Baldur's Gate 3

Aria

Rather late in the game, there’s a very well-guarded area in an upstairs location. I aggroed the entire room, looked around, then noped out and headed downstairs again.

They all followed me downstairs, getting opportunity attacked by Lae’zel, Karlach, and my Ranger. With Shadowheart fwapping them with a flail for good measure.

Just a mountain of piled up corpses at the bottom of the stairs.

I love this.

So after having to do a complete campaign wipe and starting from scratch…

I’m still in Act 1. I just wrapped up the goblin camp…

And I think my annoyance at having to redo this entire plotline was showing, because at some point I got it into my head that the characters got in by walking through the front gate so that was how they were walking back out.

An enormous pile of corpses later and I’m now level five before touching the Underdark and have 5,000+ gold from looting pretty much everything that held still long enough for me to stuff it in a sack.

Apparently my Sel-Drow really loves dogs and children and trying to talk her way out of fights, but will straight up just commit war crimes against goblins.

goblin

Cobalt

My tiefling wants to help people! She really don’t wanna be a murderhobo but… Fuck them goblins and fuck them duergar even more.

But she’s happily friends with creepy mushroom people and random ithilids!

Vulgar Boy

Baldur’s Gate, “Hey, wanna play?”
Me, “Hells yeah.”
BG, “I need 132 gigs to stretch out, baby.”
Me, clearing space, downloading.
BG, “Let’s go!”
Me, clicking.
BG, “lmao i need another 100 gigs for a patch you stupid motherfucker”

Pavel

@Vulgar-Boy It’s a 100 gig patch, but on disk the game’s size is only 136ish gigs.

Vulgar Boy

@Pavel Tell that to my Steam deck. Maybe once they apply the patch it totals out to 130g, but the Deck did not want to even try downloading the patch.

I deleted a bunch of Switch roms and put it on my SD card, which ran at around ten thousand degrees during install, but it seems to be good now.

Arkandel

@Vulgar-Boy said in Baldur’s Gate 3:

@Pavel Tell that to my Steam deck. Maybe once they apply the patch it totals out to 130g, but the Deck did not want to even try downloading the patch.

I deleted a bunch of Switch roms and put it on my SD card, which ran at around ten thousand degrees during install, but it seems to be good now.

With the disclaimer I don’t have a Steam Deck, my understanding from reading threads on Reddit is basically the hardware should let previous generation games to run well, but there are no promises for triple-A titles tuned for modern machines.

Most likely the next iteration of the platform will run BG3 great but it will struggle with whatever comes out next. A sacrifice of performance on the altar of mobility.

Vulgar Boy

@Arkandel said in Baldur’s Gate 3:

@Vulgar-Boy said in Baldur’s Gate 3:

@Pavel Tell that to my Steam deck. Maybe once they apply the patch it totals out to 130g, but the Deck did not want to even try downloading the patch.

I deleted a bunch of Switch roms and put it on my SD card, which ran at around ten thousand degrees during install, but it seems to be good now.

With the disclaimer I don’t have a Steam Deck, my understanding from reading threads on Reddit is basically the hardware should let previous generation games to run well, but there are no promises for triple-A titles tuned for modern machines.

Most likely the next iteration of the platform will run BG3 great but it will struggle with whatever comes out next. A sacrifice of performance on the altar of mobility.

I’m not sure what this is a response to, since I never commented on performance. It runs just fine at medium settings, but I had to adjust a couple of things to prevent memory-leak-related-crashing.

somasatori

@Vulgar-Boy said in Baldur’s Gate 3:

which ran at around ten thousand degrees during install

Oohh, that’s positively icy for the Steam Deck. Mine varies in heat between “death valley” and “magma fields” when I’m doing anything.

somasatori

I’m going through as Dark Urge Ranger and decided to actually talk to Gale more than I had to. I ran into this dialogue today.

somasatori

This popped up on Facebook

Cobalt

@Duke-Whisky said in Baldur’s Gate 3:

I need images of your Dream Guardians to do Smash/Pass with others on stream.

To help, here’s mine. They are absolutely perfect

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Duke Whisky

@Cobalt - THANK YOU!

Tez

Look at all these lovely guardians who have never done anything wrong.

TNP

I got the urge to create a druid and I swear it’s quicker than it was. Maybe the patch fixed something to speed things up.

somasatori

I know, I know, humans are boring. Without going into spoilers, I didn’t know very much about the nature of the guardian and gave it the features that most closely matched my RL partner.

Aria

Duke Whisky

@somasatori - THANK YOU!

Aria

I have come to the conclusion that Gale has a massive case of Nice Guy Syndrome and it annoys the shit out of me.

somasatori

@Aria said in Baldur’s Gate 3:

I have come to the conclusion that Gale has a massive case of Nice Guy Syndrome and it annoys the shit out of me.

This is the reason I didn’t talk to him at all on my original playthrough. It was before they turned down the horniness so he’d just offer romantic stuff when I raised his approval, but when I rejected him he got super super passive aggressive.

Aria

@somasatori said in Baldur’s Gate 3:

@Aria said in Baldur’s Gate 3:

I have come to the conclusion that Gale has a massive case of Nice Guy Syndrome and it annoys the shit out of me.

This is the reason I didn’t talk to him at all on my original playthrough. It was before they turned down the horniness so he’d just offer romantic stuff when I raised his approval, but when I rejected him he got super super passive aggressive.

^ So much this. I’m not even romancing him in my current playthrough. All my PC did was try to talk to him at a particular event, where his opening comments are snide remarks about how we could’ve had a magic moment together if we were closer, but he’s not into my MC.

Bro, I did not ask.

Then he goes and makes snide remarks about my romance with another one of the partymembers, followed by saying he’s not judging my choices.

Except he just did.

It’s very disappointing because the videos I’ve seen of his romance scenes, some of which were included in the game trailer, are just visually stunning in every possible way. But he gives me so much ick, and specifically ick in the form of behavior I’ve seen from men that I’ve known in real life…

Hard pass. Next game I’m leaving your ass trapped in a portal, my dude.

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Baldur's Gate 3