Hello.
A3 is so rushed that I am currently sitting on 5 different playthroughs all in A3, and Idk If I should continue while I'm in love with the game.
Or take a 3 year break from the game and check on it in 2026.
Pros of that would be that most bugs would be gone, maybe a DLC or two. And few thousand mods.
Most game breaking thing for me so far was my Evil playthrough... 67 hours into it I arrive at Moonrise Towers, and Minthara didn't exist in my game anymore despite having romanced her at the grove party.... Had to restart from the very beginning....
This is a bug.
Not a prove that Act 2 has less [category here].
Other has experience it, some others hasn't.
But A3 itself isn't even half baked, Not even IKEA baked where we got the stuff just got to assemble it. All we got is the damn grocery list but most of the things haven't been checked out yet, and half the ingredients are missing off the list.
Dialogues for me after reaching A3, On all 5 of my playthroughs currently in A3.
Are terrible.... Sure, I get a few one liners when I click my companions. But for the most part It's 2 options. What's your opinion of me, Wait for me in camp / Let's go.
In some of my saves I get some dialogue from Astarion/Gale.
With Karlach we did get the date.... Where she then puts on a strap on and abuses my male PC.....
This is a subjective opinion you're entitled to.
Others do like it, some would agree with you.
Not a prove that further Acts is less [category here].
I find a Diary from Wylls father, where he writes his favourite memories of his time with his son. Yet I get no options to give it to Wyll despite Wyll having mentioned that his father probably doesn't care much for him. Yet It's clear he loves n misses him.
This is a subjective opinion you're entitled to.
The DM decided that Wyll shall not have reaction to it and you dislike it. And that's fine if you dislike it.
I found a book of bard song beside Alfira and I can't as about it to here either.
I found a polished Dagger near Harpy ambush site, with Emerald Enclave engraving in it, but nobody in the Grove responded that I has something that might belong to one of them.
Doesn't make me feel that the game is incomplete despite that.
After Shadowhearts thing, there's 0 options to hug the precious cinnamon roll??? Just stand there in silence staring at her bawl her eyes out???? What the actual heck????
This is a subjective opinion you're entitled to.
I am fine with the options which were given to me.
Are you mad too that Lae'zel isn't more nice to you, who save her from her captivity?
Also still not a quest, and still not a prove that Act 2/3 less than Act 1 on [category].
I've got a mountain of Infernal Iron, but Dammon has 0 dialogue options other than shopping after the initial greeting with Karlach. And no further questline??
This one I agree. There should've/could've been more. But there isn't.
ultimately doesn't matter when Dammon himself determined that he can't think of any other solution except to back to Avernus.
My bet is that the infernal iron is to mitigate if players somehow didn't meet with Dammon in Act 2.
Still not a quest, still doesn't prove that Act 1 is somehow better.
When I talk to Mol, she asks If Im ready to do some business, yet no further options to start a questline for my 1# Fav character in the game? What happened between her n Raphael? What about the other kids? What about her ambitions? Should be at least 3 entire questlines but instead I get nothing?
I also agree with this.
But again, feel like a rant of something that should've/could've.
For now all you can do is to retrieve her contract within house of hope and she will commented on that.
Mattis, my 2nd fav character. Why is he not with Mol? Why does he barely regard me at all.
Arabella, my 6th fav character. (Shart, Karlach & Astarion 3-4-5th favs)
Just dips on me and I find her in a sewer, and get like no dialogue options beyond that tiny bit. She still owes me that Spell she never taught me. And she should have a quest or two....
Should've/Could've.
Feels like there is a lot more you can do on top of already massive stuff you can do in Act 2 and 3.
This start to feel like you agree Act 2/3 feels a lot bigger than 1. <-- this is not a jest. Don't feel offended.
Quite a lot of other stuff as well that I can't remember off the top of my head since those things are the ones that piss me off the most.
But A3 is quite HUGE, but then you run into the characters you care about, and your companions. And there's nothing?? It's just weird...
It can be feel like that, for sure. But for me personally: they've arrived in Baldur's Gate, that's a lot better than being slaughtered in the Grove or stuck in Last Light Inn.
I agree that there should be some kind of closure with the tiefling group.
Also, Rolan... I talk to him and he doesn't even recognize me, doesn't mention his 2 siblings I spent so much effort keeping all 3 alive and nothing. Then I'm forced to Knock him Unconscious but ofc It's bugged and KO'ing people just deletes them from the game permanently.... It's even worse than killing them, since at least If u kill them their corpse is still around after a Long rest.. KO will just wipe em out of existence.
Could be a bug.
I meet him, notice he got beaten up, meet with Lorroakan, kill him and Rolan later thank me and say that he will bring his two sibling to the towers.
And then are all the PERFORMANCE issues. The lack-buster ending. etc...
And thats the tip of the iceberg.
So I'd say yey, there is a wild difference between Act 1 and Act 3 quality.
Not Act 2/3 related, as in quality/reactions.
But yes, general consensus is that later Act is less optimized, and it still is.
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Look, I'm not trying to jest or disagree for the sake of disagreeing.
Act 2 and 3 has a lot of content. They made some cut, that much is apparent. But as you said, Act 3 is huge, literally and figuratively. More quest, unmarked quests, locations waiting to be found. I have finished the game twice and I still don't get why there is a mad sorcerer in the city sewer.
Content wise/reactivity wise, Act 2/3 is massive. More dialogue, more written lore, more reactivity, more options to solve a quest.
I am not saying it's perfect without flaws, it has flaws, performance issues aside, but compared to Act 1? It's objectively massive and arguably better, though some of your gripes (biased though it is), has it merits too.
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Now then, anybody else want to compare specific quest in Act 1 that you think has more reactivity/ways to solve than Act 2/3 quests? - because 2/3 is massive and you can ignore fights a lot, compared to Act 1, because you no longer need exp especially in Act 3.
