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A Baldur's Gate 3 bug is cutting off 1,500 lines of evil companion content, but the next patch will bring them back (www.pcgamer.com)

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Minthara is about to come out of her shell.

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[–] JackbyDev 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm very glad Larian is polishing the game instead of taking the praise that the game is polished and dipping out.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

That's not their style, I expect/hope an enhanced/definitive edition comes in a couple years with new features and adding back cut content.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I honestly can't believe what some of the reviews/articles from big media outlets were saying about the polish. Literally one a week into launch saying it's "so polished, it puts other AAA games to shame." It's like they didn't even play it.

Story? Great. Characters? Some of the best ever in a game. Action? Fun as shit. Polish? No. It's kinda rough.

[+] [email protected] -14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Sure would have been nice for it to be polished before it released.

Apparently a hot take lately.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It was polished. I bought it on launch and had zero issues. Polishing it even further isn’t a problem.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really? I love the game but my partner and I are both dealing with tons of really annoying bugs. They're usually fixable with a reload but it's a huge pain. It's things like enemy path finding bugging out leaving enemies frozen on their turns, items not working (eg. Lumps horn), random hit boxes in the world preventing me from moving through an important area.

I wouldn't say the game is a buggy mess or anything but I absolutely wouldn't call it polished

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I just assume they are talking about the degree to which the game is polished at launch vs pretty much every AAA game for the past 10 yeara or so.

Ita not perfect but its a damn sight better than most of the games ive played in recent memory which dont feel polished for years beyod release and by that point ive completed or got bored of them.

Theres no argument that this is a bad game though. I do take issue with that. Objectively its one of the best games ive played in years and ive never wanted to go back and play more woth another game quite like this one. Lile i activelt enjoy it, its not just there to solve boredom like some other games i play out of habit like overwatch.

I think about this game all day until i can get gome to play it. For clarity Im 36 and lts taking over my life. I need to fpcus on my wife, kid and job lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh yeah I totally agree it's a great game. Didn't mean to imply otherwise. My argument is just that I wouldn't call it polished. It's a lot better than other games on launch but it's not quite at what I'd describe as polished.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, thats a fair take overall. More true about act 3 than act 1 though.

I think the main thing to take away is that games of this quality and size that are actually fun to play which dont need to nickel and dime their playerbase are not only possible, destroying the lie the industry has been pedaling, they are also a necessity to fix the capitalist plague that has infected gaming.

Im not saying games that have an overbearing number of microtransactions that try to squeeze every penny are automatically bad games, but good games or even great games that do expect you to pay more and more to access content in the game are made bad by that very practice.

It needs to stop before more people turn up in forums like this trying to defend cash grabbing saying things lile, "thats just the way things are now" or "ok boomer" like im clinging to some old way and need to get with the times.

Activision/blizzard have around 6000 employees and spent 5 years developing overwatch 2 and that ended up being overwatch 1 with less content.

Its simply inexcusable and im bloody tired of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

First act is polished, rest of the game is full of bugs. Was the same issue with DOS2. It's good that they're working on all the later bugs, but acting like the entire game is perfect needs to stop. Nothing preventing me from finishing it, but I've had several issues where I had to reload my game to try to fix things not happening when they should.

[–] JackbyDev -4 points 1 year ago

Apparently you're missing out on a way to trigger 1500 fucking lines of dialogue, my dude.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

im sure you have lot of experience developing complex software

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well good thing for me I surrounded her with fire barrels and blasted her across the room before her corpse burned to a crisp!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

My bard was playing jaunty tunes near a ledge, she came to listen but "slipped and fell".

Didn't know she was a possible companion back then. :|

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are already playing the evil character. Lol. I like it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like the evil character would be allying with her, not killing her tbh

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Both is correct. Killing somebody, no matter who, the most horrible way, is probably not a typical way of calling somebody "good".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Tbf, Minthara is a genocidal maniac, and killing her is definitely a net positive. Still, I kinda like her, and she hits like a truck.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah, the perils of making my first run as a baddie. Hope I still see some of those lines in what remains of act 3. When is patch 2 dropping, I wonder?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They’re saying it’s going to be sooner than it took them to do patch 1, which is good. I’ve put my game on hold because I’m in Act 3 now, and one of the dialogue misfires badly spoiled something big in another quest. So I’m just gonna wait for a bit, and maybe start a new game and go through Acts 1 and 2 since I know at least one other quest bugged on me (the building on fire area; the people trying to open the door never spawned in), and I want to see what I missed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

When is patch 2 dropping, I wonder?

Boom.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well shit... I had just started an evil run the other day (literally last save is about to go into the gobbo camp to snag Minthara and fuck shit up). But now I think I'll just wait for the patch :/

Edit: Yay it's here! Time to go be a bad bitch 😎 Damn Larian! I expected this to take like a week from the announcement. Love ya!

[–] mikyopii 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Good thing I murdered her when I botched assassinating the priestess and turned the whole camp against me.