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Canonically, the BG 1 and 2 name is Abdel Adrian
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What on earth is up with the camera in this game. Only played a few hours but it's pretty bizarre how limited the range of movement is, particularly the fact you can't look horizontally or up. They seem to have spent vast resources making the amazing environments but you can't see them because the camera has to be pointing down like it's 2002 and we're playing Neverwinter Nights where the devs didn't bother to put underside faces on any of the scenery meshes because they locked the camera angles. Looks like there's a camera mod I'll have to check out, I'm just very surprised that the thing has been designed like this in the first place, who actually likes this?
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Mar 3, 2024 20:06
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It's an isometric CRPG in the tradition of the Infinity Engine games that came before it. Pretty much everyone unless they're making a youtube video plays fully zoomed out and uses the QE and WASD keys to move the camera. If you need to really zoom out for something, press O for tactical view.
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Mar 3, 2024 20:09
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El Grillo posted:What on earth is up with the camera in this game. Only played a few hours but it's pretty bizarre how limited the range of movement is, particularly the fact you can't look horizontally or up. They seem to have spent vast resources making the amazing environments but you can't see them because the camera has to be pointing down like it's 2002 and we're playing Neverwinter Nights where the devs didn't bother to put underside faces on any of the scenery meshes because they locked the camera angles. If you think it sucks now just wait til you get to multi story indoor areas! Oh you wanted to climb to high ground? Too bad the camera literally won’t zoom out enough to render the area you want to move to for some reason It’s definitely janky as gently caress and one of the few things I can complain about in this game
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Mar 3, 2024 20:14
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Docjowles posted:If you think it sucks now just wait til you get to multi story indoor areas! Oh you wanted to climb to high ground? Too bad the camera literally won’t zoom out enough to render the area you want to move to for some reason Yeah I can't in good conscience call this game a 10/10 with the horrible camera and awful inventoy system. Strong 9 for sure but that poo poo drives me nuts.
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Mar 3, 2024 20:20
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Lobok posted:Yeah but Gus tends to be a masculine name. And Tavernicus isn’t?
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Mar 3, 2024 21:55
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Black Noise posted:And Tavernicus isn’t? It could be short for Tavernica
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Mar 3, 2024 22:02
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Before I realized it was the default name I thought it was slang for The Avatar
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Mar 3, 2024 22:08
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ZearothK posted:Codename for the game was Project GusTav (which is the name of Larian's CEO's dog, the model for Scratch). Also stands for Tadpoled AdVenturer. Also the final letter of the Hebrew alphabet. I got her in my second playthrough and she basically bugged until far enough in act three that it was the right lines and hasn’t ever advanced past it. The rest of her dialogue tree works just not the opening lines when you talk to her. She also bugged another way where she has to be party leader or she won’t follow. I think this is because I tried to bring her back into moonrise to see what would happen but it makes her really annoying to bring along Medullah posted:Before I realized it was the default name I thought it was slang for The Avatar Ah yep the dragon age naming convention lol
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Mar 3, 2024 22:28
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Kingtheninja posted:What's the fastest way to break an oath of devotion without killing the two tieflings? Fantasize about hacking off the disembodied hand.
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Mar 3, 2024 22:41
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Docjowles posted:If you think it sucks now just wait til you get to multi story indoor areas! Oh you wanted to climb to high ground? Too bad the camera literally won’t zoom out enough to render the area you want to move to for some reason The camera fades out the rafters inside so they don't block the entire view, but they also fade out the enemies. You end up playing this game where you have to find the right angle to where the model for the enemy even appears for you to click on. Then the camera resets, so you have to find the guy in the rafters every single turn for everybody who needs to find him. Also sightlines on high ground are messed up. A guy will just casually stroll back and forth across the ceiling while a bloodbath happens twelve feet below him. Happens multiple times in the goblin camp alone You can also cheese the ai into climbing walls single file into your killbox Arms_Akimbo fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Mar 3, 2024 |
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Mar 3, 2024 23:03
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Kingtheninja posted:What's the fastest way to break an oath of devotion without killing the two tieflings? I think you can do it, but turning on passive where you don't kill people, then hit the rogues at the temple. Then, kill them when they are knocked out.
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Mar 3, 2024 23:04
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I rationalised it as Tav, as in Tavern, where DnD-style adventures begin a lot. Does a Durge character have the same in-world lines as a Tav one? There's something quite funny about the willing avatar of the God of Murder muttering about being cursed to put their hands on everything
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Mar 3, 2024 23:30
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They get the same Tav dialogue interspersed with "must... kill" style Durge quips.
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Mar 3, 2024 23:33
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They'll all bleed for me wish I had a bag of holding nobody back home will ever believe this I'LL WADE THROUGH YOUR ENTRAILS
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Mar 3, 2024 23:54
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'shouldn't have wished to live in more interesting times' is a slightly odd one in that context
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Mar 4, 2024 00:45
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You can only eat so many babies before you start to wonder if there's more to life you know
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Mar 4, 2024 00:47
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An Taoiseach posted:I rationalised it as Tav, as in Tavern, where DnD-style adventures begin a lot. Baseline Durge is definitely unwilling, though? If you listen to the character intro of the base Durge (white dragonborn sorceror), he makes this grandiose Poe-style speech about the tragedy of his existence and his terrible urges.
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Mar 4, 2024 00:55
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Gatto Grigio posted:Baseline Durge is definitely unwilling, though? Talking to Gortash and reading his notes make it pretty clear that before you got Orin'd you were extremely into your job, but there's also a few hints that maybe your destiny as a Baalspawn was never set in stone. In play you've definitely got the option to lean into either being a gleeful bloodthirsty serial killer or a tragic figure with a monster inside of them that they don't understand.
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Mar 4, 2024 01:19
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this Keyheric thorm fight is driving me loving nuts. one guy gets instant gibbed by the drider, everyone else gets frightened, someone gets domed by the necromite spell and the nightsong just fights the dog. I got hosed up by the long fight beforehand and can’t long rest. I’m level 8 with 1k xp to go before level 9. should I just reload and try to find some way to level? I feel like I’ve done everything but apparently you can go into the fight at level 10 so I have to be missing some stuff. My party is paladin druid barb fighter.
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Mar 4, 2024 01:25
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Ghislaine of YOSPOS posted:this Keyheric thorm fight is driving me loving nuts. one guy gets instant gibbed by the drider, everyone else gets frightened, someone gets domed by the necromite spell and the nightsong just fights the dog. I got hosed up by the long fight beforehand and can’t long rest. I’m level 8 with 1k xp to go before level 9. should I just reload and try to find some way to level? I feel like I’ve done everything but apparently you can go into the fight at level 10 so I have to be missing some stuff. My party is paladin druid barb fighter. Are there any active quests left?
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Mar 4, 2024 01:30
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exquisite tea posted:They get the same Tav dialogue interspersed with "must... kill" style Durge quips. I did my first Durge playthrough and didn't get any murder-themed lines at all, and then was surprised when replaying it recently to suddenly get all these crazy lines about ripping open people's guts when I was trying to play a Sorry Cop, it was pretty jarring and didn't fit with my memory or the character I was trying to play. Experimented about a bunch and learned that Voices 7 and 8 don't get the Durge lines so if you want to play a Durge who isn't constantly licking their lips about how much humanoid offal they want for supper, those are the voices to go for.
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Mar 4, 2024 02:11
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Ghislaine of YOSPOS posted:this Keyheric thorm fight is driving me loving nuts. one guy gets instant gibbed by the drider, everyone else gets frightened, someone gets domed by the necromite spell and the nightsong just fights the dog. I got hosed up by the long fight beforehand and can’t long rest. I’m level 8 with 1k xp to go before level 9. should I just reload and try to find some way to level? I feel like I’ve done everything but apparently you can go into the fight at level 10 so I have to be missing some stuff. My party is paladin druid barb fighter. This is the rooftop fight right? Can't you just walk out of moonrise to long rest? If you haven't gotten the "Road to Baldur's Gate" waypoint, you can level up around there still
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Mar 4, 2024 02:12
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An Taoiseach posted:I rationalised it as Tav, as in Tavern, where DnD-style adventures begin a lot. There's a lot of Durge exclusive lines like "Pave my path in corpses. Build my throne from bones." and "How many die today...how many die tomorrow." when you're just clicking around navigating the world.
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Mar 4, 2024 02:32
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How many die today might just be a custom character line because the custom characters have all said that. Or they all got the Durge.
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Mar 4, 2024 02:43
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Black Noise posted:How many die today might just be a custom character line because the custom characters have all said that. Iirc it's a new bug.
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Mar 4, 2024 03:01
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They’ve been saying lines like this since launch. I didn’t put mods in until Last Light.
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Mar 4, 2024 03:33
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While we're talking Durge, when some of you say 'canon Durge', does that mean you're playing resist? Have the devs said somewhere that's the canonical Durge playthrough somewhere? I'm yet to give that particular origin a go so am just curious on where the canonical idea has come from
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Mar 4, 2024 04:09
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Ghislaine of YOSPOS posted:this Keyheric thorm fight is driving me loving nuts. one guy gets instant gibbed by the drider, everyone else gets frightened, someone gets domed by the necromite spell and the nightsong just fights the dog. I got hosed up by the long fight beforehand and can’t long rest. I’m level 8 with 1k xp to go before level 9. should I just reload and try to find some way to level? I feel like I’ve done everything but apparently you can go into the fight at level 10 so I have to be missing some stuff. My party is paladin druid barb fighter. yeah like someone else said you should be able to just walk back out of the tower after the big battle and long rest before heading upstairs. That alone should help a lot. Unfortunately after passing the "point of no return" with Shadowheart's stuff all the quests in act 2 pretty much shut down. So if you wanna reload and level some more you're gonna have to go back a ways. It's hard to say what XP you might have missed since there is so much goddam poo poo to do in this game, in both act 1 and act 2. I... don't think I encountered either a Drider or dog in my fight? Early in the act did you do the quest where Harpers ambush the Drider and get a moonlantern? Did you choose to side with the cultists over the Harpers? In both of my games I've killed him so I didn't even realize he could be part of the fight. If you somehow skipped that entirely then that could also explain why he's there and you're short on XP. I'm reasonably sure I didn't fight the dog either, maybe cause I made friends with him in Ketheric's chamber earlier in the act? Idk. Anyway yeah with 2 more significant enemies I can see why that fight is kicking your rear end. Maybe try to get off some turn undead or hold person or confusion or something to take them out of the fight for a few rounds while you focus down a target. For what it's worth I just ignored the stupid skeletons til after Ketheric was dead, but that might not work if it is taking many turns to get him down Docjowles fucked around with this message at 04:30 on Mar 4, 2024 |
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Mar 4, 2024 04:20
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Rev. Melchisedech Howler posted:While we're talking Durge, when some of you say 'canon Durge', does that mean you're playing resist? Have the devs said somewhere that's the canonical Durge playthrough somewhere? I'm yet to give that particular origin a go so am just curious on where the canonical idea has come from I think they mean the default race/class when you choose durge. Dragon born sorc.
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Mar 4, 2024 04:22
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Docjowles posted:If you think it sucks now just wait til you get to multi story indoor areas! Oh you wanted to climb to high ground? Too bad the camera literally won’t zoom out enough to render the area you want to move to for some reason I'm doing the artiat/mansion quest in Act 3 right now and I'm honestly about to just skip it and move on because the camera sucks in there.
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Mar 4, 2024 04:28
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Squibbles posted:I think they mean the default race/class when you choose durge. Dragon born sorc. Aha, thank you. Looks like I conflated a few posts of people playing canon Durge with resist as if they were the same thing 10 Beers posted:I'm doing the artiat/mansion quest in Act 3 right now and I'm honestly about to just skip it and move on because the camera sucks in there. This is why one of several reasons that one of the various camera mods if you're on PC is required. Being able to zoom onto floor level so you can tilt up and select targets above. Not sure how it works on controller, but maybe a work around if modding isn't possible would be to use the enemy thumbnails to target them? With a mouse you can right click those and attack from there Rev. Melchisedech Howler fucked around with this message at 04:35 on Mar 4, 2024 |
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Mar 4, 2024 04:31
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10 Beers posted:I'm doing the artiat/mansion quest in Act 3 right now and I'm honestly about to just skip it and move on because the camera sucks in there. lol yeah that may be the actual rock bottom for camera mechanics. It took me way too long to figure out why I was taking random damage cause I couldn't even figure out where my characters loving were. I felt like I was back playing Mario 64 or something from before game devs really understood 3D e: 5 minutes after posting this, I have a fight where I waste multiple attacks because I think I am clicking on a monster but the game decided I really wanted monk Astarion to punch the air right next to the monster. Why is this even possible Docjowles fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Mar 4, 2024 |
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Mar 4, 2024 04:32
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This fat bastard is stuck halfway down the hole, how can I knock them the rest of the way into the underdark so I can get that sweet necklace
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Mar 4, 2024 04:35
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Hello it looks like you ran through the front door of a haunted house and are having a bad time. Did you consider the roof?
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Mar 4, 2024 05:08
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Is there any way to get the Orphic Hammer out of the house without triggering the fight? Aside from agreeing to Raphael's deal, obviously.
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Mar 4, 2024 05:22
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Shockeh posted:Is there any way to get the Orphic Hammer out of the house without triggering the fight? Aside from agreeing to Raphael's deal, obviously. no
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Mar 4, 2024 05:32
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I never had any particular camera problems skill issue imo.
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Rev. Melchisedech Howler posted:While we're talking Durge, when some of you say 'canon Durge', does that mean you're playing resist? Have the devs said somewhere that's the canonical Durge playthrough somewhere? I'm yet to give that particular origin a go so am just curious on where the canonical idea has come from canon in this case also respects the rest of the Forgotten Realms, so playing evil Durge changes the canon world, whereas resist Durge saves the day and restores the status quo (Gale for example also has a canon ending while Shadowheart doesn't)
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The FR canon status quo is so mid tho
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