These are some of my first impressions after reaching the chapel. It took me an hour, to get here, but I spent most of that on the ship.
Between the time I initiated my purchase and from when the game was downloaded - total time was less than an hour, in fact I downloaded it pretty fast. And that's from Malaysia.
I had to do a cold reboot when I met my first companion but I think that was down to the fact that I was hitting escape so often, as in most of my games ESC takes me to the menu screen, once i changed to fake full screen everything was ok.
Twitch integration for the BG3 Companion app was dodgy at first. I had to disable the authenticator app because it wouldnt process past that screen. Once that was done, viewers on my stream were able to take part in the adventure, though there were times when people said the options would disappear.
1. There are some graphical artifacts in the cutscenes, but i reckon these are down to it being a beta and all.
2. I like the first scene on the ship as it introduces basic movement controls, it took me a while to get used to things like navigating the screen as I have not played any Larian games prior to this.
3. Combat is incidental in the first real combat fight to get to the transponder which is good. I loved the idea of using decoys to get past, took me like a few tries on Twitch to get used to the combat system. It may help people who are new to the game to have a more tanky first companion, but that isn't really a big deal, as avoidance is better than full on combat. I got to the transponder by only killing 3 adds. leaving the other 3 adds alive ( the ones near the transponder)
4. I am loving the strategic combat, the graphics look sick in game, but the cutscenes could look a bit better with the movement of the hair and shadows. On close ups the hair movement looks odd as they seem fixed with occasional lighting gaps appearing where hair should be.
5. I only discovered the combat chatlog much later which is a nice addition
The spell slots make no sense to me, I understand that some need a long recharge time but the green circle and red triangle confuse me. I am sure once i play the game more I will figure these out.
