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Ah yes. Headline spoilers. Why not?
Feel free to go over to PC Gamer and complain to them about their headline choice.
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.
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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!
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.
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.
So in order to know this is a spoiler, you must have met him and played the game?
Friendly reminder that the described moment is pretty close to the beginning of the game. Like, around the time you have that conversation about sunlight, you can get this voice line.
Who's the thick one here?
The one who still thinks when something happens makes it a spoiler.
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.
Because, “spoilers” I guess, Asterion is the only one who says something there if it kills him. According to the posts I saw from the person who made the video on Twitter, other characters will die if it hits them, but none of them have dialogue.
so the first spoiler is what Astarian is
Someone pointed out that you can find that out before the the game even starts if you watch his origin video in the character creator.
a voice line is prompted by the interaction
You have got to be kidding.
It's not a spoiler, it doesn't spoil anything
Thanks for telling me it's not spoiled for me
It’s really not. You almost need a guide to tell you how to trigger that one conversation. It is extremely missable. Heck, I did the quest where this can happen yesterday and I didn’t even find the giant eff you cannon that can trigger it.
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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.
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?
Minthara and Lae'zel.
The only 3 at this point in the game that, if they used the alignment system, I'm sure would be one type of evil or another. I've had a couple surprise moments where all 3 join in a short discussion, playing off each other's lines. I've had Lae'zel before, but I've never really kept Astarion around (unless I needed something with a DC of 30 lockpicked) and this is my first evil run, so Minthara isn't a smouldering pile of ash this time.
I need to swap Gale out on my evil run but I just can't give up that sweet, sweet fireball.
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.
Minthara, Astarion, and Shadowheart for me. Bad blood between SH and Lae'zel, obvs. I typically get a lot more approval for my dastardly behavior from Minth and Asta; Shadowheart just kinda goes along with it, unless we're killing folks she really hates like Selunites.
One of my main complaints so far is that other party members seldomly pipe in during convos. I get why they didn't do it more, as the game is massive with already a sheer amount of dialogue, but it makes my party feel kinda flat. Like sure they do little quips or remarks while walking around, but even those aren't very frequent. Maybe it changes further into the game, but I'm about 35 hours in and done almost everything in act 1 so far. I'll be thrilled if this changes in later acts!
Fucking spoilers dude
Just, please. Don't nuke him with a sun ray.
He gets better
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