Baldur's Gate III - Non Spoiler Edition

HF#4 is a small patch (or two small patches), does patching on GeForce Now takes more time than on Steam/GOG?

They rolled it back because of an issue. Which means I can't play my last save until they until they re-release it...I guess I'm making a new character then.

I'm not going to have much time to play over the next week or so, so I think I'm going to make a new character. Look, I know how this sounds, but 'not playing at all' is obviously not an option so playing around with the character creator and redoing an area I've already seen in Early Access and with my first character will probably distract me less from real life business than trying to focus on Act III.

Now the only question is whether I go with my original plan of Drow Warlock/Sorcerer for my next run, or try out a Dark Urge. (I don't want to combine the two since I have a specific backstory in mind for the Drow that very much does not involve being an amnesiac serial killer.) And if Dark Urge, do I go with the default Sorcerer option or switch to something else so I can actually hang out with Gale this time around? In my first run he's presumably still stuck in a wall, since my Dwarf Cleric saw absolutely no reason to mess around with a clearly malfunctioning and probably dangerous magical portal.

Soon they said...

I played in the character creator while waiting for HF#4 so I can continue my latest save, but only managed to make more Monk.

Hi! I've bought the game and played a couple of hours of it. It seems promising, but I don't particularly like party-based combat. I mean, I know that genre and played it quite a lot in the 90s but have little desire to return to it. Is there any way around it? I will be changing difficulty to easy today to make combat hopefully go faster, but would love other solutions.

GeForce Now reverted to the hotfix 3 version and I was able to play some tonight.

Also, they posted a new message about addressing the save game problem. So far no issues for me but I've seen plenty of horror stories so I download my recent saves nightly from steam cloud just in case. From what I understand creating a 2nd character makes it much more likely so I am going to play all the way through this character before I make a new one.

"Monitoring - NVIDIA has made changes to our game saves to improve reliability. Most members should not see messages from Steam about “Unable to Sync.” If you continue to experience problems, please send feedback using the exclamation icon in the GeForce NOW app.
Aug 16, 2023 - 20:04 PDT"

Thanks! I'm not quite modding the game at this stage, but am definitely keeping an eye on it.

dazk have you ever played the Knights of the Old Republic games, the original Fallout's, or the first two Baldur's Gate games? The combat is similar to those games you control your parties actions during combat. Your basically doing micromanaging. The thing is for me the companion AI follows my commands. Unlike the KOTOR games which after carefully setting up your ranged companions. When you initiate combat the AI ignores your inputs and runs up on the enemy getting killed and leaving you alone.

Do characters possess a zone of conzrol in combat so that fighters cant run willy nilly past enemies without incurring penalties?

Well if you try to run past enemy they will automatically attack you.

Yes, if they are in front of you and turn there backs to runaway you will automatically hit them.