Baldur's Gate 3

[Your Mom]

I'm going to admit that I reloaded an old save because...

 

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Auntie Ethel tricked me into killing the Pirate mom  I haven't gone back to it yet but she is so going to get it this time!  

 

[Ruki]

I can't believe you would do that...

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...Petal.

 

jk, Auntie Ethel is the fucking worst. 

 

[gunnar hendershow]

21 hours ago, gunnar hendershow said:

Been working through the Goblin Camp 

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Opted to kill the 3 leaders. 2 down, just one to go. Killing the Priestess was simple when I took my whole party to her room, and it led me to the Underdark. Neat!

Of course after that the entire sanctum was on alert for me and made it a tad harder to get the drow (forget her name).

I wasn't sure about switching to non-lethal attacks and was wondering if I should've done that for the non-leaders, but the goblins are established as pretty awful folks who burn and pillage and put dwarves on skewers so I guess fuck 'em.

Next playthrough I'll be on their side I guess... 

 

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This shit got a lot easier once I rescued Halsin. Wish I did that before everyone there started attacking me on sight...

 

[Your Mom]

The Iron Throne

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CAN GET FUCKED! I am never doing that again no matter how badly I did. I saved the mind flayer guy and my main character survived along with some of the family members or whatever but literally everyone else died and there were like 500000000000000000000000000000000000 enemies down there. Totally unfair bullshit. Can I get my dead companions back somehow and just live with this result? If not can I just not ever do that part?

If you are required to finish that part with everyone alive or something I might be done with the game. Just seemed completely unfair and not at all fun to play

 

[Ruki]

Pretty sure you can skip the Iron Throne, obviously you'd miss out on

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Wyll's father

but the quest itself isn't worth the headache. I remember it being super stressful (I lost a few of the NPCs, no companions). 

 

Apparently if you speak to Withers he can revive your companions. 

[The Lusophone]

https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/327

This mod gets rid of the party limit if you want to give it another go with more people to potentially make it easier.

[Toe]

13 hours ago, Ruki said:

Pretty sure you can skip the Iron Throne, obviously you'd miss out on

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Wyll's father

but the quest itself isn't worth the headache. I remember it being super stressful (I lost a few of the NPCs, no companions). 

 

Apparently if you speak to Withers he can revive your companions. 

If you know what you're getting into, it's a bit easier.

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The two key things are to take party members that can travel quickly (Misty Step, Dimension Door, Teleport, etc) and to summon as many allies as possible before you get on the submarine. I had two elementals with me and they did most of the fighting while my party went around opening doors. 

It's still a total pain in the ass, even when fully prepared.

[Your Mom]

I screwed up. I was selling off stuff a while back and sold a skull that I randomly had. Anyway it turns out that skull was needed and I can't find another one  

[Ruki]

Which skull was it? do you know where you sold it?

[Your Mom]

35 minutes ago, Ruki said:

Which skull was it? do you know where you sold it?

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Just a random skull I think. It's for the ritual to go to the house of hope and get the hammer. I have no idea where I sold it but I found another one so I'm hoping that works

 

[Ruki]

24 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

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Just a random skull I think. It's for the ritual to go to the house of hope and get the hammer. I have no idea where I sold it but I found another one so I'm hoping that works

 

Apparently any skull will do. And the vender apparently has a 'ritual pouch' on them with extra. 

 

That mission is a lot of fun though. Challenging, but really, really good loot. 

[Your Mom]

So I've found this game can really struggle with the huge battles and slow down a ton. I just beat Orin and before I could finish off the last couple minions the game froze and crashed  

[Your Mom]

So I have a question about something at the end of the game here

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So either Orpheus becomes a Mind Flayer or I do? That's some bullshit. I'm a little upset right now

 

[Ruki]

1 hour ago, Your Mom said:

So I have a question about something at the end of the game here

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So either Orpheus becomes a Mind Flayer or I do? That's some bullshit. I'm a little upset right now

 

There's another option...

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If Karlach is with you at that scene she offers herself up as a Mind Flayer.

 

You could have also accepted the Emperor's deal. But fuck the Emperor. 

 

[Your Mom]

3 hours ago, Ruki said:

There's another option...

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If Karlach is with you at that scene she offers herself up as a Mind Flayer.

 

You could have also accepted the Emperor's deal. But fuck the Emperor. 

 

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Well I missed her so I just wasted 70 hours

 

[Ruki]

13 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

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Well I missed her so I just wasted 70 hours

 

Naww, I don't think you did. 

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Orpheus is who I chose to become a Mind Flayer as well, and it feels like I got the good ending. 

 

[Your Mom]

42 minutes ago, Ruki said:

Naww, I don't think you did. 

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Orpheus is who I chose to become a Mind Flayer as well, and it feels like I got the good ending. 

 

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That's what I was thinking too but there are a couple of problems with that at least as far as my personal playthrough goes. I've been doing anything I could to try and help restore the Githyanki and now I'm just going to steal their prince away from them at the last minute. I imagine they would all hate me especially Lae'zel who just so happens to also be my partner. I can't imagine we get much of a happily ever after if I do that. So the game is swiping that from me at the last minute too.

Also this reminds me of the whole Fallout 3 debacle. Like why does it have to be me as the mindflayer? Why can't it be any of the companions who also have the tadpoles in their heads? Is this another "I wouldn't dare rob you of your destiny" piece of fuckery?

 

[Your Mom]

I never noticed you can just play a full game with one of the other characters if you want. I started a new game just to mess around with what my next character might be and you can choose any of the other characters. So like I would just play a full game as say Shadowheart if I wanted and it would all take place with her backstory and pov instead of the original character I used this time? This game is crazy replayable it seems

[Ruki]

44 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

I never noticed you can just play a full game with one of the other characters if you want. I started a new game just to mess around with what my next character might be and you can choose any of the other characters. So like I would just play a full game as say Shadowheart if I wanted and it would all take place with her backstory and pov instead of the original character I used this time? This game is crazy replayable it seems

Yup! I'm not sure about what differences it makes sadly. BUT! Dark Urge lets you customize your character and gives you...extra. I'm using it on my evil playthrough and it's dark.

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Instead of pulling Gale out of the portal, you bite his hand off. 

 

[Your Mom]

Game froze again during the big final battle robbing me of nearly an hour of progress. A bit sick of this