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Lucky rolls to you all.
Not sure what they changed in the new update, but it doesn’t just crash occasionally, it bricks my entire PC. Literally have to do the horrible ‘hold power button down to turn off’ manoevre, which always feels to me like Deebo choking out Craig.
“Go to sleep, go to sleep, yeah!”. Got to the point I’m seriously thinking about uninstalling the game because I can’t risk fucking up my PC like this just for a game (entertaining though it is). Just about to start Act 3, gutted because I want to see where my characters’ stories go.
Im sure that your pc will be fine
It’s not really something that software can do.
Have you tried changing to Vulkan or making sure everything is nicely installed? Maybe verify the game files as well.
It wouldn’t even load in Vulkan last time I tried, I’ll try again as iirc that was before even patch 1. From the beginning, this game sent my cpu & gpu to the edge, it’s better now than at launch but still very taxing (i9 12900k / 2070s), sends multiple cores right up to 100c. The cores can hit 100c when I’m doing demanding work eg audio / visual design. But they shouldn’t be held up there constantly.
I tried undervolting my cpu slightly (which defo helped re temps, but perhaps has introduced instability), and also noticed in the bios pretty much every superboosterturbodude setting was turned on so switched a couple off. Or maybe it’s the small number of mods I use, ah the joy of PC gaming, and the fun of figuring out what’s wrong
That sucks. I’ve got a pretty shitty PC and I’ve crashed once in my 176 hours
Uh I just got Karlach, so now I’m cooking with fire
Aw man… using a potion of Colossus or enlarge person before buying the statue of yourself doesn’t make the statue gigantic 😩
Larian. Pls fix.
Honestly upsetting that you return to normal size in dialogue as well. Running a Godzilla Tav and trying to be double big from elixer and enlarge person as much as possible. These ants should be talking to my knee caps!
Disclaimer: if this is how you like to play that is okay.
I find it so confusing that people are asking for specific builds with what spells to take and what items to equip. Although it’s a singleplayer game with a difficulty that doesn’t require much optimization (if any) even on tactician. I really enjoy trying different builds that seem fun regardless if they are the strongest or not, so to me following a build would take out half the fun of the game.
I come from MMOs, didn’t know anything about DnD nor cRPGs, I needed to be told everything on how to build a char, what spells to take and what items to get. I don’t personally ask but reading responses to other players questions helps me immensely.
It took me a month to learn the rules and understand what’s available in game (DnD is hard lol, when you start from nothing) and now I can start making my own choices even if I don’t yet fully understand everything.
I guess there are other people like me, BG3 is not only for DnD/cRPGs fans.
I don’t want to know where it is, just if it exists and if it’s missable in a particular act:
Is there a cowboy hat in this game, and can I miss it by progressing too far?
No additional details please! Thanks!
There are several hats that look cowboy hat-ish.
Excellent news! Thanks for the response! May the dice gods bless your rolls!
I wish you could transmog because a lot of the “cowboy” hats have no effects so you would be sacrificing some potentially strong buffs purely for esthetic
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Here come the claws…
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From the first moment I met Raphael I kept expecting him to break into song. Didn’t think it would actually happen but damn was it glorious.
Aw man, I decided to save and quit about 5 minutes away from this boss fight and now I’m super excited to play some more.
Edit: This was a great boss fight. “Liiiives, all mortal liiives, expiiire”
I’m at the door of the final fight, but House of Hope is my highlight of the game so far. I loved Raphael from the moment he appeared and his conclusion was as epic as was befitting him. I like him so much I might side with him next time. Among a selection of great voice acting I might like his the best, too. Not just the song. Great character.
Everybody gangsta till they hear the boss singing his own battle theme music.
I liked the fight with him but I was a little frustrated at how railroaded into it I was. I had planned to get in, and get out before he got back but it just drops you into a fight with him. I’d love for them to add a round timer and make it possible to get out without fighting him.
I think that was the highlight of the game for me, which is kinda wild because I only went on a whim. My story wasn’t pushing me in that direction at all, just figured I’d poke around. Great fight, too. I’d been steamrolling everything for most of the act by that point, so it was nice to get challenged again.
The song was a pleasant surprise too. That, the harpy song, and the Ketheric/Gith battle music are going to be stuck in my head for a while.
10/10 game for that battle alone.
When I began the fight, my wife thought the song was hilarious. Since I had a lot of trouble with it, by the time I finished, she hated it. She’d start groaning everytime Raphael would start singing.
Does it bother anyone else that if you’re playing an elf, the narration for camp scenes never remembers that elves don’t sleep? It’s bad enough that the trance animation is very similar to sleeping anyway.
Oh crap I never even thought of that. I haven’t looked very deep into dnd lore but does it say anything about how elves handle not sleeping mentally?
They spend 4 hours each day meditating in a trance, during which they remain semi-conscious. They don’t dream in the same way that humans do; their trance-visions are the result of mental exercises that have become reflexive through repetition. Having strange dreams should be extremely concerning for them, and sneaking up on them should be more challenging than sneaking up on a sleeping human; neither of these things are really reflected in BG3.
IIRC, elves can sleep properly, if they want to, they just generally choose not to. And depending on the age of the elf, they do “dream” in their trance, IIRC. Said dreams are memories of their past lives. (Since elf souls are special and don’t work like regular souls.) Realistically though, none of our companions are in the right age range (dreams being super rare for elves older than ~100 and younger than ~600). Astarion might dream normally though, if he ever sleeps*, severed from their reincarnation cycle as he is by his nature as a vampire spawn?
When in doubt though, blame tadpoles. :P
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I created my own character, drow elf druid. I think I messed up in the beginning and didn’t grab one NPC, so my entire party is weak. No tank just warlock, druid, cleric, and whatever the vampire is. Do I have a chance to get a tank later?
If you are playing a shape shifting druid your character can easily tank. Especially if you pick up a few levels in Barbarian. Rage stays active after shape shifting and a raging bear is one of the tankiest builds available.
Without knowing how far you are it’s difficulty to say if any companion are still available. Except for Shadowheart and Asterion I found all other companions fairly easy to miss in a blind playthrough. So you might want to read up on who they are and where to find them.
I’ve beat momma spider, and the shagging giants in the blighted village, I think I’ve done everything there, so I’ll move on from that point.
You can change classes once you meet an NPC early on. Explore around the starting area, and you’ll meet someone that’ll show up at your camp and let you respec anyone.
Also, druids can get tanky if they go the wildshape route
I have withers at the camp, so I can respec
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There’s some additional late game companions in act 2 and 3 but not too much. A lot of casters (including druids) will also gain elemental summons as spells in later levels. The summon itself can be a tank for you. You can also respec characters at Withers in your camp. You want to be careful changing origin characters classes, but subclasses are fine. Clerics can be great tanks, especially in the life domain. For example my current character is a cleric/monk with an armor class of 24, almost ever attack misses them.
EDIT: removed my first sentence, it mentioned the class of a later game companion which may be considered a spoiler to some.
Their character is the druid.
Realized that after reading it again oops. Removed my first sentence in that case.
It is a druid, but I made it myself, not one of the pre-made ones
So you have Shadowheart, Wyll, and Astarion, at least. You missed Lae’zel? Did you get Gale?
There’s a Barbarian character that you can pick up a bit later than the other companions. Make sure to get her before leaving Act 1, she makes a great front-liner.
There will be more companions to get in Acts 2 and even 3.
If you have Withers at your camp, you can also respec companions or get a hireling.
I do have gale. I have him a magical artifact already to consume
You can respec any character at whithers in your camp. Also as other have said circle of the moon druid can bear form to get an extra 60 hp (half from each cast) circle of the spore can spawn minions that can tank the hits that would other go towards your team mates.
It sounds like your problem isn’t just that you don’t have a tank but that you’re solely relying on Shadowheart for healing. In my run I’m doing an ancient paladin so I’ve got lay on hands plus the heal aura to subside her healing.
When you level up you can also multiclass to get some desirable traits from another class to help your comp.
True, I really on shadowheart, and healing potions. I’ll look at respecting her as a life cleric. I think my druid is already circle of the spore, but I’m only level 3,so maybe I can’t spawn minions yet?
Don’t forget you can throw healing potions to heal all four of your party at once.
Animate dead you get at lvl 5 and fungal infection you get at lvl 6.
You are saying that if I throw a healing potion, All of my party benefits from it? I suppose they need to be in some nearby radius for it to work
Thrown potions have a splash radius on the ground. If you huddle and toss one between everyone they all get it’s effects. This is true for all potions.
Just don’t aim for Gale’s head. Or hell, do aim for it.
To actually answer your question, since no one else did … yes, there is one additional melee character you can get in Act 3, but he’s not the easiest character to find. It’ll be a slog to get that far without a tank.
Since you have a druid, you could try using a combo of animal form and summons to tank for you. I’ve found elemental summons are pretty durable, but won’t do as much damage as a real tank.
Otherwise yes, you could respect a party member to tank.
Do you mean Wild Shape, when you say animal form?
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Has anyone else had the bug where pressing the level up button causes the game to crash to desktop?
I’ve played through one whole playthrough and I’m starting my modded run but I can’t seem to level Asterion from 4 to 5. I looked it up and I found a reddit thread that has a lot of folks sharing the same problem with no one conclusive solution. I just wanted to double check if it’s a vanilla issue with somebody else. Otherwise I just wanted to start the discussion here.
Never had this
Remove the mod and try it?
Say I go down the Oathbreaker path for a while. When I switch back, will I still have access to the skills I learned as an Oathbreaker?
I challenged The Prison Warden to a dual, and then accidentally fired my crossbow, killing her lol. Insta-Oathbreaker. I wanna see what the skills are like
It’s like a respec. You can either have the Oathbreaker subclass or your original subclass, they have some mutually exclusive class abilities. It shouldn’t affect things like your skill proficiencies or feats, though.
Thanks! The Oathbreaker Knight looks like a badass. Almost looks like a Death Knight. My first fight with it was really fun. The Hellish Rebuke exploded around me towards the end of it, and I took out 4 enemies at once lol
How extreme are the consequences for not bringing companions with you on their specific quests?
I’ve been rolling with the same party all game and I’m really happy with it. I figured on my next playthrough, I’d just pick a different party composition and really get to know those characters on that playthrough, which would keep things fresh for me.
I don’t mind missing out on random lore or conversation bits (that’s the kind of stuff I’m trying to save for future playthroughs,) but it would bum me out a little if one of my camp buddies got mad and just left in a “bad ending” sort of way (I’d be more ok with a bittersweet “friends going separate ways” type scene, though, if it makes sense for the story.) I want to help everyone, but it just feels so video-gamey to add someone to the party, level them up, give them decent equipment, complete a quest, and then kick them out again just to get a better cutscene or something when that’s not how I’ve been playing for the past 40 hours.
Specifically, I am about to enter the part of the Act 1 map relevant to Lae’zel and she hasn’t been in my active party since I met Karlach.
So what do you think? Should I stick to my preferred play style and see what happens? Or change it up because I’m a chronic “good guy” gamer who wants to help everyone and get the “goodest” ending?
I got a big “Fuck You!” from Karlach for not bringing her along one time.
Some companions will leave the party permanently if you do not bring them with you for their subplots. It’s not metagaming to put them in the party for things that are relevant to them, it’s the opposite, it’s bringing them along for something incredibly important to their personal journey.
Keeping it vague I left 2 different party members at camp for their subplots and I still have them both. There was some minor griping “wish I could have been there” type stuff but nothing beyond that.
Is anyone else at awe with how massive this game actually is?
Like I was in a big zone in Act 2, explored the crap out of it, went past the next part of the main story line but decide to explore a bit more. I find a door to some seemingly small dungeon… “Uh let’s see where this leads.” It’s starts to become bigger and bigger, and then inside that there’s another door to an even bigger place. Holy shit I’m completely lost, I don’t even know what I’ve already left behind.
minor spoiler for zone name in Act 2
I’m talking about the Mausoleum for those reading this.
The only downside is that I get rather tired when playing splitscreen on my living room TV. Otherwise I think I wouldn’t even leave my home for 2 weeks.
I would kill for the dynamic split screen from DOS2.
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I disagree with this. Unless you rush it the game is longer and bigger than tyranny, I’m 100h into the game and I’m still far from the end it seems. I couldn’t get far into pathfinder video games because they’re meat grinders with shitty balance. For kingmaker I was so bored of fighting the same ethereal enemies over and over and over and fights were very tedious because I didn’t have an optimized team.
Bg3 is open, both like open world and open scenario. Combat is as good as exploration or narration imo.
Now I love planescape torment direly. But BG3 is bigger than that imo. There are so many secrets everywhere, and so many branches. PST doesn’t have so many pathes, it’s more linear in some ways. The intensity of the scenario is comparable between the 2, but PST is deeper in the philosophy and more intimate.
Okay, first time I thought I would be able to enter a burrow hole but nope. A rat familiar can’t enter a burrow hole? Nevermind it’ll probably be able to do next to nothing on the other side. Can’t you let me poke around at least so I can see if it’s worth casting 2 spells (disguise and reduce size) or calling up my druid to get in there?
Astarions mage hand can get through for me
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Controversial take: party size unlock is absolutely the best experience, feels more narratively justified and more like a 5e D&D adventure.
Once I finish my normal run I’m already planning a second modded run with Tactician Plus, Better AI, more spells and Party Limits Begone mods. I’m gonna go all out here.
First thing I did once I had more than 3 party members! Game isn’t quite balanced for it but the difficulty level changes helps. Ran into one bug already (getting on a boat in the underdark area) that made 3 party members forever invisible. Definitely makes the big battles super cool!
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I just opened the game for the first time, haven’t started playing yet. The EULA is already entertaining. They encourage fan art because “there is no fiend in the Realms that doesn’t have a soft spot for idolatry, and admittedly We’re no different. So send Us your best work and know that mortals who amuse Us often get better perks”. There is more lighthearted, not-so-legal speech in here. I appreciate them considering those of us insane enough to read the damn EULA.
Really?! That’s amazing. A little gem that probably almost everyone missed.
Are there others like this in the EULA?
There is, I believe they have an easter egg about Warlock pacts in there. A warning about being careful to sign your soul away or something like that.
That is the absolute best thing I’ve ever heard. It’s awesome!
That’s amazing! Is there a way to read it after accepting it? I searched for it but I could find it, and the EULA linked on the Steam store doesn’t contain any of that.
Tho I found funny parchments to request days off work: https://baldursgate3.game/, scroll down a bit and click on “baldur’s day dispensation”.
Just rename your localappdata\Larian studios\baldur’s gate 3 folder to OLD and relaunch.
