Time to dust off the old salt shaker!

On an other note, any GoLers doing the occasional weekend MM?

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My first gaming experience was going into a mall in the capitol and playing a fighting game on an arcade. I think it was soulcalibur. Never knew its name, i think i'll try to get it and play it some 20 years later. Crazy...

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do they make the datasets public? Would be fun data to play around with.

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Quoting: GuppyIn act3 currently having a blast tbh must've sunk 100+ hours into the game :D

Outside of inventory mangement and the absolutely horrible camera, my main gripe so far is that every cutscene plays at ~12 fps :|

I been thinking about trying a different rendering engine, what's the launch parameter for dx? you can use --vulcan for the vulcan one but I've not been able to find one for dx? and vulcan is the default on Linux I think ( well hope, or I've been sitting there waiting for it to constantly recompile the vulcan shaders for no good reason xD )

They are 2 separate exes (bg3.exe and bg3_dx11.exe), at least on the gog version. You are lucky that you avoided the myriad soft and hardlocks in Baldurs Gate. My advice to everyone playing: save every 30s as soon as you hit Rivington.

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Quite a good game. Once i finish my playthrough, I'll wait a year or 2 with the second one. Still nowhere as good as wotr though.

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Quoting: Deleted_UserI'm always wondering about the selection of the recommendations by GOL when it comes to sales.
For example here, the "big deal" of Europa Universalis IV at a 65% off. This is the discount that is given on steam felt every month. If you only look at the last 6 months, it's not even the best discount on GOG (which was a 80% off May 12th to 17th).

https://isthereanydeal.com/game/europauniversalisiv/history/?shop%5B%5D=epic&shop%5B%5D=gog&shop%5B%5D=humblestore&shop%5B%5D=steam&generate=Select+Stores

I appreciate your work very much, but that makes such articles about sales useless for me, if I always have to question whether this is really a good deal now.

I think whether you spend is your decision, but having these displayed on GoG saves a lot of us time of combing through these sites every day. I can certainly say that i never ever open steam and gog stores unless i see something here.

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I'm probably skipping this one, but I'd rather spend 30 eur on a proper expansion than 5 eur on a bullshit dlc.

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Quoting: nenoroDenuvo kills performance

Unreal Engine is good for visual but bad for gaming because it's not made for gaming never was.

Denuvo with Unreal Engine support

And then kids this is why people keep pirating big games to prevent from killing performance

It's not about performance. Digital Restriction Management is a tool to restrict the users rights and take away use cases from them. What it doesn't do is decrease the number of illegal copies. But businesses like to control their customers.

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Quoting: dvdThe gameplay has its share of annoying things too: for example i haven't found a way to toggle stealth on the entire party, it's pretty annoying to have to toggle it individually on all characters to avoid being caught.

Shift-C. There's a tutorial pop-up on this, so you must have missed that.

I'm only five hours in, but enjoying it so far. Inventory management isn't great though, although I've found plenty of traders to offload junk so far (there's like about three of them in the Emerald Grove alone).

I hope they add more options for inventory management in future updates. I think they just shamelessly need to copy pathfinder in this respect: past act 1 every non-magical gear is basically junk, so it'd be a real improvement to just be able to classify this as junk and sell it instead of 'adding to wares' individually or manually selling it at a trader.

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I'm at Baldurs Gate at the moment, and while i can say that i enjoy this one a lot better than DOS2, it has some very frustrating elements to it. I don't know why they didn't take clues from Owlcat, after playing both pathfinders the inventory management in this one is annoying, i don't want to sort loot one by one especially in a 60€ game, it is quite enough to sort through magical and cosmetic items (the sell junk option from pathfinders is sorely missed, i'm almost always encumbered making me just leave stuff on ground or forcing me to send to camp).

The gameplay has its share of annoying things too: for example i haven't found a way to toggle stealth on the entire party, it's pretty annoying to have to toggle it individually on all characters to avoid being caught.

I guess it's a limitation due to the multiplayer/coop possibilities but it also annoys me that i can't just stop the game by exiting to the main menu (in a SP run), so if i have to get up from the computer while i'm in a cutscene/dialouge i have to reload every time and start it all over again.

Even with an old PC the performance is very variable. Sometimes it ran perfectly on ultra and sometimes it devolved into a slideshow. I set everything to low but there are still some bottlenecks where it lags a bit.

I'm more frustrated by the gameplay annoyances than the little graphical/dialogue glitches as i suspect they won't be fixing these. Wish they did a native port but i guess the chances of that are 0.

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