Boulder's Gate 3 (there maybe Droobs ahead)

The only bugs I've noticed is people 'sliding' about instead of walking for a few moments. I didn't pay enough attention to even be sure when it happens. Agree travelling to a new location, saving, loading, exciting dialogue. No clue.

Earlier tonight I saw a trap floating in mid air, because the bridge it was on collapsed.

That's it really.

He I've no idea how it plays out if you do things differently of course.

If you haven't been to the Underdark I'd highly recommend it. Lots to explore, quests to do, some NPCs to meet that can turn up in later acts and some darn sweet gear to get that I'm still using in Act 3.

Finally made it to the towers. Here's hoping I don't have to keep wandering around in the shadow curse shit any more.

I struggled

For your other conundrum.  

Oh, this game cheats — and in plain sight. Goblins are all on the bottom floor. I wondered how they were reaching me so quickly, then watched one run into the wall and magically appear on my level. Fuck off.

Anyway, I'm still in act 1. I haven't had many bugs aside from some floating glassware. Hopefully by the time I get to act 3, most of the more serious ones will have been patched out.

I love the idea of the Dark Passenger/Urge. I feel like most players in these games are cowardly goody-goodys who hammer Quick Load if they so much as hurt anyone's feelings, let alone make evil choices.

But if the game randomly chooses murder targets for you, out of your control, maybe it will make the do-gooders feel less bad about it. And will open them up to the joys of absolute (virtual) bastardry.

I was planning full evil but I would have lost a party member that I wanted to use on this run. Full evil is next, help the goblins kill the druids and then kill all the goblins is the act 1 plan.

Could go underdark if you are finding mountain pass tricky.

You meet the friend regardless of route. It's cleverly designed so you can go one way and leave the other for a second playthrough. You can do both but there isn't much need other than the odd item. Of course a certain amount depends on who you take in your party as to which way you should choose though.

You don't want to be wandering into some of those act 3 bosses underlevelled and underprepared. Some of them are bloody tough, I had to give up on one and take another path as he was smashing me. The game did warn me it was a bad idea, I just didnt believe it haha.

Haha was the the one in the swamp?

It's actually insane how much they've crammed into Act 3. I still have half my companion quests to tie up, a bunch of side quests, and there are areas of the Lower City map I haven't gone to yet. The map isn't even that much bigger than previous acts, it's just insanely dense with stuff.

My druid is... bad. Early-mid game it felt pretty strong, but towards the end game it becomes a real liability that you don't scale with gear and she's falling way behind the other party members in both damage and utility. It's not really a problem as combat isn't that hard and the rest of the party is carrying, but it doesn't feel good.

Halfway through Act 3 I realised that the Longstrider spell is a ritual spell out of combat (doesn't use a spell slot) and lasts until the next long rest, so my entire party could have had extra movement through the entire game if I'd only read the spell descriptions properly. Oops.

Yeah, they work absolutely fine.