D&D 5E (2014) Baldur's Gate 3 will allow us to explore the whole city of Baldur's Gate Seamlessly

[LuisCarlos17f]

Residential areas aren't too interesting in a videogame, and they can added alter in a future DLC. Maybe even they add "housing", buying your house and adding yourself the furnitures where you wanted. Or building your own stonghold in a outdoor region.

I guess the no-enough-human species can be added to the game because then the character creator would need a lot of new body parts. Maybe in the future they could add the option of shapeshifting.

* Maybe in the future Planescape 2 we could see a DLC about an adventure in the "Athasian Tablelands" (Dark Sun). Maybe because Vecna visited the world, altering radically the timeline, or creating a "mirror plane".

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Larian never (at the time I was still following development) commented on any of these being slated to be addressed

Larian don't make comments on the forums, they just make changes to the game.

 

[Scribe]

Larian don't make comments on the forums, they just make changes to the game.

Which seems odd, if you have direct access to your unpaid alpha testers, to not communicate with them after they have paid you for the benefit of testing the game.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Which seems odd, if you have direct access to your unpaid alpha testers, to not communicate with them after they have paid you for the benefit of testing the game.

What has changed will be in the notes for each beta update.

 

[jolt]

I pre-ordered the game when early access started as well and I also didn't like what I saw at the time. It wasn't that certain things didn't work or weren't included - that's all expected in an Early Access game. It was their responses (or lack thereof) to certain issues. I had an encounter where my party was TPK'd halfway through the third round. I made 14 various attacks with a hit probability never lower than 88.46%. Not only did I miss every attack, I critically missed every attack - every single one. When was the last time you rolled fourteen 1's in a row in a d20? When I informed them of this, not only did they "not see the problem" but stated that this was "well within the expected parameters of normal game functions". I also pointed out the impossibility of having an 88.46% chance to hit something with a d20 resolution method, but I was assured that the game was using a d20 resolution method and the math "worked" and even if it didn't, it had no effect on play. Huh? Wtf?!?!?

I stopped playing after 3 months and maybe everything has been resolved. Maybe it will be the greatest videogame of all time. But their nonsensical responses and dismissive attitude left an extremely sour taste in my mouth that still cools my enthusiasm for a game that I've already paid for.

 

[Sword of Spirit]

Unless 4e+5e made some massive changes, Baldur's Gate isn't even close to the largest city in Faerun. Not even in the running.

Waterdeep is the biggest city on the Northern Sword Coast, and generally seen as "the" metropolis, but I think Calimport may actually be bigger. There are also other cities further east that are between those and Baldur's Gate in size.

Baldur's Gate  is, as I recall, the biggest city in the Western Heartlands, and that may be where the confusion is coming from.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Which seems odd, if you have direct access to your unpaid alpha testers, to not communicate with them after they have paid you for the benefit of testing the game.

Larian Studios does NOTHING the normal way, its part of their charm.

I mean they set up game studios at locations across the globe so they could work on BG3 24 hours a day, when one studio leaves to go home, they pass things off to the next studios in next geographic time zone region. I never heard of a game studio that works that way, but it works for Larian.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Unless 4e+5e made some massive changes, Baldur's Gate isn't even close to the largest city in Faerun. Not even in the running.

Waterdeep is the biggest city on the Northern Sword Coast, and generally seen as "the" metropolis, but I think Calimport may actually be bigger. There are also other cities further east that are between those and Baldur's Gate in size.

Baldur's Gate  is, as I recall, the biggest city in the Western Heartlands, and that may be where the confusion is coming from.

4e made massive changes, like adding basically a second city nearly as big as the first to Baldur's Gate, called the outer city. The Upper City and Lower city are 10 wards combined, Outer City is 9 wards, and the Outer City goes all the way from the walls of the lower city to the far side of Wyvens Arms Bridge, which now has houses along it and under it. Oh and at least one of those Outer City Wards is by Black Dragon Gate out side the walks of the Upper City I think instead.

The city now bends around like half of Mount Balduran!

What happen is doing the Spellplague Baldur's Gate just got flooded with refugees, from all the disasters and wars going on, and while BG won't let most of them settle in the original city, they did let them build homes and shops around the original city expanding it vastly.

Its why makes the fact that they did the WHOLE CITY SEEMLESSlLY SO INSANE. Alot of people are having a hard time believing it. Its going to blow the Witcher 3's fantasy city out of the water.

 

[Scribe]

Larian Studios does NOTHING the normal way, its part of their charm.

Nothing says charming like giving your beta testers who paid you, the silent treatment.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

The map below should give you an idea how huge the city become.

Also the map doesn't include Undercity/Undercellar.