play for about an hour and 8 hours later I need to get off the chair and make dinner.
22-Nov-23 6:43pm
#188 Archer
sinnie wrote:
oh my god. I sat down to play for about an hour and 8 hours later I need to get off the chair and make dinner.
So it was a good day is what you are saying.
#188 Archer
sinnie wrote:
oh my god. I sat down to play for about an hour and 8 hours later I need to get off the chair and make dinner.
So it was a good day is what you are saying.
22-Nov-23 7:48pm
#189 sinnie
yeah pretty much. 3rd play through, still finding new stuff. haha
Also Karlach is glitched and naked the entire time. Kind of annoying.
#189 sinnie
yeah pretty much. 3rd play through, still finding new stuff. haha
Also Karlach is glitched and naked the entire time. Kind of annoying.
23-Nov-23 8:01am
#190 Heavyd814life
sinnie wrote:
oh my god. I sat down to play for about an hour and 8 hours later I need to get off the chair and make dinner.
Tell me about it! I got home at around midnight said to myself I'd play for an hour or two and just kept going and going. It's 8 now and I think I'm finally going to drag myself away from my TV so I can take a quick nap before driving to my parents for Thanksgiving.
Someone told me about an exploit and I just had to try it and I can't believe I got it to work...
So I'm still on my Dark Urge run. I'm fighting against the urge which I know kinda defeats the purpose, but it has been really cool so far. I hate going the evil route in games for some reason, but Minthara rules and I really wanted to have her as a companion which I'm pretty sure isn't possible unless you side with the goblins and kill the tieflings and I just couldn't bring myself to do that. So in comes this workaround where you start out by knocking Minthara out in the Goblin camp fight (once you long rest she's fine and just stands there). Proceed through the game normally until you reach Moonrise (I got to act 2, did Last Light, got the lantern and made a beeline for Moonrise). And from there you have to jump through these crazy hoops to transport Minthara from the goblin camp to Moonrise so she can be judged by Ketheric. Anyway you are able to save her and she joins your party which is wild. I have no idea if this will break this game since she and Halsin are supposed to occupy the same space essentially. I have no idea if her questline will be bugged, but I still can't believe this actually worked. I think there's a PC mod that makes this super easy, but I think this is the only way to be "good" and still get Minthara on console
#190 Heavyd814life
sinnie wrote:
oh my god. I sat down to play for about an hour and 8 hours later I need to get off the chair and make dinner.
Tell me about it! I got home at around midnight said to myself I'd play for an hour or two and just kept going and going. It's 8 now and I think I'm finally going to drag myself away from my TV so I can take a quick nap before driving to my parents for Thanksgiving.
Someone told me about an exploit and I just had to try it and I can't believe I got it to work...
So I'm still on my Dark Urge run. I'm fighting against the urge which I know kinda defeats the purpose, but it has been really cool so far. I hate going the evil route in games for some reason, but Minthara rules and I really wanted to have her as a companion which I'm pretty sure isn't possible unless you side with the goblins and kill the tieflings and I just couldn't bring myself to do that. So in comes this workaround where you start out by knocking Minthara out in the Goblin camp fight (once you long rest she's fine and just stands there). Proceed through the game normally until you reach Moonrise (I got to act 2, did Last Light, got the lantern and made a beeline for Moonrise). And from there you have to jump through these crazy hoops to transport Minthara from the goblin camp to Moonrise so she can be judged by Ketheric. Anyway you are able to save her and she joins your party which is wild. I have no idea if this will break this game since she and Halsin are supposed to occupy the same space essentially. I have no idea if her questline will be bugged, but I still can't believe this actually worked. I think there's a PC mod that makes this super easy, but I think this is the only way to be "good" and still get Minthara on console
23-Nov-23 9:22am
#191 sinnie
Re: Minthara and Dark Urge, spoilers for anyone who hasnt completed this sort of run
On my first evil playthrough I did the bad things to get her. But by the end I hated her because she turned good and wanted me to stop being murder-y.
My current playthrough is a durge but on a redemption arc. No Minthara this time around, I'm gonna try to get Jaheira and Minsc though. I want to see Karlach and Wyll's story line this time around. I still need to finish Gale's too but he died early on (oops.)
I'm probably gonna give tactacian a go after this, or maybe hard mode or something.
I just keep trying to romance Astarion and he really just needs to gtfo of my party because I know everything about him I think. But he's just too fun.
I have another save for a Bard who has Gale but I stopped playing because I FAILED to romance my stabby thirsty boy. He laughed at me. lmao.
#191 sinnie
Re: Minthara and Dark Urge, spoilers for anyone who hasnt completed this sort of run
On my first evil playthrough I did the bad things to get her. But by the end I hated her because she turned good and wanted me to stop being murder-y.
My current playthrough is a durge but on a redemption arc. No Minthara this time around, I'm gonna try to get Jaheira and Minsc though. I want to see Karlach and Wyll's story line this time around. I still need to finish Gale's too but he died early on (oops.)
I'm probably gonna give tactacian a go after this, or maybe hard mode or something.
I just keep trying to romance Astarion and he really just needs to gtfo of my party because I know everything about him I think. But he's just too fun.
I have another save for a Bard who has Gale but I stopped playing because I FAILED to romance my stabby thirsty boy. He laughed at me. lmao.
23-Nov-23 12:31pm
#192 Archer
sinnie wrote:
Re: Minthara and Dark Urge, spoilers for anyone who hasnt completed this sort of run ...
Not the experience I'm having.
After initially snapping her neck and killing her. Realizing I'd have to play with hirelings and miss out on seeing her story, I reloaded and redid that part to recruit her.
I'm in Act 3 now, and she is ruthless and evil. No sign of her turning good. We are a super evil power couple, and its insane how power hungry she is. She is more blood thirsty for power than I am at points. She is always in my ear telling me take the evil action. How we should take what ever suits us and kill everyone who gets in our way. I'm not sure if this tied to being in a romance with her, or if its from dialogue choices you make. But she is truly a evil in my run. She doesn't want to kill just to kill, but she wants to kill to gain power. And she wants revenge, to kill everyone in the cult who made her feel like a slave. She also has no problem with just straight up murdering anyone. Because I was honest about the urges. She loves every evil thing I do. She dislikes any type of kind thing I do. She was all about that tadpole half transformation as well and wanted that power. She told me I should kill Isobel as well. And wanted me to kill Dame Aylen. So of course of I did both of those things. Then when I became the Slayer she told me that my new power and what I had become was magnificent and she fully embraced it. Saying something like my power would help us rule the world and that she was glad I did it. She even demands that Astorian ascend to take what is rightfully his so he can help us take over the world.
#192 Archer
sinnie wrote:
Re: Minthara and Dark Urge, spoilers for anyone who hasnt completed this sort of run ...
Not the experience I'm having.
After initially snapping her neck and killing her. Realizing I'd have to play with hirelings and miss out on seeing her story, I reloaded and redid that part to recruit her.
I'm in Act 3 now, and she is ruthless and evil. No sign of her turning good. We are a super evil power couple, and its insane how power hungry she is. She is more blood thirsty for power than I am at points. She is always in my ear telling me take the evil action. How we should take what ever suits us and kill everyone who gets in our way. I'm not sure if this tied to being in a romance with her, or if its from dialogue choices you make. But she is truly a evil in my run. She doesn't want to kill just to kill, but she wants to kill to gain power. And she wants revenge, to kill everyone in the cult who made her feel like a slave. She also has no problem with just straight up murdering anyone. Because I was honest about the urges. She loves every evil thing I do. She dislikes any type of kind thing I do. She was all about that tadpole half transformation as well and wanted that power. She told me I should kill Isobel as well. And wanted me to kill Dame Aylen. So of course of I did both of those things. Then when I became the Slayer she told me that my new power and what I had become was magnificent and she fully embraced it. Saying something like my power would help us rule the world and that she was glad I did it. She even demands that Astorian ascend to take what is rightfully his so he can help us take over the world.
23-Nov-23 9:02pm
#193 sinnie
Well damn that's disappointing. I guess it can go so many ways, lol.
Also it happened again. I played all day. Oh well.
#193 sinnie
Well damn that's disappointing. I guess it can go so many ways, lol.
Also it happened again. I played all day. Oh well.
24-Nov-23 2:55pm
#194 Feeb
There’s boat just near the grey Barbour docks waypoint in BG guarded by two robots- there are 6 parasite specimens in a crate. I’ve grabbed it on every run through. Nice find.
#194 Feeb
There’s boat just near the grey Barbour docks waypoint in BG guarded by two robots- there are 6 parasite specimens in a crate. I’ve grabbed it on every run through. Nice find.
24-Nov-23 8:42pm
#195 Heavyd814life
I may need to bump this up to Tactician because Minthara is wrecking everything with her Divine Smite. I just cast Haste and Sanctuary on her and she’s a one-woman wrecking crew. And she’s got great survivability as well because of heavy armor + shield. Such a fun class! Any of you guys try a Paladin/Sorcerer build? I think that one could be a lot of fun as well. Maybe I’ll mess with that on my next play through.
#195 Heavyd814life
I may need to bump this up to Tactician because Minthara is wrecking everything with her Divine Smite. I just cast Haste and Sanctuary on her and she’s a one-woman wrecking crew. And she’s got great survivability as well because of heavy armor + shield. Such a fun class! Any of you guys try a Paladin/Sorcerer build? I think that one could be a lot of fun as well. Maybe I’ll mess with that on my next play through.
25-Nov-23 9:07am
#196 Feeb
Sorcerer is definitely my go to hybrid caster class. Sorcadin for sure a good mix. Sauron or something else OP feeling.
PSA. I just got the Leave No one Behind trophy to pop finally. I was afraid I’d missed it because I did not talk to Arabella again after finding her parents. Rolled the credits and no pop. Then I realized I may have gotten the Tieflings killed with the summon in last area. I redid it without summoning Zevlor crew and it popped at credits. This trophy is a bit different for some I guess.
#196 Feeb
Sorcerer is definitely my go to hybrid caster class. Sorcadin for sure a good mix. Sauron or something else OP feeling.
PSA. I just got the Leave No one Behind trophy to pop finally. I was afraid I’d missed it because I did not talk to Arabella again after finding her parents. Rolled the credits and no pop. Then I realized I may have gotten the Tieflings killed with the summon in last area. I redid it without summoning Zevlor crew and it popped at credits. This trophy is a bit different for some I guess.
25-Nov-23 9:12am
#197 sinnie
As much as I loved Minthara (I even played her before they fixed a lot of her dialogue) I got real bored with her. I guess I just don't know how to Paladin, lol.
#197 sinnie
As much as I loved Minthara (I even played her before they fixed a lot of her dialogue) I got real bored with her. I guess I just don't know how to Paladin, lol.
25-Nov-23 9:17am
#198 Feeb
I don’t enjoy the melee classes with buffs etc. way too many spells and actions to manage for me. Shadowheart usually gets benched very quickly after I use command to make Zhalk drop his Uber sword and beat him into submission. I actually lost her during my tactician run because I didn’t bring her to Shar’s place. She was like “I talk about going there nonstop and you left me? Later.”
Total dude move. I didn’t see any issues there.
My favorite is definitely a ranged double hand crossbow class with sneak. It cannot be beat for ease and high damage. Fun too. You can get the gloves of archery from goblin vendor and ring that adds poison damage from myconid colony and very quickly become a solo destroyer. Hide, kill, hide, kill. Lots of fun. I think I solod most of act 1 and 2 with that setup as rogue thief.
#198 Feeb
I don’t enjoy the melee classes with buffs etc. way too many spells and actions to manage for me. Shadowheart usually gets benched very quickly after I use command to make Zhalk drop his Uber sword and beat him into submission. I actually lost her during my tactician run because I didn’t bring her to Shar’s place. She was like “I talk about going there nonstop and you left me? Later.”
Total dude move. I didn’t see any issues there.
My favorite is definitely a ranged double hand crossbow class with sneak. It cannot be beat for ease and high damage. Fun too. You can get the gloves of archery from goblin vendor and ring that adds poison damage from myconid colony and very quickly become a solo destroyer. Hide, kill, hide, kill. Lots of fun. I think I solod most of act 1 and 2 with that setup as rogue thief.
25-Nov-23 9:44am
#199 Feeb
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This is Bill. I can’t take credit for the design because he was randomly generated. He is now a mindflayer.
#199 Feeb
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This is Bill. I can’t take credit for the design because he was randomly generated. He is now a mindflayer.
25-Nov-23 10:48am
#200 Archer
Paladins are strong as crap. Especially when multi-classed with something like fighter or cleric. But I'm not a fan of the limited resource classes that constantly need long rests to keep them powerful. Like Paladin, Cleric and Wizard. On tactician you can blow through their entire days worth of resources in a single fight. Which means you need to long rest constantly. And I just don't like that. I know there isn't anything wrong with it. I just don't like doing it. It clears elixirs and you end up having to spend a fortune replenishing them or going without. It clears buffs. It can kill a lot of quests if you long rest too many times before finishing them. So, I just don't like doing it.
#200 Archer
Paladins are strong as crap. Especially when multi-classed with something like fighter or cleric. But I'm not a fan of the limited resource classes that constantly need long rests to keep them powerful. Like Paladin, Cleric and Wizard. On tactician you can blow through their entire days worth of resources in a single fight. Which means you need to long rest constantly. And I just don't like that. I know there isn't anything wrong with it. I just don't like doing it. It clears elixirs and you end up having to spend a fortune replenishing them or going without. It clears buffs. It can kill a lot of quests if you long rest too many times before finishing them. So, I just don't like doing it.
25-Nov-23 10:53am
#201 Feeb
I used mostly short / half rests unless a big fight. That’s probably why I don’t jive with those classes as well. I’d rather have a fighter or monk any day. Once their resources are exhausted they’re still better solid melee. You don’t miss it much and it’s like a bonus if you have it.
#201 Feeb
I used mostly short / half rests unless a big fight. That’s probably why I don’t jive with those classes as well. I’d rather have a fighter or monk any day. Once their resources are exhausted they’re still better solid melee. You don’t miss it much and it’s like a bonus if you have it.
Baldur’s Gate III