Love in the Forgotten Realms – Community Update #7

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Tl;dr yes you can have sex in Baldur’s Gate 3.

Who you journey with is as important as the journey itself. It shapes you, as you shape each other. Baldur’s Gate 3 aims to take all that binds us together, and offer authentic, reactive relationships from the moment you meet, to whatever eventuality. The road least travelled is best travelled with friends.

Each of your companions have their own personalities, goals, and motivations. Bound by the shared problem of an Illithid tadpole buried in their head, they will join your party but you’ll all have to put your differences aside if you want to survive. The exact relationship you have with your companions, already marred by differences, will be shaped by who you are, what you do, who you side with, and what you say in conversation with them.

Experience it for yourself as you gather your party on October 6th when Baldur’s Gate 3 launches Early Access to Steam and Stadia.

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49 thoughts on “Love in the Forgotten Realms – Community Update #7”

  2. Ich gebe mich nicht geschlagen, deshalb habe ich eine Petition erstellt um Larian vielleicht nochmal zu überzeugen, sollten wir genug Unterstützer zusammenbekommen, eine deutsche Sprachausgabe anzubieten.
    Es geht nicht darum, dass ich kein Englisch kann, sondern das es einfach atmosphärischer wäre es in komplett Deutsch zu hören.
    Mein Englisch ist leider auch nicht das Beste und das lesen strengt nach einer langen Zeit echt an.

    I don't give up so I created a petition to maybe convince Larian, should we get enough supporters to offer a german voice over.
    It's not the fact i can't speak English, but it is more atmospheric to hear in completely German.
    Unfortunately, my English is not the best and reading is really exhausting after a long time.

    Petition: https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/baldurs-gate-3-deutsche-sprachausgabe

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  14. 25hrs into the EA and my god it's good. Take your time finishing it, I have no worries waiting. You guys are great and easily one of the best studios out there in quality and personality.

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  16. I can't wait to recruit Astarion, I watched some dialogues with him from early access and as much as I don't really care for rogues his personality is just priceless. Now I just have to have him in my party.

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  19. Ok, so none of this happened in the early access 7:15, I got to kiss Shadowheart and we had full armor on, hope Larian doesn't decide to PG13 us with this weak romance stuff, I was told there would be nudity.

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  21. Larian can you please implement just one thing that I feel will take modern RPGs to the next level. Can you please give us an option to click a key/button to have the narrator or the writer who wrote the content read out the books we find in the world of Baldurs Gate 3. I have an OLED tv and my eyes are on fire trying to read all these books but I want to learn all the law and be emerged in the world but find I sometimes as most will just skip over reading them as I’m not a speed reader and reading these books chew up a lot of time when I could read them while they are being read aloud, that way we would get exactly how the writer would express the story they wrote. Thanks

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  25. Please please please could you make korean language subtitles in Baldur's gate 3? I love you guys games and want to play with my friends so bad but because of language barriers it is hard to play😭😭 we already had played divinity original sin 2. It was so much fun and can't wait to play Baldur's gate 3 also ! if.. there is korean subtitles it would be much better to play!!!

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  37. A thing that would be very funny and immersive would be a "bluetooth" 20dice that you used in the real world to roll on the the game. :D. Excellent work on the game! Keep up with the good work.

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  40. I had a few points I was hoping someone might want to discuss! And some points I hope the studio might see and consider in the process.

    So far I've played 72 hours of the Open Access and seriously, I love the game. I love it so much that the thought of waiting for the full release sits in my head like a tumour. But I digress, I'd rather the studio releases the game when they think it'll be good, when they're happy with it. I do not want to encourage the game industry's crucnhing and mistreatment of workers just to get a game out quicker. Though if someone could give me a rough idea (considering Divinity was in OA for about a year, do you think it'll be the same for BG3? Obvs BG3 is a lot bigger, but so is the studio compared to when DOS2 was being made).

    Before anything, know that I've not played DOS2 (But I will soon!) so I'm not familiar with Larian all that much. But following BG3's development has given me an adoration for the studio. They clearly love their fans, their work and I sincerely thank the entire team.

    But in other words, here were the main points so far, both good and bad feedback!:
    Companions and Narrative:

    – I worry that companions will be hard-set and won't truly change throughout the story. Mainly because it's using 5e 'alignment' system and I never really liked that in the first place, it feels constraining. I think the easiest example I can think of is with Astarion who is quite CE but I hope that progressing through the game, we – the player – have chances to lead him onto a different path. Neither good nor bad, just give us the option to change opinions without sacrificing the way they see us. Essentially, I hope the work we put into relationships (platonic or romantic) is rewarded in a way. Again, with Astarion, I've been trying to appeal to his personality and humour but I also don't want to be a murder-hobo (which if you're going solely for his approval, he encourages) but in terms of his story, there's clearly hints of a confronation with Cazador (even the possibility of killing Cazador and allowing Astarion to become a full vampire) at which point I hope the work we've put into gaining his trust won't be thrown out just for 'the twist' or a random roll of the dice. I use Astarion as he's the easiest to think of examples for, but I hope it'll be like that with all the characters. I know everyone will want to play the game differently, some won't care about their companions whilst others do. I just hope that if we do actuvely try to appeal to them, we won't be shafted later down the line for the sake of a 'twist'. Like I've really been struggling to get Shadowheart's approval and sometimes it'll just go down because I failed a role, and it's a bit tricky. I'm fine with it taking longer, it's just I don't want my effort to then be thrown out the window!

    – I really do love the amount of choices in which the player can try to remove the tadpole. Of course it wouldn't fit narratively to be able to simply take it out straight away, but the amount of options available really gives flavour and agency to the players. It really does make us feel like it's a threat and genuinely scary. The multiple choices throughout the game so far also feel real, they're not satellites, they're kernels and they matter,

    – Please please make Alfira a companion character. Maybe not one that gets involved in combat but one who sticks with the party. There's an easy way to impliment her into the story, she wants to travel and she can do that with the camp. You've introduced such a likeable character who would fit perfectly as a bard, and I really do hope you will make her a permanent companion! It'll be a nice change from the stoic Lae'zel and the secretive Shadowheart!

    – The story is so far great, from second one, I'm invested and on the edge of my seat! I'm always questioning and wondering what's hidden. Though I still wonder if the true inciting incident has happened? Of course one could say the tadpole's infusion with the player was the inciting incident. It reminds me of Dragon Age: Origins. Where the players have their small personal stories, their origins which itself is a small confined story but the true II happens when joining the Grey Wardens. Hence why I wonder if the true inciting incident has yet to happen and will instead occur at the Moonrise Towers? This is more a curious thought I had!

    – With each character having a pre-disposed backstory, it gives the prospect of their playthroughs as something new and exciting! I'm already interested in playing as Astarion, Gale and Shadowheart's story as soon as I can. However, as of now, the background options for our player character haven't shown up much other than passive remarks in conversation. This is an understandable choice, there'd be far too much work to give further origins, but I wonder if perhaps there'd be a potential to give the player a relationship tree before the start of the game. Depending on the player's background choices and race and whatnot, perhaps they could have the option to know of various people before hand, like friends or enemies? Or perhaps even a text-based version of Xanathar's background rolling system. Things like rolling a d100 to see what life events had happened to you, siblings, parents, what kind of home you grew up in, special events that might have happened ot you, etc…? I think that could bring a great sense of agency already, giving the player the chance to have their character be pre-existing in the world and not just suddenly thrown in! It's just not often RPGs like this give the player that much freedom. Plus it would also give the game an insane amount of replayability. Say you played as a Tiefling from Elturel, you might have known about Zevlor before! Or even a druid who once knew Kagha… Etc…

    – I love seeing when the companions talk to each other, not just to the player. I hope it happens more frequently as it gives depth their their character relationships with each other.

    General Issues:
    – There's been one thing that's frustrated me. I've had to reload a lot of saves to get the outcome I want but I don't want ot sit through the dialogue waiting for the options to show up. Pressing space skips the dialogue but it also auto-selects the first option in the multiple dialogue choice. So if I'm maybe a little too quick, I'll skip through a vital dialogue moment and have to reload again.

    Honestly, other than the various bugs in the OA, I really do adore the game so far!

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