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I'll echo that - stick with vanilla for your first playthrough. There's tons of content and lots of cool things/stories/areas to find and it's mostly balanced. Mostly.
Baldur's Gate 3
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A vanilla play through is fine, there are IMNSHO a few QoL mods that I think are worth using. Via the inbuilt mod manager I'd suggest Improved UI, Improved hotbars (get the 16:9/UW version) mod manager fixes and tweaks (get the 16:9/UW version). These are all on the first page of the most popular mods tab.
From nexus I'd get Native Camera tweaks (needs this mod to work)
There are plenty of dice reskin mods available if you get bored of the ones that come with the game
OMG it's amazing. I've clocked 120 hours and am in Act 3 but still not finished it. My first D&D game too and I'm in love with it, never fails to put a smile on my face. It's one of those games where I'll be sad when I've finished it.
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Real D&D is waiting for you when you need that thrill once more 
Finally finished this last night. Played the whole game on balanced, but just had enough and lowered the difficulty to easy on the final fight. The game started off ok, but the longer I played it the more I disliked it. Tons of bugs and the combat is just broken for me. The AI is not clever it cheats and together with the 80% miss rate makes combat frustrating.
Maybe as I'm getting older, just hit 50
, I'm getting worse at playing games, I know I'm not as patient either. Anyway just need to finish off the ending and can delete this off my pc. Not even contemplating a second playthrough.
Maybe as I'm getting older, just hit 50
, I'm getting worse at playing games, I know I'm not as patient either. Anyway just need to finish off the ending and can delete this off my pc. Not even contemplating a second playthrough.
I understand where you're coming from. I'm playing the game now, having stopped a playthrough last year due to bugs / lack of polish in the later acts. Bottomline is I don't think D & D translates all that well to a computer game ; in real life, the dungeon master would actively fudge dice rolls / situations to keep the players alive and involved. The computer can't do that - every outcome is binary. As a consequence many of the encounters, particularly in Act 1 when your party are low level, feel more difficult than they should. This situation smooths out somewhat as your party gains power and you become more familiar with the game mechanics / D & D rules. Additionally, all recent Larian games ( DOS 1 & 2 ) rely on environmental damage mechanics ie. applying elemental effects ( via barrels for example ) to balance the difficulty of encounters. If you don't grasp this mechanic, or find it clunky to use, you will struggle with some encounters - especially as the enemy will use them against your party.Finally finished this last night. Played the whole game on balanced, but just had enough and lowered the difficulty to easy on the final fight. The game started off ok, but the longer I played it the more I disliked it. Tons of bugs and the combat is just broken for me. The AI is not clever it cheats and together with the 80% miss rate makes combat frustrating.
Maybe as I'm getting older, just hit 50
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Finally finished this last night. Played the whole game on balanced, but just had enough and lowered the difficulty to easy on the final fight. The game started off ok, but the longer I played it the more I disliked it. Tons of bugs and the combat is just broken for me. The AI is not clever it cheats and together with the 80% miss rate makes combat frustrating.
Maybe as I'm getting older, just hit 50
I felt the same, though still haven't finished yet. The first couple of acts were great and then it just seemed to run out of steam.
it's not that the gameplay is bad, it's the writing which goes off a cliff.
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You're probably right about not understanding all the mechanics. One of the most frustrating ones was the rogues hiding after every attack. I just couldn't do it with Astarion. Barrels, I had loads in storage, but found less use for them in the latter fights. DOS 1 and 2 I never liked, hence why BG3 wasn't that high on my play list even though I grew up reading Forgotten Realm and Dragonlance books.
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55 hours into a great run. Enter the lower city for the first time (issues with loading times and fps suddenly) save game and reload.
Server error 223, try again server shuts down.
After a few hours of trying various methods* I cannot reload any save made in the lower city.
Looks like this run is over. So <beep>ed of.
* deleted cache, saved in the sewers, low graphics, checked for aggroed npc in wyrms crossing
Server error 223, try again server shuts down.
After a few hours of trying various methods* I cannot reload any save made in the lower city.
Looks like this run is over. So <beep>ed of.
* deleted cache, saved in the sewers, low graphics, checked for aggroed npc in wyrms crossing
You only have cloud saves, none local ? I ran into some weird performance issues in the back half of Act 2 eg. keyboard inputs not working, dialogue stuttering and/or not playing, but this has resolved for me in Act 3.55 hours into a great run. Enter the lower city for the first time (issues with loading times and fps suddenly) save game and reload.
Server error 223, try again server shuts down.
After a few hours of trying various methods* I cannot reload any save made in the lower city.
Looks like this run is over. So <beep>ed of.
* deleted cache, saved in the sewers, low graphics, checked for aggroed npc in wyrms crossing
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local saves only
Have you contacted Larian support ? I've heard they have helped some people recover bugged saves.
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I'll give that a go but as its a modded run I'm not hopeful they'll help
Ah, ok. Good luck all the same !
I'd be f'ed off too. Hope you get it sorted.55 hours into a great run. Enter the lower city for the first time (issues with loading times and fps suddenly) save game and reload.
Server error 223, try again server shuts down.
After a few hours of trying various methods* I cannot reload any save made in the lower city.
Looks like this run is over. So <beep>ed of.
* deleted cache, saved in the sewers, low graphics, checked for aggroed npc in wyrms crossing
yep, just done that recently with the first Durge playthrough, enjoying it enough that i might go to Act 2 but not in any rush