Baldur's Gate 3
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That should be fine, I was running it at 1080P with near 60fps on an RX580 8GB, although that was with a recent system (7950X and 128GB RAM, NVME, etc) When the RX580 8GB was in an older system, X79 i7 4930k, 64GB RAM, SATA SSD, it was more 25-35fps, usually lower in more graphically intense areas.
Mostly it'll be on the GPU, and a 3070 should be able to handle it easily. My 3060 12GB (on a Z77 3570-nonk 32GB RAM SATA SSD) on the seconday rig was able to 4K it no problem at 60fps. It should be able to handle more, but 60fps for a game like Baldur's Gate 3 is plenty.
That is correct, your downloading the Early access version right now. So will need to delete it and when the time comes, should let you download the actual game.
Balls! Ah well, I doubt I would have got time to play it tomorrow anyway. Thanks for the info, hopefully I can find some time this weekend.
I'm sure those 10 minutes are very important
Can do many things in 10 minutes. Can do some things even twice
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What time is this releasing? the Steam page just references the early access release date!
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Baldur's Gate 3 - Baldur’s Gate 3: Preparing for Launch - Steam News
Hey everyone! We are ONE DAY away from the release of Baldur’s Gate 3, so we hope your hearts are ready for adventure and your eyeballs are primed for tadpoling. Many of you have been playing Baldur’s Gate 3 since the start of Early Access, all the way back in 2020. You may have accumulated a...
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Yes, everyone can join and go into char creator / start together. One person hosts the session and gets all the Save files. To play again the host loads the saves and then everyone joins. The characters aren't linked directly to the player, it's selected when people join the session.
I bought Baldur's Gate 2 from CEX in 2001 or so had no idea what is was or even had internet at the time, took up 2GB of an 8GB HD.
Had to reroll a character after making a mess of my first but after that was such a great game, building a paladin that could take care of itself in smaller fights, pressing pause when needed, a perfect system. I remember exciting, Diablo style combat, being rushed by spiders or undead all in real time. So exciting and even had a survival horror feel to it, getting rushed and overwhelmed.
Turn based has its place but I'm so unenthused by it in BG3, might as well make Diablo turn based for how much it changes the game. The fact they already had a turn based engine is clearly a huge reason for changing the essence of the game so much. Being honest, all videos of the combat are so sterile and boring to me compared to the excitement and chaos of the real time combat.
Granted, real time had its issues, often pausing so much in hard fights, it was almost turn based, but that was still a player choice. BG 3 looks to be a fantastic turn based game, but as others have said too far from BG2 for me.
Had to reroll a character after making a mess of my first but after that was such a great game, building a paladin that could take care of itself in smaller fights, pressing pause when needed, a perfect system. I remember exciting, Diablo style combat, being rushed by spiders or undead all in real time. So exciting and even had a survival horror feel to it, getting rushed and overwhelmed.
Turn based has its place but I'm so unenthused by it in BG3, might as well make Diablo turn based for how much it changes the game. The fact they already had a turn based engine is clearly a huge reason for changing the essence of the game so much. Being honest, all videos of the combat are so sterile and boring to me compared to the excitement and chaos of the real time combat.
Granted, real time had its issues, often pausing so much in hard fights, it was almost turn based, but that was still a player choice. BG 3 looks to be a fantastic turn based game, but as others have said too far from BG2 for me.
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I believe the older games were turn order as well but there was no pause so it felt real time.
Should we start a pool for how long steam will be down at golive?
I think around an hour.
Should we start a pool for how long steam will be down at golive?
I think around an hour.
Its the flip side of the coin for me, my biggest complaint about BG1 and BG2, coming from a D&D background, was that they were not turn based combat. I found it counterintuitive to its D&D roots. So for me, BG3 being turn based is a big plus.
It would be nice for everyone to have a choice though, so it'd have been good if you could choose RT or TB and then everyone could play in the manner they wanted, for me though, turnbased like Xcom, Jagged Alliance, Pathfinder etc, big thumbs up
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Tombstone has gracefully elected to defer downloading the game until after midnight to allow us peons a chance to play shortly after launch.I believe the older games were turn order as well but there was no pause so it felt real time.
Should we start a pool for how long steam will be down at golive?
I think around an hour.
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I've skipped everything to do with this game so far apart from this guide. No idea how much of a mess will make playing it first time