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[pchelanidzyakovich]

I recently started playing and decided to call my friend, he just bought the game yesterday, today he enters the lobby and he already has the first prestige. how's that?

[Tracker]

Might have played before and never said anything about it.

[pchelanidzyakovich]

Originally posted by Tracker:

Might have played before and never said anything about it.

he has not played before only if on a pirate

[Shurenai]

Originally posted by sadamor:

Originally posted by Tracker:

Might have played before and never said anything about it.

he has not played before only if on a pirate

Perhaps he previously owned the game and returned it unsatisfied? The only way to start at Prestige 1 is to have played the game previously and have a pre-0.9.0 save file to be converted into the new version, at which point you begin at Prestige 1 so that you dont have to re-unlock maps and difficulties.

Aside from maps/difficulties being locked or not, there's no particular harm or benefit to beginning on prestige 1 or beginning from 0.

[Maya-Neko]

Your friend could try to go into the menus and reset their account that way.

But other than that, there's nothing that really need to be done here. You can just keep playing the game normally.

[HecdoMondo]

Doesn't matter. Prestige is worthless on any level. I wouldn't waste my time on that.

[Kaisoku]

1. Prestige 1 just means you won't have to spend time unlocking maps and such. And a badge that most of the playerbase will have, honestly. No real impact to gameplay, nothing is really missed except the experience of not having access to every map from the start (if that's even something to care about).

2. They may have tried playing it off a family library sharing from an account that had the game. If they played and had a save file from prior to the recent progression reset, they'll have Prestige 1 and an armband with their level on it.
Take a look and see what level they had!

[pchelanidzyakovich]

Originally posted by Kaisoku:

1. Prestige 1 just means you won't have to spend time unlocking maps and such. And a badge that most of the playerbase will have, honestly. No real impact to gameplay, nothing is really missed except the experience of not having access to every map from the start (if that's even something to care about).

2. They may have tried playing it off a family library sharing from an account that had the game. If they played and had a save file from prior to the recent progression reset, they'll have Prestige 1 and an armband with their level on it.
Take a look and see what level they had!

it was the first time he entered the game, but he was playing on a pirate

[pchelanidzyakovich]

Originally posted by HecdoMondo:

Doesn't matter. Prestige is worthless on any level. I wouldn't waste my time on that.

I understand, it's just too weird.

[♡ Chaotic ♡]

Originally posted by sadamor:

Originally posted by Kaisoku:

1. Prestige 1 just means you won't have to spend time unlocking maps and such. And a badge that most of the playerbase will have, honestly. No real impact to gameplay, nothing is really missed except the experience of not having access to every map from the start (if that's even something to care about).

2. They may have tried playing it off a family library sharing from an account that had the game. If they played and had a save file from prior to the recent progression reset, they'll have Prestige 1 and an armband with their level on it.
Take a look and see what level they had!

it was the first time he entered the game, but he was playing on a pirate

Which means he had a pre-0.9.0 save file my guy. Pirating or not doesn't change the fact he had a save file. You might have only played Pirated Baldurs Gate 3, but the game still saves in the same place as the purchases copy does. So, like what happened with your mate, if you then purchased BG3 all of sudden you will already have progress, despite only having just launched the bought copy, because the save from the pirated copy remained on your system

The game doesn't have any idea if the save you are using is pirated or not, just that you already have a save

[ItzMackBlack]

This could be why I had started Prestige despite never playing the game. I had bought it before, near the time the Sons of the Forest game had been released to play with my friends, but no one bought it, so I refunded it.

[pchelanidzyakovich]

thanks everyone