They’ve come a long way from having to take the same companion every time because your not a rogue I’ll say
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The one companion limit of nwn after a party of six in bg2 was one of my earliest videogame betrayals
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In mp each player can take a henchman which is fun. Most of that games issues are solved in mp
I love how they parcel out worldspace changes during long rests, it feels so much like a dm not wanting to keep fine grained track of time deciding to update their notes on the world at the end of every session (yes I am narcissistic enough to see a lot of my gming style in this game tho I am still a bit better than these professionals)
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why can’t you press tab to highlight interactable objects. are you seriously meant to wave the cursor wildly all over the screen over anything that might be clickable. can you really call something a successor to the infinity engine games if it doesn’t let you do the jamrock shuffle
maybe i’m getting sick actually. should just go to bed
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Did you try left alt yet
Yeah it’s left alt (or click right stick). Shows sight cones too.
Backtick highlights characters
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It doesn’t highlight EVERYTHING you can interact with though — there are lots of other containers it never shows, and I feel like some of those do have good things in them from time to time. Never got anything great from a bottle rack though.
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It shows everything with meaningful loot. Every container that’s not highlighted will have appropriate items for the location its in, so if you bust into a wizard’s library their bookshelves will probably have spell scrolls, but a normal house’s bookshelves won’t have anything. The crates in a larder will be stocked with camp supplies, but the crates next to a blacksmith probably just have mundane weapons and tongs. You should only scrape for resources when you’re low or if it feels like you’re in a place that’s worth robbing.
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I feel like I specifically needed to root a bit in the goblin area in Gut’s chambers to find some plot relevant item in a nightstand
No, you must investigate every crate and wicker basket and take every dagger and apple. Don’t yuck my yum
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i click on everything and take everything that isn’t rotten. also I’ve played 45 hours and I’m still in act 1, not related at all
I half expect there to be some sub-class of evil druid that can learn a spell to turn rotten food into plague bombs.
finally hit level 6 just prior to the last light inn fight… phew
i beat restartitis by just recreating the last character i played in tabletop, a half-orc swamp druid named johannes. this game has shockingly high production values give the kind of scope people have been describing. the UI clicked for me as i got back into more of a neverwinter nights headspace vs a disco elysium one. now i’m hooked, very interested to see where this goes
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anecdotally, the last act is as busted as original sin 2’s was for a few months after release, so no hurry to get there
I’m at like 20 hours and I think I’ll probably spend at least another 25 in act 2
do you just not do any sidequests or exploring or what
I’m at 44 hours and still in act 1
I played the first ~half of act 1 in EA so I was pretty familiar with parts of it, I think I did most of the quests though (I was level 6 by the time I got to last light inn near the start of act 2, barely)