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I mean, what do you expect?

You ask "Are we going to see an imp companion?" and the answer is simply "It's up to Larian"

There's not much else to discuss about that. We have absolutely 0 information about the game, the setting, the story or anything to begin speculation.

Which is why this particular forum is not very active. There's just nothing to discuss besides the singular trailer and people's early wishes.

Once we get more information about the game, discussions will heat up as people will have something to base speculation off of.

So, the question is, when the hell are they going to include a native UI text size into the game directly? Or do we keep having to download the mod from people who have coded an external program for it? @Larian can we get some help on this for those of us that aren't that great at modding?

I have yet to fail, or see anyone else doing a playthrough fail, the alleged Intelligence check in the Shadow Cursed Lands to be told pixies are malicious tricksters, even when it's someone with Int as their dump stat at 8. Does anyone know what the DC of this check is?

It's even worse now. I love this game so much that I reinstalled windows as a Hail Mary. The first tech didn't even read my ticket. I got a form letter response telling me to do some of the things that I already did... and told them that I had already done all of that in the ticket. The tech didn't even read my ticket. Then the next tech tried to put the onus of this onto me. I never had any problems running anything on my machine and it can handle AAA games with no troubles at all. This is very disconcerting. The the amount of people now having my same exact problem has increased, going by all the other posts in the forums where people are having the same problem as me. Sure regret patching the game now. If I could roll it back I would do so in a heart beat. The cherry on top? The tech guy never even replied to my last response. No one did.

Hi

I've been playing for 50 hours for 1-2 weeks and my game crashed for like 10 times out of nowhere, mostly during cinematics. I tried everything on the support page which i find it absurd that why do i have to lower my settings?? This is like a friendly suggest that helps nobody from a nongamer friend. Anyway i did everything, lowered settings capped fps, played windowed. Closed everything other than game etc. I have 3070 gpu 11700k cpu with liquid cooler, 32gb ram, games are on the nvme ssd, playing almost all AAA games at ultra settings like rdr2 4k all ultra settings and have no problem. Whenever i play this game i always on alert if game is gonna crash or not. Is there anyone can help me if i'm missing anything? Because it started to pisses me off that i have to shut down my pc all the time middle of the game. From what i see through reddit and forums these problems been out there for since release how come there arent any stable solution?

Hello,

I'm experiencing frequent crashes in DOS2: Definitive Edition (v3.6.117.3735) on macOS M1 (16GB RAM).

Crash details:

Error: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)

Thread: Crashed in Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager during malloc_zone_pressure_relief.

Platform: GOG Version, running on macOS 26.4.1 (Tahoe).

Observation: The crash report shows the game is running via X86-64 (Translated) instead of native ARM, despite being on an M1 chip.

How can I force the game to run in native Apple Silicon mode? Also, are there any known fixes for this memory management crash on newer macOS versions?

Thanks for any help!

Actually sometimes you do, sometimes you dont.

For example when I ask that old woman in the grove for the gruel as a Halfling masking as Drow, I do NOT get the option to get two Gruel.

That I get without disguise (on said Halfling) or disguised as a Halfling.

The game that i hoped would get Story/ DM mode was BG3.....sad

Funny bug: When you talk to Asharak (Druid Grove, next to the training tiefling children), he talks to Wyll - but I recruited Karlach already, so Wyll isnt actually there.

Adding another one to the list of folks with this issue.
Already reported to support along with console logs, save file etc etc.
Same as the many of the others, but the one I logged with support had a save file that crashed in the same place consistently
Basically cutscene or attacking which triggered a cutscene

M4 Mac Mini 16G
Tahoe 26.4

Bump!

I no longer need the subclass portion of this mod as I am working with someone through mod.io

I do, however, still need someone able to work on the custom eye makeup / scar / tattoo.
New link for reference; [img]https://imgur.com/a/NsWC0eJ[/img]

Because in reality I would see if the enemy was hit, and how bad. For starters I'm the one delivering the hits.

And yes knowing the opponents health has a huge influence on what I will do.

If I can see theres only like three hitpoints left, well then I will probably try a weaker attack and reserve the stronger attacks for the opponents with more hitpoints.

If you like this, go for it. I didnt like it.

A: "Water is wet"

B: "No it isn't. Here's a bunch of evidence that it isn't"

A: "I'm going to make an unrelated comment trying to show that you didn't say anything"

B: "I'm going to more accurately portray your lack of argument using the same format"

Like bro... You're the one who has 0 argument. I at the very least brought examples of how leveling is not necessary.

Your entire argument hinges on progression through things that are not directly tied to levels themselves. That you're, for some reason, conflating as intrisicly part of a levels as a mechanic.

99.99% of everything provided by "Levels" can be provided by other means without levels. The only thing intrinsically associated with levels is an increasing level number, which is meaningless on its own.

Levels are really only so popular due to the reliance on the outdated and often detrimental experience system. Whereby acruing incremental "Experience Points" from doing a variety of tasks is the main way of providing progression, meaning you do these various tasks enough until you hit a threshold to then gain an increase in power (Ignoring level scaling) which is most easily understood by "Gaining a level".

Such a mechanic is not necessary. As there are plenty of other ways to gate progression. Many games like to outright reward skill points or upgrades from completing activites directly, rather than relying on them giving generic "Experience Points" to build towards a level up. This can be certain side quests, optional activities or even "Challenges"

Collecting items it also a common way to provide progression. As mentioned prior Elden Ring's DLC has the player gather Scadutree Fragments that provide players with damage and defenses. Games like the Zelda series has players gather Pieces of Heart which every 4th one provides an additional heart container for more health. Doom: The Dark Ages has the player collect resources to spend on upgrades for their equipment.

In Table Top games, it's a popular rule to use the "Gain levels at story moments" thing in lieu of experience. Whereby all players gain the benefits of an increased level at certain points during the story (Before you say anything, "Level" here only really matters because the game rules are based around gating features behind a level progression system. It would be trivially easy to simply provide the benefits without it being a "Level". Adjusting the "Feat" system so you simply get a "Feat" each time you "Level up" which provides the features you'd otherwise gain)

There's even non-incremental progression systems. Like is seen in Metroidvania games (As well as things like Zelda and Darksiders) where your progression is based on acquiring new abilities, usually after beating a boss or progressing through a dungeon. Whereby the progression is simply you gaining that new ability which allows you to interact with more of the game.

Other ways of gating progression can also provide better gameplay experiences, by freeing up players to play how they want, rather than trying to chase after the incremental experience gained from doing various tasks (Such as how someone may want to not bother getting a key for a lock because picking it provides experience. Or stealthing past an encounter is undesirable because you gain experience for killing everything).

In addition, alternate means of progression can feel better to a player and make more sense in context. Gaining an increase of power because you did something that rewarded you with a tangible power increase is sensible. While gaining an increase in power because you happened to cross an arbitrary experience threshold by doing something inane like opening a box or walking close to a "Point of interest" is kind of silly.

As well as making things more simple to balance, as you don't have to try and micromanage experience gains to ensure that players (With varying playstyles) encounter a smooth progression without enemies becoming too easy/difficult based on how much potential experience they have accrued at any point in time.

Why have real legs that can run if you can just move around in a wheelchair, hu ?

I would think that Arabic is an important enough language that Larian will make a real translation, not AI slop, for it.

Might be needed if the player really cannot speak ANY of the popular languages, but I would think those are really rare.

I know this thread is a few months old, but I'm having the same problem. W10 but I'm still playing on the 7 beta patch (due to mods I must-have that aren't compatible). So it's just a random thing?

It's more that it's trying to be independent of prior titles.

The idea is they want it to be accessible to those new to the IP, without needing to play prior titles to understand it.

So expect it to rehash any relevant lore points in a really obtuse way (Especially since it is seemingly taking place following the events of Original Sin 2)

If you have finished the game read this post.

It's a throwback to classic RPG's (Especially JRPG's) where this was the case. Poison (Bio if you're familiar with Final Fantasy) would heal undead and healing effects would harm them.

It doesn't make a whole lot of sense on the face of it (Also, in various cases "Poison" is being considered "Acid" too, with it being effective against armour and causing degredation... Old RPG's were really bad about this sort of thing).

I believe the general logic leap is that "Poison" is just a term used in lieu of something like "Nercrosis", "Ichor" or "Miasma", some sort of "Unlife" energy that saps away the life force of the living rather than actual poison (Also, by definition, it would be a Toxin not a Poison since you don't make things ingest it...)

Hence it works on skellingtons, ghosts and other things that lack the systems that are necessary for "Poison" to cause harm.

Basically, a long standing poor wording choice.

I'm a programmer and an old fight in computer science was VMS vs Unix.

Unix is a wordplay with Eunuchs, because it started as a "crippled", simplified version of a much larger operating system project (called Multics or something like that) that never actually saw the light of day.

VMS on the other hand was an operating system that was horrifically complex and absolutely cryptic to use (I once did use it a bit, many decades ago).

So the question was which OS would be better.

Unix won this, big time. This was because it was build on simple concepts that could be freely combined. Unix became so successful that its now the dominant operating system - both Windows and MacOS are now under the cover more or less Unix, too.

The core idea here was already expressed by Albert Einstein: As simple as possible, but not any more simple.

So unsurprisingly I prefer a system build on simple concepts that allow amazing complexity and flexibility in other areas, too.

So thats why my favorite D&D to date is D&D5, which gets the closest on this idea. Its still far from perfect though. But it also has amazing flexibility compared to previous versions of D&D.

My main complaint about D&D5 is that they went too far in some places, and simplified the system too much. The whole concept of Advantage and DIsadvantage for example is overused and just poor. I also dont know why they removed the Delay action from D&D3 from D&D5. This was an absolutely essential function in The Temple of Elemental Evil to make the group cooperate with each other.

AD&D is full of strange absurd nonsense tables. The progression of saving throws in AD&D for example are strangely well hidden and was really hard to find out when I tried to fully understand Baldurs Gate 1+2. Its also a bunch of absolute nonsense. I cannot see any reasoning behind these values at all. The short version is that Thief and Bard for some reason get the worst saving throws in the end, while Warriors get the best ones.

The core problem with all D&D versions on the computer is of course that they are designed for tabletop and the dominant design principle

Still, D&D5 supports many more different setups than previous versions of D&D. One of my favorite part is that Bards, which was my initial choice in Baldurs Gate 1, are now actually a playable class. In AD&D they just sucked big time in every way, and in D&D3 they have still been a useless class.

The only remaining complaint I have about D&D5 Bards is that they can only inspire others. So you have a class that is one of the three skill classes, the other two being Rogue and Ranger, and they have a really good ability to push skill useage, but you're not allowed to use it for their own skills.

I usually end up not using this feature at all because guess what, my Bard is the protagonist and since she cannot inspire herself, nobody else needs these inspirations either. You can also sort of use them in combat but thats a PITA to do. Which is why I keep making Wyll into a Bard in all of my runs, just so I can have Inspirations on my protagonist as well, for the really hard checks.

Update: Part 3, Chapter 25 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