Baldur's Gate III (PC/Mac/PS5/XSX) - Larian Studios (100% CONFIRMED)

[Andalusian girls]

Pathfinder games seem to have a problem with stat bloat. I'm not an expert on the genre but AC on some stuff even on an unadjusted difficulty seemed too inflated.

The Kingdom management was better integrated into the adventuring though, getting stuff adventuring to build up the kingdom and it makes you better at adventuring. WotR just has like relics and other then that they're completely orthogonal systems.

the Owlcat Pathfinder games have ungodly stat and stacking bloat and the main problem with them is on core gameplay and above it becomes mathfinder with builds + buffs becoming more important than tactics. sometimes i still wake up in a cold sweat remembering optimal buff orders.

[Zetanio]

Pathfinder doesn’t have bounded accuracy like 5e so stats were wild.

[Botosi]

Done with the arcane tower, the adamantine forge, freed all those gnomes, got rid of the duergar, believe I've done everything the myconids wanted. Quit for the night because I save scummed a roll with that Mindflayer and I'll pick it up again 'pon the morrow. Gotta go use that old forge with the Sussar bark and also see if there's any chance of getting the owlbear cub still.

I'm using Karlach, Shadowheart, and Astarion with my Paladin pretty much full time and am feeling bad when I run across stuff that my other companions would clearly be interested in but like, they should be better.

I dont know what I did, but the duergar's literally just disappeared on me one day? I closed out for the night, booted up the next morning, and the entire arcane tower was vacant?

[Zealot]

For me as soon as I killed the Drow they all started milling about and left the next day.

Sent from my SM-N981U using Tapatalk

[Krandor]

https://twitter.com/LarAtLarian/stat...894946925?s=20

No split screen co-op for the Series S version, which was the big hold up they couldn't figure out

[Zealot]

Ok, FINALLY done with the Underdark and moved on to the Mountain Pass. Got the owlbear cub, forged the ice staff, have NO idea where I put the broken spear shaft so I guess I missed out on that, but I'm now like 100% sure I did everything I could possibly do before this so I can tackle these gith quests and move on to Act 2.

[Meresgi]

I dont know what I did, but the duergar's literally just disappeared on me one day? I closed out for the night, booted up the next morning, and the entire arcane tower was vacant?

If you're talking about the Underdark stuff, if you camp while you are still needing to rescue the trapped Drow, then he dies and they all just take off because they don't want to be there anymore. I did this and then stumbled upon his body and was first time I realized that a long rest would actually progress certain things.

Also did Astarion's Act 3 shit without him, came back and told him and he was like "....you did what?!" was fucking hilarious.

have NO idea where I put the broken spear shaft

Shaft is on dude outside Owlbear cave, spear tip is on the owlbear itself.

[Zealot]

I know, I picked it up earlier and then left it somewhere when I couldn't figure out what it was for.

[Qalbert]

https://twitter.com/LarAtLarian/stat...37127978783157

Hooray

[Krandor]

First big patch is out, was like 2 GBs. Patch 2 is "right around the corner" and will include performance improvements

Spoilers abound in the patch notes

https://baldursgate3.game/news/patch-1-now-live_87

[Prothescar]

Fixed the Freecast tadpole power to properly reset on Long Rest. It was creating infinite spell slots and Sorcery Points for sorcerers.

It was fun while it lasted!

[Zealot]

Seems like no matter what choice I make here I have to go inside this artifact.

[Uzor]

I tried telling the Queen to do it herself, she ended up wishing me dead haha

[Krandor]

And finished

Light ending spoiler

Spoiler: show

Yeah the ending is a big wet fart, especially from having Karlach as my main character.

[Zealot]

Man that is a LOT of dead githyanki

Granted I murdered them

But still

Also with that I think I'm FINALLY out of things to do with Act 1 after like 60+ hours, headed to Moonrise Tower.

Sent from my SM-N981U using Tapatalk

[Cantih]

Man that is a LOT of dead githyanki

Granted I murdered them

But still

[Celeras]

Wyll question A1/A2

Spoiler: show

I had one singular camp conversation with Wyll about the Duke being his father. When this happened it seemed like it was supposed to be a revelation, but I had no idea who/what he was talking about. The quest log updated with shit about the Duke, people burning in Wauleen's Rest (never been there) and how I failed to save anyone from the flames (which I guess is technically true, but what?). Everything since implies I was supposed to be looking for this guy, right up to the point I saw him captured and tadpoled. But that was the first actual interaction.

Obviously the game is fucking up its continuity here but not sure why. I ignored everything has Lae'zel has said (didn't look for Creche in A1 and went to Underdark instead) because fuck'em... is that the direction all this went down?

Had my fair share of continuity bugs, and while they've been immersion breaking its always been comprehensible. Thats the only one that has been scratching my head in confusion.

[Karbuncle]

Wyll question A1/A2

Spoiler: show

I had one singular camp conversation with Wyll about the Duke being his father. When this happened it seemed like it was supposed to be a revelation, but I had no idea who/what he was talking about. The quest log updated with shit about the Duke, people burning in Wauleen's Rest (never been there) and how I failed to save anyone from the flames (which I guess is technically true, but what?). Everything since implies I was supposed to be looking for this guy, right up to the point I saw him captured and tadpoled. But that was the first actual interaction.

Obviously the game is fucking up its continuity here but not sure why. I ignored everything has Lae'zel has said (didn't look for Creche in A1 and went to Underdark instead) because fuck'em... is that the direction all this went down?

Had my fair share of continuity bugs, and while they've been immersion breaking its always been comprehensible. Thats the only one that has been scratching my head in confusion.

Spoiler: show

That story more or less completes itself until Chapter 3, you'll find word he gets "moved" once or twice in Chapter 2 and eventually you'll catch up to him in Chapter 3. Basically, if you had went to the burning building you'd have learned the Duke was taken to X and when you went there you find out he's been taken to X and so on.

But you never meet the Duke until then, and the revelation is more or less Wyll is the son of the Duke of Baldur's Gate, what you did wasn't really a sequence break more so than it was Wyll exploring his back story. Even if you had gone to the building you'd have no context/not have met the Duke yet. You don't actually see/meet him until Act 3... if you're lucky, and I won't explain that spoiler

[Tyrath]

Wyll question A1/A2

Spoiler: show

I had one singular camp conversation with Wyll about the Duke being his father. When this happened it seemed like it was supposed to be a revelation, but I had no idea who/what he was talking about. The quest log updated with shit about the Duke, people burning in Wauleen's Rest (never been there) and how I failed to save anyone from the flames (which I guess is technically true, but what?). Everything since implies I was supposed to be looking for this guy, right up to the point I saw him captured and tadpoled. But that was the first actual interaction.

Obviously the game is fucking up its continuity here but not sure why. I ignored everything has Lae'zel has said (didn't look for Creche in A1 and went to Underdark instead) because fuck'em... is that the direction all this went down?

Had my fair share of continuity bugs, and while they've been immersion breaking its always been comprehensible. Thats the only one that has been scratching my head in confusion.

I think Waukeen's Rest was supposed to trigger all that. Similar thing happened in my game because the area was glitched for me and everyone was dead in the fire before i could ever rescue them. This does give me the idea to go cast Speak with Dead on the person there though..

Edit: Nvm the corpse is too damaged

[Zealot]

Finally started Act 2, had to restart from my first save shortly after because rather than just follow the Harpers right away I decided a smart thing to do would be wander a shadow-blighted wasteland with no protection from eldritch horrors within.