You should definitely do a quest guide, it would be awesome for people like me who only play evil mfs

That sniff caught me off guard ngl. LMAO

Torgal dispelling invisibility by sniffing around is just wild

Please 🙏🙏🙏

What is that mod where you can right click just about any character and see their stat sheet?

Should do a monster guide

Its easierto program

Glorious!

Meh, there are good and bad things about both system and I love them both. I prefer RTWP if I can choose, mainly because it is much faster and I have limited time playing games, though both system in CRPG games works fine if done correctly. I'm just happy there is a marked for i in general as it's my favorite genre and I never want it to end.

I know it was 4 years ago but was kinda excited to hear your SoD rant, is there actually any footage on YT where you play SoD?

Great recovery 😂

I remember playing BG2 two years ago. And when i heard that sniff i was like what the fuck lmao. Who did the audio design on this? xD Someone was like: Yea lets just have the loudest sniff ever mid-combat thats about good right that fits? Yea ok thumbs up lets put it in.

Lol the dog im dead

F*cking hate Torgal. It's always like he spends half the fight at near death but just refuses to die. Also hits way too hard

He sniffs through your invisibility. Good fight!

allll too easy

lol next impossible thing Dav is gonna do will be to drink hot coffee without a cup.

Fuck yea, holy crap what a ride.

SNIFF SNIFF

dwarven defender god

Was dwarven defender in the original baldur's gate 1 because I remember reading the description for my first playthrough of the enhanced edition and I was like holy fucking shit this is powerful

MLG

The sniff over dav's face was hilarious

Great stuff

EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just started my IWD ee run with my proud DD tank. 🛡️

Normie for life!

Such a shame you can't dual class this. DD into Cleric be fucking sick

Every time we talk about DD, an image of Danny Devito and one of my favorite deaths in all runs comes back to me, as confused by shroom people Sarveok with ravager runs up to poor Danny slowed by his Def Stance and cuts his head of clean with first hit. And the best part was Dave right after entering to Sendai lair talked to us in chat, damn i forogt to use Chaotic Commands, i hope Sarevok wont get confused here. :D

Davaeorn tells no lie

POGCHAMPION!!! UNBELIEVABLE VALUE!!

I usualy play Cavaliers if not that I would probably take fighter/thief eventually barb had i wish to tank. But dwarven defender seems intetesting to test But I dont like playing dwarves as mc so thats not option. Why tf would non dwarf would have the option to play dwarven defender? (I hear you ask) Simple. To defend dwarfs...

The ultimate tank, hands down. Most successful backport of a class in this game. Oh yeah, besides Sorcerer.

This is one of the biggest reasons spellcasters became so much stronger after adnd (which bg is based on). In the original system if you took damage or were disturbed in any way the spell fizzled. And because you had casting times opponents had a window in which to disrupt your spell casting. 5e (bg 3 is basedon 5e) tries to mitigate this with counterspell and concentration checks but it's just nowhere as big a weakness.

At max stats/level what is the optimal custom 6 team party comp? In your opinion. Assuming max 25 stats on everyone and bringing them from bg1 to bg2 and starting bg2 with the party at max stats/ level (by abusing import/export in bg2 for max level), to fully utilize all gear? Assuming starting level boosting at max stats in bg1 at level 1 one party member at a time for maximum OP. What is your God party. I'm thinking of abusing the hell out of import/export (for tomes in bg1, no console commands or "cheats") for max stats and then abusing import/export for max level in bg2. wanted your thoughts? Starting bg2 at max stats/level whats your custom party look like?

Meh this is an extreme opinion. Rtwp is great but turn based is great too. The difficulty of bg3 is tuned down to help normies but with some tweaks could be made unfathomably challenging. Effectively a mod like scs for bg3 would remove the 'it's for noobs' argument. There are more dimensions in rtwp for sure but if you tuned rtwp down then it would be less challenging.

I totally agree - what seems to be a good solution for a pen and paper game with friends in a pub, looks ridiculous in a modern 3D game

Turn based systems allows for dramatically more complicated situations because you don't have the game speed to take into account. Unless you're a zoomer's brain was rotted by TikTok and have the attention span of a toddler, turn based will ALWAYS be a far superior system in every single situation.

A- tier is wizard slayer but B tier is ranger? WHAT? Rangers can get armor of faith, defender of easthaven in offhand, hardiness, which is what 85% DR? You get dual wielding for free, so you can specialize in a number of weapons, easily axes, long swords, bastard swords, flails, maces, katanas.. That's only 12 points, you probably get more than 15! And rangers can use all armors, barbarian can't. And you can do all of that as a stalker and backstab by just wearing shadow dragon scale! No way those are WORSE than wizard-effin-slayer not able to wear anything or do any spells..!

I prefer RTwP but this really is just a matter of taste.

people hated and still hate active pause.

It's called turn-based because real-time is cringe.

No offense Davaeron but this is the second heavily biased opinionated rant that has found its way to my fyp. Not trying to burst the past 23 years of your life but its not so simple as just choosing rtwp or tb. In fact, rtwp requires the engineering of plenty of interfaces, party ai scripts, sample scripts, readability, interfacility for unfamiliar players, player readable gui elements that enable or change party AI on the fly and so much more like developing a system where you can construct the flowchart of the AI through your own agency in the game, optional of course but nowadays it’s not as much. I think most people did not want to interface with the Pillars of Eternity 1&2 AI customization; I know I didn’t- that’s wasted development. So you can say ignore it and just leave every party member brain dead, waiting for specific instructions. Well last time I checked these games aren’t RTS’s actually so pushing the game into that direction, well I don’t agree. If you want to micro that much that’s your choice in the game you bought, it accommodates that but its not ABOUT that. So, in fact it is not always better and I can absolutely see why devs would want to just do tb. Additionally, even in your example you’re wrong. Counterspells do in fact exist and serve the purpose you mock due to your imaginary false exclusion entirely to articulate your bias. I get you’re a turbo gamer but these opinions are just straight up annoying and half baked. Even the title of the short just says Turn based games, as if to say this is how all turn based games work and there aren’t any counters in any of them. For me personally I like rtwp better, far better actually and really wish BG3 went in that direction. But I’m not going to ignore obvious points in the sandbox of playing and creating games that make it seem like it just a choice. That’s dumb.

Facts, Turn Base can be fun and my favorite version of it are games like Might and Magic and Wizardry, but Real Time with Pause is so much better at capturing what a DnD battle would look like

This is a crazy take given reactions (especially counterspell) exist

Problem with bg3 turn based is that the heavy RNG aspect AND turn based devalues the player completely. The best strats could just go down the drain because of one aweful dice roll and since you cant react in any way, the combat feels like trash imo. (DOS2 combat had its flaws but was way better in the rng aspect). The best builds are the ones that counter the core combat mechanics (TB, arcane acuity...) which is not good game design. Turn based is more mplayer friendly though but besides that I agree 100% with Dav.

I got Kangaxx to imprison himself with the Spell Turning from Neera quest shield...

Rangers wisdom axe paladin too

Nah, real-time is the best thing. Pause? You see an enemy doing something so you press pause, take a dump, buy groceries, thinking, and then casting something with less casting speed to counter it. After it, you pause again and do something like it again. Literally, panacea for casuals. P.S. Also, "normies" hate turn-based games. They play Skyrim or something. Discovering new things after 15 years in starting village. So this is some kind of double-elitism. Not a thing "true" gamers should say.