How can i achieve romance with shadowheart?

i didn't kiss her in the first act is possible to get romance with her??? and how can i do? im in the shar temple

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Stop RPing as an incel, OP.

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    thou walkest alone

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Frick you Withers.

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    do you guys really find this attractive?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yes I find women attractive

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        gay

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      You're allowed to lust over men, anon. No need to ask rhetorical questions to straight people.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Not really, but the superior half-elf remained in another game. Gods, imagine Cam's murderous exploits with BG 3 graphic. Now that would be a brave game indeed.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        get back in the pit, prostitute

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          At least Camellia is truly evil and probably deserves to die, despite me being a good friend and not caring how many of my crusaders she kills. BG 3 companions are boring.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >forgettable backstory as the illegitimate child of a noble
        >im just le hecking PSCHYO and like to kill people
        >hehe im gonna leave decapitated heads in your inventory
        >why? oh im just like that... CRAZY
        her story was literally moronic dude

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          people who simp for her are mentally feeble but you cannot act like that wasn't pretty bold of them to put the elf waifu as the secret murderer who is just plain evil and crazy.
          No redemption, no tragic uwu feel bad for me backstory, just a psycho.

          No other CRPG has anything like her.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Knife-eared Kefka with breasts.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            There's the rat tailed girl in Planescape Torment that's like that

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Annah is not a psychopath

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Didn't she try to kill the Nameless One several times?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                no, maybe if you're evil TNO? If you're not, she tricks you when you first meet but after that she warms up to you.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >the elf waifu as the secret murderer
            >Secret murderer
            The first line you hear her say in combat is literally "THE WORLD IN CRIMSON" Owlcat didn't even try keeping her a secret.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              well and gave her the AMULET OF OBVIOUS PLOT DEVICE
              but yeah

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Don't forget she has her alignment hidden which means Chaotic evil

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Heads are not her doing, anon.

          Imagine Cam but she doesn't leave you in the end or Arue but she doesn't leave you in the end.

          At least there is actual passion, love, and romance before she leaves. And you must earn all that, unlike in BG 3.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            people who simp for her are mentally feeble but you cannot act like that wasn't pretty bold of them to put the elf waifu as the secret murderer who is just plain evil and crazy.
            No redemption, no tragic uwu feel bad for me backstory, just a psycho.

            No other CRPG has anything like her.

            At least Camellia is truly evil and probably deserves to die, despite me being a good friend and not caring how many of my crusaders she kills. BG 3 companions are boring.

            Go back to your thread, Owlcattle
            Oh wait...

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Imagine console warring over CRPG titles you mindrotted homosexual moron
              I'm playing them all.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Anon, youre replying to a marketing AI.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Kingmaker and WotR have a better story, better characters, and better music. BG 3 has nice visuals and a less bloated core system. I can appreciate both games, but I refuse to pretend that Shadowheart can ever compete with Camellia.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >better music
                wrong
                kneel

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Pathfinder mogs the shit out of this tho.
                Orchestral:

                Exotic:

                Celtic esque melody:

                Romantic:

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                The only interesting songs you posted were Mythic Power and Skylark, though, and even then they are pretty mediocre.
                Hating Bobbby is ultimate contrarianism. Let me guess, you think Pathfinder slop 'mogs' ultrachad Kiril as well?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >hehe im gonna leave decapitated heads in your inventory
          Daeran was the one doing that

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          But what if you wanted to romance jared leto's joker (female)

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Imagine Cam but she doesn't leave you in the end or Arue but she doesn't leave you in the end.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          But anon, writing a different ending card is a lot of work!

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      She actually looks attractive in that screenshot unlike others, you might be a homosexual.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      elves are subhuman rape bait but shes alright

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      why did anon ask this question im genuinely confused? is anon implying OP pic is ugly? if so that would be utterly delusional

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >OP pic is ugly
        Compared to the hideous Black folks that are half of npcs in BG 3 she is an avatar of Sune.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      With mods? Yes.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Well what mod does that you homosexual, I want it

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >t. weakchinned jawlet amerimutt with absolutely no strong facial features
        homo

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        she's a halfelf, of course she has half a long face like knife-ears

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        why do u want her to have face proportions closer to the in game children u loser ass coomer

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I find any women that gives me any attention attractive...

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Straight men are mentally ill.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        I bet I could fit my dick in there.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        her jaw from the nyl2 video is lore friendly

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Extremely after a mod to get rid of her knife ears.

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Same issue. I think you need to get to Act 3 to romance her. If you frick someone else she gets upset and thinks you cheated on her, so you're probably on the right course.

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I did the same, incel bro. If Withers gave you the Incel Talk™ it's OGRE.

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I ended up romancing lae'zel, i thought i'd hate her but she ended great, weird nose aside I found her personality charming

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >wanted to go for Shadowheart
      >Gale is acting like I am going out with him despite turning him down for his gay magic lesson and his gay pity party
      >Lae'zel gets mad when I tell her 'Ew no'
      >"You will think back to this moment and regret."
      >Shadowheart romance never starts despite being full affinity and saving her
      >Withers gives me a talk about not shooting up a school because you're a KHV
      >One of the options is "None of my companions likes me enough..."
      >well it's okay, I can still pick Jahiera
      >you can't
      >mfw she was right

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        you can still bone the emperor dont worry anon

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          better an incel than a seafood fricker

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        You deserve it for turning down frogette.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        theres a max limit of two on how many people you can romance per playthrough. Accidentally triggered a gay romance through some inconspicuous kind words or a random glitch? You're shit out of luck 🙂

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          So, not only are they all bisexual, they also don't mind sharing MC? That's freaking weird.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            In D&D a hole is a hole. Sometimes it's a quest, sometimes it's a person.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              I want companions, not a traveling circus of sexual deviants.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                This is why I play with a core group of gen x nerds. They're preevs but don't really make it their life.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Sometimes it's a bag

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >they also don't mind sharing MC?

            They do. The only romances that allow polyamory are Astarion with Halsin and Shadowheart with Halsin.

            All the other ones get mad and make you choose.

            And they are not bisexual, biscum are not a real sexuality.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Cheat Engine to save the day
          FRICK YOU GALE

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Are you guys genuinely autistic?
          It was so clear when he was trying to flirt and what the options meant during his conversations

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Bro, I like the game but frick off
            >I am going to die because of the bomb I am scared
            >want to hang out with me?
            >okay
            >it's a gay date with you sitting ON the motherfricker
            frick off moron

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              When I went to look at the stars with Gale I sat next to him

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                that's the first gay one, and you're now romancing him. Even if you turn him down the game will still act like you're fricking him in the ass. The second one is where he left a magic image to tell you to go to his secret buttfricking location that even if you say no and don't go to, the game still will act like you did

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I'm talking about the second one

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Bro
                this is NOT how you sit with your fricking bros
                I regret to inform you that you and your friends are gay

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Everyone take a moment to notice that this anon has a full walkthrough on how to get a quarterstaff shoved up his MC's ass.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >haha look at this guy with his powerful memory that can handle remembering two things that happened recently!
                >haha he's not like me with my based moron memory that forgets what I'm like cookies they are good is it nap time yet

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Post internet history, I bet you've been googling Gale's romance guide since this shit came out lmao

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Post internet history
                nice try Mr. FBI.

                [...]

                is that way, you're wasting your time here

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                For me it's /lgbt/

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >tell him to frick off
                >the game still acts like you spent the night with him and gives you the "About last night..." options
                >same thing with Chin McDruid and asking him if he's having a nice night at the party
                romances in RPGs were a mistake

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >you're now romancing him
                Except I'm not because I didn't click either of the very obvious gay romance options while he was showing me magic or while we looked at the stars together at a heterosexual distance. I swear there's some [Glass him] shit going on here with ESLs where they click the gay sex button thinking it's just bros being bros. After we looked at the stars he never bothered me again unless it was about the orb, the crown, or Mystra all the way to the end of the game.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >he was showing me magic or while we looked at the stars together at a heterosexual distance
                Again, this

                Bro
                this is NOT how you sit with your fricking bros
                I regret to inform you that you and your friends are gay

                is how the characters sit in this scene. You are not straight. The fact that you think that is straight is hilarious.
                Your character is gay. YOU are gay.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >this is how the characters sit in this scene
                There was a full (human) arms length between my dwarf and Gale and a dialogue option to slide closer to him that I didn't click because I'm not a confused homosexual like you.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >this moron sits with his hands behind him touching another man's arms who is also leaning back
                >"This is totally normal bro"
                lmao

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >ESL doesn't understand what arms length means
                It seems I was right on the money when I said it was moronic ESLs clicking the homosex options and then being confused when they start having gay sex. If you don't try to swallow his cum after doing magic the conversation under the stars doesn't involve you sitting in his lap

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Withers gives me a talk about not shooting up a school because you're a KHV
        Jesus fricking christ lmao

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        deserved it for rejecting lae'zel

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Meanwhile my FemMC is having lesbian sex with all the women including shadowheart

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        The game has a few checkpoint problems/bugs

        I went to where the gnome slaves are in the underdark and then telporteted out and shadowheart started telling me about some character I'd never heard of "ohh we left blah to die behind that rock" even though I'd never seen/heard of them
        Seems like a few of these checkpoints are misplaced with dialogue too.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Don't worry, he's a pompous douchebag, but you did miss out on super tasty loot
          Might still be able to get it tho, go to the druegar place and blast a hole in the rock theyre mining

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Every one of my party members has tried to frick me and I didn't even try. I just kept clicking on the someone at camp wants to talk to you messages.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Best thing I ever learned to do recently was create an army of personality-free PCs and murder the useless Where's.
      Asterions clothes fit quite well.

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Is that a modded version of her? she looks different

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yes and no, she changes her haircut later, but there was a mod in EA that gave her that haircut earlier

  9. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >her

  10. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    did you fix her Ganker?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >shadowheart changes her hair to reflect shar
      >slaughters the sharrites
      >saves her parents
      >keeps shar's hairstyle

  11. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The game is currently bugged, if you let gale show you even a little magic it can brick your save and make all other companions unromancable

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      What? I can romance other characters

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        I still recommend waiting for the patch. They will make Gale less of a creep, I am sure.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Some ppl get the bug, for others it doesnt happen, nobody knows what exactly triggers it yet

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I did magic with Gale and then had earth shattering snu snu with Karlach, sounds like a you problem

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Sex scenes are quite badly animated compared to what is possible these days, but Karlach's new flames during sex is nice.

  12. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I put clown face make up on her and she saved me from the "Hideous Laughter" spell.

  13. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I never even got any romance interactions with her in act 1, I long rested regularly and always talked to her. Im pretty certain it bugged out. Im hoping I can in act 2 since i Just got to the the temple of sharr

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Nope, no scene in act 1 = no romance

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        What did I do to not get it then? I wasn't rushing. I purposefully turned down Gale and Lae'Zel for her 🙁

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          I don't know because it happened to me too. What I did was use cheat engine to force the triggers after Act 2 ended but before she has her talk with the Aasimar

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            CE 7.5 is bundled with malware and all the cheat tables require it to be updated to that.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              this is bullshit

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                It isn't. It's literally full of bloatware and who knows what else bundled with the installer. Even Windows Defender picks it up.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Oh well if windows defender picks it up then it must be harmful

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                https://www.cheatengine.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5780032&sid=d196250bf364c9cdb29e47655c0d50b1

                Malware.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                It's been a while since I installed cheat engine, but you can just decline all the optional programs still, right?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I dunno, I'm not turning off my anti-virus to find out.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I wouldn't trust Windows Defender, because its main goal is making sure you only have Microsoft approved products. If you had some other antivirus, like spybot or malwarebytes and they said it had spyware/malware, I'd be more concerned.

                Anyway, the cheat engine installer has "recommended" various bullshit programs for like a decade. just decline all of them, read what you're clicking, and you'll be fine.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                the cheatengine site still has the older versions, right? Just download one of them. I haven't updated my version in 6 years and it still works fine on everything.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I do the same. I have an old version that works fine for most things I want to use it for.

                Problem is that the CE tables for BG3 I want to try and use to fix/reset Shadowheart's romance route only work with v 7.5. Fortunately, I may have found a working clean version with no detected PUAs.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Well, then make your own tables. The methodology hasn't changed, as far as I know. Worst case, you'll have to rediscover the values every time you restart the game. But once you've done it once, it's trivial to do it again.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                That's a pain and thankfully I've avoided needing to do that. The clean version I found is working fine.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Excuse me if I'm misreading you, but it seems to me
                >the latest cheat engine version is full of bullshit!
                >but that's okay, my version is clean
                >(hoping for an anon to ask for your link)
                >(then your link is full of the same shit you mentioned before)
                Nothing personal anon, but I've seen this scam before.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Enjoy your bundled malware. I've already had the unfortunate experience of dealing with this bullshit with utorrent. If you're actually interested in finding the one I'm talking about then it should be easy enough to find it yourself. Good night.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous
              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                he's full of shit. The installer, as always, has bloatware. Don't accept any of it. There are FPs with CE, as always, because of the nature of it.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                the funny part is you can go to the hub and get the code and compile it yourself. But it's posted by the same people so if you don't trust one I don't know why you would just the same shit posted by the same person
                lmao

  14. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    i wanted to romance frog girl..............................

  15. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >i didn't kiss her in the first act
    its over. you can still have sex with mizora though

  16. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >decide to see if the hype is real or just shills
    >try to download it
    >three days estimated download time
    Game sizes are getting out of control. I could download shit faster on dialup

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      How shit is your download speed, it's only 100gb Don't tell me you're downloading it on steam

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      its pretty god,but it get boring at moments

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Dope-ass pic, anon. Off-topic but whatever, BG3 looks awful.

  17. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Only get told 50 hours later in Act 3 that I could have given Shadowheart the Noblestalk from that Underdark quest back in Act 1 to cure her Shar wound.

    Frick.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Only get told 50 hours later in Act 3 that I could have given Shadowheart the Noblestalk from that Underdark quest back in Act 1 to cure her Shar wound.
      wut
      I didn't know know either

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Apparently if you long rest with it in your inventory right after you get it there's a scene. You can also give it to the dwarf then pickpocket it back.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      bruh

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        what

        The Noblestalk is said to cure memory loss. That's the hint that it could be used with Shadowheart, but most people just turn it in for the quest right away. With a Persuasion/Intimidate check at camp you can convince her to eat it, curing the Sharran wound and restoring a memory of a childhood friend.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          even funnier is I didn't know there was a flower there that gets blown up. I saved the dude and then popped all the flowers because haha boom fuuny

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      what

  18. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >that big nose
    >those ugly freckles
    >that scar
    >that prostitute eye shadow
    >those bimbo lips

    See, this is why I prefer anime elves. Pic related. A much better black-haired, blue-eyed elf girl than OP's black-haired, blue-eyed elf girl.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      If you're going to post anime shit at least post good anime shit like Ryoko Kui's artwork.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Post a real anime elf, ya frickin gatcha simp frick.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        A real anime elf you say?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >freckles
      >ugly
      you're in danger

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      i prefer fish anon

  19. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Is it true that act 3 is a total dud compared to 1/2?

  20. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    why do you want to romance ugly girls?

  21. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    You guys actually like vidya "romances"? You don't think they're just dumb and annoying?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I like them when the game is built around one, like Grandia, or Lunar, or FF 8/9/10, etc.
      I like CRPGs but their romances are usually fricking shit, and BG 3 for all its good parts, has the shittiest fricking romances of all.

  22. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    she just dumped me for not let her join her join her goddes, even virtual women run away from me holy frickkkkkk
    SHADOWHEART I FRICKING HATE YOU

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      you can always choose the devil girl and go to hell with her to be doomguy

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        i decapitate her 🙁

  23. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    what level are you or were you in the shadowlands? i'm level 6 i'm just wondering what the average level for it is.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I finished chapter 2 at 10

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I finished it at level 8

  24. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    You must submit to a threesome

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      stop shilling your dead youtube channel

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      mutt's law

  25. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Ganker players being so bad at social cues and flirting that they genuinely get blindsided by the romances in this game is the funniest shit ever, thank you Baldur's Gate

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      [Glass Him]

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Who do you dream of at night?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        you, bb

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Are you implying that practicing in the game could translate to better romance skills IRL?

  26. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Anybody have that image of her pubes sticking out of her underwear.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous
      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Thank you very much.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous
      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Ponder the stench

  27. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    How's the mod scene for this game? Any good? Or hit and miss because it's constantly being updated, like Bannerlord?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      From what I hear pretty decent, Haven't got any because me and the lads are doing a vanilla playthrough first

  28. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why doesn't Mage Armor stack with Unarmored Defense?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      If you have Mage Armor, you're not Unarmored, are you?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        But it's not armor it's magic armor.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        You are, mage armor sets your base ac to 13 and thus should stack with unarmored ac bonuses

  29. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Make sure you guys kill the spider legged dude in the shadow lands, I made the mistake of going with him to moonrise and now he's in Ketheric's fight with almost 200 health doing big damage.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >not killing him on sight
      What's wrong with you?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >didn't make him give up his lantern and then walk off to be killed by the darkness

  30. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's been forever since I got this addicted to a game. How many hours do you guys have?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      still downloading it because its filesize is absurd

      devs need to relearn the arts of compression

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        took like 40 min

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          I've got 2 days left

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Only about 12 hours in, but I can tell this is going to rob me of productivity.

  31. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    This mod looks moronic. She gets a different hairstyle in the game itself.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      looks good to me
      certainly better than the default at the very least

  32. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    My wife

  33. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    How do i romance both La zael and Shadowheart?
    i fricked both but i miss making frog lady submit to me

  34. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Can anyone anwser this. If you accepted both Lae'zel's and Karlach's advances are you permanently locked out of romancing Shadowheart? Also at the party after the goblin raid she rejected me and said Gale wanted to see me. I assume because of the weird gay magic trick shit that came out left field and was super uncomfortable.

    Am I just straight up screwed if my aim was specifically Shadowheart?

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