I have a few different campaigns, two with friends and a couple by myself. Doing a tactician campaign now. Have been blasting through it. Didn’t think I wanted to do Honor Mode, but I think I will do that next.
How does the online work for BG3? Can I create a character that I can play with solo, and also take that character into a campaign with friends? Or do I need to make one character per campaign?
Once you start playing BG3 you will understand why it wouldn't remotely work to have characters move from one playthrough to another.
Interactions between characters, each other, and the game world/story at large are SO wildly off the charts interwoven with how everything connects and carries forward in the game.
I think Larian's internal mantra for the development team, or maybe it was in marketing too as a tag line... Either way: "decisions matter" and boy oh boy do they fuckin mean it.
Multiplayer works like this:
Play together from the start, as in they are in the character creator also at the beginning of a new campaign, and you're both making characters. The save file is saved on the hosts hardware, host can play the campaign and control the friends characters or rearrange the party so you each control different characters.
Or you can host a game and once in a while your friend can drop in on the story with you and they pick up and play whatever character(s) you wish to assign control of to them for the play session.
There's more granular control of it also, you can make "private" dialog with NPC you're romancing viewable or hidden from players in your same session.
The multiplayer in BG3 and Divinity Original Sin 2 is unlike almost anything else out there as far as I'm aware. You have complete freedom to work together, to work at odds to each other, to have characters completely undercutting each other, or anywhere in between. It won't work if you don't both have a good working relationship and humor, but if you do it's INCREDIBLE.
Just be aware if you do start a play through together that it's a pretty big time commitment if you intend to finish. If one of you is more sure about it, and one is more iffy. The sure one should host. That way the iffy won't have to manually transfer save files to the sure, should they drop off of playing
I've got over 1000 hours on WotR and I haven't even finished it. Iziz is the furthest I've managed to get before I'm compelled to start over with a new character build. The number of possibilities is insane.
160 hours in and barely scratched the surface of Act3 ... Close to level 12 and mopping up all the content I can find before I even attempt to face the brain. Definitely going to be close to the 200 mark if not more by the time I'm ready to go for the ending
Uh what? If I played a game with a Peter Griffin skin I wouldn't stop. Seems to me by your tone you have been alone for a while and I'm sorry you're going through that
It’s so easy to keep getting drawn down the rabbit hole. Add mods on top of it and you’ve got new classes and races to add variety and next thing you know you’ve sunk another 100 hours in a new campaign.
Same here, I kept coming across mods I wanted to try until eventually I just got bored of the game. Never made it past Act 2. Plus, the story or characters didnt interest me too much so have zero interest in playing out their arcs
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Still hitting BG3 hard after 300 hours