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Baldur's Gate 3

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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)

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The points at which the game transition between acts seem a bit arbitrary (mainly for Act I to Act II), and I don't see a narrative or mechanical reason to lock us out of previous maps and quests. As far as I remember, previous Baldur's Gate games didn't have this kind of points of no return. Why do you think they did it? Do you like it?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You do get locked out of traveling back to Act 1 areas some time in Act 2. I think once you enter the Temple of Shar?

I wanted to go back for another crack at the forge and I couldn't.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's when you go to Nightsong that it locks you out, and to be fair, the game does clearly warn you there are consequences for that - and depending on your actions, a 3rd party just straight up moves the story along, so it makes sense.

If you're struggling at the forge, remember that you can just not hit the boss with anyone but a bait character, and that bait character doesn't have to actually survive the encounter, meaning if you position well, you can just melt and smash the boss over and over without touching it (after the first hit or two) and it's a free win.

Took me numerous tries before I learned that one.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

The actual cheese of the forge is picking the pike of returning, placing one character in the stairs, waay above, and throwing the pike into him. If it's a fighter that's 4 throws the first turn, each doing their respective damage + 30ish damage per throw because of the weight+height. I killed it in 2 turns, he didn't even move since he does nothing in the first turn.