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Made it to Act 2 in my current Baldur's Gate 3 run. Since this is my first time going Dark Urge, I'm not playing on Honor Mode (although same difficulty settings, except not single save), and I'm definitely save scumming more, even if you ignore the times I'm just trying new stuff (did the exploit to kill Raphael in Act 1 for the first time for his loot).

I'm also using (sub)classes that I've never or rarely used this time. Swashbuckler is pretty neat and Druid Owlbear form is just dumb (in a good way). Frost Sorcerer seems neat, but I don't really care about getting enemies wet first for double damage, so I might just switch that build down the line. Wildheart Barbarian can really chunk, although it's mostly just hitting people with your stick. I then made Karlach to a dual crossbow Arcane Trickster, mainly for a token ranged build (I'm really melee heavy otherwise), but I'm not really feeling it, so I might change that up as well later.

I'm definitely starting to get burned out on BG3, since I played like 200h in the last two months or something. Although it's not like I'm fiending to play anything else right now (although I have a huge backlog), so it's still fine.

I think for most of your examples it's your rose-colored glasses speaking.

also a ton more Toxic and Mean

You're just forgetting all the console war stuff from the past. Or the "CoD lobby" type shit.

E3 or even Gamescom from the 2010s im like "Holy Shit look at all these Cool Games" but obviously nowadays its just "meh" really

Again, I think you're just not thinking about all these mediocre games that have existed since the very beginning. All the shitty movie tie-ins or whatever, that got pumped out all the time.

Gaming has been toxic and mean for a loooong time. Shitty games have been made since basically the very beginning.

It's the only policy that really makes sense right now.

With the disclosure policy they had before, basically nobody said they used some AI coding agent or whatever, because probably nobody would ever see the code.

Generated assets are still at the point where we can often identify them, so it's easy to call people out. Though once they're indistinguishable from human-made stuff, I doubt anyone is ever going to admit to using AI.

Yeah, but it's not like it was at almost 5% in January.

As I wrote in another comment, if you ignore February completely, ~3% to ~5% in a month or two is gigantic.

I wouldn't be surprised if it drops back down again next month, but maybe it stays at 5% because the old data was faulty.

Sure, but there are so many Steam users every month, that even if only 1% or 0.1% of people get the survey, that's still a ton of people (over 40M concurrent, estimated 130M+ users every month)

Also, have the Linux users increased by over 50% month-to-month? The jump from ~3% at the start of the year to over 5% is huge.

It's possible there was something wrong with the data before and the 3% wasn't accurate or there's something wrong now and the 5% is not correct. That's all I'm saying.

The drop last month was because Chinese users increased by 30% (which were removed or whatever this month).

So even if you're going to be pedantic and ignore the whole of February and just go from the January stats to March directly, 3.5% to 5.3% is a massive jump that doesn't make sense. Why suddenly this month? Why not last year when W10 support ended?

One possible explanation is that maybe the old 3% Linux base was wrong and now something has been accounted for or has been corrected, so in reality it has been around 5% for a while, which is now shown correctly. That's why I'm saying I'm gonna wait a bit to take these stats at face value.

That 3% jump seems almost too big for me to believe. With the seemingly annual increase of Chinese users in February, which is then corrected in March (which we can see this time), I'd probably wait another month or two if more stats get adjusted or if Linux stays at over 5%.

I finished my latest Baldur's Gate 3 run, where I used mods to increase the party size and level cap (among others), but it wasn't pretty. For some reason, after getting to Act 3 and rescuing Minsc, the game just didn't want to exist anymore. It would constantly drop frames, until it got down to 2, which is obviously unplayable.

Apparently one of the latest hotfixes, which released in February messed something up and caused some major problems in Act 3 for some people. For me, this happened mainly when I had more than X party members, but only while running around. As I said, this started after getting Minsc, so for a while the game was fine with a party of 11 people, then the frame drops started. For a bit it worked with 8 people, but the more I played in Act 3, the more people I had to leave behind. At the end, even the default 4 almost were too much.

Weirdly enough, in combat everything was fine, no matter how many people there were, so I'd just get to some boss, go back to camp right before, get everyone, and start the fight. Still, some parts were absolute torture. I could play five minutes at most, maybe loot a single small room or talk with one or two people, then I'd have to restart my game. I was thinking about pausing the run and waiting for a patch, but since I was close to the end, and didn't know when and if a patch would release, I just powered through and finished the game. Of course, when I made it to the epilogue and the game crashed one final time, Steam downloaded the hotfix that had been released a couple of minutes earlier.

Anyway, I'm starting another run, this time relatively normal, and going Dark Urge for the first time.

Definitely OP, but I've done a handful of normal playthroughs already, so I just wanna mess around this time.

I'm early in Act 2 in my latest Baldur's Gate 3 run.

Rolling around with the increased party limit is nice, because I get to hear a bunch of banter, that I'd never hear otherwise. I've basically never used Minthara, Jaheira or Minsc, and Halsin only once (he wouldn't stop flirting with Shadowheart in that playthrough). Since I'm trying to fuck everyone as well (except maybe Squid Man), there are also a ton of camp events. Act 1 had so many, that I had to long rest five or six times back-to-back at the end, in hopes of not missing one. Act 2 looks to be a bit more quiet right now, but Act 3 should get a ton again, with all the dates or conclusions to the companion quests.

I finished my Baldur's Gate 3 run with an all-fighters party. In the end, the Act 1 fight against Flind and the gnolls was the hardest, because I was still level 3 when I did it. The rest of the game was pretty uneventful, as nothing really posed any challenge.

Action Surge and (Improved) Extra Attack are so strong, that most enemies die in the first turn or something, which usually just leaves the boss, who doesn't survive for much longer afterward.

I actually started a new run pretty much immediately after. My previous ones were still pretty normal Honor Mode playthroughs (using UI and "QoL" mods), this time I decided to just use a bunch more mods to change up the game and mess around. I'm running around with an increased party size, up to level 20, custom items, custom and more enemies, stuff like that.

While I want to basically just steamroll through stuff, some of the custom items are definitely too strong. I'll probably stop using some of the stronger ones and look into buffing enemies even more.

I finished Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. The game has big problems, mainly the non-existent balance and bugs, but I'm glad to have finally crossed this one off of my backlog. I would actually be interested in doing another run, because I kinda find that Swarm route intriguing, but then I remember the beginning of the game and how much it sucked, and I'm good on that. Who knows how I'll feel in a few years though.

Then I started a new Baldur's Gate 3 run, this time I'm going with an all Fighter setup. Each active party member will also get a different sub-class and fighting style. My regular party will be Origin Lae'zel, Two-Handed Battle Master, along with Shadowheart, One-Handed Champion (currently with a shield, maybe later without one or dual wielding), then Astarion, Arcane Archer, and Karlach, Eldritch Knight Thrower. The other companions will get subbed in as needed for their personal quests, with a Fighter Sub-Class that I think fits.

I'm like most of the way through Act 1 and hit level 5 yesterday, so the rest should hopefully be more of a formality at this point (as long as I don't screw up massively). I'm playing on Honor Mode and will do all optional quests and bosses, so there are still a few fights that could get iffy, but as long as I don't completely turn my brain off, it should be fine.

Then, I've also been playing a lot of Overwatch. The game had its grand relaunch two weeks ago, the 2 didn't survive, so it's just back to Overwatch now. Along with that, there were five new heroes released, with another new one coming every season, for a total of 10 this year. There's also gonna be a year-long story arc, with cinematics, lore, comics, whatever, that you can check out in-game, if you're into that.

Of the new heroes, Domina, the new tank, is definitely my favorite. She's an absolute blast to play (and currently very strong). The others are either fine or not my cup of tea, so I'm mostly back to my old favorites for DPS and support.