It only triggers if you rest on the starting beach before recruiting too many companions.
Yeah at 60 hours and almost done with act 3 this dude missed a ton of shit.
“60 hours” …. “Halfway through act 3” What?
Some people gotta go fast. :P (Or just miss a lot of content, who knows.)
120 hours, just got to Lower City
I’m at 60 hours, finally managed to get to the goblin camp, decided to roll a new character last night.
This is the fourth time I’ve started again. I’m sure this time I’ll stick with this character until the end…
There’s content for more than one playthrough.
Dang, I wish I knew this. Be nice if they tweak this trigger to happen later as well, not sure how many people are resting before recruiting at least 2-3 companions.
No spoiler tags or guidance?
I finished my first playthrough yesterday as the “heroic Dark Urge” referenced in the article and I can do nothing but echo their recommendations. The story came together so well that it feels like it should be canon and it has a lot of custom content.
I honestly thought Dark Urge was just your basic psychopath murder hobo who kills or hurts everything and everyone. Knowing that you can actually resist the urge and the story still comes off as coherent and interesting is a deal-changer, I’ll probably try it in my second playthrough!
Just be aware there’s a good reason that the default Durge is a charisma-focused class, because some of the skill checks for their story can be… tough.
I’m pretty sure that if there’s ever a BG3:DLC or BG4, the redeemed Dark Urge SL will be canon. What with >!Withers intervention, the warning about your own offspring, etc.!<
Or if there will be an official canon WotC novelization…
Knowing what they did with the (now canon) BG 1&2 novelization I pray WotC stay far away.
I’m definitely going to try it on my next playthrough.
Not long resting enough is a problem I had in my first playthrough and I’m not doing much better in my second. I’m amazed at the idea of long resting before rescuing Lai’zel, that’s maybe two battles? Maybe some resources spent recruiting other characters?
Either way I’d like to see an improvement on when you need/should long rest. The illithid powers being tired is one hint, but you don’t know that until you try and use them. Characters complain, but rarely often enough.
I totally missed Lai’zel, went the wrong way. I’m sure there’s tons more I missed.
I never found Gale on my first campaign
I had to pull up a map and it’s possible to miss all four “starting” characters (Shadowheart, Astarion, Gale & Lai’zel) and while not easy, Lai’zel is the easiest to miss.
I do wonder what happens if you skip them.
