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Why is min-max playing idiotic?

I wanna RP as true "godwoken". I wanna wreck anyone who stands in my way.

My entire min-max run was just me laughing like a OP villain, one-shotting every enemy that stood in my way.

It's a single player game, what others do should not be your concer in the least.
DS players haye min-max builds cause of the pvp, which is valid, but this is a game where everything a player does has 0 impact on other players.

You don't see pokemon nuzlocke players complaining about 12 yr old kids, grinding their pokemons to level 100 and stomping the entire game.

How insecure do you have to be to put down other players game styles to mkae yourself feel good?

Hi all,

I normally play on PC, but I’ll be travelling a lot soon and I don’t want to give up gaming because of that, so I’m looking for a laptop that fits my needs.

It should be mainly for Baldur’s Gate 3, but I’d also like it to handle other games well. BG3 is definitely the priority though.
My budget is around 1200–1500€.

I live in Germany, so ideally I’d like to order from a German retailer if possible.

I already found this guide while looking around:
https://pixel-goblins.de/builds/laptops/beste-gaming-laptops-fuer-baldurs-gate-3/
The acer nitro 16 ai with rtx 5070 looks promising but is a bit expensive....

And as an example from a German shop, I also found this one on notebooksbilliger:
https://www.notebooksbilliger.de/acer+nitro+v+16+ai+anv16+42+r0tr+gaming+887294
But here is just a RTX 5060 - not sure if this would be enough for Baldurs Gate 3 on High Settings...

What I’m looking for:

good BG3 performance

also suitable for other modern games

decent cooling / not too noisy if possible

preferably something with solid value for the money

If you were buying in this price range for BG3, what would you recommend?

Thanks in advance!

That was unexpectedly hilarious in a very BG3 way.

The mock-academic voice works really well, especially because it keeps escalating from “dry legal-philosophical essay” into something completely unhinged while still sounding serious. The ending lands because of that contrast.

A few things I liked:
- the faux scholarly structure feels believable for a Faerûn-flavored satire
- the moral/legal framework makes the joke last longer than a one-note meme
- the final reveal reframes the whole piece nicely

If you want Lae’zel in melee and specifically not GWM, I’d lean sword-and-board Battle Master over dual wield.

Reason is simple: without GWM, Fighter damage drops anyway, so DW doesn’t gain as much as people expect unless you build heavily around it. Meanwhile shield + Battle Master gives you a sturdier frontliner, which your party seems to want, and maneuvers still keep her impactful with control/disruption.

When you say "first full PT" does that mean, first time playing, or you have already done some parts of Act 1 and maybe Act 2 ?

If it's really the first run, I would wait with modding and try the game as it is. Act 1 is eminently replayable, so if it turns out to be too easy you can get some mods and restart. If you 've already tried some parts of the story with different classes and found it too easy, then forget what I said.

I'm currently also getting constant crashes with dx11 and vulkan with the device lost error. Just curious if anyone has seen this and if there is a solution.

Disclaimer: I know that on some level, I'm partially to blame for what I am about to share, but I come here hoping the right dev at Larian may see it and take pity.

So a few years back, I played DOS2 on my PC and LOVED it. When I heard it was coming out on Switch, I was thrilled to pick it back up again so I could do another campaign on the go.

Fast forward to today. I got through Act I on a near completionist run, and was bit into Act II. My husband said he wanted the TV, so I said no problem - it can cross save, right, so I'll continue on my computer!? I enabled cross saves on my Switch via the game options menu. It gave me a quick prompt about transferring my current switch save to Steam, which I accepted! Or so I thought.

I open DOS2 it via Steam on my PC, only to find my old saves from my precious run a few years ago, no current campaign save from my switch to be found. "No problem," I think, and go back to my switch to re-open my current, locally-saved campaign.......to find out the local save files have been overwritten by my old campaign files from my steam account. I try deactivating steam saves in the menu and rebooting, to no avail.

In toil and despair, I go through the stages of grief (aka trying everything humanly possible to find a non-existent backup / pouring a whiskey). I finally accept the disappearance of my new campaign, and restart my game from the beginning on my switch. I finally land on the beach, and go to save. Being extra careful, I enable steam saves, and double check that prompt I mentioned before.

Well, it turns out if you press A, it uploads your switch saves. However, if you press B, it OVERWRITES local saves with your steam cloud saves. Unfortunately for me, I also have an Xbox (my usual console of choice), which has the A and B buttons reversed compared to the switch controller. I am so confident that I just mixed up my buttons on a single press, resulting in the erasure of my local saves. I realize this is technically my fault, but it would be REALLY helpful if this prompt was a little less easy to mess up! Yes, I know that I pressed the wrong button. But having only a half inch between cross save bliss and total campaign annihilation seems a little flawed, too.

Larian - I love you! I will play your games until my eyes pop out and Ifan gives me little kisses on the forehead. Please please please make this prompt more obvious for others! I feel the void has cursed me this day.

Signed,

BackOnTheBeach

Did you find a solution for this issue?

Mine started occurring infrequently in Act 2, maybe once towards the end of the act, turned into 10 or so times in Act 3 and now in Arx it happens constantly.

Clearing Levelcache and deleting old saves works for a little but the issue always returns.
The amount of save files doesn't seem to be the issue because when it's working I can quicksave 30+ times with no issue. However when the crashes start occurring I need to delete levelcache and saves in order to be able to save again.
Tested nearly all fixes I've found online, I've even reinstalled the game.

Steamcloud disabled.
Created new profile and moved saves.
Disabled Onedrive (Uninstalled)
No AV
Lowered inventory size
No mods except bedroll and 8 AP from giftbag
Lowered settings
Lowered total save count

Another thing I've noted is that when enabled any other feature from the giftbag the game is guaranteed to crash on the next save, so I can't enable anything else.

I'm over 100 hours into my first playthrough and this is just so frustrating. Never had anything like this in BG3.

It was the version on mod.io https://mod.io/g/baldursgate3/m/impui#description

Do you mean Gandrel? You meet him outside and should speak to him before entering Auntie Ethels Teahouse. Never heard about such a bug with him? But based on what you've described and the fact that the Vettel no longer appears, your game seems to be quite buggy or that you haven't explored her lair thoroughly enough.

In Baldur's Gate 3, you have to be extremely careful with this kind of approach! It backfires more often than you might think! I've seen so many complaints where suddenly your own camp has become completely hostile, and then on top of that in Honor Mode...

Hi everyone. Me and my friends have just started playing a few weeks ago, with me on my macbook, the host on their PC, and our friend on his PS5. I constantly and consistently keep getting disconnected, and I don't know what to do. I've followed all the advice online. We've all turned off autosave and cross save and enabled cross play. It doesnt work even if I use an ethernet connection. We've tried changing hosts and this still happens. I've tried playing with and without a VPN and it still happens. I dont have private relay on on my mac either. It also happens even if I launch from steam or directly from the app file and log in through larion. Please provide any advice or fixes that have worked for you guys, cause I got no idea what to do.

I'd like to see more dynamic environmental systems, involving weather-based mechanics and interactive construction

There's this mod which allows companions to ascend; really it resets it to the way it was before one of the bug fixes.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1691183676

Update: Part 2, Chapter 19 is now published. Who will survive the treachery at Nevrik's Keep?

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

Statistical spikes are always memorable. On tabletop many players have their lucky dice others aren't allowed to touch, almost superstitiously using some dice for attacks, others for saves and yet others for skills. One Star Wars D6-session we played in the mid-2000s was especially memorable. As the GM, I was rolling for both the gunners of a pirate transport with the player characters aboard, one also manning a turbolaser and their Imperial adversaries. They were intercepted and chased by TIE Bombers. When we rolled combat, all the pirate NPCs and player characters rolled normally, but when it was my turn to roll for the Imperial pilots, the Wild Dice rolled straights of 1s, read: One critical failure after the other. This pattern was stable not for one round, but for three consecutive combat rounds even when I switched the sequence. This resulted in the TIE Bombers annihilating each other or themselves. The in-game explanation was that there must have been sabotage by Rebels, but at the table we were like, what the Force was that? In BG3, I remember both some memorable 20s at the Waning Moon accompanied by weird crashes I couldn't reproduce later and Astarion having really bad luck with that mined intersection in Act 1 near the Goblin Camp. "Hey, should we go back to camp and ask Volo?" Other than that, I think the dice behaved pretty normally if you kept Karmic Dice unchecked.

I am well aware that you can, however you still have to handle her being evil for all of SoA and large parts of ToB. Parts in which for example your reputation may not exceed 18, or Viconia will leave (like all evil characters).

I remember first time I played Baldurs Gate, I simply disabled AI all the time so I could have Edwin in party with reputation 20. Not sure if that even works anymore with the EEs.

Yes, but just faces and the like, no game-altering things AFAIK.

Oh. It seems that this feature is not actually available in BG3 Mod Studio. Regardless, editing save files sounds far too complicated and risky. Why make it so complicated? It's easier to filter the .pak file of your AMD+REL mod. All you need is the name of your item or even better also it's description and search for it and you will also find the UUID. Do you need help with it? I can look for it if you tell me the items name or show me a screenshot?

Hello! This issue should now be resolved after the latest update:

https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=959594&an=66#Post959594

Hello! The latest update should have resolved this issue. Make sure you're on the latest game version and check if the performance issues are still occurring!

https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=959594&an=66#Post959594

Hello! This should now be resolved with the latest update!

https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=959594&an=66#Post959594

Version Number: 3.6.0.7178759

Hey all,

We hope you’ve been enjoying playing Divinity: Original Sin 2 on the latest generation of consoles! Today, we’re ironing out some kinks with a small update for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S that should resolve some performance issues, low FPS and multiplayer connection issues.

Changes: 
- Resolved some issues causing performance and FPS drops on Xbox.
- Fixed a bug preventing you from equipping items even if the equipment conditions were met.
- Improvements to loading speed for some savegames.
- The Teleportation skill should now allow you to move items on Xbox.
- Fixed multiplayer disconnection issues on Xbox.

Totally keeping it together. 

I'm working on a mod for BT1 and I want to be able to test out the model in-game before exporting. Having to exit and startup again just to get shadowheart is annoying.