Baldur's Gate III: Pedz Meal Deals [PC/PlayStation 5/Xbox]

Apparently he helps you in the Final Fightif you don't kill him and do his quest in Act 3!

My blood now explodes when I take fire damage.

I love all the crazy, wacky things you can find in this game

aayl1 wrote:Oh I ended the mystery cow quest in Act 2 by being a bit too inquisitive!

Did I miss out on something cool?

I got to the part where you change the cow into an apple and stuff it in your backpack to give to someone in act 3.

Knoyleo wrote:Is that the strange cow you meet in the Grove?

I got frustrated after none of my party were able to interact with it despite passing perception checks, so I attacked it, at which point it spilled poison or acid or something everywhere, the population of the grove turned against me, and I wiped my party.

I don't have the patience for quests that require you to just hold on to that information until much later. My desire to know immediately if it's something to actually do anything with or not is too strong.

Perception checks are cool n all, but speak with animals will help you talk to animals

Why wouldn't you want to talk to a cow that worships Cyric the mad god?

Pedz wrote:

Knoyleo wrote:Is that the strange cow you meet in the Grove?

I got frustrated after none of my party were able to interact with it despite passing perception checks, so I attacked it, at which point it spilled poison or acid or something everywhere, the population of the grove turned against me, and I wiped my party.

I don't have the patience for quests that require you to just hold on to that information until much later. My desire to know immediately if it's something to actually do anything with or not is too strong.

Perception checks are cool n all, but speak with animals will help you talk to animals

I think I had two characters who have that ability but they either failed a roll or got nothing out of it, so without any other leads, the cow was attacked.

I know the intention is to role play scenarios like this, it's certainly not very in character to just attack a creature because a perception check has made my characters comment on it in passing, but it's elements like this where my reading of the game as a series of signals and systems overrides totally. The game has deliberately drawn my attention to this thing, so the player in me then needs to investigate it until I've worked out what the intention is. When there's no immediate feedback, in this case if the intention is to meet them again an act or two later, then I find myself frustrated and just start attempting any means of interaction even if they break the RP element of the RPG.

I've mentioned it before, but I find the notification of all passive perception checks in this incredibly annoying. All my characters pass a part of the environment and fail a perception check. I as the player now know there is something there, and the game has intentionally told me this, but it then gives me no means of interacting with it. If I can't do anything with it, the game simply shouldn't notify you of it.

I think an upcoming patch will not tell you if you fail a perception check.

Right now if I fail a perception check I just move everyone over to where that happened so I get 3 more tries.

I feel really dirty about it but I just cheesed the fight in the House of Grief. It was just too strawberry floating hard, man.

Zilnad wrote:I feel really dirty about it but I just cheesed the fight in the House of Grief. It was just too strawberry floating hard, man.

I can't remember where it was but there's a fight in a cathedral like building and you can climb onto the rafters and just completely cheese an enire floor of boss level guys.
They're about 4 floors below you and you can set up your team and start the fight as you like so you can start with a huge aoe spell like ice storm and they're super strawberry floated.

I almost felt sorry for them.

Act 3 has a lot going on! Just reached Cazador and he wiped my team in 2 moves

There's a fun environmental way to help out in the Cazador fight: He gets a different perk from each of the thralls around the arena - If you stand in front of the beam coming from the thrall to the floor (you'll notice the pattern on the floor go out, from what I remember), it stops him from getting the perk from that person You might even be able to take a few boxes in with you and block the beams that way instead. Just make sure you don't leave Astarion's beam as the last one open when Cazador "ascends" - First time we tried it we blocked every beam but the one from Astarion, so when Cazador gets to that point in the fight where he hulk's out, he just smushes Astarion into a bloody pulp that you can't revive

Think we're getting close to the end of Act 3 now - Just been to Hell and back Raphael's incubus that just takes on his appearance Ended up stumbling into there before even finding where the Orphic hammer was, so we did it all a bit backwards. Found the password before finding the forcefield

I'm a bit unsure as to what to do now, though. Haven't got any proper mission objectives, so I'm just roaming the streets (and sewers) looking for a clown - Is the Elder Brain fight the absolute endgame, or does it keep going after that?

Frank wrote:There's a fun environmental way to help out in the Cazador fight: He gets a different perk from each of the thralls around the arena - If you stand in front of the beam coming from the thrall to the floor (you'll notice the pattern on the floor go out, from what I remember), it stops him from getting the perk from that person You might even be able to take a few boxes in with you and block the beams that way instead. Just make sure you don't leave Astarion's beam as the last one open when Cazador "ascends" - First time we tried it we blocked every beam but the one from Astarion, so when Cazador gets to that point in the fight where he hulk's out, he just smushes Astarion into a bloody pulp that you can't revive

Think we're getting close to the end of Act 3 now - Just been to Hell and back Raphael's incubus that just takes on his appearance Ended up stumbling into there before even finding where the Orphic hammer was, so we did it all a bit backwards. Found the password before finding the forcefield

I'm a bit unsure as to what to do now, though. Haven't got any proper mission objectives, so I'm just roaming the streets (and sewers) looking for a clown - Is the Elder Brain fight the absolute endgame, or does it keep going after that?

So I guess my usual strategy of throwing everything I can at enemy and hope for the best wont work for this fight

Thanks for the tip!

I ended up cheesing the Cazador fight.

I started attacking before going onto the platform, all the enemies including cazador end up rushing towards you, I cast guardian angels on shadowheart and used a bunch of AOE spells on the enemies that kept rushing towards me. By not stepping on the platform, the conversation cutscene did not trigger and Cazador did not go full hulk and Astarion remained in my party and was doing 50+ damage per sneak attack.

No such thing as cheesing. It’s how D&D is played. Sneaky preparation and controlling the battlefield!

FatDaz wrote:No such thing as cheesing. It’s how D&D is played. Sneaky preparation and controlling the battlefield!

Killing a character while they were locked in a conversation and couldn't react definitely felt like cheesing to me!

Killed Gortash last night and it was surprisingly not too difficult compared to other encounters.

I've entered Cazador's palace now so will see that quest through and then I'll be tempted to ignore Jaheira's quest and a couple of other side quests in favour of heading straight for the end game.

Fully leveled up now and just feels like my character would want to head straight to the big bad.

Best thing about the Gortash fight is being able to pick up the concussion grenades they keep firing at you to use later on

But if you've got any knowledge of the first two games or D&D then you should do Jaheira's quest

Been up since 3am so that's Cazador down and also just finished Jaheira's quest.

So I think I'm ready to go after Orin now

Also, doesn't really matter but does anyone else think their Steam playtime is completely wrong? Mine says I've been playing for 96 hours but sometimes, like just now, I'll come out of a session and the time it adds seems less than I actually played.

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FatDaz wrote:No such thing as cheesing. It’s how D&D is played. Sneaky preparation and controlling the battlefield!

Well It definitely felt like I cheated my way out of it, as it glitched Cazador a bit, but I hold no regrets

Finished Shadowhearts storyline yesterday... Is till went for a bit of a preemptive attack but I must say that Im pretty proud on how I used the battlefield to my advantage

Sbstituted Astarion for Wyll, and cast Plague spell on a large chunk of thebattlefield with shadowheart and then firewall from side to side on the successive part, Then cast mind sanctuary to take some extra ranged shots at the enemies who were stuck taking damage form the AOE Spells

It did take a couple of tries, but I think it was the first time I had a proper battleplan.

Drej wrote:

FatDaz wrote:No such thing as cheesing. It’s how D&D is played. Sneaky preparation and controlling the battlefield!

Well It definitely felt like I cheated my way out of it, as it glitched Cazador a bit, but I hold no regrets

Finished Shadowhearts storyline yesterday... Is till went for a bit of a preemptive attack but I must say that Im pretty proud on how I used the battlefield to my advantage

Sbstituted Astarion for Wyll, and cast Plague spell on a large chunk of thebattlefield with shadowheart and then firewall from side to side on the successive part, Then cast mind sanctuary to take some extra ranged shots at the enemies who were stuck taking damage form the AOE Spells

It did take a couple of tries, but I think it was the first time I had a proper battleplan.

That does sound like a great battle plan! That was the fight I cheesed though Started a conversation with the lead baddie and got Astarion to stab her to death while locked in the conversation!

I did kill everyone else on the way back out though!