Oh man, I heard about the bear scene, but didn't watch it. That is hilarious. I also didn't realize the game was releasing on August 3rd. I thought it was later in the month. Oh my... I really need to finish AC: Valhalla.

By the way, not sure if you noticed, but the max level for characters is 12. Will probably be increased in expanisons. So if you plan to multiclass you should keep this in mind.

Mmm 12 seems pretty low, but I'm sure it'll be fine. Might turn off some of the peeps who are addicted to levelling up tho.

Too bad I can't open the blinds anymore now I know Peltz has a sniper aimed at my windows, but I guess I won't need to open them if BG3 is anywhere as good as it looks.

Have you guys considered what class/origin/race you want to play as? I'm considering The Dark Urge as an origin but maybe I should keep that for a second playthrough...the owner of larian has said that he thinks new players should probably play the game as a custom character without an origin at first, so they can get to know the different characters (they are available as recruitable NPCs as well) and can then explore their back stories even further when picking their origin for a new playthrough.

Oh man, you guys have your playthroughs planned out way better than me. I don't really have any idea. I usually like playing clerics because healing + beating people up in heavy armor is pretty awesome, but there are just so many freaking options. Plus female tieflings look awesome, so I almost want to go down that road. So many options!

Oh, not sure if you saw, but Larian recommended deleting any previous save games and actually uninstalling and BG3 pre-release stuff you may have, then installing the full release. Considering the size of the game, that may take a bit of time.

4h of download left. Will start tomorrow.

I did the recommend uninstall/reinstall and started a game. I screwed up and got myself into a bad situation, had to reload, and lost a good 30 minutes of play... so be sure to save a lot. It's cool... this is the BG I'm used to. I decided to go a bit different.. I'm playing a drow ranger with a focus in archery. Not my usual cleric healer type.

By the way... when I'm not rangering, I do K-Pop.

Drow ranger is a pretty cool choice! I was torn between a customer origin githyanki warrior (two handed sword so I could wield a sexy silver sword) and a duergar tank with the Dark Urge origin. In the end I flipped a coin on it and it came up heads, aka Dark Urge duergar. Both (sub)races seemed like a good choice since they have a long standing animosity towards mind flayers. I'm mildly worried about how the dark urge origin will influence my game but it's not like it's my first rodeo as a depraved chaotic evil monster.

I'm not really familiar with what Dark Urge means. I googled it, but the spoilers were thick and heavy so I abandoned that. Can you provide a quick synopsis that's spoiler free?

BTW, there was a patch today, I like reading patch notes, and I noticed there were a bunch of spoiler tags around them. I love that Larian takes spoilers that seriously. Bravo.

I'm still exploring the wilderness. I'm proud to say that the first dungeon that shows up near the beginning was pretty much a cakewalk for me, including the big ol' undead attack that happens at on point. This compares very favorably to how I royally screwed up or barely survived this section in pre-release.

Sure: it's basically a 7th 'origin', but unlike the other ones you are not tied to a specific character (like Shadowheart, Wyll, etc.) if you pick it and can choose your own class, race etc freely. You are haunted by an incredible thirst for violence and murder but have no memory of your past or why or how you became the way you are. That's the short of it.

And man...it gets dark. Like, really dark. Even to the point where I go "that's a bit much". I'm barely a few hours into the game and I've already done some unspeakable things and they were only partially within my control. I won't tell you much more than that in case you ever want to try it, because some of them already had a severe impact on the story/characters around me. But these screenshots of some of my character's musings should give you an idea.

I'm still trying to resist it somewhat but maybe I'll end up leaning in eventually, if I can reconnect with my chaotic evil ways of the past. But it's almost a shame to 'ruin' a story like this one with my madness haha. Because man, this game....it's SO GOOD. Everything I've seen so far has been incredible.

Keep up the spoiler-free updates please, I'm curious at least! Ox... you're a messed up puppy

The combat sucks until level 5 no matter which/what way you go. Some fights you are supposed to lose, like the githyanki patrol. They killed off two of my level 5s (Lae'zel and my main beastmaster) in the first round of combat. You'd have to do some epic level scheming to win but it's just not worth the time.