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Baldur Gate 3 early access: Don't waste your time.
Lormyr:
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--- Quote from: Reaver on ---They made Divinty 3. They just called it Baldur's Gate.... to get cash IMO.
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Now you know how I feel about srun 6e.
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Lol checkmate.
Marcus:
--- Quote from: Lormyr on ---
--- Quote from: adzling on ---
--- Quote from: Reaver on ---They made Divinty 3. They just called it Baldur's Gate.... to get cash IMO.
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Now you know how I feel about srun 6e.
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Lol checkmate.
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Brutal.
Reaver:
So, I drank a flat of beer yesterday...
Woke up this morning, and while having a whiskey with my corn flakes... thought...
"Naa, you are being overly critical of this game... give it another go.... what's the worst that can happen??"
***News flash!!! THAT should have been the warning right there.... But, I'm a moron....****
The Devs what people to play evil?? FINE.
One Drow Loth priestess with a soul as black as my mood coming up!!!!
Make the character with the limited resources they give me... not a great character, but not bad... no negatives anywhere.... fair bonuses to Wisdom for bonus spells, Strength for bonus hit chance and damage. a little Con for a bit of HP.... should be OK...
Look over the character...
BAB +5
Damage 1d6+2 (mace)
AC 15.
Two spells.
9 HP
wait.... what? That should be 2 BONUS spells right? 16 Wisdom is 2 bonus spells right???(actually 3!)... Nope TWO spells.
OK.. maybe that's just from the start and it will correct when I rest....
Anyways..... Lets move on...
meet the Evil Green Bitch. Go to fight the 3 imps....
"Never tried these alchemists pots yet... lets see.... target the one way in the back, at the max throwing range...."
BOOMM!!
BADDA BOOM!!!
BOOM BOOM BOOOM!!!!
yea... the alchmists fire pot hits the imp.. 1 damage. set off some hidden thing next to the imp, he takes 1 damage again... THAT explosion sets off 3 OTHER things..
and MY CHARACTER takes 47 damage. dead.
I have mentioned that this is the FIRST fight in the Tutorial level before, right???
Reload a save.
"Ok, fire pots not a good idea.. have to run in and hit them with my mace as I don't have ranged weapon"
So I spend a turn moving and get to attack the first imp.... I hit!! Doing ONE (1) damage...
"Um 1 damage?" *checks character sheet.... DAMAGE !d6+2 (mace)...
WTF?
Imp swings at me, CRITICAL HIT! 4 damage... <and in the back of my head alarm bells are going off....>
I swing at the imp HIT! 1 damage!
WTF??!?!?
Imp swings at me, HIT! I take 3 damage... I now have 2 hp left.. and look at my options.. I have 2 healing pots that do 2d4+2 HP in healing. and a spell that does 1d4+3 healing...
I drink the pot, HEALED 3 HP!
WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!?!?
I swing at the imp, HIT, 1 damage....
The Imps swings at me! HIT! I take 4 damage! I now have 1 fucking HP left.. There are still TWO other imps fighting the Evil Green Chick, and SHE is almost dead!
(Have I mentioned this is the FIRST fight in the tutorial??)
I drink my LAST pot... Healed 2 HP!
WHAT IN THE FUCKING HELLS IS GOING THE FUCK ON!!!
I swing at the Imp CRITICAL HIT! I do 2 damage.
The Imp swings at me, MISS! (THANK FUCKING GOD!)
I swing at the Imp, HIT! I do 2 damage. Imp dies.
The good news. I'm ALIVE!!! The Evil Green Chick is alive AND managed to kill off the other two imps with 1 hp left over...
There is a "healing station" in this room, so I recover all my lost HP... and continue on... (I SHOULD have just fucking quit right there)
***
so some time later I get to the bridge.. and its an other 3 imp fight, followed by 3 more imps... IF you are fast... OR 3 imps, then 3 imps, then 2 cambians and a pit fiend if you are slow.. (YES .... PIT FIEND.. you are lvl 1.)
The idea is to get to the control panel as fast as possible.... (Remember THIS is the tutorial level, right???)
So the Imps win imitative.
Imp Throws Firebolt at me... CRITICAL HIT! 20 Damage! (remember I have 9 hp... Oh and the tool tip for firebolt? 1d6 damage)
Dead...
Reload
Imps win initiative.
Imp throws a Fire bolt at me. HITS 4 damage.
Imp throws a Fire bolt at me. HIT 4 damage...
Imp throws a Fire Bolt at me. Hits. 4 damage.
Dead...
RELOAD
Imps win initiative.
Imp throws a Fire bolt at me. HITS 4 damage.
Imp throws a Fire bolt at me. HIT 4 damage...
Imp throws a Fire Bolt at me. CRITICAL HIT. 14 damage.
Dead...
RE-FUCKING-LOAD
Imps win initiative.
Imp throws a Fire bolt at me. HITS 4 damage.
Imp throws a Fire bolt at me. HIT 4 damage...
Imp throws a Fire Bolt at me. hits... 8 damage (on a motherfucking d6!!!)
Dead...
MOTHERFUCKING RELOAD
I win initiative. *stunned in shock!!*
OK... what to do... based on the last 30 fucking minutes... IF I don't kill at least ONE imp, I am just dead.. AGAIN...
So I spend some time moving the cursor around the screen seeing exactly is in the room and where, Even use the Highlight ALT key to triple check...
OK... if I throw a Pot at the back Imp, that will set off 2 containers near him, and should kill him between the hit, the fire and the explosion... And I can move Evil Green Chick up and attack the other one... yea. that should work...
Throw the pot... BOOOM! BADDA BOOOM BOOM BOOM!!!
The pot goes off... the 2 containers near the imp remain intact. 3 HIDDEN containers, go off, setting off a giant chain reaction... I take 64 damage. Evil Green Chick takes 42 damage.. The Imp I hit takes... 1 damage... the other 2 imps take... ZERO damage.
DEAD.
RELOAD <FUCKYOUFUCKYOUFUCKYOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!>
I win the fucking initative...
I fucking just run forward... end my turn . Evil green bitch, I move towards the 3 imps...
The imps, for once. ignore me! ALL attack Evil green Bitch... ALL hit... she's dead.
I manage to run past the pit fiend... 3 imps chasing me from behind, 3 imps in front... FML.
AMAZINGLY, (given how every thing has gone in this fucking shit show of a game) 4 imps miss me!!!
2 do land hits... and reduce me to 4 HP...
I make it the controller.. and complete the tutorial... learning ABSOLUTLEY NOTHING OF FUCKING IMPORTANCE OF THE MECHANICS OF THE FUCKING GAME OTHER THEN THAT EVERYTHING IT TELLS YOU IS A FUCKING LIE!
And I'm on the beach and into the game for real...
I know there is a box by the side of the road from my LAST 8 TIMES here... and know it always contains a healing pot... and considering I still only have 4 hp... I click on the box.
My character starts to move towards the box, stops moving.. a "4" appears above his head.. and DIES...
WTF!?!?!?
keep in mind, 8 other play throughs this has NEVER happened.... NEVER...
There is a SINGLE square of branbles near the box.. A. SINGLE. SQUARE...
The game, with its excellent pathfinder, MOVED ME ONTO THE SINGLE SQUARE WITH AN ENVROMMENTAL EFFECT... That Effect... 4 damage (NOT D4... just FUCKING 4!!!) and a chance to be held for d3 turns... (taking 4 FUCKING DAMAGE A TURN!))
SWOOSH!!! CRASH!!! SMASH!!!
as my $175 gaming logitech mouse goes THROUGH the $800 plate glass window, smashes to a million pieces on the tree...
lets recap...
What could go wrong?
Well, I could play this broken fucking piece of shit game, lose my temper, throw my mouse through a window and put me out Grand. THAT is what could and DID go wrong!!!
I know we got some programmers here, And I also know they DON'T work for Larian...
But...
FUCKING EXPLAIN TO ME RIGHT FUCKING NOW HOW SOMETHING THIS FUCKED UP GETS OUT THE FUCKING DOOR.... NOTHING IN THIS SHITSHOW OF FUCKING SOFTWARE DOES WHAT IT SAYS IT FUCKING DOES!!!!
you tell me the damage I do... but that is fucking wrong.
you say stats affect your abilites... yet THAT is fucking wrong
you tell what damage or healing effects do... AND THAT IS FUCKING WRONG!!!
the ONLY fucking that works in this electron soup is the pretty pretty cut scenes.... which tells me EXACTLY WHERE YOU SPENT ALL YOUR FUCKING EFFORT.... cause it wasn't in the mechanics.. I can tell you that...
That the ABSOLUTE fucking irony here?? ALL THE hard work was done for them....
Character class.
Character abilties.
Came mechanics.
Combat mechanics.
Class Abilites.
Health
healing
environmental effects and conditions...
ALL OF IT was doe for them. All they had to do was open a fucking book, READ what was there, and put it into the machine...
But they just couldn't be bothered.
IF a developer or programmer had asked me today what I though of his product.... You wouldn't find enough of him left to bury in a shoe box.
And I would have done it with my bare hands.. and enjoyed every minute of his torturous end...
$1080 fucking WASTED.
But I know what I am doing Sunday.... (installing a new window!)
Marcus:
So BG3 is 5e so, they are right on no bonus spells.
So the attack bonus sounds odd. You should be Prof +2, Str +2= +4.
But you should have Cantrips. Toll of the Dead or Sacred Flame.
And the spell healing word
But yeah all that rest sounds totally terrible.
If your familiar with 5e DMG, you should start characters at 3rd. Before that your not really your class yet.
So imps have 10 hp, with invisibility, and damage resistance vs anything not silver. So Melee needs to do 20 damage to kill one. Spell wise they are immune to fire and resistant to cold, so I'd say your best bet is warlock up, and Eldritch blast them down. While your fighter distracts them and takes the dodge action. A Cleric with toll the dead with Healing word is actually a good option, but i'm its still pretty crazy.
CanRay:
Let that be a lesson to you all, folks. Never drink flat beer. Chase it down with some good beer instead!
And drink beer instead of play that game.
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