JoCat Plays Baldur's Gate 3 - ACT 1 

I wish that was available for single player, playing on console so no funny mods for me yet

I will say having a whole squad is very fun

What's awesome is that it doesn't really affect the difficulty very much. I'm still very much challenged by this game while having seven party members. And you get to hear a lot more cute dialogue

Be careful with it though. It can bork some cutscenes or downright make some teammates not responsible anymore after some stuff. I was told to be careful of a certain boat ride with more characters than default.

What an awesome mod! I imagine it unbalances some things but it sounds cool af

JoCat is a mood

-JoCat *under Karlach 2023

JoCat said, his head between Karlachs huge thighs

FOR REAL!!!???

@@iluvboothill 0

given the boulder trap incident, he was right

Better to die of a shattered pelvis than a broken heart..❤🔥🌋🥰

Okay, adding that to my vocabulary

Jo loves women like a lesbian

That's a mood!

Relatable

Guys is it lesbian to like women?

Entirely on-brand. XD

The best part about BG3 is that it has a "camp" outfit that is just aesthethics and a "default" outfit that actually represents the armor you're wearing, so all your characters can run around naked while having full AC.

@@ConverseSCDefinitely not the best part, you’re just horny.

She just needs really high Dex and Con. Upside, this means she's flexible and can go for hours.

@@ConverseSC That is so much fun, especially in cut scenes. Imagine the regal-looking big bad evil guy talking to a group of nudists.

​@@ConverseSCI just wish there was a way to make everyone wear their default outfits without losing out on stats

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Average DnD experience lol

There's a mod for that.

it would be horrifically unbalanced. you mop the floor with most fights and you only have 4 people, having the full gang would utterly break the action economy

​​@@syrusalder7795well, then you have entire party for dialog/story purposes but have to choose 4 characters for fights - half of modern jrpg works that way already.

​@@syrusalder7795Been playing on Tactician and the game is still challenging, although I would be lying if it didn't make it a little easier. I'm also doing an evil run with this so I only have Durge, Astarion, Shadowheart, Gale, Lae'zel, and Minthara. I've heard that there's another mod that increases enemy health to help bring it back in balance. I'll look into that when I do a good-aligned Durge run.

I know there's a mod for it. And I'm aware it could could make the current game as designed too easy. That's why I specified wishing it was a core feature. As in the game would be accordingly balanced and one wouldn't need to seek out mods.

I am down bad for Karlach.

I just wanna give her a hug…

You're right! Not only is she probably very worried and on edge but as far as I understand she was raised in a culture that values strength and tenacity over everything and generally regards empathy as a sign of weakness, one which will inevitably lead to failure and is therefore a threat to her people in their constant battle.

"Toss me!" "Don't tell the vamp!"

They're drunk as fuck, lol. I tried accepting two invites, but only one triggered, which was fine. Shadowheart was my choice, as I can't stand lae'zel, asterion, and gale

@@cakeyeater7392Lae’zel I get by why the other two?

@@ChromaticEagle keep in mind, I'm only in act one: Asterion is dramatic, and hates my selfless heroism. Gale is just annoying. Eats magic items, complains, dramatic, pushy.

there are many thirsty people....

Nothing like life-or-death encounters to give everyone a case of the horny.

is it a huge lore thing?

it's excellent lore!! (did I hold onto the other bit of non-weapon amber with droplets of blood? throughout the whole game? shut up LOL)

Wdym "not necessarily the most powerful item in there"? It's an item that deletes all act 2 difficulty and trivializes what a lot of people considering the hardest fight in act 3.

I loved it. Every minute

@@isaacgraff8288 I demand a polyamory patch from Larian, so Shadowheart won't friendzone me after I slept with Karlach. We can all bang each other, guys!

I did something worse. My character kissed her and then told her we got wrapped up in the moment.

@@aerieleah533 Don't do that to Karlach, or Scratch will eat you in your sleep.

​@@aerieleah533Why you gotta crush her precious little heart like that...

Not since...the accident.

She's not a tsundere, the first piece of her romance dialog is literally "your scents make me crazy". Shadow heart is the tsundere.

Minthara is dommy mommy

@@jasonlu9562 Shadowheart: Slowburn Tsundere Karlach: Deredere Tomboy Minthara: Dommy Mommy Lae'zel: Kuudere FWB to Lovers

@@SUPERSONICGIRLIFYnah Karlach is a genki girl

So far I want her on my team but I am a little disappointed with how they introduced her. Thinks I'm a thrall so she goes to attack me but mind powers activate and somehow that convinces her I'm not part of the group that use mind powers? Then again it should of been expected when they said "you only remember your name" and then they go on describing how you remember having the tadpole put in you just 2 seconds later. So much for only remembering the name.

It can be both you know? But man, getting past that initial personality of sandpaper is rough... She does a *really* good job of pushing you away.

​@@jacobellis2313I feel the same way about Astarion.

@@jacobellis2313 Yes, because your tadpoles are **spoilers** She knows how they work, she realizes your like her. Says screw it, survival in numbers. Normally she'd kill an intellect devourer on sight too.

@@Archris17 It can be. But she is a fanatical soldier, the only thing she has ever known was war and death. She acts the way she acts, because that's the only thing she ever knew. No one has ever shown her compassion or love. This is important as a characterisation and if you want that characterisation to be strong, the initial impression of her can only ever be bad.

Yes, but he's flamboyant as hell, so anything he does is gay. Even fucking a woman is gay if he does it.

I think Astarion is just.....Astarion. Like Todd from Scrubs :D

I thought all the companions were playersexual

I mean, he's a vampire (spawn, but close enough), it's a requirement that they be bi/pan.

@@thorleif8872you mean The Todd

I know, right? I've got at least six Genasi characters from the tabletop that I really want to recreate in-game

I presume there will be mods adding more races, other than that, I'd happily pay for race and subclass DLC's.

Tbh I just want gobbo

​@the_tactician9858 fantastical multiverse adds 54 races and you can get artificer as well through modding.

They have to keep something for bg4 and bg5. And I'm not being snarky, that's reality of this business. Imagine bg4 where they introduce artificers, gnomes and war forge and build the game story around it.

An also decent way to thin the group is, if you have it, use the cat familliar to lure them one by one into a dark corner and murk them there. It's a bit tricky since they tend to walk back quickly when they lose interest in the cat, but it certainly is a way to ammass a decently large body pile!

@@greenumbrella6249 Very easy to handle in turn-based mode though. Summon the cat, immediately go turn-based mode and take care of things.

@@Dragon_Lair Yeah, that'd be the smart thing to do. But I am not smart and tend to forget that turn-based mode exists outside of combat

Boy, the Shadowheart almost accident was WILD

i've heard that her personal arc is really really good but i do find her initial abrasiveness offputting. im probably not gonna really get to know the deeper layers of her character until ive done a few playthroughs already lol

Her abrasiveness is understandable when you look at it from her perspective: as far as you are all aware you are gonna turn into mindflayers in a matter of days, so she’s no doubt frustrated at all the sidetracking instead of getting to the crèche to be healed. She’s also by far the youngest member of the group, and has never experienced life or people outside of her dogmatic cultish society. Meeting you is literally her first experience with the rest of the world. It makes sense that she starts off as she does, and it makes it all the more rewarding as she learns and grows as a person to the point she truly cares about all of you. It’s a bit saddening people don’t give these characters a chance just because they aren’t besties with your MC from the getgo, if you overlook any of them you’re missing out on a lot of good content. Each member of the crew is a nuanced fully formed personality with struggles and growth.

@@knockoutroundabout oh yeah, i fully understand why she's so hostile at first. i like that she has an understandable reason for being that way - the material plane is as alien to her as she is to the rest of the party - and i like that you have to consciously put the effort in if you want to push past that and establish a proper bond with her. she's very well written, and it _is_ a tragedy that so many people won't get to see that because the outermost layer to her character is so harsh. (there's also the fact that audiences tend to be way less lenient to female characters who skew towards cruelty or evil than male characters of the same morality but that's its own can of worms)