‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared For 100,000 Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700,000
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Larian’s Swen Vincke posted a tweet yesterday showing the game hitting 500,000 concurrent players, making it the third most played game on all of Steam He said that he told IT to only expect 100,000 concurrents at max.
  • teacs@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Asking as someone who plays DnD 5e, how much of the fun of this game is in playing multiplayer with a consistent party?

    • Johmpa@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Me and 3 friends have had a lot of fun with Divinity Original Sin 2 multiplayer. There’s usually a lot of shenanigans and fun happenings as a direct effect of having several players bringing their own style to the game.

      Just be advised that the experience will not be the same as playing single player. From what I understand the multiplayer experience in BG3 is much improved but I found that when playing with friends in DOS2 that I could not for instance take the time to dive in deep with conversations, quests, lore etc as I would like.

      There is also a current issue in that if someone joins your game with a custom character, that character will from then on be a permanent member of the party. You cannot at the moment get rid of them in any way.

      Bottom line it is fun, but you should treat it as a separate thing from single player - and definately have a dedicated playthrough for multiplayer.

      • Holzkohlen@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I found that when playing with friends in DOS2 that I could not for instance take the time to dive in deep with conversations, quests, lore etc as I would like.

        This is also my experience. IMHO BG3 is also more focused on conversations than Divinity 1 and 2 or at least you can focus more on it. You can also just kill everybody of course. For now at least I feel like only a small part of my time with BG3 was in combat. Most of it was exploring and talking to people. I’m sure coop is fun, but I’d rather play is solo.

  • MasterOBee Master/King@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I haven’t played any Baldurs gate before, but the hype has definitely made me look into it.

    Definitely seems like a game I’d like, a fantasy RPG, I haven’t always loved turned based combat, so that’s one of my hold ups. What do y’all think of the combat system?

    • sm1dger@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      If you’re unsure if it will be for you, pick up divinity original sin 2, same maker and very similar style, but (a) without the d&d license and (b) will cost much much less. Both BG3 and DOS2 are incredible games which you can easily pour a hundred hours into

        • Holzkohlen@feddit.deEnglish
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          1 year ago

          BG3 feels different though. I mean it’s obvious that DnD was not designed for video games. Bit hard to describe, but I feel like DOS2 combat is more tactical or rather the tactical aspect is not in the combat itself, but in the management of an individual character (spell slots, health potions and so on)

  • solarizde@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Good thing is, it runs flawless on my Linux desktop too 👍 Just one of the best games I played in years. Good it payed out for larian to invest so much time into it. Maybe a good example for others that you do not need to rush a launch.