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Post by disgustednoise on Jan 4, 2024 1:46:59 GMT
My canon Tav.
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Post by Lee on Jan 4, 2024 3:23:35 GMT
daveliam1 Glad you are enjoying the game so much! I haven't played an evil character yet since most of the evil choices are pretty serious sounding. I look forward to hearing about your experience since I'm too soft. lol! Also, you have some really great looking Tav's, and don't be afraid to make a good Dark Urge if you want. That character is very satisfying on a redemption route-probably good on evil but still you only hear about the latter from the innerwebs! Also, Hot Tav, Disgustednoise!
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Post by farferello on Jan 4, 2024 5:15:11 GMT
It's always fun to see everyone's characters and how they're playing the game. I've not played for a few months as I've been playing another game but I will come back to it eventually, I need another Galemance to see the epilogue (probably two so I can also see the God epilogue. I don't usually like to play evil myself, closest I will get is my next DUrge who will be resisting until Chapter 3, meet a certain someone, remember a few things, and then will play out the rest of chapter 3 fully murder hobo. Mostly because curiosity of me wanting to see how things change with the murder tribunal and Orin scene. I will probably have to metagame who gets kidnapped though just because he would totally taunt Orin into killing them.
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Post by Davrin's boobs on Jan 4, 2024 14:49:24 GMT
man its so amazing how many characters you created and plaaay, I have 153 steam hours and I barely touched act 2 and now I'm doing all again haha (I got fired last week so I'm gonna have plenty of time now, focus in the positive I guess? ) My main goal now is getting everyone to Exceptional (81 – 100), I think getting everyone to 100 whilst not breaking a goody two-shoes roleplay is nearly impossible and a headache so I'm gonna settle for that as I did with DAI (Friendly: 75 to 125), I think Astarion and Minthara (if I manage to recruit her with patch 5 workaround) are going to be my new Viviennes
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Post by disgustednoise on Jan 4, 2024 16:15:48 GMT
It's easy to get high approval with Astarion while being a boy scout as long as you're super supportive of him as a person, but 100 would probably be hard. He does love to throw out little disapproves all the time lol.
Haven't played with Minthara enough to know how hard she is to get approval from. My Durge/Astarion romance that was bringing her everywhere fizzled out early Act 3 like often happens to me and I think I'm just gonna restart it from scratch once I finish the Honor mode run I'm doing.
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Post by disgustednoise on Jan 5, 2024 17:40:13 GMT
I'm kind of obsessed with the Barbarian I've been using in my honor run. The CC is crazy and by lvl 10 you knock people down and they just never get back up.
Barbarian Wildheart Tiger -> Tiger -> Wolverine Great Weapon Master feat Moonlight Glaive Holy Lance Helm Thunderskin Cloak Luminous Armor Gloves of Belligerent Skies Boots of Stormy Clamour Ring of Spiteful Thunder Callous Glow Ring Surgeon's Subjugation Amulet
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Post by Davrin's boobs on Jan 10, 2024 20:33:56 GMT
I played a looot recently, like 20 hours and I'm finally in the underdark, I think I did everything possible in the first map, I even have Sazza and Minthara alive, hope I can see them in act 2 but I read its so buggy I'm scared lol Metagaming is coming nicely for companions' approval (not so much about pacing but what its a perfect pacing in rpgs anyways I had to spam a lot of long rests before the party sighhh). Wyll and Gale are already at 100, Shadowheart 60 something, Karlach almost 50 (I got her late, kinda regretted it but oh well, she is a good girl so is easy to get approval), Lae is 40 something I think, maybe a bit less but I'm not too worried since first run I got her at 100 after the creche aaaand my beloved twunk vampire is at 70 something, ofc I had to fuck him and told him it was just fun and that Wyll was more my type lol I guess this is a revenge for rejecting the same character in my past run also I flirted with Gale and I'm going to break his heart again, its so sad but I need some gay drama, cause I know that in Dreadwolf I will be lucky if I like one of the two mlm options lol love me slutty free-spirited characters! The three gurls wanted to bang me too though, dunno how that happened lol PS. ofc I flirted with Halsin I really hope I can finish act 1 soon since I know how it works now, I need to get to act 2 and recruit Minthara without bugs and having my gaming soul at peace lol and I neeeeed to see the dance scene again with Wyll edit. oh I'm happy I'm seeing new things this time and even saving some npcs that I didnt know you could save! I did it. man, congrats on doing that!, like I'm barely good in normal mode haha
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Post by Davrin's boobs on Jan 15, 2024 17:32:23 GMT
I finished act 1 already in the most perfect way I could but I'm gonna have to put on ice my playthrough cause Mol and Raphael chess scene is bugged and not triggering with new saves post patch 5 siiiiigh. I'm gonna wait till patch 6 and if its not fixed by then I will continue the game, I read some people saying it was removed because the creepy apple line he says but the scene is still there for saves pre-patch 5, so its a bug, I looove that scene, I dont want to miss it with my canon character On the bright side, did a speedrun and tested Minthara and she is fine in the camp, not mute bugs like I read in the internet, also tested Wyll's dance after having casual sex with Astarion and its fine too. And approval is coming along nicely roleplaying as good "rogue-ish" warlock (Line Inverse would be so proud of me) Wyll: 100 Lae'zel: 100 Gale: 100 Astarion: 94 (sex and getting bitten was worth it ) Karlach: 87 (97 after saving Isobel) Shadowheart: 77 I will only have to worry about Minthara since Halsin, Jaheira and Minsc will approve pretty much everything I will do I guess. Both of them sharing the tent cracks me up lol I must say that the little I saw about Minthara is really good, evil vs evil is so fucking cool, how she is so pissed at the Absolute But maaan, these bugs are so annoying...
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Post by Lee on Jan 16, 2024 3:16:10 GMT
I think this is the first month without a numbered patch? It's odd to see it happen so soon, but then again the game is probably in its most stable state yet...mostly. Yeah I didn't get the chess scene on my last run. I hope they add it back/fix it.
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Post by farferello on Jan 16, 2024 4:19:40 GMT
I don't get why they removed it if it was removed on purpose and not just bugged. Yeah I get that his dialogue with Mol is kinda creepy but I mean, he is a Devil. Besides, you used to be able to ignore that scene, do the thing with Isobel, and then talk to Raphael after the fight as he has a different conversation if you talk to him post fight instead (I was testing things. XD) So yeah, either way whether it's a bug or done on purpose they need to do something so you can still talk to him there to get the convo about Astarion's scars and the following quest so you can learn more about them. Otherwise not being able to learn about them completely cuts you off from the better confession romance scene with Astarion.
Does the bug happen only if you had a save in the middle of the patch 5? release or does it happen no matter what even with a new game started post patch is my question. Hm.
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Post by Lee on Jan 16, 2024 6:53:06 GMT
farferello the glitch doesn't stop you from talking to Ralph about Astarion's scars thankfully. It's just Mol never sits down to play chess so you can't talk to her about her deal (or help her win chess). It's a shame as their's a good bit of companion lines there too. But at least you can still do Astarion's stuff! Also yeah, it's any save created after patch 5 sadly. Oh, and I managed to find Mol's contract in the house of hope still- so I guess you can still get her as an ally (I forgot to go talk to her though so I can't confirm it personally)
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Post by mediocreogre on Jan 17, 2024 7:33:36 GMT
I finally had time after the holidays but then weather ( a fruckin blizzard after blizzard) made it hard. But i finally cleaned out out my mods (besides visuals) to play honour mode.
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Post by farferello on Jan 18, 2024 5:54:59 GMT
farferello the glitch doesn't stop you from talking to Ralph about Astarion's scars thankfully. It's just Mol never sits down to play chess so you can't talk to her about her deal (or help her win chess). It's a shame as their's a good bit of companion lines there too. But at least you can still do Astarion's stuff! Also yeah, it's any save created after patch 5 sadly. Oh, and I managed to find Mol's contract in the house of hope still- so I guess you can still get her as an ally (I forgot to go talk to her though so I can't confirm it personally) Ohhh I see. Well that's good that it doesn't fuck over the Ast quest at least. Still silly they cut it out. If you dislike his talk about peaches or apples (or whatever it was) you can just skip the chess convo and talk to him instead after you've spoken to Isobel. I wonder if they will replace the chess scene with different dialogue or leave it cut entirely. Leaving it cut would be weird considering it would mean no lead up to later finding Mol's contract in the HoH. Would be a bit random.
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Post by mediocreogre on Jan 19, 2024 13:50:43 GMT
I forgot how Done dirty Zariel is lol. I kinda blocked it out of my mind but it’s real weird when you know the Nightsong is just a celestial (I think, in game they say aasimar but that’s like saying Karlach must be the child of Asmodeus because she is a tiefling, or rather she must be the child of Shar cause tieflings are “evil”, ie nonesense). Zariel was a celestial, a very powerful one (not affiliated with any god other than celestial lords). She is basically Anders from DA in that her sense of justice became so consuming she eventually became a lord of hell (after she was abandoned by her holy army and left for dead, demons warping her body with demonic essence), but in descent into Avernus, she’s not a liar or manipulator like they present her in the game. She just now understands vengeance. So, it is weird how dirty they do Celestials lol.
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Post by mediocreogre on Jan 27, 2024 14:17:30 GMT
I finished Honour Mode. It was also my first full DUrge run. I can say, that’s how the game should be played. I love save scumming, and I know the temptation. But it’s a better reflection of TT to not and I think that experience is a part of the power of DnD, which is to encourage problem solving, adaptability, and emotional strength. But committing to the difficulty and combat perms death is not for everyone. So I wish there was more customization options in custom mode. Speaking of that, for me it was still a bit easy combat wise. And it is generally easier than TT DnD. This is because there are so many items, hidden passives, and summons and scrolls and shove is op. The closest I came to death is when I was on the phone and almost got exploded off a ledge in the Underdark. But once you get gear, stack passives, optimize characters, and buy some scrolls you can wreck everything. The only legendary action that was truly legendary was The phase spider and her silk legendary
Sarevok was also scary One thought on what should have been added is fumbles. In most TT I play we not only fight bosses with legendary actions but also if I roll a 1 on an attack and don’t have luck, I fumble and will suffer a consequence (damage, statuses, etc) and they probably should have and could have added that in. Also, I was hoping in tandem with legendary actions they could have added lair actions (environmental turn). The final fight in the game already has lair actions. The nautiloid in the beginning technically. But there should be more. Anyways. It was much closer to what I like though and I now maintain DUrge should have been cannon Tav. As much as I love the choice to not and make fully your own character, I feel like focusing on DUrge could have been better to shore up some rough edges and I think they should have Had Tav still been a Bhaalspawn so they could have added a bit more oomph in act 3, and just made it so Tav was less homicidal than DUrge and was not part of the temple but more like Gorion’s ward and unaware. So DUrge/Tav could have been a choice between a very dark Bhaalspawn or a more bg1 Bhaalspawn. Anyways. I love this game though. Can fully say it’s in my top games.
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Post by Scottphoto on Feb 9, 2024 15:55:06 GMT
The kissing patch is coming
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Post by farferello on Feb 9, 2024 19:20:28 GMT
Yay for a kissing patch but I think I'm gonna hold off on starting new runs for a while just so I don't have to keep waiting for broken mods to be fixed. I'm happy they're still doing patches and fixing stuff though. My next DUrge run, Ast replay, and Gale run can wait for a bit longer I think and I do want to replay my Halsin run at some point. At least I will have lots still to replay when I get back to it and improvements to look forward to.
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Post by disgustednoise on Feb 10, 2024 16:32:08 GMT
I'm ready to finally get some good Gale kisses.
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Post by mediocreogre on Feb 11, 2024 1:28:04 GMT
Damn. I just whirlwind added mods back after I got my gold dice (that I will not use lol).
But I’ve been experimenting with a Gale tank build. So now I might actually do his first romance run fully.
If you keep his AC low and go 1 sorc (dragon, white for armor of Agathys) and the rest abjuration wizard (or mostly, you can also take either tempest cleric or swords bard), then you can basically make armor of agathys stay on, killing people, and draw attention cause he’s technically wet tissue to their ai target choice system. Yet, I found it you get too high abjuration shield then enemies refuse to attack so it’s a balance cause you want that damage reduction to keep agathys from going away. You can also get a bunch of frost combo gear too. Wet plus cold for the shatter combo. It doesn’t seem to work to already have them chilled and then moisten them
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