BALDUR'S GATE 3 | Episode #33 (Lae'zel & Astarion Broke My Brain!)
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- čas přidán 31. 05. 2024
- First play through of Baldur's Gate 3.
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0:15:55 GAMEPLAY
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2:21:45 GAMEPLAY
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Dead Halsin still chilling in the camp cracks me up. 😂
Stick him in a box, I say! 😂
I think it wasn't until Act 3 when his corpse stopped following me around.
@@vteccomplex When you put it that way, it's goes from odd game bug to seriously creepy. :)
@realzyxtomatic I did so much to try to get rid of him. I put him in a barrel. I shoved him in my pocket. I chucked him off a cliff. And every time, he'd be back in my camp, just lying there. He was never a follower for me, but damn did he follow me everywhere.
Absolutely random fun fact about the game mechanics: If your characters are all bloody, you can walk under a waterfall to clean off. Also, if you find a bar of soap, you can use the soap to clean off. Great for those moments when you don't want to do a cutscene covered in blood! :)
I use the cloak that's constantly wet as a towel xD
Rag works too, so does a bottle of water thrown at the dirty companion. :)
Seeing how involved Gopher gets with the plots and subplots makes me reeeaally want him to get to the moments of revelations in the game. I am dying to see his reactions by the end of act 2, and by the end of the game.
Why does Kith’rak Voss kind of look like the Adoring Fan? Expecting him to be stalking Regi in the next few parts lol
THAT was who he reminded me of! Thank you!
Gopher, the Dex stat actually does quite a few things: Increases armor class, increases initiative, increases attack and damage with ranged weapons, and increases attack and damage with finesse melee weapons. So Reg *could* use the increased dex to increase his ranged weapon attack, as he misses quite often. :)
But he'd lost armor AND a bardic inspiration. And staying alive to buff/counter etc. seems more important for Reginald than doing slightly more damage with arrows.
@@GophersVids Agreed, staying alive is good!
I know what you missed in the first Act - a room in the temple where you found Withers!
No its nothing major. One sarcophagus with random loot in it and a little cutscene/investigation with couple dice rolls.
In defense of multiclassing, I never played any form of D&D before BG3 but I felt I was familiar enough with the early levels of other classes to think “oh, that level of fighter would really mesh well with my warlock build and let me do xyz in combat” - it’s great fun!
The gith general looks like the Grinch with his pointy hair.
That Knife Of The Undermountain is also a +2 weapon. More likely to hit! Fewer misses means more damage in general.
It's an endgame weapon, can stay right till the final fight and never feel underpowered, so yeah :-)
I think BG3 and other CRPGs become better for roleplaying once you've done one playthrough and gotten ahold of the mechanics. Once you're used to it, the choice and consequence and branching paths become AMAZING for roleplay, you just have to get used to the gameplay.
you can put light on karlachs spear and throw it down there to light it up. then the spear returns.
And with that, great stream today! Such good story bits! Can't wait for the next episode!
Gopher, there's also a mod called OIO that will give you an indicator showing you which lines will allow you to ask a question and then return to the previous dialogue options without advancing the conversation, like in the Witcher 3 (it will also show you the number you need on a dice roll for some options before you click the option as well). If you want to use that, use just the OPTIONAL file for DC only, the full version can be a bit spoilery with showing things like companion approval. It does nicely eliminate some of the frustration with that "dialogue roulette" feeling, at least.
About the upcoming major Patch 7, there is no ETA on it as far as I know, just that it's "being prepared"... could drop in a week, could drop in a month. Larian is only now getting ready to do closed beta testing on it, so it's probably a ways away from release.
ACT 2 HYPE!!!
Let’s gooooooo
Yet one more comment about mechanics: The chat was bugging you to please try sneak attacks with Astarion probably because there are situations he can use that aren't obvious. For example, if an enemy is near one of your other party members, this makes the enemy otherwise occupied, so sneak attacks work. There are numerous situations where that happens, so I think chat was saying to just try it more often, as it might work more than you think.
Shovel is Astarion's Sneak Attack helper in my playthroughs. She'll just constantly stay invisible and therefore doesn't get pulled into combat with the rest of the party. Whenever Astarion wants to do a sneak attack against someone, Shovel will just wander over and stand next to the enemy, invisible, and that allows Astarion to take the Sneak Attack.
Yeah I've done that a number of times with him. Not sure I even remember chat telling me to use it more often in this stream to be honest. Was there a moment where I could have used it and didn't?
@@nemo-zl1vm I never even thought of doing that with Shovel or anyone else invisible. I guess it never occurred to me that an invisible character could cause that effect! :)
@@GophersVids I think there may have been some moments during the fights while fleeing the creche where Astarion could've grabbed some sneak attacks. Not a big deal, as you handily defeated them all regardless. Karlach is a serious bruiser!
@@realzyxtomatic Logically it shouldn't, and it's definitely cheesing, but could be useful if you're attempting an Honor Mode run or something, or just like being overpowered lol.
Astarion summoning his inner Stewie Griffin at the end there.
This is the first time seeing this path. Very excited! Can't wait to see the story move forward without Halsin...haven't seen that either. I'm enjoying your play through. Thank you so much!
Oh, there'll be a moment they really rub that in about Halsin, I hope he gets it 😁
A little heads up: going via the elevator in Grymforge instead of the road in Crèche region will make things a little bit more annoying at the start of Act II, nothing major though :-) Of course it's about Reggie's justification for either choice, but just so you know
How so? SPOILERS BELOW
The elevator puts you in the path of the Harper group, who then point you to Last Light, where you get a sense of direction for the rest of Act 2. On my first playthrough I went through the Creche entrance and ended up kind of wandering aimlessly around the map - Last Light was the very last place on the map I ended up finding, after I'd already completed the Gauntlet. I was pretty annoyed at how much content I had missed.
I just feel like on a first playthrough, especially for good-aligned characters, the Grymforge entrance gives you a way better introduction to Act 2.
@@nemo-zl1vm That's all true :-) But...
You get the lamp a bit later on the elevator route, so it can become rather annoying meandering through the curse
As per Pat from Pat Stares At, who has contacts at Bethesda, after Starfield the general atmosphere over there is they are one game bombing away from a lot of lay offs hitting them, so here's hoping the next TES/FO is REALLY polished.
I still don't understand how or why. I mean so far, none of their games since Morrowind have actually bombed commercially. Even Fallout 76, which did seem to bomb at the start, ended up recovering. So that studio is bringing in the money. Why would they lay people off? I get why the devs might be bummed because of the loud critisisms they are recieving. Nobody likes that. But the publisher (XBOX) themselves are just going to look at the bottom line.
So if every single game they've made since Morrowind has had people claiming that they've lost 'it', and that the next game is make or break for them, and it never turns out to be true, why should I believe that this time it's actually the case?
@@GophersVids Have you seen how MS has been treating devs lately? If you don't bring in ALL of the money immediately, you're getting cut. There's no time for a 3 or 4 year game turnaround to eventually make money. Redfall was beginning to turn and got cut. Same studio that made Prey and Dishonored. Did that matter? Nope. Hi Fi rush was wildly successful and got cut. They also made Evil Within 1 and 2 which people loved. Did that matter? Nope. I know you prefer not to keep up with gaming news, but I would completely understand why Beth devs would be sweating right now, when they're seeing the carnage around them.
@@SplurginSergeon I do keep up with gaming news, I just try to ignore hype, speculation and/or drama. I was under the impression that both Hi-Fi Rush and Redfall were not commercial successes, even though in the case of Hi Fi Rush, it was received and reviewed well at the time. But maybe I got that wrong? But then I have to ask, if you're right, and XBOX are canning dev teams who are bringing in the money .... then why are BGS 'one game bombing' away from lay offs? Aren't you suggesting that it doesn't matter if the game is a commercial success? I mean, it could be another success OR it could bomb. Either way they could get lay offs right? And if so, have you any explanation for why XBOX is doing this?
@@GophersVids An interesting aside there as well, Arcane Austin was apparently forced into making Redfall in the first place, which kind of sucks that a project they didn't want to do in the first place was "officially" what killed them. As for why, your guess is as good as mine, as I haven't seen any of the reporting be able to provide any kind of reasonable explanation for why both those who are and aren't doing well are getting laid off. I think the only half decent reasoning could be something tax write-off related to be able to cover the insane price tag of the activision blizzard acquisition, something Starfield was hoped to be able to offset somewhat, since their console sales have dwindled (leading to them talking about bringing exclusives to other platforms) and game pass also floundering. In light of all of that, since the only goal MS has is to bring in money for the stakeholders, the definition of financial success of a game might be wildly different between what you or I might think reasonable for a game (think back on the insane news you get every once in a while about how a game is a financial success, but the publisher is "disappointed" by it not meeting some absolutely ludicrous sales target).
Anyway the point of me telling you that wasn't to get into the weeds about companies' understandings of commercial success, just share some fears the current devs at Beth have from a source you might not have come across, and I'd say with them being under Microsoft's thumb, those fears are probably not unsubstantiated.
@@SplurginSergeon Oh I agree that it totally sucks that Arkane Austin closed, especially if they got forced to make a game that they didn't want to make instead of another Prey game. But let's face it, corporations like Microsoft don't care about fair. They care about sales and market share. As for why? Well I'm a simple guy who doesn't know the details, so I tend to land on the simplest explanation that fits the few details I do know. And that seems to be "They didn't make enough money or corner enough of the market share for XBOX to keep". It's not an explanation that people will like. It's not one that makes XBOX look good. But it is an explanation that makes sense if all you care about is the bottom line.
Conversely, with what I can see from Starfield, it sold well. So that explanation doesn't work. So if true, I'd have to assume that I am missing a huge piece of the jigsaw puzzle. And when you consider that people have been saying this about every Bethesda Game Studios game since Morrowind, the simpler explanation seems to be that people are once again mixing up critical success/failure with commercial success/failure. This is understandable because often the two are connected, with a badly received game also selling badly (Redfall). But this is not always the case. Hi-Fi Rush for example. That game was critically acclaimed but reports seem to suggest it did not do as well commercially as it needed to. Now it's also true that negative critical response can affect the bottom line beyond the game sales itself IF it has a knock on effect with how people 'feel' about XBOX itself. But I've not really seen much evidence of that either when it comes to Starfield. The critical response was not terrible, it was just mixed. Mediocre would be the way to describe it. And outside of a tiny minority, I doubt it will make anyone decide to not buy XBOX titles in the future.
Now of course I may just be missing that elusive 'piece of the puzzle' and we see an announcement that BGS are being axed tomorrow. But I absolutely don't know why it would end up relying on their next title, especially when that title probably won't be here for 5 or 6 years.
Look out for spell save DC and Arcane Aquity gear for Shadowheart, also boost her Wisdom as much as possible so she can always land spell effects, this way she'll be able to win you fights with one cast :-) Command spell is really good :-) At the very least she'll be hitting more with this damned Sacred Flame 😂
Pleeeeaase Gopher,🥺 at least try to use a Sneak Attack and never just assume/say it won't work because "reasons", you miss the opportunity to get one in sooooo often. If you could hear chat scream! 😆
An enemy not looking at Astarion can be all you need, another companion nearby or being busy or under some influence - you don't need to be hidden or anything and not even straight behind them. :) Personally, whenever I play a rogue I start the round with clicking on Sneak Attack and see if it works, only if not I'm doing other actions, and it works surprisingly often. Astarion's Sneak attacks can be devastating from around these levels on, so always worth a try - after all he has nothing else going for him. :D
Isn't it automatic if you set the reaction for it? Pretty sure it is. When it's an option a popup should appear asking me if I want to sneak attack.
@@GophersVids That could be, not sure, but not if you choose any different action than a simple main weapon attack. There were some rounds last stream where you absolutely would've had them.
How did you like Lae'zel "she's sinned against me" moment, Gopher? She has a few powerful lines, especially in romance, but this one gets me all the time. To be fair, I think every character gets their powerful moments where the actor can really shine, Karlach's one in Act III is something else, I really hope you'll get it :-)
Guys please stop the criticism. Its ruining Gophers first impression of this game. All of us messed everything up on our first playthrough. We are watching someone who hasn't played it 600+ hours like we have.
So please chill, it's not fun listening to Gopher say things like "I shouldn't explore" it's not his fault, you are overloading him with contradictory information.
Frankly very out of character for Reginald to notice the crest panel. Shoulda just grabbed the shiny!
I spent more time than I care to admit in the Blood of Lathander section in my first playthrough 😅 Didn't notice the tunnel...
yeah me to. I used gale with fly spells and a lot of resources to get through
@@rakion299 I ended up using mage hand to painstakingly destroy power source of the second barrier 😂🤦🏻♂️
You can't really go wrong in this game, it's very open, just has it's own style of doing things :-) I feel opposite to you about dialogue, I don't like Bethesda cycle dialogue, I prefer when game doesn't indicate which lines progress, sometimes you can tell, sometimes you can't, but I'm used to this style of dialogue from BG and BG2, also NWN. It's similar in those games, although feels more unforgiving in BG3, doesn't really bother me. Roleplay is limited in crpg anyway, still this game has a lot to offer for different characters. Started my fifth full playthrough as Lae'zel origin today, and it's very different, lot's of small details and interactions, also dialogue choices :-)
Im ok with not knowing which lines end dialogue but that does make it a more random chance board game than an immersive experience, and you have to adjust expectations. You're not so much having a conversation as playing a dialogue minigame. Focus on the result you are looking for rather than satisfying your curiosity. Always remember it's a game, not a real conversation where you can almost always steer a conversation. Roll the dice and pray :)
@@GophersVids It's not like that for me though, I play the character in a world (although I do have a reasonable knowledge of the world) and I easily immerse myself in a dialogue, it almost always flows well and feels natural to me. It's like real life, unless you're sitting down with your friend and a bottle, the conversations are rather concise and to the point, almost never you get a chance or even feel appropriate to ask all of random details much less make a sort of small talk. Maybe it comes down to personality too, it does feel harder and less natural to play as a curious bard in this game, because curiosity is almost always has consequences :-)) I think the nature of your playsessions has it's role too, you're streaming, so you have to focus on a lot of other things as well as the game, but this game is so detailed and nuanced that it becomes hard to feel natural there with your attention divided :-) Maybe, idk, I'm just sharing my own experience that's different from what you're expressing, it's fascinating to me how different your playthrough can be and how different your reasoning can be to mine. Loving it :-)
You keep mixing up Advantage and Disadvantage :-) Those are completely separate things that have nothing to do with each other, they're similar mechanically but that's it. For a sneak attack you need to have an Advantage, whether the enemy has Disadvantage or not is irrelevant.
Happy 🇧🇻 day!
Aww... Lame-est pre-ramble ever (too short)... Gonna be a boring episode now. ;)
EDIT: At least there was lengthy break with some interesting things going on.
EDIT (again): Yes, I enjoy the episodes too. I'm just saying I never mind when there's rambles, rants, and discussions. Actually I quite like them. :D
my brain is like an overclocked cpu.
It runs 2000 fps for a couple of seconds, then melts.
Human brain is amazing it functions 24/7 from when we were born & only stops when you take a test or talk to someone attractive.
So my wife said to me, "I swear, it's like all men share one brain."
I wanted to think of a clever comeback, but it wasn't my turn to use the brain.