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Fans upset that Hogwarts Legacy was not nominated for a single award.

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Ubisoft's Skull & Bones does not interest me.

No thanks.

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The irony of adding a game+ mode to AC: Mirage when I do not consider it to have the same repayable value as Valhalla that never received the mode.

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South Park: Snow Day! Announces Release Date With New Trailer

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I thought The Last of Us II came out a while ago, but its release date is January 2024. Shows how little I am interested in playing it.

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DA: Dreadwolf expected to be similar to God of War with its combat system.

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One downfall? to console gaming is no access to mods.

Forget magic, Baldur’s Gate 3 now has guns on the Sword Coast

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Building up a romantic relationship with a companion of choice in Baldur's Gate 3 will earn players an intimate scene with the chosen party member. If you're on Xbox, however, be warned: Recording the scene could get you banned from Xbox Live, as one member of the game's Reddit community has reported.

Reddit user u/Daddy-Vegas shared his plight on the BG3 forum, as they said they recorded three separate videos of a particular tryst in the player character's camp. As is routine, the videos were uploaded to the Xbox servers after capture for sharing purposes, but when the uploads were completed, each video was reportedly marked as an infraction..

An accompanying image on the Reddit post shows each of the active suspensions earned by the three separate incidents. The first video earned a four-day suspension, with the second adding 22 days and the third adding 366 days.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/psa-re...0-6520082/

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One clever Baldur's Gate 3 player has achieved an armor class of 31 on their bard Tav, thanks to a little mathematics and tactical item-hoarding

"I have become unhittable," Reddit user Yervax proclaimed in a thread, showing off a screenshot of their iron-clad Tav's AC 31. "Except for the rare Crit and saving throws, no attacks are touching me. Ever." Given that the higher your armor class, the harder your are to hit, it's safe to say that Yervax is probably not lying.

Achieving an armor class of 31 is not easy. Your starting AC is usually tied to your chosen Baldur's Gate 3 class, and given that Yervax's Tav has +1 from Troubadour's Wonder, we can assume that they pumped a lot of points into their Dexterity skill to get that +5 AC as a Bard.

Passive features and skills aside, the majority of Yervax's armor class can be chalked up to a clever combination of equipped items. I usually try to share out the best weapons and armor among my party members, but that's not what Yervax decided to do. They likely chose to keep the lion's share of the choicest pieces, and as a result, their Tav has a whopping armour class of 31.

Yervax's AC mathematics is very impressive, but don't panic if you're not yet similarly kitted out. Judging from all the items above, and the glimpse of Lae'zel wearing Ketheric Thorm's armor right next to their Tav, I assume that Yervax is either at the very end of Act 2 or the beginning of Act 3.

How did they do it, exactly? Well, we can see that their armor itself (most likely medium armor) coupled with a high dexterity score bumped them up to AC 22 to begin with. A shield takes them up to 26, but they've also equipped the Ring of Protection you receive from Omeluum in the Underdark, the Cloak of Protection and Shield of Devotion sold by Quartermaster Tali outside Last Light Inn, and one of two matching True Love's Caress rings that bestows the wearer with the effects of Warding Bond. All of those, plus the Evasive Shoes bought from tiefling child Mathis at Last Light Inn, add an extra +1 each, taking us up to 31.

That's far from the cap, as various spells can drive your AC up into the 40s and possibly even the 50s, but as a starting point, this is seriously impressive. What's also nice to note is that it's not actually a particularly difficult build to achieve, as none of these items are too hard to find - unless you're one of those monsters who left the Last Light Inn to its fate.

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director Swen Vincke says he's finally settled on the first part of his next project, after four months of trying.

In a tweet earlier today, Vincke said that having rewritten, abandoned, and revisited multiple ideas since the release of Baldur's Gate 3, he's "finally figured out what act 1 on this thing I've been working on needs to be."

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