Baldur's Gate III

It’s actually crazy how permanent even the most innocuous of actions can be, this happened to me yesterday:

Moral of the story, be incredibly aware of who or what you’re casting a spell on!

My character is a fighter, so generally it’s me, Gale and Shadowheart for Spells/Buffs, and whoever else needs to be there for the story or situation. Mostly Wyll though as he can speak to animals which can be useful and has some decent ranged/AoE spells.

Astarion is by far the one I use least, always seemed more useful outside of battle than in it. There is a side quest I need him for though so will have to bring him in pretty soon.

I think im going to have to play through again at some stage, just started Act 3 and have only used Asteron, Shadowheart and Lae'zel.

Also saw that the cast of BG3 are playing a DnD campaign as their characters

Damn, that's hardcore!

Don't know if I could do a dead is dead kind of run. Have to admit, I've often had to offer up a character or two as sacrificial lambs.

Ah that makes more sense. I went from pretty much never talking to Withers in Act 1 and 2 bar the first introduction, to wondering if there's a way I can just open a debit account with him so he can resurrect people automatically for me, such is the rate they start dying in Act 3.

Dead main character makes a blue orb that you can interact with even if the body is gone.

This was new and before you'd just have to reload a save.

companions can't revive main character from whitiers they've to use the blue orb.

Blue orb also applies to companions if their bodies are gone, apparently they didn't like players putting dead companions into container and then yeeting them off cliffs.

Also in most cases you're "downed" and not "dead", you've to fail a dice roll 3 times or get attacked on the ground 3 times to die fully. The icon changes when the battle is over as the turns are no longer ticking by but you can still just help them up for free or any healing spell will also help them up. Healing word is a level 1 ranged spell and a lot of class have it and it's enough to get someone up.

If they died fully a scroll of Revivify can get them up or spell.

Had similar tonight, where I tried looting something but it wasn't working, so I figured there was nothing there. Continued on past it, picked up a few other items around the area etc, and was about to leave before I decided to try loot the big thing one more time. Approaching it from another angle worked, and also resulted in a huge story moment/revelation.

Almost completely missed it just because I was at slightly the wrong angle.

It's insane knowing that as much as I've tried scouring every nook and cranny in every area I could possibly find, there's undoubtedly still a huge amount of content I've missed by just not connecting some dots, not looting/reading everything, not having the right person in my party, or not winning an invisible skill check. Some stuff you'll miss naturally due to decisions you have to make, but so much you can miss by just not walking close enough to a wall for a skill check that reveals it's a secret door.

I'm definitely in the endgame at this stage, doesn't seem to be much left for me to do in Act 3 other than finish it, but I'll definitely be giving this another playthrough maybe around Xmas.

Also I was too harsh on Laezel. I still don't like her character, but man she can get so many attacks off in one go.

I have a few hours free tonight, I plan to pour me a glass or two of whiskey and get a good few hours in to "relax". Really looking forward to it.

Haven't had any issues. Some inventory stuff can be a bit clunky compared to PC, but I think if you haven't played the PC version it shouldn't be that big an issue, you get used to it fairly quickly.

Only looked into it in a little, but possibly. I know myself that as much as I'd aim to make different decisions, be more of a prick to everyone, have a bit more fun etc, I know I'll likely end up making most of the same decisions again just with a different build. So maybe the Dark Urge will force me to play completely differently.

In Act 3 now, biggest thing for me is that it actually feels like D&D. It is the closest I've ever felt to tabletop play, including some of the potentially ridiculous scenarios that just seem like 'ehh.....I'll allow it' rule of coolesque DM decisions.

On Act 3 myself but sort of burnt out of Baldurs Gate, have not played in well over a week.

Yeah it was one of my favourite parts of Act 3. Did my best to not really talk about it here because it's just well worth experiencing naturally.

This gave me a chuckle

Haven just gotten started on Act 3 and just hit a wall with BG3, completely burnt out of it. Not touched it in weeks.

Just picked this up on Xbox. Anyone got any starter tips or should I just dive in and wing it and see how it all plays out.

If you lose a dice roll it isn't the same as losing in another game, it just means the events take a different route. It can mean that you get something else or another route through presents itself that in the end might be better or get you something better.

Compared to the likes of a bioware game were getting the "good ending" means winning a lot, in BG3 it could mean losing a bit too. A few times I'd managed to convince people of something but you don't realize till later there's also negatives from that or there was a secret bit of info you could have used.

So don't feel the need to reload after ever dice roll loss, now there are times where the game gives you choices that you probably shouldn't have pick and they've got game ending rolls attached but other than that just see where the game goes.

Just wing it. There's really no bad choices, just your choices. Just explore as much as you can, do whatever you want, and have fun.

One thing I will say for the first few hours though, the combat can be tricky to get the hang of, especially getting used to your own abilities, the abilities of your party, and you'll probably lose a good few fights at the start until you get used to not just your powers and movement, but what your enemies can do. It's not always explained that well either. So for the first while at least, there's no real harm in reloading a save and trying a fight again from the start. Just do it for fights rather than decisions, it's a much better game if you live with your decisions and dice rolls.

I'm new to DnD style games but is every enemy encounter supposed to be difficult? you can't just blow through some minor enemies, playing on hard and getting through it slowly. I can't help but scum save some encounters to try different things, most people doing this?

I am enjoying the difficulty of it but a lot to learn