Baldur Gate 3 preview: How is it different from Divity: Original Sin 2?

Rebuilding a franchise with as good a brand as Baldur's Gate after 20 years is coming Load. There are expectations from Baldur Gate lovers who hope to see familiar characters and places. There are Dungeons & Dragons obsessives who claim that all the spell and skill apply exactly to the video game as it happens to the tablet version. And then there are the Larian Studios teams who have already loved their series Divity and are looking forward to that Gate 3 of Baldur hews next to this format. Can this role-playing game shape all these camps together? Based on what we saw this week, the answer is yes. But it doesn't look easy.

How do you combine Baldur Gate's legacy with the modern Divity combat engine? After watching the two-hour demo Gate 3 of Baldur, it is clear that Larian's solution is to use almost all the development from Divity: Original Sin Games, but they have translated it into Dungeons & Dragons Ruleset to create a classic and new hybrid.

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The Deity and the D&D Drawing coat?

Deity: Original sin and the following have been modern graphics in the classic computer game genre (CRPG), made famous first by games such as Baldur Gate. So it only makes sense that Divity engineer Larian Studios will download the restoration of the iconic factory.

But there is a problem with that: Dynamic games play very differently from Baldur Gate games.

In Deity: Original sin, for example, I can jump behind an enemy guard standing against a wall and drag him through a physics-based instrument. The original Baldur & # 39; s Gate Engine, built in 2D, had no physics to talk about. All fights took place on the same plane or at the same level, so altitude was not a concern – and there was no environmental interaction (fireball that turns a pool of water into smoke, for example) either.

Basically, playing Baldur's Gate was about spreading swords, swords, and direct damage. The conditions at hand were almost the same. In the meantime, in the Gravity games, the combination of the environment and reaching a higher level are the combination techniques that can make or break a fight.

In Gate 3 of Baldur, you can still use a physics engine to shoot someone from a high range (or put a heavy box) on him, as you can in the Gravity games. You can still set the oil heated pools with a well-placed fire spell (base of Gravity), and you'll still make a lot of impact by reaching the top.

After watching the demo, Gate 3 of Baldur it sounds like it contains 80% of that DNA Original sin 2 had to. If you had told me this Original sin 3, Had I not been shocked.

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What is different from the original sin?

D&D installations the franchise in the original Sin Sin model is seen in a number of ways, none of which lead to major game changes.

The sword in Divity can be classified as relating to 12-18 damage. In Gate 3 of Baldur, that same sword will be listed on, let's say, 2d6 damage. (That is about the D&D-number you get after pulling two six dice apart.) The result is the same; presented in some way.

There are other times in Gate 3 of Baldur that make communication in D&D more transparent, and provide greater mobility in Divity games. Drawing dice is a very important thing inside Gate 3 of Baldur

In Gate 3 of Baldur, you may have a higher Awakening ability, but you will still need to uninstall a 20-character deadlock to determine if you are successful. When you increase your ability, decrease the amount required to die. If you have real love, you'll probably need 3 or more deductions. The screen will literally show you death as it cuts, letting you know your fate, just as it would in a D&D tablet game.

Sometimes these dice events just happen. A death icon will appear above the characters to see if their Perception ability is high enough to recognize a poison trap in the ground. Gate 3 of Baldur it will let you know that you failed the check (as the dig manager) can do, but you will never know what you fail to see or where it is.

That is to say: Slow down.

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Captures the freedom of D&D

The magic of tabletop Dungeons & Dragons is a simple and flexible system. Do you want your orcish Bard to try and pull a few robots in the middle of a fight to get his attention? You can do that … as long as the roll of dice is right.

Clearly, in a video game there is no way to have that level of absolute freedom – to build wacky skills from pure thinking. But Larian's engine allows for a lot more flexibility than computer RPG yore. In one scene during a dive, an adventurer (a vampire skeptic) found himself covered in oil in a room with fire arrows shooting around. One wrong step meant a surefire death.

Lary's solution to this problem? The vampire makes a popular D&D spell called Mage Hand that creates tiny hand minutes that have a wiggle in the room. The hand was not a fighter, but was able to pick up the nearest box and toss it into the middle of the vampire & # 39; s jump, providing a safe fat-free perch that he could escape from the trap.

Unfortunately, the vampire then failed the check for strength, went down into the box and put them in the oil, and died, of course, to death by fire. But, good effort, isn't it? There are a few dozen other ways to solve this room and survive, and Larian allows players to use their complete tool to get out of the centers in various ways.

As for most obsessives camps, it's not hard to imagine any fan of Divity or D&D coming up Gate 3 of Baldur feel unfulfilled. D&D mechanics are endlessly famous, and they seem to fit into the existing RPG programs of Larian Studios with very little collision. Of course, making all of these variables work together into a stable game over time Gate 3 of Baldur the launch is a real challenge – the sign we saw definitely had some bugs to work on, which is expected at this stage of development. But if Larian can pull it off, that will be the real deal for everyone. Gate 3 of Baldur is scheduled to be released on Windows PC via Steam Early Access sometime in 2020, and comes with Google Stadia.