Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Swen Vincke on Dropped Frames show!

Only little over two hours to go until Swen Vincke is on Dropped Frames show! I'm sure we get answer to stat rolling and other interesting things as well! You can watch the show on this Twitch channel at 1PM ET! https://www.twitch.tv/itmejp

Show is on! Who's ready for stat rolling confirmation? 😉

Excited for some answers! But of course the first question is about bear sex!

Release time 1pm ET according to Swen.

No stat rolling.

Dwarfs are not getting a lot of reactivity...

Oh come the fuck on Sven.

Best quote:

Interviewer: "Does a halfling get a game over screen if he sleeps with Halsin as a bear?"

Swen: "We should hire you as a writer"

**Release time:** Baldur's Gate 3 will Release Officially at 10am Pacific Time on August 3rd. That is 6PM UK time and 3am August 4th Sydney, Australia Time.

Questions:

1."Can you roll for stats?"

Swen NO rolling for stats. Reason - Production limitations, they wanted to implement it but just ran out of time and were not able to get it to work.

2. "Can you contribute to conversations in co-op mode?"

Swen: You can vote on choices . Same as in Early Access. They tried to implement this but it was just not tenable.

3. "Whoever initiates the conversation will be responsible for dice rolls for that character?"

Swen: Yes - same as EA

4. "Do you anticipate the game being Steam deck verified on release?"

Swen: We are trying and that is our hope to make it available by release. New version of Proton is coming out - and we will have to adapt that.

5. "There is twitch stream integration (JP)?"

Yes. (we already knew this)

6. "How will being multiclass affect your dialogue?"

You will get options for each class you have.

7. "What kind of struggles have you had putting 5e in?"

Camp supplies are still in game. There are (very few) danger zones where you cannot rest.

8. "Will Druids be able to talk to Boo?"

Boo is special, you will have to see. There is a great mystery to Boo.

9. "Will there ever be a DM tool to make custom campaigns and maps?"

NO. It will be a huge undertaking and too complicated.

10. "Will you guys support modding, can a DM mode be modded in?"

Swen - We will support modding, and we plan to introduce modding tools . It will be a huge challenge though to create new areas, you would need a team. Introducing a DM mode would be an epic undertaking. The engine is there and there is a lot you can do - but the visuals you must put in are quite extensive to make, there is no way to rapidly put a dungeon together, you would need to really spend time to do it.

11. "Will there be more content coming for BG3?"

We know what we are doing next, and we can't talk about it but probably not any additional content for BG3. *shakes his head no*

12. "How long will it take to see everything?"

Swen: No one will see everything.

13. "What was the huge secret Swen can't talk about?"

Swen: The Dark Urge

Notes:

-The game will require a total reinstall of the game. It's NOT an update. So 150 GB download.

-Swen plays Into the Breach when not playing BG3.

-There are lots of crazy ways to rob the bank.

-A custom character is best to start - Origin characters are great for replay. But it doesn't matter, just a suggestion.

-Origin Backgrounds often don't align, so you find yourself competing in multiplayer.

-You can respec anyone, including origin characters. Only two subclasses are locked for origin characters (Shadowheart and Wyll) but you CAN just respec them
when you get to Withers. However, even if you respec Halsin he will still be a Druid, Shadowheart will still be a Cleric of Shar, Wyll will still be a Fiend Warlock.
Same for the other Origins. It won't remove the tags.

-We will not be getting dodge or ready action sadly.

-Steam does not allow pre-load for Early Access games.

-You can't be completionist in this game.

Huge Reveal:

Naaber, possible descendent of Noober* from Bg1, is going to be in the game. He follows you around and annoys you. He is played by Cohh Carnage. You can kill him and throw him in the river.

*Noober is a guy in Bg1 who annoys you with pointless comments. You meet him right before the town of Nashkel.

Here is the entire interview.

Swen doesn't know if you can preload the game.

Also rolling for stats is only for characters that start conversation... Why!? Just why!?

Oh dear. I hope Steam at least starts the download automatically or I may have to wait until Friday evening to play.

I like comment about twitch and bear sex.

I forgot my BINGO card.

I see Ragna in the chat begging for stat rolling. 😅😂🤣

This is so, so bad. Despite how amazing it can be, I can't see the game being a 10\10 without this. Let's hope the game will prove me wrong..

1pm ET? Damn, that's not until 6pm here in the UK.

It does seem weird. The argument Swen said was that they had another system implemented but it was unattainable. But, that isn't what the question specifically looking to answer.

I think the current system is fine when you can make decisions when you can choose who to speak with, but situations where dialog actions are forced by some odd interaction, like combat end, that we want to be able to choose who can speak.

sad about sat rolling hopefully they will answer 2/1+ asi

For me it is 8pm.

That is one way to look at it ...
I see it as question about futher care about the product post release ... wich is something Larian did in the past. :P

//Edit:
I fight hard with their automatic moderator ... it filters like 90% of my questions, and i have no idea why.

As a European player, I'm a little hurt about the release time, but it was expected.