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

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SIMIΔN said:
Minty is great, I love how unapologetically evil her values are.
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She's not evil, she's machiavellian, impatient and I guess doesn't have an issue with child murder.
Male Idiot said:
Yeah Halsin is just second rate Jaheira. And both are on the good playthrough so there isn't even any redundancy.
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Anyone who unironically likes Halsin is the D&D equivalent of You Just Know + Cuck
 
SIMIΔN said:
I haven't done the Gale romance yet, but it seems extravagant magical sex is another way he tries to prove he's not worthless.
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soda pimp said:
Gale likes having magic sex because it connects him to the weave or some hippy shit like that.
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I'd say it's a bit of both, leaning towards the former. When romancing Gale he openly admits that he has tried to be with mortal women and nothing really came of it. Having goofy spiritual sex, "abstract and incorporal" as he calls it, is just what he's used to. He is also used to working to please his partner to a degree that is far outside the realm of being healthy, due to his romantic partner also being the literal god he worships and receives direct commands from. In Act 3, he'll even frame his desire to pursue godhood as something he needs to do to be worthy of the love Tav shows him.

But on the other hand, "magic guy" is Gale's entire identity. His Act 1 romance scene really shows that. The one thing he wants to share with someone is how happy magic makes him feel, just because it makes him happy. It is certainly something that soaks it's way into everything he does.

Final note, you can just not have uncomfortable celestial sex with Gale. Tav can tell him that she "wants the man, not the illusion". Then you are spared from watching whatever the fuck Gale is into (thank God). I think this choice works better anyway, as when Gale proposes marriage he mentions that he appreciates being loved for "the man that I am, not the magic I command".
 
Hate to double post, but does anyone have any good strategies for completing an Honour Mode run? I put the game down for a few months and all of a sudden suck ass in every direction.

Currently running my Tav as a Vengeance Paladin. Party is Assassin Rogue Astarion, Lore Bard Gale, Battlemaster Fighter Lae'zel.
 
I'm having a a lot of fun doing an evil Durge honour mode with custom companions: Durge vengeance paladin, a sorlock, my usual bleed barbarian, and a swords bard. Ignoring origin companion quests is great because I can do quests at my own pace and not long rest to trigger their cutscenes. But I'm keeping Shart around to kill Nightsong. I decided to use the default dragonborn Durge, and turns out dragonborn isn't that interesting. They only get the a breath thing and nothing else.

Neurotic said:
Hate to double post, but does anyone have any good strategies for completing an Honour Mode run? I put the game down for a few months and all of a sudden suck ass in every direction.

Currently running my Tav as a Vengeance Paladin. Party is Assassin Rogue Astarion, Lore Bard Gale, Battlemaster Fighter Lae'zel.
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- Use your environment to your advantage. Act 1 especially since it gives you a lot of high ground.
- Get to level 5 as soon as possible because that's where it gets easier. There are a lot of videos on how to get to lvl 4 without combat.
- Shovel is a familiar you can get in the blighted village who has an at will invisibility skill, which means she can surprise enemies. But in order to learn her spell you need to be a wizard, sorcerer, or warlock. You can give 1 level of those to any of your characters to get the spell and then respec back to what they were originally. The summoning spell will stay even if you respec.
- use your potions and elixirs. The speed and bloodlust one are really good.
- Gale can wear a shield since he has human versatility
- it's okay to run away if things become to hard. As long as you still have someone in your party left, you can resurrect the rest with Withers.

That's all I can think of right now. What do you find yourself dying to? I usually die to the Inquisitor at the creche.
 
Neurotic said:
Hate to double post, but does anyone have any good strategies for completing an Honour Mode run? I put the game down for a few months and all of a sudden suck ass in every direction.
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soda pimp said:
- Use your environment to your advantage. Act 1 especially since it gives you a lot of high ground.
- Get to level 5 as soon as possible because that's where it gets easier. There are a lot of videos on how to get to lvl 4 without combat.
- Shovel is a familiar you can get in the blighted village who has an at will invisibility skill, which means she can surprise enemies. But in order to learn her spell you need to be a wizard, sorcerer, or warlock. You can give 1 level of those to any of your characters to get the spell and then respec back to what they were originally. The summoning spell will stay even if you respec.
- use your potions and elixirs. The speed and bloodlust one are really good.
- Gale can wear a shield since he has human versatility
- it's okay to run away if things become to hard. As long as you still have someone in your party left, you can resurrect the rest with Withers.
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Great points, some additional ones:
- Abuse the long reset mechanic. There aren't any real penalties for long resting after any and every fight. No reason to go into a boss encounter without all skills/spell slots
- If you are already familiar with the fights and where they are, set up traps or sneak attack. Funneling and dropping AOE's with someone as a lure works great.
- Separate out enemies when possible. A bit cheesy, but for example the Goblin camp, you can easily clear the whole thing in sections rather than big fights.
- If you are collecting everything or using any of the trade glitches, scrolls, especially once you get to level 5 start getting good. Always have them and utilize them. A fireball truly is the answer to almost every question
- Examine the hell out of every enemy. The bosses and the new legendary effects can really get ya if you aren't ready. Almost lost a couple of times because of them. The last boss fight in Act 2 got me real good. Just barely made it through.
- Gear isn't as important in BG3, but you and every companion should be fully geared out every level or so depending on the builds you are using. Any additional benefit you can get is worth it in Honor mode
- If I'm not mistaken, if you save bibberbang guy in the Underdark in Act 1 and get the Noblestalk, in Act three they will sell some Noblestalk every long rest. I believe it heals 100 HP? It's been a minute but it can save you in a pinch. Again, abuse the long rest mechanic.
- I think some classes are inherently better than others. Paladin, Sorcerer are S-tier with most everything else getting close and only a couple that might struggle in Honor mode. If you are running a spore Druid or something you might want to reconsider, but otherwise a reasonable min/maxed class build can get through it.

Like soda pimp said though, if you have a particular area you are struggling with or just some general area's I'm sure we can all help.
 

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Thank you both for the advice. I've completed the game on tactician thrice, but that was a while ago at this point.

Didn't consider leveling up without combat. I really like that plan. My issue isn't wiping out in the same place, but all four failures I KO'd at level four. Twice in the Underdark, once to Githyanki, once to the void spider. One run I just quit because my character rolled two ones in a row when trying to rescue Gale, and I wasn't excited about eventually hitting end game without the free nuke.

Also thanks for the heads up on Shovel. Never knew what use that little lady had.
 
I'm on my 4th playthrough (and am planning what I'm going to do differently on my 5th) and I swear there are a lot of little changes that don't get talked about, and I'm not going to be any help with that because I am too damn lazy to compare/contrast.
Some of the dialogue options seem different.
 
FatalTater said:
I'm on my 4th playthrough (and am planning what I'm going to do differently on my 5th) and I swear there are a lot of little changes that don't get talked about, and I'm not going to be any help with that because I am too damn lazy to compare/contrast.
Some of the dialogue options seem different.
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One I noticed is Halsin's dialogue right after you release him. I thought for sure he said something like (heavily paraphrasing): "There are many things I love in nature, goblins are not one of them." Now, he specifies "goblin guts/viscera are not one of them."

I know what you mean about the little dialogue changes. I haven't come across anything too egregious yet, thankfully.
 
A glitch is happening on my game. I’m on act 2 but if I try to teleport back to act 1 suddenly I’m encumbered and I can only slowly walk. I checked my inventory and it’s magically adding 100 pounds to my inventory so I can’t just drop stuff to walk something is wrong here why is it doing that when I go back to act 1? How do I fix this?
 
Brap God said:
Personally the one thing I was worried with Larian handling the game was them ruining it with their redditor humor
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I was worried about this too, but was remarkably surprised by their restraint. Divinity is painful to play with how shit the writing is, but this was good, and the subject matter of the game remains largely serious throughout.
SIMIΔN said:
This, and worse than "playersexual"/Gay, he's poly, a sexuality only found in dark hives of perversion
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He also came at the expense of a halfling bard werewolf companion.
 
OK, so with the Dragon Age shitshow and the constant "YOU CAN KILL THE FAGGOTS" I got curios and yohohoed BG3. So wanted to get some suggestions. I doubt very much I'll play more than once so wanted to aim for a strong experience. The only similar like game I've played is Kingmaker and kind of stopped once I hit the city building stage. So what race has some of the most fun interactions, specially if I'm aiming to behave like a murder hobo that purges degeneracy. I like dwarfs so was floating that idea though I noticed that racial ability modifiers have gone the way of the dodo (fucking weak) which makes them lose a lot of luster from an optimization standout outside of the duergar.

Class I was thinking a Ranger since it shouldn't be too complicated with managing only a few spells, being ranged and animal companions are neat. Will this give me a more or less solid experience or will I regret it? Same question for difficulty, initial instinct is to just pick balanced but I'm aware in recent years that normal is basically "piss easy" most of the time, but I also don't want to devolve into number crunching for every encounter.

Also, any suggestions for first time playthrough or mods (and basedmods) that could be considered a good shout are more than welcome.
 
ShitLurker said:
OK, so with the Dragon Age shitshow and the constant "YOU CAN KILL THE FAGGOTS" I got curios and yohohoed BG3. So wanted to get some suggestions. I doubt very much I'll play more than once so wanted to aim for a strong experience. The only similar like game I've played is Kingmaker and kind of stopped once I hit the city building stage. So what race has some of the most fun interactions, specially if I'm aiming to behave like a murder hobo that purges degeneracy. I like dwarfs so was floating that idea though I noticed that racial ability modifiers have gone the way of the dodo (fucking weak) which makes them lose a lot of luster from an optimization standout outside of the duergar.

Class I was thinking a Ranger since it shouldn't be too complicated with managing only a few spells, being ranged and animal companions are neat. Will this give me a more or less solid experience or will I regret it? Same question for difficulty, initial instinct is to just pick balanced but I'm aware in recent years that normal is basically "piss easy" most of the time, but I also don't want to devolve into number crunching for every encounter.

Also, any suggestions for first time playthrough or mods (and basedmods) that could be considered a good shout are more than welcome.
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Play dark urge and let your inner murderhobo take over. Be a martial class like fighter, barbarian, Paladin (Paladin may be tricky since you have to keep up your values)
 
Gravityqueen4life said:
Play dark urge and let your inner murderhobo take over. Be a martial class like fighter, barbarian, Paladin (Paladin may be tricky since you have to keep up your values)
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Dark Urge is the scaley thing? Isn't that a fixed origin or am I a dumbass and you can alter everything from the predefined characters if you pick to play as one of them?
 
If you like Dwarves, you can be an evil underdwarf - druegar dark urge. If the coal black or zombie gray skin bothers you, you can tick in enable all skin color options. You'll be a white bearded ball of angry manlet death. Oh, and like drows, a slaver.

Argonian mage is just a preset, you can customise your dark urge. If you do pla, it, don't forget to merk the Choob tranny half demon in act 3.

There was a mod to make custom companions, but if you don't want to, I suggest Astarion, Minthara, Lazael as your buddies, maybe a Shar aligned Shadowheart. You can respec them to other classes.


I should make my Yakub Warlock run, but Space Marine 2 keeps me busy.
 
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Thanks for the suggestions. My heart now is set to be a Duergar and I'll follow the Dark Urge suggestion. As for build, heard about a neat one based on enchanting your weapon and throwing it all over the place and having it come back and sounds fun as all hell and probably not too complicated. Any other suggestions be it for mods or difficulty settings?
 
RandomTwitterGuy said:
I will say that Darkurge has the issue of losing a bit of control, but you can still murder Hobo a lot, even without it.
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Since I've already kind of left in the middle a Kingmaker and a Disco Elyseum playthrough (this second one I honestly think I fucked up by going with a straight shooter that wants to get his shit together) I think I'm fine with losing control as long as it is still amusing and keeps me engaged enough.
 
I was having trouble with my second Dark Urge playthrough since I wasn't going to resist and end up doing good this time, but after watching a few Let's Plays of Dragon Age Veilguard I'm rather enjoying the ability to be a murdery jackass.

My tav, Dumb Bitch, is currently in the Shadow Cursed Lands, and let's just say that Isobel's days are numbered. Last time I was all "noo not the pretty lady!" but now I'm all in.

My next playthrough I will be the nicest person in all of Faerun, I promise. 😇 heh.

...and that mod that lets you be level 20? I love that thing.
 
FatalTater said:
I was having trouble with my second Dark Urge playthrough since I wasn't going to resist and end up doing good this time, but after watching a few Let's Plays of Dragon Age Veilguard I'm rather enjoying the ability to be a murdery jackass.

My tav, Dumb Bitch, is currently in the Shadow Cursed Lands, and let's just say that Isobel's days are numbered. Last time I was all "noo not the pretty lady!" but now I'm all in.

My next playthrough I will be the nicest person in all of Faerun, I promise. 😇 heh.

...and that mod that lets you be level 20? I love that thing.
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That's the fun thing. There are options.
For example, half of my companions are dead in my current game. I am looking forward to another run where they are alive to see what happens with them.
 
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