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Baldur's Gate 3
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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)
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It's for co-op, same as Divinity.
Your friend could be in turn based combat while your somewhere else on the map doing stuff.
The alternative is having tethers which everyone hates. Or real time combat which Larian didn't want.
I figured co-op would be the primary reason. I'd prefer to have to wait while others are in combat, but I might be the minority there.
What are tethers?
I imagine tethering players to each other. Preventing them from straying too far from each other.
Basically prevent players from moving too far apart. Far Cry coop is notorious for this and a few other games. State of Decay 2, etc.
Couldn't they pause the immediate vicinity and if another player approaches they get notified that they're about to enter the pause zone? Or a visual cue
Idk. I remember way back with the DivOS1 Kickstarter they did a video on their channel showing off how turn based worked in co-op and kinda explained why. Though I don't know which video, sometime like 6+ years ago.