Missable content

[gbuglyo]

I seem to remember spending 50 hours in Act 1. I did not move on until I thought I had thoroughly explored the map and completed every side quest I had. Yet, as I'm reading the Steam forums, I'm gradually finding out about content I somehow missed: I never got the quest with the hag, never met a dog or an owlbear cub, and I did not hear the tiefling bard sing.

These seem to be colorful events spicing up the story, too bad they are so easy to miss. Or I may have been just clumsy, I don't know.

[Mormacil]

Dog is hard to miss, bard is easy to miss. Owlbear cub is right in there with the goblins, if you went in to talk to them kinda hard to miss. Personally I missed the kid at the water's edge completely.

[Kamuizin]

Originally posted by gbuglyo:

I seem to remember spending 50 hours in Act 1. I did not move on until I thought I had thoroughly explored the map and completed every side quest I had. Yet, as I'm reading the Steam forums, I'm gradually finding out about content I somehow missed: I never got the quest with the hag, never met a dog or an owlbear cub, and I did not hear the tiefling bard sing.

These seem to be colorful events spicing up the story, too bad they are so easy to miss. Or I may have been just clumsy, I don't know.

I’m almost 90h and still act 1, is it that bad?

[psychotron666]

The hag is one of the quests leads to help get rid of your tadpole. It starts when you talk with the ingredient trader in the druid grove.

[Cyanide]

Originally posted by Mormacil:

Dog is hard to miss, bard is easy to miss. Owlbear cub is right in there with the goblins, if you went in to talk to them kinda hard to miss. Personally I missed the kid at the water's edge completely.

I missed the owlbear cub too because you have to do a few things for it to show up at the goblin camp instead of the chicken.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by gbuglyo:

Missable content
I seem to remember spending 50 hours in Act 1. I did not move on until I thought I had thoroughly explored the map and completed every side quest I had. Yet, as I'm reading the Steam forums, I'm gradually finding out about content I somehow missed: I never got the quest with the hag, never met a dog or an owlbear cub, and I did not hear the tiefling bard sing.

These seem to be colorful events spicing up the story, too bad they are so easy to miss. Or I may have been just clumsy, I don't know.

I consider those actually hard to miss. Easy to miss


you becoming Faithwarden
Arabella's parents take revenge
Bracus creates fireworks
Deep Gnome Space Program
Shadowheart trying to kill you
zombie harpy, zombie bullete etc.
spear of the absolute, staff of frost
Shadow Druids
Frog kills your party
characters going mad by whispers
characters rescued from whispers
unique companion comments which are ranging from wholesome to heart breaking
Loviathar's lovemaking
eating dwarf
roasted space hamster
spiking drinks, twice
getting shoes kissed
getting licked
summoning spectator
make monster eat itself
busting fake paladins as real paladins of the god
reading about Minsc
thankful bird for healing
fat bear nomnom fish
NPC reacts to multiple variants of betrayal
spider egg summons
tracks of dragon before you see dragon
goblin love story
teddy of lost child
Volo's brutal ... conversation
Astarion burned by sun
grave for "puzzle"
chest behind "puzzle"

And that just pretty much only Act 1...

[KingOfFriedChicken]

I have throughly explored act 1 in EA and have gone thru it quite a few times, I'm still at 500+ hours finding content I missed even in act 1 lol
Like I never knew till recently the stool of hill giant str can be broken for a club lol

[LordOfTheBread]

One word: replayabvility.

Larian themselves said theres a lot of things players haven't discovered yet.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by LordOfTheBread:

One word: replayabvility.

Larian themselves said theres a lot of things players haven't discovered yet.

I wonder how they keep track of that.

[LordOfTheBread]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by LordOfTheBread:

One word: replayabvility.

Larian themselves said theres a lot of things players haven't discovered yet.

I wonder how they keep track of that.

Me too but sicne I know things wewre discovered in The Wuitcher 3 after 8 years and people playing opver a 1000 hours I have no doubts it is true.

[SliverSpeed]

I've finished the game once and I have 2 solo and 1 multiplayer games in progress. I still discover different things, different forking on quests and definitely still miss a lot of things compared to the list posted. This game is huge.

[KingOfFriedChicken]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by LordOfTheBread:

One word: replayabvility.

Larian themselves said theres a lot of things players haven't discovered yet.

I wonder how they keep track of that.

The same way they track all statistics in the game like who was rejected by astarion, how many classes and what classes, what the most made characters are... I think you get the idea lol

[ShadowDark3]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by LordOfTheBread:

One word: replayabvility.

Larian themselves said theres a lot of things players haven't discovered yet.

I wonder how they keep track of that.

I'm a data analyst (not for Larian) and the amount of data that gets collected from people when they tick the little "yup I agree" box is both incredible and frightening.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by KingOfFriedChicken:

Originally posted by アンジェル:

I wonder how they keep track of that.

The same way they track all statistics in the game like who was rejected by astarion, how many classes and what classes, what the most made characters are... I think you get the idea lol

I can see how those data get submitted under certain conditions. But because of how I play it, with surpressing such data from getting transmitted, I am rather confused. The chances that someone discovered this or that without that discovery being tracked because they play on an "always-offline" gaming laptop to seperate their PCs e.g. is there. And there are plenty of Linux users etc. with similar setups without separating their PCs. So it seems more than often to me that maybe someone already discovered this and that and it just never got tracked and reported, especially if it is by those who avoid social media and such.

[gbuglyo]

Yeah, I get that about the abundance of hidden content and replayability. It's just that the things I mentioned (such as the presence of a high-production-value song early in the game) can elevate the experience for many so if I were to make that decision, I would showcase it instead of hiding it.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by gbuglyo:

Yeah, I get that about the abundance of hidden content and replayability. It's just that the things I mentioned (such as the presence of a high-production-value song early in the game) can elevate the experience for many so if I were to make that decision, I would showcase it instead of hiding it.

Well, it is part of the game's strength that such is not showcased but rather a reward for explorers.

Originally posted by ShadowDark3:

Originally posted by アンジェル:

I wonder how they keep track of that.

I'm a data analyst (not for Larian) and the amount of data that gets collected from people when they tick the little "yup I agree" box is both incredible and frightening.

That underlines my point: I have a security setup which is so strict that by default apps are not allowed to make such an internet connection, regardless of agreeing or not. In fact I have to turn my security app off first and switch to a weaker one before I can use basic apps like cloud services. That means Larian Studios cannot track my data as the game is like running on an offline PC.