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Essential Tips for New Baldur's Gate 3 Players – Share Your Expertise!

Are you a seasoned player in the realm of Baldur's Gate 3? Seeking for top three tips for newcomers, but here's the twist – no spoilers, please!

This is your chance to guide fresh adventurers on their journey without revealing any crucial plot points. What strategies, best practices, or pitfalls to avoid would you recommend, while keeping the game's mysteries intact? Veteran players, your spoiler-free insights are invaluable to those just starting out. Join the discussion and impart your wisdom, helping others navigate the game while preserving the thrill of discovery!

For instance, my wife's top tip is: 'Save, save, save!' In Baldur's Gate 3, you have the option to save your game during combat, dialogues, or at any moment you choose. Make sure to use this feature to your advantage.

Created at 5:09pm, 28th January, 2024. Page last updated at 2:43pm, 16th May, 2024.

RichStaff1/28/2024, 11:02:43 PM

Ooh I love this discussion! I'll give some tips on getting the most out of your first playthrough, which I wish someone had mentioned before I got started.

The main thing to know is that, even more so than in any other massive RPG, you won't see everything in one playthrough and you will be aware of not having done so when you roll credits, so know before you set out how you're going to feel about that and what you're going to do about it. In my case I made a morally ambiguous character who could justifiably do/say most things in most situations and save scummed unapologetically to get the best outcomes, so 150 hours later, I felt like I couldn't have done a better job of discovering things in just one playthrough. This has kept my FOMO to an absolute minimum so even though I could very easily do another playthrough, and a third, I don't feel as much pressure to do so. That's important since I don't have as much free time as I used to, so if I only ever play BG3 once, I feel like I've done enough.
Should you Dark Urge or not? It adds a lot of awesome story content - it's like turning your custom character into an Origin character - but it's risky, as if certain interactions go the wrong way you can close off awesome story content too by, well, killing major characters. If you resist the Urge successfully - and a custom character resisting the Dark Urge is, according to many, the closest this game has to a 'canon' storyline - then you should have a really satisfying playthrough, but in order to guarantee that, you probably have to be ok with save scumming. On which point, you can quicksave and then quickload the game on a single button press and do so, as your wife says, at any point, so save scumming is very simple.
In my opinion, Shadowheart and Lae'zel are the two party members with the most relevance to the main storyline, and I'm glad I kept them with me for most of my game. You can swap in other characters for particular quests or interactions if you want to see as much of everyone's stories in one game - I did, and as per point one, am pretty happy with how much I did manage to cram in - but it's inevitable that you'll bond more and see more of the little interactions with your main party.

If you do all the above, you'll have a really full and fulfilling first game :-)

Sturmer 1/29/2024, 8:51:50 AM

Rich

Awesome tips, love it! esp Should you Dark Urge or not? - a truly existential question

Wings 1/30/2024, 2:21:52 PM

As someone who had never played D&D or Baldur's Gate before the best advice I received was "think beyond the way you THINK you should play." It seems like vague advice but once I stopped thinking in the ways I usually game such as "I must win in combat" or "I must talk my out of this situation" I started to realise how many creative ways there were to effect your surroundings, reposition your party or use the items I'd normally hoard and never use before I even encounter anything.