Originally Posted by LukasPrism
Originally Posted by Raincolt
Right? 1 year!!! They've got a strong foundation but this game seems like it needs more than 1 year. Like I'm thinking this is 2 years at-least from release...but maybe they're really organized and have the entire world already planned on paper and the art assets are almost finished and their game engine is extremely efficient for implementing quests, NPC's, and world building. If they got all three of those things going for them then they might hit that deadline, and I guess if we consider the EA telemetry all the play-testing they'll need it could be possible. Although Ideally they put some elbow grease into online and by some miracle make it good cause right now it very much works but it's not a fun experience.

I was actually pretty disappointed in DOS2 when, after all the build up throughout the game, we finally got to the great city of Arx and it was really just a few roads and maybe a couple dozen buildings. There’s no way at all Baldur’s Gate itself is going to be anything but a major let-down, especially if they intend on keeping up this level of cinematic interaction for every single NPC. OK maybe if this game is released in 2025. I’d love to be proven wrong!
I can say I like those cutscenes added. Did not like so much seeing the message under contruction (cutscene not yet done).

Well I am not saying this game is perfect far from it though I like BG3.

However I still feel they also make progress in some areas. Now using torch is much easier and not some freaking mess. I was so annoyed with the old torch way to use so I cast Cleric Light spell instead. Now they make so that using torch is much easier which is good.

Throwing healing bottle on dying companion no longer gives damage. While not realistic I do feel this as user friendly improvement. You can not give items to a companion that is dying so they could use it themselves so good improvement.

Optional: Loaded dice.... well it is free option to use or not. I think this should be automatically disabled if higher difficulty level then Normal.

These seem like small things, but a bit improvement. Well was the show perfectly smooth? No I feel there is room of improvement, but at least they make some progress. They have also made progress with path finding.

Druid class released which is great.


As for release date? 2021 or 2022. If year 2021 then very end of it and could be year 2022.
Sven did say they have more then doubled the people working in Larian Studios due to BG3. On top of that they have professionals that have worked with movies like Starwars and/or Lord of the Rings movies in the project.

The progress in development has been a bit slow yes but they have now people coding in different time zones (though Belgium and UK is fairly near same time zone) it is in constant development (minus some special times example perhaps not on Weekends or on Eastern etc.).

The entire Larian team of developers has grown to almost 400 people and that is freaking huge. Though I do not know how many of them specifically work with BG3 I do know that the big majority of them do that.

This is not some Indie game. With respect to small firms though (not hating Indie game development) this has talented developers example in Belgium, UK, America etc.

Last edited by Terminator2020; 19/02/21 07:52 AM.