Baldur's Gate 3

After seeing an article about dark urge and how special it is I decided to give it a shot. I also read a comment on here saying romance between Shadowheart and Seluna's cleric MC is great. So I decided to combine those two things for my 3rd playthrough! ( i have yet to experience act 2 btw...think I have a problem)

I made a Seldarine drow with the idea being that she used to be bloodthirsty Lolth sworn but eventually she found Seluna and became her cleric, now she's trying to be better. I thought that worked well with heroic dark urge story I wanted and I get to experience the enemies to lovers relationship with shadowheart. Don't know if the way the story will unravel will validate my headcanoned backstory for her but so far I'm quite enjoying it.

This is also the first playthrough where I met Timber the squirrel, I didn't know he was in the game before this playthrough, I was kinda excited to meet him...yeah.

Closing in on 100 hours and I still haven't finished the game lol. Could I? Yes. Will I? No. I'm exploring every nook and cranny and doing every damn quest I can. This game is just too good not too.

80+ hours on my main playthrough and I’m wandering around the Shadowlands, just finished going through Last Light. I tend to be a completionist and have to explore every possible nook and cranny before moving on. Just a basic druid and keeping everyone else the same classes. There’s so many crazy-ass multi-classing options I’ve seen that I can’t but feel I’m not playing optimally, but it’s going ok. Thank goodness for the Magic Mirror though, my character looked ugly at first and it was really starting to grate on me given the total lack of PC personality.

I have a separate Dark Urge playthrough, but it’s so hard to go the evil route that I avoid doing it, 30+ years of RPG playing habits is hard to break.

Just started a new playthrough with the mod that removes the party size limit - and damn, it's awesome not to have to choose. Of course it makes things a good bit easier, but to have so many more companion dialogues and so on... Wow, it really improves an already amazing experience.

Probably close to 40 hours now and ive just reached the goblin camp and im trying to plan how i want to deal with the goblins

I'm doing a nothing playthrough, focused around progressing the plot by doing as little as possible. I finished act 1 by heading to the mountain pass and sneaking past all the gith and undead (this required a potion of invisibility). Went to Last Light, spoke to no one then went immediately back out, skipping Moonrise Towers and the entire shadow curse theme park, and going straight to the temple. Sneaked past everyone there and very disappointed to find B waiting for me at the end anyway, how did he know I was there? Well I'm like level 3 or something so I cheese him with a silence spell before he has the chance to get going then shove him off a cliff. Up next, sneaking into Moonrise Towers without anyone noticing and then guilt tripping the guy in charge because ~~Selune~~ ~~Shar~~ Myrkul knows it's not a fight I'm going to win. AFAIK this is where the fun and games end though, because the final phase of the act II boss requires that you actually be capable of doing something, which my MC for this run canonically isn't.

I got to the start of Act 3, but I kinda stopped because I found out a few things...

• I missed an Act 1 companion
• I learned you can respec companions (d'oh)
• Being a wizard who's romancing Gale means too many wizards in my party (and I didn't know I could maybe respec him...)
• I felt like I was only really "understanding" how best to play by Act 3 and I basically just want a do-over so things are less messy.

44 in one swing with a one-hander at level 6. Phalar Aluve is busted.

https://i.imgur.com/o6Z1RA5.png

Yeah, I hit a wall I can’t overcome; Shadowheart or Karlach?

I'm fairly fresh into act 3, just did the shadowheart part and man, that was heavy.

Definitely gonna be doing a new play though with my opposite choices though.

I do gotta say, I'm enjoying the challenge of tactician but man does my lvl 11 monk suck and is just so squishy, anyone got any recommendations to strengthen her up to take more than 2 hits?

I think I have around 200 hours and haven’t finished the game yet lol. First playthrough was with an evil drow warlock, but bugs with Minthara’s quest made me quit during act 3.

I’m now playing an evil dark urge (sorcerer dragonborn), and just started a parallel Githyanki Monk too (I would like this one to be a good playthrough, let’s see). I also have a gnome bard somewhere but I don’t have the time 😂

I just can’t stop myself from trying different things, and I love how the slightest change in conversations and choices can results in very different things and how the game accounts for almost every possibility, just love it.

It’s what keeps me entertained vs a regular story, where once I know how it progress I find it kind of boring to replay.

I've just finished the game on normal difficulty after just 90 hours, probably because it was a 'blind' playthrough so I managed to just never encounter more than the first 5 companions.

Have to say the ending was stylistically great but very WTF in terms of closure, even after the patches to extend the epilogue. It feels a lot like the Mass Effect 3 ending before they added the director's cut. And even then, the ROs are a lil buggy in terms of contradicting your previous conversations.

Everything leading up to that was really fun though. Maybe the real treasure was the magical artifacts we stole along the way.

Second playthrough, trying out dark urge and being evil. It's really hard, honestly. I've lost half of my beloved companions and slaughted some favourite NPCs. It feels really fucked up. Minthara better be worth it lol.

Despite the fact I tried to be a completionist in my first playthrough, I've still been discovering lots of things I missed. The biggest so far is that there was a massive amount of the creche to explore on the exterior. I missed that before and basically only went into the basement. I also last time missed that there were 2 mythrils, among many other smaller things.

I am over 100hrs and made it to the Last Light. Exciting. Really enjoying it.

I just started playing for the first time and did some of Emerald Grove and just completed the ruins near by that took me 5 hours. What an incredible game, I want to stop and talk to everyone. My first play through I’m trying to say and do things I actually think I would do since I created a custom character for the first go around.

Close to 200 hours and I'm still in Act 2. Even with all the patches and hotfixes, my game is still crashing all the time. I tried to play for a few hours yesterday and had to have over 10 crashes. Sometimes it crashes even when I'm loading into the game. My wife has an almost identical setup and experiencing just as many crashes, but she's running two campaigns side by side, good and evil, and is currently in Act 3 with both.

Still fucking love this game tho!

It's not like my rig is ancient either..

• i7-6700
• 1080ti x2 in SLI
• 64GB RAM

I have 180 hours. First playthrough was learning DnD rules and mechanics (I knew nothing about it before), I started on the easiest setting, got up to act 3 but I missed a lot of stuff and I wasn't satisfied so I restarted on normal.

I finished the game on normal, tho I rushed act 3 a bit because I wanted to see the end of the story. Then I started a dark urge run, still at the very beginning, I'll probably get additional 100+ hours by the end of it XD.

I have two campaigns at the same time, one solo, one with a friend. I am amazed how different the campaigns are. Moreover, by discussing with my other friends that play the game, I could play two or three more campaigns and there will be significant differences between the four of them. Per exemple, I have not played dark urge, broken oath paladin, no evil run (I have one but I wasn't evil enough). The replayability is surprisingly good.

I have not finished the game. I'm in Act 3 in one of the campaigns. One thing that help make the campaigns differents is to do the quests in different orders. It lead to unexpected changes.

Recently finished my first playthrough. Played as Dark Urge, which was interesting but was probably better saved for a 2nd playthrough, but oh well. I kinda see what people mean about the game being weakest in act 3. At a time when I was starting to see the finish line, the game kept widening and it made me just want to be done with it. I still did a lot of the side content, but I also missed a lot more of it. It also got way too easy. The act 2 boss was the last fight that really threatened me with maybe the exception of Raph. And I wasn’t even min maxing my characters or anything. I’ve seen people build stuff with like a bajillion attacks or infinite spells, but I was just playing the game normally with whatever I found.

This was on normal. I know there’s a harder difficulty, but it’s weird that the intended experience basically lets you ignore most of the difficulty mechanics. I never had to think about long resting because I had basically Infinite food. The only reason why I wouldn’t just instantly do it after every fight was because the load screens would be annoying to sit through. By the end of the game I was hoarding bags and bags of unused consumables and like 50k in unspent gold, which I could have only spent on more consumables I didn’t need. I barely even used the extra powers you get in the finale. If there’s already a story difficulty for people who want to completely ignore the mechanics of the game, why can’t normal be balanced around being a reasonable challenge that makes you at least consider using the tools the game provides to you?

For anyone who’s played tactician, what’s it like? Is it a reasonable kind of challenge or is it more of a masochist difficulty?