An example of this I can give is when you are leaving a crypt you encounter early on (and I will bring this up again in the next paragraph!). Sometimes the camera would feel like it got snagged on something and refused to cooperate, but that is likely just an artifact of this being an Early Access title rather than a real issue with the game. It gave plenty of adjustment options to be able to see what you want to see when you want to see it most of the time. Other than when that occurred, the camera worked well enough.

The camera was a bit of burden in the game as well, it would sometimes lock on to some random part of a room and refuse to shift focus until you double clicked on a character portrait. Unfortunately, with this being an Early Access title I was never quite sure if the quest was just not finalized in the game yet or if I missed a critical step. Some quest chains of course start in one area and finish much later in another area so you can’t finish those right now, but if a quest sits for too long in my Quest Log I start to wonder if I missed something, often leading me to get the itch to backtrack.

Since I have an innate drive to explore every nook and cranny and complete every side quest this leads me to having an obsession of completing everything I can before moving on. It is what made me a great Quality Assurance Manager while I was working in the Game Industry. Is this quest chain finished or did I miss step or something? Harking back to the days before I had an overflowing Steam account and a backlog longer than I am willing to admit to, I always explored games fully to get as much out of them as I possibly could. I will share with you some of the interesting issues I experienced that directly related to it being an Early Access title rather than a final product. Yes, while it is quite obvious that it is still in development rather than being a finished product, what is there already is quite impressive. Here is the interesting thing this game is already pretty solid. Baldur’s Gate 3 is only in Early Access at the moment which typically means the game will be unfinished, is highly unstable, lacks content and is otherwise likely to yield an unfavourable experience.

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