Multiplat BALDUR'S GATE III

[GtehMVP]

The mod tools are my biggest interest. They were going to be limited, but that changed almost immediately.

"It only took two days for someone to unlock a developer mode in Baldur's Gate 3's modding tools, opening up the possibility of custom levels and campaigns"

It only took two days for someone to unlock a developer mode in Baldur's Gate 3's modding tools, opening up the possibility of custom levels and campaigns

It's early days yet, but my mind boggles at the possibilities.

www.pcgamer.com

I don't know if any of you were into the modding scene around Never Winter Nights 1 and 2, but it was bananas. Hopefully BG3's toolkit inspires similar efforts.

I'm sure we'll see some madmen recreate some of the D&D classics from Bioware and Obsidan/Black Isle Studios too.

 

[Bob Gray]

The mod tools are my biggest interest. They were going to be limited, but that changed almost immediately.

"It only took two days for someone to unlock a developer mode in Baldur's Gate 3's modding tools, opening up the possibility of custom levels and campaigns"

It only took two days for someone to unlock a developer mode in Baldur's Gate 3's modding tools, opening up the possibility of custom levels and campaigns

It's early days yet, but my mind boggles at the possibilities.

www.pcgamer.com

I don't know if any of you were into the modding scene around Never Winter Nights 1 and 2, but it was bananas. Hopefully BG3's toolkit inspires similar efforts.

I'm sure we'll see some madmen recreate some of the D&D classics from Bioware and Obsidan/Black Isle Studios too.

Why would they not release the dev mode in the toolkit? Just curious. Are there legal implications?

 

[GtehMVP]

Why would they not release the dev mode in the toolkit? Just curious. Are there legal implications?

This is what Vincke told the writer of the article I pasted.

"With Divinity, there was not a lot of traction on [making custom campaigns], just because it's so much work," said Vincke in an interview with PC Gamer at GDC this week. "And also, our tools are very complicated. So we're going to focus on things that we know a lot of people want to mod and we're going to try to make that process easier. Not all tools are going to be shipped, because we wouldn't be able to support them."

That said, "quite a bunch of things" will be moddable with the tools, Vincke said. He also hopes the Baldur's Gate 3 tools will be easier to use than the Divinity tools, which he called "a bit shaky." (I did my best to make a custom map in The Divinity Engine 2, but eventually gave up, in part because of frequent crashes.)

"We are a game development company, we're not a tools company," said Vincke. "So the tools are really for internal use. And so we're sharing them with the audience."

BG3 is a different beast from Divinity, far more popular. If it even captured a fraction of the D&D modders from the late 90's/early 2000's.... oh my! I'm sure there will be lots of kinks to work out, but if the necessary tools are already accessible, I expect some wild things in regards to custom campaigns/assets and massive overhauls.

 

[squirrelynuts]

Mods are coming next month to console. I can’t wait to see the races and new classes !
Gobo murder hobo for Durge has nice ring to it for RP elements lol.

 

[Losfer Words]

I can't stop playing this God damn game. 3rd try at an honor run right now. Wiped at final boss of act 2 last time. What a game!

 

[squirrelynuts]

I can't stop playing this God damn game. 3rd try at an honor run right now. Wiped at final boss of act 2 last time. What a game!

Apparently if you use darkness on Kethric or similar spell and disarm him it’s an easier fight. It worked well for me on tactician

 

[Losfer Words]

Apparently if you use darkness on Kethric or similar spell and disarm him it’s an easier fight. It worked well for me on tactician

I wiped on myrkul. Was able to get past both phases of ketheric but I started the fight in flayer basement in a real bad way. Tried to preposition my team and I think I failed a seak check or something cause the fight just started and got smacked up in the first round. Spent like 20 to 30 min using every scroll and item I had just treading water l, reviving and healing and could never really recover from the bad start. I'll keep some darkness with me next time though.

 

[squirrelynuts]

I wiped on myrkul. Was able to get past both phases of ketheric but I started the fight in flayer basement in a real bad way. Tried to preposition my team and I think I failed a seak check or something cause the fight just started and got smacked up in the first round. Spent like 20 to 30 min using every scroll and item I had just treading water l, reviving and healing and could never really recover from the bad start. I'll keep some darkness with me next time though.

Potion of Angelic slumber and try to keep 2 toons near the entrance. You can protect the healer while they’re sleeping and once they’re up full spell restoration and Myrkrul can’t hit you from there.


Use Shovel or Scratch with invisibility to keep Aylin up and have SH casts guardian of faith to keep Myrkul busy

 

[GtehMVP]

Potion of Angelic slumber and try to keep 2 toons near the entrance. You can protect the healer while they’re sleeping and once they’re up full spell restoration and Myrkrul can’t hit you from there.


Use Shovel or Scratch with invisibility to keep Aylin up and have SH casts guardian of faith to keep Myrkul busy

I wiped on myrkul. Was able to get past both phases of ketheric but I started the fight in flayer basement in a real bad way. Tried to preposition my team and I think I failed a seak check or something cause the fight just started and got smacked up in the first round. Spent like 20 to 30 min using every scroll and item I had just treading water l, reviving and healing and could never really recover from the bad start. I'll keep some darkness with me next time though.

Thats funny, I was just talking about this very scenario with a buddy of mine, as I was in a similar predicament there, just like he is now. It's been near a year, and I'm still triggered by it lol.

Potion of Anjelic slumber ftw. I'm pretty sure you can buy them from a vendor somewhere in Act 2 as well, got me out of a few jams.

I love all the various ways you can approach battle in this. They really reward thinking outside the box. I hope more AAA games put this kind of faith in players instead of dumbing things down.

 

[squirrelynuts]

Thats funny, I was just talking about this very scenario with a buddy of mine, as I was in a similar predicament there, just like he is now. It's been near a year, and I'm still triggered by it lol.

Potion of Anjelic slumber ftw. I'm pretty sure you can buy them from a vendor somewhere in Act 2 as well, got me out of a few jams.

I love all the various ways you can approach battle in this. They really reward thinking outside the box. I hope more AAA games put this kind of faith in players instead of dumbing things down.

I’m honestly blown away with BG3. Larian did a phenomenal job making and creating the game. This is one of my top 3 now.

 

[GtehMVP]

I’m honestly blown away with BG3. Larian did a phenomenal job making and creating the game. This is one of my top 3 now.

I,still haven't finished it yet

I put it on hold in a massive battle in Act 3

Spoiler

where you meet Shadowheart's parents.

I had this bug where some enemies stopped doing anything on their turn. The bigger the battle was, more enemies would do nothing. It would take a couple of minutes for their turn to expire, became intolerable.

Anyway, I'm sure it's fixed now. I'll finish,it eventually, but did you find any vendors selling potions of Anjelic slumber in Act 3?

 

[Losfer Words]

I haven't finished yet either. I've been doing a co op run with a couple non d&d friends along side my honor attempts. Co op with non rpg players is fucking hilarious. One dude killed scratch because he thought it was right thing to do, both peeps have been sent to jail multiple times.for stealing, we always are getting into fights during conversations. They run through AOE friendly fire all the time. I'm a life cleric just keeping them alive and laughing.

When we confronted kagha: one friend failed the conversation check, battle starts, he puts down a cloud of daggers, other friend walks through the cloud of daggers, picks up a shadow druid and throws him against one of the friendly wolves...shadow druid survived, friendly wolf died and he was down past half life because he walked through the daggers.

 

[squirrelynuts]

I,still haven't finished it yet

I put it on hold in a massive battle in Act 3

Spoiler

where you meet Shadowheart's parents.

I had this bug where some enemies stopped doing anything on their turn. The bigger the battle was, more enemies would do nothing. It would take a couple of minutes for their turn to expire, became intolerable.

Anyway, I'm sure it's fixed now. I'll finish,it eventually, but did you find any vendors selling potions of Anjelic slumber in Act 3?

Sorcerous sundries where you meet Lorokan . He’s the only one I can think off the top of my head and I wanna say the circus from either Kobold or the necromancer Ring Master

 

[squirrelynuts]

I haven't finished yet either. I've been doing a co op run with a couple non d&d friends along side my honor attempts. Co op with non rpg players is fucking hilarious. One dude killed scratch because he thought it was right thing to do, both peeps have been sent to jail multiple times.for stealing, we always are getting into fights during conversations. They run through AOE friendly fire all the time. I'm a life cleric just keeping them alive and laughing.

When we confronted kagha: one friend failed the conversation check, battle starts, he puts down a cloud of daggers, other friend walks through the cloud of daggers, picks up a shadow druid and throws him against one of the friendly wolves...shadow druid survived, friendly wolf died and he was down past half life because he walked through the daggers.

That sounds like a bunch of fun actually lol

 

[GtehMVP]

I haven't finished yet either. I've been doing a co op run with a couple non d&d friends along side my honor attempts. Co op with non rpg players is fucking hilarious. One dude killed scratch because he thought it was right thing to do, both peeps have been sent to jail multiple times.for stealing, we always are getting into fights during conversations. They run through AOE friendly fire all the time. I'm a life cleric just keeping them alive and laughing.

When we confronted kagha: one friend failed the conversation check, battle starts, he puts down a cloud of daggers, other friend walks through the cloud of daggers, picks up a shadow druid and throws him against one of the friendly wolves...shadow druid survived, friendly wolf died and he was down past half life because he walked through the daggers.

I never played it coop, that sounds like a blast!

One of my buddies wants to play Diablo IV, he only wants to play coop/MP games. I'm sure I can convince him of this instead. Would be a great Steam Deck experience.

How does it work? Do you start off with a buddy right away? Do you each control a party member? Who gets to make dialogue choices?

 

[Losfer Words]

I never played it coop, that sounds like a blast!

One of my buddies wants to play Diablo IV, he only wants to play coop/MP games. I'm sure I can convince him of this instead. Would be a great Steam Deck experience.

How does it work? Do you start off with a buddy right away? Do you each control a party member? Who gets to make dialogue choices?

It's fairly simple once you get the hang of it but it's not as clean as you want it to be. Whoever starts conversation or is the closest person to the NPC is in control.of the dialog. If youre not being spoken to, you have to get close to your teammate and an option to "listen" will appear and you can watch the convo. You can select which option you want your teammate to pick in convo and your avatar icon will appear next to that option, like team voting but whoever is in control can pick whatever they want.

I've been doing it on Xbox, and I have to load the save file and then invite them into the game. The save file lives on my box only. When you start a new game, pick multi player then new game, then send an invite and everyone starts with the cutscene and character creation, then everyone steps out of a mindflayer pod in the same room and you're off the races.

Co op is a much sloppier type of of game but it's hilarious with the right friends. If teammates have the same initiative, then everybody can act at the same time. People running around in the background while you're in convo, you can miss story stuff easy as a result. The premade companions don't really get much love, we don't even bring them with us unless I know they have a story part involved. Expect chaos in co op but it's lol. One person can sex Shadowheart and then another can cuck them later in the game.

Whoever is running the master game, where the save files are stored can pick who controls which character if you bring an NPC or if people load in on the wrong character. Hope that helps.

 

[Losfer Words]

Also some stuff like sex scenes and dreams are set to private but can change those so people can watch if you want. Also inventory starts fully open so people can take whatever from whomever but that can be changed as well. We leave everything open. Since I have the master file I can potentially load it up and fuck with their characters, get them arrested, change them genitals...you know standard type stuff

 

[GtehMVP]

It's fairly simple once you get the hang of it but it's not as clean as you want it to be. Whoever starts conversation or is the closest person to the NPC is in control.of the dialog. If youre not being spoken to, you have to get close to your teammate and an option to "listen" will appear and you can watch the convo. You can select which option you want your teammate to pick in convo and your avatar icon will appear next to that option, like team voting but whoever is in control can pick whatever they want.

I've been doing it on Xbox, and I have to load the save file and then invite them into the game. The save file lives on my box only. When you start a new game, pick multi player then new game, then send an invite and everyone starts with the cutscene and character creation, then everyone steps out of a mindflayer pod in the same room and you're off the races.

Co op is a much sloppier type of of game but it's hilarious with the right friends. If teammates have the same initiative, then everybody can act at the same time. People running around in the background while you're in convo, you can miss story stuff easy as a result. The premade companions don't really get much love, we don't even bring them with us unless I know they have a story part involved. Expect chaos in co op but it's lol. One person can sex Shadowheart and then another can cuck them later in the game.

Whoever is running the master game, where the save files are stored can pick who controls which character if you bring an NPC or if people load in on the wrong character. Hope that helps.

 

[idrankyourbeer]

i made it to act 2 with my paladin last year but i then moved onto starfield (lol) for a while and then moved onto something else and kinda forgot about baldurs gate. but now i've got a hankering to have another go at it and finish what i've started.

but scissor me timbers, i'm a filthy pirate and i'm using an old patch 4 build. and it appears we're up to a patch 7 edition now. so i start looking up the notes for the last 3 big patches and it appears that they've done alot since the last time i picked it up. no worries, i'll just grab another ripped copy of the game again i tell myself...

well the full 140 gig version of it is downloading way way too slow, and i dont want to use my old version knowing that they have added and fixed so much shit to the game since then, and i remember for patch 4 i had to redownload the whole damn game again for whatever reason because i couldnt just grab a smaller update for whatever reason, and i dont want to have to keep doing that every other time theres a new big patch released, so you know what? i think they might have broke me here.

i guess i'm just gonna break and buy the game. i mean i remember pirating baldurs gate and buying starfield last year. it should have been the other way around. i actually liked baldurs gate from what ive played of it and they probably deserve my money for the work they put into it.

alright larian studios. you win.

 

[idrankyourbeer]

i had 30 hours on my last save. but starting anew as i cant remember where i was or what i was even doing.

going for a zariel tiefling oath of the ancients paladin again because it seemed to work the last time around. hoping i won't run into too much trouble down the road.

i got a buddy who plays this and he usually rocks a bard. i guess they are kind of a jack of all trades master of none kind of build. though i dunno if thats my kind of style. i dont want my companions to be getting pounded away on while i'm just standing around playing a flute lol.