A Long Awaited Journey - Baldur's Gate 3 - #1

hi everyone I don't know if I'm ready for this I'm honestly scared it's it's a weird it's a weird feeling because I'm expecting this me turn this down slightly I'm expecting this to be my favorite game of all time or at least out of things that I know exist this is going to be my favorite game ever and this is like a once in a-lifetime opportunity to see it for the first time and after that I'll I've seen it and I can say from my slight like two hours of testing and like adjusting audio and stuff at the start even in the [Music] tutorial even from the very start there are already new things as far as cinematics and such that were not not there when I tried the Early Access build from uh before so from the very start we're going to get new exciting things and I get to point out what things I've seen and haven't seen before and keep in mind for context let's just go over here keep in mind for context um the last time I played a lot of Boulders Gate 3 like for realsies was probably three years ago or maybe two years ago Pro probably three years ago um since then I've mostly just dabbled in the tutorial area just see some new things and I've watched some people's videos of dialogue conversations and uh that sort of thing um hold on I'm trying to find what would be a fitting song this one Dam something Chiller so I haven't I I've been trying not to indulge in the Early Access too much for fear that I would burn out on the First Act of the game if they didn't add a lot to it but they've already added so much that was not there before so I'm very excited I think they said they added like 33% more dialogue to act one which of course I would assume includes all the stuff that was locked off that you couldn't do before but also there's like a ton of like redone cinematics and things it's crazy watch it turn into Frost sm's hated game that's not possible because I've already invested what does steam say steam says I have 118 hours in the game keep in mind most of that is me like forgetting I have it open or just testing probably like 50 hours of that I think it's just me testing just OBS stuff and audio settings and things we're just messing around a character creation not actually like playing the the whole thing or anything um yeah it's not going to be my most hated game I'll tell you that I have plenty of things I hate more games I didn't finish could it be a disappointment I mean parts of it it's possible but the Early Access being incomplete was already my favorite game of all time forgot real scholar already all right let's do it we got to we got to warm up all right we got to warm up the Stream 30 FPS let's go it's going to look beautiful but sadly my Hardware is almost like it's like s years old um if I had a I had like the lowest end card of that generation so I'm a bit behind but once I can afford one it'll be good is it 30 FPS while streaming in in general cromy uh so the way it works is when I stream I use the GPU as well but it's using a different chip on the GPU so recording and everything or sorry recording is on my CPU uh streaming it shouldn't have any effects at all cuz it's on like a separate chip versus everything else so it should be completely separate um I guess we'll know when we start the game I could always pop open the frame thingy to see but even on very low the highest I can hit is 50 so that's how the Early Access was to once they updated the engine God this random page oh dear Lord chromy do you want to take a wild guess at what we may have I don't think you're going to guess what it is um what kind of page that we rolled with our lore because it is something silly and almost fitting for the comedic Vibes that Lan Studios typically has it is not a same page now but it's just something so silly looking at teeken for Stuff most of the day o nice nice fancy videos all [Music] right all right oh sorry my my camera is messed up for this um sorry I I have a overlay thingy on but uh how did you know chromy how did you know how did you know it was about cheese good guess we're going to learn about terish black which is a type of cheese made in terish in the vhon reach in the mid to late 14th century Dr which is the century that we're in this is going to bother me let me um actually what I can do is I can copy my camf frame from the other scenes so it makes sense I have a mask on it for the Border I'm using for bg3 so obviously doesn't work in this context Tada I fixed it yeah Laria loves their cheese so in the year of the sword 1365 Dr which is actually around the time of uh so we're not in 14th century are Dr in bg3 centuries confuse me we're we're in the 1400s 1493 uh that that's the 15th century because centuries are weird like that um this takes place in 1365 which is around the time of bers Gate 1 and two uh uh sir Rivaldo is traveling in a coach along the tradeway from the way in to Water Deep with an assortment of fine cheeses including terish black from uh the adventure Marco Volo departure hello publish in 1994 God how did you know about the cheese though that is such a lucky guess I I mean I know larion likes cheese but still thanks to all my talk about this game you had a dream based around it what what did the dream entail I'm curious you had a kraken cult use purple rock cheese for schemes oh and one of your uh game the dming all right well unless we have any more God that that that was like a see this game is making things happen once in a lifetime opportunities also by watching the stream you get some uh free uh twitch drop stuff for po Gate 3 if you ever plan on playing it you can actually redeem that uh even even if you don't own the game it just connects to your layering account yeah new loading screens I'm so excited there's new loading screens guys something so minor something so minor and I'm just like oh my God look at the art I'm going to be freaking out during most of this so maybe I should move my microphone just a little bit more away from my face I do have caps and all I should never hurt anybody's ears but also uh load times are going to be a thing because I have an SSD this is installed on SSD but it's not an mvme SSD or it's it's not it's not one that goes into an M2 slot on your motherboard direct connection all that it's a SATA one so yeah was this game updated recently okay uh I I don't know how much you know about balers Gate 3 uh duess uh the game just released into 1.0 today for the last three years it's been an early access with a first look at the First Act of the game um and it got updates here and there for new classes for play testing and stuff like that but this is the full version of the game and it just released uh almost like 10 hours ago so yeah you know nothing okay uh for context this is this is balers Gate 3 this is technically the third game in a series however the original games released about 20 something years ago with the original was in 1998 my birth year and then the other one was in 2000 I think 2001 something like that and the originals were were by BioWare you may know for making later on Dragon Age Mass Effect andm and you know stuff like that um yeah but this was made by laran Studios who uh most notably worked on the Divinity games Divinity original sin one and two being the most popular of the bunch and this is their next game this is also sort of like a Telltale Game in that they do have a little thing oh it's not going to appear cuz I'd be covering it though ah the memes I I did testing and I found that being up here was the best position because I won't be covering up other UI elements but you're not going to see the like soand so approves or disapproves I'm going to have to try to remember to read those out loud because I'm be covering it if I sit at the bottom I think I end up covering uh one of the characters like if I move if I move the cam to the bottom I'd cover up one of the characters Health which is like you know pretty important to know um though I suppose on Twitch you guys will actually be able to open up all that stuff if you're in a browser you could see it just you could like click on some menus for an extension um but I don't know I don't know let's uh click and hear some of the wonderful tunes of bises evolve Temple of [Music] ball [Music] yes I'm so excited oh so just in case anyone was like there's no ball in here how is this Boulder's Gate well there you [ __ ] go that's that's the symbol of ball right there on on this obvious creepy cult Temple thing so uh we might have some ball in in this balers gate [Music] game uh let me know how the audio is it should be fine cuz I tested it but I found that the music is just not loud enough and I can't get it louder without completely ruining everything else in this context it's probably fine but I just wish it was louder I want to hear it cuz I love the music so much I've been listening to it non-stop all right we're going to go through some options here first cuz we we got to go to the nitty-gritty all right um okay let's see autosave things there's cross save if you happen to want to play this on Console or something um which is not on a console yet uh we have some options for uh genitalia and nudity which I'm going to disable because on Twitch it probably the genitals probably not because there's an option to disable them um it's kind of like cyber punk in that way there's going to be a little nudity or like Witcher um The Witcher I don't think they show hardly anything Witcher three I don't know anyway uh as far as nudity it's fine on Twitch as long as you don't make it the focus of the stream but given that there's an option to disable it again it probably be safer not to and for YouTube I don't think they allow hardly any sexual content on YouTube so just for those purposes we're going to have these disabled so if we do romance stuff as it says you can still do romances if these are disabled these are for Content creation and all that and uh just you know General accessibility comfortability com Comfort comfortability what words um if you don't feel comfortable with this type of content you can dis disable it in a way um um yeah I'll have to do some testing when we get there to see what what exactly this entails as far as how those scenes work I wonder if they just skip the actual uh part yeah hey Gamers Tavern show hi thank you for following six hours ago um these private things is for multiplayer so if you wanted and you're playing of a friend you could have your conversations uh shared or you could have them set to private so other people can't peep on you in your romance scenes um we don't need all these highlights or anything we can manually turn on Highlights later if we want to see uh we're going to have metric uh for all of you who aren't in America and like I think one other country but also see I don't I don't know metric but also this is a fantasy game where no amount of distance you could tell me that a spell could go 15t and I still won't really know how far that is so we're going to go with metric because it's just it's a fantasy game where I can't really look at it and gauge distances from the camera angle anyway so you might might as well just learn metric while I'm at it you know um karmic dice is a thing where you have really bad luck you can turn it on and it essentially will try to tip the odds in your favor if you roll really badly a lot but I hear this can sometimes be a nuisance in combat with how ridiculous some of the swaying can be so we're not going to use it we're going to keep it real and uh save scum if we want um this is really nice this allows you to Auto Select whoever you want after a combat encounter uh which would be very useful because the way dialogue worked in the first two games is uh or the in original S 2 is it would it would trigger of whoever's closer and you could get the wrong character and all this stuff so hopefully this helps prevent that situation yeah you forgot to follow after the boulders gate 2 stream a few days ago you don't know what I had to do you find your channel again oh my goodness you had to do something while you waited for the 1.2 me megabits per second game to download yeah it took me about four or five hours to download this game H we're going to just spend probably an hour going through just options because I got a lot to say it's be my favorite game ever so and panning there's a dynamic combat camera where sometimes wait follows whose turn it is during combat turn oh yeah it'll move the camera around some people uh don't like it when the camera moves without their permission uh there's camera Shake uh we have creatures that use fly it'll follow them uh and we have a twitch extension which is connected and should be working once we go into a game you'll be able to see all of our party members I think our Quest log possibly and you can see our inventory uh that's how it used to be before and I think I have to manually enable it per dialogue but you guys can vote on dialogues which is cool only if you're on a browser if you're on like a computer and you're watching via like Google or something uh you can actually click on or you can hover over the screen on the stream and then you can click a dialogue option to vote for it if I've enabled voting otherwise for people who are on mobile or on a TV or whatever you can just type in a number in chat and that's fine because all of the dialogue options are numbered so it it works it's fine all right uh we're not going to worry about keybinds or anything though these are going to bother me cuz my I've been playing Boulders gate 2 for 100 hours and I'm going to keep hitting tab to look for items on the field versus hitting alt but I'm not going to change it I'm going to get used to it uh video settings I'm not going to look at all of them but uh we're running it on sort of high except uh this I I can't really run it that well anyway we're going to be running it like 30 30 to 40 it's it's good enough it's whatever um I just have older Hardware so uh in multiplayer you can ping stuff um I wonder if I want to enable this so I could ping things I'm pointing at to make it more obvious but I'm probably just going to forget to do that I all name it uh you can lock the mini map to be North faing instead of camera facing um tutorials enable to temporarily display combat log messages after events and actions in the game oh uh I noticed that a little bit in the tiny little bit I tested where sometimes it spoils a cut scene's about to happen because it says character initiated dialogue I feel like I want to disable that um I think I just want the combat log to be a combat log but we'll see um tool tips are cool we got subtitles on because I personally need to read I can't just listen to things and pay attention I need to like read ahead and then get impatient on the characters to finish talking or YouTube videos anything we're going to show the speaker even though it could I I think they are very careful and they don't spoil Who characters are generally speaking um but I'm going to show it just in case someone's like what's going on over there what are we voting on you know uh we're not going to have a background you can turn on a background that's a little bit too immersion breaking for me I think it's legible enough um uh a bunch of stuff these are settings I've set where it doesn't automatically throw a bunch of crap I pick up into my hot bar uh and as far as accessibility this is actually a bunch of stuff that was in the other menus it's just also over here if you just specifically want to jump to it that's nice rotating mini map I'm sorry tisma I like it I like I like turning and then I know which direction I'm going versus looking at the mini map and then looking at my character and then like turning around trying to trying to look at a pointer or something to figure out where I'm going I I actually don't did they show it on here did they show yeah your character has like a you can kind of see the arrow on it it's just it's just confusing to me i' rather just yeah they disorient you I'm sorry hopefully they won't disorient you while you're watching here personally I like the rotating mini Maps but I don't know all right we're going to hit a new game then so there are difficulty modes now there's Explorer which is uh a lot easier combat and such um for people who just want to not to worry about building a super strong character to get through the game there's balanced and then there's tactician which is tough and you can change these at any time outside of combat I don't I don't think you can change them in combat that'd be a little weird uh we're going to go for tactic first actually I'm going to click on it's gorgeous art uh we're going to go for tactician first and then if it turns out to be a little bit too much or a little too ridiculous we'll go back to balanced but I think based on the the however many hours I've actually invested in playing the actual game I think we can do it if we try I'm so excited um oh uh I should mention I should have mentioned this uh if you're a bit squeamish you may want to look away during a certain part of this uh cut scene I I'll let you guys know when I'll let you know just sit back get your popcorn for if you're squeamish you may want to look [Music] away probably good [Music] now I'm sorry Duchess yeah I gave a warning I didn't want to say by the way you should look away cuz an ilth tple is about to enter skull or uh lel's skull in this case which isn't a spoiler cuz he's right here this is your third time watching it today look at all the lavender in the background um for this scene I'm actually going to move the camera cuz there's going to be some checklist stuff on the top but I need to potentially be reminded to move it back because being down here covers up some stuff later though the UI could be a bit different and maybe we do want to be down here anyway so in this game you can be a variety of different characters uh sort of like divinity original sin 2 if anyone's familiar with that you have an origin character that's completely custom and then you have uh these characters which are actually all party members in the game but you can choose to play the game as them in which you get different dialogue options and such however the only problem with playing as them on a first playthrough is it kind of spoils their story because you don't get you don't get to experience them as companions who are talking to you and then you figure out the mystery and what drives them and all that you're just playing as them essentially as a sort of you know custom character making choices for them so it kind of spoils some stuff uh so probably not recommended unless you you really just don't want to play a custom character at all but this game in particular unlike Divinity original sin 2 was more so made for custom characters all right um the dark urge is an exception in this case the dark urge is actually a custom character as well except they have their own origin story that you unlock throughout the game uh though they have warned that this origin story is it probably takes over the main narrative a bit in a way that you really should play it on another play through you know replay options is what we have here if you don't want to just play as An Origin or a custom character again as a different everything you could play as one of these characters if you want um or the dark Ur who is a custom character who has her own backstory like a whole main quest thing that apparently changes the story quite a bit with how it's Incorporated so anyway uh we're going to do a custom custom character which is what the devs have said the game is more so encouraging you to be and we're going to proceed with that so we this this whole menu is completely different from how it was before um I think we're still going to go with the plan on being a half elf uh uh can you not specify here oh it's it's over here okay menus are all different okay so we can just see the racial features over here that's nice does it change and the proficiencies roll on the right so we can just see them at a glance that's so nice so something that they did take out that was in The Early Access are ability score modifiers per race so normally uh how it used to be in DND D was you would pick a character like a half or for example very notorious and that character would have minus one or minus two intelligence or something um or you would pick uh a human and you could put like two or three points in any of these things that you want or you could be a half elf and you get I think one in intelligence or what you get one in Charisma and then you get two points you can invest to other places they took all that out um for obvious reasons DND is trying to get away from emphasizing races in like a minmax sort of way so they're trying to get away from that cuz people will argue over whether or not someone should be a half work wizard if they have low intelligence it's not optimal you're going to be awful stuff like that so they they've taken that out in this as well which I appreciate yeah the dark urge seems like they're going for ball spawn influence kind of thing maybe not a ball spawn but some sort of influence by ball so that's more so catering to people who really want that sort of experience where you're resisting a dark power or you know indulging in it uh in this game oh there's multiple body types oh wait there it's just the guys okay the guys and the gals um or uh masculine and feminine I should say okay uh so something to keep in mind is if you are somebody who doesn't uh how do I put it I was going to say doesn't allot you don't align with like or your character idea or you in general if you're trying to make yourself in the game or you feel more comfortable making someone who's like you if you don't align with typical uh genders and such like that they actually don't apply a gender to your character in this game other than what you can pick you can actually pick to go by they them you can go by she her he him uh and they don't specify that you know this is a or what is it this one it say this is male this is female it's just 1 2 3 4 uh the other ones being buff versions if you want a buffer looking character that's very nice uh I'll have to see if they mention it somewhere as far as your gender because that used to be a thing in um for the access that you would pick what gender it was but maybe maybe they've taken that part out and they' just use General pronouns now there very few times that think they would refer to you by your pronoun T so cute it's under voice we we'll we'll get there I'm sure it's somewhere in here with like customizing your appearance and such anyway um I think we're going to be a half elf because I wanted to be a full Elf but then I'm kind of like I don't know maybe I should just go have these [Music] elves can be so snoody why don't we just be between you [Music] know so as a half elf uh which I'm not going to go through everything necessarily I might go back and just look at some stuff I mean like the dragon born that's a playthrough idea I want to be a lizard person again like I was in Divinity uh but let's just go through them we have elves elves of various kinds there's uh here there's High Elves and there's wood elves they have their own special things uh we have teelings tails included we have asadas mephistophiles mephistophiles yeah and zaral teelings we have D in which you can be L sworn or seldarine this is really just a religion essentially um Evil versus good so to speak uh we have humans we have githyanki uh dwarves in which there are gold dwarves Shield dwarves and dagar which for some reason are under this category when the D got their own thing but I think it's because the D play a much more important role in this game versus the durar so uh we have half elves in which you can be a half uh a high half elf a wood half elf or a Dr half elf uh there are halflings with light foot and strong heart we have gnomes in which we have Rock gnomes Forest gnomes and deep gnomes again another under dark race uh we have dragon born which can be of all the different colors of the chromatic and silver dragons look at all them and you can customize the heads and all these are just here to you know show you some differences and the result of these is you get some resistance uh to whatever element they are and you get whatever breath of the Dragon in which you have your blood from uh and then you have half Orcs here we go I think we'll go for a half elf we'll go hav these the the thing the other problem I have with an elf is it would make sense in a way for me to be like metagaming knowledge of enemies and such because I'm an elf and I've lived for a long time but then again it also makes me feel weird thinking my character could potentially be hundreds of years old and having to think about that and how I'm going to outlive all most of my companions and that's just making me sad so we're going to just be a h a half Health who lives a little long but not that long the [Music] power yeah Seline D is a new thing which they they've kind of had uh dra who've worshiped the seldarine before just like random ones but now it's a new thing where they're going well maybe maybe we shouldn't have an entire race of people specifically worship a goddess of chaos and death you know may maybe we should make it to where you know within the thousands of years they've existed some of them have you know when they went underground some of them just didn't worship Loth and they just worshiped other gods whether they're evil or good you know just for variety's sake it's kind of weird to me the idea that a race would specifically only worship one goddess and they literally haven't done anything else for thousands of years even though there have been outliers who've escaped like it's just kind of it's kind of weird when you think about it that there aren't other varieties all right half elves okay curious ambitious and versatile half elves are welcome everywhere but struggle without a community to call their own that sounds like me um I have a base a base racial speed of 9 meters per turn which is about the same as most of the El uh most most of the elves yes um as most of the races except for the smaller races which have a lower base racial speed of 7.5 I think all of them do yeah um so as a half elf civil militia you have weapon proficiency with Spears Pikes how birds and glaes an armor proficiency with light armor and shields that works for me uh we have dark vision which means we can see in the dark up to 12 meters so this game has three different versions of vision we have regular Vision like boring human Vision where we can't see anything in the dark uh we have dark dark vision which means dim light is visible light um you know it looks normal uh and then for D there is superior dark vision where you can see twice as far in the dark this is also important because there are game mechanics that revolve around being able to see in the dark to Target enemies and whether or not you get Advantage because something's obscured or not so it's actually pretty important and it's important for the enemies as well because if you're sneaking around if you're if there are any l Wes or drought or anything like that you need to be careful cuz they can see very far in the dark H we also have Fay ancestry which means we have advantage on saving throws against being Charmed and Magic can't put you to sleep which is very important because if you have a sleep spell and you're fighting uh people with Elven ancestry or Fay ancestry specifically here it says it's elves or Fay uh don't use a sleep spell on them cuz it's not going to work don't try to charm them either ah okay so as our subrace I think I'm just going to be a high Al elf because I don't know if I I don't really want to be like a woodsy elf I just want to be like a normal I guess normal generic half elf I think a touch of the Fay wild remains and the half elves with this bloodline and even those untrained in Magic possess a hint of wild Power power which means we get a free can trip which I can't change yet I have to go over here to change it oh look at that that's so nice they tell you what your spell casting ability is so that you know what all your spells or your can trips in here are going to scale with if they scale at all we can see what the spell save DC is ooh that's cool so this is uh if a spell requires the enemies to make a saving throw to avoid an effect uh you know what they have to roll over in order to succeed so in this case it' be a 10 uh and you know what it this is a bonus to hit with my spell cool uh there's no new things in here so I know what these all are I feel like I have to pick Ray of frost because I'm elegant Frost um most of these can trips I feel mixed about acid Splash like I assume most of these are probably better than how they are on tabletop um but I kind of want to pick bone chill because it prevents the target from healing on their until their next turn and then an undead Target receives disadvantage on attack rolles cuz I know we're eventually going to be fighting some Undead a lot of Undead probably uh so that would be useful and oh wait they changed the name of it they changed the name they changed the name guys did they change this D and D2 cuz it used to be called uh like Chill Touch or something they changed it to where you don't go oh it's a touch spell and then you ignore it cuz it's a ranged attack it's called like chilling touch or something wasn't it we we just had a conversation about this not too long ago also this is uh hogard one blinging I'm pretty sure it's still chilled touch and DND D they changed it cuz they knew like why is this called touch it's not a touch spell anymore it's a range spell of 18 meters you can use it across the room so I don't it could be that they just changed for the game they probably got some free free license to do whatever we're going to do ray of frost so Ray of frost uh is not the most powerful CP in the world and technically it's maybe a bit redundant CU we're going to get a wizard who I think has it but it is cool because just like in the Divinity games there is some Elemental combination stuff so if there's a waterer surface we can hit it with this and freeze it and then it's slippery and enemies when they move across it may slip and fall prone which is funny um I don't know if you can freeze people solid with this but maybe if they have like a wet status effect or something I don't I don't know if that if that's a thing in this game uh but the cool thing about this is that you can reduce the target's movement speed by 3 MERS which keep in mind our racial speed is about 9 M which means this Cuts your Movement by a third so if you want to prevent someone from running up and hitting you CU you're a weaker uh you're a weaker class you don't have a lot of constitution a lot of Health you're not very chunky uh you can use this so more than likely if they're across the way they're not going to be able to reach you on their turn that's pretty nice so I think we're going to go with this I think we can change our can trips later when we level up as well uh but we'll we'll see it only reduces their movement speed for one turn but I could see potential to have fun with this otherwise I when we level up at some point I might pop on bone chill because I feel like that's going be more useful uh these other things we have acid Splash it throws some acid at them uh Firebolts like tried and true does the most damage it also can light up things on fire you know fire is very useful all the time uh usually it's so strong that things start resisting it after a point so maybe picking ice is a good thing uh we have poison spray which puts out a puff of a poison shocking grasp uh the target can't use reactions which means uh very specific classes have some very strong reactions but mostly you can use this on something that sneaks up on you and then you can get away because they can't they don't have an attack of opportunity and it also has advantage on creatures with metal armor so very good if a giant bulky Paladin runs up to you uh we have blade Ward which means you only take half the damage from all these uh attack types which is probably the most kind of meh cantrip of the bunch uh in a way cuz it means that instead of doing something to prevent yourself from getting hit you just take half the damage uh you have friends which is a sounds like a useful spell but I feel like this is one where I'm going to wait for another playthrough to use it because you gain advantage on Charisma checks against non-hostile creatures but if we read the fine print uh wait wait a minute hold up wait a minute did they change it only in higher difficulty modes will the target potentially accuse you have enchanting them they changed it so you can use this on presumably the the narrative story mode difficulty without any repercussions that's interesting we are here you spent like an hour and a half in character creation for me I'm just explaining things I already know what I want cuz I've already made my character before but that's interesting we're on a higher difficulty mode it matters but essentially you don't want to just cast this on anybody because after the spell wears off they go darn it I was enchanted that jerk and then they can uh they they can get mad at you potentially even start combat so really you want to use this on people who you think you're never going to see again which in a tabletop campaign happens a lot more often than in a video game so don't use this on anybody who's in like a hub you want to use this on a random encounter something like that like some random guy like Bandit on the road who wants to rob you you cast friends so you have Advantage Advantage being you roll to die and you pick the higher value um you do something like that it's the same thing with Charmed person where they can realize that they were Charmed and then they can get very angry all right we have Dancing Lights which is very cool uh this is an evocation can trip it illuminates a 9 M radius remember when I was talking about that Darkness stuff uh for some of our characters one of which is a human who can't see for [ __ ] in the dark uh we're going to need to light some stuff up for him to see uh so there's two light spells uh there's light and then there's Dancing Lights the difference being this one you cast out a range in illuminat radius uh this one you can only use in melee range you can Infuse an object which I think in the Early Access on like someone's person you like use it on their armor um but you could in theory uh put this on an object and like hurl it across the room you can throw things um and that thing stays lit till a long rest so you could like put an item on the ground and pick it up and maybe it still has the property I don't know how it works uh the other difference is this is a concentration spell whereas this one is not uh that's very important because you can't have two concentration spells on at the same time cuz I I think you can like move this with your bonus action or something very important to consider how many things are concentration because that means you can only do one of them at a time for backwards off uh Mage hand is cool it's a little ghosty hand that can manipulate things which I think in the early access it was okay it's mostly used for people shoving things spamming um it's supposed to be used for like picking Pockets or opening doors doing levers at a distance but I think in the early exess it actually couldn't open doors it was kind of weird um we're not going to pick it cuz we're going to have other characters who I think come with this anyway uh we have minor illusion which makes an illusion that compels nearby enemies to go investigate useful for trying to make distractions so you can sneak uh we have true strike which is probably the worst cantrip of the bunch in theory uh in which I think it's the same as it is on tabletop where you gain advantage on your next attack roll and this lasts for two turns so what that means is you cast it you spend a turn your action to cast it on someone and the next turn you want to try to get close to them assuming they haven't ran away and try to hit them because now you get roll two die to see if you hit them which if you're just doing a melee attack means probably you should have just attacked both turns instead of casting this first to see if you would roll two die and one would be better um but this is good if you were to cast it and then you're going to do like a really cool spell and you want to make sure that thing hits and so you do it first yeah it's very Niche it sounds cool but it's actually like why don't maybe instead of doing that you should just like try to hit them deal damage you might get a crit I mean it's very Niche oh yeah you could also use it to try to get crits because you're willing to die um and it's it's concentration you don't know normally use it on an ally oh wait did they change this I I think they changed this didn't they I could have sworn true strike was you cast it on a creature and then you gain advantage on your next attack roll against them unless I just read it wrong huh I thought it was something used on a creature not that's how it was in The Early Access I think maybe I'm misremembering or misread it our class of choice we're not going to go through all of these that take all day uh we're actually going to be a bar for a variety of reasons we're going to be a Bard uh because I want to play I want to be a Bard I want to be somebody who plays music uh the extra extra bonus of being a Bard is you are really good at Charisma which means you're really good as a main character character who wants to persuade people to do things which is very nice yeah I just want to be I want to do everything that's what a Bard is they literally have a feat that they get on level up which is like right after the tutorial called Jack of all trades and that's very important because we're going to be picking what our skills and things are but essentially what Jack of all trades does is uh you have these things called ability points um sometimes they're called attributes sometimes they're called other things they're called ability points in this game and you invest points in them and the higher the number be the more extra super duper bonuses you get and I don't know what the heck is going on over here uh I don't know what's going on over here uh I don't want to look at it right now um anyway uh you the more points you put in these things the more bonuses you get uh to all of your skills that fall under these categories which I don't Everything is Everything is everywhere oh God everything's in weird submenus now I'm confused anyway there there's a whole bunch of skills and they all fall under different categories that they say so if you have a higher number in that stat you get bonuses every time you have to make a skill check with that thing so if you want to persuade somebody if you have a plus five bonus in it that means your roll is going to get plus five on it which is ridiculous which means you're very likely to succeed and then you roll it and then you get like a seven then you feel really bad but you know the odds are higher so yeah your your bonus is based on your ability score depending on how high or low it is uh it does that um but Jackal trades is super duper special because you can specialize in these skills and by doing that you get an extra plus two in whatever it is uh but with Jack of all trades the cool thing about it is you're literally a jack of all trades if you do not have uh proficiency specifically in any of these skills what you can actually do is based on your uh General bonus you get from each of these things you can get half of your bonus rounded down added on top so it could actually be good not to pick certain skills because you'll get a super duper bonus if your stats are very high and that thing so it's a very cool thing it basically just makes you the more number go up the better you are so numbers are more tightly Bound in 5e than 3E so Jackal trades is a meaningly good bonus exactly all right uh God I'm so many things I'm H so much stuff going on oh they really didn't have to put this over here cuz it's over there but we can use like basically anything I I care about so we're probably going to use like rapers I [Music] think why why does some of these have glowy backgrounds they don't have anything [Music] else okay ah why is our background all the way down here I guess it's by the abilities I feel like it should be higher up actually we didn't even customize our appearance where where is all that information I'm confused oh it's down here okay let's do that first okay everything's in different spots they completely change the UI I'm confused okay so we can change our identity we can be non-binary other we can be male we can be female I'm going to be female cuz I'm basically making my little Avatar character what to next H what was that let's hope the locals are friendly Hells something just woke up down here I think four was what I wanted be wary this place is trapped it's opened more of those wretched things they got some new voices them there's magic keeping this chest sealed I can where to next they got two more voices in for each for for masculine and feminine what was that let's hope the locals are friendly Hells be wary this place is trapped it's opened there's Magic keeping this chest sealed where to next that's me all right I do like how we can visually see all the faces now used to not be a thing before you just have to scroll through blindly uh my my eyes are doing that thing where I picked a charact i there's that's been the default so my brain's just used to that one now even if it's not the one I want oh my gosh everything's in weird menus now I don't know if I like it it uh I'm like pale as heck go with that for now everything's backwards and weird I don't know if I like it or was I up here oh I think I think it was one of these the other one's a little too palen camera's kind of been a weird angle too it used to be more like top down everything's weird and different now no scarring we can look at them though we going to burn scars or like some weird other scars all these cool scars I don't remember if they had scars before I don't think they did oh we have maturity which gives us some age wrinkles we can have freckles which is something very important because before they didn't have an option to change how many freckles you had or anything so you you can have like super intense freckles if you want uh they also have Vitiligo pigmentation which is pretty cool as an option I actually had an elementary school teacher who had Vitiligo that's that's pretty neat that's pretty neat to see that they they have those [Music] things I think this was the face that's going to go for but I don't know it's got that kind of this one's like more neutral but this one's got like the angry eye eybrows I don't think we can change the eyebrows right yeah we can just change the color H feel like I like the proportions of this one more you know I got to change the hair it's bothering me let's see where's my ponytail I always do a ponytail not this one [Music] though where's the this one they call it the Mongoose tail yeah I got to have my my big gigantic ponytail that's me all right I feel like this one is the one I have this one just has that like resting bitchiness to it I don't know how else to put it or this one's like more neutral I don't know though I am pretty critical and judgmental maybe I should look like this you know two people in your life of B ego it's cool it's an option at some point I'll have to make a character with one so many playthrough ideas uh there's so many tats look at all these cool new ones it's funny how our character got like tentacle themed tattoos before they got abducted there's a lot of new options haven't seen a lot of these let's zooming on in so you guys can see them oh that's cool for like Druid Vibes holy some of these are like very [Music] intense a lot of these people must be like parts of Colts or something all these all these there's there's a lot of stuff going on here I mean I guess if you want to make jeez look at all these like magical runes it's almost like Madness so many options first you can also be ghost from Call of Duty oh there's also piercings got some some different options it seems that they're very set but if you want some they're there we're not going to go through everything uh you can have heterochromia which is super cool you don't know what that is it means you have eyes that are different colors which is pretty D though we're not going to do it but it's there uh you can also notice there's like a toggle button for all eyes because for example elves don't normally have demonic eyes but if you want it you can normally those are for teelings but otherwise you can be restricted to like the lore friendly options of just what that race would normally have which for me I'm going to pick one of the greens cuz I have hazel eyes I think I think it was this one I picked cuz it's a little bit or maybe it was this one some of them I like better up close but then up far away it's hard to see like this one's like a lot darker so it's got that boldness to it otherwise looks kind of cloudy but I literally can barely tell a difference this one's a little bit brighter that one's a little bit Browner like for a distance I mean there there will be closeups so it does matter I guess we'll do the darker one let let's change this makeup cuz it's bothering me okay I think we're just going to do Wings maybe not wings like this one maybe here can I change metallic tin you can make it glossy oh dear hold up dang you you can get real okay glossy am metallic oh wow oo so just the metallic gives it that matte kind of look to it that brownish kind of okay right uh do I want wings I I usually do wings I don't think kind that I do like a little bit of ey Shadow to is really in here it's kind of just like wings or or this one this one's kind of like basically what I do I almost feel like it's not bold enough it's not cool enough I could do other colors but I feel like I just want to make the eyes pop and that's all I really care about because I mean technically we could go for some like coordinating colors here but I don't I would rather just change the ey Shadow and still have that be black so oh well uh we can also change the lip tint of which I don't even have the coloration on so I would know yeah you can pick whatever colors you want I'm not going to do anything all right hair blonde the hair looks so much nicer now I'm surprised my graphics card can handle these things they also renamed these I think I think it was called like Ash Gray [Music] before okay no orange highlights let's remove that I just want like a a brown yeah just like a a little something something or some some Vibes that's all I want then you can also have gray which I feel like the graying you could use to your advantage because you could just create more texture within the hair doing that like this versus having nothing you could just have like a little more blend so I feel like that works [Music] uh you can also have facial hair even if you're a lady you can have a nice lovely beard which is uh very nice why are some of those purple oh I think it I don't know why I don't know why that one's purple I thought it was maybe something I didn't load in we're going to be clean shaven okay we we'll look at the Beards later cuz we're we're going to have some more to do all right all right all right all right we need to we we'll we'll come back to the Spells cuz that's going to be the point of contention let's go to our background o they have whole little things now you want a Santa beard please oh no I'm not doing it you can't make me I'm still curious if I I thought I wouldn't spend an hour on this but you know me hold on do I really want this [Music] face I'm still debating this one's maybe like a little too super Mony even though I like it more why does the skin tone feel like almost darker on this one lightest palest possible that's me I feel like their complexion they have like more red or something going on versus this one this one I feel like is more of approachable face I think a little less serious so I I think we'll go with this one I have rounder cheeks and stuff so really I should pick something that's more like me so cuz it's supposed to be me all right so backgrounds we're going to skip on over to here CU I feel like this is so much easier to pick than debating on spells and cantrips and stuff all right so you can be all these different things essentially what they do is they give you some extra proficiency and skills but also because you're a custom character um you can get inspiration points throughout the game and those allow you to reroll some roles and like dialogue checks and stuff and in order to get inspiration points you do things that sort of align with your background like if you're an Entertainer you do like performance checks and stuff I feel like I'm a little I'm a little too pale I'm like looking at it from a distance you know I'm like oh that's a little that's actually a little [Music] pale that's palad that's pink I feel like that one's the most normal looking right here it's like a little bit dark but like good okay okay uh what we're going to be is I am a lord nerd you all know this so we are going to be a sage which means we are curious and well- read with an unending thirst for knowledge learning about rare lore of the world will inspire you to put this knowledge to Greater purpose which sounds exactly what I'm going to do I'm going to risk it for that lore knowledge biscuit all right so we are going to have a Proficiency in Arcana in history which means the ability to recognize magical stuffs and historical things but not uh religious things all right and as far as other proficiencies we get to hit pick three uh so we already have these set um I think what would fit me the most is even though we're going to have a plus three why not more we're going to pick persuasion because that's what I'm going to do a lot and we're going to pick deception because that's what I'm going to do a lot too even though I'm going to have a high Charisma bonus I want to succeed in these things intimidation is also charisma but I feel like I'm not the type of person to really intimidate I'd rather deceive somebody or persuade someone I think the other one we should probably put a point into is Insight because I am terrible at telling I'm terrible at reading people and I think too much into it so I think Insight would be the one to pick here because I want to be the dialogue person keep in mind as far as perception and such we're going to have other party members who can roll these things so we don't have to be good at everything even though we're a jack of all trades and performance we have enough points in that I think we'll be fine I don't think we need to rely on uh super high performance checks which could be acting to trick somebody it could be playing music it could be a lot of things but I feel like we're already going to be so good at it it's probably fine if anything we could always save scum if you really want to do um okay ability points I got to remember what I have before uh generally speaking from what I understand the way to do this is you want to have two things that you really want uh away from an even number because once you hit an even number you get an extra super duper bonus um oh this is confusing how this works I can I just like what are these bonuses for are these for being I don't I don't know what these bonuses are for see our system is not great our dump stat would be strength we're going to have eight strength which is the lowest we can go but keep in mind that it means you're also not very good at carrying a lot of stuff as a Bard what we want to do is we're essentially a support class the way I'm going to play bar we're going to be a bar College of lore which means I'm a support my role on the team is to get them checks and dialogues and otherwise I'm trying to disable enemies and stop them from doing things or Aid my allies by buffing them I think mostly I'm disabling enemies to make it easier for my allies to hit them and such and occasionally I toss out like a heel or something like that so I want to have good decks so I can dodge stuff I want to have good Constitution so I don't just get hit once and I die and otherwise uh having higher intelligence makes sense for my background because I'm supposed to be uh pretty good with memory and mental power um and Charisma is our stat that all of our spells scale with and also for talking to people uh so I think having lower wisdom is fine I mean that's I don't think we're ever going to get plus bonuses in wisdom which is why I think we should have the Insight check plus too plus any bonuses from things like guidance and such should help enough with that because I really want to know whether somebody's lying because it's so hard to call it out and it'll be a check and I have to uh so I I think insight's the one to [Music] [Laughter] [Music] do dumping wisdom I'm not mad just there's a point I didn't dump this is the recom this is literally the recommended spread I mean what do I do I get a plus one in both or a plus zero in both for funsies I mean I want to have that plus four by level three yeah wisdom's perception but I'm going to have like three other party members who can perceive stuff hopefully better than me to be fair we've only been streaming for an hour and a half so we've only spent an hour in character creation not 10 hours all right let me go ahead and pick the things that I thought I was going to pick um we're going to grab light most these are like kind of like uh we're going to have vicious mockery which is the bread and butter of being a barard you insult the creature in which there are like at least 40 or so uh insults recorded uh we insult a creature and then they get disadvantage on their next attack role assuming that they don't make the wisdom save we're going to get light because it's not a concentration spell because most of our spells are actually concentration uh we are going to grab uh Tasha's hideous laughter which makes a creature fall prone of laughter about the ability to get up if they fail a wisdom save 100% going to speak to animals uh we're not going to grab any of the charm stuff because I'm scared of making something mad at me though technically animal friendship you probably use in a beast in combat same with charm person I'm debating on Bane but this is a concentration spell I really want to grab fairy fire even if we don't need it yet cuz fairy fire is just cool I want to light up stuff with rgbs uh any all Targets within the light turn visible and attack rolles against them have Advantage uh which also I think negates Darkness I imagine like the disadvantage from being in the human Gale can't see them um we don't need feather fall some of these spells I know that our wizard can learn so I'm trying to avoid doubles like I'm not going to pick sleep because I know he gets that at the start so I'm not going to pick that because I know we're going to have it anyway feather fall I think we can find a scroll for it I don't really care about Thunder Wave because I'm scared of being next to somebody and then I can't use it uh probably healing word cuz we can use this from a distance heal someone we can see for slightly less healing than this one but we don't have to touch them cure wounds you use outside the battle healing word you get somebody who felt a zero back up that's the goal uh there's a bunch of different instruments you can get as a Bard and these are your starting instrument you're actually proficient with all of them as as a Bard uh you just have like the skill to play instruments uh guaranteed so you can pick all of these and these are going to be used when you cast your spells and I think the music changes a little bit too with them um when you cast a spell or something uh we're going to pick a violin because I made an emote for it and I can play a tiny bit of violin not much but it's something okay okay everything I think everything's correct all right guys you thought it was over but we have to name ourselves first Frost of course you thought it was over you need a guardian this is different it used to be who do you dream of uh we need to make a whole new [Laughter] character um and I know exactly who we're going to make dang look at him he got super cool in in over the span of three [Music] years oh looking forward to tomorrow's stream when we finally hit play excuse me when we hit Venture forth all right we're we're ready we're ready good luck hey he just said good luck I'll leave you guys on the screen I'll just be right back I'm not even going to throw it on a break screen I'll just be back I'll be back you can admire our gorgeous tavar from Ye Old he was a ranger once but now he's a guardian bam Freeze Frame all right we ready are you guys ready excited it's it's at least an hour just here ruining all the tension of the story so maybe I should give you a story so far for the cut scene that happened at the start um we woke up there was a mind flare they plucked a tadpole out of a pool they infected a infected a ganki girl with it cuz it crawled in behind her eyeball and uh the same was done to us and that's that's it so far you got snacks yes are you guys ready you need snacks cuz we're going to have a cool cut scene you guys ready is ready let's go let's Venture [Music] forth this is a really good one this is the same from the early access these are mine flares or ilth itss they're very not good [Music] so he's on a weird spaceship by the way this is not Boulder's Gate this is some other town that I don't remember the name of just for context some other Town up River up the shore something it's not never one it's some other small town I never heard of city the will help I remember hearing that before I'm looking it up durgens uh it is yartar or yarter I don't know that's the name name of this town 200 mil east of balder's gate but it may be up north by never winter I don't know something those are Red Dragons there's gith riding them because gith uh have a packed with a tiam the Dragon Dragon goddess so they're they're allowed to ride Red Dragons around they can just play shift [Music] [Music] oh I can't wait to just be jammed into that like my [Music] teeth she needs some better pants just got her butt hanging out pretty much so oopsy whoops oopsies we're in the hells you know just enough forgotten RMS Laura to sound like you're an expert to someone who knows something about the Forgotten reals yeah we're uh we're in the nine Hells in asadas I believe the first layer this is new bit different from the pods in the Cinematic but don't worry about it my head my head questioning my choice of uh which voice I wanted now yeah so um in this area my game is currently running somewhere around like 30 FPS but that's just how the whole game's going to run pretty much lot of effects but you guys shouldn't even really notice to be honest unless I'm like moving like this I might look a little chunky you guys won't even notice so I think it's fine let's look around I I missed all the tutorials that popped up on the screen but I already know how to play this game so it's fine might still be stuck inside if we hadn't been attacked so our character is generally speaking a silent protagonist but when we're on the Overworld interacting with things or very specific cut scenes they will talk but otherwise we're silent in dialogues and such even if you play as the other characters they are silent in dialogues because that's a lot of voice acting to do someone else got out might be other [Music] survivors not everyone made it out alive all right a little glance around here a mine fler ooh okay this is randomized loot because last time I check they had an agate this is a pearl dead good wonder who was inside so we got some other escapes recruit the Mind player isn't that animated emote I love it turned out so well for something I made last minute within a day uh let's go check out the first interactable of the game as I proceeded almost press Q thinking I'm playing Boulder's Gate too this is the pool that thing came from the parasite now writhing behind your eye let's investigate the pool and because I have a plus one and intelligence we get a bonus some dialogue options require a skill check a dice rooll that must meet or exceed a target number your character's skills add a bonus to this role so because we have that intelligence of 12 we have a plus one so let's see how we do we got to roll higher ten or higher oh God it's the first roll oh this is going to turn out this is a great playthrough so far the funny thing funny thing so the the first time I played the Early Access on launch the first thing I did in combat is I threw a random object from my inventory at an enemy and I got a crit and killed them so this is just a call back to that moment very first combat first thing I did I threw a sea shell at something or some kind of alien shell and then it killed them with a crit so it's just it was meant to be first we got cheese and now we got a critical fail it's about to happen you notice nothing more than meets the eye you've rolled a one on this skill check a critical failure critically failing on a skill check means you will fail no matter what your ability modifier is same thing with a uh critical success you will always win so uh I'm gonna use some you know what you know what it doesn't matter we're gon to reach toward the pool because it's funny that investigation check says that it's very unstable maybe you shouldn't touch this but luckily there are no consequences in this room cuz there's a restoration thing oh I feel better we stuck our hand in a place where it didn't belong oh look at the lights it's almost like it's guiding me in this direction okay somebody downgraded the ithd doors the heck they don't open on their own anymore who turned off the automatic sliding doors come on people oh it's so gross I love the architecture and all it's so weird we are trapped oh it's a goblin images of goblins their habits and histories flash into your mind pick it up H maybe I shouldn't keep that might be a bad idea oo a gold a schematic of a nautiloid flashes into your mind nerves senu as much living being as ship uh the nautiloid is the ship by the way cuz it's in the shape of a nautilus hello we are trapped uh I think these are like a little Out Of Reach for me to for me to grab them uhoh they're too far away my my hands can't reach all right well I guess we won't get to know what those say cuz I can't reach them oops eldrid tablet that's new I think a thousand years of humanoid history elves dwarves humans and more flash behind your eyes mind FL ha culture o weird brain corals yeah I should mention that even though you can highlight some interactables in the game not everything is highlighted so you still want to explore around and see if there's anything else we are [Music] trapped all right let's go have a look at our little friend up here help us all right us maybe a little bit of body horror here for anyone squeamish there's going to be a lot of it in this game I'll say that well the ship hasn't crashed yet yes you've come to save us from this place from this place you'll free us the exposed brain Quivers in expectation please before they return they return I don't don't think I wanted to perceive that um you sound afraid why the enemy so many enemies who am I talking to a man or a brain a newborn born new from this husk you realize you're talking to an intellect Devourer a minion of the Mind flares who abducted you Sage yeah so the way I'm going to be playing this character is as much as I'd want to mess with us here I'm going to play this character in the way that I would react in this game in this world in which I ain't touching any of this [ __ ] M I don't I don't care if there's Promises of power and anything like that no this is this is chaotic what would it be this is horrifying awful things that we shouldn't be playing around with it's just it's just it's bad news like anytime there's some kind of evil energy like this you don't just go what if we can use it no that's a stupid idea why no there's always consequences for using stuff like this so we're just going to destroy the brain it's it's a bad idea to start using the evil Powers thinking that you're better than them and you're going to you know get away scottf free that's not how it works there's always consequences yeah the intellect devours in the D and D movie oh the blood everywhere oh mirath fell to a lethal blow keep in mind that mirath was basically already dead his brain had been Infested by a nasty bug that was trying to escape it's just that his nerves and things were still connected so fun fact uh most of the characters in this game are actually named so this guy was named Mna and if we fight some random Bandits they all have names so we can feel even more bad brains ew that one has tentacles in it a little OD all right are there any chests up here I think so just brains why did you squish it and not stab it uh because we don't currently have any weapons equipped it seems that would be a good reason we only have a hand crossbow what are you going to do with that regardless you you squeeze it but maybe it's cuz we didn't have a weapon you [Music] know here we go on lbit the main ID's God's home was placed in the true neutral plane by the planescape setting CU are so horribly alien and monstrous that they didn't actually map properly the alignment forces of the planes oh dear shoot it they have bit of brain under your nails yeah well you guys ready for something new you guys like new cuzz this bit's new and this is as far as I played there's two dragons now and they're shooting laser beams also there's a weird effect on our skin in this area and I nothing no Graphics setting fixed it so it's a bug ignore it Abomination this is your end your head throbs and your skin tingles Visions Rush past a dragon swing a silver sword and a flash of your face seen through the strange woman's eyes my head what is [Music] this squa you are no th blackith blesses me this day together we might survive this is completely different normally the way the s in Early Access is we ran along we had a little jump tutorial we ran along and she was just on a tiny little ledge jumped down and that interaction was pretty different now it's way more cinematic and cool we're not any more Abomination than you are now what made you think I was a thw new dialog option we carry mind flare parasites unless we escape unless we are cleansed our bodies and Minds will be tainted and twisted within days we will be G mind flers I I the models definitely look better now than they did in the Early Access build but I think the animations are a lot more detailed now too it's kind of crazy don't trust her she has a worm in her eye we also mind melded there together we're turning into mind flares there must be something we can do we can do nothing until we escape that must be our Priority First We exterminate the enems then we find the helm and take control of the ship we will address the matter of a cure for this infection once we reach the material plane she's [Music] gone this is completely different by the way normally we got to stand outside we could go through the entire dialogue tree now she cuts us off runs off like you think Lael would and uh we have an entire encounter in a completely different area that wasn't here before Let's Do It um so what we can do in combat something very useful is we can examine anything enies uh so this is an imp level one they have an AC of seven which means we need to roll a seven or higher to hit them uh we can see all of their stats which is very useful for remember if I have certain things have saves we want to roll for things that they're not as good at no resistances they have dark vision Devil's sight and they can do opportunity attacks and we can see what size class they are if we wanted to like pick them up and throw them uh their initiative is minus 21 for the tutorial so you will go first that's hilarious you are guaranteed to go first in the tutorial because they just made their initiative so bad that they can't possibly go earlier these are flying are they they are flying here [Music] too let funny their movement speed is zero which I think means that they can't [Music] move why did the stream freeze oh oh that's just you Gamers yet all right uh so what we're going to do here is we're going to do something very very basic which which is the uh tested strategy of just running up and smacking them because we can hit them with 95% accuracy let's do it her armor class I'm sure is way higher than mine so she'll be in the in the way also the music changes when we get kills and things really cool um I only have a hand crossbow which makes me worried so I'm just going to shoot and pre uh all right uh if you want to run in between please oh it tells us what the action is now they hide your bar now when it's the enemy's turn so you can have more focus on what's Happening that's crazy all right uh well you can't oh wait you have opportunity attacks why did I do this to myself okay we have shared initiative because we're moving in the same time so o they're threatened 90% good you prove surprisingly adequate in battle now to the helm all right let's loot potion of speed void bulb this is cool you throw the alien bulb at a Target and possibly pull in nearby objects and creatures nice I love how everything has flavor text too it's pretty pretty cool a scimitar I could can I use that do I have Proficiency in a scimitar uh I am not proficient with Marshall weapons or scimitars well darn all right anybody have like a short sword sword I don't think I can use a hand ax wait it doesn't say I can't what are my uh what what are my did they move them where where I had there's a list of proficiency somewhere and I don't know where it is I thought it was like over here but it's not over there anymore I don't know where they moved them to ah simple weapons okay I can use all these and Marshall weapons gotcha where this is a simple weapon this hand ax so we'll put that it does 0o to five damage it's a 1d6 minus one wow what a weapon I honestly potentially could be better using my fists that's sad all right let's just move may we have like a short sword that'd be a light crossbow I'll take that dead thall is there anything around here oh there's some buttons over there maybe we should take a look at that uh we actually didn't take any damage which is [Music] good can I hit the buttons I cannot touch the buttons nothing but brains food from mind fles I suppose yeah this whole area was expanded out this is very different ship won't be able to take another dragon attack we need to get out before it's too late I feel like I regret picking this this voice cuz it's not quite me but it's fine all right do what we meant to do equip a Rapier we can't really do anything else and a Rapier is just cool 3 to 10 uh wait what are the I I think we're wearing something better than the robe right yeah okay a pushing feeling is there anything over there I wonder no okay we can't just jump that this little area is different it's so weird it's like a fresh new game and now we're in this room you know what I bet I know why it's because the the way that other room was designed before there was this issue where the camera was always too close to the ceiling and it would trigger uh sounds from away later combat and things that's probably why back touch nothing without knowing its purpose okay just calm down it's always a good sign when I hit save see another mystery darn it can't read the script annihilate okay that's the only one we needed to know perfect I read what I needed annihilate all right man isn't dead but he's totally unresponsive he saw that on his chest there's a special little symbol over there out you get me out of this C we have no time for stragglers um little weirdy H let's look for a latch that might open the lid CU ours just popped open the construction is too alien nothing looks familiar this ship is crashing do you intend to die for a stranger I just noticed she's basically wearing sandals she's not wearing boots she's wearing sandals I'll go look around there must be some way to get this thing open try that contration next to the podt they did something to it when they sealed me in hurry please understandable to be very scared in a situation like that loot I'm going to take the backpack too you always need bags in Lan games touch the console appears dormant all right well let's look for a switch or something the mechanisms are completely unrecognizable at first but then you spy an empty socket there's some like weird graphical effects going on I don't think we hit it that it's an empty socket so it needs something don't don't just smack it whatever fits in that socket must power this thing saw a little brain run by what's in here faint images appear in your mind a brain yane Warrior and centuries of darkness dark mind need a key there a necklace interesting let's go look around o a key certain items such as Keys ingredients and camp supplies are sorted into handy containers in your inventory that's new oh they just go in the thing I don't have to make my own Pockets to put all these dang things in anymore that's nice how many hosts of these gay infected simitar might be better um it does the same amount of damage both are finesse weapons so they're using my decks [Music] so hello dazed woman is trapped inside the Pod she doesn't notice you music's very different from before what's this paragynous chest with some healing stuff a slave mind another brain Elder trun oh there's another one unlock those controls next to the Pod oh the Elder trune a strange energy buzzes through this alien object you're sure you've never seen any of the like yet part of you recognizes it as a component of some bigger [Music] machine I can't look at what's in there mysterious okay there's some like weird graphical stuff going on it's like having trouble loading things I think or something you see that I wonder if it's one of my settings that's that's weird all right we're going to enter turn base mode cuz we're going to kill this one actually have Las out go [Music] first yeah I think it might be a driver issue because I don't think there's an Nvidia update out yet for this game nice I was worried it was going to hit us yeah I'm going just going to assume it's an Nvidia thing it's just a driver thing there there wasn't a driver release today so let's just let's just assume that just try to ignore it as fast as possible all right um see what does this say could mean anything I remember when I tested this before in Early Access I got every single one of them right and now I've only gotten one but I guess one is better than none plus two Arana check actually it's a plus three cuz ARA's intelligence what was my roll I rolled a six I needed a 15 and I got a nine good job me we're going to push it it says perfect it as you place your hand on the Pod you hear something a presence connected to the Pod commanding the person inside to [Music] change [Applause] K changed at the pull of a lver how if we are not purified this may be Our Fate go and preserve me that cannot be Our Fate the newborn mind flare stares at you weak and dazed yeah normally ceremorphosis takes what is it like s to 14 days normally you can't just Spam mine flare so that's that's weird at least a week like you start feeling all these terrible symptoms your like hair and teeth start falling out spitting up blood you know the usual all right we got a key oh it tells me what key I used isn't that nice or we have the thing for this D it the console appears dormant all right let's insert the Rune into the socket the console hums to life but what is its purpose will it free the captive or transform her like that other unfortunate Let's do an Arcana check let's take a look at the powered up console 10 the save is cursed it's cursed we're going to fail every single check I have the karmic Dice off so this is just pure Randomness nothing in the appearance of the device betrays its purpose it could do anything it could even transform the occupant of the Pod like what happened before let's touch it you know what it's better to turn into a mine flare than to be trapped you know and then I don't know the ship crashes and burns and you die such it suddenly you feel a hideous squirming in your head the parasite then discomfort Fades and another sensation washes over you connection or Authority we're going to do it cuz we're going to try to save someone ithd wisdom so ilth choices are part of the story because being implanted with a M flare tadpole is a fate worse than death isn't it also this is the reason why we have an authority emote wisdom plus one let's go which is actually good that we have the wisdom bonus because these are all wisdom checks but luckily it has a difficulty class of two so it would be very very unfortunate for us to to fail actually it's it is not impossible for us to fail if we rule a one we fail well at least we got something right you know you feel the biomechanical brain of the console process your command and yield to it a shiver runs across your mind mind you feel sated I told you it's bad it's bad that's s we're going to barely use it at last thought I was done for I thought that damn thing was going to be my coffin thank you your mind lurches into her thoughts her gratitude is mixed with weariness because you have a gift with you racist you keep dangerous company okay immediately thank you oh racism well obviously she has a problem with gift but to be fair gith are known for being an evil race that just kill most normal people people on site because they just don't care so it's probably healthy to be a little wary very militaristic they're there for a [Music] goal we got some weird weird weird artifacting going on is bothering me hopefully it doesn't exist uh outside this this area H well dangerous company is what you need in a fight that sounds like a stupid answer that's a stupid answer I don't want to say that cuz that would just mean oh see Shadow har is a very cautious individual and this is a foolish answer to say the thing is is with most of her dialogues it's very easy to be defensive and obviously that doesn't play well yeah the gith Yon are ruled by a psyonic Lich Queen named vth and there are few if any known Renegades weariness is not wrong when confronted with an obvious GI Warrior [Music] yeah um I'll just say this did you feel that just now we were in each other's heads I did it must be because of those parasites they put in US they'll have to wait we need to get off the ship alive first let me come with you we can get off this ship and watch each other's backs along the way all right then let's get going I'm Frost Shadow heart one moment what's that what's that it's nothing trust me enough of this chatter we need to get to the helm now it's just a plot device don't worry about it lead on I need my D20 it's actually like a D15 I think I I counted it before well it has to be even a D16 it's just a plot device that I have to forcibly give the player at some point don't worry about it the ends to which they made to make sure that you get that thing are a little ridiculous it's also funny I appreciate how the character all have custom portraits now or I mean uh yeah instead of just being renders I mean ours is obviously a render but uh more healing spots if you needed them I guess we're not going to wander on the helm inside do as I say who put you in charge I'll Trust my own judgment children behave calm down jeez we're just going to go get out of the house are we there yet all right I didn't check what weapons she had oh well she's she's got a mace or something cambian I remember that attack I've died to it many times to get failed by imps that is sad draw connect the nerves of the transponder we must escape now he look so cool and different we will deal with the G after we [Music] escape this thing is falling fast got to write it oh there's imps just here now they these guys weren't here before it was actually just like a oh no no no no they were they were oh and there's a a hell's boore so fun fact we can actually kill Commander Z here and get his sword which is really cool apparently but I'm not that good at the game so we're not going to do it cuz it takes a long time especially with my class look at that look at his little his little glowies he just got a big old smile and a boot notable features poison resistance well that's good to know good thing I totally am using poison okay they're a fiend PR cool all right we got shared initiative Shadow heart You' got a lot of stuff I recognize I probably should wait to use a spell I mean I got two spells [Music] you know [Music] what kind of just want to Yeet out a guiding bolt I mean yeah I think we're just going to ye out a guiding bolt see how it goes 75 no that's 95 that's a guaranteed kill basically guaranteed except for that 5% we're going to go for the boore though cuz that guy's going to take two turns to take down otherwise [Music] nice good job all right um I'm just going to have you move off in range we need to move forward [Music] anyway okay they're threatened because there's an enemy on them so it's a higher chance for me to hit I do have a piercing shot possibly inflicts gaping wounds I don't think we need to worry about that cuz he's probably going to die anyway well actually not Undead in constructs can't receive gaping wounds well thank you for letting me know that Undead confirmed can't bleed [Music] um I think we will do the piercing shot just in case he survives ooh lucky save okay that would I don't think that would have killed him anyway they still have gaping wounds [Music] though no it says they failed then they oh okay they got hit a couple times though I'm confused it's like they rolled they failed and then they succeeded I maybe they succeeded against being against the gaping wounds again I don't know what's going on there oh this just makes it to where your attacks steal two more piercing damage remove by healing oh that's kind of a cool thing that I have for the future all right just move up actually if I move over here they'll be threatened so I'll do that switch to melee okay lays out you should probably just kill this one actually can I loot No No Loot so cool looking take this shario will have your all right we're a little far to hit that guy we can only move 9 M which is not that far so we're going to do a sacred Flamez that's for free and of course a missed good it's a saving throw okay now use your bow all right probably should just be ending their turns uh I could do a ray of frost but that isn't really going to matter so I'm just going to hit them with my hand cross I don't need to worry about movement right now [Music] nice critical Miss nice uh just for funsies look at the tentacles just waving around uh let's do a sacred flame we got a whole lot more to go through hey nice just for funsies we'll we'll just go through noticing a little bit more chunkiness over here with the frame rate you're here for the critical fails axe our first roll of the game was a critical fail an OD for you oer mayhaps o uh let's not engage of him at all I don't want to get an attack of opportunity distance we'll just take some pot shots got a lot of Health uhoh yeah my internet's been having issues lately where it seems like it just randomly decides to die for no reason I don't know why yeah my net rolled on that one absolutely nothing happened between the stream dying and here so we're good lead him to me connect kill them or your spy near the devil now we must take the transponder I like how they uh crossed out my vicious mockery I appreciate that this game actually tells me what all the roles are unlike balers gate one and two gosh so many can I expand this please there we go um lost condition yeah he got disadvantage what did he roll okay he rolled a 12 interesting these are the things I like to know I just want to know what they roll darn [Music] it it's hurry before they strike oh we got some more friends all right we're going to do another guiding bolt on that one nice strike this area is a little bit more chunky for my poor graphics card if you can't really notice yeah we might need to turn down some more settings for next time I'll have to test that on my own I just didn't want to see too much of the tutorial and spoil myself too much or what could potentially be new all right I don't think any of these guys have loot right yeah we're just going to listen to their advice and we're going to ignore devil he just has too much health I think for our class uh we have no spell slots left so we're going to sacred flame about the usual that sacred flame does when you actually need it to count I suppose we don't need it need it nice I was hoping that would go through because then if we want we can actually Dash we can use our turn our action to Dash and get all the way [Music] there we cannot get quite all the way there we will stop for some loot There's No Loot next turn the dialog window popped up for you weird so the reason we're not just going to go take down that guy is because they do have some cambian backup you get a good head start on them your o those are some bad hits all right let's go the Helm's alien transponder I descended from a in [Music] time that's a a n a wink to a modal it's a prequel all of this [Music] [Music] a little a little [Music] loud wonder where that is those cites I don't know what that star is this is the okay the these are places on the outskirts of Boulder's Gateway over there up the chion thar wonder how much we're actually going to get to get to go to is everything I've hop so far I mean of course I mean I'm play this part before essentially but some some bits in it are new the main thing is I'm having some graphics issues um and my card really can't run the game as well as I want it to anyway I might try to turn down some settings but some some little weird graphic blips and I think it just needs an Nvidia driver update there just hasn't [Music] been [Music] [Music] I still find it funny we get hit by a random [Music] Chunk we didn't die see see that that little that little blip it's something yeah as you wake the tatle squirms in your skull that's new that's new that's new all right um h what's more important to see that we landed unscathed or figure out where the heck we are let's focus on the now the chaos of the crash site confuses the landscape you'll need to find a settlement or landmark and you'll need to do it quickly the tadpole is a death sentence and the clock is ticking you need a cure we've escaped the nautiloid and a verus and as every laran game goes or at least the last two and this one we start on a beach though it's really more of a shoreline of a river but you know it's there's sand so it's good enough yeah the funny thing uh I think Amelia did Amelia Tyler point it out or did someone else point it out somebody pointed out that the narrator's lines are kind of judgmental but when it comes to animals they're like oh they're so cute and then for the cars it's like huh you could have died you silly [Music] Billy Rivers have beaches too this is true look how pretty it is [Music] is at all the ew the tentacles everywhere from the nautiloid it's so weird we didn't get to see any of the surface parts of the na aloid anymore cuz they changed that all that part but probably for the B that place is always kind of problematic mangle old Fisher all these poor people hey it's shadowart hi she's got the mysterious die by the way uh just in case I found a really good emote on better Twitch TV and it conveniently I typed a w cuz I I was pressing things conveniently it looks kind of like the magic box I thought it was funny so anytime this plot device comes up you guys can just use the magic box emote yeah let's let's not go and take the thing that she's clutching on to for dear life let's I care more about her rather than the mysterious nature of this box D call it D Palante tier exactly like up in the way that you always do by shaking someone you're alive I'm alive don't ever do that how is this possible well perhaps it was some dramatically timed divine intervention the Divine tend to keep their interventions close to the chest so I suppose it's not impossible uh what happened to our gift friend shouldn't she be right here you might want to reconsider calling her a friend looks like she ran off without us well do you have any idea where we are no I don't recognize this place but anything's an improvement on where we just came from first things first we need supplies shelter and most of all A Healer we might have escaped but we still have these little monsters in our heads we you want to stay together we need each other and we both know what's its stake can't think of better company all right let's get moving one thing just before we go I wanted to thank you again for freeing me it would have been all too easy for you to run right past my pod but you didn't I remember that there was there was a thing that said Shadow heart approves so the reason I have my cam here so you guys AR going be able to see it because if I'm down here you like literally can't see like an entire thing you can't see somebody's Health in the end so we're up here but that does mean I'm going to have to point out every time someone approves or disapproves cuz you guys aren't going to see it or maybe it'll just be a mystery and I'll just be reacting to nothing so I'm not going to remember to do that so you can by the way this is a game all about choices I could have not freed her I could have just ran past but I helped her against my better judgment of illithid nasty powers healing potions an ignoble hat flish and fluffy and built for just the right sort of Dome accustomed to having it set upon the head by other people can I wear the fish hat every item has a context menu where you can use it tag them as wearers or send them to another party member um but it changes my hair air style though but luckily we can toggle to where we can hide it during just dialogs or just in general I think I'm just going to not wear it to be honest no hat you wonder what they make their healing potions from I don't think the healing potions were from the ilth it I think they were from the innocent people who were nabbed some mer grass so there is going to be a crafting system in this game but I think it's just for potions so we may be in luck exploring bucket a fish oh look there's a fish oh they got sharp teeth so we need camp supplies because we can use them to restore our health and we use them uh only when a long rest you can eat them there must be a settlement somewhere nearby so that comment I kind of get there's usually where there's fresh water you find people but I mean we landed next to a river and now we're pointing out that there's fresh water got some apples oh you can't just eat them anymore okay good they're just camping supp supplies before you could eat these and they were essentially healing items and it kind of broke the balance shanties for the [ __ ] Queen a it's about umly eh and we all row with the spray upon our necks and we all row with the spray upon our backs and we all row with the sea beneath our feet and the [ __ ] Queen stays the storm wave mother wave mother lashes to the prow wave mother wave mother we ask to sail your skirt if you allow wave mother wave mother sink us if you will wave mother wave mother our skulls are yours with Brine and sand to fill Souls away and anchors still the wind won't move without the [ __ ] Queen's will we'll wait gladly years and days till the [ __ ] queen rings the waves hey ho she told us so hey ho she told us so uh the [ __ ] Queen is umly she is the goddess of the ocean and I I don't know if she controls rivers and such too but essentially if you are a sailor of some kind you pay a tie to umly before you go sailing otherwise she's an evil person an evil goddess and she will sink your ship if she feels like you don't respect her such langu language my good I'm just reading the literature acts I knew somebody was going to say something saigh I love you there I said it and if you meet me tomorrow I'll say it again and again we keep on saying it till we're old and gray so let's do it let's go to Boulder's Gate I know it's risky but so staying here the last few months have been hard but they're always a little easier when you're there leave your boat and meet me at the hill overlooking the old bridge bring whatever you can carry we'll make do without without the rest don't be late love Anna there's the boat that they were going to take or the boat that they were going to lead you maybe we'll find an Anna yeah umly is going to drown your ass that's how she be okay so we can get into difficult terrain water and we can get wet which means I think we can freeze people with our C trip which is cool push them all into the water you can craft your own potions poisons and elixir using Alchemy gather ingredients to distill into extracts an experiment to brew wondrous Solutions can I do that now or do I need tools for that oh God I forgot that we have like underwear specific underwear uh probably for uh for the nudie things that we have disabled because we'll be wearing underwear so it's fine um how do I how do I do that Alchemy [Music] pouch how do I do the alemy extract ooh we can make a potion of healing if we have salts of Rogues morsel in any kind of suspension this is made using the dried gills of the rogue's morsel mushroom this powder smells surprisingly sweet and like water okay interesting D I know how to make a good little amount of stuff I just I just don't have anything to actually make anything yet oh wait I have mergrass which is a suspension a okay I'll make a suspension of mergrass then I don't think I need it for anything else okay let's do [Music] it there's a belladon which was in here I need a couple of them and I can make sublimate a belladon it's much more straightforward than the Divinity system of did you know you could take a knife to a stick and make a spear and then you never use that Spear and you wonder why that's the point e it's a teleporter thing we can teleport around Maps using way points we find like this dagger root I'll take that ashes of dagger root okay we get that open easily maybe there's another entrance we don't have any thieves tools all right um we're going to go back over here first let's go back this way navigating in a particular manner cuz I I've been through this bit before I know my way around a uh crash [Music] nautiloid lot of money there's some intellect devourers over there more of those wretched things G I don't think they're going to be so nice to us this time maybe we did kill some of them so let's do a little sneaky snake sticking to the Shadows makes you harder to detect your cursor indicates the amount of light in a spot I don't think we're going to have to move much just go up here we'll probably be fine up here let's do a little bit of ranged action nope nope stop okay her hiding failed but she's not in combat but they are enemies so and I have The High Ground so I have a 99% chance to hit is anything else I want to do nah a critical miss one strike could be lethal uh my enemies are surprised and can't take actions reactions or move on the first round of combat if you gone forever her hiding failed but she's still okay all right somehow we got all of our spell slots back cuz we had a long rest we were out for a day it seems you have a ranged weapon that's not [Music] good sacred flame come on man disappointing me o wait there's some stuff over there what is that mysterious liquid a nautiloid tank that's probably explosive if I can do something about that but I have nothing so well uh should I bother increasing my armor class I think we're fine only you had some kind of range weapon this was poorly thought out well uh I don't have any kind of flame to do that I don't think I have any items that are Flames either I don't h i probably before I came up here I should have dipped my weapon and then shot it into this and that would have been cool but it's too late now really another critical mess come on down ooh wait you have range attacks now that's not fair oh they didn't have range attacks before Oh I should have saved oh no oh dear lord okay tactician huh they didn't had range attacks before all right so when a party member reaches zero they're down which is a state between life and death where they roll each turn to survive on three successful roles they stabilize on three failures they die all right [Music] uh yeah yeah I'm on tactician apparently these guys have range attacks now that I didn't know about I didn't save before I came over here or no it auto saved I think I should help her up she's at 1 [Music] HP all right I'll use my bonus to e God we're already using a potion on these guys let's try to get out of visual radius maybe they can't hit us over here hey Nissan long time no see we're dying you can hit me through the floor I guess it was a little crack oh okay dear lord it's out huh yeah okay hold no I didn't say before this oh oh no how's my GPU handling it it's handling it okay we're at like 30 FPS a great all right uh drink drink that you don't have any actions cuz you had to get up for your turn well I helped you up I don't oh no they can see me through that crack that's that's some nonsense that's what I'm going to say all right we're going to just back up first all right we're going to cast Bane oh Bane has to be within my range oh shoot I I wish I knew that well we're going to cast vicious mockery on um this one that I can't really see but he's over here th P lovingit really you saved that's jerk okay this is going to go poorly normally this battle is okay cuz you can kind of cheese it but not anymore all [Music] right inspired in case I go down thank you okay yeah Dash that means it can't do anything else this turn I want them to come up here so she can do something she doesn't have a range weapon now the cheese has been fix it's only death okay yeah we might actually want to use a spell slot on this now jeez maybe I should up her what what is that synaptic discharge one6 plus 2 plus secondy okay maybe I should up her armor class but this is going to not be good on her cuz every time she gets hit she just make a concentration check but it is a bonus action so all right I think we're going to uh no she doesn't have the other one okay I could throw a heal out that's a bonus action okay let's do a guiding bolt feel like we're going to need it probably on this one I have high ground oh thank goodness one's dead [Music] okay try and intercept that I'll do healing word on you well H uh [Music] no okay let's another vicious mockery be me my life part 12 the boring opponent oh my goodness that didn't work out so [Music] well attack Shadow heart really just scoots right past her okay I see how it is okay I see how it is it's a little better jeez we don't do much damage I feel bad that's what I thought would happen but even if I healed my character only has 9 HP so uh we might be fine they're going to attack to try to kill them but that's okay if I can hit odds are will do enough damage maybe I can healing word is a bonus though the [Music] word see how it is oh I don't have an action cuz I had to get up uh well doesn't my crossbow have something where I can like disengage and use it isn't that a thing well I don't have an action though I can flourish that's a bonus action possibly throw them off bance if it does 1 D4 damage do it nice okay level up thank you I appreciate that o we're going to have to rest a lot more than I thought jeez yeah we're we're already out she can't get down there unless she moves all the way around I probably should move her so she's a more likely Target oh well she only has 2 Hp it's probably fine oh my God it hit okay let's do I don't think we can do a vicious a hide laughter on that one I think it' just be better just [Music] attack I actually can't even see them I know I can how muches this do seven 3 to eight I could do a bane that's kind of a waste on one target this is a wisdom save that's not going to work they're wisdom creatures I got to do vicious mockery you l you might I'm going to step over here so maybe they'll try to attack me she's fine she'll be okay I don't have enough movement okay I'll help her up next turn she'll be fine she got a success is okay are you just going to attack me I see how it is she she's doing [Music] fine I appreciate how they automatically uh succeed if if you win okay all right so we can end the oh God I couldn't read any of that where where are the tutorials like this I don't know how to bring them back are they just in a menu somewhere if I wanted to look at them they're there and then they go away in the tab menu somewhere I swear I practiced before we got here but there's a menu somewhere that has all the things session no this is multiplayer there we are okay uh short rest you can short rest to cover half your hit points and save down characters some classes will also recover resources on a short rest which I think is like specifically Warlock and sometimes you get extra stuff okay uh down when a party member reaches zero they're downed yeah uh they're telling us we can end the day if you have sufficient camp supplies long resting at Camp by interacting with the campfire or bed rolls will restore all hit points and resources so if your health is running low and your resources are depleted it may be a time to rest visiting camp at night also allows you to talk of any companions or followers you've gathered and reflect on your relationships and Adventures meaning don't go through the whole game thinking that you're going to turn turn any second and then you don't ever long rest and so you never talk to your companions and you miss all the scenes you also leveled up that's nice that's good yeah warlocks get all their Sorcerers and Druids get like you some stuff okay [Music] um maybe I don't want tactician then tactician might rub I can always turn it back on if I want that was a little too close for comfort I would say we did it was a little too close for comfort I want to play around with some stuff versus feeling like I have to be like the most optimal thing ever otherwise I'm going to die all right uh let's go ahead and level up then I was about to hit oh but that's not how that works in this game I level up serious question oh here we go I click this guard level two oh my God I got double Health thank you please I missed all the rest cuz proceeded without me okay jeez I almost doubled my health thank goodness oh my Health's too small I got another spell slot for level one I am a jack of trades which means I can add half of my proficiency bonus rounded down to Ability checks I'm not proficient in nice uh I have a song of rest which allows me and my allies to be revitalized as though we would have taken a short rest essentially we get a free short rest cuz I'm a b extra one and we gained a spell and we can replace a spell so I can gain one of those spells I saw before what would I want want thinking I healing words looking pretty good now uh dissonant Whispers is cool it's a wisdom save just like the other one frighten a creature it will be easier to hit and cannot move they also have disadvantage on ability checks and attack roles meaning you can go and then like shove them for two turns they cannot move which is very strong it does three to 18 damage as well wish I could look at my current spells so I could know let's just let's just take a look so this is a wisdom save as well but this is concentration the other one is not the other one's just like a bam so if I need another concentration spell like fairy fire or Bane that would be very useful to combo with it but I feel like I should probably have healing word I might need it at this right might be useful who boy I we almost died but that was tactician tactician's a lot harder and it's unforgiving uh I don't care about most of these other ones I think this is a damaging thing too which is pretty nice you on a say they still take half the damage which is potentially nine nine or less it's tempting because it's a bar specific spell kind of want to pick it maybe next level up we'll get healing word I mean I'm not really using most of Shadow heart's spells anyway most of my spells are more important so maybe we won't healing word we'll grab that do I want to change anything we haven't really gotten to a point where I can really test to change anything so let's we're going to keep what we've got we don't need to change anything okay I'll look at all these things ah we're growing so much all right I think we're going to do that I feel like healing word's probably a way to go but maybe next level up we can always change it out you know whenever we can change spells again nice oh okay let's let's move some of these things around I want my can trips at the top so I can just use those okay uh this is like a utilitarian thing that over here uh these are all concentration and that one's there there gotcha all right Shadow heart you need to level up as well [Music] she looks like she's like where am I where did I go uh she almost doubled her health as well another level one spell slot she has Channel Divinity now she has a charge you gain the ability to channel Divine energy starting with two effects turn Undead and an effect determined by your domain hers being trickery replenished by a short or long rest so she can turn Undead now so you can pray to turn all the ones that can see her uh and she has invoked duplicity as her domain uh channeling distract your enemies with an illusion within 3 meters of the illusion attack rols have Advantage for you and your allies both the attacker and the creature must be within 3 meters of the illusion okay so throw it in like literally the middle of the battle next to somebody pretty much 10 turns can always shove someone near it also you can multic clasp we're not going to we're not going to be doing that so very straightforward level up there bam here you get stuff actually I probably should have taken a look at her spell list yeah I probably I probably should look at this cuz as a cleric she can memorize spells also why is her hair like pink right now it's kind of weird anyway her hair changed color for some reason a little weird um I don't think we need cure wounds and healing word we'll just keep healing word for the moment in case somebody goes down she has Bane I'm going to put bless on her Shield of Faith could be good because her armor isn't the best there's command command a creature to flee move closer freeze or drop to the ground drop its weapon wisdom save uh I probably won't create or destroy water because that'll combo with me chronic damage is very strong though uh melee only but she can't really deal much damage otherwise so um sanctuary man's kind of cool I don't think I need it though see what we got all right uh I think we should probably rest we should probably do a short us I'll use my song of rest I can keep going a little longer now nice okay cuz otherwise so well she has an extra spell now because of uh because of the rest oh that one's only knocked out no kill that thing I thought we killed that one no they're just they're non-lethally knocked out get out of here no no no we do not spare the walking brain monsters I can make a potion out of their cerebellum okay guess we're going to to find more of those at some point add it to the [Music] collection okay I probably should have utilized the whole dipping feature just shot the explosive goo that's over here that probably would have been a good idea an abducted nobleman o they have a lemon on them I would like that lemon and the mine flare oh this one has a potion of healing and a CTIC gold I'll take those uh can we get up here you stepped in a surface that could be dangerous if affected by elements like fire and lightning okay most of these can be washed away with water some poison a skull spiked bulb I don't know if I should really I don't think we need skulls we're probably good okay now I could pick this thing up how heavy is it it weighs 25 how much weight can we hold uh Shadow heart could pick it up why not just put that in your pocket it's totally fine all right well well well well well I have to say even when I started the stream I was utterly exhausted and I still am utterly exhausted I really should go to bed and just start earlier tomorrow I think that's that's the plan um depending on factors I think that's what we're going to do cuz one I'm noticing some like graphical issues and things and I can off stream see if I can adjust anything for performance now that we're out of the tutorial and we're in a more normal location um otherwise we probably need to wait on a patch or uh a graphics card driver patch thingy cuz you know we are we're seeing less issues over here but certain areas still have them I think wonder if it's the fog or the clouds or something something's having a weird effect and I don't know what it is so we'll just see what happens for tomorrow then meantime we'll make a new save and we'll do our thing oh my god oh oh I hate this okay ah what will we say h we'll just do first steps I can use all kinds of symbols and things now I think yeah there wasn't usually when big games come out there's a whole big Nvidia driver update but there wasn't one for this game so I don't know maybe there will be something who's to say it could also be maybe on like direct X it doesn't have those issues but on Vulcan it does but vulcan's the only one I can use for stream cuz OBS doesn't pick up the other one so you know that's the case anyway I'll have to decide if if the game feels too easy I think we'll swap back to tactician mode but it's going to be one of those Case by case bases where if I'm already having fun still and I'm not just mowing down everything and I'm bored then you know we we'll we'll swap around we'll test it I just don't want it to be too much to where I'm like every combat en counter and I feel like I can't do fun things because I have to be optimal so don't dream about ilth tles eating slowly behind your eyes oh no the imagery

Channel: ElegantFrost

Views: 4,228

Keywords: Lets Play, Playthrough, Dungeons & Dragons, Baldurs Gate, D&D, DnD, Forgotten Realms, PC, BG3

Id: awtqUPTR39U

Length: 169min 59sec (10199 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 23 2023