Multiplat BALDUR'S GATE III

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[Law Talkin’ Guy]

So has the game’s performance improved at all with patches? When it first released I kept hearing about how performance was shit in the game’s third act. Is that still the case or has it been fixed?

What about on console? How’s performance on PS5? Is it also a bad time in Act 3 in particular on console?

 

[method115]

So has the game’s performance improved at all with patches? When it first released I kept hearing about how performance was shit in the game’s third act. Is that still the case or has it been fixed?

What about on console? How’s performance on PS5? Is it also a bad time in Act 3 in particular on console?

I played act 3 on ps5 and had no issues.

 

[The Clinch]

Pretty sure Karlach just fingerbanged me arsehole.

Didn't give consent.. She wanted to "show me something".

 

[RJ43]

I’m at the end. Amazing game but the performance in Act 3, particularly the very end, is abysmal. Surprised they let this out like this considering how much effort and time they seemed to have put into preventing it.

 

[Blayt7hh]

I didn’t really have much of an issue in act 3. It would start to slow down and hitch now and then after I was playing for a couple hours, and it crashes maybe once or twice but that was it

 

[GearSolidMetal]

For those who are interested in a Subclass tier list, here ya go -

 

[Nintendo 64]

So has the game’s performance improved at all with patches? When it first released I kept hearing about how performance was shit in the game’s third act. Is that still the case or has it been fixed?

What about on console? How’s performance on PS5? Is it also a bad time in Act 3 in particular on console?

PS5 worked fine for me. Some hickups when jumping in and out of dialogue, and some weird lags after attack commands. Apart from that it was very well playable.

I'm on my second playthrough now and the game runs smother thanks to the patches and updates.

If you ask me, all is forgiven. Larian gave it their best, just like Fromsoft did with Elden Ring. Couldn't care less if they need a few months post release to smoothen the experience.

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

I haven’t played a crpg since Baldur’s Gate 2 and Planescape Torment more than 20 years ago. Does this play like those, with “real time with pause” or whatever it’s called, or is this true turn based?

 

[iNoScopedJFK]

I haven’t played a crpg since Baldur’s Gate 2 and Planescape Torment more than 20 years ago. Does this play like those, with “real time with pause” or whatever it’s called, or is this true turn based?

It's turn based combat. Your characters make an initiative roll at the start of combat and determines the order in which characters take their actions.

 

[GearSolidMetal]

Got a question for those who've played both Original Sin 2 & Baldur's Gate 3 - Larian's last two games.

I played OS2 on a PS4 and it was my first CRPG and didn't 'get it' but I've grown to love CRPG/Tactical games with X-Com2, Wasteland 3, and Gears Tactics.

I'm going to be picking up the physical release of BG3 for XBox Series X but I'm somewhat questioning if I'm going to 'get it' immediately, or if its going to have to play many hours to 'get it,' or if like OS2 I'm going to have to play the entire game and still never 'get it.'

So, I'm wondering if anyone here that has played OS2 and BG3 may know what I mean with OS2 and could give their input about BG3.

 

[Woldog]

Got a question for those who've played both Original Sin 2 & Baldur's Gate 3 - Larian's last two games.

I played OS2 on a PS4 and it was my first CRPG and didn't 'get it' but I've grown to love CRPG/Tactical games with X-Com2, Wasteland 3, and Gears Tactics.

I'm going to be picking up the physical release of BG3 for XBox Series X but I'm somewhat questioning if I'm going to 'get it' immediately, or if its going to have to play many hours to 'get it,' or if like OS2 I'm going to have to play the entire game and still never 'get it.'

So, I'm wondering if anyone here that has played OS2 and BG3 may know what I mean with OS2 and could give their input about BG3.

It's pretty intuitive.

 

[steeldragon]

Got a question for those who've played both Original Sin 2 & Baldur's Gate 3 - Larian's last two games.

I played OS2 on a PS4 and it was my first CRPG and didn't 'get it' but I've grown to love CRPG/Tactical games with X-Com2, Wasteland 3, and Gears Tactics.

I'm going to be picking up the physical release of BG3 for XBox Series X but I'm somewhat questioning if I'm going to 'get it' immediately, or if its going to have to play many hours to 'get it,' or if like OS2 I'm going to have to play the entire game and still never 'get it.'

So, I'm wondering if anyone here that has played OS2 and BG3 may know what I mean with OS2 and could give their input about BG3.

From memory os2 doesn't show you quest markers so you don't really know where to go. As bg3 does so you will always have some ideas where they travel

 

[GtehMVP]

I haven’t played a crpg since Baldur’s Gate 2 and Planescape Torment more than 20 years ago. Does this play like those, with “real time with pause” or whatever it’s called, or is this true turn based?

It's true turn based. Being a canonical follow up to Baldur's Gate 2, I was disappointed with that, but the tools they give you to think outside the box really makes up for it. It's pretty much an immersive sim, as you have so many ways to tackle enemies.

What I really love is how when you're detected, only the party members in the enemies radius of sight will be part of the battle. Because you can select and move party members individually (out of battle) this lets you position them strategically/stealthily, namely on their flanks/rear, even if a battle has already started and one, or a few, of your party members are locked into the turn based aspect.

Add in the ability to go invisible, sneak in an drop explosives, warp to different parts of the map instantaneously, or turn into a giant animal that can cannonball on top of enemies from a ledge for large AOE's (to name a few) and you can start to imagine the strategic possibilities.

Got a question for those who've played both Original Sin 2 & Baldur's Gate 3 - Larian's last two games.

I played OS2 on a PS4 and it was my first CRPG and didn't 'get it' but I've grown to love CRPG/Tactical games with X-Com2, Wasteland 3, and Gears Tactics.

I'm going to be picking up the physical release of BG3 for XBox Series X but I'm somewhat questioning if I'm going to 'get it' immediately, or if its going to have to play many hours to 'get it,' or if like OS2 I'm going to have to play the entire game and still never 'get it.'

So, I'm wondering if anyone here that has played OS2 and BG3 may know what I mean with OS2 and could give their input about BG3.

From memory os2 doesn't show you quest markers so you don't really know where to go. As bg3 does so you will always have some ideas where they travel

I could never get into DOS1 or 2, but this game hooked me badly, even suffering hours of buggy Act 3 before I decided to stop and wait for fixes. Maybe it's the quest markers that gave me direction (I was aimless of ten in DOS 2), but I think it was more the production values that brought the story, characters, and brilliant writing to life and sucked me in. The established lore certainly helped.

Like I mentioned to lawtalkingguy, I love the various ways you can approach combat, the meat and potatoes of the game, but DOS2 had that as well and it never hooked me.

I was way more invested in the plight of the characters here. Allowing us to almost play it like a third person RPG, let you get immersed into the world more.

I love isometric gameplay, but the games that also shake up the perspective, like Xcom 2 pulling the cam over your shoulder, or FF7 using CGI with the same backgrounds and the dynamic camera in battle, adds so much to the immersion.

 

[GearSolidMetal]

From memory os2 doesn't show you quest markers so you don't really know where to go. As bg3 does so you will always have some ideas where they travel

could never get into DOS1 or 2, but this game hooked me badly, even suffering hours of buggy Act 3 before I decided to stop and wait for fixes. Maybe it's the quest markers that gave me direction (I was aimless of ten in DOS 2), but I think it was more the production values that brought the story, characters, and brilliant writing to life and sucked me in. The established lore certainly helped.

You guys basically summed up my biggest issue with DOS2 - No quest markers. The maps were huge but I never had any idea where to go to complete missions. I basically did what I needed to do to move onto the next map, and did so. By the time I got to the final boss I was severely underpowered and couldn't beat it on the easiest difficulty. I watched some endings on YouTube and traded the disc in.

I get that some games hold your hand too much and the player is expected to figure things out, but DOS2 is a fucking horrible first CRPG to play, ever.

Witcher 3 did quest markers 100% correctly without the player having his hand held.

even suffering hours of buggy Act 3 before I decided to stop and wait for fixes.

This is why I'm waiting for the physical release. Its going to be the 100% completed game.

But one thing that REALLY annoys me is how isometric games run like complete shit on consoles.

XCom2 ran like complete shit on the PS4.
Numerous CRPGs can't get near 60FPS on modern consoles.
Meanwhile, FPS & 3rd person games like the Master Chief Collection & Mass Effect Trilogy can run at 120FPS.

Hopefully they'll figure out how to get it to 60FPS for the physical release.

 

[GearSolidMetal]

Also, about DOS2, in general I wasn't a fan of much about the game.

*The art style was more artsy than realistic.
*The additional races weren't interesting, including the Red Prince lizard-people or skeleton/dead people.
*The characters were a standard fantasy cast, with nothing particularly noteable. But I did like Sebille. She was the lone character that was interesting and did her side-quests.
*The narrator was annoying, the worst adjective that could be given a narrator. I just wanted him to shut the fuck up.

*The first island is the worst tutorial section ever in a RPG. 7 hours of far tougher fights than a tutorial area have & wondering around looking for a way to get the fuck off of it. Thank god for YouTube guides or I would have quit.

So you're probably asking why I bothered to play all the way through to the final boss. Because the game is so highly regarded I figured at some point it'd 'hook' me, and it never did.

'Hooking' meaning there's a point in a movie, TV show, or game that there's an event that causes you to become far more invested than you were before. I bet everyone can give examples of a show that 'hooks' you.

And we can give examples of a movie, TV Show, or game you spend far far too long of a time waiting for it to 'hook' you, and it never does.
For example, I watched 3 entire seasons of Sopranos waiting for it to hook me, and I was bored throughout.

For games, DOS2 is my Sopranos.

 

[ssBaldy]

Pretty sure Karlach just fingerbanged me arsehole.

Didn't give consent.. She wanted to "show me something".

She did the same to my 22 Str overbuffed warrior battlemaster. I felt violated.

 

[GearSolidMetal]

Question for experienced BG3 players -

Which Class / Subclass would you recommend for 1st time players.

Bard / Paladin seems to be the 'Jack Of All Trades' build.

 

[RemyR]

 

[blaseblase]

Question for experienced BG3 players -

Which Class / Subclass would you recommend for 1st time players.

Bard / Paladin seems to be the 'Jack Of All Trades' build.

Charisma is a must if your character is going to be the one talking to people.

I've been having a blast with warlock/paladin, picked pact of the blade so I could use charisma for weapons.