Baldur's Gate 3 Playthrough Discussion

[Zed Clampet]

@Zed Clampet - eh? You don't need a relic to defeat the general.

Spoiler: I guess maybe a spoiler about the relic

We just finished it, and I would definitely say that you do, in fact, really want the relic.

 

[Zloth]

We just finished it, and I would definitely say that you do, in fact, need the relic.

Are we talking about the same boss? Is this Act 1 or 2?

 

[Zed Clampet]

Are we talking about the same boss? Is this Act 1 or 2?

Spoiler: the relic

Act 2. I mean, I guess technically you don't need "it", but she helps you kill the general and joins your camp

 

[Frindis]

@Zloth I believe congratulations are in order. Well fought!

 

[Zed Clampet]

By the way, the fight I said we couldn't win we won the next try. We snuck past them and started the fight on the other side and took out the monster as quickly as possible, and it all went smoothly from there.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

So, I'm dibbling my way through Act 1 little bit at a time and it seems its going to stick for a while.

Is the game still weirdly janky for anyone else?

I've had Astarion unable to jump a gap for no reason which wasnt a problem after reloading the save, and also had him walking in the air and through walls for some time around the Toll house until he decided to hit a stack of boxes and remember where the ground was. Also items on the ground sometimes dont react and the contextual tool tips sometimes just dont work on items in the menu. Its only small things but I was expecting the game to be less buggy than when I played it at release, not the same or more.

Otherwise just hit level 4. Maybe regretting choosing Storm Sorcery as a subclass for my sorcerer Durge after checking out a class guide and seeing the bonuses for the Draconic and Shadow options. Flying away without provoking opportunity attacks might be useful but I'd much rather summon a hell beast or have the extra AC and HP.

Apart from that mainly been using Wyl The Fiend, Astarion as an Assassin and Karlach as a Berserker. Considerign changing up Astarion to a Swashbuckler as the abilities look more interesting. Dont think Im quite ready for Ethel or the Gobbo camp yet, so exploring all corners and gearing up, hopefully Gale doesnt eat too much of it before I manage to progress.

 

[Zloth]

Wow, I don't think I've seen anyone floating around off the ground!

Spoiler: the relic

Act 2. I mean, I guess technically you don't need "it", but she helps you kill the general and joins your camp

Spoiler

Oh! You mean HER! Jeesh, don't let her hear you call her a relic. I thought you meant the glowy mace from the end of Act1, or maybe Shadowheart's D12.

I'm still not quite to Act 3. Seems there's a little interlude between the two acts. I decided to get Lae'zel's levels updated and use her to clean up some things in the Shadow Lands. I also did a respec on Shadowheart, switching her to a war priest. It's how I've been playing her, might as well make it official. It will let her use heavy armor, too.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Wow, I don't think I've seen anyone floating around off the ground!

Spoiler

Oh! You mean HER! Jeesh, don't let her hear you call her a relic. I thought you meant the glowy mace from the end of Act1, or maybe Shadowheart's D12.

Spoiler: relic info

Hey, it wasn't my idea to call her "relic". That's what the baddies call her to leave the impression she's a magical item as they siphon off her essence to make the General immortal.

For us, the fight to end act 2 was a bit anticlimactic. The whole sequence of "events" was fun, but we were never in any real danger. We probably need to raise the difficulty for the last act. I think we're on Normal.

Of course, once you watch Guido and Gayle get it on at sex camp, everything else seems kind of...anticlimactic

 

[Zloth]

Spoiler: Interlude between Act 2 & 3

OK, so I meet my Dream Visitor and she's... taller than I expected. And bald. And kinda mind flayery. I join her in her fight, but then I see who's at stake and immediately decide I want to fight against her, plus I want to bring Lae'Zel, so I finish the fight and make silly choices just to see what happens. The narrator flat out tells me that, if I had freed the trapped guy, he would have killed me.

Pthtthth, stupid narrator. I re-load and go again. Die Dream Visitor! I don't even live long enough to be killed by the trapped guy. As soon as the mind flayer goes down, a cutscene plays and the whole party is changed into mind flayers. A Game Over pops up, and I go to the main menu.

But, just briefly, the game engine shows up again and quickly fades out. Thanks to the Steam recording thing, I managed to get a shot of it as it faded:

https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/17731591274998939783/2E6201CEE67997DA7319C0A37943F93E6F486500/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

(I don't want to put it into the forum screenshots because of spoilers.)

You can see on the right that everyone received condition "Mind Flayer Form." The portraits all changed and a bunch of new powers showed up. Zloth still has his "hunter's mark" concentration going, though! The whole party has been teleported to a new place, probably in the Elder Brain.

 

[Pifanjr]

Is the game still weirdly janky for anyone else?

Not at all. The only problem I've had is in trying to see what's happening above a character. Even when zoomed all the way out the game typically doesn't let you see the level above you, which can be a pain as the game does feature quite a lot of verticality. It means that I can jump into a building through a hole in the roof, but jumping out again is almost impossible.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

Wow, I don't think I've seen anyone floating around off the ground!

Not at all. The only problem I've had is in trying to see what's happening above a character. Even when zoomed all the way out the game typically doesn't let you see the level above you, which can be a pain as the game does feature quite a lot of verticality. It means that I can jump into a building through a hole in the roof, but jumping out again is almost impossible.

It wasnt this bad the first time. I have some different parts in the system to then so could be related to that, but havent had any problems in anything else. At a guess seems like weird either engine or CPU/RAM stuff to me, some calculations under the hood going slightly wrong. Dunno.

Maybe Ive just had bad luck, its nothing game breaking anyway.

 

[Zed Clampet]

I didn't even know you coul respec your characters because I've never talked to Withers at camp. Now I'm pretty excited to respec Shadowheart and Karlach. I wont respec my monk because I only have a small amount of XP needed to get to level 9, and he gets some high damage attacks

Is the game still weirdly janky for anyone else?

After everything people have said about it, I was expecting the game to be near flawless. It definitely isn't that for me. At this point I would classify the game as "buggy". Just had a lot of things go wrong, including things that could have dramatically changed the game, like not getting the option to invite an NPC to join up. That happened to us the other day after the Act 2 finale. Guido just walked off, and I thought 'that didn't seem right' because the conversation seemed to be cut off early, so I talked to the person again and got the option. Same day I also flunked one of the trials because it said I missed a jump when I definitely didn't; later I attacked my own character after having selected a Greater Zombie; and I couldn't use the machine that lets you converse with brains.