Losing experience for loading a game is an extremely absurd idea.
Basically you would promote never loading the game, so you promote playing 24/7.
No gaming company should even attempt to promote this. Its bad enough that too many players are already doing this anyway.
Ideally you should take a pause after 2, at most 4 hours of gaming, and not game more than 8 hours on any given day, and thats assuming you are on vacation and dont have to do work or school.
Gaming companies are of course not in the business of educating gamers, but they should not introduce motivations for unhealthy gaming habits.
DLCs are typically low efford expansions that are really expensive for what they are.
DLC covers a wide array of things these days.
From your cash shop cosmetics, to full blown expansions.
Which honestly hasn't changed at all since pre-"Downloadable" days either.
Before then you had bunches of low effort stuff like how Sims had you buy entire expansion disks to get like 1 new feature (A practice that continues to this day. With Sims games still having thousands of dollars worth of DLC each adding 1 new feature and/or a handful of new items). Just as you had expansion disks that would provide large amounts of content (Including stand-alone games, such as Black & White Creature Isle)
DLC and "Expansions" are essentially the same thing. The only difference is the way they're shipped. DLC's can be downloaded from a server, while expansion packs often required you to acquire the physical disk to install from (With a code in the box to prevent piracy)
This of course, opened up the way for "Cash Shops" with DLC, as it's much easier to sell people a $20 skin when they preview and purchase it in game rather than having to go to a store and pick up a disk and then go home and install it. Even more so when children can have their parents credit cards attached to their account allowing them to easily shell out tens of thousands of dollars on gacha garbage because they can access the funds without their parents knowing.
DLC vs "Expansions" is a moot argument as they are the same thing. It's entirely down to the scope of what they provide than the means of their distribution.
It was doing fine for couple of weeks, no issues at all, running as an administration via bg3.exe or bg3_dx11.exe, until another nvidia update driver came on 26th of May and the game started to completely freeze during cutscenes, character customization and levelling up customization.
Have you tried rolling back the driver to the previous version (596.49)?
Update: Part 3, Chapter 29 & 30 is now published. This concludes Part 3. Hope you enjoy it!
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.
The bigger problem is how they handwaved her not able to touch someone, because it would burn the person, but her clothes, bedrolls, Clive and everythin gshe touches can deal with it very well.
I love Karlach, she is one of my favourites, but this drives me crazy
Hi everyone, I don't know if there is still active help about this game, especially since hunger from beyond is additionnal content but I hope someone will be able to help me wth this.
Well I am trying to reunite all pieces of the devourer set. For the third part, on nameless isle, I followed all instructions: follow the red arrows, get into the cave near Zor's temple, put a small flame rune into the dragon skull. Every time, I get bitten by the dragon and attacked by undead fanatic lizards. But no way to get the leggings. I tried several things: going in alone after firing everyone in my party, even Delorus, different rune sizes, reloading several saves, thinking maybe I did something that prevented the script to run correctly... But even alone, if it is the first thing I do when I set foot on the isle, I get attacked, and no pants.
I read somewhere that being attacked is the behavior when we put the wrong rune in the skull. I don't really know what to do since I always put a flame rune. I thought maybe since my game is in french, the name of my rune is not the correct one but it would be rather strange.
Well here I am, stuck and condemned to not be able to finish the devourer set. I could not find anyone on the internet seeming to have the same problem.
If someone has a hint, or knows about this, I would be glad to get some advice !
I always thought the armor system for boots and gloves was a bit awkward too, especially when you find a cool magical item and then realize your class can't use it because it's classified as medium or heavy. In my home games, we just handwave that a bit and go for what fits the story rather than the strict mechanics, because it can really kill the excitement when loot becomes useless for half the party. When I need to get new riding gear or gloves in real life, I look for shops that actually get the needs of different riders. Not everybody fits in the same gear, and it makes a world of difference to have options for every style and build. There’s a good spot if you’re looking for rider-centric gear and aftermarket parts at https://roguepowersports.com/, big range and they seem to know exactly what real riders want.
I do see how that would add an interesting dynamic. Like, suddenly the cheese is missing and the person who's in the group for being a thief stood watch. Some characters will be more reliable than others, but not necessarily keen to watch the watchers every night.
Maybe, developers should make a cute baby imp companion, with a name something like GrogGrogu? Lady players will love it and it will allow Larian to sell a lot of merchandise? Baby goblin will also work.
