Baldur's Gate III Announced - ...and it's coming to Google Stadia and PC

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Can someone explain to me how the tiefling refugees are allegedly woke pro immigration propaganda? I've seen probably a dozen reviews whining about this but after doing 100% of the quests regarding the emerald grove almost every tiefling is a liar and a thief that is actively plotting against the native druid population.

Am I nuts or did these people not actually play the game?
If they can't make the connection in real life do you really think they'll make it while playing vidya?
 
If you want to socially finesse your way through, Bard/Sorc/Warlock/Paladin (and to a lesser extent, Cleric and Rogue) seem to be the way to go with how many charisma based checks there are in dialogue. All other classes are great for the murder path, with the Barbarian being the most hilarious.
or the Larian classic, Barrelmancy
 
Can someone explain to me how the tiefling refugees are allegedly woke pro immigration propaganda? I've seen probably a dozen reviews whining about this but after doing 100% of the quests regarding the emerald grove almost every tiefling is a liar and a thief that is actively plotting against the native druid population.

Am I nuts or did these people not actually play the game?

Some of it is baked into the Tiefling dialogue responses if you choose to play as one or if you're a Karlach origin. It's 90% "muh oppressed race" whenever you say anything. The only time that I saw anything different was when you read the runes scarred into Astarion's back, and Tieflings can just read them because they're infernal language.

Didn't really matter to me because my Dark Urge was a Tief and basically embraced the whole demonic heritage thing. Lived the stereotype loud and proud.

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I think he meant change the race of the hirelings
I dont think we can change hirelings race.
Natively, you can change the appearance of the heirlings through the mirror. Anything else though I found this mod on vortex that works well. Basically makes you make a fully custom heirling including background, etc. I used to do the debugging trick of opening multiple games and using direct connect for full custom solo play as well.

Can someone explain to me how the tiefling refugees are allegedly woke pro immigration propaganda? I've seen probably a dozen reviews whining about this but after doing 100% of the quests regarding the emerald grove almost every tiefling is a liar and a thief that is actively plotting against the native druid population.

Am I nuts or did these people not actually play the game?
I think it is a case of people looking for something new to complain about the game.
 
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Can someone explain to me how the tiefling refugees are allegedly woke pro immigration propaganda? I've seen probably a dozen reviews whining about this but after doing 100% of the quests regarding the emerald grove almost every tiefling is a liar and a thief that is actively plotting against the native druid population.

Am I nuts or did these people not actually play the game?
I think they just saw that it had “immigration” in it and just immediately jumped to conclusions, which to be fair a lot of modern media does do the “we’re gonna preach to you about modern thing disguised as fictional thing!”

Whereas BG3 wasn’t making a statement on modern politics or anything, it’s just a thing happening in the story and it’s not made to be some kind of current day parallel.
 
Picked it up for Xbox and have been having a good time. Going in totally blind I picked a Dwarf Warlock for my first character. I think I fucked up a lot of stuff in the first act because I

Killed the goblin priestess, but had trouble with the warlord so I decided to side with them and wiped out the Tieflings and Druids.
The Drow leader proceeded to sleep with me
I met a Tiefling lady who was very angry, but I got a quest to cut her head off and got a cool sword, found out shes a companion later so oops.
Zarael slept with me
I saved a lady from a witch and then reanimated her husband as a zombie for her

This game is rad, I am just playing and deciding to do things on the fly and it works. Last major RPG I played was Starfield and this feels like a total breath of fresh air compared to how constrained that game was. My wife started a Wizard character and watching her play shes seeing a lot of different options. I actually think I may play through the first part of the game again as an Orc Barbarian and try to not do what I did before.

We tried splitscreen but I think because we are both playing blind and want to experience things naturally we decided to do separate runs first. 30FPS split screen on Series X is also pretty annoying, it runs great at 60FPS singleplayer though.
 
Still hesitant about picking this game up, I admit; the $70 price tag isn't exactly something I can't handle, but the recent concerns with all the crap Sony's been pulling, coupled both with the other games that I need to play as well as the fact that the physical editions of BG3 are supposed to be releasing in a few months, makes me wonder if I should wait.

Regardless, I am looking forward to running the game when I finally do get it! I'm already looking forward to eventually running the different modes; murderhobo'ing souds like a blast, Durge and/or Honor Mode both look like great fun, and I'm curious as to see what I'll be able to do as a solo player - I love a good challenge, and this game looks like it'll deliver!
 
You loose the bear sex druid, the thiefling barbarian and the melanted warlock if you side with gobbos. But you get the drow paladin later.

I would advise pc for mods if you can take that.
 
Picked it up for Xbox and have been having a good time. Going in totally blind I picked a Dwarf Warlock for my first character. I think I fucked up a lot of stuff in the first act because I

Killed the goblin priestess, but had trouble with the warlord so I decided to side with them and wiped out the Tieflings and Druids.
The Drow leader proceeded to sleep with me
I met a Tiefling lady who was very angry, but I got a quest to cut her head off and got a cool sword, found out shes a companion later so oops.
Zarael slept with me
I saved a lady from a witch and then reanimated her husband as a zombie for her

This game is rad, I am just playing and deciding to do things on the fly and it works. Last major RPG I played was Starfield and this feels like a total breath of fresh air compared to how constrained that game was. My wife started a Wizard character and watching her play shes seeing a lot of different options. I actually think I may play through the first part of the game again as an Orc Barbarian and try to not do what I did before.

We tried splitscreen but I think because we are both playing blind and want to experience things naturally we decided to do separate runs first. 30FPS split screen on Series X is also pretty annoying, it runs great at 60FPS singleplayer though.
The good thing about the game is you can make all those decisions and still enjoy a playthrough. Sure, you’ve closed off certain paths and routes, but you’ve also got unique ones you wouldn’t have seen otherwise. So don’t think of it as “fucking up”, you’re just playing through one of many different routes.
 
Still hesitant about picking this game up, I admit; the $70 price tag isn't exactly something I can't handle, but the recent concerns with all the crap Sony's been pulling, coupled both with the other games that I need to play as well as the fact that the physical editions of BG3 are supposed to be releasing in a few months, makes me wonder if I should wait.

Regardless, I am looking forward to running the game when I finally do get it! I'm already looking forward to eventually running the different modes; murderhobo'ing souds like a blast, Durge and/or Honor Mode both look like great fun, and I'm curious as to see what I'll be able to do as a solo player - I love a good challenge, and this game looks like it'll deliver!
I would pirate the game right now
And save up for physical version if you’re still want it.
 
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i got this achievement when game released.. in Act 1
at Goblin's Camp
there were Goblin children and yeah... using a Goblin Child as a weapon to bludgeon another Goblin Child ingame to kill Goblin Children
is peak gaming.
 
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