Topic: Baldur's Gate 3

I’ve made some headway but stopped to smell the roses a little tonight and understand some of the systems a bit better, a couple of hours messing around in the menus but things are making more sense now.

Also I figured out long holding up gets out the torch, and a single press is a hot button for jump, which helps lol. Oh, and hold down for stealth

@kyleforrester87 Which button is it to Spread Jam?

@JohnnyShoulder square

Cheers @Elodin partially confusing, but I'll get there. It's mostly because all classes, terms and systems are new to me, so I'm just working it out as best I can before starting on my journey and getting completely overwhelmed.

Most importantly, other than getting the game, (which I've had to force myself not to buy a few times already this week, as if I do I will download it, and if I download it I will start it, and if I start it I will never, ever finish FF16) I think I've got my name down 😅 I'm leaning towards some kind of half-elf sword bard, which I'm assuming will be pretty darn agile on top of being poetic and charismatic. But I'll have a good look before I finally lock in whether to go Lore instead.

I wish there was a feature for multiple names, so you could have an Elven name, a translated name and a stage name 😁 because Splendiferous Silverblood, known to his people as Ysblenydd Gwaed-Arian, and to his fans as The Splendid Silver-Blood needs all the recognition he can get 😁

Or Silver Tongue 🤦‍♂️ but that would require some acrobatic headcanon to why silvertongue is a family name, I suppose 👀

Playing as a drow seems really interesting too. It appears that Larian has put a lot of effort into races via dialogue choices etc

Would a Seldarine Drow Bard (or some sort of half elf variant) with penchant for rapiers, sneaking, charming and swindling be a good build? 👀

There was a BG3 update a few days ago. Since then, whenever I play the game, I get a PS5 overheating error. Even after half an hour. This does not happen with any other game. I know we have a heatwave in the UK at the moment but this is very odd. Has anyone else experienced this or know of it?

@Throb I’ve had it a couple times. I don’t think it happened during gameplay though. It happened once on the levelling up screen but I’ve tried to replicate what I thought was the cause of the issue but I haven’t had any problems since.

@Throb @KAIRU there were reports of this for FF16 too, but I think that was performance mode only.

What graphics setting/fps have you got for BG3? As switching to the other might be a temporary fix. Also seen people saying an extra fan is helping, so maybe when the weather gets back to normal the issue goes with it 🤞

I was about to check out the character creator, but I'm now a little nervous, as there's no save within that and I don't want to do half an hour of miniscule edits and then have it crash on me 🤣

@KAIRU @Ravix I've got mine on the 60 FPS setting. I've just been playing COD for 2 hours and nothing. I think they need to patch something?

On a different note, this game is bloody hard! I turned it down to Explorer and it's hard as nails

Any got a full RP backstory down for their character outside of the provided mini blurb and traits etc. I'd love to hear them? 😄

@Ravix If you’ve heard of the ‘Modern Rogue’ YouTube channel (which I highly recommend checking out), that’s basically mine in a nutshell.

The ultimate gentleman (woman, in my Rogue’s case), warrior and scoundrel.

I havent heard of that, but I can kind of guess at how that plays out based on other media etc. @KAIRU I settled on wood half-elf Bard. In my headcanon, I Started off as a pickpocket in the city surviving any way I can, because as a child my mother was murdered as she covered my escape, by thugs sent by my father, no less. He had realised she hadn't abandoned me like they had agreed, you see and he was some kind of military leader, who can't be seen as having Elven b*stards lol. Moved on to hustling and performing to get away from the low level crime bosses etc etc, not a bad person but have the skills required to hustle, deceive and charm. The usual street kid making their way into a better place type thing. Skills: Acrobatics, Sleight of Hand, Stealth, Deception, Performance and Pursuasion. Which seem like a fun to play mix. Usual bardy attributes 16 DEX 17 CHA, but I added more wisdom and less intelligence, as that seemed more like street smarts. (May that bite me later on)

Then when I finished the character creation, I realised that you had to pick a "guardian" and that guardian is now the spitting image of my wood elf mother, so I'm excited to see what headcanon twists and turns that could bring about 🤣

I'm going to RP the hell out of this game, but hopefully from now on, using Larians own writing 😁 and sinply making choices based on my loose idea of how my character would exist in this world and situation.

Money well spent already, I say 🤣

@Ravix Yeah, truthfully, I didn’t actually put that much thought into the backstory and lore of my character in the beginning. I might do it for future ones though, as I do have a few ideas floating around in my head. 😅

@KAIRU when in rome/RPG 😆 I can't help it. Although I've already pulled a brain out, which wasn't very me, but I'm blaming the parasite, for now 🤣

@Ravix My RP background is very similar to yours. Half elf bard. He is good when he can be, but survived on stealing and having a natural violin talent to get by. His smart mouth has been a cause of many fisticuffs as well. His biggest downfall is he hates Goblins. What got him into his predicament was Goblins raided and killed his parents when they were in a caravan going from city to city. He was young, but still felt guilty for hiding and not helping save his family. Now whenever he sees goblin, he immediately attacks regardless of outcome. He has always been curious and grown fond of any knowledge he can find. He is a collector of books and one day hopes to open a library that can match even the great Candlekeep. I roleplayall my decisions off of this. Quite fun so far.

Just had to download an update, maybe it's a fix for the overheat??? My son has been playing Goat Sim 3 for hours and no message came up, so fingers crossed

@Throb had zero issues on BG3 today, got the update today also (not read patch notes) I've been using quality mode for now, just incase that helped too. And it's running fine for me at that fps, so not needed to up that to performance yet to test that out.

Game looks great also, much better than I thought it would, and better than stuff I've seen on YouTube.

It gets in your head like a parasite too, watching some NFL and i'm thinking about selling all the loot I've collected so far and doing some exploring xD

I’m enjoying reading about everyone’s experiences with the game. General consensus is overwhelmingly positive but the steep learning curve is concerning. Not that I haven’t played plenty of games over the years they require a lot of time and internet research to learn and get the most from. Lately my busy life has hampered some gaming experiences, since I have irregular free time. Therefore, long games can be tough to invest in, especially if they are skill based. But if a game is easy to drop in and out of then this might be good to have running alongside other games. Given its turn based nature does this seem like a game that can be managed as a second game? Or are the systems complex enough that one needs to devote fully to it because of losing one’s way if you take a break for a couple weeks?

And second question, how’s the co-op? Compared to playing solo does it add a more enjoyable experience?

@LN78 Makes sense. Even without the reaction-time, muscle-memory aspects, there’s the plot and systems navigation which could be forgotten. Since this game is so long, I think I would like to have this playing on the side where I could not get bogged down on one game for months, but chances are I’d either end up obsessed with it and eschew all else or I’d fall off of it by being lost each time I tried to pick it back up.

@Th3solution

other... games? 👀

I say go for it. It's a game that you can think about whilst you aren't playing it, using the old back of the mind processing to absorb stuff you've done, or semi plan for your next time out. And once you have it down, I don't think it will be that easy to forget. And if you RP your character a bit, you will probably be familiar with the types of choices you've made

I started on explorer, just to get a sense of the combat, and I might up it to the regular mode in a session or two's time when I'm familiar with my preferred parties strengths and weaknesses. As (other than accidentally on purpose kamikazeing Gale into oblivion with fire and oil barrels 😎) I've not been too badly threatened as yet or had to redo any battles. And that was all while keeping my first level up on hold, as a weird habit I have of only upgrading when I really need to was at play (I've since levelled up, because in this game I think its silly to gate myself out of cool abilities to try out, and I'm nearly at enough xp for lvl3 anyway, so dont want to have to add too many skills in one go)

Also, it seems like a game where you just decide what you want to do. After the prologue I kind of just wandered around with some party members I gathered from the first area, talked my way out of a fight before falling down a hole and forcing myself into a battle I wasn't expecting 😅 exploring some ruins, pondering whether to try and clear the entire ruin before wandering off too far, and then clearing that entire ruin. Then finally setting up a camp to see what happens with the camping mechanic.

I'd actually say it's a game that requires taking a little time off from, to reset and stop oneself falling into the traps of RPG "goalongwitheverything-itus" my character and the group I have, clearly has no place for a raging githyanki, yet because its a game I end up thinking, oh, I'll try them out for a while, as I don't have a tank yet. But the dynamic of the group suffers. So I've decided next time I play, I'll just send them back to the camp to basically be a headcanon guard for my loot chest and bed while we adventure without her 😁

So my party will be me, a half elf, roguey-duelist, face of the group, bard. A moody mysterious Cleric who I've turned into a part support Cleric part spartan sheild warrior, just because it looks cool and I found a nice spear for her. A full on rogue and charlaton & a very cheeky sod, who just fits in for banter despite his skills kind of being sinilar to my own, and a silly Wizard for crowd control and reading books. The Gith is so far removed from their personalities so I'll just have to make do with no tank for now 😅

But if i'd have kept playing, I'd not have come to that realisation as I'd be too taken in with playing it