Ordinary fantasy adventure in Faerûn

Chapter 2 Baldur’s Gate, activated!
  Somewhere called Earth.

"So boring, so boring! I would die without Baldur's Gate 4!"

As he spoke, he suddenly lay back on the bed and began to roll around.

My name is Liu Angsheng, I am 22 years old, my family is on the east side of XX Mountain, I am unmarried, and my occupation is an ordinary college student. I go home at eight o'clock every day at the latest, I don't smoke, I only drink a little, and I go to bed before 1 o'clock in the evening, every day I slept a full eight hours, drank a glass of hot milk before going to bed, lay down on the bed and slept until dawn. The doctor said I was normal.

As for why he seems to be suffering from severe Internet addiction now, it is all because of a game released some time ago called Baldur's Gate 3.

In Liu Angsheng's mind, this game has reached a level that is unprecedented and unprecedented, ranking first among RPG games of the same type!

Liu Angsheng has been playing it since the day it was released. He has completed it five or six times now and is still addicted.

The most interesting thing about this game and the most different from other games is that it has too much content. A complete game process takes about 60 hours, but every time you play it, you can discover some new content that you have not discovered before.

Hidden terrain hidden in hidden corners, legendary weapons buried in ancient ruins, dead wood monsters hiding in the grass on the roadside, all of these are just the tip of the iceberg in this game. This novel experience made him want to leave. It can be called a masterpiece that is unparalleled in ancient and modern times.

However, even this kind of masterpiece will inevitably fall into a burnout period after playing it for more than five or six times in a row. Although some small surprises still exist, the general plot has already become a bit tired due to too much experience. .

So the only thing he can do now is to look forward to the follow-up work of the game while enduring this painful window period in bed.

"Empty, lonely, cold..."

At this moment, a message suddenly popped up in the SM Game Center on the phone.

[Ding! Congratulations to this player! You are the 9999th player to be successfully fooled - no, you are the successful winner! You are lucky enough to get the legendary game expansion pack!]

[Please choose a game you like and enter the activation code in the game! From now on, the legendary hidden game mode will be opened! Experience a refreshing game life that exceeds 100% realism! What are you waiting for? Pick up the phone quickly (cross out ) Hurry up and experience it!]
  ???

What is this?
  Just two paragraphs almost fried his brain's CPU. Can the reason for winning the lottery be any more ridiculous? And what the hell is this reward? I've never heard of it.

And this advertising slogan, in his mind, this was an advertising model from many years ago. It smelled like a cheap web game, and there was a sense of joking between the lines, as if you were treating you like a fool. .

If this wasn't a message from the game official, he would have thought it was a scam.

"Wait a minute, today seems to be April Fool's Day. Could it be an April Fool's Easter egg officially released by the game?"

"Forget it, never mind, it's officially from the game. Even if it's an April Fool's Day joke, it should be interesting. Let's take a look."

With this mentality, Liu Angsheng opened the Baldur's Gate game page and entered the activation code.

Then the computer screen instantly went black.

"what?"

Just when Liu Angsheng thought he had been fooled, the computer suddenly opened again, and then updated quickly with lightning speed, showing a lot of new game content. "Wow, isn't it? Sir, are you serious?"

Clicking in excitedly, you will see a more gorgeous character creation interface, new background settings, and more but relatively small game content.

Let’s start by taking a look at the two most notable additions to the game.

One is the character creation interface that allows you to select new subraces of the selected race and a very small number of mutant individuals. The other is the new background setting, which will be associated with prerequisite professions that have never been heard of before.

Liu Angsheng began to check them one by one excitedly.

The first is the background, which is the life history of the character that must be selected when creating a character at the beginning of the game. Different backgrounds have different skill bonuses. There are 11 different backgrounds in the original game.

They are - Acolyte, Liar, Criminal, Entertainer, Civilian Hero, Union Artisan, Noble, Barbarian, Wise Man, Soldier, and Wanderer.

You can only choose one background, and after selection, it will bring two skill bonuses of that background. However, the background did not have a big impact in the original game, but this update has added a huge number of background branch options.

For example, the original meaning of barbarians is people who grew up in the wilderness, far away from civilized society. The skills they bring are sports and survival. If you choose this background, you will only be suitable for the profession of barbarian because of this background. The professional skills it brings are most suitable for barbarians.

And now if you select this background again, more than a dozen detailed divisions will pop up.

These divisions are rangers, trappers, guides, exiles, yeoman farmers, bounty hunters, pilgrims, nomadic barbarians, gatherers, raiding barbarians, and outcasts.

These detailed divisions are your prerequisite occupations in the game. Only after your prerequisite occupations are at full level, that is, after level ten, can you truly take up the combat occupation.

As for why this is the case, the explanation given by the setting is because professionals are very powerful, and without sufficient training or accumulation of knowledge, it is impossible to become a true professional.

Then back to the prerequisite occupations, these detailed divisions will not only list your life experience more clearly, but will also specialize your abilities in certain aspects.

As you can tell from the names, these different pre-jobs will bring you related skills and even expertise.

Because of this, all backgrounds will no longer only serve a single profession. The detailed career divisions in any background can be related to other professions in some way, which directly makes the game choice. More free and real.

Then there is the character creation race. In this game, just like the background, there are 11 races for you to choose from. Each race has their unique racial talents or expertise, and within the same race, some also have sub-races. species, like tieflings, elves, and dragonborn, and some that don’t, like humans, half-orcs, and githyanki.

Now all races that originally had no subraces have added new subraces, with humans and tiefling subraces adding the most.

Humans have added the human subspecies, or nationality, of each region in detail, while tieflings have listed almost all the bloodlines of the devil kings in the nine hells, with more than a dozen types.

Some of the races have also added new additional modules, such as the Dragonborn, which originally had the largest number of subraces. Now it also adds bloodline deepening, which can gradually transform into a dragon according to the growth of professional levels.

Another example is tiefling, which has added additional variants. It is possible that they will be different from other tribesmen at birth, grow new organs and gain additional abilities, which is the so-called high-concentration devil blood anti-ancestral variant, but they are still not separated. The tiefling race.

(End of this chapter)