Baldur's Gate 3

Testament

I’ve generally launch any game I mod through the mod manager if I’m modding it. In my experience that generally tends to create more stable play, but I figure that’s a YMMV situation.

The general consensus I’ve seen is that Mod Fixer and the Script Extender do the same thing, only the former is an actual mod and .pak file that’s loaded into mod order whereas the latter is a .dll file that’s inserted directly into the game’s Data folder. I think Script Extender is more stable, but I agree that some mods might still be dependent on Mod Fixer, depending on when the mod was created and if it’s been updated. I also agree that it’s been debated at length if only one is needed or both are. At this point, I just think it depends on the mod.

Testament

I don’t often show off characters I make, but I’m actually pretty proud of the Duegar Durge I created recently.

I need to toy around more with the free cam mod.

Cobalt

These horny npcs need to cool it!

|the emperor thought it had a chance with me?! When I have Astarion?! Awkward.

Testament

@Cobalt

ultimate power move is banging Mizora while romancing Wyll

Cobalt

@Testament I saw the cut scenes for those, it’s so heart breaking.

bear_necessities

OK, look. Listen. I’m on Act 3 and it’s great and all but I really really want to play one of the origin characters and try a different Durge game and I know I’ve restarted 100 times (at least) and still haven’t finished the game once but that’s normal, right? RIGHT?!

Wizz

@bear_necessities

I’ve literally never finished most RPGs with origin systems I start for this exact reason and no it is totally fine and great

bear_necessities

@Wizz You’ve convinced me, I restarted as Wyll

crawfish

@bear_necessities Apparently playing him and romancing Karlach is a stellar experience.

So of course I’m rolling as Karlach and coming at it from the other side.

Testament

@bear_necessities I have ten different characters. Only two are in Act Three. Yes, this is normal.

SpaceKhomeini

I’ve mentioned elsewhere that this game has sort of acted as a temporary replacement for MU*ing for me.

You get the full experience. Really!

Gale: Banned from another well-known large game for alleged sex-pest behavior. He’s on his last chance here. Oh shit, it’s your first night in camp and he’s already paging you. Oh, he’s just doing so to tell you about his cat. That’s charming.
Lae’Zel: Resident combat twink and self-appointed antagonist player, claims she does it for “roleplay reasons.” Exceedingly unpleasant to deal with IC’ly at first but surprisingly willing to deal with consequences and more of a collaborative roleplayer than you think. If you bother to scene with her.
Wyll: Current Wyll grabbed this character on roster, isn’t really feeling it. People were polarized about the last Wyll, but staff booted him. Nobody talks about why.
Shadowheart: She’s super chill but stoned all the time, might not respond to pages for days. Is async ok? She sure hopes so. Gets very excited when she discovers pics of her PB with different hair.
Karlach: Everyone loves Karlach. It’s kind of unfair, she apped a little late after the main core of active players and missed out on some of the big plots and character ties, plus her main arc with Wyll got thrown for a loop when he got rostered. She posts a lot of great vignettes.
Astarion: He’s an edgelord who already got warned once but seems genuine about trying to be better. Also he’s one of those guys who transfers the same character from MU* to MU* but somehow nobody notices. At least he seems self-aware.
Halsin: Inoffensive guy who doesn’t get in the way for the most part, but isn’t really active. One of those people who apped a giant dude whose stats don’t make any sense. Also, he’s clearly just here for the TS.
Minthara: Sure she died by falling down a pit but that’s ok, her player has a million copy-paste alts just like her. She’ll try to get you into a TS scene but it’s super-creepy.
Jaheira: The legacy player from Alpha who’s just obsessed with getting their old alpha buddy (Minsc) back. Everyone else has moved on. Every conversation involves referencing a bunch of shit and people from ages ago.
Minsc: Hasn’t MU*ed in years, Jaheira’s incessant pressure and his own frequent drinking habits convinced him to log back on, is surprised he’s having so much fun. It’s been so long the hamster schtick seems fresh again.

Roz

@SpaceKhomeini jfc i’m dying

crawfish

@SpaceKhomeini I don’t know how to feel but I’m laughing and crying at the same time

ETA There are relatable names echoing in my head for every one of these wheeze

Selira

@SpaceKhomeini oh my god, i see myself and i don’t like it

SpaceKhomeini

@crawfish said in Baldur’s Gate 3:

@SpaceKhomeini I don’t know how to feel but I’m laughing and crying at the same time

ETA There are relatable names echoing in my head for every one of these wheeze

Yeah, I’m not going to pretend I wasn’t picturing someone in each case.
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@Selira said in Baldur’s Gate 3:

@SpaceKhomeini oh my god, i see myself and i don’t like it

If it makes you feel any better so did I, heh.

But I’m definitely not poor Karlach here. She really is the best of us.

Cobalt

Testament

Patch 4 came out today and it’s about 15GBs of updates and tweaks. Which feels like it’s a game in of itself.

But I noticed this.

Booooo, shit game, 0/10.

SpaceKhomeini

@Testament

Also RIP if you’re using mods, ahahahaaha

Duke Whisky

@SpaceKhomeini - While the list is quite large for updates and tweaks, it still being v4.1.1 means the changes are relatively minor under the hood for modded games. Like the photo mode one I adore was updated in about 10 mins and mostly bug fixes that the person was working on between versions anyway.

SpaceKhomeini

@Duke-Whisky

Unless your mods rely on the script extender, I guess Norbyte (the author) just drank themselves into a stupor after looking under the hood. Yikes.

Also this patch just introduced some really ugly bugs (customization sliders in Chargen stopped working, as an example).