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Bah, what I actually wanted was a more traditional top down/isometric camera without that weird "distance deformation" Larian keeps putting in its games.

BG3 simply didn't have assets detailed enough to look good from a third person perspective (i.e. the terrain being overly flat, the upclose of things lacking details, etc).

https://youtube.com/shorts/9qg-rF9VPxw?si=wmrv1K2sZyXW_2AR

Platform: Nintendo Switch 2

When exiting Divinity: Original Sin 2 to the HOME menu, a very brief blue/noise screen appears for a split second.

This only happens during the transition from the game to the HOME menu.
The game and system continue normally with no crashes.

For me the major plothole in DOS2 was how the female mage I played in Divine Divinity turned into "Lucian." I'd like them to respect full series lore to the extent that it doesn't contradict itself and also to be up front about whether our character is actually predefined. Letting us play the character we want to, only to find out later that the "real" Bhaalspawn was Abdel Adrian just doesn't feel good.

I believe Larian when they've said that tone will vary, depending in part on the player's in-game choices, that the sort of scene we saw in the trailer may occur, but that will be because the player made choices to enable it. I personally enjoy "Larian Whimsey" and hope to see it in-game. I also hope to see darker, more serious content. My suspicion is that anyone who wants only "adult" content will either be disappointed or have to be careful to make the sorts of choices likely to result in darker outcomes.

I'm trying to enable cross-save between my PC and PS5.

I've done the following:
- Connected my steam account to Larian Account
- Enabled Cross-Save on my PC
- Logged into my most recent game on PC and created a new manual save
- Connected my PSN account to Larian Account

Versions are: 4.1.1.702326 PS5 / PC 4.1.1.6995620
I have no mods.

Where I'm encountering problems is that there doesn't seem to be an option for enabling cross-save on my PS5. When I start the game it shows that I'm connected to my Larian account (https://drive.google.com/file/d/18SJ78hnfxSQ-5xDuVxSE7RH6ilNrTyQg/view?usp=sharing).

However, when I got into Gameplay -> Save Options there is no Cross-Save option at all (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U0pki-gPTDk_DBwY8h_e1AYaV4zeDW2j/view?usp=sharing).

To Troubleshoot this I've done the following:
- Disconnected and reconnected both Steam and PSN from Larian account
- Closed the PS5 game and cleared the cache
- Unintalled and reinstalled the PS5 game.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Bioware died when EA acquired it. Ever since its only a name. The original developers fled quickly, given the working conditions at EA.

I liked the idea of DA:O a lot when it came up. A successor of Baldur's Gate, but without Wizards of the Coast overview ? Heck yeah.

But what we got was extremely poor in every regard. An extremely uninviting, depressing and stereotypical fantasy world. The rulessystem extremely dumbed down full of idiotic decisons. Dislikeable characters. Boring story. Poor combat.

Nevermind that EA had already acquired Bioware when DA:O released, so they hurt the game every way they could. No multiplayer. A forced console version, which destroyed the interface on PC. They made part of the game a download you could only do if you told EA everything about your person, which is why I never got this part.

I doubt that even Larian could produce a good Dragon Age. There is just not enough to work with.

It's a totally different type of game, but in Clair Obscur - Expedition 33, the first "main character" (Gustave) is a nerdy engineer, still in love with the woman with whom he broke up 4 years ago, and with some problems to clearly communicate with others.

AI is a tool. As far as I heard, Larian knows this.

Other companies are trying to replace human work with AI "work" and its failing for obvious reasons. AI is just a machine repeating patterns it has seen before. It cannot actually think in any way.

I kept changing how I played my characters in Vanguard. It was part of the fun.

Well there was one class that I didnt change much, and that was the Dread Knight. I worked very hard on the macros etc until I had the optimal setup, or so I hoped. Didnt change much after that anymore. Still was a hell of a lot fun to play, because it was so challenging.

My probably favorite event was when I once tanked for a pickup raid and the people went all oh we have to be careful our tank doesnt have good gear (I had APW and some other lesser raid stuff on me), and in the end, when they evaluated how the raid had gone, it turned out that I had actually the highest dps in the whole raid ! They really didnt need to hold back THAT much lol. Well, it was a pickup raid.

Anyway on a tank you had to keep aggro, so there was less experiments possible. You had to find the optimal dps strategy and stick to it. Especially if you had multiple opponents, it could get hairy.

On other classes however I changed around all the time, trying to optimize my play further.

The biggest issue with most evil routes is that they simply remove options from the game without much in the way of pay off.

I do not want to simply kill everybody that my character comes across if I decide to role-play a more morally challenged character. The individual in question may not even be outright evil, just callous and an opportunist.

On the other hand, if a particular antagonist has nuance and/or charisma then I believe there should be an option to defect and work with that character.

I'd argue that modern fantasy is so bland, in many cases, because it assumes that the player wants to be the 'good guy' at every possible turn.

Game doesnt launch on Steam. Whenever i press the play button nothing shows. on steam it says "dos2 running"and then closes after some time. ive tried to restart my pc, verify integrity of game and reinstalled the game. Last time i played was 3 days ago still working fine.

There were some "camp followers" in BG3 : Volo, Barkus, Mizora.

In Act 3, while camping at the Blushing Mermaid, it might have been interesting to interact more with other NPC's who stay in the lower city, and who might come over for business or entertainment : Lakrissa, Alfira, Araj Oblodra, Blurgh..... Could be fun to make them leave their "fixed spot" on the map and have some interesting conversations and maybe more.

Update: Part 2, Chapter 14 is now published.

BG3.5 - Hellraisers (Fanfiction)
Baldur's Gate 3.5: Hellraisers - an original fanfic story that is a sequel to Baldur's Gate 3 Fanfic: The Afflicted. It picks up immediately after the events of Baldur's Gate 3 as characters from the previous fanfic - Fiovay, Kai, Aelun, Vlyn, and the other members of their party - travel to Avernus. Their quest is to save Karlach but also to hopefully find and rescue Darson, Aelun's father, from the clutches of Demogorgon.

Here is the link to the blog site: https://baldursgate3hellraisers.blogspot.com/2025/10/baldurs-gate-35-hellraisers.html

Did you have any undead thralls? It's weird so close to the fire, but IIRC ghouls and zombies leave puddles of blood when they "expire". At one point in the docklands camp, I actually had to hose the ground with a spell, because the small pond was getting ridiculously big and a potential health hazard.

I still have a screenshot montage of that somewhere. The troupe abandons the Shadow-Cursed lands, having secured all the umbral gems, to take Lae'zel to the Crèche. "Okay, just in and out, no dawdling. no silly side quests!" Five minutes later,...Tav talks to a blue jay.