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'Baldur's Gate 3': Patch 8 Will Get TWELVE New Subclasses In 2025 (www.belloflostsouls.net)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It'll be great to actually play Drunken Master Monk instead of just being an Open Fist Monk who drank all the time.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

I feel the same way, but in real life.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not sure if this is helpful, but BG3 is on sale until tomorrow morning.

I havent been able to play yet, so I'm incredibly excited.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

$48. "On sale"

It will get cheaper, probably around Christmas.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Is that not a sale? It'll be even cheaper next Christmas too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

20% is 20%. It won't be dirt cheap for another year or two. If you'd prefer to wait until Christmas in hopes of saving $3, more power to you.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago

Death Domain clerics? Fuck yeah! I can make my actual PnP Cleric now.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And all of them are fuckable

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Big naturals Withers romance option when?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I just hope they add the functionality to enable all relevant mods with the push of a single button. At least on console, we literally have to enable each mod, one by one.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh shit I must have missed there's mods on console now. Are there any that significantly change the game? I might jump back in if it feels different to play cos I pretty much did everything I could and even beat it on the hardest difficulty, although that took 2 playthroughs since I died on the last boss the first time round.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hop back in then! The mods are great! I started a new DUrge campaign as Dread Overload Warlock, but there's some more subclasses added, you can give everyone wings, they're are weapons that improve along with your characters, cheater items if that's your thing, the mods are a lot of fun

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What are some other cool mods to check out?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I've downloaded a bunch of dice skins and subclasses. I've yet to actually finish the game bc I keep changing mods.

I like the mystic class I just played. Just started a new one with an Astral Weaver.

I'm using party size mod and double xp mod but upped the difficulty and installed a mod that ups enemy stats if the party exceeds 5 people.

I've actually got over a dozen mods installed - mostly QoL mods and cosmetic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

mods on console

WAT?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I had the same reaction, and looked it up to learn that consoles do indeed have curated mods that can be used. The one I wanted to use the most, expanding the number of party members that can be controlled in battle, is there, so I might just have to do another playthrough...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Where do you get the mods? I have no idea how to install a mod on console.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I haven't played it since they were added, so I'm not sure myself. Maybe this will help. If you have an Xbox maybe it's similar?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Oh, it's built right into the game? That's sweet!

Edit: thank you!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The tradeoff of using a console's walled garden as opposed to PC: less options, but simpler to use.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's pretty awesome! The best game I've ever played just keeps on giving me more stuff even though I've already paid them, and idk why! Thanks Larian!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

because it means more people will pick up bg3 and probably buy the next thing they make as well

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Man, I still haven't had time to do my wild mage run. Granted a friend wanted in on that for the shenanigans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do you mean sorcerer, or are you multi-classing?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, the sorcerer subclass. From what I understand it's not the cow-falling-from-the-sky good times from BG2 though. Might need mods for real craziness.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

yeah, there's a disappointingly small number of effects, and that generally aren't that crazy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Oooh maybe just inspired my next run.

But lol I should go finish the first... Took too long a break and now I'm all "wtf was I doing" when I load back in.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Finally, a proper hexblade!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Cool. Now add Artificer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I'm SO EXCITED LETS GOOO

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Glorious.

Let's hope Sony doesn't snatch them up too.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Sven doesn't seem interested in being bought out.

Also Tencent already has some claws in Larian.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Larian seems to have some actual principles, which is quite rare these days.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

oh man, I'm really tempted to recreate my Lawful Good Hexblade Warlock. I guess the opportunities to roleplay an insane fallen paladin aren't as prevalent though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Any new story line?

Asks the coward who refuses to do an evil durge run.

[+] [email protected] -47 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Yet another proof that it's better to just wait until games are completed before buying at a lower price

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 months ago (1 children)

BG3 was definitely a complete game upon release. This is just icing on the cake.

[+] [email protected] -37 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I don't consider my cake complete until there's icing on it 😉

The point still stands, if you've already played the game and extra content is added that you might have enjoyed then you might be disappointed that you won't get to enjoy that content. When you only have a few hours per week to play games you won't go back if you have other games you want to try, but if you had known more content was coming you would have played something else in the meantime.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It's extra subclasses. You wouldn't have been able to play all the subclasses anyway without starting a new run and spending extra time, so your argument is dead in the water from the start. Not that it matters, because your argument would basically be 'never buy an indie game until its creator is dead' or 'creators must never release new content for their games'. The Terraria and Stardew Valley crowd would love your take on this.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think I'm part of the Terraria crowd (I play through it basically every time there's a big content update, at least) and I think the patience argument has a lot of merit even with games like Terraria. If you were only going to play through Terraria once, waiting longer would mean you got to play through more content. For people with limited time to game, I think it makes a lot of sense to focus on games that have had more time to build up features so that they get a more complete experience.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

So, 13 years down the road, it's still too early to buy and play Terraria. Gotta wait till Redigit drops dead and hope nobody else picks up his mantle and releases more content for the game.

You know, there's still new editions of Tetris coming out with twists...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

This game is intentionally designed to not be 100%able. It contains "missable content" and is part of its style

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

My first playthrough was like 200 hours, and I found a bunch of stuff on my second and third playthroughs that I missed the first time. There was really no reason to wait for this game. It's the best game I've ever played. They did iron out some bugs shortly after release, but the game was already great.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago

The game was done at launch. I played through the campaign the first month after it was released. I would have been happy with what was in the game a year ago

People bought the game and that enabled larian to keep working on it. So they got to polish and add in the stuff that had been left on the cutting room floor we'd have never otherwise seen due to that pesky reality of not being able to ship a finished product if the scope kept growing.

So now, a year after release, there's a whole DLC's worth of content in the game that we just get for free.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

While that take is correct in 98% of circumstances, this isn't one of them for a couple of reasons. BG3 has enough content at release to play for several years and have different experiences each time. The fact that it's getting free additional content is more so because of people making the game popular in it's first year, showing that CRPGs aren't dead, etc. The game won literally every GotY award, for crying out loud.

There's not a ton of other games I'd say this is bad take, but you know, it's like complaining about Terraria or Dead Cells or something. At some point you get the game and you return to it periodically.

The only two reasons to put it off? You're too poor or you don't have time for a 300+ hour time investment. It's not gonna get a steep discount anytime soon, though.