It just doesn’t stop.
but where’s bing bong and unhinged narrator mode
Spoiler for the epilogue:
Epilogue
Shadowheart mentions (at least on Selûne path, when you romanced her) befriending a peculiar Imp named Bing Bong after your adventures in Baldur’s Gate. So I guess in this universe Bing Bong is alive and well in Faerûn.
yess! i just saw it on sugarmellie’s tiktok and now i can’t wait to see
bg3 spoilers
aliona’s reaction when she and jen get to that part in bg3 :3
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I’m especially interested in Dev’s reaction and whether Jen and Aliona will let anything slip next time they stream. I mean, they were probably both there when Jen recorded it.
I’ve sunk like 150 hours into the game, and my main character is in act 3, but act 3 is so fucking enormous I have no idea what I’m doing more than the first two acts lol.
Wish I could go back to those other places and see whats up with how the world changes
My recommendation with act 3 is to split it up between multiple playthroughs. If you’re like me and care a little about the roleplaying aspect, just do the things your PC or party members would feel important. I’d spent a long time and made some decisions I personally wouldn’t have made if not for keeping with my characters’ story; it didn’t make sense to me to go hunting down every nook and cranny of a huge city while it’s on the brink of destruction. There’s just too much to do!
I think I was at about 160 hours when I finished the game, and I did everything I could find in Act 3, so you might be close to the end. I possibly skipped some content in Act 2 though, and I didn’t do the mountain creche.
Been playing the game since its release and im happy to see this improvement. Just checked out the epilogue and it has multiple endings as well haha.
On top of that, it opens a few doors to future content on top of the existing ending cutscenes which looks awesome.
Cant wait for a sequel or the next chapter of the baldurs gate 3 storyI really, really hope they are working on the ability to make custom campaigns etc. similar to NWN. That would make it the perfect game for me.
G.O.A.T.
Somehow, I’m still in act 1, 40 hours in and savoring the whole time
Take your time, it’s worth it. I reluctantly finished my “first” playthrough (not counting my actual first attempt when I started as the dark urge and restarted after 20 hours because it was clearly fucking everything up) at around 250 hours played. This patch is making me consider starting again. Best game I’ve played in ages.
Take your time brother. There is no rush. The game has literally been getting better with time.
130 GB download for a patch? Guess we’re just redownloading the game every month now.
I’m pretty much at a loss for words here. This feels like a definitive-edition style update we’re getting basically for free. It’s 30 gigs of goodness, so game-changing in fact that you need 130GB of space just to let it shuffle everything around, and Larian’s straight up recommended just doing a clean reinstall if you’re having trouble. Baldur’s Gate 3 fans haven’t just been eating good, we’ve been feasting.
Larian showing the love! I just love this game and think this studio has become my absolute favorite.
Yeah, only with my connection, I can pretty much expect the next overhaul to come out just around the time this download is finished.
What are you hoping the epulogue will be and why is it >!finding Karlach’s heart!< ?
Can we play this from our completed game, or do we need to load a save from before the final fight?
In the patch notes somewhere, it says you need to do the final fight again. Reload from the brainstem works.
I reloaded a save I had from within the fight. I can’t get those spoiler tags to work, so I can’t get into more details without revealing the finale, but you definitely don’t have to repeat the whole fight. You just need to get to a point before it jumps into the epilogue to trigger it.
Thank you. I’m glad I didn’t delete that save when clearing space for my second playthrough! PS5 only allows 50 saves total for some reason.
Wild Shapes that do not have weapons will now benefit from having the Tavern Brawler feat.
Aaaaawwwwwww yeah!
Nice thanks for pointing it out
Man I’m glad I waited on this and Cyberpunk to be more feature complete
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Absolutely, I’m going thru a slow campaign with folk, so the bugs I’ve been hearing about and qol go faster than I am progressing for the game. Plus I have a huge backlog to get thru, so it just ends up being I’d rather wait for a good chunk of bugs to be ironed out even if the game has already been amazing so far. I don’t see myself replaying it, as there’s just so much out there, I want my first go thru to be dope af. Then when time and life post backlog permits I’ll go ahead and class up for a differently for a new playthru
Well ackshawlly…(PCmasterrace smug) BG3 was in early access and playable for PC gamers since last year.
But seriously - the early access was content rich, but it was pretty buggy. I took am glad I waited for the full release.
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EA was basically a demo… It had maybe 20% of the content, and a lot of it (e.g. origin characters) was rewritten before full release anyways
Game is fucking legendary. Every ounce of respect, already earned.
I’m playing the new difficulty and its great. If you fuck up there is no way back except to your last save. You can’t even quickload. I don’t think it’s more difficult than tactician so far but I’m still in act 1.
I might do this for my second play through with my gf. Increase the stakes. Can you still load if you die?
You can load, but it won’t be considered an honor mode run
I don’t know yet as I haven’t died yet but I believe death is final in that mode.
In the words of Scar:
Be prepared.
I’m still in act 1, so they have a permadeath mode?
I think I read somewhere that it is but don’t quote me on that. The biggest reason I’m playing it is because if you beat Honour Mode you get golden dice.
I think you can choose to play on after dying, but you won’t get the golden dice after completion.
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Wow…just wow. I am amazed at the dedication of Larian to improve their game and actually listen to their customers and try to please them.
I am a fan of Larian.
Credit where credit is due, Larian was always like this. Even with their less successful titles they still made sure to fix all issues before moving on.
I am also a fan of Larian.
I own divinity and divinity 2, and you are correct. They keep giving up improvement and fun adds for the game long after release.
I get what you’re saying, but it’s sad that this very basic aspect of listening to customer feedback and implementing said feedback is so foreign to us now.
I’m so glad they love this game as much as I do. If they eventually added a DM or creative mode to run custom campaigns I’d be over the moon. Take my money Larian!
WotC should hire the studio to build the engine for the VTT in dndbeyond.
The problem wouldn’t be the studio making it, it would be the monetization imposed on every facet of it. Any possible add-on would be dlc or part of a subscription. They wouldn’t even allow them to do significant free updates unless it was tied to a paid product or hefty subscription fee.
I don’t really want Larian getting looped into being a WotC shill. I hope they stay independent and keep on making the best games they can make. Single player or small party story games never get old.
DNDBeyond is just another bullshit live service with subscriptions in perpetuity.
Want 2 short rests? Fuck you, pay me.
Want to respec? Fuck you, pay me.
Want to recruit Scratch? Fuck you, pay me.
Imagining Withers saying “Fuck you, pay me!” is pretty amusing, though!
That’s preposterous, WotC would never do anything like that! They’ll helpfully not even mention $ anywhere in the app, instead we’ll get Gold Pieces (gp), Electrum Pieces (ep), and Platinum Pieces (pp). If you log into D&DBeyond, you’ll get a daily 5 gp reward and if you complete your daily quests, you have the chance to unlock even more rewards (1 ep per quest). Every session you run or participate in gets you another reward, while every purchase of a digital-only DLC rulebook grants you further rewards.
Nevermind that it would take hundreds of daily logins and constant vigilance with daily quests to even be able to afford anything, they’ll helpfully provide the option to “level up” your account to instantly unlock rewards without having to go through all that trouble.
WOTC would use electrum 🤮
Amen to this!
If anything I would love for Larian to continue developing their DoS rules engine further. Playing BG3 I just wanted the rules from DoS. More punts and more combo barrels.
do an expansion pack or w/e set in exandria with the critical role voice cast (along with the og cast ofc because they’re awesome)
They have such a mode in Divinity: Original Sin II. Sure it’s not DnD but it’s a fun system. Never got the hang of that dm mode though, I’m too stupid.
What is this DM mode?
Thanks
Pretty sure custom campaigns will definitely arrive at some point, just like they did with DOS2. I want to say Larian has even stated that they’ll eventually open the doors for it and potentially modding support?
Mod support has definitely been mentioned as an eventual goal, IIRC though they didn’t have plans to implement an official DM mode.
I kinda bet WotC would take issues with them making a dm mode like in Divinity… Since they are trying to get people to only ever play dnd on the dndbeyond vtt, I doubt they’d be keen on letting larian basically build a better version, lol.
