Baldur's Gate 3: It's Party Time! (PC / PS5) - The Bear and Badger

Wookienopants

No such thing darling

Syph79

Certainly not between us squirrel friends.

Minnesänger

tigersgogrrr wrote:

How are the controls? I heard there is cross save from Steam and... This appeals to me.

I used cross-save - you need to turn it on in the options on both platforms, but after that it is flawless.

Wookienopants

So I dropped the difficulty level and it's made a huge difference. I can enjoy this more now

b0r1s

Is there an option on Xbox to use keyboard and mouse? If so I’d suggest giving it a go. Having tried both this and controller it’s definitely a better experience with K&M.

hylian_elf

Just bought this. I probably won’t finish it for years.

Wookienopants

It's really good

hylian_elf

Really?

Wookienopants

Really

Kernowgaz

Watch your saves Xbox users

https://www.eurogamer.net/baldurs-gate-3-studio-recommends-manually-updating-your-xbox-now-to-stop-crashes-killing-saves

regmcfly

I'm trying to be intensely disciplined and finish Spiderman 2 and LAD GAIDZ before this but the lure is big. It's just ready to go on xbox.

Weird qu - if I bought this on Xbox store do I have it on PC now? That'd be my preferred place to play it

hylian_elf

All I've done so far is take ages to decide who to start with (went with... Shar? The half-elf cleric) and the intro section. But I'm already in love with the music. So grandiose.

Wookienopants

regmcfly wrote:

I'm trying to be intensely disciplined and finish Spiderman 2 and LAD GAIDZ before this but the lure is big. It's just ready to go on xbox.

Weird qu - if I bought this on Xbox store do I have it on PC now? That'd be my preferred place to play it

I don't think that's how it works. But again I'm not a pc gamer so just guessing

Kernowgaz

regmcfly wrote:

I'm trying to be intensely disciplined and finish Spiderman 2 and LAD GAIDZ before this but the lure is big. It's just ready to go on xbox.

Weird qu - if I bought this on Xbox store do I have it on PC now? That'd be my preferred place to play it

It’s just first party Microsoft with the moniker - Play anywhere attached to them.

Kow

You could stream it from your Xbox to the pc but I don't think the pc versión is available on Xbox PC so you can't play it there.

acemuzzy

There's some 3P Play Anywhere stuff I think? But yeah, it's a minority of games in general

acemuzzy

https://www.xbox.com/en-gb/games/xbox-play-anywhere?cat=all says no

Minnesänger

regmcfly wrote:

Weird qu - if I bought this on Xbox store do I have it on PC now? That'd be my preferred place to play it

No. Unless you were to use cloud to do it, maybers.

tin_robot

Well, that's me, finally finished. I really enjoyed it - there are all sorts of little niggles along the way, but it's one of the rare games where I found myself caring about the characters, which is quite an achievement. (Thanks to whoever suggested I should be using Karlach more. I bloody love Karlach.)

I'm glad my relatively slow rate of play means that I didn't finish until the epilogue was in place as it makes it an altogether more satisfying (and happier) ending.

I'd love to go back and do a Durge run, but not sure how I'll find the time - one day hopefully.

I'm intrigued to know what endings people unearthed for their various companions - I think mine were pretty common having played it fairly straight...

Spoiler:

Anyone dared to do an Honour Run?

Minnesänger

tin_robot wrote:

(Thanks to whoever suggested I should be using Karlach more. I bloody love Karlach.)

You’re welcome. And yes, it is a great game. Not doing honour, but am doing Dark Urge tactician.

Wookienopants

Just had a moment in this that made me spit tea through laughter.

It relates to the gnome being tormented by the goblins quite early on so spoiler tags here.

Spoiler:

His little scream was just the funniest thing I've seen in ages

equinox_code

Anyone know a decent tutorial to this without spoilers?

Coopers Green

Prob best bet is to ask questions here. Google one thing and it'll probably have a spoiler in the first para.

Coopers Green

@Wookie I've fucked up so many things in Act 2. Looking forward to comparing notes with a friend who's almost finished that section.

Gremill

I am in this! Yes!

Gremill

This game is brilliant. I'm getting all sorts of flashbacks to my youth of playing D&D.

Currently still figuring out how everything works whilst battling giant spiders in what I think is my first real difficulty spike.

Wookienopants

I had a nice long phone call catch-up with Elmlea today, we have both had entirely different experiences with this game and it's awesome. Chatting about our different teams, different experiences, different ways of seeing events. The freedom is incredible.

I struggled to get into this but put a few hours in last night, lowered the difficulty level and now convinced it's the game of the year.

Wookienopants

Managed to get another 40 minutes in before my over tired brain lead to a banging headache.

Things are now clicking with me, I'm understanding my characters more, getting more into the roleplaying aspects and feel like I've finally got a decent team for combat.
My sorcerer, Ron Waffles, has stupidly high perception and charisma and is talking his way round most fights and if that fails, I have karlagh run in with a massive fuck off axe.

I've stopped "trying" to follow the story and worrying if I'm going off the path and instead am just embracing the fact that the story sorta happens around me regardless. I'm just telling MY story and loving it.

No idea if I'm doing the main quest line or a million side quests but I'm having a blast.

This is just absolutely brilliant

Minnesänger

Nice one, Wooks - enjoying the updates.

Wookienopants

I don't want to work today. I just want to play Balder's Gate

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