Thursday Bits

Dispatches from @ultrviolet@gts.endgameviable.com:

Baldur’s Gate 3 spoilers for Act 2, Gauntlet of Shar.

08:21 # I’ve played over a hundred hours of Baldur’s Gate 3 now and I only just realized that when the minimap mysteriously turns red and scary, that only means you can’t pop back to the pocket camp dimension in that area. #baldursgate3

13:00 # Baldur’s Gate 3. Thinking about how to tackle level 10 Yurgir with my level 7 party when I return to the Gauntlet of Shar. Have a few spell and strategy ideas based on what I learned from the previous 5 miserable failures. I think I’m going to go in with a party of cannon fodder hirelings to try to thin down the number of enemy adds, then return with the real party for a second wave. “Your mission is to sacrifice yourselves so that the real heroes can survive, any questions?” #baldursgate3

23:08 # Baldur’s Gate 3. The assault on Yurgir was successful, but it took 3 waves. First, the cannon fodder hireling wave, which killed the Displacer Beast and two Merregons before Tavi fled, then the regular party wave, which killed the rest of the Merregons before fleeing, then the final wave against Yurgir himself, which took a couple tries. Then the party got killed by rats. #baldursgate3