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[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you read the title of the article you've read the article. It doesn't really elaborate on it anymore than that sentence.

[–] JackbyDev 24 points 1 year ago

Gamers are loving Baldur's Gate 3 and wowee wow they're really loving it. It's a good game.

However some gamers have been SLAMMING the game on Twitter (X). It turns out, Lae'zel may have been too horny due to a bug!

Related story: Lay Lae'zel speedrun is the wackiest speedrun

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Game journalism ☕

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I bet 5 euros they changed some value to make it faster to test romance scenes during QA and then forgot about it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those are usually locked away behind command lines and they don't test with random chance or such. You trigger the things directly. Realistically what probably happened is some engineer wrote the system slightly wrong and no one caught it. Possibly maybe a designer requested the romance to be more prominent and the solution on engineering side was to tweak a value. It's be surprised if anyone changes hard coded values for QA. It's not the 90s anymore where qa is the engineering team.

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

Or perhaps the QA team is especially horndog, like some statistical anomaly.

Probably not, but funny to think about.

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

QA aren't build engineers. They don't get to pick what makes it into a build. If anything it'd be sometime in design or engineering. Not QA.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reminds me of the whole Ghandi loves nuclear arms is covered thing.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which by the way only started with Civ5, the rest was a hoax.

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

Wow! I had no idea, thanks for looping me in 😅

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Great to know this was a bug. It felt a tad immersion breaking for every origin character to be so interested all of a sudden.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Any interest would be immersion breaking for me...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

It was immersion breaking, but I'm not complaining about not having to work hard for dommy mommy Lae'zel.

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

She says we've gotta hold on to what we've got
It doesn't make a difference if we make it or not
We've got each other and that's a lot for love
We'll give it a shot

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How game b breaking are we talking about? Like slider set to 100 instead of 99, or are we talking about memory loop around, nuclear Gandi level of horny?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lae'zel simultaneously hated me and wanted the D. It wasn't game breaking, but I know a couple of ace people that were a bit disturbed by the constant advances.

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

I accidentally ended up in a romance scene with a character I had clearly told I was not interested in them. I thought the scenes were just their side quests for a while.

But other than accidentally having dinner kinky sex in the game it wasn't that big of a part.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Nah feature. I was a god among men

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Butterfly Guy: Is this teenagers?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A pubic louse in this case

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

What kind of bug? A Spanish fly?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Now this is a headline

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Is this why there's that speedrun to have sex with that one woman?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I'm sure we will see references to this bug in the future, in parodies and things like that. I was also surprised to see most of my companions making advances in the first act even though I wasn't that close to them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Off topic: I didn't realise how intense Eurogamer has gotten with ads. Could barely read the article on my phone. 😡

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Firefox with uBlock, what are ads?

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

As much as I'd love to support a site, if I can't use the site because of ads then I can't support it.