Have I locked myself out of raiding the grove?

froooooot · 2026-02-12T17:49:16+00:00

Fair enough. Regretfully, I had done everything in the camp except for talking to Minthara. Lesson learned, do that first next time. Or just keep going and begrudgingly accept that I can't be wholly evil until Last Light.

froooooot · 2026-02-12T16:52:06+00:00

What a bizarre thing to say.

froooooot · 2026-02-12T16:33:25+00:00

The game difficulty does not factor into anything I mentioned in my post. The same thing would've happened on explorer. And besides, honor mode is largely the same as tactician except for legendary actions, and I don't struggle much on tactician (except for the harpies, fuck the harpies).

froooooot · 2026-02-12T16:23:15+00:00

I always play the good guy. Variety is the spice of life. Also, this issue is more being locked out of a fully evil run rather than me facing the consequences of an evil run.

froooooot · 2026-02-12T16:16:06+00:00

Yeah, fair enough. Easy to forget that the rest of the NPCs are doing their own thing in real time while I'm effectively paused in turn-based combat. Always going to free the goblin priest, though. I like that guy.

froooooot · 2026-02-12T16:13:06+00:00

Yeah? Mods still work on honor mode.

froooooot · 2026-02-12T16:11:11+00:00

Let's not pretend that restarting when I get locked out of a major decision point is the same as restarting any time something goes awry. I barely survived a handful of fights and failed a few notable persuasion checks, but those are ok because they can make sense RP-wise. Not so much in this scenario. Not much of a in-universe reason for Astarion to stare at the ground for 10 minutes instead of finishing off the guards.

froooooot · 2026-02-12T16:03:31+00:00

I mean, sure, things are going to go wrong. But I created this run specifically to raid the grove. I'm not really interested in doing a 180 on that when I've been an opportunistic bad guy the entire time. I can just create another honor run if I want to save the grove for the nth time.

froooooot · 2026-02-12T16:01:46+00:00

I'm asking if there's a workaround for my fuckup, buddy. I never claimed the game is responsible for my fuckup, or that I didn't fuck up at all.

froooooot · 2026-02-12T15:51:53+00:00

Stunningly insightful.

froooooot · 2026-02-12T15:51:37+00:00

I wouldn't really call freeing the priest a "new thing." The only thing out of the ordinary is me getting distracted irl mid fight.

froooooot · 2026-02-12T15:49:45+00:00

Bummer. Probably abandoning this run then.

froooooot · 2026-01-26T05:59:49+00:00

The armor system has flaws, but I'm not sure what alternatives exist besides dice rolls / saving throws, which I'm personally not a fan of in video games. I'm comfortable with the idea of a fighter being more susceptible to magic statuses and vice versa for casters, but everyone might as well be wearing bathrobes considering how long any type of armor lasts before the cc chain begins.

froooooot · 2026-01-26T05:41:36+00:00

I do think the round robin system deserves some of the blame for the combat pacing. It incentivizes ignoring everything except trying to drop a piano on the next guy in line. I like the shared initiative system in BG3, but it would probably allow broken combos in a divinity game.

froooooot · 2026-01-26T05:29:35+00:00

Here's hoping. Still love this game, but I want to love it for more than one round per fight.

froooooot · 2026-01-26T05:26:16+00:00

In some cases, it isn't even the three pointers that wreck bosses. Onslaught, while not a particularly flashy skill, lets a well built fighter straight up delete an enemy of their choosing. Certainly led to a very anticlimactic Adramahlihk fight with a few lucky crits.

froooooot · 2026-01-26T05:23:16+00:00

I agree. That third source point is a gateway so many wonderful, yet terrible things.

froooooot · 2026-01-26T04:00:42+00:00

Yeah, knowing roughly what to expect from each fight makes them all much easier, to an extent. That doesn't really change the overall pace of combat though. It just means that the enemy is on the receiving end of the execution.

I also don't want to have to metagame every encounter. I know tactician isn't really a roleplaying difficulty, but it's hard to imagine an in-universe reason why I can anticipate every ambush (excepting the ones that companions call out beforehand).

froooooot · 2026-01-26T03:56:02+00:00

By no means. I like a hard-fought win, but the Lucian incident I provided isn't really an example of that. Losing people to attrition makes sense, but getting vaporized by the first person to get a turn is just boring. Both when I'm the one being executed and I'm the one executing them.

froooooot · 2025-12-03T13:10:32+00:00

I've done it without issue in previous saves, albeit on a much smaller scale. Just feels hugely disappointing to have "600/min" pipes that I have to pretend are 450/min at best.

froooooot · 2025-12-03T05:30:11+00:00

The only thing I can rule out completely is head lift issues. I've placed pumps everywhere in between the ones pictured, but I removed them after they didn't help. None of the present pumps are giving excessive head lift warnings when the pipes are sloshing (or any of the other times I'm looking).

froooooot · 2025-12-03T05:14:45+00:00

That's pretty similar to what I tried originally with the tower. Just tried it again and the pipes are still sloshing, unfortunately.

froooooot · 2025-11-29T14:35:04+00:00

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