Now, I've started going back in time to make these videos. Next step, I'm gonna have to break into Swen's office and look through his old notes. Act 1 asylum video is here: ruclips.net/video/CcZxy4EoaD4/видео.html
Thank you so much! 💚 Your Channel and these fantastic Videos are awesome! - Hope I will get as cool as you, with my (german) Let's Plays. Would be a dream. - Wish you a lot of success!! 💥
The few days before they added Minthara's backup clothes was hilarious. Seeing such a dramatic cutscene with nobody addressing that Minthara was stark naked is just pure gold.
@@thesphericalbeanbag4030 we all miss the glory days of old. It won't even let you loot her underwear anymore. Says it can't be removed. And they dumped a junk non magical mace in her inventory that also can't be removed so she still has a weapon in Act 2. (Raise your hand if you took her with you to see Sarevok after they finally removed the bug where all she would do is tell you Gale is dumb for wanting to blow himself up and you couldn't add her ro your party.... only to realize you had looted all her shit so she couldn't smite... that was me, I faught Sarevok with an unarmed Minthy.)
I liked how it was before. Was pretty dark seeing her *completely* vulnerable before ketheric. When I saw it on my first playthrough I was like “damn what is this game of thrones?”
LOL i did this my second playthrough when i realized i killed her in my first one, knocked her out, took her inventory, realized what i did, forgot about it, and then got jumpscared in act 2 at moonrise!! it was hilarious, truly a loss with the removal of that :,)
"Yugir's memory foam mattress..." I absolutely love seeing all the behind the scenes stuff you find and then you drop a line like that and I literally spit out my water! lol. Thanks for being so informative and entertaining!
Maybe it's nothing or i'm reading too much into it but i found it odd that the nurse in act 2 always talks about treating ONE patient even though both of arabella's parents are on the cutscene, maybe it was originally only ment to be her mother. That way she's always treating one patient, arabella's mother or the goblin if they are already dead.
Wait wait what goblin? The ones you can banish from moonrise?? Also, I totally agree that the single patient stuff is weird- I've also had it only let me speak with dead with one of them
@cocoecake if Arabella's parents don't make it to the Shadowcursed Lands (maybe you helped Minthara raid the grove), the nurse is "treating" a dead goblin stand in
@@SlimXG I absolutely don't mind waiting when you put this much detail into your videos. When you've finished this series I'd love to see a full cut content breakdown of BG3 if you don't have one already!
In early access Shadowheart had a different dialogue after her wound flared up and she was hinted to be a some sort of sorcerer. In the script there is still a dialogue called CAMP_Shadowheart_Wildmagic with the flag GLO_ShadowHeart_Knows_WildMagic. It's slightly different from what I remember and sorcerers had a special dialogue with her that was a lot less hostile than the normal dialogue.
Yeah, I had wondered why that dialogue was called, "wildmagic" but I had never played EA. It's interesting how much of the related dialogue _didn't_ change, even after they switched her hands around.
If you're digging back into early access, I would like to request a video detailing Wyll and his alternate self before the ground-up rework we got instead. A lot of people don't know about his stone eye formerly being a sending stone and how he was contacted by Mizora, so I'm quite curious what else was lost in the rework, and if anything of note is left over. Thank you again for an excellently made video.
I can take a look, though the modern versions of the tools I have struggle with some of the older versions. Most importantly, the dialogue parser doesn't work with most of them, so it's hard to look through specific conversations.
@@JacksonJinn if you're I think specifically a sorc, don't remember if it also works for wizards, you notice that it's a sending stone and can bother him about it. He disapproves, tries to deny it, and then tells you to stop prying indy his business. After you free Mizora in the flayer colony, if you bothered him about it in Act 1, he'll relent and confirm that it's a sending stone.
@@SlimXG If there's not enough to do anything with, no worries, I appreciate looking into it as deep as plausible to do all the same. It's tough to find much Early Access footage of Wyll specifically so this is a curiosity of mine, but if it's lost, it's lost, I get it.
I can not wait for the third part of this series and the early access deep dives. I have been looking forward to this vid since i finished the first part. Great work
19:44 you used to be able to save while the cutscene was happening, and then reload. This would result in your whole party(?) (or just you) now being mindflayers at level 8. You could then quicktravel out of there and play the rest of the games as a mindflayer, although you couldnt level up or down.
i really like seeing stuff like this because it's a reminder that game development is not usually elegant or tidy. "hmm, we can't do this thing without having a second character model. okay, we'll just hide it from view in a secret world." the quickest and easiest solution, requires minimal refactoring if any, it just looks a little silly to people who find it.
Once I found out why that platform is in the Act 1 asylum, I loved it. People kept trying to jump onto it in Grymforge and falling to their death, so they removed it in a patch. "Hey, get that platform outta there." So someone loads up the toolkit and just drags it into the asylum. Problem solved.
Oh man I can't wait for Early Access script! That's going to be fascinating. And PLEASE keep bullying Gale for hia braindead obsession with THE WEAVE. (I love Gale, but, wow, it's entirely too fun to bully and tease him)
These videos are so cool! Thank you for putting in the effort to go as far as you can with each thread until you cant anymore! Your effort is very much appreciated!
4:32 helia reference!! i spent a LONG time digging thru bg3 files a few months back, was equal parts draining as it was exciting! i look forward to seeing what you find, and if you have a discord or something to communicate ideas it'd be insanely cool to see then come to fruition!!
Loooove these kinds of videos, finding hidden goodies is my favorite thing about digging into video games. So looking forward to the early access stuff!
These videos are wonderful, it is amazing all the work you put into them. I love the Sharran placeholder names being puns on Shadowheart. I think I'd pick 'OvercastSmallIntestine' if I decided to follow Shar
Regarding 13:40, i think i just found a bug. I just got to act 2 as dark urge and, as one does, im keeping a corpse chest with every single npc i kill. upon entering act 2, some of the bodies just straight up disappear, all of which can appear at last light. specifically: alfira, the harpy tiefling kid, dammon, and 4 other tiefling kids
This is awesome! I loved your Act 1 video and I'm so happy you made an Act 2 - can't wait to see Act 3 and any other exploration of the Early Access files :D I just wanted to ask if you don't mind - when I was looking through the dialogue files I found a cut encounter between Voss and Lae'zel in the Intermezzo/the bit between Act 2 and 3 that involved a dragon. Is there anything still there in the Intermezzo Asylum or Act 3? Thank you so much again for your videos, I always really enjoy them and hope you have a lovely day :D
I even considered trying to include something about those unfinished gith scenes that happen in the INT camp, but the Fahra character isn't actually in the game files, and the scene has no voice acting. So I decided against just showing the text on the screen, since there's not much else I can do with it.
I would love a video where you explain the tools you use to tinker around the game files in such depth. I need to figure out the logic around Karlach's recruitment, trying to find another loophole using the vanilla game version in order to save both Wyll AND Karlach. I'd need to understand how those character flags work.
Well, to get you started, I can tell you that the flag the quest step that rewards the robe is looking for is this: GLO_Karlach_State_Dead_26f3c3b0-a9c8-40d6-8950-67c9b8e134e2
@@SlimXG Yes, exactly! I found this flag yesterday, but I wonder how and when it gets applied to the character. I tried to read the Story Editor using BG3 mod toolkit, but it's not enough... You can use jailbreaked Glut out of the underdark for delayed revive using reanimation spores. With good timing, you can reanimate Karlach as you proceed through Wyll's reward cutscene. My only issue is that something removes all dialogue options from Karlach once "Hunt the Devil" quest is completed, which prevents me to recruit her.
Karlach's romance cinematic can also happen in the regular camp in the shadowlands, the scene then happens in the old house with the fireplace in the background
11:25 it was possible to equip it befoere they patched the bug with weapon swaping, that was also used for Steel watcher weapons also, it was possible to obtain it looting ketheric body with certain conditions, idk if it is still possible
I know that in the current version, there's even specific code to send the scythe back to the asylum and set it OffStage if you disarm the Apostle. Not sure how looting would have worked, though.
i know there was an a video about it being able to loot from apostle before his death cutscene starts (like 0.5 seconds gap), you have to queue an attack spell with one character and switch to another so you can loot without waiting the attack/spell animation also, one time i managed make it stay inventory even after the cutscene, i had disarmed ketheric on the roof previous from freeing the nightsong, and stolen his hammer so he was using using a myrkul flail, and when he trasnformed in the apostle, his was not using the scythe, just the flail looking now i found a video that the guy revesed pickpocket ketheric with a bag with 3 clubs, and the apostle just use one of the clubs after, and the scythe was not remove from the body after too i guess if you mess with his inventory in a way that he has any other weapon than his original hammer, the apostle equip it instead and it gets removed after instead of the scythe
I remember doing act 2 on my PS5 a little while back, and for whatever reason, the dream visitor scene for act 2 did not move the dream visitor out of the asylum at all. Probably the wackiest thing Ive experienced
BG3 should do its own version of the dog endings from the Silent Hill series, where the party makes it to the end of the game and discovers that the Absolute was secretly Tara the Tressym all along
Maybe at some point, but I figure there are more other people making videos about how to beat Honour Mode than there are making videos of the sort I have been, recently.
@@generalmelchet Well, I certainly appreciate that. I wish I had the ability to get all these different videos done at the same time, but it takes me long enough as it is hahah.
@@fmartin185 I love the man, but wow, he's got little brother syndrome so I'm constantly teasing and bullying him. My friends are convinced I hate him. Me: nah, he's Durge's bestie, but Durge is a massive gremlin and listens to the voices whispering bad prank ideas in his ear.... the voices are just Astarion and Karlach.
I'm just 3 minutes in so I will keep editing my comment probably but Oh wow, awesome! I don't know if I prompted the talk about Shadowheart's old "parent torturing" datamines when I sent the archive thing (I sent it, right? I can't remember if the links worked) but seeing it explored further here was so interesting! I assume you've found the way to parse the old builds then? Looking forward to future vids! EDIT: Finished the video, amazing as always :D If I may humbly request it and you find that interesting enough, could you datamine and show the Spencer (halfling monster hunter that allies with Astarion when he meets the other Spawn at Moonrise Towers) encounter? Having lost my source to it and only having my memory to retell it is haunting lol. Thanks for making these!
So is Wot also you? I looked back at the stream video chat and saw what I realized was Wot/you/??? probably trying to link something, but I imagine links were blocked, and I didn't even notice at the time. I just took a guess that it was something from one of the EA builds, took the plunge and bought the game a second time on Steam (I play the GOG version) just to check, and was glad that I found it, there hahah. Funny/annoying thing is that the text parser just happens to (mostly) work on that particular build, but not on any of the other EA builds that I tested. I can still find stuff in dialogue with the raw files, but it's way slower and not something I can really show in a video. I did manage to find a little of Astarion meeting the other spawn, but didn't see anything directly related to Spencer in the same dialogue (at least not in the build I was looking at). I did find a couple triggers in the Act 2 asylum that are related to Astarion, but no use for them. One for Cazador and one for Dalyria.
@@SlimXG Hey, thanks for the detailed reply! I don't know who Wot is sorry, it was I believe a couple of your videos ago that I commented on one of them about how this tumblr with a bunch of EA datamines (including the "Spencer, Astarion and the other Spawn's confrontation" thing) had been deleted and I linked (I think I did manage to link that one?) the old Shadowheart flashback with her parents, since it had managed to survive on the wayback machine. Shame the parser doesn't quite work for other builds. And interesting that there were Dalyria triggers in act 2 (since it seems the Spawn got a big rework, it's interesting to see she already existed in some capacity at that point). I'd still be interested in seeing what you found about the Spawn, since I'm bummed out the tumblr with all the info is mostly gone. I couldn't salvage much on the internet archive. EDIT: Ok, for clarification, I went back to check my comment and it seems I had hallucinated linking the Shadowheart thing (because I probably did at first, and then it got filtered as spam). I only talked about what I remembered about Spencer and my search for more stuff on the internet archive. Sorry about that!
@@RandomGamefriends Hahah ok, so the confusion is that 1) Right, I never saw you make any comment about Shadowheart's torture stuff from EA. 2) During the stream I did a little while back, someone else named Wot also mentioned that same EA Shadowheart stuff while I was talking about her "sister" being in the asylum. I think Wot *also* tried to link me the parsed dialogue of that scene, but the link was also filtered, so I never saw it. What I'm currently looking for is the older versions of Norbyte's script extender that worked during EA, since the current releases on Github only work in recent patches of the full game. I can still manipulate the EA game to some degree using Cheat Engine, but I can't send Osiris commands or manipulate the database without script extender console. So I can't do things like fire up a dialogue, for example.
@@SlimXG Thanks once more for the reply. The tumblr that got deleted used what seemed to be a pretty annoying method to datamine, since whenever they posted screencaps it looked like notepad screenshots. I think they were definitely using cheat engine as they often uploaded videos of scenes behind the Impossible flag.
@@RandomGamefriends In the past, I downloaded an old, already-parsed set of dialogue from I believe it was EA9, and it was also in that rough text format, rather than HTML. I think perhaps the earliest version of the parser worked that way.
If you get a moment, or if anyone else knows, please share the ID/UUID for Myrkul's Presence buff that transforms you into the Avatar. That'd be so cool to play with! I tinkered a bit with Cheat Engine but I regrettably didn't find it.
I had a bug on patch 5 when Rolan's hologram projection appeared on that counter after Marcus kidnapped Isobel, despite Rolan's corpse lying in front of blighted Moonhaven gate (evil run). I was so confused I ran to shadowed battlefield to check and of course no Rolan
Can't rule anything out, though standing near him doesn't _necessarily_ mean any connection. The version of human Balduran seen in the flashback cinematic looks nothing like that, but then again, it is also just a memory . .
Sounds like _someone_ has never romanced Karlach. Dammon upgrading her engine with the Infernal Iron lets her touch people by . . turning blue, somehow. Any time things get physical with Karlach, she turns blue. As I mentioned in the intro, the game is not modded.
@@jefthereaper As soon as Dammon upgrades her in Last Light Inn, you unlock the next step in the romance. From that point on, any time you get physical, her flame effects turn blue.
SPOILER WARNING It would be interesting to know where the other party members are during certain camp scenes. For example in the Dark Urge camp scene in Act II wherein Scleritas Fel tells you to kill your lover, in my case Shadowheart; only her and I were on camera but somehow the aura from the Resonance Stone I had in Astarion's inventory affected my saving throw attempts... I had to reload
So what happens if you for example kill anyone who is supposed to appear later from the asylum? Will the game ressurect them? Or cutscenes will go normally but without those dummies? Or will the game just crash?
It depends on the sort of thing the character/dummy is used for. If you have a one-on-one conversation with a dummy, it seems to play even if you've killed the dummy. But if it is a multi-character conversation, where the dummy needs to be pulled in along with whomever you first talked to, the dialogue will simply not play at all.
Now, I've started going back in time to make these videos. Next step, I'm gonna have to break into Swen's office and look through his old notes.
Act 1 asylum video is here: ruclips.net/video/CcZxy4EoaD4/видео.html
Thank you so much! 💚 Your Channel and these fantastic Videos are awesome! - Hope I will get as cool as you, with my (german) Let's Plays. Would be a dream. - Wish you a lot of success!! 💥
The few days before they added Minthara's backup clothes was hilarious. Seeing such a dramatic cutscene with nobody addressing that Minthara was stark naked is just pure gold.
@@thesphericalbeanbag4030 we all miss the glory days of old. It won't even let you loot her underwear anymore. Says it can't be removed. And they dumped a junk non magical mace in her inventory that also can't be removed so she still has a weapon in Act 2. (Raise your hand if you took her with you to see Sarevok after they finally removed the bug where all she would do is tell you Gale is dumb for wanting to blow himself up and you couldn't add her ro your party.... only to realize you had looted all her shit so she couldn't smite... that was me, I faught Sarevok with an unarmed Minthy.)
I liked how it was before. Was pretty dark seeing her *completely* vulnerable before ketheric. When I saw it on my first playthrough I was like “damn what is this game of thrones?”
I somehow figured out that this would happen, and because of it, I've never stolen her underpants. What a strange thing to type. lol
LOL i did this my second playthrough when i realized i killed her in my first one, knocked her out, took her inventory, realized what i did, forgot about it, and then got jumpscared in act 2 at moonrise!! it was hilarious, truly a loss with the removal of that :,)
I love how much effort was put into writing Asylum on the floor. Just the right amount.
After the only bothered with the "A" in Act 1, and then never wrote it again in any other maps. Act 2 is special.
Shadowheart: meet my family, this is my mother Eclipse Kidney, my sisters Dark Liver and Umbral Spleen
Rest of the party: 🤢🤨😏
"Yugir's memory foam mattress..." I absolutely love seeing all the behind the scenes stuff you find and then you drop a line like that and I literally spit out my water! lol. Thanks for being so informative and entertaining!
And here I wasn't sure if that joke would land . . Thanks for continuing to watch!
Oh boy, i cant describe how much i waited for a second part!
*Karsus.*
Maybe it's nothing or i'm reading too much into it but i found it odd that the nurse in act 2 always talks about treating ONE patient even though both of arabella's parents are on the cutscene, maybe it was originally only ment to be her mother. That way she's always treating one patient, arabella's mother or the goblin if they are already dead.
Wait wait what goblin? The ones you can banish from moonrise?? Also, I totally agree that the single patient stuff is weird- I've also had it only let me speak with dead with one of them
@cocoecake if Arabella's parents don't make it to the Shadowcursed Lands (maybe you helped Minthara raid the grove), the nurse is "treating" a dead goblin stand in
I love the way you think of EVERYTHING you could possibly check, amazing work
I probably overcheck things, which is why these videos take so long to make hahah.
@@SlimXG I like the authenticity of having no stone left unturned so I don’t mind the wait if you don’t mind the work
@@SlimXG I absolutely don't mind waiting when you put this much detail into your videos. When you've finished this series I'd love to see a full cut content breakdown of BG3 if you don't have one already!
@@dakotahondalock5621 I'm glad you like it, and I love being thorough. Getting videos out faster would help my growth as a RUclipsr, though hahah.
In early access Shadowheart had a different dialogue after her wound flared up and she was hinted to be a some sort of sorcerer. In the script there is still a dialogue called CAMP_Shadowheart_Wildmagic with the flag GLO_ShadowHeart_Knows_WildMagic. It's slightly different from what I remember and sorcerers had a special dialogue with her that was a lot less hostile than the normal dialogue.
Yeah, I had wondered why that dialogue was called, "wildmagic" but I had never played EA. It's interesting how much of the related dialogue _didn't_ change, even after they switched her hands around.
If you're digging back into early access, I would like to request a video detailing Wyll and his alternate self before the ground-up rework we got instead. A lot of people don't know about his stone eye formerly being a sending stone and how he was contacted by Mizora, so I'm quite curious what else was lost in the rework, and if anything of note is left over.
Thank you again for an excellently made video.
I can take a look, though the modern versions of the tools I have struggle with some of the older versions. Most importantly, the dialogue parser doesn't work with most of them, so it's hard to look through specific conversations.
@@JacksonJinn if you're I think specifically a sorc, don't remember if it also works for wizards, you notice that it's a sending stone and can bother him about it. He disapproves, tries to deny it, and then tells you to stop prying indy his business. After you free Mizora in the flayer colony, if you bothered him about it in Act 1, he'll relent and confirm that it's a sending stone.
@@bunnyboygamille No kidding? Huh. Very cool. My perpetual paladin playthroughs left me unable to see that.
@@SlimXG If there's not enough to do anything with, no worries, I appreciate looking into it as deep as plausible to do all the same. It's tough to find much Early Access footage of Wyll specifically so this is a curiosity of mine, but if it's lost, it's lost, I get it.
@@JacksonJinn I have a few ideas for better shovels to dig into EA, so we'll see how well those pan out.
The Crown
Mystra
The orb.
The Weave.
Waterdeep.
Quick note: Balthazar himself is not from BG2:ToB, he took the name of monk leader and bhaalspawn, Balthazar. And his rib cage.
Yeah, I was just summing it up as a reference to BG2 when I said, "from." Though I've not played BG2, so I only know the basics.
I can not wait for the third part of this series and the early access deep dives. I have been looking forward to this vid since i finished the first part. Great work
19:44 you used to be able to save while the cutscene was happening, and then reload. This would result in your whole party(?) (or just you) now being mindflayers at level 8. You could then quicktravel out of there and play the rest of the games as a mindflayer, although you couldnt level up or down.
Hahah yeah, I never actually tried out that exploit, but I do remember seeing it in a video from Proxy.
i really like seeing stuff like this because it's a reminder that game development is not usually elegant or tidy. "hmm, we can't do this thing without having a second character model. okay, we'll just hide it from view in a secret world." the quickest and easiest solution, requires minimal refactoring if any, it just looks a little silly to people who find it.
Once I found out why that platform is in the Act 1 asylum, I loved it. People kept trying to jump onto it in Grymforge and falling to their death, so they removed it in a patch. "Hey, get that platform outta there." So someone loads up the toolkit and just drags it into the asylum. Problem solved.
UmbralSpleen sounds like some sort of an inside joke between a bunch of bored devs
Yeah, I'd love to know the story behind those three placeholder names . .
Think they're just playing off of Shadowheart's name. I guess all of Shar's followers are given a name that's just "something dark" + an organ.
@@patrickmattin9609 Hahah yeah, most likely. Good thinking.
EclipseKidney and DarkLiver were my favorites
Nightbrain, Dimbladder, Twilightcolon, Shadelung.
Oh man I can't wait for Early Access script! That's going to be fascinating.
And PLEASE keep bullying Gale for hia braindead obsession with THE WEAVE.
(I love Gale, but, wow, it's entirely too fun to bully and tease him)
I was SO happy to see this video pop up on my suggestions. Glad the first video did well enough for you to make one for act 2!
I hope you enjoy this one! If this one get decent views, too, then I'll keep going into Act 3.
So interesting to see all those hidden details ! can't wait for Act3 !
The Karsite Weave
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I really thought he was gonna say “The Orb” 😂
@@broadwaystar2b I was hoping for "Mystra"
How It's Made: Baldur's Gate 3
I'm about to go to bed but I suddenly have 20 minutes to spare! WOW!
These are my favorite Baldur’s Gate videos, I absolutely love seeing behind the curtain
These videos are so cool! Thank you for putting in the effort to go as far as you can with each thread until you cant anymore! Your effort is very much appreciated!
I'm very glad you enjoy 'em, and thank you for continuing to watch.
I would LOVE to see Early Access content! It's so interesting to see what they were planning and sadly had to cut.
I love this kind of content, the amount of time and effort one has to spend doing this is huge, you deserve more subs
4:32 helia reference!! i spent a LONG time digging thru bg3 files a few months back, was equal parts draining as it was exciting! i look forward to seeing what you find, and if you have a discord or something to communicate ideas it'd be insanely cool to see then come to fruition!!
These vids are amazing. I can't wait for Act 3! Or any unused stuff you could dig up there!
From what I remember of highschool biology, an elf and a human have 50% chance of producing a half-elf and 25% of either full elf or full human
That's for two half-elves. An elf and a human would only produce a half-elf.
The Karsite Weave 🗿
Mystra.
I absolutely love these videos! Thank you for making them! ❤❤ I’d love to see Act 3 as well as early access content!
Thank you for watching them! I'll see what else I can cook up.
@ looking forward to it!
Loooove these kinds of videos, finding hidden goodies is my favorite thing about digging into video games. So looking forward to the early access stuff!
16:28 GALE NOOOOOOOOOOOO
He'll feel better in the morning
i love these videos they’re like a challenge to see who is more thorough: you or larian
Absolutely amazing video man, can't wait for the Act 3 one if you'd make it!
Darkliver? Eclipsekidney? Not Larian circlejerking themselves 😭🫡
I love those names. Umbralspleen is probably my favourite.
Hey, hey now. My aunt's name is Eclipsekidney.
I have a very good friend in Rome called Eclipsekidney!
@ lucky you! i wish i had such interesting friends!
@@shayposting he has a wife you know
I loved the names of the random “Shadowheart Group”. Each name is “Something Dark” + “An Internal Organ”. EclipseKidney, UmbralSpleen, and DarkLiver.
These videos are wonderful, it is amazing all the work you put into them. I love the Sharran placeholder names being puns on Shadowheart. I think I'd pick 'OvercastSmallIntestine' if I decided to follow Shar
That's an excellent choice.
Regarding 13:40, i think i just found a bug. I just got to act 2 as dark urge and, as one does, im keeping a corpse chest with every single npc i kill. upon entering act 2, some of the bodies just straight up disappear, all of which can appear at last light. specifically: alfira, the harpy tiefling kid, dammon, and 4 other tiefling kids
They're all moved between acts, even if they're dead, so yep, I'd bet you that they're up in the asylum, now.
Thanks! Now I don't need to cry. Though, if you made an Act 3, that sure would make me smile!
We'll see how well this one does, if it'll be worth the time to do it. I wouldn't want you to be sad.
oh yes, shadowheart's extended family, darkliver and umbralspleen
This is awesome! I loved your Act 1 video and I'm so happy you made an Act 2 - can't wait to see Act 3 and any other exploration of the Early Access files :D
I just wanted to ask if you don't mind - when I was looking through the dialogue files I found a cut encounter between Voss and Lae'zel in the Intermezzo/the bit between Act 2 and 3 that involved a dragon. Is there anything still there in the Intermezzo Asylum or Act 3?
Thank you so much again for your videos, I always really enjoy them and hope you have a lovely day :D
I even considered trying to include something about those unfinished gith scenes that happen in the INT camp, but the Fahra character isn't actually in the game files, and the scene has no voice acting. So I decided against just showing the text on the screen, since there's not much else I can do with it.
I would love a video where you explain the tools you use to tinker around the game files in such depth.
I need to figure out the logic around Karlach's recruitment, trying to find another loophole using the vanilla game version in order to save both Wyll AND Karlach.
I'd need to understand how those character flags work.
Well, to get you started, I can tell you that the flag the quest step that rewards the robe is looking for is this:
GLO_Karlach_State_Dead_26f3c3b0-a9c8-40d6-8950-67c9b8e134e2
@@SlimXG
Yes, exactly! I found this flag yesterday, but I wonder how and when it gets applied to the character.
I tried to read the Story Editor using BG3 mod toolkit, but it's not enough...
You can use jailbreaked Glut out of the underdark for delayed revive using reanimation spores.
With good timing, you can reanimate Karlach as you proceed through Wyll's reward cutscene.
My only issue is that something removes all dialogue options from Karlach once "Hunt the Devil" quest is completed, which prevents me to recruit her.
Most fascinating BG3 videos I've ever seen!
Karlach's romance cinematic can also happen in the regular camp in the shadowlands, the scene then happens in the old house with the fireplace in the background
Right, that's the Private Camp Room for that particular camp. It's just the most boring looking one hahah.
YOU DID THE GALE THING AGAIN!!! I love you
😊
If the Voice of the Absolute was a tressym, it would suddenly become irresistible. Being in service to a winged cat for all eternity isn’t so bad…
11:25 it was possible to equip it befoere they patched the bug with weapon swaping, that was also used for Steel watcher weapons
also, it was possible to obtain it looting ketheric body with certain conditions, idk if it is still possible
I know that in the current version, there's even specific code to send the scythe back to the asylum and set it OffStage if you disarm the Apostle. Not sure how looting would have worked, though.
i know there was an a video about it being able to loot from apostle before his death cutscene starts (like 0.5 seconds gap), you have to queue an attack spell with one character and switch to another so you can loot without waiting the attack/spell animation
also, one time i managed make it stay inventory even after the cutscene, i had disarmed ketheric on the roof previous from freeing the nightsong, and stolen his hammer so he was using using a myrkul flail, and when he trasnformed in the apostle, his was not using the scythe, just the flail
looking now i found a video that the guy revesed pickpocket ketheric with a bag with 3 clubs, and the apostle just use one of the clubs after, and the scythe was not remove from the body after too
i guess if you mess with his inventory in a way that he has any other weapon than his original hammer, the apostle equip it instead and it gets removed after instead of the scythe
Torture is definitely how I'd describe most RUclipsr call to actions 🙏 I respect the grind though
That's me trying to compete with the Tik Tok channel that rips off all my videos (as well as other BG3 creators) without being TOO obnoxious.
@@SlimXGit's totally fine, appreciate all your work ❤
I remember doing act 2 on my PS5 a little while back, and for whatever reason, the dream visitor scene for act 2 did not move the dream visitor out of the asylum at all. Probably the wackiest thing Ive experienced
BG3 should do its own version of the dog endings from the Silent Hill series, where the party makes it to the end of the game and discovers that the Absolute was secretly Tara the Tressym all along
She definitely seems to be up to something . .
Hi SlimXG, thanks for these videos, but are you planning on making a Tips & Tricks video for Act III?
Maybe at some point, but I figure there are more other people making videos about how to beat Honour Mode than there are making videos of the sort I have been, recently.
@@SlimXG Thanks for the reply. I think you are right about that, but for what it's worth, I think yours is the best! Haha
@@generalmelchet Well, I certainly appreciate that. I wish I had the ability to get all these different videos done at the same time, but it takes me long enough as it is hahah.
Love these videos! Keep doing them until there is nothing fun to cover!
The Karsite Weave? Gale's repertoire is expanding!
Just wait until you hear about The Crown of Karsus
Can't wait to hear all different and awesome things Gale has to say! 😉
i absolutely love these videos.
14:44 I never noticed how Halsin walks just like Dr. Livesey
I want you to complete your series on tips and tricks for Honor mode act 3!
Damn Gale room is amazing waterdeep too , ugh I need a dlc
i'm glad i still got my early access save game and profile files from way back in 2022. hmmm. how does one go back to the early access builds?
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I will not let you degrade the great Gale Dekarios ! But i will allow breaking act 3 open ❤
@@fmartin185 I love the man, but wow, he's got little brother syndrome so I'm constantly teasing and bullying him. My friends are convinced I hate him.
Me: nah, he's Durge's bestie, but Durge is a massive gremlin and listens to the voices whispering bad prank ideas in his ear.... the voices are just Astarion and Karlach.
Umbralspleen! Not pictured was Shadowheart's brother, Sombraappendix
Or her cousin, Gloomlung
Oh damn, I almost left Act 2 without finding Arabella
I'm just 3 minutes in so I will keep editing my comment probably but Oh wow, awesome! I don't know if I prompted the talk about Shadowheart's old "parent torturing" datamines when I sent the archive thing (I sent it, right? I can't remember if the links worked) but seeing it explored further here was so interesting! I assume you've found the way to parse the old builds then? Looking forward to future vids!
EDIT: Finished the video, amazing as always :D If I may humbly request it and you find that interesting enough, could you datamine and show the Spencer (halfling monster hunter that allies with Astarion when he meets the other Spawn at Moonrise Towers) encounter? Having lost my source to it and only having my memory to retell it is haunting lol. Thanks for making these!
So is Wot also you? I looked back at the stream video chat and saw what I realized was Wot/you/??? probably trying to link something, but I imagine links were blocked, and I didn't even notice at the time. I just took a guess that it was something from one of the EA builds, took the plunge and bought the game a second time on Steam (I play the GOG version) just to check, and was glad that I found it, there hahah. Funny/annoying thing is that the text parser just happens to (mostly) work on that particular build, but not on any of the other EA builds that I tested. I can still find stuff in dialogue with the raw files, but it's way slower and not something I can really show in a video. I did manage to find a little of Astarion meeting the other spawn, but didn't see anything directly related to Spencer in the same dialogue (at least not in the build I was looking at).
I did find a couple triggers in the Act 2 asylum that are related to Astarion, but no use for them. One for Cazador and one for Dalyria.
@@SlimXG Hey, thanks for the detailed reply!
I don't know who Wot is sorry, it was I believe a couple of your videos ago that I commented on one of them about how this tumblr with a bunch of EA datamines (including the "Spencer, Astarion and the other Spawn's confrontation" thing) had been deleted and I linked (I think I did manage to link that one?) the old Shadowheart flashback with her parents, since it had managed to survive on the wayback machine.
Shame the parser doesn't quite work for other builds. And interesting that there were Dalyria triggers in act 2 (since it seems the Spawn got a big rework, it's interesting to see she already existed in some capacity at that point). I'd still be interested in seeing what you found about the Spawn, since I'm bummed out the tumblr with all the info is mostly gone. I couldn't salvage much on the internet archive.
EDIT: Ok, for clarification, I went back to check my comment and it seems I had hallucinated linking the Shadowheart thing (because I probably did at first, and then it got filtered as spam). I only talked about what I remembered about Spencer and my search for more stuff on the internet archive. Sorry about that!
@@RandomGamefriends Hahah ok, so the confusion is that 1) Right, I never saw you make any comment about Shadowheart's torture stuff from EA. 2) During the stream I did a little while back, someone else named Wot also mentioned that same EA Shadowheart stuff while I was talking about her "sister" being in the asylum. I think Wot *also* tried to link me the parsed dialogue of that scene, but the link was also filtered, so I never saw it.
What I'm currently looking for is the older versions of Norbyte's script extender that worked during EA, since the current releases on Github only work in recent patches of the full game. I can still manipulate the EA game to some degree using Cheat Engine, but I can't send Osiris commands or manipulate the database without script extender console. So I can't do things like fire up a dialogue, for example.
@@SlimXG Thanks once more for the reply. The tumblr that got deleted used what seemed to be a pretty annoying method to datamine, since whenever they posted screencaps it looked like notepad screenshots. I think they were definitely using cheat engine as they often uploaded videos of scenes behind the Impossible flag.
@@RandomGamefriends In the past, I downloaded an old, already-parsed set of dialogue from I believe it was EA9, and it was also in that rough text format, rather than HTML. I think perhaps the earliest version of the parser worked that way.
If you get a moment, or if anyone else knows, please share the ID/UUID for Myrkul's Presence buff that transforms you into the Avatar. That'd be so cool to play with! I tinkered a bit with Cheat Engine but I regrettably didn't find it.
Turning everyone into the Lord of Bones.. I am cooked.
I wonder what Gale thinks about this...
I wouldn't ask him, if I were you . .
Act 2 my beloved
love these videos!
The Legend returns!
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I had a bug on patch 5 when Rolan's hologram projection appeared on that counter after Marcus kidnapped Isobel, despite Rolan's corpse lying in front of blighted Moonhaven gate (evil run). I was so confused I ran to shadowed battlefield to check and of course no Rolan
The hologram even knows when real Rolan is dead and says different things to Cal and Lia.
Wasn't a bug then? But wait, Cal and Lia's bodies lie next to Rolan's. How did this hologram even appear in Last Light. Must be a bug
I bet Larian is perfectly aware of this guy and they enjoy his content. :) I do too.
Tips for act 3 when?..
How did you apply the Apostle Aura/Myrkul Aura to yourself? What's the UUID look like in Cheat Engine? That's sick
The condition is "MOO_KETHERIC_APOSTLEFORM"
I had weird bug when clearly I was romancing Shadowheart, I somehow that night area to hang out with Gale.
You can always go hang out with Gale under the stars, it just doesn't go any farther than that unless you're already dating him
18:40 He's standing next to the Emperor, could this be Balduran before his transformation?
Can't rule anything out, though standing near him doesn't _necessarily_ mean any connection. The version of human Balduran seen in the flashback cinematic looks nothing like that, but then again, it is also just a memory . .
16:02 Now hold on, please explain why Karlach has blue visuals here.
Is that a actual thing or a mod?
Sounds like _someone_ has never romanced Karlach. Dammon upgrading her engine with the Infernal Iron lets her touch people by . . turning blue, somehow. Any time things get physical with Karlach, she turns blue. As I mentioned in the intro, the game is not modded.
@SlimXG I did romance her, but apparently I missed a upgrade?
I thought you could only do it 3 times, once for each chapter?
@@jefthereaper As soon as Dammon upgrades her in Last Light Inn, you unlock the next step in the romance. From that point on, any time you get physical, her flame effects turn blue.
@@SlimXG Weird, never happened for me.
scourge seems like a reference to a character of the same name from thor ragnarok
Now that you mention it, there *is* some resemblance . .
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It would be interesting to know where the other party members are during certain camp scenes.
For example in the Dark Urge camp scene in Act II wherein Scleritas Fel tells you to kill your lover, in my case Shadowheart; only her and I were on camera but somehow the aura from the Resonance Stone I had in Astarion's inventory affected my saving throw attempts... I had to reload
If that scene happens after you initiate a Long Rest, then you're probably all lying snug in your beds
@@SlimXG It does. I guess they're invisible in bed for the cutscene
More more more!
I love these videos!!
🗿Mystra
Do act 3 next!
So what happens if you for example kill anyone who is supposed to appear later from the asylum? Will the game ressurect them? Or cutscenes will go normally but without those dummies? Or will the game just crash?
It depends on the sort of thing the character/dummy is used for. If you have a one-on-one conversation with a dummy, it seems to play even if you've killed the dummy. But if it is a multi-character conversation, where the dummy needs to be pulled in along with whomever you first talked to, the dialogue will simply not play at all.
Must see act 3!
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Gale: The Crown
"Read down list of cheats for a hidden message"
"Just Kidding There's No Hidden Message"
>:(
It took two videos of that picture to finally hook someone
7:05 i wondered how i had two pairs lol
I love scourge
Such a cool vid
Act 3, please!!!
UMBRALSPLEEN
please act 3
I cast speak with bed spell
You could probably find out a lot of sordid secrets, with that one . .
@ Gale: STOP LICKING THE DAMN THING
let's go
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Gale is the kind of guy who doesn't play the piano but has a piano anyway just to look cultured.
Scourge might have been the stone lord before Minsc was added.
You don't need knock, just Astarian speced into thief and a couple other bonuses
I meant no way to avoid the lockpicking other than Knock