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If you found the companions in Baldur's Gate 3 to be a little too horny, well, it turns out that was due to a bug.

Relationships are a big part of the game's appeal, but there's no denying that companions come on a little too strong right from the off.

Speaking to TheGamer, game director Swen Vincke admitted that romances were bugged at the game's launch and have since been tweaked.

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[–] Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works 71 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I had a convo with gale at the celebration post goblin camp and he was all about inviting me to see some magic trick and I was like cool, sure why not

then I speak to asterion and he's like "so your'e gonna fuck gale huh? Good on ya man"

I was like, what?

the romance in this game is definitely forced and overly aggressive

[–] FracturedEel@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah I just had a scene where wyll asked me to dance and I was ready to dunk on him with my skillz but instead they danced and make out and the game didn't even ask me if I wanted to

[–] ______@lemm.ee 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

This is the classic mass effect dialogue option meme where you pick a mellow option and then the MC lashes out.

A: "No." B: "that's a great idea"

You pick a. Then: "Why would you ever suggest that idea, that's horrible, I want you out of my group!"

[–] JonEFive@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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Ugh, I hate bad PC writing. It's bad enough when it's "I agree 100%," "I agree 100% and wanna s your d," and "You're the stupidest, ugliest, evilest piece of absolute crap I have ever seen in my life and I'd kill you myself if it wouldn't get your blood in the carpet" but then some games just insist on somehow making it non-obvious which is which >:|

[–] bane_killgrind@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You might have missed a lot of signals over the years if you didn't grok that his hips weren't lying.

[–] BrandoGil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but that doesn't mean I wanted to be water brothers with him!

[–] correcthorsedickbatterystaple@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"hi lae'zel we just met --"

"i want your moisture"

ohhhhkay

[–] Cypher@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I literally took all the options that piss her off short of killing her and she still tried coming onto my PC.

I really hope that has been fixed.

[–] JonEFive@midwest.social 15 points 1 year ago

I mean, being a combative dick to her is pretty much her aphrodisiac.

[–] pory@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any other character I'd agree with you, but I wouldn't be surprised if Lae'zel is into that.

[–] SpiderShoeCult@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Yup, sounds pretty much in character.

Spoiler

I mean she literally has you fight her as a romantic encounter, initiative roll and all.

[–] Maolmi@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

Bae'zel fucking me after I slaughtered the whole goblin camp was totally ok for her character.

[–] Trystan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The article said it was a bug remember

[–] Chev@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never went to camp when they invited me to the party and the next time I saw everybody was in act 2. Did I miss a lot?

[–] Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Kind of sorta not really?

It's a fun wrap-up to act 1 before you dive into the underdark or the mountain pass. It also serves as an important relationship set-up - it's where you're meant to establish who you want to romance, if anyone.

But it's probably not required so

[–] fiah@discuss.tchncs.de 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

they've been tweaked? I started playing last week and I still feel like everyone is desperate for what's in my pants

[–] geosoco@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago

Maybe you just know how to charm people?

[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

There’s been at least one patch and one hotfix in the past week, one of them might have done it

[–] chase_what_matters@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

I think I have this same bug [humps comment button]

[–] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

God I wish I loved this game as much as I love the headlines it makes, but my max CHA archfey warlock failing every other persuasion roll just left a bad taste in my mouth.

[–] BrainisfineIthink@lemmy.one 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you tried having better luck?

[–] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

Yes, but on the way I tripped over a black cat and fell under a ladder onto a mirror, which then broke.

[–] holupwaitaminute@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It took me til halfway through Act 2 to realize you're supposed to click on roll bonuses like Guidance before rolling in order for them to be added to your total

[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

The fact that you didn't know this means you were not getting the guidance bonuses from the deity.

If that happened to me in tabletop, I'd probably go knock over some tables at their respective chapel

(Take it as in-lore and with good humor lol)

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To be fair, even with the bonuses, and karmic dice enabled, you can still end up rolling a 1 multiple times in a row.

That's why I save on the roll screen before I toss the die. Go through inspiration/tools first. Then reload if I get fucked over. Because it just sucks failing a DC10 when you can only fail on a 1, since the game does not let you just take a 10.

[–] Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Disable karmic dice and save scum before you roll.

[–] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

The save scumming is what pulled me out of the game. :( Felt like I was meta gaming and I didn't want to do that in a D&D game.

[–] JackOfAllTraits@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

That makes a lot of sense.

[–] MudMan@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

Aaaw, but I liked getting jumped by everybody immediately. Made those charisma points feel earned.

[–] notannpc@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

My wife, a player since the early betas, was shocked that in the first 10 hours of playing after release I had already banged laezel despite my lack of interest in the romance aspect of the game.

This makes that make way more sense.

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago
[–] Yellingatbirds@lemmynsfw.com 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am pretty sure gale is still bugged. You can gain approval from him several times in a single conversation and he isn't even present for it. Everyone else has to be in your party in order to gain approval but gale apparently sees all.

It's almost a funny character trait that he is a horny dude. In one conversation you talk about him needing friends and if you say that you can be his friend he immediately hits on you. Buddy, if you didn't hit on everyone all the time then maybe you had more friends.

Buddy, if you didn’t hit on everyone all the time then maybe you had more friends.

Haynow, some critters respond well to that!

[–] pory@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been watching a friend play and absolutely noticed that the romance stuff is a lot slower. everyone wanted to jump my wizard bones about 18 hours in, though it's very easy to just not flirt with them. Meanwhile she's 28 hours in and Shadowheart (who was trying to get me in bed with her in the first 10 hours of my play through) still hasn't propositioned her.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Guess I missed out because 90 hours in and shadowheart just recently propositioned me despite us having a relationship for the last 80 hours lol. But Gale... I back out of him showing me a magic trick cuz it got too flirty, and now he thinks we boned.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah it felt like at that moment everyone was corrupted by Slaanesh. Was awkward just tryna forward my companion quests.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 8 points 1 year ago

Seems better than Gandhi's nukes.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago

And here I thought I was just really good at character creation.

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

there goes my shot with the lizardwoman

[–] Pavidus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Funny, because the only character I'm trying to bone doesn't have any romantic dialogue, despite max approval.

C'mon Karlach, do something!

[–] ZugZug@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

I need more bugs..

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

If people liked it, it would have been a feature. 😉

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, me too.