this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2024

183 points (98.4% liked)

Baldur's Gate 3

7215 readers

3 users here now

All things BG3!

Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)

Spoilers

If your post contains any possible spoilers, please:

Use the text [SPOILER] at the beginning of your title, do not include any spoilers in the title.
Use the appropriate spoiler markup to conceal that content in the body of your post.

Thank you!

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

183

Having surrendered Act 3 of BG3 until I get a new PC, this is the impression I got too (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

23 comments fedilink hide all child comments

all 26 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Me to my friend who also plays: I think I only have like 2 side quests left before the end

My friend: Did you do [insert 5 full side stories I hadn't even started]

Me: ... right, so time to start a new save so I can process that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This was my friends response when I told him about the 2nd killable dragon lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

THERE'S A SECOND ONE??

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Holy fuck, what?? I gotta know where

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Underneath the city. It's the dragon wylls dad made a pact with.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wait if that’s the second, then which is the first?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

i think they mean the one in

spoiler

the last battle?

i can't think of any other dragons

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh I think you’re right, I forgot about that guy. My best guess was Voss’s dragon in Act 1 or something

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I guess in theory you can fight that dragon. Throw the iron flask at it for some fun?

Edit: apparently not, even barrelmancy will just make it fly away.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This explains so much.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This was half the reason I had a hard time getting into BG2. I felt like I got thrown around like I was a sock in a washing machine. Side quests I was basically stuck in until they were done. Not feeling like I was properly rewarded (other than XP) for my time. If this sounds off base just keep in mind I haven't played it in 10 years.

The other half I didn't care for was the combat. I save scummed that game more than any I've ever played.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

As a JRPG fan, playing BG2 was a incredible breath of fresh air. Almost every JRPG at the time railroaded you into a very linear story. Where BG2 was Just wandering, exploring, discovering random side quests. Just pick a direction and go.

I can see it being not so effective today. Open world games fill that itch better these days.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Man I really should play BG2 again. I finished it probably 5 times back in the day. My favourite build was ranger and forging the Shortbow of Gesen asap. Then you could basically just delete people.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

The Gesen Bow, and that +4 chainmail you can get from the token machine in Spellhold really give a huge boost.

[+] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

[removed by mod]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

How are you "stuck"?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Not op, but HABITUAL restarts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't talk about me and my 7 different playthroughs again.

(I just started in January).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I literally started a new game this afternoon.

I haven’t been out of act 1 in so long…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

One is full on Durge + Ilithid murder hobo (furthest so far).
One is a multi class of all classes for the achievement.
One is good guy fighting Durge but using the tadpoles.
One is all Warlocks (everyone gets immediately reclassed).
One is an evil Durge and no tadpole use.
One is evil charismatic bard with 8s in str, dex, con.
One is an attempt to multi class and get all the attacks.

Soon I'm going to try monk / warlock.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

When the game came out, my roommate and I spent 8 days in the goblin camp. I think we were one level below what you're meant to be and we hadn't really figured out the aggro mechanics yet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, that bit is very rough if you go full Rambo mode.

I think you're supposed to convince them you're with The Absolute and then sneak through like that. We came back for the outside after doing the inside of the base. Coming outside just got us slaughtered, so we had to teleport away and come in from the main gate. Lots of sniping from Asto was done to pick off weaker enemies.

We never figured out a way to beat the Githyanki? ambush with the dragon. We just had to keep reloading that until we could talk our way through it...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

We were trying to go stealth mode but had no idea what the NPCs would "hear" and whatnot. Well also didn't know you could fast travel, so at one point we fell into the spider pit, killed the spiders, couldn't figure out how to get out, and reloaded the save..

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I'm on my third playthrough and I think I finally have an order for getting the best gear for act 3.