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Post by mediocreogre on Apr 4, 2024 3:00:41 GMT
Yeah there’s a point where I kinda don’t like their fussy post game launch development.
It’s nice having neat things like mirrors and tying up rough spots but it gets to a point where they are over cooking the game a bit and it feels kinda like rewrites post launch.
And it is still endlessly frustrating that there’s a pretty clear good-good outcomes evil-bad outcomes when the G/N/E C/L thibg was supposed to make grey more frequent. But modern dnd has kinda been more binary now that it’s made big overstates about removing the alignment system.
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Post by farferello on Apr 4, 2024 4:31:29 GMT
Considering they 'focused on evil companions' for early access because people generally don't play evil, it's still so weird to me that evil is so half baked. I know they're working on evil ending cutscenes now but I'm not sure I fully trust them when it comes to doing it.
Even so, you miss out on so much by going evil and the only thing you really got on the evil path (Minthara) is now available to the good path anyway. There's a few rewards for doing the evil choice like the robe for Wyll, Isobel's outfit, or the Bhaalist armour, (I know there's the Slayer form as DUrge but apparently it sucks anyway) but you generally find just as good equipment so it's not as worth tipping the scales that much to do so. Especially when you consider how much content you miss going evil (quests and rewards from the Tieflings, possibly Jaheira/Minsc, ending the Shadow Curse, etc.)
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Post by farferello on Apr 8, 2024 12:20:02 GMT
Why did no one tell me how cool the defend the grove fight is? I tested it out on my current run because I want to do it on a future run and that was so cool. I set barrels up ahead of time and it took out a good chunk of the goblins as soon as the fight started. Zevlor's speech is so awesome and it just makes it hurt more what happens in act 2 with him. :< But the cutscene with Minthara and the Tieflings, Halsin showing up at the end (lol) I also preferred this version of Halsin doing the glowy hand thing as he realizes you're infected. This does however also cement that I can never do a full evil run. After seeing this, I could never turn on the Tieflings. (Coward Druids would deserve it for hiding like they did though.) I was going to reload because I had planned to do the knock-out Minthara recruitment on this character originally, but I liked how this played out so much I decided to roll with it. ...I kinda want to do it this way on all future runs. I just... need to make sure I kill the spiders first as the last surviving one ignored two companions and my summons to murder Arka. But whelp, knowledge for future runs. Instead of telling Minthara myself, I freed Sazza. I could roleplay it as 'if I free her maybe I can convince them to stand down' naivety. Instead, Sazza tells Minthara where the location is so it is only partly my fault, and Zevlor seemed to take my 'they found out before I could stop them I'm sorry' at face value, so I didn't feel too guilty Rip Arka though, I do feel bad about that but not enough to reload the fight. I did lol that Karlach was just kinda wtf are you doing after I agreed to 'help' Minthara after Sazza told her the location. I was kinda 'just trust me' and she did, with a threat, but that was pretty amusing.
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Post by Scottphoto on Jul 16, 2024 16:20:28 GMT
Patch 7 details, looks like im waiting till september then for these Davrin's boobs  : Patch details on Kotaku: dlvr.it/T9gBf6Highlights on Popular Romance Chars of our forum here: Wyll Highlights Patch 7 includes a heap of fixes for Wyll, ranging from improvements to his dialogue reactivity to fixes for romance scenes. If you’ve experienced issues triggering the romance scene with Wyll, this update will fix that. Should your relationship be headed in that direction, the cutscene in question will now trigger when you speak to Wyll at camp before your Long Rest. A bug that had been preventing his romance greeting from triggering has also been fixed, so players in Act III who have a stable, loving, and committed relationship with Wyll will now see his romance greeting triggering correctly. We’ve fixed Wyll’s dialogue reactivity during the epilogue for partnered players who have either joined Karlach in the Hells or Lae’zel in the rebellion, and we also determined there simply weren’t enough opportunities to kiss Wyll during the epilogue. This update rectifies that with the option to ask for a kiss in more paths of Wyll’s epilogue dialogue. And if you’re in holographic form during the epilogue, he’ll no longer automatically assume he’s talking to Lae’zel, which was weird. Astarion Highlights In Patch 7, we’ve made improvements to the facial animations of your character during some kissing cinematics, including with the ascended Astarion. We’ve also made tweaks to how Origin characters react within certain cutscenes, to enhance their emotional impact. For example, companions will show Astarion more empathy when he loses his ability to withstand sunlight. Gale Highlights With a few tweaks to camera angles and fixes to animation pops, repeated dialogue, and missing VFX, we’ve polished up Gale and his scenes and further refined his donation UI. That panel that opens when donating magical items to Gale? This will now show all items eligible for donation - including those on your person, your party’s inventories, and your Traveller’s Chest. This is part of the work that began with Hotfix #16 to improve the donation UI and update a player’s ability to access certain quest-related items, which has now been completed. We’re reinstating the intended behaviour that was removed in Hotfix #17 as a temporary bug fix to missing UI functionality. So if you now deny Gale a magic item three times in a row with magical items either on your person, your party’s inventories, or now from your Traveller’s Chest, he will leave your party. Alternatively, selecting “I’m not giving you anything. Not now, not ever” will still cause Gale to leave your party forever. We’ve also patched up a bug that was preventing the final dialogue between Gale and Mystra from triggering, as well as a scene in the endgame that would cut off before you could kiss. You can find more on the article for Laezel, Karlach and Shadowheart. Nothing on bear boi. Theres a proper patch notes post by Larian but when I try opening it I keep getting error so thats why I use this instead but this is the link thats suppose to work: larian.club/CU28 |
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Post by Davrin's boobs on Jul 16, 2024 21:44:05 GMT
Man hope all these Wyll's fixes actually mean longer scenes for him, I'm so tired of asking them more content for my sweet husband  Patch 7 details, looks like im waiting till september then for these Davrin's boobs  :  |
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Post by disgustednoise on Jul 17, 2024 1:24:04 GMT
Not a huge deal, but I'm glad you don't have to keep your Gale food on you now.
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Post by Lee on Jul 17, 2024 2:20:46 GMT
My first thought was it's crazy to announce a patch so far in advance, but given how many times they've darn near bricked the game with patches-I appreciate them taking the time to get this one right. I do hope they test it on console as well!
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Post by mediocreogre on Jul 30, 2024 0:12:19 GMT
Seeing BG3’s steam player count and even nexus mods a year later still being so high is kinda crazy and makes me feel hopeful that good things are possible in video games again.
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Post by Scottphoto on Aug 7, 2024 14:28:05 GMT
It is the one year anniversary so Larian has released stats again from players:
Here is specifically the romance one:
Over 1 million players dared to bang the emperor but only 37 percent of does were brave to go for it with tentacles.
When it came to avatars, a lot of players chose Astarion and gael to be their avatar
Ending stats
There’s a few more in the thread but im waiting to see if theres another link for them so i dont clutter up with twitter links here. But figured these were the bigger ones. Sadly not seeing Wyll on any of these. However the kiss chart says Minthara is last place on kisses meaning Wyll is higher than her at least. They should have just posted the full chart though.
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Post by Lee on Aug 8, 2024 3:09:21 GMT
It's really obnoxious that they didn't list the percentages for all the romances- especially annoying cause they make it clear that Astarion is really popular romance wise-then just don't list any of his stats after that.  |
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Post by farferello on Aug 8, 2024 3:44:14 GMT
Yeah it's definitely a bit lame that they mentioned his popularity and then... only focused on the female romances stats. Though I suppose I shouldn't be that surprised at this point. |
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Post by mediocreogre on Aug 8, 2024 5:21:39 GMT
When WOTC lost their minds abd introduced their gross cash grabby new DnD 6e junk, the BG3 characters they flaunted to get people hyped were 1) Astarion abd 2) Karlach . No Shart. I took that as a win even if it was a waking nightmare situation to see WoTC parade the corpses of a beloved franchise for profit.
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Post by disgustednoise on Aug 8, 2024 12:43:34 GMT
Only 141k completed honour modes is crazy because I think like 5 of them are mine.
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Post by Scottphoto on Aug 19, 2024 15:32:01 GMT
Larian teases new cutscene with evil ending coming on the september patch:
I did finally get the game during the playstation summer sale so stay tuned for my thoughts when I do start it haha.
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Post by Lee on Aug 19, 2024 18:28:43 GMT
I hope you enjoy the game Scottphoto! I look forward to your thoughts, and to find out who you romance, etc. |
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Post by Scottphoto on Sept 3, 2024 7:09:37 GMT
Finally, my journey in Baldur's Gate 3 has begun, so my thoughts, my tav and stuff so far in the first 5 hours on the game:  First thing that really surprised me in this game is how fast you get a lot of the companions, it was like back to back, Halsin and Karlach might be later but they are talked in the story right out of the gate too. I also unintentionally got Withers. I went down that hole of that wrecked place thinking it would be just some small cave with loot but instead found myself unprepared for battle but still managed it and woosh, that entire dungeon in there was like speed training me to understand the combat. Thankfully at least in story narrative mode, it's more forgiving, but still a challenge if you fall unprepared as shadowheart perished in the fight lol. I will say though, my biggest worry was my interest on the combat, but so far is good enough than what I expected. I think perhaps having played midnight suns just recently which was also turn based combat probably helped me be used to the type of combat by now too. That said, the one thing gameplay wise that I'm iffy on, is the rolling dice thing, I do find it tad annoying I have to rely on it, but at the same time it keeps things interesting if it doesn't work out. So far it hasn't made me miss something major and some of the stuff I win the roll for end up being a waste of time anyway lol. But yeah gameplay overall feels good so far. The main story plot hasn’t engaged me too much though, mostly because that whole opening with worms, brains, really icky stuff! But I am curious where this mcguffin worm story leads. Companion wise, Shadowheart and Lazael kinda both have a negative energy at the same time which feels odd as both being starting companions. While Shadowheart is nice to you, she pretty much has negative thoughts on everyone so far. This would be fine if trust issues is her character trait, but she literally trusts you a lot within a few minutes of the game she's already all over trusting on you a bit much. I thin Lazael is better done in that regard, that she has more background reason the way she is towards other, even if its a bit overdone at times. Astarion so far doesn't really talk with me much, hasn't said a word in camp. So other than the time he put a knife on my neck, we really haven't engaged much so don't have too much thoughts on him yet. Gale is like the funny lovable guy, he's okay so far and seems the most chatty so far. Wyll is definitely the more attractive one for me so far between the 3, and can't go wrong with a hero of the people. However, I'm not a fan of what comes next for him from what I seen, specially me not liking the demonic look, cuz im baby scared of demon figures XD. But anyway will see how it happens, but my kinda hope is that I can sleep with Halsin but then lock someone else as romance since Halsin isn't committed, is it like possible to start with Halsin up to that point? XD One of the times I wish I was on pc cuz is just one flip of a switch hahaha.  Anyway, my actual real disappointment with the game was the character creator. It is super limited in terms of faces, you can't modify anything at all face wise and theres just very little face options as a whole. I spend about an hour in creation because after I made my characters, I ended up liking my guardian more XD, but then when I tried to make him as the protagonist, I could not get half elf half druid be done, so I gave up on it. But originally wanted to try something a little more different than my usual human. In the end, I ended up switching the hair and facial hair of my guardian to my main char and vice versa and it worked out for the better. I'm happy with my Tav now. I went with a bit of ginger this time and big body type to treat myself of course. My guardian just looks like Cal kestis but blue elf lol:
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Post by Davrin's boobs on Sept 3, 2024 11:40:59 GMT
OMG Noel is in the Wyll train maybe?  it seems they are adding more stuff with the new patch for him so its the best time to be a Wyllmancer, his romance is not as spicy as other romances though, just in case you wanna know. But if you want a fairytale romance, thats your boy! About the demonic form, yeah well, I'm in the opposite, he could be more demonic for me, he just has horns and one eye is red but I understand your human trashiness, is a pity theres no option for those who want him more human (well, there is one but... is evil route) Sadly Halsin romance starts in act 3, you can flirt with him with no penalty and you can even break up with your romance by that time (Gale or Wyll) but you will be forced to choose between them. The only male character that can be poly with Halsin is Astarion. Maaaan what I would have giveeeeen to be poly with Wyll and Halsin haha but the boy is classic disney prince Your character looking hot! A ginger no less, I was expecting a hot bearded dark hair guy  |
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Post by farferello on Sept 3, 2024 15:53:05 GMT
For me, I use a mod to give Wyll the full on Tiefling look at that moment because it seems silly to just give him horns and tweak his eye. But just because he has horns doesn't mean he's demonic, he's still a total sweetheart who definitely has hang-ups on how he looks with the transformation, at least in the beginning. But his romance is still good (if a little... lacking in content. They're finally giving him romanced greetings with the next patch but he'll likely still have limited content compared to the others, sadly.) For Halsin, you can flirt with him, but you'd eventually need to choose between him and Wyll, as Wyll won't share. Also, if you don't want to romance Halsin as end game you will need to commit to a romance prior to him. If you don't commit to another romance option and then turn Halsin down either before or after banging him, you'll be locked out of a romance altogether as there is a shut off point eventually. Also, Halsin does commit to you. He's pretty wishy-washy and his writing is stupid in the main story, but in the epilogue party, it is very clear that the two of you are in a committed relationship and he has zero interest in roaming and seeking out other people by that point. If you don't want to go all of act 1/2/chunk of 3 without romancing anyone, you could have a fling with Astarion, or you could start up a relationship with one of the others but choose Halsin over them if you wanted him instead. Otherwise you're better off picking someone and sticking with them. (You can flirt with others to your hearts content but I always felt bad back when romance bugs were a thing and I had to turn someone down when they thought I was into them when I'd been romancing someone else the entire time.) You can have Wyll without the horns but it does come at a cost.  |
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Post by Scottphoto on Sept 3, 2024 21:15:18 GMT
Why won't the game let me be a slut in peace  XD. Jokes aside, thanks for the tips both! I think I'm just going to continue to get to know everyone and test everyone's initial flirts at least, as ultimately not sure on the chemistry for each just yet, specially Astarion who yet to tell me anything XD. Also yes I don't want to miss spicy content haha so will see. I am probably mostly experimental run since is my first run, and then think over if I run it again next time what major things i want in it. But yeah is a shame not keeping Wyll his normal form as an option, mostly cuz more black chars with good writing and romance is rather rare still. But will see how the story unfolds with him, maybe I'll end up cheering him up on it. After all, I wasn't expecting to romance a water looking alien in ME and rode a bull in DA too. . Davrin's boobs the update apparently drops this week so I may go a little slow on companion progress to wait for it then, get better content for Wyll. Hopefully nothing breaks either.  farferello That's good to hear about Halsin that it has been improved to have something more proper in the epilogue. So I will definitely take him into consideration then. Cuz hes probably my other one I would likely find attractive, but I ain't jumping on any bears XD. I will also likely fool around with Astarion for funsies see how far that goes. I'm just going to pretend that worm in Tav just makes him horny for his male companions  Your character looking hot! A ginger no less, I was expecting a hot bearded dark hair guy Hahahaha thank you, I wanted to try something a little different and I seen some black haired ones online look too similar. So I figured at least a hair color change to spice it up and a bit of more prominent moustache on the facial hair. But Rook is going back to the dark hair tradition most likely XD.
Also PS: I forgot to mention that while the protagonist doesn't talk on cutscenes, I do like they talk during gameplay itself so you always have an idea how they sound like at least.
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Post by farferello on Sept 4, 2024 6:29:25 GMT
Yeah unfortunately with the re-write they completely changed things with Wyll's character (and for me, not for the better. Give me back his super sweet party romance scene from early access damn it) and they also dropped the ball content wise with him. It is very noticeable that he has less romantic content once you've done other romances (I went from an Astarion playthrough on my first character, to a Wyll run on my 2nd and yeaaaah, that was really the worst thing I could have done.) What content he does have is nice, but idk, it feels like he really needed a romantic specific scene between what we get in act 2, and what we get in act 3, just so his act 3 one didn't feel so... sudden. Halsin is just in that super weird spot where he was added as a companion/romance last minute because the fans loved him and the writer just threw all sorts of gross weirdness onto him. (Don't click the link unless you want spoilers.) The poly stuff almost feels fetishy - I get they made it a thing because in lore 'wood elves aren't monogamous' or some bullshit - but also because you can't romance him until act 3 where most people will have already locked in a romance with another companion. I also really hate that the two people with the most triggering pasts were the ones that you can actually have a poly romance with him with. Shadowheart feels very 'writers fetish' with how she and Halsin interact, and Astarion - I only romanced the two of them together on a run where I was doing modded character swaps, but hearing Astarion ask worriedly if you wanted Halsin because the two of you hadn't been intimate for a while was a punch to the gut. It's also not poly in a sense that all three of you are together, it's more they're both with you and absolutely ignore each other until you force Astarion into the most incredibly uncomfortable brothel scene I have ever witnessed. Like, the game will always consider Astarion, or Shadowheart your main romance if you're poly with him - his romance to me, feels so much better if you do it as just romancing him because he does react somewhat differently.
That said, Halsin can be sweet but you do have to wait for the epilogue party for his romance to truly shine and move past some of the grossness factor. It'll be fun to see your thoughts and reactions to thing that are ahead of you.  |
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it seems they are adding more stuff with the new patch for him so its the best time to be a Wyllmancer, his romance is not as spicy as other romances though, just in case you wanna know. But if you want a fairytale romance, thats your boy! 
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