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He's speaking the language of gods.

I've never seen glossolalia in text form before. Neat.

It's not like norsemen considered words to be so important they thought it appropriate to duel each other to death over them or anything.

God damn it, do I gotta make a countermeme now?

Sigh. Be right back.

The people who say things like this, I swear. THANK YOU FOR REMINDING US HOW TOUGH YOU ARE, BIG MAN. Everyone definitely believes you.






It's not great, but it was a rush job.

It would be pretty ignorant to use a Norse warrior for a meme about words, yah. Their culture put a massive emphasis on words and language to the point there were certain insults so insulting that to speak them was grounds for combat to the death. The concept of "fighting words" came from them.

Also it was illegal to recite poetry to a married woman because it was believed to be a work of magic that bewitched them away from their husbands.

All things die
Friends die, animals die
Even you yourself must die
But one thing I know that never die
Judgement laid upon dead men

3rd restart?
3rd restart? what are you new or something? lol

I want to address the "the companions are too negative" thing, and point out something that it seems like both Larian and some players failed to realise - this is an opinion. "Too negative" is a completely unmeasurable aspect of the characters. I didn't find them to be too negative at all, and I was kind of a good guy for most of my playthroughs.

Some of them responded in a way you could define as "negative" sometimes, but this is not the question you should ask yourself if you want to make changes to them. What you should ask is whether it's consistent with their character. If it's consistent, then you should ask if that is the kind of character you want in your game. If it isn't, change the character, and if it is, leave it instead of creating inconsistencies that wi only harm the character. But don't leave the character the same while making her less consistent at the same time because it wi only make her a worse character.

Lmao yeah, imagine being raped by illithids and then surviving a misadventure to hell and a plane-crash and then when you're a bit pissy someone just comes out and says:
"You're just so negative, you gotta cleanse your aura maaan, things are not so bad maaan".
It's kinda hilarious. I think companions should just conspire to kill you if you're too much of a douchebag to them.

I'm pretty sure you couldn't be as much a douche to them as they were to you. I can only think of one instance, with Astarion, when he opens up about Cazador and you can mock him for it (which i did and it was enjoyable because he got pretty hurt by it). Actually, introducing more savageness on the MC's part would have also been a better fix than just making them nicer. And, hell, companions in BG1 and 2 go ape if they don't like eachother, why not have them go ape against you in this game if you don't treat them well? Not even sure Wyll or Gale turn on you if you go with the goblins.

You could also be a douche to Wyll about his nemesis and it was kind of priceless

Posting snarky memes is still being snarky.

Quit it.

Yeah totally stealing this. *yoink*

Mod edit: when I say not to continue using snarky memes, that includes quoting them so that they appear again in the thread. No more.

Edit: No problem. Didn't see the first notice you put down and didn't read this one as particularly snarky. Won't do it again

If anyone figures it out and can let me know, that's be lovely. Thanks.

Me three. Agree with you both. Good patch, but long way to go for the game to be great. Several major problems still need addressing.

Character creation seems to still leave much to be desired.

I want more options, more faces and for god's sake more body types.

Come on Larian. Make it happen.
I beg you.

This mostly sums up my feelings as well. However, the cynic in me wants to look at these changes and ask "how many of these are really from player feedback?" Meaning that they weren't already on their to do list.
For example, the party members jump fix, while AWESOME is easily something they would have internally identified before EA.
Some of the other changes are hard to judge (I haven't played this patch yet, may wait for another one first), but here are my rough thoughts:

Highly likelihood that this came from user feedback:
- surface changes
- short rest (I put this here because the effort required for this change would be so minimal, I sort of have to think it wasn't something they wanted prior)

Moderate likelihood that this came from user feedback:
- companion attitudes (the main reason this isn't higher is because I don't know the scope of the changes, very well may be moved up)
- dialog DC checks

Easily could have been on their radar pre-EA:
- party jumping
- rewards for non-violent solutions
- inspiration UI
- spell slots UI

TLDR: I'm very glad for all the changes, and I'm a bit more optimistic that they will actually change some of the really horrid design decisions they've made (see huge thread on height advantage nullifying tons of abilities), but we have to wait and see.

Wyll just leaves you at a party. Gale doesn't really care about tieflings. I'm just sure it's too early to "attack", I think later, we can become enemies. And our relationship will affect that. But first act? Maybe it's too early.
They can just leave you, Shadow leave you very easily cuz u pick Lae.

In all honesty, I kinda hope that one stays. That's the combat feature I enjoyed the most so far. Always scout for heights, have mobility spells/abilities or you can get screwed by a bunch of goblins.