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Larian has released Baldur's Gate 3's hotly anticipated Patch 5, which adds loads of new content to the sprawling Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.

Patch 5 fixes slowdown issues caused by Patch 4, adds a brand-new epilogue providing closure to each player's journey, and even new game modes.

The new playable epilogue gameplay, accessible to all players loading the game prior to the final fight, takes place before the credits. Players find themselves in camp, six months after the events of Baldur's Gate 3's story, where they "meet new friends and old, taking all the time they need to say their final goodbyes to the party."

Larian called this epilogue a "final goodbye". "For the writers of Larian, this 'final goodbye' has been some of the most complex writing in the game so far, as it takes advantage of the game's reactivity across the entire adventure," the developer said. "A gigantic tree of permutations defines the content, with new writing (3,589 lines to be exact), cinematics, and even characters joining the get-together at camp, organized by Withers."

You can see the full list of changes here since it's too big for Neogaf

 

[Senua]

Larian are nuts

 

[Zheph]

Nice work but chill on the size boys

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Make good games and they will come!

Loved Larian since Divine Divinity. Always been a good developer.

 

[SEGAvangelist]

Final goodbye? So I guess no expansions to get the characters to level 20 down the road?

 

[Skifi28]

Pretty sure it was already like 150GB on PC unless the previous patch reduced it.

 

[adamsapple]

Xbox version will ship with this patch already implemented fyi.

 

[Solidus_T]

Can't wait to play it after work. Bravo, Larian.

 

[Tarnished]

They're just on another level.

 

[a multicultural team of v]

By the time I get to playing this it's gonna be like 200 hours to finish.

 

[Ocean Dweller]

Larian are nuts

I mean, sure... but also continued patches due to the amount of bugs

 

[Gaiff]

No doubt the ridiculous success of the game contributed to such strong post-launch support.

It really raised the bar on what an RPG is. The epitome of Role Playing, something that is lost on most RPGs.

 

[Gaiff]

I mean, sure... but also continued patches due to the amount of bugs

Lots of content in those new patches too. New animations, new options, new dialogues, etc. The sheer number of branching paths makes me surprised the game released in such a solid state.

 

[Agent_4Seven]

Still holding on from playing Act 3 and beyond. Highly doubt this is going to be the last patch for the game, let alone small fixes.

 

[Nankatsu]

Me waiting for the physical release.

 

[Zheph]

Still holding on from playing Act 3 and beyond. Highly doubt this is going to be the last patch for the game, let alone small fixes.

Act 3 is fine since months btw

 

[Gambit2483]

Great, now put ALL of this in the Physical Release.

 

[Sanepar]

Larian are nuts

Larian, From, CDPR and Nintendo are the last gems from this crap industry.

 

[Agent_4Seven]

Act 3 is fine since months btw

I've plenty of other and way smaller games to play and finish. I'll get back to BG3 eventually to finish it and start 2nd playthrough - I'll be playing better version of the game by then so that's also something to look forward to. There's no rush, it's already my GOTY of this year and nothing will beat it.

 

[xVodevil]

Good stuff!
Just got back to it yesterday to continue my temporarily abandoned play trough after 3 months (too many distractions released starting with Starfield.. ), just about to finish Act 1 so perfect timing!
Great job Larian, time to go for GOTY and all the glory!

 

[VideoGameEnjoyer]

That's pretty amazing. I'm finally almost into Act 3 after hundreds of hours and a half dozen different characters.

 

[Darko]

By the time I get to playing this it's gonna be like 200 hours to finish.

You're not complaining tho right? Lol

 

[AV]

Awesome, got the epilogues for 3 playthroughs to watch.

 

[killatopak]

Larian, CDPR and Nintendo are the last gems from this crap industry.

I'll add Fromsoft.

 

[diffusionx]

posted this in another thread but I'm happy to wait a long time to play this, it's not going anywhere and the game a year from now will be a lot better than what it is today.

 

[Magic Carpet]

I'll buy this game if it wins game of the year on the game award show thing.

 

[Krappadizzle]

I just hope the modders haven't quit yet. I'm just about to ACT 3(again) and I was hopeful that no more patches would break the mods, which definitely wasn't the case with the last patch. I just don't have enough time to devote to playing quick enough to keep up with the updates! What an amazing game.

 

[a multicultural team of v]

You're not complaining tho right? Lol

Not if it is a good 200 hours! (and everything I've heard says it will be)

 

[P:axMagellanic]

Good on them.

 

[FoxMcChief]

So this game is still in Beta?

 

[Ivory Samoan]

So this game is still in Beta?

Mate, it's the Omega.

 

[Doom85]

Final goodbye? So I guess no expansions to get the characters to level 20 down the road?

It would be very difficult to make a video game campaign work up to Level 20 without drastically nerfing some of the classes to my understanding. Keep in mind, a good deal of DMs struggle with running campaigns with Level 15+ players, and all official 5E pre written campaign books have only gone up to Level 13 IIRC.

When spells are just basically altering reality or even just having a wish granted, I can see why Larian opted not to go that far.

I mean, at level 12, your characters are ridiculously powerful as is. If we compared it to say Revenge of the Sith: Yoda, Mace Windu, and Palpatine would all roughly be around Level 16-20, but Obi-Wan being around Level 12 sounds about right. Not quite god level by the series rough power scale, but still very strong and very few people will want to duke it out with him if given the option if they know what he's capable of.

 

[Krappadizzle]

26+ GB update btw.

 

[Wolfpact1983]

 

[Chuck Berry]

By the time I get to playing this it's gonna be like 200 hours to finish.

It already takes that long

 

[SEGAvangelist]

It would be very difficult to make a video game campaign work up to Level 20 without drastically nerfing some of the classes to my understanding. Keep in mind, a good deal of DMs struggle with running campaigns with Level 15+ players, and all official 5E pre written campaign books have only gone up to Level 13 IIRC.

When spells are just basically altering reality or even just having a wish granted, I can see why Larian opted not to go that far.

I mean, at level 12, your characters are ridiculously powerful as is. If we compared it to say Revenge of the Sith: Yoda, Mace Windu, and Palpatine would all roughly be around Level 16-20, but Obi-Wan being around Level 12 sounds about right. Not quite god level by the series rough power scale, but still very strong and very few people will want to duke it out with him if given the option if they know what he's capable of.

Yeah, I'm aware of the balance issues in 5e above Level 10 pretty much. I just figured they'd try to find some way around it.

 

[FunkMiller]

Have still yet to play this, so it sounds like when I do I'll get the complete experience!

 

[XXL]

Larian

 

[Freelance Yakuza]

 

[Senua]

I'll buy this game if it wins game of the year on the game award show thing.

 

[Poplin]

does it finally let you hide the username tags on the top left of the screen in local co op? covers the mini map and notification, makes it really rough to play if you're on the left side of the screen.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Not if it is a good 200 hours! (and everything I've heard says it will be)

Bro Ive put maybe 6 hours into it barely even entering the first post tutorial area and yeah, I can safely say its quality is really something else.

 

[FoxMcChief]

I'm glad I waited. I'll wait a while longer to start it.

 

[BouncyFrag]

Larian flexin' something fierce.

 

[Mozzarella]

Massive, great patch.
This is perfect for another playthrough in the winter.

Larian, From, CDPR and Nintendo are the last gems from this crap industry.

I'll add Capcom. too

 

[Last Hearth]

Larian are nuts

Any other publisher would release this as DLC and change $20-30.

 

[Last Hearth]

Still holding on from playing Act 3 and beyond. Highly doubt this is going to be the last patch for the game, let alone small fixes.

No need to wait, I just started Act 3 and it's amazing.

 

[StereoVsn]

Make good games and they will come!

Loved Larian since Divine Divinity. Always been a good developer.

Divine Divinity 2 Dev Edition was actually pretty good game. Dragon Commander was also interesting if not amazing.

 

[Last Hearth]

These 3 are big for me.

• Two new play modes: Honour Mode and Custom Mode.
• While at camp, you can now access and manage the inventories of companions who aren't in your active party.

That constantly swapping people in and out of party to get to their inventory was getting annoying

• Minthara will still appear at Moonrise Towers if she was knocked out in Act I

I missed recruiting her because I didn't go for the evil path in Act1. Now we can recruit her without going down the evil path.

 

[Raven117]

Is Act 3 fixed enough to get this going?