2y ago

Baldur's Gate 3 Mod makes your companions fully AI in combat

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That sounds like absolute chaos. O.o
- Like playing DnD
  
  Like playing DND with players you can't strategize with.
Do they just make the best possible choices or is there a chance they just brain fart and make stupid choices?
- I mean, I'm technically in control and I still make terrible decisions from time to time
- I imagine it’s the same ai level that you play against the whole game so… some fights are brain dead and some fights I feel like I’m playing against a chess master
  
  Some make me feel like I'm playing against a filthy cheat
- Definitely stupid. It uses the game's AI as a baseline and that's not terrible, but also not particularly good.
  
  I'd say it's fairly good. It's so good, in fact, that when you leave it no good moves to make because you obliterated their strongest dude and then jumped 30 squares away in a single turn, it literally holds the game up for a solid minute or so trying to figure out what to do.
- I would imagine they act much like the NPCs you fight.
- If the AI for the ghouls from Danse Macabre is any example, they make stupid choices. The ghouls can be standing next to an enemy and waste their turn with Dash to get to another enemy.
It would be interesting if the party members make romance by themself
- Me: Shadowheart I love you
  Shadowheart: that's cute but karlach and I are boning down later
  
  I'm still salty there's no Shadowheart+Karlach trio option. 🫠🥹
  
  I should not be curious about skeleton guy btw lol
- Under certain circumstances Lae'zel tells you that she's thinking of boning Wyll or Astarion. And afterwards that she did so. So there's definitely some major bonage going on in the background.
  In my head canon Wyll and Karlach also got together.
  
  Yes I remembered now when you mentioned, lae,zel would definitely go for asterion
- Semi related but can I just rant for a second about the fact that Tav is simultaneously the least interesting character and also the glue that holds the party together?
  The other characters will straight-up refuse to interact with each other outside of special cutscenes. And even then, they almost always let Tav make their decisions for them. I wish each character could have full interaction with each other character. Like I could switch to Laezel, talk to Karlach, and I'd see a bit of relationship development between the two of them, then switch to Shadowheart and go talk to Gale and have a totally different kind of relationship form
  
  It stems from your character being a blank slate that you act through. They don’t bring much story with them, just your headcanon and whatever you enact. It’s a true RPG in that way. I think that’s part of the reason people end up going the horny route, it’s a means of placing yourself in the story and becoming part of all of these fantastic characters. The main character is only as interesting as you make them.
  
  It's pretty clear that Redeemed Durge Tav is the canonical Tav and the most interesting. All the other versions are bland in comparison.
  But you can definitely get some of the interactions you're looking for by playing an Origin character. Playing as Karlach, I definitely created non-canonical interactions with the other Origin characters.
I get enough chaos from multiplayer though.
So… no AI and just regular NPCs. I hate the way everyone wants to be hip and cool and groovy by using that two letters.
- That's what AI has meant in a video game context since forever.

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