Baldur's Gate 3

Baldur's Gate 3

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Kali'Bra Nov 21, 2021 @ 8:47pm
Tutorial, camera glitch, stuck conversation
I've seen this elsewhere, but the tutorial REALLY needs an overhaul. Things to include:
1. How to cancel actions. I figured out eventually that this was right click, but it was a pain
2. Camera controls. While i find this basic in other games and roll my eyes at it, in BG3 I found myself needing to change perspective and having no idea how to change camera angle (trial and error: hold center mouse button and move the mouse)
3. When choosing a race and sub-race, please include the later level benefits not just the level 1 stuff. My laziness in not wanting to pull out my Mordenkainen's tome of foes meant I couldn't see that a mephistopheles teifling trades the lovely hellish rebuke for a somewhat redundant (for a fiend-loc) burning hands.
4. How to add or subtract companions to/from the party. Especially would appreciate a way to rejigger the party as soon as you try to add someone that cannot fit. I pissed off Lai'zel just because I met Gale before I could free her, so my party was full despite having redundant arcane magic and lacking a tank. It took me a lot of trial and error (and wasted camp supplies) trying to figure out how to swap out Gale for Lai'zel. (Trial and error: while your PC is selected, right click on redundant companion, choose talk, ask them to wait at camp. Then from Map, fast travel to camp (no need to long rest, just need all companions available), then talk to the companion you want to once again try to invite them to party. This may take multiple attempts at conversation if they have other stuff to get off their chest first.)

Camera weirdness:
While it is cool that you can disconnect the camera from the party and do a little scouting, it's possible to get the camera "stuck" in areas that the party cannot get to directly (say jumps or door interactions required). I had a heck of a time trying to reconnect the camera to where my party actually was, which made it REALLY challenging to move them (I could not click on a location they could get to, because I couldn't get anything they could reach onto my screen).

Conversation glitch:
It is possible to get into a conversation path where no option can be chosen. In the under-dark, while talking to one of the Duergar about freeing the Drow True-Blood only to betray him, I got to a point where the game wouldn't acknowledge any of the 3 options (I tried choosing each one) and basically was hung. It made the sound as if registering the choice, but nothing happened, it continued to wait for conversation input but refusing to listen to any input. Very frustrating, I had to quit and hope the last auto-save wasn't to far back.

Wishlist:
I understand that this lacks all of the features, but my feature wishilist includes:
* The remaining Patron and Pact options for Warlock. I went in planning for a Blade pact Fey-loc but neither are options. Similar for Fighter, I had hoped to make Lai'zel a Champion but Battle Master was the only option (so no Eldritch Knights either)
* Dragonborn
* DLC for some options beyond PHB. I get that you need to draw a line, but PHB content makes the most sense for the initial Full Release content, but you can make incremental bucks off releasing character options from other books as paid DLC... Xanathar has some especially juicy options for underdark friendly sub-classes (like shadow monks)
Date Posted: Nov 21, 2021 @ 8:47pm
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