Don't waste your time, unfortunately full of game breaking bugs.

[mikitan_fox]

The best game I will never recommend to a soul. I got all the way passed the first big bad, not wanting to play with guides and just experience the story instead of doing it wowhead style (look up everything you do OR ELSE). The consequences of seemingly innocuous things from early in the game can absolutely brick your save file if you want romances with certain characters. That is on top of the fact my party became undismissable right before facing said first big bad (they became uninteractive).

Having looked around the internet for a save file editor, a supposed console command "lol find this lua file that hasn't existed since the first version of the game and "change it" to enable console you forehead!" (very helpful btw, still have no idea where this magical ~console enabled~ Baldur(dot)lua file is or whatever it was called is located.) I found that these game breaking bugs have riddled the game since the beginning, its not uncommon for people to have spent hundreds of hours in this game without even getting to see the end due to bricked-save restarts...

I went back through all my saves, my companion is now uninteractive in all of them, since the devs arent apparently interested in giving us the tools to fix our save files... I just don't want anyone else to waste their time. its a terrible shame because IT IS A GOOD GAME! but its held together with scotch tape and one piece of that flimsy tape breaks... well guess you're starting a new character!

I am just extremely frustrated I'll never get to see the end of this game unless I dump dozens of hours into it to possibly just lose it all over again... Seeking a refund due to faulty product, don't waste your time getting invested in the story, it apparently is common to get bricked in act 3, good luck if you go for it anyway.

[Wuorg]

Did you mean to post this as a review? This is the forum.

[Mike Garrison]

LOL. He bricked his save while trying to edit it using the console, and he blames the game.

[Wuorg]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Mike Garrison:

LOL. He bricked his save while trying to edit it using the console, and he blames the game.

I...didn't even really read the post until now lol. I just saw it was a review and figured he was lost.

I mean, likely PEBKAC, but who am I to judge if he wants to make a review that paints himself in an unflattering light.

[guard65]

pass the blame around, it could never be you and yours.

[jonnin]

the consequences of choices are what make it worth playing more than once. Whether its romance or deciding to help, kill, or ignore whatever NPC it does change things and that makes every play different. You can't actually fail the game with choices, for the most part. You can end it in act 2 with a choice, but its not a loss, its just ... one way the story can end. All these consequences change the story but its not ruined, its just how this character's story played out. Yea, ok, you wanted to romance the grinch and she wouldn't give you the time of day... it happens, and that may be your hero's story .. you will just have to find love after the game ends -- it will be easy, with your wealth and fame after all that happens.

there are a few bugs, no one claims it has none. But I haven't hit a game breaker yet. The console is playing with fire, but thankfully youll have multiple old saves and backups before you do that, so even if you ruin your save file, you can go back and try again or play it out without cheating.

[seeker1]

So, the debug console - I can't use it - is normally either a) accessed through script extender or b) through "ReCon" in the Toolkit ... well, on a Mac, I can't use either, so I use something called Debug Book that lets you do many console commands from a menu structure. The only thing I wish Debug Book could do that it can't and requires the debug console still is spawning items via UIUD. (Though I found a Nexus mod called SpawnAnyItem which will do it without extender.)

BTW, it's interesting, there are all kinds of cheats and hacks out there, either as mods or external (like WeMod or Cheat Engine), not one of them I know can actually edit your savefiles. (That's something I used to do in other CRPGs. Both Cheat Engine and WeMod AFAIK I believe change the game state AS IT IS running and don't edit your savefiles. Granted, BG2 and others let you into the debug console with far less rigmarole, too.) I don't know how you made your characters "non-interactive" (I've done it, but it was always and only done by using or mis-using other mods) ... I suspect Debug Book could "refresh" them, maybe take a look at that.

Anyway, if you want to alter the state of romances ... you don't need Debug Book or the debug console ... just get Polyamory mod, does it for you from a very nice UI, no need to type commands.

The game is not loaded with gamebreaking bugs. As I said, what you're describing I've never seen. BTW, I have inflicted those types of things on myself through use of mods, but I knew what I was getting into when I used them. It's why I always read the bug reports for every mod, would be nice if mod.io actually had a specific place for bug reports, aside from general discussion or feature requests for its mods ... but it does not. And since I always try the bleeding edge, sigh, I'm often the one discovering the bugs.

Right now it looks like Icequiver Arcane Vanguard and its frost surface creating ability is making my game crash like crazy. I reported it.

[Doug Dimmadong]

So you broke your saves by trying to edit them yourself just so you could romance certain characters? It would be difficult to not have everyone want to bang you. I swear I did every choice Astarian hated and he was still all over me. Skill issue.

[alanc9]

This one might actually deserve jester points.

[Well Butter my Biscuit]

Ursprungligen skrivet av mikitan_fox:

The best game I will never recommend to a soul. I got all the way passed the first big bad, not wanting to play with guides and just experience the story instead of doing it wowhead style (look up everything you do OR ELSE). The consequences of seemingly innocuous things from early in the game can absolutely brick your save file if you want romances with certain characters. That is on top of the fact my party became undismissable right before facing said first big bad (they became uninteractive).

Having looked around the internet for a save file editor, a supposed console command "lol find this lua file that hasn't existed since the first version of the game and "change it" to enable console you forehead!" (very helpful btw, still have no idea where this magical ~console enabled~ Baldur(dot)lua file is or whatever it was called is located.) I found that these game breaking bugs have riddled the game since the beginning, its not uncommon for people to have spent hundreds of hours in this game without even getting to see the end due to bricked-save restarts...

I went back through all my saves, my companion is now uninteractive in all of them, since the devs arent apparently interested in giving us the tools to fix our save files... I just don't want anyone else to waste their time. its a terrible shame because IT IS A GOOD GAME! but its held together with scotch tape and one piece of that flimsy tape breaks... well guess you're starting a new character!

I am just extremely frustrated I'll never get to see the end of this game unless I dump dozens of hours into it to possibly just lose it all over again... Seeking a refund due to faulty product, don't waste your time getting invested in the story, it apparently is common to get bricked in act 3, good luck if you go for it anyway.

Is this AI?

[Sephiroth]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Wuorg:

Ursprungligen skrivet av Mike Garrison:

LOL. He bricked his save while trying to edit it using the console, and he blames the game.

I...didn't even really read the post until now lol. I just saw it was a review and figured he was lost.

I mean, likely PEBKAC, but who am I to judge if he wants to make a review that paints himself in an unflattering light.

If you are going to attack and bully everyone who complains about this games bugs then you have a long road ahead and a pointless one as well. But hey its your time.

This game is full of fking bugs that are not fixed. Its a fking embarassment for them.

Its probably why they gave up on the project instead of making a dlc or BG4.

The people who made this game remind me of kids who break things or mess up their rooms and can't for the life of them fix or clean it up.

[Raz]

The description is quite vague!; when you say you cannot dismiss people before the big bad, are you assaulting Moonrise or in the Mind Flayer colony? Cause in either case you cannot dismiss party members while in a hostile zone. That is not a bug.

[Nekiroxx]

so far i got no email for patch 8 at this point in time ff7 rebirth will release before i get in

[The Yeen Queen]

Ursprungligen skrivet av mikitan_fox:

I am just extremely frustrated I'll never get to see the end of this game unless I dump dozens of hours into it to possibly just lose it all over again... Seeking a refund due to faulty product, don't waste your time getting invested in the story, it apparently is common to get bricked in act 3, good luck if you go for it anyway.

The product is not faulty. You used a third party program to mess with the code and effed it up. That's on YOU and/or whoever made the third party program.

[The Yeen Queen]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Sephiroth:

Ursprungligen skrivet av Wuorg:

I...didn't even really read the post until now lol. I just saw it was a review and figured he was lost.

I mean, likely PEBKAC, but who am I to judge if he wants to make a review that paints himself in an unflattering light.

If you are going to attack and bully everyone who complains about this games bugs then you have a long road ahead and a pointless one as well. But hey its your time.

Pointing out to OP that the f***ed up the game themselves and it wasn't a bug isn't "bullying" them.

This game is full of fking bugs that are not fixed. Its a fking embarassment for them.

No more so than literally any other AAA game and fewer than most.

Its probably why they gave up on the project instead of making a dlc or BG4.

No, they dropped the DLC and any plans for another D&D game when Hasbro/WotC acted like unscrupulous jerks.

The people who made this game remind me of kids who break things or mess up their rooms and can't for the life of them fix or clean it up.

More like you're the one who breaks the stuff in the kid's room, then blames the kid.

Edit: LOL, holy crap. Not going to take complaints of bugs in THIS game seriously from someone whose #2 top played game is effing PLANETSIDE 2!

[Яeplicant]

The most obvious case of "♥♥♥♥ around and find out".

I have yet to see any "gamebreaking bugs" after almost 600h of playtime. Only one I did encounter was the infamous HM elevator bug, which can be circumvented by just waiting a bit before using it.

Also, Seph? No wonder Cloud doesn't want to give you the Black Materia.