I’ve had this game on my list for a while, was hoping it would be on gamepass but that didn’t happen yet. It was on sale this past month so I decided to jump in and buy it.
I’ve never played D&D before, the only D&D lore I know is from Stranger Things. But the hype around this game was off the charts and I wanted a big RPG to play.
I’m about an hour into the game and I’m total lost. Game doesn’t do a great job of slowly walking you through stuff it expects you to know the rules of D&D and I’m confused as heck.
I can see the threads of an awesome game but I wish it slowly walked the player through the details (for beginners at least).
Are there any recommend videos to watch for complete
Noobs?
For reference, I now have three extra party members. Got to a camp where I hit a stone that was hanging in the air, it dropped to the ground and created a hole. I jumped in and immediately got into a fight. Because of the cramped space and my lack of understanding the abilities and combat, the fight took me 45 mins, and everyone in my party but my created character died. I was able to beat all the enemies but none of my party came back to life afterwards, that normal?
I don’t have the game but I’ll be following this thread. I’m interested in the story and characters in BG3 but I really do not dig Larian’s style of turn based tactical combat. My dream situation for the game would be to crank the difficulty down to baby mode and just button mash through the combat. But from what I’ve seen even the “easy” difficulty requires you to really engage with the systems and is not considered particularly easy. So, interested to see your take on it and follow your progress.
If a party member dies, you have to revive them using either a scroll of revivify(every character should have one in their inventory), a spell that you can learn on a specific class or paying someone after a bit at your camp.
Lucky Ghost on Youtube has a guide he put together for beginners
There’s a lot, as D&D is the core of the game, but it’s fun and the only thing keeping me from every finishing this game is my not wanting to engage with everything.
So instead I look up a build and decide to aim for that as best as I can.
Okay I got you. I’m sure there are BG3 beginner videos that can help you better than me, but I’ll try and help
The first area you’re supposed to feel kind of lost, it’s the beginning of the story and you go around the map until you find the first settlement. Also, that area you’re in jumping through that hole. There is a door on the bottom towards the beach and you can dice roll persuade them to open it. There is an important npc further into that area
If you’re willing to I would start a new game and choose explorer difficulty. It doesn’t change the difficulty, enemies still behave exactly the same as the other difficulties. it just lowers the health for enemies so if you do fail a fight or want to redo a fight it will be 10-20 min instead of 45+ min.
2 1/2. If you do start a new game, I would pick monk. It’s the easiest class to understand and has good mechanics for beginners. They can attack multiple times and has the ability to knock down enemies so they lose a turn. Or even Paladin is a good one with Oath of vengeance subclass. they eventually get haste, which is a powerful spell that can be cast on anyone and lets them attack more per turn.
This is not a regular turn based game, you need use the items the world gives you to succeed. Not just health potions, I’m talking about buffing potions, debuffing potions, poisons, elemental arrows, traps, scrolls etc. Furthermore, sneak and jumping is a very powerful tool in this game. It allows for flanking, remember you can split your party individually or even in groups of two and have them flank around an enemy by SNEAKING or JUMPING for better advantages there’s a button on the controller (I can’t remember which one) that allows you too see the enemy sight of line, you could send in someone like Astarion and have him pick off a few of them with sneak attacks get advantage on a hill, or house, then engage in battle.
Honestly I don’t look down on anyone for save scumming because this game can be ridiculous with its RNG rules. You can miss out on half of your party members with a bad dice roll. So before a big moment you can pause, save, play the scene and if the dice doesn’t roll in your favor just reload.
Your party members can also talk to npcs. So for example if you’re talking to someone and there is a high history dice check you can swap to a party member who has a high history stat and get a better chance for a dice roll.
There’s a lot more, but honestly you’re not going to fully comprehend how to play the game until you’re a few hours deep. It’s complex, convoluted, even sometimes annoying. But that’s also kind of the point, Larian wants you to experiment, try new things, try encounters from different angles. It’s up to you if you want to invest that time because it’s a long RPG that’s about 110 hours. But totally worth it once things start to click.
All the origin companions have quest that I think directly tie into the overall story (maybe not all of them) of the game, the story itself is pretty interesting to me, but I can’t say the whole thing is good yet as the furthest I have made it to is just before the 3rd act.
This was so great!! Thank you. The fact I’m only an hour and a half or so into the game, I’ll restart and change the difficulty. I’ll go with a monk too maybe.
Everything you’re describing is one of the reasons I was interested in playing the game, it sounds like you can do so much off the cuff stuff. It’s just that it seems so cumbersome just to move around.
And splitting up my party, didn’t know I could do that.
On Reddit I read that there are multiple difficulty modes and also additional settings to make it very doable. The combat system is not my jam but I would definitely go tinker with that.