We’re gonna be finding this stuff for years, aren’t we?
Ah yes. Headline spoilers. Why not?
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
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.
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!
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
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.
One of the reasons to play through multiple times is just having different Origin character party member compositions. One or more characters can chime in during dialogue, and changing the combination of characters can dramatically change the whole scene. I have all the murder hobo vibe characters, and it’s like the devs knew this combo would be common and I’m getting hella scenes I never saw in 2 previous playthroughs.
Ok so who’s the hobo party besides Astarion?
Lae’zel for sure. And probably dark Shadowheart? That’s who i have been using for my evil durge run and they all seem to be on the same page.
Question. When you first learn that he’s a vampire it looks like he is ABOUT TO bite you. But during the dialogue I noticed that bite marks showed up on my neck. So, I kicked him out because fuck you for biting me while I sleep. But then the marks went away right away.
Dis he bite me or was that a bug?
I think that has to be a bug. You’re supposed to be able to let him bite you consensually (or deny him) later.
I mean… Sometimes when you sleep the first time after getting him in your party/camp, it shows him creeping around the campsite like a creeper during the “cutscene” of you all sleeping around the fire. Before the reveal, I thought he was just stealing my shit. It wouldn’t surprise me if there was some kind of hidden roll or RNG that made bite marks appear on me before the consensual bite.
You need to take some things into account.
Without any influence, Astarion is a lying manipulative asshat.
You catch Astarion on the second or third night sleeping with him in your camp, as far as I found, never on the first.
That fucker succeeded previously, It’s just that THIS time you woke up.
If you consent to him biting you later on,
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He tells you that you’re his first time of tasting a human. He’s been surviving on animals only. Ofc he could be lying/acting but he comes across unusually sincere and vurnarable.
Frankly, I booted him after the initial interaction in my first playthrough way back in early beta and haven’t added him at all in any run since. Fuck Astarion. Lying, piece of shit, low-effort sleep rapist.
Man… I guess considering your strong feelings about it, you’re better off without him, but he’s one of the most interesting companions in the game. He has a tragic backstory, and a cunning personality. He’s my second favorite companion overall. I was this close to betraying Karlach because of his machinations.
Seems to be the consensus.
Fucking spoilers dude
