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Baldur's Gate 3
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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)
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Guess I'm lucky that I haven't encountered any of these issues (except that super glaring "Characters turning toward you before dialogue mode starts" problem. Thank heavens that's fixed!) Slightly bummed that I don't see a fix for the issue of not being able to see what a perception check revealed. Just make the highlight last longer, please! Super frustrating to pass the check and not be able to see wtf it was for.
Similarly, it’s a bit broken that you see the perception check failed notifications. Like, ok, I don’t know what is there, but I know something is there. In real life I’d have no idea and I’d go on about my day.
In real life - yes, but not in DnD.
In 5th edition you are not supposed to know; this is what the Passive Perception score is for. If you're not specifically looking for anything, the DM is supposed to use your Passive Perception instead of rolling a check that would alert you to the existence of something hidden; if you are specifically looking, you roll Perception whether or not there is anything to find.
Yes, but who actually plays like that?
Really? Thanks, guess I got it wrong!
Yeah, and if you didn't see the failures, you wouldn't be tempted to save scum. I can see why they'd leave the notifications in by default; there's potentially a ton of content locked behind these kinds of checks. But I'd appreciate the option to turn them off.
There is a mod on Nexusmods to hide failed perception checks, but it's still beta and doesn't seem to work properly yet. Might be worth tracking.
they could add a cheat mode called "seer" or something, for people who want to do that and they could set their own perception boost.
iddt