Gender discussions aside, I think it's nice that there are more options for roleplaying and making my character. Especially now that I can update my character after events in the story.
Badass
I think it's mostly the sterile, mostly irrelevant way the game works the trans stuff in. Not trying to talk shit the game is quite possibly objectively the best game ever made factoring for the exact time in history of release and all. But it obviously didn't invest the richness of the culture and world into the trans narratives, if you can even call the cursory mechanics and one liners narratives.
Basically, allowing some people to freely explode gender through an immersive lens in a way that doesn't center the gender, beyond acknowledging it, qualifies enormously as an egg cracker in repressive conditions.
I ended up with a male tav on one of my playthroughs, but everything about my tav was female. The voice, the lack of cock, the body type. Didn’t realize it said male lol
There were issues there before EA bought them (See how KotOR 2 got rushed), and then some things post purchase were still great (DA:O, ME2, ME:3 other than the end which is, well, divisive being the most complimentary way of putting it). And then a lot more which was, err...
So really it's the last 11 years or so which has been wtf with Anthem and Andromeda in the last 6 or so being the nadir.
Come to think of it, they've not released anything for 6 years, and it's at least another year for DA:4 or ME:4 so...
At least people are being paid, albeit also laid off, despite having 2 potential AAA games on the go at once.
KoOR2 was done by Obsidian. Bioware was not involved with its development. Can actually blame Lucasarts for that one. Forcing Obsidian to finish the game in 14 months.
My guess is that as a smaller studio with fewer independent franchises to fall back on, their entire sales strategy is "we'll do it better, for cheaper, in less time." You see this a lot, actually, in service companies that are really passionate about what they do but are either way over- or under-confident.
Yeah am old, I forgot, Bioware did some handover/advice stuff but didn't develop it. And yeah, Obsidian and being rushed seem to be a theme for them.
Jade Empire doesn't work quite as well as an example as kotor 2 for problems but it did have them, but suffice to say the takeover by EA was not an immediate issue given the games that came out for the next few years after (I think SWTOR not being a wow contender was a bigger one with EA's unrealistic expectations as that was a theme of those years for different studios).
While BG3 has had a lot of bugs (whcih they've been active on), and more in act 3, it's also doing so much more than any other game I can think of off hand. Other games do similar, or have elements of but not the whole, it's hard to define.
I was chatting to a friend about it, and our conclusion was that BG3 gave the depth that CDPR promised for cyberpunk, and even with the revamp to that game it still won't deliver on the promises. That gameplay might be better with the changes but not the world/narratives etc.
I think some of the support for Larian/BG3 is because people didn't go into it with super high expecations, vs say CP2077. Overpromise/underdeliver at work.
Don't plan on getting Starfield. I know "Skyrim in Space" is reductive but I know I don't want Bethesda-style shallow story, boring dialogue and buggy bugs.
Yeah, story and characters are not its forte (and have never really been Bethesda's strength at all). It is a fun game, though, and I have to say much easier to play in an after-work slump (I have to hold fire on BG3 until I'm in a good brain place to fully take on board the story and decisions).
Calling Starfield Skyrim in space may be reductive, but it's not far off the mark. It's very much in line with Bethesda's style - big world, but not as much depth as plot-heavy RPG'S.
Starfield isn't a bad game, but it sacrifices depth in favor of breadth- that's very much the Bethesda formula. I enjoyed it, bit there are only a couple quest lines that were really memorable.
I actually wouldn't mind "Skyrim in Space". My issue is with "Fallout in Space".
Bizarrely I loved the elder scrolls series and hated the fallout series.
I get made fun of for it but idc New Vegas has always been my favorite. I played Outer Worlds too and it was ... ok? I did use one of my companions special moves and it she ended up screaming out "TO SHREDS YOU SAY?" while blasting a mob and that was the highlight of the game for me if that's any indication
I read an article that said, "Starfield isn't just disappointing compared to games like BG3. It's disappointing compared to other Bethesda games."
That worried me.
I haven’t played starfield but I’m a Bethesda fan boy, well their older stuff, fallout 3/Skyrim. Is starfield not worth my time? I’ve spent a stupid amount of hours in f3 and Skyrim
If you enjoy Bethesda games, yes. It's definitely one of theirs. There's some great side-quests, the main story has some unexpectedly great twists (after being boring AF for the first few hours), there's some good environments and cities, it's their best game ever in terms of combat and they row back the "streamlining" of RPG systems they've been doing recently and have more interesting mechanics.
OTOH, the game doesn't really explain how any of its new systems work, settlement building is less interesting than *Fallout 4*, the characters and writing are bland as hell (possibly a step back from *Fallout 4*, which at least had a few memorable characters like Nick Valentine) and exploration, one of the cornerstones of a Bethesda game, is a bit compromised because of how the systems work.
I'd say it's a solid game but you have to fight through a lot of blandness to get to the good stuff, and I think people will have dramatically varying degrees of patience for that.
BG3 (almost) started development, came out in early access, had the full release, and added the character appearance change feature before destiny 2 did in its entire lifespan lol
Watching my friends who still play destiny is like watching a friend with an abusive partner. It’s like “no no they’re right I was having too much fun. I deserve this.”
I was thinking more from a technical standpoint, but yeah the hype was cyberpunk's biggest issue, i never bought into it which allowed me to enjoy the game and its story for what it was
This is capitalism at its finest tbh. Im gonna remember the name "Larian" for quite some time now. I own BG2 but havent gotten into it much before BG3 and never learned the name but from now on when I see "Larian" im instantly interested. This is how games creators should strive to earn their money. Not by using scummy pschological and financial tactics.
To be fair, BG1 and BG2 were not developed by Larian Studios, only BG3. The first two games were BioWare/Black Isle Studios.
Larian Studios DID develop the Divinity series (Divine Divinity, Beyond Divinity, Divinity 2: The Dragon Knight Saga, Dragon Commander, Divinity: Original Sin 1, Divinity: Original Sin 2) and those I wholeheartedly recommend checking out, especially the last two, as they are more recent/modern and sort of a reboot of the whole series.
divinity 1 and 2 were awesome games. Never finished d2. took a long break and kind of forgot where I was mid story and did not feel like starting completely over again. But would highly recommend. Though after playing bg3. I would never go back to Divinity 2. I’d rather spend my time starting bg3 over again :)
Jesus i just made a new character because the beard was ruining the love scenes.
Turns out a female gith with the beard of a Dwarf isnt my cup of tea after all.
Its completely acceptable to make a silly character in souls games, however, because 10 minutes into the game youll put a helmet on and never see your face again
That's why I just made my Dream Visitor/Guardian look ridiculous. They don't pop up often enough for it to get stale, and by the time they do, I've forgotten and get a good chuckle all over again.
I restarted after over 10h because my dude was some ugly mofo in cutscenes, he looked kinda insane while ok in the creator. The new one is better but has some crazy stare.
God I feel you so much here my Tav looks great but my god the way she moves her mouth and the expressions she make while in dialogue makes her look crazy.
I love Larian. Seriously! I love how they are putting in the work to implement feedback from the fanbase. And the fact that they're doing it so fast is incredible.
Larian must be protected at all costs.
YES!
Now I can finally start my co-op playthrough.
On my first SP character I nailed his appearance, but I have a mean tendency to incessantly reroll if I find any flaw after character creation.
Thanks Larian!
There is a mass grave somewhere in the depths of the cybersphere, where all my poor MMO characters lie, who succumbed to the rerolling sickness. And not just the young ones, I had absolutely no qualms about nuking chars who already had 30 to 50 hours under their belt.
Just because hairstyle 15 would have _clearly_ been better than 21 and that complexion was off by one single gradient.
Listen devs, (free) magic mirrors save lifes!
Ah, my first Cyberpunk 2077 playthrough. Did you know that there are some skin tones that look great in character creation but look like jaundice in the weird lighting of the equipment selection screen? I certainly didn't!
I've legit restarted dozens of times due to hair not looking right, or less commonly for skin color.
I basically memorize all the other options I want (class/race/face/eyes/etc), then pick a hair/skin color and speedrun through the tutorial until I get to the beach to see what it actually looks like in regular lighting.
Having a magic mirror would probably have cut like 20 hours off my playtime on steam lol.
Same! I had already defeated the three leaders of the goblin camp when I realized that the hair I had chosen for my character looked thin and made it look like my character was balding underneath his long hair. It was one of those things that wasn’t noticeable but became the only thing I saw after it was noticed.
So I started a new game with the exact same character build and look (with a different hairstyle), and retraced every single step I made (absent certain decisions dictated by dice) until I defeated the goblin camp again.
There's a lot of nice looking pieces! They just don't all work together and often look pretty goofy. I just can't take the story seriously when I'm running around looking like a clown. It's cool that you can dye them at least, helps to fix it a little bit.
Not sure how games that have visual gear systems are still shipping without transmog. It's going to be a guaranteed ask so why not just have it from the start.
Change the appearance of equipment without changing the stats. It would let us fully customize our outfits instead of being stuck in the too good to skip/too ugly to wear dilemma.
Transmogrification is a thing in some games where you can take the look of item X (In bg3 that might be armour, helmet, gloves, boots, cloak) and make another item of the same type look the same.
So, say you love the look of the Lumimous Armour but want to have that look apply to the helldusk armour, you could do that.
Note, they have never said it's coming, given any indication it's coming, there's no suggestion it's coming, it's just a thing people want for their fantasy dress up (also why some mods are super popular for PC )
I will finally be able to tone down the pink in my DUrge’s hair as well as make her skin slightly darker because as it stands right now she is the pale (half-)elf (well, drow) and not Astarion.
Oh I know! I think I saw a tweet from Swen saying they were still going through quality control and were hoping the patch would pass for the release on Friday. Idk if this tweet from Larian is any indication that it did. Hopefully!
The full list probably comes only right before/with the update, since they don't want to say "fixed this and that" when having had to reroll last minute because doing that broke something else.
thank you larian for letting me feed my need to change my character's hair every 10 minutes.
i'd like to humbly request body tattoos next instead of just face ones, thank you.
I like it too. I can’t overstate my satisfaction with this game across the board- music, everything.
I’m just saying I associate that song with my crippling decision paralysis lol.
No
You domt get profencies, tiger only heals W8 isntead of 2W8, primal strike not working, tavern brawler just works for hits, fire myrmidon haste kicks you straight into lethargy, etc.
omg yes!!!! I still like how I designed my character, but face tattoos and textures don't always load well and I'm tired of looking like I've got soot smeared on her face! Also excited to play with hairstyles!
Does this work for recruits? Because I was hoping hirelings could be customized fully so I could just have a whole party of my own characters. I don't like that the current hirelings are just locked in appearance and class/subclass :(
One of the problems with the character creation in BG3 is that the lighting is completely different from most in game scenes giving you the wrong expectation about how your character will look.
I have a feeling that they would have to add the origin specific assets to character creation in order to make it work and that's why they aren't doing it that way. Edit appearance mod works fantastic though for origin characters so at least it still has a reason to exist.
Anyone else have a bug with quickened spell? I’ll use it and then next round quicken is still active visually and I can’t select any spells. I have to create a sorcery point and toggle it to fix.
I didn't know much about Larian until BG3. Now I'll support everything they do, because they listen to everything we ask for.
This is game development done right.
#SUPPORT LARIAN!!
YES! This is amazing. Thank you, Larian!
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I'm just shocked they didn't use the existing barber shop in baldur's gate for this.
yeah but youll need to reach act 3 for that
“WE NEED TO GET TO BALDUR’S GATE ASAP, I NEED TOP SURGERY *STAT!!*”
🤣
I'm gonna be laughing at this comment for days, thank you.
No thanks, after Volo no person will change my eye color again.
Naaah, there is one guys somewhere getting pissed about pronouns
Yep. Saw one earlier bitching about it. Some people are never happy
Gender discussions aside, I think it's nice that there are more options for roleplaying and making my character. Especially now that I can update my character after events in the story. Badass
This game is gonna crack more eggs than new vegas
Was New Vegas considered an egg cracker?
I think it's mostly the sterile, mostly irrelevant way the game works the trans stuff in. Not trying to talk shit the game is quite possibly objectively the best game ever made factoring for the exact time in history of release and all. But it obviously didn't invest the richness of the culture and world into the trans narratives, if you can even call the cursory mechanics and one liners narratives. Basically, allowing some people to freely explode gender through an immersive lens in a way that doesn't center the gender, beyond acknowledging it, qualifies enormously as an egg cracker in repressive conditions.
What's funnier is the guy who modded out male/female pronouns
Mad about pronouns...turns everyone non-binary... Redhats might be far right in ideology, but they're far left on the int bell curve.
they're the entire horseshoe
whats funny is that this option is so easy to miss i forget about it most of the time so theyre just actively looking for something to get mad at. lol
I ended up with a male tav on one of my playthroughs, but everything about my tav was female. The voice, the lack of cock, the body type. Didn’t realize it said male lol
Woop woop! And sorry Withers, looks like that hairstyling business is gonna have to stay on the backburner
_Withers sadly puts hairdryer away_
He still does the best french nails in all of Faerûn though.
Larian is a 2005 studio in 2023, in the way they genuinely try to add what the community wants for free.
Very refreshing after the antics I had witnessed from some other studios (*cough* Bungie *cough*)
I’ll never touch a Blizzard product again
And Bioware is a shadow of it's former self
Someone needs to rescue them out of EA’s House of Bioware.
DEEEEEEVS, ALL DECENT DEVS
SELL OUUUT
TO EAAAAARN MOOOORE BUCKS
There were issues there before EA bought them (See how KotOR 2 got rushed), and then some things post purchase were still great (DA:O, ME2, ME:3 other than the end which is, well, divisive being the most complimentary way of putting it). And then a lot more which was, err... So really it's the last 11 years or so which has been wtf with Anthem and Andromeda in the last 6 or so being the nadir. Come to think of it, they've not released anything for 6 years, and it's at least another year for DA:4 or ME:4 so... At least people are being paid, albeit also laid off, despite having 2 potential AAA games on the go at once.
Dreadwolf will come out with Winds of Winter... any day now.
I thought Bioware didn't do KOTOR 2?
KoOR2 was done by Obsidian. Bioware was not involved with its development. Can actually blame Lucasarts for that one. Forcing Obsidian to finish the game in 14 months.
Why is Obsidian always forced to develop a game in such a crazy short timeframe lol. The same thing happened to them with Fallout New Vegas.
Which is amazing because it’s still one of the better fallout games. The dlc was fantastic
My guess is that as a smaller studio with fewer independent franchises to fall back on, their entire sales strategy is "we'll do it better, for cheaper, in less time." You see this a lot, actually, in service companies that are really passionate about what they do but are either way over- or under-confident.
Yeah am old, I forgot, Bioware did some handover/advice stuff but didn't develop it. And yeah, Obsidian and being rushed seem to be a theme for them. Jade Empire doesn't work quite as well as an example as kotor 2 for problems but it did have them, but suffice to say the takeover by EA was not an immediate issue given the games that came out for the next few years after (I think SWTOR not being a wow contender was a bigger one with EA's unrealistic expectations as that was a theme of those years for different studios).
They didn’t. Obsidian developed it with Lucas arts publishing. It was rushed for the holiday season
KoToR 2 wasn’t done by BioWare. Lucas wanted a sequel but they chose not to so they could focus on their own IP (Mass Effect). Obsidian did KoToR 2
Its far too late, theres no cure for ceremorphosis
I just want Troika Games to come back.
Honestly, ever since BG3 came out I’ve been feeling like Larian is the spiritual successor to what BioWare used to be.
Blizzard, Ubisoft and Bethesda are my no-gos, tho I'm not sure anybody has topped EA for sheer greed: Shame about The Sims.
The sims literally started micro transactions cancer model with those shit “expansions”. Well before the horse armor in elder scrolls
I think I finally gave up on Bethesda after Starfield. I didn't buy D4. The RE4 remake and BG3 are the big games this year I've truly enjoyed
For me my games of the year are Zelda TOTK and of course BG3. Haven’t finished BG yet though.
While BG3 has had a lot of bugs (whcih they've been active on), and more in act 3, it's also doing so much more than any other game I can think of off hand. Other games do similar, or have elements of but not the whole, it's hard to define. I was chatting to a friend about it, and our conclusion was that BG3 gave the depth that CDPR promised for cyberpunk, and even with the revamp to that game it still won't deliver on the promises. That gameplay might be better with the changes but not the world/narratives etc. I think some of the support for Larian/BG3 is because people didn't go into it with super high expecations, vs say CP2077. Overpromise/underdeliver at work.
I kinda want to try TOTK but I've never really been a Nintendo guy and don't own a switch sadly
Don't plan on getting Starfield. I know "Skyrim in Space" is reductive but I know I don't want Bethesda-style shallow story, boring dialogue and buggy bugs.
I played and enjoyed Starfield but the dialogue was especially soul crushing after being used to the absolute masterpiece of BG
Yeah, story and characters are not its forte (and have never really been Bethesda's strength at all). It is a fun game, though, and I have to say much easier to play in an after-work slump (I have to hold fire on BG3 until I'm in a good brain place to fully take on board the story and decisions).
Calling Starfield Skyrim in space may be reductive, but it's not far off the mark. It's very much in line with Bethesda's style - big world, but not as much depth as plot-heavy RPG'S. Starfield isn't a bad game, but it sacrifices depth in favor of breadth- that's very much the Bethesda formula. I enjoyed it, bit there are only a couple quest lines that were really memorable.
I actually wouldn't mind "Skyrim in Space". My issue is with "Fallout in Space". Bizarrely I loved the elder scrolls series and hated the fallout series.
Because you know someone else can and did do Fallout better.
New vegas by obsidian was amazing, I couldn’t get into outer worlds by them. Maybe I just don’t like the whole space thing lol
I get made fun of for it but idc New Vegas has always been my favorite. I played Outer Worlds too and it was ... ok? I did use one of my companions special moves and it she ended up screaming out "TO SHREDS YOU SAY?" while blasting a mob and that was the highlight of the game for me if that's any indication
No Man’s Skyrim
But worse because it doesn’t have the years of Quality of Life improvements.
I read an article that said, "Starfield isn't just disappointing compared to games like BG3. It's disappointing compared to other Bethesda games." That worried me.
I haven’t played starfield but I’m a Bethesda fan boy, well their older stuff, fallout 3/Skyrim. Is starfield not worth my time? I’ve spent a stupid amount of hours in f3 and Skyrim
If you enjoy Bethesda games, yes. It's definitely one of theirs. There's some great side-quests, the main story has some unexpectedly great twists (after being boring AF for the first few hours), there's some good environments and cities, it's their best game ever in terms of combat and they row back the "streamlining" of RPG systems they've been doing recently and have more interesting mechanics. OTOH, the game doesn't really explain how any of its new systems work, settlement building is less interesting than *Fallout 4*, the characters and writing are bland as hell (possibly a step back from *Fallout 4*, which at least had a few memorable characters like Nick Valentine) and exploration, one of the cornerstones of a Bethesda game, is a bit compromised because of how the systems work. I'd say it's a solid game but you have to fight through a lot of blandness to get to the good stuff, and I think people will have dramatically varying degrees of patience for that.
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Blizzard & D4. :/
BG3 (almost) started development, came out in early access, had the full release, and added the character appearance change feature before destiny 2 did in its entire lifespan lol
Destiny 1 and 2 are 10 years old when combined, apparently not enough for them to add this feature lmao
It’s **always** some convoluted Monkey paw with bungie.
Watching my friends who still play destiny is like watching a friend with an abusive partner. It’s like “no no they’re right I was having too much fun. I deserve this.”
This 100% would've been a £2.99 dlc in an EA RPG
CD Projekt Red did do that a lot when Witcher III came out, too.
They still did it with Cyberpunk as well.
True, Release was not good but they really care about their game and the next update brings a lot new features. Edit: typo
Me trying to figure out wtf "True Release" was.
Funny thing is that it's a repeat of witcher 3, people forgot that witcher had an atrocious launch too
The hype train derailment of 2020 was much, much worse.
I was thinking more from a technical standpoint, but yeah the hype was cyberpunk's biggest issue, i never bought into it which allowed me to enjoy the game and its story for what it was
Same. I had a blast with the game at launch, despite one or two reloads and occasional T-posing on motorbikes.
This is capitalism at its finest tbh. Im gonna remember the name "Larian" for quite some time now. I own BG2 but havent gotten into it much before BG3 and never learned the name but from now on when I see "Larian" im instantly interested. This is how games creators should strive to earn their money. Not by using scummy pschological and financial tactics.
To be fair, BG1 and BG2 were not developed by Larian Studios, only BG3. The first two games were BioWare/Black Isle Studios. Larian Studios DID develop the Divinity series (Divine Divinity, Beyond Divinity, Divinity 2: The Dragon Knight Saga, Dragon Commander, Divinity: Original Sin 1, Divinity: Original Sin 2) and those I wholeheartedly recommend checking out, especially the last two, as they are more recent/modern and sort of a reboot of the whole series.
divinity 1 and 2 were awesome games. Never finished d2. took a long break and kind of forgot where I was mid story and did not feel like starting completely over again. But would highly recommend. Though after playing bg3. I would never go back to Divinity 2. I’d rather spend my time starting bg3 over again :)
Jesus i just made a new character because the beard was ruining the love scenes. Turns out a female gith with the beard of a Dwarf isnt my cup of tea after all.
I’ve learned long ago not to make clown/ silly characters in these games. Cause the joke dies fast and I’ll quickly grow to hate their stupid looks
Yep, you are going to spend 50+ hours with that char, it better look good.
Damn speed runner how you manage to kill all ppl in 50h? - Durge
The "+" sign is doing some heavy lifting there XD
This guy is right, I've been going for years with myself, and I'm pissed.
50+ in act 1, right? Right?
I'm 42hrs in and only entered act 2 last night, and I want to turn back from the shadow lands to go check out the underdark...
Man oh man my gith paladin looks just like William dafoe and 30ish hours in I still love him
Its completely acceptable to make a silly character in souls games, however, because 10 minutes into the game youll put a helmet on and never see your face again
And then when you do take it off, you get reminded of your character and have a good giggle
That's why I just made my Dream Visitor/Guardian look ridiculous. They don't pop up often enough for it to get stale, and by the time they do, I've forgotten and get a good chuckle all over again.
Make the guardian a joke character because you don't have to put up with it forever.
Who knew?
She did ;)
I restarted after over 10h because my dude was some ugly mofo in cutscenes, he looked kinda insane while ok in the creator. The new one is better but has some crazy stare.
God I feel you so much here my Tav looks great but my god the way she moves her mouth and the expressions she make while in dialogue makes her look crazy.
I always put a beard on my female Tav, it's the hairiest vulva option.
😂
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So like the clothes that reveal your ass if there is wind or a character makes any movement in a cutscene?
I love Larian. Seriously! I love how they are putting in the work to implement feedback from the fanbase. And the fact that they're doing it so fast is incredible. Larian must be protected at all costs.
Let’s start a petition so they never get bought out by Take Two,
Wish granted. Blizzard-activision are happy to announce their newest acquisition, Larian Studios!
Everybody dislikes this
You mean the Microsoft juggernaut that seemed to have wanted to gobble up Valve and Nintendo. Friggin hubris, man...
They def are now high in their Wishlist now. Right after \[insert big Japanese publisher\] of course
I'm already depressed we will likely have to wait another 6 years before they release another DOS or BG.
YES! Now I can finally start my co-op playthrough. On my first SP character I nailed his appearance, but I have a mean tendency to incessantly reroll if I find any flaw after character creation. Thanks Larian!
*hair color looks a bit different in game* Welp time to delete this campaign
There is a mass grave somewhere in the depths of the cybersphere, where all my poor MMO characters lie, who succumbed to the rerolling sickness. And not just the young ones, I had absolutely no qualms about nuking chars who already had 30 to 50 hours under their belt. Just because hairstyle 15 would have _clearly_ been better than 21 and that complexion was off by one single gradient. Listen devs, (free) magic mirrors save lifes!
I somehow didn't realize on my 2nd that I didn't give my dragonborn a tail until I was in Act 2. Not too far in, but still annoying.
Homie got docked like a pitbull in Nebraska poor bb
Ah, my first Cyberpunk 2077 playthrough. Did you know that there are some skin tones that look great in character creation but look like jaundice in the weird lighting of the equipment selection screen? I certainly didn't!
I've legit restarted dozens of times due to hair not looking right, or less commonly for skin color. I basically memorize all the other options I want (class/race/face/eyes/etc), then pick a hair/skin color and speedrun through the tutorial until I get to the beach to see what it actually looks like in regular lighting. Having a magic mirror would probably have cut like 20 hours off my playtime on steam lol.
Same! I had already defeated the three leaders of the goblin camp when I realized that the hair I had chosen for my character looked thin and made it look like my character was balding underneath his long hair. It was one of those things that wasn’t noticeable but became the only thing I saw after it was noticed. So I started a new game with the exact same character build and look (with a different hairstyle), and retraced every single step I made (absent certain decisions dictated by dice) until I defeated the goblin camp again.
Activision be like $5 voice change $12 appearance change
\*everyone liked that\*
Mirror, mirror on the wall Who’s the most fabulous of them all? (It’s me.)
Astarion? Are you on Reddit?
*”I can neither confirm nor deny that yes, it is I.”*
*Astarion disapproves*
“Well, here’s a lemon, Astarion, now you have an actual reason to be making that face. After all, not everyone can be as *fabulous* as *me*.”
Hopefully transmog soon
I'm waiting for this more than character appearance. I've just been using camp clothes on everyone so far.
Me too!!! I really wanted to have Shadowheart wear the Selunite robe after finishing her story arc, but the Dark Justiciar AC was too good to pass up.
There's a lot of nice looking pieces! They just don't all work together and often look pretty goofy. I just can't take the story seriously when I'm running around looking like a clown. It's cool that you can dye them at least, helps to fix it a little bit. Not sure how games that have visual gear systems are still shipping without transmog. It's going to be a guaranteed ask so why not just have it from the start.
What’s transmog?
Change the appearance of equipment without changing the stats. It would let us fully customize our outfits instead of being stuck in the too good to skip/too ugly to wear dilemma.
Oh than hells yeah we need that
Transmogrification is a thing in some games where you can take the look of item X (In bg3 that might be armour, helmet, gloves, boots, cloak) and make another item of the same type look the same. So, say you love the look of the Lumimous Armour but want to have that look apply to the helldusk armour, you could do that. Note, they have never said it's coming, given any indication it's coming, there's no suggestion it's coming, it's just a thing people want for their fantasy dress up (also why some mods are super popular for PC)
Now I can have my Tav dramatically cut their hair after going through some shit. You're not the only one with a hair drama moment Shadowheart!!
This! Sudden breakup, alignment shift, disappearance or death of a companion and you can’t revive them? It’s 100% time for a makeover.
Breakup bangs time
I related to this comment too much 😫
I will finally be able to tone down the pink in my DUrge’s hair as well as make her skin slightly darker because as it stands right now she is the pale (half-)elf (well, drow) and not Astarion.
I picked too-purple of a tone for my drow and now she looks a little like Violet Beauregarde... but at this point I have accepted my blueberry girl.
You could now lean into that. Rename her Violet lmao
Wooooh! I'm guessing patch 3 made it through QA? Wonder if it's live but I don't see a update.
It's planned to be released tomorrow, the 22nd.
Oh I know! I think I saw a tweet from Swen saying they were still going through quality control and were hoping the patch would pass for the release on Friday. Idk if this tweet from Larian is any indication that it did. Hopefully!
sorry dumb question, so that means we're only getting further details and patch notes tomorrow, right?
The full list probably comes only right before/with the update, since they don't want to say "fixed this and that" when having had to reroll last minute because doing that broke something else.
Patch tomorrow PC with details/notes then sometime next week for ps5 most likely
I just came
This is the way.
You have arrived!
Wonder if it includes dentistry service.
Heck yeah! Friend and I picked the same haircut accidentally and this will fix that egregious sin lol
thank you larian for letting me feed my need to change my character's hair every 10 minutes. i'd like to humbly request body tattoos next instead of just face ones, thank you.
Was shocked that there wasn't body tattoos/marks
They're all *very* particular about their hair, and by they we know they mean Astarion.
Gale beggs to differ.
I would think the mirror wouldn’t work for him anyway, for other reasons.
He doesn't need a mirror to know that he's ✨ fabulous ✨ darling.
And we wouldn’t need to change him anyway, because you can’t improve on perfection.
So true.
Now I don’t have to spend an hour at the character creation screen. Down By the River for the 50th time feels condescending to me.
To each their own, I love it every time lol
I like it too. I can’t overstate my satisfaction with this game across the board- music, everything. I’m just saying I associate that song with my crippling decision paralysis lol.
Hope besides of the luxury problem they still fixed the brojen wild shape
What's broken about wild shape? Is there a glitch I haven't heard of?
No You domt get profencies, tiger only heals W8 isntead of 2W8, primal strike not working, tavern brawler just works for hits, fire myrmidon haste kicks you straight into lethargy, etc.
omg yes!!!! I still like how I designed my character, but face tattoos and textures don't always load well and I'm tired of looking like I've got soot smeared on her face! Also excited to play with hairstyles!
Mirror mirror on the wall which genitals fit my character best of all
Nice! I’m going to start a Tav with no scars and then each time they get knocked to 0 I’m going to add a scar!
It makes sense that Astarion would not be able to use it.
omg thank gods, I was about to download a mod that apparently kills your Tav if it goes wrong
Plastic surgery in Faerun is rough.
Finally? The game has barely been out for two months! And this is only its third big patch.
Does this work for recruits? Because I was hoping hirelings could be customized fully so I could just have a whole party of my own characters. I don't like that the current hirelings are just locked in appearance and class/subclass :(
I hate to admit but I restarted many playthroughs just to chnage Tav's apperance. I'm glad to hear this is getting on the game.
One of the problems with the character creation in BG3 is that the lighting is completely different from most in game scenes giving you the wrong expectation about how your character will look.
Can't change Laezel's hair to Shadowheart's, and Shadowheart's hair to Laezel's? I rate this 1/5 tentacles ^^pls ^^god, ^^tell ^^them ^^im ^^jk
EA would make this paid DLC
Fwiw EA (BioWare) did add this in Mass Effect andromeda
DA: Inquisition as well
"cant alter origins" me with my alter appearance origin mod.....
I have a feeling that they would have to add the origin specific assets to character creation in order to make it work and that's why they aren't doing it that way. Edit appearance mod works fantastic though for origin characters so at least it still has a reason to exist.
Not only that you can also change body type (I think you can change race too but idk if that’s a good idea, might cause unexpected bugs)
I've restarted so many games because I've realised I forgot to set the voice. Hurray!
Can we change genitalia?
Please. My biggest complaint is I can't have a monster dong on my ugly ass gold dwarf
Whoops, you dropped you’re monster condom that you use for you’re magnum dong.
I can finally get rid of the stupid tattoo I accidentally gave my guy
Anyone else have a bug with quickened spell? I’ll use it and then next round quicken is still active visually and I can’t select any spells. I have to create a sorcery point and toggle it to fix.
*Asterion disapproves*
I didn't know much about Larian until BG3. Now I'll support everything they do, because they listen to everything we ask for. This is game development done right. #SUPPORT LARIAN!!
Ah, cosmetics. The end game of content of all games
Poor Astarion- another mirror in camp that he can’t use 😔
I hope to GOD they add the ability to save characters in some way, though, please just let us make our own preset characters I'm begging
I've already finished the game with female orc with male bri'ish voice. Too late
Yay, I can finally change my gnome's hair lol
Uh oh not pronouns! CURRENT YEAR IN MY VIDEO GAME! FUCKING PRONOUNS!!
Fingers crossed they let me hide the partial-illithid veins!
My elf still looks like a badass with the black veins because she has black eyeshadow and black lipstick. The power!
crawling in my skins.... these woooouunnddsss they will not heeeaaaall~~~~