Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General My Impressions after 20 hours

First of all thank you Larian!

I am excited to be playing this game, Its be a blast so far and when I finish up with my first play through with what is available ill probably go back and replay it again so see how much more chaos I can cause. So far, I have put in about 20 hours and its led me to some very funny encounters and some very challenging encounters. Everything feels like it belongs in D&D 5e and thats very impressive! I love seeing how much love and care has been put into the product as of right now and cant wait to see everything else you'll be putting into the game in the future. Now onto what I am really doing here on the forums and that is giving you guys a heads up on a few things that I have ran into on my adventures.

I picked a rogue halfling for my first character and set out to become an arcane trickster. In terms of my halfling luck, was it only supposed to work only once and not once per long rest? I have only used it once and then it was not getting any more prompts when I have rolled ones.

Secondly thinking it would be fun to use my mage hand to magically get enemy at a safe distance with spells and pick pocketing but I have a serious problem, when i picked Arcane Trickster it did not automatically grant me the use of the mage hand to use in battle. This means all my ideas of messing with enemies kinda falls flat. I'm not sure if its user error but i cant see it in my spell page.

Third, when i roll the D&D dice during an interaction, i wish that instead just using what the dice rolled. the dice would roll and then it would add all the bonuses because it can appear pretty confusing. Also it may not be calculating the rolls correctly because even with my bonus i had a minimum of +5 which should auto auto pass the check but when i rolled and met the check it did not pass...

In my current play through, Shadownheart is stuck in camp and wont become my follower, this happened because i did not pick her up in the beginning when you can find her at the door but she sought me out afterwards at camp and joined my party then. When i dismiss a follower and asks her to join me she says yes but then when i go out to the map she is not with me.

I know there is more but currently these are what have been messing with me.

-L

~More observations

I would point out that in multi player if a player opens his traveling container to place things in it when another player is in their own that that player can grab those items from you which should not be possible. That seems like a bug and it was just happenstance that we noticed it.

Also in multiplayer, it should not be possible to just grab items from another player from their inventory unless that character is dead or they attempt to pickpocket you. Maybe an implementation of an ask style system where you can request an item and if they say yes you get it? Its mostly for immersion for me.

Lastly, for now, the dice rolls have been a bit buggy, if i have a base attack +1 from my modifier on an attack damage roll should I not do at least 2 damage on a roll 1? I'm sure Larian address this at some point.

Just responding to some of your comments - bonuses to the roll are showing up as reducing the target number. So if you're seeing you need 5 and your bonus is +5, the original TN was 10. It's a bit confusing at first, but it's mostly just shorthanding to 'this is what you need to roll on the die after modifiers.'

And depending on what you're attacking and what you're attacking with, some creatures do have damage resistance - the imps in particular are resistant to non-magical damage.

Thanks for the reply Ramien,
I think I see your point about damage rolls but it would help to have resistance information visible in the combat to let the player know that it is happening. It doesnt really appear anywhere.

I also see your point about that the the dice rolls in game but i would be neat if there was an option to show the roll needed and calculate it upwards, just because that's how I perceive it when i do play 5e.

Definitely would be easier to have a bit more feedback on that to make it easier to know what's going on instead of having to click on the combat logs, I'll agree. A lot of that is fairly minor polish, though, so hopefully it'll show up in game at some point.

Been taking it slow, admittedly reloading often to try different approaches, different response combos and such, and really enjoying many touches, from the hidden Harper cache to the Thiefling Bard needing help writing a song. I expect the finished product to join the ranks of classic RPG's.