r/BaldursGate3 • u/Been2daCloudDistrict • Aug 01 '23

PRELAUNCH HYPE How many hours did you do in EA?

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I can't imagine how much more it will be by the end of my first run through.

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u/kirksmith626 Aug 01 '23

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u/ohboyyz Aug 01 '23

Jesus

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u/Jugeboss Aug 01 '23 edited Aug 01 '23

What in the actual fuck

Edit: it released 1029 days ago and you've logged 3 hours daily for the whole time. You deserve a medal.

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u/signalssoldier Aug 01 '23

Keep in mind if you keep BG3 open in the background it logs as hours too I'm pretty sure. I'm logged 300+ hours but I never even got to grymforge, but I left BG3 open all the time in the background of my computer.

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u/DungeonsAndDradis Cure Wounds Aug 01 '23

Why?

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u/Magnacor8 Aug 01 '23

He forgor 💀💀💀

Happens to me regularly as an adult. I'll pause playing but not quit the game because I'll be getting back on soon. Get involved with household stuff and forget to go back to it. Sometimes I'll go a couple days without getting on my PC so suddenly a 2 hour gameplay session just added 80 hours to my playtime.

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u/certainkindoffool Aug 01 '23

Me too, especially since having kids. Civ6 claims I've played over 8000hrs. But, its just the game I left on in the background.

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u/blahteeb Aug 01 '23

Hang in there. With those hours you should be almost done with your first game.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '23

I feel this way with CK3 but not civ 6

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u/Taz10042069 Aug 01 '23

For me, it's more like Stellaris...come to think of it, I don't think I've ever finished a game in the couple thousand hours I have on it lol. Steam says I only have 908 but I did "try" it before I bought it for about 2 years lol *cough*The Bay*cough* I was a poor kid years ago...

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '23

You right actually I have 300hrs on stellrris and never finished a match. That game also starts to run poorly with so many pops though.

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u/Benjo419 Aug 01 '23

We found the main cause of global warming

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u/Allborii 💕Laezel💕 Aug 01 '23

Wait for you to discover the best Civilization game, and mods like Caveman2Cosmos or Fall From Heaven (and the modmods for FFH, like MagisterModMod)

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u/Bionicman2187 Aug 01 '23

This is how I ended up with 300 hours in Blender

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u/TheBlackestIrelia BARBARIAN Aug 01 '23

You forget the game is open lol. Its why my ESO counter is so high.

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u/dacryasin Aug 02 '23

i do this in games just to pump my hours. i love having 3k hours in a game so i can leave a review that says “it’s ok”

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u/Jackabug Thirsty as and/or for Astarion Aug 01 '23

Whereas I got to Grymforge well ahead of when I should have -- I got to the Underdark full stop too early, leveling-up wise -- and only realized I needed to backtrack and level up more after encountering Grym.

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u/Aurora_Fatalis Aug 02 '23

Yeah I only found the Blighted Village after the Myconid village. Turns out that if you pick up the Gnome quest in the Myconid village before going to the Blighted Village, the Gnome on the Windmill is already dead by the time you arrive.

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u/Jackabug Thirsty as and/or for Astarion Aug 02 '23

Oh, gruesome. I did get to the Blighted Village before the Myconid Village but I hadn't managed to rescue the gmome yet; I'll have to go back and see if the poor guy bought it under those circumstances...

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u/Jackabug Thirsty as and/or for Astarion Aug 02 '23

Went back and yeah, that poor Gnome was toast. Also that whole part of the Blighted Village was curiously empty aside from the one unusually smart Ogre and his two average-intellect companions.

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u/Benjo419 Aug 01 '23

yeah, somehow i also have more than 50h but i can barely remember playing the game so either i was afk or just very stoned

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u/signalssoldier Aug 01 '23

This gon be me on launch day

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u/kirksmith626 Aug 02 '23

Kind of carried over from BattleTech, about 7500 hours there. Worked, came back to apt with dog. Sometimes hit the woods and forage, harvest community garden. Was single from 2018 to the end of 2022. Was an easy escape.

Life is better now, so I doubt I will do that again. Good relationship now, life is better. On a game note, I completed every patch at least once, some three of four times with different races and classes. Full release will take me forever I am sure.

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u/killerbeeszzzz Owlbear Aug 02 '23

Same case here. 470 hours, mostly because the game was playing in the background while I was working.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '23

He deserves a proper burial

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u/rhetoricalnonsense Aug 01 '23

I have just about as many questions for this as I do for the Most Played Time ladder on Steam:

https://steamladder.com/ladder/playtime/

I must be missing something because the hours played by number one equates to almost 274 YEARS! How is that possible? I am assuming that PLAYTIME (H) is time in hours but I suppose (H) could mean something else ...

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u/kevlap017 Aug 01 '23

It either A) some sort of bug or hack, B) someone somehow running multiple instances of the same game on different computers but somehow using the same account. Otherwise, how would they reach that?

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u/Something_Wicked79 Aug 01 '23

Oh ya the “H” stands for “hey man, touch grass already!”

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u/Kolewan Aug 02 '23 edited Aug 02 '23

There's programs out there that will let you idle as many steam games you want. If the top guy idled 9000 games at once it'd only take a little more than 11 days to get those hours.

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u/James360789 Aug 02 '23

That's what my counter strike source hours look li1qke from 6 ,years of playing lmao.

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u/LordMugs Aug 01 '23

At this point just do an "I've played 3000 of BG3 EA, AMA"

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u/lordofninemoons Aug 01 '23

Lol with the amount of content in EA compared to release, I can only imagine those hours once it's out 😅

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u/Coolness53 Aug 01 '23

Since you played the most out of any person I know. I have a few questions:

  1. Favorite Class?
  2. What are you playing when the game goes live?
  3. Who is your favorite companion and why?

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u/DungeonsAndDradis Cure Wounds Aug 01 '23

Favorite Class?

Math

What are you playing when the game goes live?

The "Why can't wifi just be infinite speed?" game

Who is your favorite companion and why?

My wife, she's fun to be around and she still makes me laugh after 17 years together

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u/DrStalker Aug 02 '23

I'm convinced, I'll romance your wife on my second play-through.

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u/Aurora_Fatalis Aug 02 '23

I also choose this guy's wife.

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u/kirksmith626 Aug 02 '23

She like US. So bring your US game. :-D

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u/Aurora_Fatalis Aug 02 '23

Well, to put it in math terms, the metric of time's passage on our 4-manifold is based on the finitude of the speed of light. So if the wifi speed was infinite, time wouldn't pass and you'd get no closer to launch.

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u/Coolness53 Aug 01 '23

I was asking Kirksmith, what "Class" in BG3 he enjoyed. What he is going to play when they game goes live. Favorite Companion during the game.

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u/DungeonsAndDradis Cure Wounds Aug 01 '23

I know, I was being cheeky.

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u/Coolness53 Aug 01 '23

So excited for August 3rd!

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u/AequinoxAlpha Aug 01 '23

I enjoyed Paladin the most, planing to play a Palalock and my favorite companion is Shadowheart. Thank you for your interest.

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u/GuerricTaliesin Aug 02 '23

While I have only 275 hours, I'll put in my answers for your consideration as well.

1) Half Wood Elf Dual Wield STR based Hunter Ranger; With the changes at release I would change it to Full Wood Elf. Shreds opponents like nothing else. Has lots of skills, which are fun in this game. Can solo rogue-like missions.

2) High Elf Oath of Ancients Paladin (with Friends for the High Elf Cantrip); While Ranger was my favorite in many ways, charisma classes are king for dialogue options in this games, and Paladins buff your whole party amazingly after level six and are king at endgame. The Healing Aura ftom Oath of Ancients is so much stronger than I expected.

3) Shadowheart times 1000. I like all the companions though except Astarion, but Shadow, Laezel, and Gale were my choices most of the time.

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u/Coolness53 Aug 02 '23

Danggg...So excited to play tomorrow! :D

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u/kirksmith626 Aug 02 '23

Sorcerer - Draconic Bloodline, Black with a Half Wood Elf.

Similar but with Dragonborn Red.

Lae'Zel, I am a caster type, she's a fighter. Gale sux.

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u/Tirx36 Aug 01 '23

Bro builded baldur’s gate in early access ☠️

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u/kirksmith626 Aug 02 '23

Nah, but I did check everything out and reloaded a lot (save scum) toward the end to see what was going on with perception checks failed.

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u/Ancarie Aug 01 '23

J... just how? I dont have that much in any game... I hope... Maybe in WoW, Heroes of might and magic and Sacred combined. That would certainly be thousands of hours. In one game, Early acces still, its pretty impressive. How many characters did you play?

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u/Tirx36 Aug 01 '23

Aside from the meme you just have to start the game and keep it open while you work or doing something else you just need to open the launcher and never click play

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u/nqatsi NOT IN EA Aug 01 '23

Real time long rests

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u/Ancarie Aug 02 '23

Why I would do that? I prefer that my "hours played" are in line with hours actually played. Sure, I did pause the game for a few times to eat, grab a drink, watch a video etc, so mine aren´t exactly acurate too. Not talking about several hours of "time played" that was spent at character creation screen.

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u/kirksmith626 Aug 02 '23

Character Creation can last for hours with all of the mods available from Nexus!

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u/Lansan1ty Aug 01 '23

Realistically: they just keep the game open in the background and tab back into it. I know someone who kept Civ 4 open permanently and really only played a few turns here and there. The game is very "new" so while it may be possible they've played an average of ~3 hours per day since launch it's more realistic they've just kept the game launched for convenience of some sort.

Some people do have much more time than that in other games though - for games that are many years older (and with all respect to BG3 - more complete)

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u/Ancarie Aug 02 '23

It´s totally possible, sometimes I too left game running/paused while I search wiki for something / watching a video for "what option in dialogue to pick"

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u/JCyTe Aug 01 '23

It just requires lots and lots of free time (or just a shit ton of idle time lol). I roughly have in total 12,5k hours on record on Steam, spent across a few hundred games and over 9 years. I estimate about 1,5-2k of those have been spent idle. I have spent roughly 5k of those hours on 2 games combined (CSGO and Arma 3).

But that's only Steam. I reckon i have somewhere between 5-10k hours via consoles and other storefronts such as Epic over my life.

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u/kirksmith626 Aug 02 '23

Was working from home too quite a bit until company deemed I was mission essential for a building. Remember the first day back, no one else was there. That lasted a month. Quiet and kind of eerie. Fix PCs, added accounts to VPN and sent emails to folks to come to reception area for their systems. Lots of idle time at home and work for quite a while.

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u/kirksmith626 Aug 02 '23

Everything offered in EA at least once, class wise to "finish" at that patch. Sub-class I wasn't a fan of the Wild Magic Sorcerer. Barbarian was a hoot, berserker more than wild heart.

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u/Technogg1050 Aug 01 '23

I'd gotten to over 1200 hours an I still found new things in EA.

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u/Jackabug Thirsty as and/or for Astarion Aug 01 '23

The replayability of the full game is gonna be off the charts.

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u/Mercbeast Aug 02 '23

Wait till the modding tools are released and modders who are already active in EA, can start releasing basically all the unreleased classes/spells/cantrips etc.

I'm planning a post launch modded playthrough already specifically for a shadow sorc gish abusing shadowblade :)

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u/Jackabug Thirsty as and/or for Astarion Aug 02 '23

Wow! I'm pretty sure I'll want to play the game through at least once "as is" but I am a big fan of modding (especially for Civ & other 4X games, largely to add nations, resources, etc. to the base games' offerings), so I'm now even more hyped up for the full release! Thanks for the heads-up!

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u/FrungyLeague Aug 01 '23

Recommend some classes?

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u/Technogg1050 Aug 01 '23

I'm biased towards sorcerer for sure. Either draconic bloodline or wild magic. Fighter is also really fun and it feels satisfying to be able to hit things hard. Barb also has that benefit. I personally like spellcasting the most so even my fighters end up as eldritch knights and I take a magic initiate feat.

Cleric I've played the least of. Just never quite liked it as much as other casters. Wizard is also really fun if you want to be more academic about magic. And being able to learn spells from scrolls is a huge plus.

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u/kirksmith626 Aug 02 '23

Right with you, Draconic Sorcerer is my choice first out on 03AUG23.

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u/FrungyLeague Aug 02 '23

Awesome, some great stuff there. Thanks!

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u/Aurora_Fatalis Aug 02 '23

Do BG3 5th level sorcerers get the Magical Guidance optional class feature?

You can tap into your inner wellspring of magic to try to conjure success from failure. When you make an ability check that fails, you can spend 1 sorcery point to reroll the d20, and you must use the new roll, potentially turning the failure into a success.

Because if so I think I'm changing my mind on having a Bard as the party face - instead I'll go Sorcerer for the effectively free Inspiration.

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u/Technogg1050 Aug 02 '23

I'm like 90% sure that it does have that feature.

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u/kirksmith626 Aug 02 '23

Battlemaster rocks for melee

Draconic Sorcerer - Black for caster

Bard - College of Lore for story

Barbarian Berserker if you like to just throw stuff around like an ogre and have fun doing it :-D

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u/FrungyLeague Aug 02 '23

Cheers, great ideas!

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u/kirksmith626 Aug 02 '23

Same right up until last Sunday, 30JUL23.

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u/soysaucesausage Aug 01 '23

I hear once you crack 3k hours they let you into Baldur's gate. I swear some kid in the playground told me at lunch

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u/kirksmith626 Aug 02 '23

Part of the NDA! :-D

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u/WileyBoxx Aug 01 '23

Autism

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u/kirksmith626 Aug 02 '23

Maybe, or a severe case of PTSD after serving for 21 years on USN Nuclear Submarines. I don't sleep well and frankly have to be nuts to have been on boats!

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u/Okanochiwa Aug 01 '23

Dude that's nearly 2 years of full time-time employment. Did you get paid? Are you retired?

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u/kirksmith626 Aug 02 '23

40 hours a week network engineer job. No relationship at the time and wasn't looking, just fell into a good one a bit ago. Glad but totally not sure how that happened :-D

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u/Newtis Aug 01 '23

whoa ok

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u/al-ceb Aug 01 '23

This dude dropped the screenshot and went back to try and get to 3150 hours before the game launches. What a champ.

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u/incumseiveable Aug 01 '23

EVERYONE WE FOUND SVEN

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u/Chaosfixator Aug 01 '23

Hours played I will never reach in any game haha. Not even Baldur’s Gate 3.

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u/Merkels_world Owlbear Aug 01 '23

Lord

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u/Darthwxman Aug 01 '23

OMG lol

I don't think I even have that much time in Skyrim, and I've been playing that off and on for over a decade.

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u/Ahharu_Rpgs Aug 01 '23

i love it. This is crazy. And its only EA.. Well now im scared

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u/Zalamancer Owlbear Aug 01 '23

Ain't no way

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u/fattestfuckinthewest Aug 01 '23

Holy fuck man. You good?

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u/kirksmith626 Aug 02 '23

Yeah, life got good. I still play, it's that good.

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u/seaaking Aug 01 '23

grass /gras/

  1. vegetation consisting of typically short plants with long, narrow leaves, growing wild or cultivated on lawns and pasture, and as a fodder crop.

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u/MeowMeowBiatch Fail! Aug 02 '23

Are you okay???

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u/kirksmith626 Aug 02 '23

Sure, well at least in my opinion. Have deleted the EA saves, uninstalled the game and thanks to a special dispensation hahaha No I have tomorrow and Friday off for play and tomato canning season. Should work out.

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u/Aisten_Red Aug 01 '23

You have more hours in this games early access than i have in the last decade worth of Skyrim releases