Anyone else kill everyone Evil immediately in their first playthrough?

[NeutronVortex]

Some Spoilers below!

I'm currently at the beginning of Act 3 now and I basically killed all the Absolute cultist/Goblins/their allies immediately every time I've encountered them(killed everyone at Goblin Camp, Grymforge, Moonrise Towers... pretty much every time I encounter 'evil' I kill it.)

I think I've missed a bunch of stuff. There where a few times where I didn't know wtf I was supposed to be doing because I just immediately attacked everyone, lol.
(For instance, I had to look up a guide to figure out I needed to solve a puzzle to get into Balthazaar's private lab to retrieve something at Moonrise Towers because I killed everyone, except Thorm, right off -- except for the woman interested in Astarion/vamps becuase she was trader. I sold her her cult friend's stuff after I looted it off their corpses.)

Anyone else do this? I feel like I should've made a Barbarian. >.<

[Wuorg]

Originally posted by NeutronVortex:

Anyone else do this? I feel like I should've made a Barbarian. >.<

Yes, you would *love* a Berserker Barbarian. They (Barbs, but also specifically Berserkers) have many special dialogue choices that are hysterical. Highly recommend lol. You might also like a Lawful Good type Paladin lol.

But yeah, I think the game expects a certain level of conversing to go on before you kill everyone. You probably won't break anything, but you might miss a good bit of info. The game tries its best to have alternate ways of learning most things, but sometimes some bits will slip through the cracks.

[Exarch_Alpha]

Killing everyone is 100% nihilism.

You NEVER go 100% nihilism.

[Worlord]

While there is absolutely nothing wrong with playing this game, a "kill first, ask questions later" policy doesn't work very well in a game that expects you to ask lots of questions. But even if you do this, some dead body usually has a clue as to what you need to do anyway.

I wonder if your journal contains lots of entries like:

XYZ quest (Complete). The person we needed to speak to is dead. We must find another way to [insert story progression here].

LOL :)

[EricHVela]

I went the peacenik route on my first run, trying to resolve everything as peacefully as I could without leaving things unresolved. Having EA metagame knowledge helped with Act I.

Later after I stumbled on an article with the claim that everyone could be killed by the MC, I gave it a shot. Only the deity can't be killed (unsurprisingly), but some things couldn't happen by blind hobo-murdering and needed to be orchestrated. I missed one named non-random NPC because I had my character kill the required NPC too early.

(You get to see the deaths of two kids, nearly see the death of another, and learn/surmise about the deaths of all the rest while not seeing it. All the kid-deaths have to be orchestrated as the party cannot kill kids directly. If you wanna kill kids in BG3, you gotta be at least a tiny bit creative. I don't consider the Goblin teenagers to be kids, no matter how immature they act.)

[The Bee]

Ah you see I killed everyone, I made an honor run my first run and after some ♥♥♥♥ went down I got paranoid. The result was murder hobo.

[GriffinPilgrim]

Not immediately. I played infiltrator first to find out information. Then I killed them.

[jonnin]

while its easy to point fingers, this game has more morally grey NPCs than most. Some of that is how you see the world, but consider..
- most of the absolute cult are victims. If not for the artifact, you would be right there with them
- many more of your enemies are dupes, like the flaming fist who simply serve BG city and while they may suspect that the new leadership is at least 'bad' on the surface its not clear that its anything more than typical corrupt government stuff, or earlier, the no-tadpole goblins are just following their leadership who seem to have found a way to improve their lives... (granted, the goblins are chowing down on a dwarf and are clearly evil regardless of absolute cult)
- a lot of your allies are pretty sorry individuals. The druids are terrible people, mostly, and many of the tieflings are at least shady while their leader is considering assassination of khaga. The deep gnomes (with one shining exception) are ready to genocide their rivals because excuse and opportunity, the dark dwarves hate the absolute but mistreat both their animals and the gnomes, and just about everyone in BG city is up to no good on some level from the sorcerer shop to the vampires and even just the carnival performers. Apart from jahira's harpers, how did you find ANYONE to spare?!

[★REM★]

On the opposite, i kill exclusively any good character i find. I play exclusively evil playthrough, why do i have to bother play as i do in real life?

[NeutronVortex]

Originally posted by Wuorg:

Originally posted by NeutronVortex:

Anyone else do this? I feel like I should've made a Barbarian. >.<

Yes, you would *love* a Berserker Barbarian. They (Barbs, but also specifically Berserkers) have many special dialogue choices that are hysterical. Highly recommend lol. You might also like a Lawful Good type Paladin lol.

Sounds kool. Yeah, I def wanna play a melee class next time as I chose Warlock for a first playthrough and I like it(Eldrich Blast'n enemies off ledges ftw!) but I'm looking forward to being able to use some those neat greatswords/heavy armor I found.

Originally posted by GriffinPilgrim:

Not immediately. I played infiltrator first to find out information. Then I killed them.

This is how I wanna play next time too. Take things slower maybe do some of the cultist quests partially before turning on them.

I wanna try to recruit Minthara too without betraying the Grove/as a (mostly)good character. Also, I missed the Gith woman Lae'zel(?) and I missed some stuff in Act 1 and intentionally skipped the Mountain Pass and the Creche area in Shadow Lands(once I realized I missed Lae'zel, I figured I do that stuff next run.)

Lots to look forward too but I haven't finished my first run yet, haha. Just got beat down by Cazador. >.<

Originally posted by jonnin:

while its easy to point fingers, this game has more morally grey NPCs than most. Some of that is how you see the world, but consider..
- most of the absolute cult are victims. If not for the artifact, you would be right there with them
- many more of your enemies are dupes, like the flaming fist who simply serve BG city and while they may suspect that the new leadership is at least 'bad' on the surface its not clear that its anything more than typical corrupt government stuff, or earlier, the no-tadpole goblins are just following their leadership who seem to have found a way to improve their lives... (granted, the goblins are chowing down on a dwarf and are clearly evil regardless of absolute cult)
- a lot of your allies are pretty sorry individuals. The druids are terrible people, mostly, and many of the tieflings are at least shady while their leader is considering assassination of khaga. The deep gnomes (with one shining exception) are ready to genocide their rivals because excuse and opportunity, the dark dwarves hate the absolute but mistreat both their animals and the gnomes, and just about everyone in BG city is up to no good on some level from the sorcerer shop to the vampires and even just the carnival performers. Apart from jahira's harpers, how did you find ANYONE to spare?!

There is some truth to this. Astarion is def an evil ally -- although he somehow managed to sweep my fair Warlock off her feet. I blame the tadpoles eating her brain away for her lapse in judgement.