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Post by Mark1412 on Jan 8, 2024 16:22:23 GMT
It gets easier as you level up your party and develop synergy between them all!
Playing Spiderman at the moment but am tempted by a second run through...
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Post by bichii2 on Jan 8, 2024 17:15:42 GMT
After bitching through a lot of the first play through about difficulty my second run as a barbarian has been almost entirely very easy.
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Post by Garfy on Jan 8, 2024 17:41:00 GMT
Karlach smash!
Edit: Oh wait you're being an evil doer this time so no big fire mommy for you
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Post by zephro on Jan 8, 2024 18:33:29 GMT
Being this actively evil is hard work. But Gale was dead at the first instance, so job 1 done I suppose.
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Post by Chopsen on Jan 8, 2024 19:16:10 GMT
I ended up doing a Good Durge playthrough because I felt too bad about the bad options.
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Post by zephro on Jan 8, 2024 19:50:35 GMT
I ended up doing a Good Durge playthrough because I felt too bad about the bad options. That's what I ended up doing the 2nd time as a Paladin, I had thought to go fallen Paladin but my heart wasn't in it. It does make it thematically more like Baldur's Gate, even if it's not fully integrated. Still means you can't get the Save all the Tieflings achievement |
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Post by bichii2 on Jan 9, 2024 12:33:34 GMT
Onto act 3. Turns out being evil doesn't really change the end of act 2 much even when you try for the opposite outcome. Being evil just makes for final hour of act 2 harder (depending on choices made).
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Post by muddyfunster on Jan 9, 2024 16:07:02 GMT
I think we started around the same time yet you'll have done three play-throughs by the time I've done one!
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Post by bichii2 on Jan 9, 2024 16:18:17 GMT
Act 2 end battle. I rolled two criticals in a row to try and change the result. I got new dialogue but then it just reverted to the same as if I rolled two 1's. Shame.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Jan 9, 2024 17:07:16 GMT
I looked into some class stuff and discovered that you cannot a) turn into a snow leopard (but you can be a badger) and b) you can't have a snow leopard familiar (but you can have a crab)
I find these to be odd animal choices. No one was ever going to say how come I can't have a crab in this game
Also is bichii playing this 24/7
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Post by ned on Jan 9, 2024 18:01:12 GMT
Bichii will be breezing through the game on honour mode before long, while the rest of us blithering peasants struggle on normal.
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Post by RobEG on Jan 9, 2024 18:11:58 GMT
Took out Raphael last night. I honest thought he'd put up more of a fight. It helped that I convinced his giant buddy to switch sides, and having Hope and her healing powers made things pretty straightforward. Now its just sewers to take out Orin and then endgame I think. |
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jan 9, 2024 20:22:36 GMT
Onto act 3. Turns out being evil doesn't really change the end of act 2 much even when you try for the opposite outcome. Being evil just makes for final hour of act 2 harder (depending on choices made). Wha? How? Are you speed running the game? |
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Post by RobEG on Jan 9, 2024 20:40:03 GMT
I think I started in October and Bichi will complete her second run before my first  |
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Post by bichii2 on Jan 9, 2024 20:47:15 GMT
Onto act 3. Turns out being evil doesn't really change the end of act 2 much even when you try for the opposite outcome. Being evil just makes for final hour of act 2 harder (depending on choices made). Wha? How? Are you speed running the game? I'm doing an evil run. Doing all the important bits from my first run, skipping the fluff bits and occasionally finding bits I missed. Like on the first run I totally missed the mountain pass. Then on this run I avoided the last light inn as it was ( I think) pointless for my evil character. |
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Post by alastair on Jan 9, 2024 21:20:31 GMT
You don't seem to be moaning about the battles... Are you levelling up a bit more, or just keeping quiet about it?
Also, I don't know how you find the time to play so much. I thought you had kids to look after?
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Post by bichii2 on Jan 9, 2024 21:53:15 GMT
So far combat has been much easier. Partly down to my experience with the game are partly as I'm finding a heavy armoured barbarian much easier. (frenzy still works). Nothing to do with my lvl Vs my last play through. Like many RPGs it seems that all the main stuff rewards you loads more than the side bits. I've done less overall this time but I'm the same lvl. Also on my first run I was still lvl 12 by the end.
As far as time, I'm off work currently. Back soon so I've had plenty of me time to waste on gaming.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jan 10, 2024 2:16:38 GMT
Don't forget to eat and sleep.
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Post by muddyfunster on Jan 10, 2024 11:09:09 GMT
Meanwhile, I'm still not actually in Baldur's Gate and have spent at least the past 12hrs in Wyrm's Crossing.
Part of me is getting a bit impatient, but a bigger part of me is loving the level design and narrative depth and not wanting to miss anything. It's the good kind of FOMO tension. I never feel like I'm doing busy work checking behind locked doors for the sake of it. There's almost always more hand crafted content the other side.
It's bloody brilliant.
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Post by bichii2 on Jan 10, 2024 15:05:47 GMT
Binned it (for now). I'm getting nothing done around the house etc, it's like crack. Was early act 3 and I'll finish at some point but want to get back to the minimal gaming I was doing until recently. Plus aliens dark decent and there were a couple of bosses in a row that I crit rolled through the dialogue to try and change the outcome from my first play through and all it did was give different speeches and always just ended in the same battle.
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Post by Tuffty on Jan 11, 2024 0:16:23 GMT
Oh my god the amount of stuff in actual Baldurs Gate city. Every NPC seems like someone you can talk to. The size of it. It's almost too much. I really need to sort out my main characters encumberance, I'm constantly on the verge of being over encumbered. I've enough special arrows to do an armory with but never use them. That'll have to change. It feels like I triggered something that might have been pushing me down main progression so I put a stop to it Orin appeared where I found out Lae'zel is the one she captured. I actually had some suspicion, I don't know if it's the game's way of hinting at it or not, but Lae'zel wasn't standing in her usual spot at camp. I took a swing at her once and she went back to it tho, so I guess I was kinda satisfied to see it confirmed. But all the talk with party members seemed adamant I had to make a choice on killing Gortash or saving her there and then so I quit for the night and will come back to that part much much later. What on earth happens with Lae'zel's questline then? Could you complete it as the imposter? |
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Post by zephro on Jan 11, 2024 0:32:45 GMT
Oh my god the amount of stuff in actual Baldurs Gate city. Every NPC seems like someone you can talk to. The size of it. It's almost too much. I really need to sort out my main characters encumberance, I'm constantly on the verge of being over encumbered. I've enough special arrows to do an armory with but never use them. That'll have to change. It feels like I triggered something that might have been pushing me down main progression so I put a stop to it Orin appeared where I found out Lae'zel is the one she captured. I actually had some suspicion, I don't know if it's the game's way of hinting at it or not, but Lae'zel wasn't standing in her usual spot at camp. I took a swing at her once and she went back to it tho, so I guess I was kinda satisfied to see it confirmed. But all the talk with party members seemed adamant I had to make a choice on killing Gortash or saving her there and then so I quit for the night and will come back to that part much much later. What on earth happens with Lae'zel's questline then? Could you complete it as the imposter? Have you tried just sending ALL the food to camp? It's not always Lae'zel. Her quest line generally completes after Orin is dealt with though.[/spoiler
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Post by Tuffty on Jan 11, 2024 0:37:50 GMT
I have! Interesting, I figured I would hit it at some point. Well, Ive about 15 other aide quests to do first so will put it aside for now. Although I am curious about the interaction if you have Lae'zel in your party when she reveals herself! |
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jan 11, 2024 2:48:23 GMT
Oh my god the amount of stuff in actual Baldurs Gate city. Every NPC seems like someone you can talk to. The size of it. It's almost too much. Ah, the classic 'Big Town Problem' as Crate & Crowbar calls it. Coincidentally (or not), my playthrough of Baldur's Gate 1 ended very soon after I finally got to actual Baldur's Gate. Too much stuff! |
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Post by alastair on Jan 11, 2024 9:18:06 GMT
I'm still slowly working my way through the upper city. You can consider me to be the polar opposite of Pepsipop. Genuine spoilers below, so don't look if you've not got this far.
Youtube research showed me a way to bypass the upper courtyard fight by heading around to the right and using Misty Step/Fly. Which I managed with Astarion and have a save.
However, further research then suggests that you can also somewhat bypass the fight on the top of the Netherbrain, but you have to cast Invisibility on everyone just before climbing up. Thus the two bypass methods can't be used together.
Thus I am slowly making my way through the courtyard battle. (I'm playing on Easy so perhaps being too cautious!!)
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Post by bichii2 on Jan 11, 2024 9:38:24 GMT
You can jump all the way around to the left as well, which I of course did. Sod going the normal route.
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Post by RobEG on Jan 11, 2024 9:38:55 GMT
Shit - I totally forgot about the upper city. Still need to check that out.
Is it a big area? Hoping not as I thought I was pretty much at the end.
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Post by skalpadda on Jan 11, 2024 10:10:44 GMT
The upper city isn't an open quest area, it's just for the end of the main story. Basically a "dungeon", and not a very big one.
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Post by RobEG on Jan 11, 2024 10:29:06 GMT
Ok that’s a relief.
I think the only open quest items I now have are getting Orin’s stone, talking to Voss (although I probably won’t bother with this) and finding dribbles’ body parts (I have most but don’t think I can be arsed to search around for the last couple). Then Gale’s quest which I think is tied to the end.
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Post by alastair on Jan 11, 2024 10:39:50 GMT
The last couple of Dribble's body are really quite hidden. God knows how you would find them without help.
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