Rather good RPG that uses rules of DnD 5th edition. I like the plot, I like the variety of choices and different ways to deal with quests and situations, I like the dialogue system and characters. It was fun to play it and it's been a long time since I invested myself in a game so much.
But there are disadvantages too and first of all it has a lot of bugs despite being released more than a month ago. The cooperative mode is mostly broken. The quantity of personal quest trigger on preset characters is way less than when they are regular NPC companions. Preset characters don't even share the info they know in single player. Will glitched and asked to bring him Karlakh every time player character talked it him, even if it was Karlakh herself. Joining to other players' dialogue can force the line skip (even after the patches). Sometimes there's a delay between action and seeing its result and it can last for like 20 seconds. Some graphic glitches break the whole picture on the screen from time to time. One temporary buff glitched and renewed itself every morning. Gale didn't want to consume items in a special dialogue window. The buff from my shoes always disappear for no reason and it forces me to put them off and on now and then. Some dice results are not calculated well. NPCs mostly act like a character turned into a gas cloud is an invisible one. Some quests are glitchy. The forgery is always stuck if you hit a boss with its hammer and you can't forge any more items after that (not happening if you finish the boss with your own weapon). Sometimes in the battle animation may stuck you wl be forced to watch enemy doing the same hit animation again and again for like 40-50 times before he actually hit someone. Some class buffs literally give "+0" to your dice result. Barbarian can shoot 2 arrows with one action normally, but I shot 7 special arrows once (bomb arrows) and maybe could shoot more if I had any. You can teleport behind a wall in some places with a spell. You can get stuck in an obstacle sometimes. Some flying creatures can be thrown off the cliff and die from that. Also I have 90-120 FPS in entire game, but 35-45 in Baldur's Gate itself, while not under the surface. And that's what I can remember right now, there are way more issues I encountered.
Really good game, but they released it a bit too early and I know several guys who was stuck in a softlock not being able to proceed because of the bugs. Will definitely be great after the patches and some mechanic improvements, though you still can enjoy it even now.
But there are disadvantages too and first of all it has a lot of bugs despite being released more than a month ago. The cooperative mode is mostly broken. The quantity of personal quest trigger on preset characters is way less than when they are regular NPC companions. Preset characters don't even share the info they know in single player. Will glitched and asked to bring him Karlakh every time player character talked it him, even if it was Karlakh herself. Joining to other players' dialogue can force the line skip (even after the patches). Sometimes there's a delay between action and seeing its result and it can last for like 20 seconds. Some graphic glitches break the whole picture on the screen from time to time. One temporary buff glitched and renewed itself every morning. Gale didn't want to consume items in a special dialogue window. The buff from my shoes always disappear for no reason and it forces me to put them off and on now and then. Some dice results are not calculated well. NPCs mostly act like a character turned into a gas cloud is an invisible one. Some quests are glitchy. The forgery is always stuck if you hit a boss with its hammer and you can't forge any more items after that (not happening if you finish the boss with your own weapon). Sometimes in the battle animation may stuck you wl be forced to watch enemy doing the same hit animation again and again for like 40-50 times before he actually hit someone. Some class buffs literally give "+0" to your dice result. Barbarian can shoot 2 arrows with one action normally, but I shot 7 special arrows once (bomb arrows) and maybe could shoot more if I had any. You can teleport behind a wall in some places with a spell. You can get stuck in an obstacle sometimes. Some flying creatures can be thrown off the cliff and die from that. Also I have 90-120 FPS in entire game, but 35-45 in Baldur's Gate itself, while not under the surface. And that's what I can remember right now, there are way more issues I encountered.
Really good game, but they released it a bit too early and I know several guys who was stuck in a softlock not being able to proceed because of the bugs. Will definitely be great after the patches and some mechanic improvements, though you still can enjoy it even now.