I've only just found out (after almost 90 hours) that if you hold left on the d-pad it switches your weapon from ranged to melee without using an action. So useful for those opportunity attacks.
@ApostateMage I don't think you ever need to manually switch between the two do you? You just select which attack you want in the wheel. I'm trying to work out in which situation either is not available anyway, and I can't 😅😅 like, if I have used my crossbow last (and it's on my back) I can still choose to do a melee attack on the wheel and vice versa.
What am I missing? 😬
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@Ravix There's been times where I've used a crossbow as a last action and couldn't select a melee weapon again because it was greyed out on the wheel. It was frustrating when an enemy came within melee range and I missed an Opportunity Attack because I still had my crossbow equipped. Holding the d-pad left just switches weapons without using an action or bonus action.
@ApostateMage glad it works for you, though I still can't imagine it 😆 I guess i'll chalk it up as something that never happened for me and my build. Is it only for opportunity attacks that spend a reaction? As I usually used my reactions to grant a bonus attack and/or for shield bash based stuff, so it might just never pop up the way I had mine built as my reactions would get spent most rounds anyway.
I can imagine it being quite an issue if your sentinel was trying to react with a bow from 2 yards though 😂 I never had my front liners bother with ranged weapons, Karlach especially would just throw heavy things like warhammers at people's heads for ranged attacks 😁😁 and later on a magical trident that came back after every throw that also exploded with AOE damage for hitting groups. Barbaric considering throw is available as both an action and a bonus action for barbarians and can be redone more than a few times with rage 😁
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@Ravix When I say Opportunity Attack, I mean an attack during the enemy's turn. If a foe moves in or out of melee range of a party character with 'Opportunity Attack' then it's basically a free hit. But they wouldn't do it with a ranged weapon equipped. I hope ya get me. 😄
@ApostateMage yeah, yeah. The ones that spend a 'reaction' so I was on the right track. But as it is also possible to spend/allocate reactions in other ways, opportunity attacks weren't as big for me, unless it was parking a sentinel in a choke point, which is a highly satisfying tactic. And like I say, all those who'd benefit from Opportunity attacks in my party didn't equip ranged weapons anyway, so the weapon switch problem never popped up for me when they reacted for Opportunity attacks.
Basically either I'd spent my reactions with cool features that gave me extra attacks or various shield retaliations (so in the same round if someone wandered past a character i'd usually have no reaction left as I'd spent it already) or they would have melee equipped anyway.
This is me realising how amazingly well I set up my party though haha we were incredibly efficient and lethal 😁
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@Ravix Boss 2 in the shadow lands defeated non-lethally 😁
Met the surgeon, convinced the nurses to all test their skills on (i.e. kill) each other. And then managed to convince him to kill himself too. That said, I reloaded to actually fight him (but still without the nurses).
Made more progress and just completed the portal section with Halsin which was a pretty tough fight and needed a couple of goes to succeed at
@Thrillho Haha I had exactly the same experience, and managed to avoid combat completely!
My tav is a 'Charismatic Rogue' (dumped INT and put points into CHA) so I'm passing most/all checks pretty easily, alongside being proficient in persuasion/deception.
I would have liked to have re-loaded for the actual fight, but camp supplies are short so I'll leave them in the ground as they are!
Such a mad game, love it
@CJD87 How on earth are you short on camp supplies? 😁
I feel like I’m long resting constantly and can’t move for supplies. I send anything I find in the world back to camp rather than carrying it, including alcohol (there is actually a trophy for having a long rest using only alcohol for your supplies!)
For the surgeon, I had a slightly different outcome, by the sounds of it 😁
Instead of the nurses just killing each other, I convinced the surgeon to undergo the test/trial himself at their whim, practise what you preach if you truly have faith in what you are saying etc, and they stabbed the holy bejeebus out of him 😂 then they just went on as floaty peaceful beings who had the odd line of dialogue 😁
It was absolutely brutal 😅
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@Thrillho I’m long resting like it’s going out of fashion mate! 😂😂
My inventory management is quite poor, I really need to get a lock on it. I’m actually tending to be selective in what I pick up, just to mitigate the admin of shifting it around (console UI ain’t great for this I guess)
How do you send back to camp then? And can you only access once you’re back at camp? Or in-field also? My tav becomes overburdened after picking up just a few coins!
@CJD87 If you're picking something up from a crate etc, press square and the option to send to camp is there. It gets stored in the traveller's chest that is highlighted in camp. But it's really easy to overburden your main character as they pick everything up. Offloading camp supplies frees up space quickly but it's also a good place to store weapons and armour that you want to keep hold of and try out later.
And remember you can use other characters to carry stuff too. If you split gold between the party it still all counts as one pot for the group.
I’m nearing the end now. Played it with my brother yesterday and we ended up playing for 10 hours straight. I think that’s the longest we’ve played something nonstop in co-op. We only got off because my brother had to get up early for work.
@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 😁
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