‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K

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• holiday@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What I love is that means this game would have been a success at 100k concurrent. That makes this a runaway success. Hopefully other triple As are paying attention to what Larian is doing.

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  • Hyperi0n@lemmy.film ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Releasing an early access game as a full release? Other devs are doing that already.

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    • disasterpiece@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Care to elaborate? The game had an early access and the official release has been incredibly well polished with few bugs that are already being patched out

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    • Apex_Fail@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I dunno, I got the early access for half price (of release price) with the 1st act (as advertised), and the full game at no extra cost.

      The 1st act alone probably net me ~50+ hours of play, so their beta is better than 90% of AAA releases recently

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• cordlesslamp@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We need to support and embrace this kind of games and studios more. They put so much love and effort into the game. But in the end, this game will probably profit as much as what Fortnite make in a couple months.

  It’s always sadden me to know that even something as successful as Elden Ring, which sold 20 millions copies and made 1.2 Billion dollars, is nothing compared to what microtransactions make in games like CoD (2 Billion dollars per year) or Fortnite (over 5 Billion dollars per year).

  And people complain why they “don’t make good games anymore”.

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  • AProfessional@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Pokémon is regularly one of the best selling games out there, so saying most people don’t want turn-based RPGs doesn’t sound right.

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• solarizde@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Good thing is, it runs flawless on my Linux desktop too 👍 Just one of the best games I played in years. Good it payed out for larian to invest so much time into it. Maybe a good example for others that you do not need to rush a launch.

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  • zikk_transport2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I love Lemmy. Geeks are everywhere. Linux is everywhere.

    Seeing “runs flawless on my Linux desktop” on a gaming community is awesome! :)

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    • prole@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Can we all take a moment to appreciate Proton? Shit is basically magic as far as I’m concerned.

      GE-Proton too, that dude does good work.

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    • ZIRO@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Steam Deck is changing PC gaming. The better Steam Deck gets, the better gaming on Linux becomes. There are dozens of us.

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  • okamiueru@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I can also mention that it works flawlessly on Linux even with the GoG version (still through proton). It’s uncommon for such games to be on GoG day one, and I wouldn’t have bought it otherwise.

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    • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh nice, I went with GOG as well and was wondering if I’d be able to get it running on Linux.

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    • Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Why do you use Proton instead on WINE? I’ve never tried, so I’m curious if I should look into it.

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  • MaDeX@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is it native then?

    Squeals in Arch

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    • ZIRO@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It isn’t native, but it works very well.

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• sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The saddest thing is that with the destruction of the media over the past 20 years, I'm still waiting to hear whether it's actually any good or not.

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  • mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s super fuckin good. If you liked dos2, it’s basically that but with more immersive conversations, more potential dialogue trees, more DnD like, and more titties and dongs.

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    • aJazzyFeel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      i was flabbergasted to see titty and (various) dodongos on my character just like that. it’s rad as fuck! I’ve spent the past 2 hours pretty much just reading flavor text. 100% worth the asking price, especially since it runs perfectly on my potato pc on ultra.

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    • twistypencil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Msdos?

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  • KirinMizuki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s good, best with a group

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    • Klystron@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Definitely not unless your group is insanely dedicated to keeping it serious. All it takes is one person who doesn’t care about lore or the story or some NPC talking to rush through something or make a joke and completely takes you out of it. I could never play it in a group on my first serious play.

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    • utopianrevolt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      it’s best in any format, imo. shaping up to be my all-time favorite game.

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    • CluckN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The group glitch where someone can’t leave your party once they join is pretty bad.

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  • tomi000@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What are you even talking about

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  • Samuraipizzacat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s very good. Latharian studios really went above and beyond with the level and attention to detail. The replayability is incredible. Most streamers are still on act one and there is no shortage of stuff to do.

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    • brawleryukon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Latharian studios

      Guessing some kinda typo/autocorrect business going on here, but just to cover the bases, it’s Larian, not Latharian.

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    • Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah I think part of the reason there’s so few reviews is that the game is so large that not my reviewers have finished it yet. Or at least a lit of what I’m seeing are “reviews in progress”

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  • errer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Fucked a tiefling with my dragon penis, 10/10

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  • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s fantastic, if you have any familiarity with d&d and enjoyed that experience then you’ll love this.

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  • KarmicSquish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s good. It may well be my favorite game, ever.

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• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I love headlines like this.

  Larian makes such great games. This kind of success means maybe a BG4 somewhere down the line.

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t hear much talk of the optimization but the simple fact this is running great on a wide range of devices says a lot of the engineering prowess of the studio. Its amazing how well this game is runningnon my five year old machine. I know thats not too old but some new games make my cooling loop hot and this one doesn’t even make my components work that hard.

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  • terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Seems like the pre release was more demanding/less optimized. Running Fedora 38 and proton. Combined with the Vulkan option it’s been fantastic. And I think this weird glitch I was having two nights ago has already been patched ʘ‿ʘ

    Specs: ryzen 5 1400, 16g ram, and a Radeon 5500xt. I had bumped a few options down on ultra, shadows to medium, and fog medium. Didn’t need to, but it’s helped without any noticeable graphic difference.

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    • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Now if we could just let our friends drop-in and out so I don’t have to keeo a separate save/character for them. I played with one yesterday and their character was stuck in my active party after they left.

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  • lazyslacker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Honestly I’m not surprised, it looks like something out of the mid 2000s. That’s not to say something bad about it. Graphics don’t make a good game on their own.

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    • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wtf is this? Have you seen the in-engine character expressions? Shit looks phenomenal.

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• MasterObee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I haven’t played any Baldurs gate before, but the hype has definitely made me look into it.

  Definitely seems like a game I’d like, a fantasy RPG, I haven’t always loved turned based combat, so that’s one of my hold ups. What do y’all think of the combat system?

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  • 5redie8@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As someone who hasn’t played a single game remotely close to it before (Titanfall, a little call of duty, Final Fantasy 14, Halo), all I can say is PLAY IT. It’s disorienting at first but once you play it for an hour you’ll like it, and after three you won’t he able to pit it down.

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  • sm1dger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you’re unsure if it will be for you, pick up divinity original sin 2, same maker and very similar style, but (a) without the d&d license and (b) will cost much much less. Both BG3 and DOS2 are incredible games which you can easily pour a hundred hours into

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    • delicious_tvarog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      DOS2 is my favorite RPG ever. The game uses tactics and positioning far better than any other RPG I’ve tried.

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  • wieli99@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I personally like it very much, it feels dynamic?, for a lack of a better word, despite it being turn based.

    However most encounters can be avoided, via conversation, choices, environment kills etc. So you don’t need to fight much, if you don’t end up liking it. ^(*as of act 2/3)

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    • TacoThrash3r@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Pacifist playthrough 100% when?

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  • Ricaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The combat system is classic but with tactical Larian improvements from their other games.

    I like it, but you can definitely get burned out from really long combat sessions. You can always lower the difficulty and blast your way through it, though.

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    • MasterObee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Outside the combat, how have you liked the game?

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• cazool@blip.cf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So… I’m the only one not playing it?

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  • sigh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    what are you even doing right now that’s so important

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    • cazool@blip.cf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Being lazy

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  • Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes

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  • TwinTusks@outpost.zeuslink.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t worry, I’m too poor to play (weak ass laptop, game cost a bunch in my country, and work, and kids)

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    • cazool@blip.cf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If it wasn’t for those pesky kids

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  • throwsbooks@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nope, I’m playing DOS2, since that’s been sitting in my steam library for way too long!

    THEN maybe I’ll BG3. If my laptop can handle it…

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    • 790@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Currently playing it too after a 3 year break. :)

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  • CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Me too, but only because I’m waiting for the PS5 version.

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    • cazool@blip.cf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh! That will be my excuse too. Didn’t realize it wasn’t on consoles yet.

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  • masterairmagic@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There is still time to change that.

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  • boletus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m finishing D:OS2 first with another party. Also Larian games are always better a couple months or so after release, so I don’t mind waiting. So no not the only one :)

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  • Nihilore@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m waiting for it not to be 90 bucks, probably pick it up in a year

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    • cazool@blip.cf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Dang. Here I thought we had it bad in CAD

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• Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have added the Baldur’s Gate series to my backlog, I will probably play these in 10-15 years, wish me luck.

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  • cafeina@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just in time for BG4! (probably)

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• Heavybell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Odd headline. Seems very rooted in the assumption of online gaming these days to me but then you get in and the article is basically just saying the game is a huge success, which is great news I’m sure we can all agree. :)

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The game does have multiplayer. If it’s not using P2P connections, preparing for 100k players and having 700k could make that slower. But I’m pretty sure it’s P2P so that doesn’t make any difference.

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    • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There’s still going to be some server overheads in connecting players together initially (I don’t think it works just by IP), but yeah I think the game stuff itself is P2P.

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• altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean yeah, bear sex

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  • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Plus Goblin and Ogre sex. THAT was an eye opener.

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    • Nima@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      wait… we can have sex with goblins and ogres? quietly takes furious notes

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    • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Bugbear, not goblin. A goblin probably could have climbed right in there.

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• jandar_fett@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I absolutely adore and admire those at Larian studios. Divinity 2 is one of the best games I’ve ever played. I hope I can play BG3 one day since I don’t have the funds for a system that will run it or better yet, it becomes available on Geforce Now or something because I got a damn wedding to pay for and bills to pay!

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  • sneezymrmilo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As someone who has played Divinity Original Sin 2 and some of their older titles. You won’t be disappointed, BG3 is phenomenal. Interactions between characters has been massively improved that the added animated cut-scenes when speaking to characters gives them significantly more life. I think I still prefer the combat system in DOS2 but I don’t hate BG3 combat, it’s just different.

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  • HongoBongo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My buddy has been playing co-op with me using GeForce now and it’s worked great so far

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• Pickle_Jr@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As someone who hasn’t ever really gotten into cRPGs before, how is the game? Is it hard to get into/is there a big learning curve to this game?

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• AeonFelis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why is it a problem that IT was not prepared for so many concurrent players? Yes, it has multiplayer, but it’s mostly a single-player game. Did they pull a Diablo?

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• Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  750k concurrent players several days after release, quite the feat!

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• Legendsofanus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s wonderful!

  I wish my shitty ADHD-OCD mix brain would let me play it instead of doing shit through a system or something. I can’t even play anything I want to cuz I’ll feel bad that I’m not something the universe would want me to

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• emeraldheart@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My friends keep telling me that getting the game is unethical because it supports Wizards, so I’ve not gotten it yet. I know Wizards is shitty and sent the Pinkertons to someone’s house, but does this game actually directly support them? Can anyone here weigh in on this? Should I just pirate the game instead? It looks fun, but I also don’t want to put my money in a bad place.

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• tiwenty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It seems this game has local coop? I was wondering if it was a nice experience for me and my GF

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• SamSpudd@lemmy.lukeog.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well deserved, haven’t play it a lot personally but friends are very much still raving about it after playing for 20+ hours, so well worth it.

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• kennuckies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m so hoping my husband will play this with me when it comes out on Ps5. He rarely plays games with me - but this one is too fun is to pass up

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• WhereYak@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This makes me so happy to read. Thanks

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• teacs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As someone who plays DnD 5e, how much of the fun of this game is in playing multiplayer with a consistent party?

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• hkk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s one of the best gaming experiences I had in years!

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• megadork@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s not a very good game though, it certainly doesn’t feel like bg1 or 2. Feels more like a space blaster game. Don’t build any melee characters, 95% of combat is ranged (to take advantage of the verticality of course). Every encounter is clearly setup to give the opponents maximum advantage. Breaks immersion for me.

  It’s just a re-skinned divinity os2. Plays exactly the same. Graphics aren’t much better either. It’s clearly setup to port to ios, and it shows in the graphics.

  And the story is so stupid. You have a parasite that will turn you into a mind flayer in days. That’s established immediately after starting. But then hey, spend days or weeks fucking around doing side quests. Never mind what we said about the parasite.

  The rolls are stupid, like a mini mobile game that takes you away from the story for a short period of time. The roll animation shows the die rolling like normal, then you can always see the number change at the last second. It never feels random. Way too many 1s and 20s.

  The combat is tedious as fuck. The camera angle is always wonky. You can never get a decent view of the battlefield. If you zoom out more than 5 ft it translates to a completely overhead view that sucks.

  And there’s no options for overwatch or reactions. Nah you take your shot now or not at all dumbass. What is this, x-com?

  it’s nothing like the og bg. So sad the story and characters are woke and stupid. So sad how little it takes to placate you sheep. Baaahhhh bahhh.

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• magic_lobster_party@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not sure why the author makes a big deal about the game being single player. I’m intending to play it with my friend. Just waiting for his PC upgrade to arrive.

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• Evrala@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I should make a Drow…

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• Call_Me_Maple@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I wanna contribute to that number but I’ve encountered a progression halting glitch. :(

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• DrSleepless@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Waiting on the Xbox release date announcement

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• Frogster8@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Won’t even launch for me on steam deck, tried all the proton types, verifying files, restarting the deck, dx11 or vulkan, etc etc.

  Nothing.

  Incredibly big waste of money and disappointment

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• MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They shouldn’t have made always-online option then. I know there’s offline mode, but default is online.

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