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

Ironhide wrote:I got my party totally wiped out by the second (maybe third) fight in the opening section, but having just read a few posts in this thread about resting between battles I think I can now do it 'properly'

Playing as a Sorceror might not have been a great choice for a total D&D noob.

S'what I picked for my character in D&D. It's pretty fun, if tricky.

Finally escaped the mindflayer space squid ship thing, reunited with Shadowheart and met a male elf who tried to kill me.

Game throwing big decisions at me as it gets towards the end on chapter 3. I've now got level 12 and got some great equipment, so much so I'm now having to choose between legendaries.

Act 3 really is amazing, the main areas really show the leaps the game makes over other RPGs.

Will hopefully get to the end of the story this week.

Knoyleo wrote:I get what Orange means that resting feels like it goes against the role playing aspect, especially very early on, because you've got this imminent ticking time bomb in your head, so casually taking a break to have a nap and move a day ahead feels like it should be a real risk, and the best thing to do is progress as far as you possibly can before resting and potentially getting turned into a zombie. The game does a poor job of tutorialising the idea of resting in this regard. Admittedly it doesn't take too long for the story to start suggesting that your imminent threat isn't quite so imminent, but it never explicitly says long resting is fine and your head won't explode, and there's at least one companion who continues to bang on about how urgent your current predicament is regardless.

My thoughts at maybe a dozen or fifteen hours in (Steam says 19, but includes time spent paused where I've stepped away or been messing with mods) are pretty close to OR's. I'm not my sure how I'm that much playtime in but feel like I've barely made any progress. I guess avoiding combat whenever I can see it and going to do all the other stuff doesn't help, but it's not what I want to spend my playtime doing tbh. I've had a few moments here and there where it feels like something clicks, but then the next encounter is totally different and I just ends up going back to using big standard melee or ranged attacks to chip a bit of health off whatever generic enemies are in front of me and it all feels a bit tedious. I'm sure there should be more interesting spells and combos available, but I'm not sure how to enable them or use them more than once. Especially frustrating is when you have a new spell or something that you want to use, the die roll fails, and then it's locked out until you rest again, also wasting a turn. It just incentives relying on the highest % chance of success, which is typically stand next to them and wallop with sword. Given that even pretty basic looking enemies end up taking several successful strikes to down, it ends up feeling a bit attritious.

Might have to step away from this for a bit, as it clearly doesn't suit playing in short irregular busts. Not sure when I'll ever get round to making the time to play it properly, mind.

20 hours in I feel the same as you, sometimes I wipe up enemies with ease other times I feel like Im set up to fail. My melee centric characters start missing 80% hit chances (even 3 in the same turn with a action surge) and I start to get frustrated.

I am still making progress. I should have just started Act 2 now (through the elevator from the grymforge)

I still had an epic fight in which I managed to turn the tides by using some strategy that did raise a big smile on my face.

So I reached the Last Light Inn, some creatures came in flying from the roof to abduct the person that should have helped me, tried to fend them off, killed Marcus, but the others managed to surround her and took her away, tried another time, and the same happened, so I feel that that is the way this supposed to go. After that everyone got turned into an enemy, they just kept spawning from everywhere, and big trees started popping up wiping out my whole squad. I have only Astarion left so I get on the roof fire some fire sphere scrolls and firebolts at the trees and any other wooden staff to cause widespread fires and manage to decimate the opponents. Then I kind of glitched it, as the enemy got confused and started going inside the building I was on top of, but did not bother going up, so they kept going in and out and when they went out they were easy targets, as I had the advantage and they couldn't hit me.

So Astarion ended up as my unlikely hero, then I returned to camp quickly and resurrected all my fallen team. I like how when you manage to turn the tide in combat the music changes to a more upbeat tune, just a little touch which makes a good move much more satisfactory.

So.... my save game is corrupted. Closing in on the final battle and I can't play. So I've gone to the save before an auto save and nope. Also broken so I've gone back 3 saves and now it's crashing the game when I do this. (Playing on PS5 )

I don't seem to be able to load any save at the moment.
I'm restarting the ps5 and see if that helps.

I looked online and it seems you need to play offline for now.

Restart console in offline mode and the game should now work.

That's positive news that it's an known bug rather than all my saves have corrupted.

I remember having this blind panic during my playthrough of Disco Elysium. I had never been so relieved as I was when I learnt it was due to a recent patch.

Around 3 hours played and my current 'roster' of available party members is:

Shadowheart
Lae'zel
Gale
Astarion
Wyll

The first three are in my current party with the others in camp, Gale is hilarious and Lae'zel is brilliantly hostile and Shadowheart hates her so I anticipate some great banter.

About to set out to find the character Wyll wants to kill but I've seen that they're worth recruiting instead so idk.

The best companions are the dog and baby Owl bear.

I've been too busy to play this for a little while, really need to crack on and start Act 3.

Ironhide wrote:Around 3 hours played and my current 'roster' of available party members is:

Shadowheart
Lae'zel
Gale
Astarion
Wyll

The first three are in my current party with the others in camp, Gale is hilarious and Lae'zel is brilliantly hostile and Shadowheart hates her so I anticipate some great banter.

About to set out to find the character Wyll wants to kill but I've seen that they're worth recruiting instead so idk.

I feel really bad about leaving Gale out of my party, but Astarion gives me the tactical edge in most encounters

Gale annoys me. I never talk to him and then he tries to hit on me.

Then he's constantly whining about not having any magical items to eat. Plonker.

My team is: me (Land Druid), Shadowheart, Lae'zel, Karach.

Do all melee classes get a second attack when they get to level 5? It's so insanely powerful. Lae'zel and Karlach just demolish stuff together.

People complain about Gale eating magic stuff but it’s literally 3 items before story progresses, and given the abundance of magic items a lot that won’t fit your build, it’s really not a problem. I think gale had a very interesting story and mechanically he’s awesome. Wizards start weak but destroy at higher levels.

I’ve just reached act 2 in my third play through. Going for a more completionist run this time, seen a ton of stuff I missed first 2 times. My second (evil) run did drastically reduce the amount of game content, shame because minthara is awesome and getting her means you lose a lot of other companions.

Fade wrote:Gale annoys me. I never talk to him and then he tries to hit on me.

Then he's constantly whining about not having any magical items to eat. Plonker.

My team is: me (Land Druid), Shadowheart, Lae'zel, Karach.

Do all melee classes get a second attack when they get to level 5? It's so insanely powerful. Lae'zel and Karlach just demolish stuff together.

Basically yes, except Rogues.
Fighters get a 3rd attack at level 11

Hexx wrote:
Fade wrote:Gale annoys me. I never talk to him and then he tries to hit on me.

Then he's constantly whining about not having any magical items to eat. Plonker.

My team is: me (Land Druid), Shadowheart, Lae'zel, Karach.

Do all melee classes get a second attack when they get to level 5? It's so insanely powerful. Lae'zel and Karlach just demolish stuff together.

Basically yes, except Rogues.
Fighters get a 3rd attack at level 11

Nice. I noticed even my wild shape animals get a 2nd attack

Druid really is such a cool class. They're so versatile. The only thing they don't really have Access to is debuffs

Just went to fight the hag and she just shoved Asterion into the whole in the middle and killed him in one hit.

Also doesn't get surprised by sneak attacks and spawns a bunch of minions that have super high initiative.

I could just try and dump her in the hole but I have a feeling she's too big and then I couldn't loot her. Plus she's bound to have some cool gooseberry fool right?

site23 wrote:I've been too busy to play this for a little while, really need to crack on and start Act 3.

This! I've been playing other, smaller games but really need to get back to this soon.

This game is strawberry floating huge. Act 1 could literally be a game on its own and nobody would complain.

Not playeed today as I've been setting up and tinkering with my new PC build, just reinstalling games/utilities and other stuff has taken all day.

Fade wrote:This game is strawberry floating huge. Act 1 could literally be a game on its own and nobody would complain.

Absolutely. When I finished Act 2, I was really surprised not to see the credits rolling. Any other dev would've finished it there and expected us to buy a sequel!

Huge!

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

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