Baldur's Gate III - Spoiler Edition (please read updated OP)

Tried creating a couple older characters...

Starting a fight in a goblin village with 20+ goblins in your line-of-sight gathered around a feast is going to take a lot of time even in real-time. Especially below level 4 when nobody has AOEs.

Also, the game has bugs, including with AI calculation, it start to misbehave when there are too many enemies. 

Oooo nice! Amelia Tyler who voiced Malady in DOS 2 is the narrator. She should do more voice work.

Heh. My first crash came while trying to create a profile. Filesystem error from trying to delete a file which was locked by another process.

I get the feeling this will be happening a lot.

Edit: the error kept repeating until I rebooted the PC. Bad install procedure, I guess.

The CC's a bit more limited than I was expecting. OTOH, the default heads all look pretty good, which wasn't the case with ME:A.

I would just like to note for the record that the very first time I died in BG3 was when my character accidentally jumped off the side of the mindflayer ship and fell into hell.

(Not entirely my fault - I was so busy installing Windows 10 and checking my new graphics card for compatibility with my motherboard that I completely forgot to check what kind of ports it had before I installed it, and now I can't plug in my desktop monitor until the adapter I ordered arrived in the mail. So I am currently trying to run the game on my tablet. The good news is that it ... sort of works? The bad news is that it does not render well enough for me to really be able to see what is going on all the time.)

So... i've sinned and bought something still in the oven

... this game has some serious potential, it just need to fix/implement what it's missing (like, 60% of the animations). Any bets in how much time it will take it to get out of EA?

How on earth do I help a downed char during combat? The tooltip only said; char down! Help them or something like that and vanished, leaving me at sea as to how to help. It's not like in DOS2 I just threw a resurrect spell or scroll at them.

Edit. Do I throw a heal? I reloaded and avoided the chapel and ended up running into Lae'Zel again.  She's rather bossy. 

Oh nvm, I saw the scroll of revive. Not used to the small HUD slots.

I reloaded so I didn't really find out what help it is not did I set up camp which I don't know.   I tried to google it but nothing helpful at that end.

I don't have any crashes so far. *cross fingers*  I'm no fan of the rng rolls. I've to reload when I get lousy results.

Edit. Ok, there's  camp button which I missed. Still no joy on the help downed companion.

One thing I hope they implement in the final game is being able to pick your own starter gear.

For example, I'm playing a Dex-based fighter who leans into stealth. But I'm stuck with longsword (non-finesse), no shield, and armor that imposes Disadvantage to your stealth. And it didn't help that the shortbow was bugged so that I didn't get my Dex bonus to damage even with that. Oof.

I finally picked up a goblin scimitar (after the prologue) and stole the shield from the cleric, so I'm slowly getting closer to where I wanted to be at the start of the game.

Someone made a comment about the % to hit in combat. There are two:
- when you highlight an enemy (that's your "to hit" vs the enemy AC)
- the circle on the left side, that's the representation of the advantage/disadvantage dice(s) you can have in certain combat conditions.

Failing those rolls isn't always a lousy result, it's just a different story path. There are some content you won't see by always succeeding and vice-versa. It's also how D&D works and nobody had issues with them in other D&D based games when the rolls happened in the backgrounds and it just said failure on screen when you failed something like a persuasion check.

Combat works the same, do you reload every time you get a miss?

And they aren't true rng. A 1 is always failure, a 20 is always success. You have 5% chance of getting both. The rest is a static % of success based on your attribute modifier and proficiency and other possible bonuses (ex: Guidance, Friends for Charisma, etc). As you level up, the easy/normal DC will always be a success unless you get a 1.  And unlike BioWare, I expect Larian to not give locks all 20+ DC (difficult) even at higher level as those are supposed to be based on the quality of the door, not content level.

Also, people forget so easily that low level D&D characters are scrubs.