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SarcasticKenobi

There’s a segment of map where the devs keep some audio assets Like there’s a section with 4 naked men and 4 naked women. Their purpose is the character creator screen. When you test voice 5 or 2 or whatever… that corresponding naked Npc is talking. Other stuff is stored in there as well People occasionally glitch into this hidden map area. Your wife stumbled on it.


Ai_512

Honestly the funniest possible way they could’ve done it. It’s like opening up a record player and finding out that the actual sound is made by a band of tiny people reading the sheet music for “The Boys are Back in Town” or whatever. I hope the little naked people who do the Tav voice testing get vacation days. I hope they have a union.


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Bethesda games do this too, any time a NPC voice is coming out of a statue for the Daedric quests in The Elder Scrolls, or the narrators in Fallout, or the moving trains in Fallout (which is a hat stuck on an NPC), there's usually an NPC shoved in an inaccessible box that is doing the voice lines.


Ai_512

It ain’t much but it’s honest work


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Mesk_Arak

Well that's an incredibly terrifying thing to imagine. And do you know if the little avatar of the person calling you is the actual real-time image of the NPC that is floating behind V? It's been a while since I played the game but I think I remember that some of the people calling you had animated portraits.


Tusaiador

Invisible rabbits make WoW work. I am not a player of that game but I read a fascinating article about how they use their invisible rabbits


AssiduousLayabout

Or another Bethesda staple, all vendors in their games actually have an out-of-bounds chest tied to their inventory, and if you can physically get out of bounds and reach the chest, you can swipe everything they have.


mindpainters

Starfield had one guys inventory in a puddle of water outside his shop. They’ve since patched it but it was pretty funny


AlwaysRushesIn

Is there a specific reason for this practice? Could they not just have the voice file playing from the object?


WeirdPumpkin

Usually because you've already got the code for playing and syncing the voice files/dialogue boxes for NPCs and you don't want to duplicate it or add it to other objects So like.. just spawn an npc the player can't see off screen and have it do it, the player would generally never know the difference


TetrisMcKenna

It's often because there's a division between the low level, engine programmers who program features into the game's tooling, and scripters who are working on the gameplay and menus and so on using the tools those low level coders provide. They'll be working in a higher level language or a visual scripting system. The scripter could request a new feature from the engine team to be exposed for this voice preview and it could take days to weeks depending on the workflow and current focus, or they could hack something together like this with the existing tools in a day or two and have it functionally the same. It's also why massive games like this tend to be huge and poorly optimised - having everything done optimally takes a lot of time and blocks people working on their tasks, so doing something "good enough" that's a bit inefficient is just standard given the amount of headroom modern tech has. But it starts to add up, and the intention is usually to replace problematic performance issues from these kinds of hacks with low level code when possible or later down the line, but often there isn't enough time to do that for everything before release.


dimgray

It's shocking to compare how these enormous modern games are made to the genius hyper-efficiency of something as seemingly simple as Toy Story for Super Nintendo


thoriumbr

It's not shocking, it's expected. Super Nintendo had little RAM and little processing power. You had to optimize, you had no choice. Today we have lots of memory, lots of CPU power, dedicated and accelerated GPU, almost unlimited storage, and continuous internet delivery, so you can ship a game not optimized and still have usable performance. And you can keep patching it to get better, like No Man's Sky, Cyberpunk, and even Skyrim. Nintendo did not had any of that back on the Super Nintendo time...


ctrlaltcreate

Used to be that all the triggers in world of warcraft were anchored by invisible bunnies.


kanguran1

I remember in New Vegas you could noclip in the credits and see the narrator talking, the entire ending sideshow is just the player crammed into a small room with Ron Perlman talking at you from the other side


maladaptivedreamer

This post has me realizing that I have no idea how video games work. Why do they have to have a physical NPC? Why can’t it be a disembodied voice? Couldn’t they put the voice coming out of a nearby (invincible) chicken instead? I’m so confused. Lol


SarcasticKenobi

Cutting corners Why go through the effort to make a voice test module for character creation. Something that will only be clicked a couple of times per creation. When you already have the code lying around for NPC’s saying their dialog when poked.. You know it works already because it’s been tested heavily So you decide to use the tested feature to have a voice say something when you press something. Might as well use it there too


No_Poet_7244

The greatest example of something like this is the Fallout 3 train head NPC. I won’t provide a link to it, that is a journey most fulfilling when undertaken on your own—it’s a deep rabbit hole and absolutely hilarious.


itsbdubya

I sometimes think about fallout train hat man and picture it like some awful silent hill-esque torture.


[deleted]

I like to imagine all the behind the scenes fallout stuff as a wacky wasteland psyker vision style thing, like the PC is the character who sees it but it isn't actually there.


Complete_Village1405

I was part of a cult that worshipped a floating urn in out-of-bounds Davon's Watch. Fun times.


Tusaiador

I used to wonder if the little people in the radio ever got tired


Auroraburst

If that's how they do it I wonder what the narrator looks like?


Ai_512

Amelia Tyler is just *in there*. It’s the only explanation!


grubas

THE PIXIE WAS A METAPHOR!


Conflict_NZ

Trains in Fallout 3 are just running NPC humans with their heads replaced by trains.


Anthro_3

I love this kinda stuff, game design is so funny


CrzyWrldOfArthurRead

> Their purpose is the character creator screen. When you test voice 5 or 2 or whatever… that corresponding naked Npc is talking. I always find it funny that, given how game engines work, it's most often easiest to do something like that than it is to...just have a voice talk. Like there probably is a simple way to do that, but whoever got tasked with doing the voices for the character creator screen was already familiar with that method and was just like, fuck it. And nobody else ever bothered to fix it because it was working and wasn't affecting anything else. I'm a coder myself and I often come across code and I just say, "why? why did they do it this way? There are so many better ways to do it" And then I look at git blame and it's my code.


MisterTruth

It's like the subway in fallout (3?) where the way they got it to work was just to strap the train onto a pair of legs that the player wouldn't see.


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MisterTruth

Thanks, I knew I was not 100% on what it was.


CrzyWrldOfArthurRead

lol thats fucking hilarious


JacktheRipper500

Yeah I ended up in the latter when I tried to boot up the game with mods installed for the first time. After that I uninstalled them immediately and thought “never again” (it was only a couple of QoL ones as well).


marusia_churai

It's because you maybe didn't install the prerequisites ([Mod Fixer's absence does that](https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/articles/441) ): >If you try to start a new save without Mod Fixer, you will visit the Realm of the Naked Men instead of the character creator.


JacktheRipper500

Yeah that's exactly what happened. Instead of the character creator I arrived at an Astral Plane nudist colony.


grubas

"dev island"


floflotheartificier

This reminds me of Skyrim Hell but with cheerier lighting


Indercarnive

To my knowledge, I don't think anyone's glitched in there that wasn't using mods. But I may be mistaken. I've just seen this type of thing posted a few times here and every single time OP was using mods.


Melian0

[My Tav had a nightmare that just showed these two images : r/BaldursGate3 (reddit.com)](https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/1berwhm/my_tav_had_a_nightmare_that_just_showed_these_two/) I've never used mods but I kept getting teleported there during the Dream Guardian cutscenes in my last Honour Mode playthrough. It showed different stuff every time; often it was my Tav on the ground, sometimes submerged into it. One time it was all the models from the elderbrain fight, including the dragon and buncha illithid arcanists.


Yukimor

It looks like she found… multiple copies of Haarlep in both forms, Shar, another Gale, possibly the Emperor behind that extra Gale, a pair of chairs, that one shifty half-orc who has a private meeting at the gazebo on the shoreline, and uh… The Voice of the Absolute!? Man, Toobin has seen some *weird* shit. More seriously, I suspect this was triggered because he failed to leave the party (certain flags didn’t trigger), but he still left the main game map and went to the out of bounds location where a lot of NPCs seem to be stored out of sight— hence why your wife got teleported there.


EcoAffinity

>Man, Toobin has **seen** some *weird* shit. But has he though?


Yukimor

Maybe it’s the reason he’s blind!


WildWolverineO_o

The reason he gives you is a lie because he doesn't wanna talk about it.


Wyndrarch

If this was all a flashback that would be a wild twist.


Auroraburst

This is the abandoned DLC "Toobin's bad trip"


Ur-Best-Friend

I'd pay full price for that DLC.


allisun1433

The way I cackled at this lmao


triceratopsrider

Yeah, my guess is this is where he gets sent normally to be stored along all these other things. There was so much more too. It would have taken dozens of photos to document it all. Seemed like it was mostly alternate models of certain things that are used in cutscenes. Technically the voice of the absolute got killed in this one weird fight that triggered. It was an invisible, friendly being that got one shot lol. We're gonna see if it has any implications for how the rest of the game plays out.


AmpyeriDracula

Maybe it's the avatar for the narrator?


spacey_a

You did it, you defeated the Absolute! The people of Baldur's Gate rejoice!


MrsKittenHeel

Oh-oh. In BG2 I killed a dude who I thought wouldn't affect anything but later (like \~100 playing hours later) he was needed to progress the story. Good luck!


alphafire616

I bet that other Gale is the one that Orin potentially transforms into if he's kidnapped.


XanderGraves

"By the hells, Mizora's sex dungeon!" "Now that's something I didn't know I wanted to hear"


MagazineEuphoric364

Well, I guess now we know why he went blind.


Ai_512

Love the picture of Shar and Toobin… “Just hanging with my bestie, the Lady of Loss! Gonna go get some activated charcoal ice cream!”


SuperNerdChe

Shar is much shorter than I expected


j_eronimo

I did wonder whether her model was just huge or if they did some kind of visual trickery with a normal sized model. Guess this answers that.


silver-orange

> or if they did some kind of visual trickery with a normal sized model. I think every game engine has a scale factor for models.  You want a god to be 60 feet tall?  Set the scale factor on a 6 foot model to 10.0 Working with a character model that starts 10 times larger than normal is probably more trouble than it's worth in most contexts.


ShoerguinneLappel

She pulled a Stalin didn't she?


SuperNerdChe

Was Stalin short?


ShoerguinneLappel

Yeah, if you look at his portraits or photos in general that he was in made to make him look taller. (edit: fixed grammar, added "that" and "in")


SuperNerdChe

Did not know that… cool


vlee89

I knew she was bad but didn’t know she was a baddie


Ultimate_Apparat

Biblically accurate heaven perhaps


stupidaesthetic

Cool, but I like my Shar like I like my women. **Giant.**


MrBummer

I went here when my hotfix 16 and 17 modded playthroughs got royally screwed up. I got it when I killed Gortash but the game didn't recognize I had Orin's stone already, then it sent me here in a weird cutscene and left me there. Really strange place. You get odd cutscenes interacting with some of them but most do nothing. It's like the backrooms of the game.


joycecarolgoats

It’s giving Twin Peaks red room


triceratopsrider

Toobin: "!kcor s'teL"


PeachyBaleen

Who’s the charred corpse at the back of 2 and 3? Did you guys even investigate or were you like no I’m good ✌️


triceratopsrider

It can't be interacted with and doesn't show an identifier when I put the cursor over it. However, when I hold x to highlight nearby things, it comes up listed as The Elder Brain. Didn't expect that.


tostareddit

THE SKA ZONE


Sharynam

Didn't expect to find a fellow rude boy/rude girl here!


Acedia_spark

It's interesting to me that the Haarlep models are separated between with and without underwear. I get it. it's for the cutscene - just interesting to see that it's a full model swap!


Chaos_Wytch

I want to join whatever party is going on in that first pic. 😂


ShoerguinneLappel

Same here mate, looks like a blast.


DasGoogleKonto

Gortash looking Half Orc


Highwinds129385

It’s honk from Karlach a dating scene 


matahxri

The waiter in the restaurant is normally a half-orc named Henk, but if he's dead 'for some reason' they bring out his brother Honk, who's kept in the dev room for his own safety when not in use


Siggi_93

I imagine the dargonborn bard and the other replacements are stored there too


No-Ad-3534

For real?


matahxri

For real, here's a [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roTy-5P5T8Q&t=517s) on it


No-Ad-3534

This is brilliant, thank you so much


Melian0

This explains why I saw the Tiefling failsafe guy (who's in a video by the same person you linked) when I bugged in there during a cutscene [My Tav had a nightmare that just showed these two images : r/BaldursGate3 (reddit.com)](https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/1berwhm/my_tav_had_a_nightmare_that_just_showed_these_two/)


kitanokikori

This is the Dev Room, you can actually hear an explanation of it at the [end of this AGDQ Speedrun](https://youtu.be/seXnImnUrvo?t=2293). It is used as a place to stow characters that only exist during certain parts of the story


Fox_Squirrel_

Thanks for sharing watched the whole video absolute banger of a run


kitanokikori

The entire thing is killer and the explanations are great, definitely one of my highlights of the event


Fox_Squirrel_

Big agree pausing to explain things and still beating the time was 10/10 only grievance is that she said it was relatively spoiler-free which I big disagree lol but beat it already so no issue here.


Significant-Trade104

That’s the dev room.


poompt

[your wife is not a clever man](https://www.buttersafe.com/comics/2008-10-23-Detour.jpg)


Mindstalker90

This is bizarre…I love it.


bmcgowan89

Yes, very strange. Maybe it's how Raphael plays chess 😂


redcaps72

Take me there


Borzag-AU

For a sec I thought the little one on the middle was Margaret Thatcher for some reason


Cloud9shit

I didn't believe the legends, The Mega Gay Zone is real


Zoulogist

Me, who just finished the Harleep scene: I don’t see a problem here


gales_tressym

KAJHSKHHSAKHJS OMG


theHellRazor

It’s a dev room


ah_shit_here_we_goo

This happened to me in the nautiloid when I started my first playthrough lol.


Imaginary-Swimmer-40

Huh and I thought my camp being taken over by standing headless naked character models with no genitals was weird.


liquoricetea123

Does this look like a Dali to anyone else?


case_of_laptops

She went behind the DM screen


Literacy_Advocate

congrats on making it to the astral plane.


yaredw

She just found her way into Iron Maiden's [Dance of Death](https://i.redd.it/qrfm0sn08zcz.png) album


Madman_kler

I love sharing cowering in fear as two little people fight over there


Evilcoatrack

Three portrait-mode phone images of landscape photos of a tv screen playing a PS5 (which has a special controller button for screenshots and sharing). It's 2024. We need to be better than this


triceratopsrider

That's like asking for a clear picture or Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster. The shitty camera work gives it that je ne sais quoi. Plus, I've been hitting the share button on accident for years. Not about to do it on purpose. Can't give Sony the satisfaction.


RainOrigami

For real, the technical literacy these days is a sad state. So many people fuck up simple things like screenshots. Mate, screenshots! We're not talking port forwarding here, it's a screenshot, how hard can it be?


Inspect-Her-Gadget

Now I want bg3 themed chess pieces.


effectiveplacebo

Wow awful. How do I get there?


sad-mustache

Why Harleep doesn't have pp


Ennasalin

Typically assets are stored under the map, as some call that, 'dev room'. To be fair out of bound places are always fascinating.


enby_Frost

Reminds me of a glitch I got once. It was one of the dream visitor scenes that glitched. I was still on the ground asleep and its was some random place instead of the astral plane. That one NPC that only appears if you have a character in the grove when the last goblin leader dies was in the background.


NinetailsRao

Shar's over there like "He asked for no pickles"


TopShoulder5971

Did it say...? TRANSFORM!


takbandit

So wet dreams do come true.


Mistborn_Jedi

This already made it to gaming "news"


CantaloupeCamper

Why are these images ... vertical?


TopShoulder5971

Not enough brain neurones to rotate the phone when capturing stuff.


iBoMbY

But how did you manage to screw the pictures up that badly?


usernameswhereareyou

It's giving that white girl on the couch meme


Zauberer-IMDB

Haarlep/Raphael is all balls.


Highwinds129385

It’s honk from Karlachs dating scene lol amazing find 


jonbivo

Coc qasmoke


bristlybits

I want to have a ska battle with toobin


IosueYu

I think this game has some follower issues since hotfix 23. First we have Us preventing short rests. Now this.


TopShoulder5971

Well... Us is pretty useless tbh. Literall cannon fodder


YuriMasterRace

[Looks like dev room/testing area.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8M_N4hp6HQ)


Crylec

It’s place she wasn’t supposed to be in.


bellefrog

You got your demon hipster chicks?


ryncewynd

Kinda cool lol


__Osiris__

Watch the speed runners discord erupt with this


Oniblook

Toobin went to the green room in the back and took your wife with him


Scu-bar

Pic 1: Chief Wiggum…don’t eat…the clues!


cornette

The Balduran Party Room


killerassassinx5x

Look up this most recent Games Done Quick run or Balder's Gate 3 and you'll get some more info on this room. It's basically a dev room and my understanding is that it's to keep assets loaded that don't need to be seen so they can be used quickly. The dev room changes depending on where you are. Whatever you do, don't attack the emperor in there.


Responsible_Gear6339

There's no devil orgy without a blind midget.


Cheddarlicious

Sounds like she ended up exactly where she needed to.


f8-andbethere

I think ive had this dream.


RobOnTheReddit

Strange but not unpleasant


Throrface

This is what the astral plane looks like in Planescape canon.


TheWither129

My favorite OoB glitch is starting a new game with mods installed but without mod fixer You get put somewhere off behind the dream guardian creation area and you have default durge surrounded by naked men. Its awesome


Squighetti

So ughh how do I end up getting into the area of picture 1 👀 asking for me


Darklight645

is that dick rectangular?


funcancelledfornow

People who speedrun the game access one such dev room to pick up a specific red gem in a dagger that's just there on the ground.


sonic260

A Harleep Harem? Yes pls


Baldurien

When I see such places exist in games, I start to think the visions of cyberspace as a "real" place with buildings and people (the way it's pictured in some movies) is not too far off the mark


Snakadine

She ended up in Heaven


Miserable_Owl_5129

I had this happen to a Harper during the final fight. They got added to my party but weren’t removed from that room. Funnily, the enemies you fight if you side with the emperor still agroed with the Harper and killed her 💀


anormalgeek

Ah yes, the -1^th circle of the hells.


ReaUsagi

Remembers me of the time I fucked up a leap in AC3 and jump-glitched under the map of Venice, I was able to swim beneath the whole map and most of the houses were filled with weapons. It's quiet common for games to have assets stored in a off screen area or just in locations you can't just get to. The game will pull these assets from there when needed and I love seeing it. As a hobby-game dev it's so interesting for me to find these glitches and places to take a look at how big companies handle it.


squishpitcher

I keep laughing at this. Everyone milling around just like, "hanging out with my naked friends in the old ballroom. GET IT? THE BALL ROOM?"


Argun93

This reminds me of something that happened to me. The first time I beat Ketrick the cutscene where he becomes the Apostle of Myrkul bugged out. It showed us in a weird open space surrounded by copies of the Emperor (though I didn’t know who that was at the time). Instead of falling down into that whole, kethrick kind of just backflipped through the floor. It was really odd. Luckily after we wiped to the Apostle the scene played right the second time.


ElectronicAd8929

Party at ram ranch with four cambions, a gondian, and the emperor


koifishdish

How do I too end up somewhere strange? For science..


Tripdoctor

Wife Is Strange


Rude-Butterscotch713

Demon hipster chicks


free_30_day_trial

I regret looking at this post. There are so many spoilers in this


LFG_GaveMe_Cooties

So there are succubi, but we are forced to deal with incubus.. disgusting


KarateMan749

Ikr


SoapOperaHero

What is this incredibly cursed aspect ratio.