Baldur's Gate III

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I find it poetic that Mystra sent a suicide bomber actually carrying an equivalent of a nuke, and it's the protagonist (you) who gets to catch it and stop it, and moreover fulfill its purpose, while returning Gale his life. It's like flipping the bird at Mystra.
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Err... wow.

I've seen Dame Aylin go haywire over dead Kethric.

Me and my three companions stood there and I was like..,

Someone has got some very serious issues, m8s...
 
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I'm sad... I just can't finish the game for now :sad:
Act 3 is almost unplayable on Xbox... performances are horrible, the game stutter as hell, interaction with NPCs take a while to trigger and I gave up after 3 crashes in less than 20 minutes. I can't imagine how it would be on Series S...

Time to switch to another game, lukily, Rogue Trader wait for me since a month :)
 
Doppelgangers everywhere.
Now, that starts to feel like BG1. Melikes. I wonder if there is the Ring of Koveras to be found (troll face).
 
I'm sad... I just can't finish the game for now :sad:
Act 3 is almost unplayable on Xbox... performances are horrible, the game stutter as hell, interaction with NPCs take a while to trigger and I gave up after 3 crashes in less than 20 minutes. I can't imagine how it would be on Series S...
Oh no, that's terrible. Did the recent hotfix help it at all?
Even on PC Act 3 was unplayable for many until recently, even with powerful machines. I had to resort to running a script extender just to finish my first playthrough in November.
 
Oh no, that's terrible. Did the recent hotfix help it at all?
Even on PC Act 3 was unplayable for many until recently, even with powerful machines. I had to resort to running a script extender just to finish my first playthrough in November.
Yeah, after 30 minutes at the beginning of Act 3, I have to quit the game, it give me headache. Stuttering, micro-freeze, interaction with NPC which take way too long and well... crashes, it's just horrible. A shame, knowing everywhere else, the game run perfectly fine. :(
I didn't try with the new update yet, but there is also an Xbox OS update which should fix some BG3 issue(s) too. So I will check January 16th, after applying the update :)
 
So... I play BG3 with the same c*c*iness that serves me well in Cyberpunk 2077.
When Gortash made the power play move, I called his bluff. Except, it wasn't a bluff, yikes! I knew then that nothing short of perfection would suffice as my response.

It took me a few tries, and I am also on the explorer difficulty level, but I saved them all. Higher difficulty level folks do this in ... three turns? That must be some work of mastery. Or haste is stackable in some ways.

Anyway, on my explorer level, I've done it. Proudly sharing. Gortash should have known better. I told him I would find him and kill him. I also did that today. Even worse, my party ambushed him from behind, tore him apart like he never existed, and left the building. No one else died (even though they all are still after us lol).

 
It took me a few tries, and I am also on the explorer difficulty level, but I saved them all. Higher difficulty level folks do this in ... three turns? That must be some work of mastery. Or haste is stackable in some ways.
This section always seems to need 3 reloads for me (damn those Sahuagin nets!) depending on your playthrough choices you also have
Duke Ravengard
added to the mix and if you save him,
Mizora
appears and releases a bunch of exploding spiders.

Potions of speed, Dimension Door and Haste scrolls are a lifesaver here.
 
This section always seems to need 3 reloads for me (damn those Sahuagin nets!) depending on your playthrough choices you also have
Duke Ravengard
added to the mix and if you save him,
Mizora
appears and releases a bunch of exploding spiders.
Hey, I know! That is why I specifically searched the area where he was supposed to be. He wasn't there.

My choices were this... wait for it... since I figured out
Gortash will want me to play a part in his ceremony
, I ignored it altogether, and went straight for the
foundry
. So...
the Duke got stuck waiting for me to take part in the ceremony
, and turned hostile after this quest. So... I did the only thing I could. I let him remain there, alive, hoping that the game or a patch might alter that at some point.

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As far as Gortash is concerned, he spoke with me through the machine where I told him I was going to find him and that I was going to kill him. The next thing he knows, I was at the Iron Throne, and the last thing he knows he was backstabbed and run over by my party as he was standing in front of his throne. Game over for that pest. Good riddance, he was such a punk and probably a pain in Bane's ar**.

Orin is next. I was far more impressed with Sarevok...
Orin is far more focused on herself i.e. her expression and impression of murder rather than piling up the body count. What a small-time op is this game throwing at me... simply meh.

Sarevok turned chaotic good in the end in my lore, and Bhaal's essence went down the drain. That was a hell of a flush. So... essentially I take it Orin is full of sh**.

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On the other hand, Wulbren didn't appreciate in the slightest that
Gondians live yet
, so he was quite a brat about it. If there was the option to circle around him and smack him on the back of his head as he was bs'ing everyone there and then, I'd have done it.
 
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turned hostile after this quest. So... I did the only thing I could. I let him remain there, alive, hoping that the game or a patch might alter that at some point.
That's a shame, the game has so much reactivity to player choices it seems like a missed opportunity to just have him go hostile. C'mon, Larian, patch it!

PS have you, or are you considering a Dark Urge playthrough? It's worth it just for your
reunion with Orin
. My monk Tav really put her in her place there :cool:
 
Dark Urge playthrough?
Maybe later. If this was a Cyberpunk 2077 DLC, yeah in less than an eyeblink.

BG3 got a negative review from me for being uber slow (not talking about performance, but how long it takes to get from A to B) and clumsy for camera control, so at this point playing it rather in the finish-game-once mode. The game is a beautiful gem, but its UX is very deterring.
 
A bit of an appearance change goes long way. Now, that's more of a necromancer looks.

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And this... this honestly looks like something from Fortnite.

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