Comment by GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network on Baldur's Gate 3 players continue to find little surprises: Astarion has rare voice lines if you nuke him with a sun ray

We’re gonna be finding this stuff for years, aren’t we?

Seriously what the fuck

Y’all are gonna have to define “spoilers,” because to me, a “spoiler” is something that reveals a major plot point, not a random, completely missable scene that you only come across if you do one certain event that you might not do in a quest that can actually be skipped, and if the RNG gods chose a certain character to bear the brunt of it.

They are probably talking about Astarion being a vampire. Granted it is revealed early and somewhat obvious (deliberately), but still a spoiler

His description on the character creation screen outright says he’s a vampire. Easy enough to miss if you jump for the custom creator right away, but he’s the first origin character in the list.

I didn’t even see the origin screen when I created my character, and I’ve never played either of the first two games. I don’t think it was obvious just by game play that he’s a vampire, for one, he’s walking around in sunlight. I was very surprised by that bite scene where his true nature is revealed. That’s a pretty big spoiler.

That’s true. I mean, I pegged it as soon as I saw him and the bite scars on his neck the first time you see him, so if that’s it, that part didn’t even register, it was so long ago in my playthrough.

At a month out, though, I think people are gonna have to deal with early game “spoilers” being out there. Five minutes on tumblr and you know Gale’s whole story at this point.

While I don’t have a problem with this particular post, the “it’s been out for a while so I’m not going to be careful about spoiling” attitude has never been helpful in video game discussion. Especially for a game that’s about to see an influx of players from another release shortly, and then again late in the year.

I’ll be careful about anything that’s actually a spoiler, though, because no one likes things like how BioWare spoiled who the Big Bad is in Inquisition with a codex in DLC you get early game. But this; a random and rare character interaction, is not one, and if someone is really this stickler about what they think constitutes one, they’ve honestly got to completely avoid things like communities about the game.

He has bite scars on his neck?!? Man, the PS5 is fun to play on, but it certainly misses out on some of the finer graphical details.

You also included one of the methods of triggering a voice line in the title itself. Double spoilers that could have been avoided if you ended the title before the colon.

Lol. Lmao even.

The sequence of steps you need to see this stuff is absolutely bonkers. Like, 99% of players will never see this one voice line naturally.

Unless “doing things in the game triggers voice lines” is somehow a spoiler now? Spoiler: when you beat this game, the credits roll showing who made the game!

The title reveals nothing other than “hey there’s a sun ray that can nuke someone.” It doesn’t say anything about the nature of the ray, where it is, how to activate it, or anything. In fact, the thing mentioned in the title is such a niche thing in a niche location that most people will miss it, and can only be activated if you do this niche sidequest in a very specific way. You pretty much have to try to do it (assuming you even discover it in the first place - again, it’s easily missable).

On top of that, this is something you can trigger within the first half-hour of the game if you tried. It’s firmly in Act 1. It has nothing to do with the story, it’s just a place you can find early on.

Should I mention that this same act of the game has a wizard’s tower in it? Oh, no! Spoilers! A fantasy DnD game has a wizard tower! Hopefully there are no voice lines in there!

The sequence of steps you need to see this stuff is absolutely bonkers. Like, 99% of players will never see this one voice line naturally.

I saw on Twitter the steps you have to go through to make it happen, and to see it naturally, you’ve basically got to playing like a complete chaos agent and have the RNG luck to have Asterion be one of your party members killed by it when it goes off.

It doesn’t say the sun’s ray can nuke someone, it says that using a sun ray in Astarian results in a voice line. Which is probably going to be snarky based on his character and the fact that you meet him during the day and have an early conversation with him about sunlight.

The number of creatures that are affected by the spell and look like a regular humanoid in D&D is pretty low, so the first spoiler is what Astarian is and the second is that a voice line is prompted by the interaction.

You might be too thick to understand what a spoiler is since you think when something happens in the storyline impacts whether it is a spoiler, but just accept the fact that it is and some people don’t like having it in post titles they cannot avoid.

It’s not a spoiler, it doesn’t spoil anything

Thanks for telling me it’s not spoiled for me

It doesn’t say anything about him being a vampire in the headline, I think? I’d be pissed if you shot me with a sun ray too. If I didn’t die.

I took that bit out of the headline here just in case, but it’s still in the headline of the story, so anyone clicking on it will see it.

Doesn’t he reveal it in literally the first conversation with him? Or do you have to actually talk to him a second time to get that detail? That’s hardly a spoiler.

You just took away the ability from anyone seeing this post to discover it on their own. In other words you SPOILED IT. Hence, spoiler.

To discover he’s a vampire? His character video in the character creation part tells you that.

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