@Thrillho thanks for this tip, appreciated and I’ll start doing this straight away!
Yeah currently I am using all characters for inventory mgmt - Lae’Zel carries all the weapons for instance, as she has a fairly high tolerance for weight (Gale has my scrolls, cash and general potions… Shart has my armours etc)
Due to the scope of this game, even in the latter stages of Act 2 I’m still uncovering ‘basic’ tips that would have largely helped me in Act 1!
Who is your party btw? I sadly shelved Astarion in camp due to my tav being a Rogue class… so I have Shart/Gale/LZ.
I know Astarion gets a lot of praise for voice-work and character writing (rightly so) but I also think Gale is absolutely solid! He irritated me a bit early-game, but as his story unfolds and you learn more about him I actually think he is a quality character. Has some funny lines as well, and his delivery is so good.
In fairness all the VAs are really good - Raphael is gas as well
@CJD87 LZ and Karlach are the stalwarts of my party but the final slot has rotated between Gale, Halsin, Shadowheart, and even Astarion depending on what I'm up to.
At level 8 I've unlocked some neat abilities; sharpshooter for Tav helps with his sneaky archery; Astarion can dual wield most swords now; LZ and Karlach both have great weapon master so they can increase the chance of a critical hit with an accuracy penalty but crits give a bonus point extra attack.
I'm well into act 2 now though with Shadowheart's quest and Moonrise...
I cleared the mausoleum/the Shadowheart character mission. I've had a couple of reloads from messing things up though; fighting Balthazar by Nightsong was too tricky so I went back and killed him where you first meet him. I then freed Nightsong but hadn't been into Moonrise yet so failed saving the gnomes and tieflings so had to reload an older save, kill Balthazar again, and then go into Moonrise with Nightsong still in place for now.
@Thrillho oh noooo, pretty sure I warned you all about trusting the point of no return messages from act 2 onwards 😂😂 at least you get to play more of the game by redoing everything 😬😁
Anyway, I came into the thread to simply say, the game has broken me. I was enjoying hogwarts legacy well enough, but I kind of just stopped playing it for a few days as it isn't Baldur's Gate 3. Damn 😅 it's similar to the Elden Ring effect, although I followed that game by playing modern classics like GoW for the first time, and even though I still craved more varied and harder boss fights in GoW because of it, it was great enough to keep my attention locked.
HL, not so much, despite it being lovely and chill, and great to look at, the characters are like ubisoft light, or UbiZero atm, just floaty pieces of nothing that say random words at you while stood there being sort of animated, but also sort of not very animated. (Mo Cap in BG3 was great too, for expressions and delivery) and obviously the drop off in caring about anything these floaty lumps say compared to genuine emotional turmoil and decisions in BG3 is massive.
Might have to break out my last TW3 playthough to make up for the emptiness 😁
When it seems you're out of luck.
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@Bentleyma@Ravix Man, that’s awesome, but also simultaneously concerning. I get what y’all are saying, in that the game just set a new bar, but I hope it doesn’t have a lasting effect in that regard.
I wonder what it would be like to go back to Divinity Original Sin II now for you (if you haven’t played it yet). I suspect it also might feel disappointing in comparison. Probably the thing to do is steer clear of RPGs for a while. Play some puzzle games or a sports game or something so different that your brain won’t compare it to BG3. Power Wash Simulator or GT7 or something.
That’s partly why I’ve put off Elden Ring so far — I want to make my way through all the Dark Souls games first so they wouldn’t potentially be ruined by doing ER first and then have to go back.
@ApostateMage I also captured that exact same moment on the ps5 😂😂😂😂😂 reminded me of Billy Connolly, dont know if it's an actual reference, but it seems like the kind of thing he'd have sung on stage as part of one of his stand up tales 😁
@Bentleyma@Th3solution I may be broken, but you do get over it eventually. Just with Hogwarts being mostly young characters they are a bit bland compared to the fully formed, and complex adults who are also superbly well acted in bg3. There's loads of other games where you care about the characters, so it's not all doom and gloom 😁 and ill get back to enjoying HL at some point
When it seems you're out of luck.
There's just one man who gives a f*************ck
⚔️🛡🐎
@Ravix Luckily it didn’t set me back too much but it felt kind of weird that the stuff in Moonrise Tower would disappear… before storming the tour. It makes sense now I’ve actually been there now though.
Everyone rescued from the dungeon and Sazza saved for a third time to get the trophy Picked off a few guards where I safely could as well. Just ready to actually lead the charge now!
@Ravix Despite it being my personal GOTY, if I’m honest, you’ve got a legitimate complaint about the characters in Hogwart’s Legacy. Especially early on, the main NPCs feel quite bland in retrospect. Of course the main protagonist is mostly a blank slate anyways, but the other story characters don’t do much to excite until later on. The villains are probably the least interesting aspect; the allies do come alive in the second half, narratively speaking. Two of the three main side-quest focused classmates’ stories end up being quite good and there’s some legit character development for a couple of them. The one girl I didn’t really care for, partly because her voice acting was so uninspired, but the others I grew quite attached to. And a couple of the professors have great personalities. But unfortunately the early hours is burdened with exposition, world building, and tutorials so it doesn’t hit its stride for a while, from a character development standpoint.
Sorry to veer off topic. 😅 But I am looking forward to getting to know all the BG3 characters. They sound brilliant!
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution It’s really hard to know who to have in your party as they’re all such great characters with fab voice acting.
I’m just hoping I haven’t messed up romancing anyone; my guy did the dirty with Lae’zel early on and then booted her before dancing with a kissing Wyll before giving him the boot too. No one seems interested in me now
@Thrillho Word is traveling through camp that you’re a playa’ 😂
I usually do harem playthroughs if the rpg will let me. Persona 5 was madness romancing everyone and then on Valentines Day they all found out I was cheating on them. That was rough. 😂
Seems BG3 may not take kindly to infidelity.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution It's a weird one as quite early on in the game there's a main event after which there's a party and everyone seemed to be horny for my guy at that point. They've obviously got to know him too well by now and are less keen now they've sobered up
I've just finished Moonrise now. Some fun areas and fights towards the end of that one!
I've also managed to get this far in the game completely forgetting that multi classing is a thing so I'm not sure whether to start messing around with that or not.
Also something I only just learnt that might help you @CJD87 is that stealth attacks on your rogue can be considered reactions. If you go to the reaction menu for your character (separate tab via the inventory screen if you didn't know) you can turn it on. Whenever you use attack or ranged attack and the option of making it a stealth attack is available, a reaction pop up will come up asking if you want to use it (no reason not to). Saves having to keep checking whether they're directly available.
I also learnt that having a character next to an enemy gives you advantage so stealth attacks can be used. Seeing as the rogue normally has the most initiative in the party and goes first, it can be beneficial to swap to one of your melee characters first, attack with them, and then use your stealth attack from the rogue after.
@Thrillho Thanks man! The stealth attack mechanic was actually something I knew (about time I had something sussed eh) as my Tav is a 'Charismatic Rogue'.... basically dumped INT on character creation and fed the points into CHA instead. So my tav works as a good face character, proficient in deception/persuasion and also a solid attacker as Rogue/Assassin.
I'm looking to return to BG3 next week once I've beaten 'The Last Faith'. The break has done me good (mid act 2) as I was approaching burnout and didn't want to risk ruining a great game!
I’m still very early in act 3 but visited the circus where I have been turned into a wheel of cheese (before reloading and having the same guy banish me to a jungle full of dinosaurs) and just completed the fight with “Dribbles” and the creatures there which was tough as I was wandering around with a random party of Astarion, Shadowheart, and Jaheira as I thought they’d be interesting people to enter the city with
I'm approaching the end of my first playthrough, which based on the quest journal and the extent to which I've explored I think has been a pretty thorough one. Just a couple of companion quests to finish, House of Hope/ Lae'zel and Gale's is showing as unresolved (although that looks as though it might be tied to the final boss) and the final netherstone from Orin (also the murder tribunal quest which I am assuming is connected) .
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