Baldur's Gate 3 Sound Design - Vicious Mockery & Bardic Inspiration

[@M_Alexander]

I appreciate any attack that begins with "Oi!"

[@Gebsequanimity9300]

Billy butcher have entered the chat

[@blakereed92]

Okay, it's nuts to me that they made sure to give all the origin characters special vicious mockery lines. That's awesome.

[@blakereed92]

@@wraithofsolidarity Welp, that seals it. My next character is gonna be a "bladesinger" sword bard.

[@Ifyoucanreadthisgooglebroke]

Using Withers as a target dummy for vicious mockery makes it feel more like a duel. One the bards seem to lose. It is the 'not mad, more disappointed and mildly amused' grandpa vibes I think. "When one tries and fails to many times, it is often named madness." "Thy accuracy would be lauded, had it a purpose."

[@nambnb]

I'm glad they decided to change Wither's behavior pattern from the Alpha, where he could be drawn into an unwinnable fight scene because he had infinite health. So you couldn't kill him, but he sure as hell could hurt you quite badly.

[@cbdrawer9527]

Apparently, Autie Ethel has some unique voice lines if she cast Vicious Mockery. She cast it on Wyll, saying "Oh look, daddy's little failure"

[@moonlily1356]

Had this as an oathbreaker Dragonborn "Your oath is as strong as your scales" I believe it was

[@temperspace]

"Fraud of the frontiers" ive heard once for wyll

[@Logandroid]

It just feels so wrong so hear Lae’zel saying these things lol

[@almisami]

Yeah they definitely had some fun with her lines.

[@takeapropergander1321]

Gale's curt "Oi" got me cackling

[@furo_live]

"uh... we'd make better strangers" goes so hard lmaoo

[@0jutai]

I really like voice 4. Something about her just clicks with me

[@temperspace]

She has the best eldritch blast lines

[@sylvan-the-necromancer]

Also, bardic inspiration works if you don't have an instrument equipped. Instead of playing an instrument, they whistle, which is neat.

[@Kiyannidirl]

Holy shit, Astarion with the mocking cry after the elf line is so powerful.

[@Spiralpaladin]

I believe it's meant to be a yawn, but yeah. It's amazing. XP

[@Fargyy]

97 lines for every voice holy fk

[@anotherpersonfromnorfolk1587]

Can I just say the violin is definitely the underrated instrument in this one, it sounds so beautiful

[@Venom_snake417]

Agreed, violin definitely is best for bardic inspiration in terms of sound

[@Isvoor]

Lvl 3 Lore Bard Cutting Words also has voice lines, it's awesome.

[@leonidsergeyevich952]

Using voice 1 for my bard and im obsessed with it. So good

[@ryanc5572]

I use voice 1 for my sorcerer! I love him so much 😅

[@wondercow]

my bard also has voice 1! i loooveeeee it!

[@Embercrystal]

quick thing people might not know: your character whistles when there's no instrument equipped as a bard!

[@Matthew-nz7pz]

Didn't need to go so hard on my boy Withers damn.

[@nomadv7860]

awesome! Would be super cool to see with Halsin, Minthara, Jaheira, and Minsc!

[@zilexfaulty]

Karlach feels out of place with how eloquent VM usually taunts, wyll makes the most sense given he was a former noble with the vocabulary, and shadowheart…

[@nathanieljefferies5491]

I actually would have liked wyll better as a bard…his smug attitude just fits so well.

[@a_deputy]

I have a voice 8 and its extremely fun, its so impressing how they made sure that changing class wont make it a loss for characters to loose voiced lines, + this spell suits astarion so well lol, I'm not sure about being a bard but mockery is so astarionish dfkvmdlkmv

[@Mattsothelioma]

Apparently the reason Lae’zel’s voice sounds much different then just the filter is because “apparently” (aka second hand information I found) the VA was like. “Yeah no she would never say any of this.” But lines needed to be recorded… so…

[@theultrasceptile]

Oh poor warryn, he had to endure so many insults

[@alexanderoakland2607]

Not gonna lie, I was kinda hoping they'd add some profanity to Karlach's mockeries

[@lukash.8788]

Violin is the best instrument omg

[@elladarkholme9818]

love the effects 😻🩷

[@norelle28]

I specifically double classed my Sorc to Bard for Vicious Mockery to insult one if the big dead 3 and it was great

[@JordanJumpin]

laezel lmao

[@LtSprinkulz]

the lute song needs to be playable

[@matchhead89]

The magic mirror means I can change my characters voice, but voice 2 is so playful and in character for my Champion/swords bard

[@StBurkeINC]

Spot the castlevania reference

[@ORBrunner]

Funny they gave to Durge for some reason

[@Bl4kAce]

Would've fit better on Astarion for sure.

[@thexlxx]

The no instrument sounds are missing:( the whistling is awesome

[@strandigel]

Thank you very muches! I was looking exactly for this!

[@Isvoor]

This is not all of the inspiration sounds. You get whistling if you aren't wielding anything, with it's own animations and everything

[@Fract]

I didn’t know that, thanks for the info! I’ll have to eventually update this!

[@Isvoor]

@@Fract I tried countercharm without an instrument, and it made a music box appear. Looks like the same one you can find a few of around the game

[@notavailable2374]

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@Itherei]

I wanted to make a half orc bard that sides with the goblins but all these lines sound too eloquent and literate :/

[@infernaze9128]

lae'zel is so RUDE

[@theunholyadventurer2376]

Amazing!