It doesn’t actually last that long. Multiple times, I’ve seen the check passed, swiveled the camera around like mad whilst holding down Alt, and not been able to figure out what the check was for.
It doesn’t actually last that long. Multiple times, I’ve seen the check passed, swiveled the camera around like mad whilst holding down Alt, and not been able to figure out what the check was for.
Yeah, and if you didn’t see the failures, you wouldn’t be tempted to save scum. I can see why they’d leave the notifications in by default; there’s potentially a ton of content locked behind these kinds of checks. But I’d appreciate the option to turn them off.
Guess I’m lucky that I haven’t encountered any of these issues (except that super glaring “Characters turning toward you before dialogue mode starts” problem. Thank heavens that’s fixed!) Slightly bummed that I don’t see a fix for the issue of not being able to see what a perception check revealed. Just make the highlight last longer, please! Super frustrating to pass the check and not be able to see wtf it was for.
Tbf, Minthara is a genocidal maniac, and killing her is definitely a net positive. Still, I kinda like her, and she hits like a truck.
Ah, the perils of making my first run as a baddie. Hope I still see some of those lines in what remains of act 3. When is patch 2 dropping, I wonder?
I don’t think it’s a cause for concern. There was a hotfix right after launch that affected some people’s saves, I think, (I haven’t encountered any issues) and they immediately rolled it back. They’ve released one major patch so far, and I haven’t seen any complaints about savegame integrity. I didn’t play DOS2 at launch so I can’t speak to the history there, but I’d be very surprised if save corruption was an issue with this game. They’ve got a zillion people playing it right now, the last thing they want to do is piss them all off.
Hey, I run it on the Intel equivalent: the GTX 1060, and haven’t had any crashes in the 400+ played hours I’ve logged (this includes all afk time, and times I fell asleep in my office chair—how do people get accurate playtimes, do they just lie?). Chugs pretty hard in the city, but not bad enough to frustrate me.
Midway through Act 3 with my Ivy Bridge i7 and GTX 1060. Frame rates are certainly lower in the city, but I’ve encountered zero crashes or serious bugs. And while I’ve yet to finish the game, I’ve observed no drop in quality or quantity of content in Act 3. I must concur with another poster in questioning the avowed beastliness of your machine.
Ayy, good on you! Man, I was not prepared for that one. Really wished I’d >!killed that damn drider earlier!<
There are definitely other timed quests, particularly in Act 3, as I’ve discovered while save-scumming long rests trying to trigger different companion convos.
I had no issues on normal until the very end of Act II. There’s a fight at that point that can be extremely difficult depending on the choices you’ve made. I beat my head against it for a bit, then switched to story mode just for that battle. Back on normal now, working my way through Act 3, and haven’t run into any other fights like it. Curious to see how that encounter plays out in a subsequent playthrough as a less murdery type.
Have you found rogues to be super combat-effective? I’ve been running Astarion consistently for traps and locks, and I’ve found that he really takes a backseat to my warlock and Minthara in combat. Provided he can get in position to hide and pull off a sneak attack, he’s more effective than Shadowheart, but only if I’m playing conservatively, i.e. trying not to use any of her spell slots.
Yeah, I think the Klingon analogy is spot-on. Her writing is excellent, and completely consistent with how the githyanki have been portrayed in Planescape, BG2, and D&D in general. Also, I was surprised at how much the character resembles her voice actor. Curious to see the rest of the cast, now.
Minthara, Astarion, and Shadowheart for me. Bad blood between SH and Lae’zel, obvs. I typically get a lot more approval for my dastardly behavior from Minth and Asta; Shadowheart just kinda goes along with it, unless we’re killing folks she really hates like Selunites.
I’m not big on replaying games, but I’m missing out on so much content by murdering everyone, that I’m looking forward to playing again as a good guy. To be clear, there’s no shortage of content for murderhobos. The game is just fabulously dense.
:: spoiler As for who did the thing, it was a late Act 2 spoiler: It was Shadowheart, in that moment
I think I know what you’re talking about, and I save-scummed to avoid it, because I needed redacted at the time. Was pretty dramatic and surprising!
Playing on balanced, I haven’t had too many problems with breaking concentration. Seems like everyone’s pretty good at rolling those saves. My main issue with concentration is just forgetting that one of my characters is already concentrating on something.
In Act 3, I’ve found a book in some tomb that pretty clearly spells out who Withers is, and I’m irritated that apparently my character can’t connect the dots.
Even as a dark urge murderhobo, I have near max affinity with all the companions I haven’t killed yet. Gale might seem like a nice enough fellow, but he’s raised no objections to my bloody agenda. I will say, I wish there was a tad more flexibility with the romance system; I turned down Lae’zel way back in Act I, but it’d be nice to have the option to start things up again when >!Shadowheart kinda friendzones you for Shar!<
That’s certainly the case for traps, which I appreciate. But run-of-the-mill spot checks (that shine blue rather than amber) do not behave that way for me.