Baldur's Gate 3

Aria

@TNP said in Baldur’s Gate 3:

I really want to like this game. And I was but my computer is old and grinding to a halt every time the screen changes suck the fun out of it

Yeah, even with my relatively new-ish computer, I don’t think it could handle this game.

I wasn’t having any real issues with it for the first while. My laptop – which has a solid processor but a graphics card comparable to some of the lower end NVIDIA models – was running a little hot, but otherwise fine.

Then they released, rolled back, and rereleased Hotfix #4. The game crashes 3/4 times I start it up, even after doing a complete reinstall. It is driving me batshit crazy.

@Tez said in Baldur’s Gate 3:

I just hit Act III last night, and some of the nuance and branching character conversations just fucking leave me sitting there surprised as HELL that they took the time to flesh things out this deeply down the tree in such different ways.

Also, I really want to talk to someone about some of my opinions on Astarion’s storyline, but I can’t do it without spoiling it for people. (I’m at the tail end of Act 1 still but spoilered myself with some tutorial videos, then got sucked in because I needed to know.)

Rinel

@Meg said in Baldur’s Gate 3:

also hot take, but playing this game with friends is kind of butt. much funner as a solo game. idk who sold this as a multiplayer game but it’s just not-- fun that way.

Hugely depends on your friends, and even with great ones it’s a totally different game. Being unable to hang out with your companions in your party means you really just have to totally ignore them, which is a bummer for folks who are really invested in those storylines.

That said

There is a lot of stupid, ten-year-old joy to be had in yeeting yourself and your idiot friends around Faerun and getting into push-fights with each other on top of cliffs

crawfish

I love this game so much and have been romancing everyone because I’m a hedonistic slut that runs on optimism but Karlach is my everything. And I just had the GAYEST MOMENT of my life in a video game and [I cannot make spoilers work] and I have not laughed that hard because it was so fucking real.

Anyway I love this game. So so sooo much.

Solstice

@crawfish

Karlach is the absolute bestest most dorkiest character in the game and she sustains me.

Aria

Karlach is seriously my favorite companion, but it took so long for me to find her in game that I’d already picked my romance out for this run.

Testament

I now have four different characters. I have yet to leave Act 1. I’m okay with that.

I pointedly made a Githyanki to hit on Shadowheart because she hates Githyanki.

crawfish

@Aria This happened to me, finding her late, but I hadn’t made up my mind. The Gale Romance bug almost did me in but I hung in there and while it made the romance with Karlach feel rushed, I still like it enough to stick with it.

I’ve got a Sel-Drow that’s a Dragonic Storm Mage and I’m keeping her for Astarion, I think.

I’ve got a Halfling Spore Druid named Tarvia @Tez and man she pisses everyone off just by existing. I don’t know who I’m gonna romance other than try my best with Everyone I Can In The Game so we’ll see how that run is gonna go.

Like really I have seven more runs planned already and they’re all gonna be different I don’t know I’m just having a good time.

Tez

@crawfish said in Baldur’s Gate 3:

I’ve got a Halfling Spore Druid named Tarvia @Tez and man she pisses everyone off just by existing. I don’t know who I’m gonna romance other than try my best with Everyone I Can In The Game so we’ll see how that run is gonna go.

I got some great spore druid armor the other day and thought of you.

Aria

@crawfish said in Baldur’s Gate 3:

I’ve got a Sel-Drow that’s a Dragonic Storm Mage and I’m keeping her for Astarion, I think.

Ha! I was also playing a Sel-Drow in one of the campaigns I just totally wiped in an attempt to clear the terrible bugs I was having and she was the one romancing Astarion.

I think they made sense in my head because I was like, “Yes, yes. Two characters who belong to a race that most despise and react to with horror, but who aren’t like those other Drow/vampires. They will be terribly mistrustful and snarky with each other right up until they start relating hard and then the starts. Yessssssss, this will be delightful.”

Sadly I lost 45 hours of play, still didn’t work, probably trading in this laptop because FML. I was almost finished Act 1. I’m planning on recreating the run as best I can so I can finish out those plotlines. Need my ridiculous vampire elf romance back.

smooch

Duke Whisky

Astarion with the Glove of Thievery, Happy and Silver Pendant (Guidance Cantrip) feels so mean against traps and locks.

+9-12 on a roll with Advantage. Those poor chests stand no chance against Vampdaddy.

Aria

@Duke-Whisky said in Baldur’s Gate 3:

Astarion with the Glove of Thievery, Happy and Silver Pendant (Guidance Cantrip) feels so mean against traps and locks.

+9-12 on a roll with Advantage. Those poor chests stand no chance against Vampdaddy.

There are a few traps I’ve run into with a difficulty of 30, but otherwise… yes.

pick locks

Duke Whisky

@Aria said in Baldur’s Gate 3:

@Duke-Whisky said in Baldur’s Gate 3:

Astarion with the Glove of Thievery, Happy and Silver Pendant (Guidance Cantrip) feels so mean against traps and locks.

+9-12 on a roll with Advantage. Those poor chests stand no chance against Vampdaddy.

There are a few traps I’ve run into with a difficulty of 30, but otherwise… yes.

Omg literally the first ones that could be a challenge

Getting the Monk engine to work has been satisfying.

Testament

@Duke-Whisky There some traps that are also difficulty 30.

First time a challenge rating made me sweat.

Duke Whisky

@Testament - Yeah those sounds like the first ones that might be challenging, else Asterion does make exploring a little easy mode when given some specialist gear.

crawfish

Convinced my bioDad to buy the game and this man goes to bed at 9:30 pm only calls me on the weekends and he calls me

on this past Monday

at 9:38 pm

leaves a voicemail saying ‘I have questions about Baldur’s Gate’.

So I call him the next morning:

“I CAN’T JUSTIFY KILLING PALADINS FOR A CHATTY TALL ONE-HORNED DEMON CHICK THAT’S ON FIRE.”

Well that’s fine, Dad, more for me. And also you’re missing out.

He’s having a hard time with figuring out what the ‘right’ answers are for his character and I told him he has to let go of that. It’s not supposed to be obvious, buddy.

He’s enjoying himself. It’s a deep, story-driven, complicated game and I love how wildly varying so many of the playthrough stories appear to be.

somasatori

@crawfish said in Baldur’s Gate 3:

“I CAN’T JUSTIFY KILLING PALADINS FOR A CHATTY TALL ONE-HORNED DEMON CHICK THAT’S ON FIRE.”

Shadowheart and I shared a similar reaction to Karlach

crawfish

@somasatori I DID NOT HAVE HER IN MY PARTY AT THE TIME RRRGHHHH. Astarion talking about how she can break him in half made me laugh so hard.

Aria

Look, there is a reason I call her Mommy Karlach even though it’s not like that.

(ETA: On this playthrough. >.>)

Pavel

@crawfish said in Baldur’s Gate 3:

“I CAN’T JUSTIFY KILLING PALADINS FOR A CHATTY TALL ONE-HORNED DEMON CHICK THAT’S ON FIRE.”

It may be helpful to remind him that Paladins in 5e aren’t good, they’re idealogues.

Testament

@Pavel He hasn’t met Minathara yet, clearly.