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buffalo all day posted:my only complaint is that I didn’t notice that the dang returning pike didn’t return to me and now I don’t know where it is!! I had to reload a couple times because of that in my first playthrough, and even in this playthrough sometimes it won't return if she is the one that starts a fight. With the Gith Patrol fight I did that with her up on the bridge and she had to climb down and run over to it to pick it up although thankfully I had another few weapons that I could throw on my way. The Sussur Dagger disappearing when thrown also seemed to be a consistent bug, not sure if they fixed that. I was frustrated because being able to chuck a knife to silence a single target *should* be super good but nope, you can only do it once. It also seems like at the final boss you lose anything you throw since it just falls down a bottomless pit after hitting the boss, which sucks.
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Fruits of the sea posted:The portraits aren't in the way for me at 1080p. Perhaps something to do with resolution or the UI scaling setting? Or is this a thing on XBOX and not PC? Yeah it's cause I was playing on my laptop which is 16:10 aspect ratio(2560x1600), might be able to fix it with a mod or something, dunno. Looks fine on my desktop
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buffalo all day posted:my only complaint is that I didn’t notice that the dang returning pike didn’t return to me and now I don’t know where it is!! Previous run I lost mine in the Moonlight prison and later found it on a guard.
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Moonrise Towers is a prime spot to lose it because any "you were seen committing murder, that's very naughty" cutscene can interrupt its return trajectory.
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exquisite tea posted:https://i.imgur.com/qDs2jj5.mp4 One of my ideas is to make a Dragon Disciple Poison Sorc at some point but I don't know how well it would work as there unfortunately aren't a ton of poison spells in the game, and lots of enemies resist it. But I always thought it would be cool to use some of that poisoner gear on a Sorc built for that and see how it goes. I'm sure it would be viable even if not great.
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exquisite tea posted:Moonrise Towers is a prime spot to lose it because any "you were seen committing murder, that's very naughty" cutscene can interrupt its return trajectory. I use invisible shovel to initiate all fights because of this
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I had to reload a couple times because of that in my first playthrough, and even in this playthrough sometimes it won't return if she is the one that starts a fight. With the Gith Patrol fight I did that with her up on the bridge and she had to climb down and run over to it to pick it up although thankfully I had another few weapons that I could throw on my way. The Sussur Dagger disappearing when thrown also seemed to be a consistent bug, not sure if they fixed that. I was frustrated because being able to chuck a knife to silence a single target *should* be super good but nope, you can only do it once. It also seems like at the final boss you lose anything you throw since it just falls down a bottomless pit after hitting the boss, which sucks. I think it's that the pike won't return if the character who throws it either joins a fight in progress or starts a fight and once it goes to turn-based mode some other character has higher initiative and control switches to them. Mozi fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Jan 27, 2024 |
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I noticed that the pike also just takes longer to return in moonrise and if you end turn before it comes back, it won't.
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Mozi posted:I think it's that the pike won't return if the character who throws it either joins a fight in progress or starts a fight and once it goes to turn-based mode some other character has higher initiative and control switches to them. Yeah, this happens. Plus, as I very unfortunately learned when fighting Gortash in act 3, the spear of nyurna or whatever tends to disappear out of the game if you throw it at him. Scoured Wyrm's Rock to see if it had gone up or down through a floor but nope, just blinked out of existence. Probably happens with other weapons but I stopped throwing stuff at him after that.
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I had the owner of Danthelons Dancing Axe just vanish from the game and I didn’t even throw him 
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:I use invisible shovel to initiate all fights because of this That's a weird way of spelling basket
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Jan 27, 2024 21:01
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this game has the highest concentration of condescending haughty british women ever
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Eau de MacGowan posted:this game has the highest concentration of condescending haughty british women ever It has some rare subtypes of this type of person. I can't think of the last time I was exposed to a butch haughty British woman.
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Eau de MacGowan posted:this game has the highest concentration of condescending haughty british women ever And I want to romance them all
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I've been thinking about doing a heavy armour, str-based ranger. And idk what weapon type to go for
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Jay Rust posted:I've been thinking about doing a heavy armour, str-based ranger. And idk what weapon type to go for Club of Hill Giant Strength and Titanstring Bow?
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Mr. Lobe posted:It has some rare subtypes of this type of person. I can't think of the last time I was exposed to a butch haughty British woman. are you talking about karlach? karlach’s not haughty or condescending which is why she rules the only other two women ive encountered who arent haughty, condescending, and british is jaheira, who is haughty and condescending but not british, and nine-fingers, who is condescending and british but not haughty
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Trevor Hale posted:And I want to romance them all if minsc and jaheira are back, then theres always hope the og haughty condescending british woman viconia is back too 
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Yo Orin mimicking Durge was sick. She doesn't do that to Tav right? I think I'd remember if she did.
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:Yo Orin mimicking Durge was sick. She doesn't do that to Tav right? I think I'd remember if she did. That entire segment made me pretty desperately want a handful of voiced monolouges where it would make sense. Honestly its pretty good at least for voice 5.
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:Yo Orin mimicking Durge was sick. She doesn't do that to Tav right? I think I'd remember if she did.
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Lawman 0 posted:That entire segment made me pretty desperately want a handful of voiced monolouges where it would make sense. Yeah that was the best bit, it's like oh poo poo that's my voice! Stop using that!! I know people rave about Durge being the real game and I think not making it the default was the correct call, but... yeah it is the real game.
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Making Dark Urge optional was 100% correct, imagine the bellyaching over Fallout 4 forcing the player to have a specific backstory but a million times worse. That said I can't imagine without it, the connection to the Act 3 villains is huge alone. They must be just Some Assholes otherwise, right?
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Ditching the original framing for the tadpole and not going Maximum Psychosexual was the real narrative mistake.
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I actually greatly appreciate the Dark Urge not being the default story, as much as I greatly enjoy it. The simple reason for that is that not everyone is here to buy in with that from the jump. It takes, I would say, I fair amount of trust to engage with a game putting the stuff Dark Urge gets up to front and center in good faith, and isn't pure Bloober Team-tier shlock/shock factor about it. And for how good BG3 is, that's a bar that Larian does not always clear, though they clear it enough to call it a good faith effort.
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mycot posted:Making Dark Urge optional was 100% correct, imagine the bellyaching over Fallout 4 forcing the player to have a specific backstory but a million times worse. That said I can't imagine without it, the connection to the Act 3 villains is huge alone. They must be just Some Assholes otherwise, right? I hate Gortash because he's such a dickhead to Karlach, and he comes up more in other ways as well I feel. Orin only really has a connection with Minthara, which makes how unfinished she is even more disappointing. I really wanna include her but she has even less to say about most of what's going on than the others. Her "Nobody would have remembered me." line is so good though.
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Durge feels more like Vampire Bloodlines’ Malkavian where the player gets a lot more out of it having played once or twice already.
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I don't think I would have enjoyed durge on my first run because the story is very specific and I wanted to play my own guy (basically elf Jack Bauer). As a second run it's great.
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Cavelcade posted:I hate Gortash because he's such a dickhead to Karlach, and he comes up more in other ways as well I feel. Orin only really has a connection with Minthara, which makes how unfinished she is even more disappointing. I really wanna include her but she has even less to say about most of what's going on than the others. Her "Nobody would have remembered me." line is so good though. Oh yeah that's true, Gortash is actually involved in a lot of the plots in Baldur's Gate the city, including Wyll's, the gnomes, and even a small part in The Emperor's backstory. Orin lives in a cave, kinda difficult to network that way.
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Shumagorath posted:Durge feels more like Vampire Bloodlines’ Malkavian where the player gets a lot more out of it having played once or twice already. 100% Monathin posted:I actually greatly appreciate the Dark Urge not being the default story, as much as I greatly enjoy it. Also agree with this because the content in the first act honestly almost made me give up on it because the over the top edginess of it. Frankly the dark urge is in general in pretty obvious need of some script/scene editing and sprucing up to things like companion reactivity especially which is a bit of a mess. Lawman 0 fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Jan 28, 2024 |
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I've played through as Tav on PC and have a second Tav in Act 2 making some different choices and playing on Tactician, and I'm halfway through Act 3 on my first PS5 playthrough as Tav... I like making characters. But I started a Durge playthrough today so I can stop avoiding all the spoiler tags about the differences in the stories. I don't really enjoy playing evil in RPGs so I'm probably going to be resisting. It's also my first guy character and also my first dragonborn! 
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The Berzerker posted:I've played through as Tav on PC and have a second Tav in Act 2 making some different choices and playing on Tactician, and I'm halfway through Act 3 on my first PS5 playthrough as Tav... I like making characters. I really, really like the default look of the dark urge when I actually started up as him on a lark and got a good look at it. Very striking with all the coloring and the red eyes.
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Default Durge is indeed a great-looking design and Dragonborn really runs away with the Rip and Tear look. I want to make a custom Durge but it's hard to improve on.
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I did change default Durge a little bit, mostly different head frills and slightly different coloring but it is a cool look. I've also never played a sorcerer which seems like it will be fun!
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Shumagorath posted:Default Durge is indeed a great-looking design and Dragonborn really runs away with the Rip and Tear look. I want to make a custom Durge but it's hard to improve on. Human old jerk with a big moustache for me.
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Eau de MacGowan posted:are you talking about karlach? karlach’s not haughty or condescending which is why she rules Laezel is pretty butch, real insistent on being the strongest and toughest
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Lawman 0 posted:100% Re: Companion reactivity, it is extremely funny to me how (early Durge spoilers) After you kill The Bard, if you try to go "hey, guys I uhhhh might be a serial killer? I literally came to mid post-death mutilation of the body" every one of your companions go 'ehhhh it's probably a tadpole thing, let's not worry about it', especially because it's obvious that Larian doesn't account for you trying to spill the beans that early. You're right though that it's more than a bit of a mess. Monathin fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Jan 28, 2024 |
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Monathin posted:Re: Companion reactivity, it is extremely funny to me how (early Durge spoilers) After you kill The Bard, if you try to go "hey, guys I uhhhh might be a serial killer? I literally came to mid post-death mutilation of the body" every one of your companions go 'ehhhh it's probably a tadpole thing, let's not worry about it', especially because it's obvious that Larian doesn't account for you trying to spill the beans that early. The main ones I got on my mind that need improvement are the following. 1:moonrise towers entrance 2: mind flayer colony revelations 3: Bhaalspawn revelation 4: meeting gortash 5: reactions to rejecting Bhaal especially from romanced companions. The script is so overstuffed though that I don't think they need to go too crazy.
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Monathin posted:Re: Companion reactivity, it is extremely funny to me how (early Durge spoilers) After you kill The Bard, if you try to go "hey, guys I uhhhh might be a serial killer? I literally came to mid post-death mutilation of the body" every one of your companions go 'ehhhh it's probably a tadpole thing, let's not worry about it', especially because it's obvious that Larian doesn't account for you trying to spill the beans that early. The correct option is to blame Astarion
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