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Well folks,


This is it. Our final major game patch for Baldur's Gate 3.


You've helped us make BG3 a bigger success than any of us could've ever hoped for, and that passion could keep us tweaking things and making changes until the end of time. But then we'd never be able to create something new.


Outside of minor bug fixing, Patch 8 will be the last game patch to introduce new content. That means we won't be adding any new narrative content or significant changes to storylines, Origin characters, or companions. We've told our stories the way we needed to tell them, and tried our best to make them impactful and engaging, and we're continuing to get better at handling our own chaos so that we can continue to create more chaos in the future.


From the start, your feedback has been incredibly important to us, and will continue to shape our future projects. As Swen said during the Baldur's Gate 3 retrospective panel at PAX West in August of last year, it's time for the team to go back to our cave and hang the armour on the wall while we focus on bringing you our next project.


If you're already feeling nostalgic, you can click here to watch our last Baldur's Gate 3 panel, where we looked back on Baldur's Gate 3, from early access through to release, and answered some of your questions.


From patching in a way to change your appearance with the Magic Mirror, introducing Honour Mode for those of you looking for a hard time, and giving you new ways to make out with your romanced companion, to new cinematics for your most evil runs, and handing you the tools to create your own supported mods, Patch 8 now rounds off with cross-play, Photo Mode, and 12 new subclasses for you to enjoy.


To help us close the door on our last major patch, the party are back with their final animated short in collaboration with Spud Gun Studios - with a special appearance by the man in metal himself: Swen in his animated debut!

 

[nani17]

One of the best games I've played in recent years

 

[Poppinfresh]

This is it. Our final major game patch for Baldur's Gate 3.

Guess it's time to actually play the game now.

 

[pudel]

New subclasses, huh!? Man...thats tempting.

 

[Zuzu]

The GOAT Western RPG keeps getting better

 

[XERXES_89]

When even indies is chasing trends and easy money nowdays, best recipe for a great video game is an studio working in a passion project, a project in which most team members believes. Thats the case of last GOTYs, for example: Sekiro, TLOU2, Elden Ring, Astro... Probably KC2... And BG3 is the best example of this philosophy.

 

[Gonzito]

Well shiiiit

I need to start a new playthrough at some point

 

[Outlier]

I REALLY don't want to have to jump back into this game. I've already spent hundreds of hours on it.

I'll try it out when I'm done with the other games.

 

[Doom85]

 

[ultrazilla]

Guess it's time to actually play the game now.

I'm just not a turn based game type player. I did play the very beginning which was fun though. Hmmmmm.

 

[amigastar]

I've had 60gb free on the harddrive but it said not enough space so i'm downloading the game again.

 

[rubik's dude]

I'm just not a turn based game type player. I did play the very beginning which was fun though. Hmmmmm.

I wasn't either before playing this. I'm still not, but I will say that it was a fun experience nonetheless. I wasn't familiar with DnD or CRPG's, so I found the learning curve to be kind of steep.

 

[Dorfdad]

Finally it's out of early access! Time to jump in been waiting for this one!

 

[Little Chicken]

I thought the Series S couldn't handle split screen

 

[geary]

I wasn't either before playing this. I'm still not, but I will say that it was a fun experience nonetheless. I wasn't familiar with DnD or CRPG's, so I found the learning curve to be kind of steep.

And what would you say now? Would you be open to play some best in class CRPGs, but not so cinematics, but the same heavy hitting from gameplay perspective?

 

[RickSanchez]

I'm just not a turn based game type player. I did play the very beginning which was fun though. Hmmmmm.

There are mods which turn the combat into real-time with pause, like Dragon Age. I don't know if they are available on Xbox or PS5, but they're definitely available for PC.

Brawl - Real Time Combat

Real-Time Combat With Pause

www.nexusmods.com

Real Time Combat

Complete Real Time Combat system, with a QuickCast hotbar, smart AI behavior, and a Mana ball system. Seamless transitions between turn based and real time combat.

www.nexusmods.com

And also mods for WASD movement and full third-person camera control

WASD Character Movement

Explore Faerûn from an immersive Third-Person view and use WASD to move your Heroes.

www.nexusmods.com

Native Camera Tweaks

Native open source plugin providing several camera tweaks. Unlocked camera pitch, zoom, controller stick deadzone. No separate executables. Configurable.

www.nexusmods.com

 

[rubik's dude]

And what would you say now? Would you be open to play some best in class CRPGs, but not so cinematics, but the same heavy hitting from gameplay perspective?

Yeah I'm more open to it. I went back and played some CRPG's I tried when I was younger that I ended up not liking due to the gameplay. My experience with BG3 gave me new perspective, and I ended up enjoying them quite a bit.

 

[HRK69]

It's maybe the best game ever made

I'm immediately starting a new playthrough

 

[Nocty]

so first time loading this up and holy fuck,. this thing is going to be a comitment isnt it? I think I may wait until I've cleared some shorter games from the backlog first before I comit. The character creator alone took me almost an hour..

 

[Pimpollo818]

waiting for final maint/small patch before I pick this up. shouldn't be much longer now. Maybe summer 2025

 

[Viruz]

Bought the game at launch and played for around ten hours. Really liked what I played but put it aside for no particular reason, time to start a new save.

 

[scydrex]

Nice! Glad i waited to play this. Will clear some short games before playing this one.

 

[GateofD]

Need to get in on this, never played this type of game before. But was always curious

 

[struggler_guts]

so first time loading this up and holy fuck,. this thing is going to be a comitment isnt it? I think I may wait until I've cleared some shorter games from the backlog first before I comit. The character creator alone took me almost an hour..

Ohhh yeah son! This game, if you like it, will consume your time for the next few MONTHS unless you're lucky enough to be able to no-life it

 

[Nocty]

Ohhh yeah son! This game, if you like it, will consume your time for the next few MONTHS unless you're lucky enough to be able to no-life it

yeah fuck no, it took me almost 1 year to complete Wasteland 3, the last cRPG I played.

I have maybe 4-5 hours a week if I am lucky.

 

[R6Rider]

Are more major updates planned? I haven't started playing it yet.

EDIT: Nevermind. Didn't see all the info in the OP.

 

[geary]

yeah fuck no, it took me almost 1 year to complete Wasteland 3, the last cRPG I played.

I have maybe 4-5 hours a week if I am lucky.

Based on that info, take a vacation for next 2 years

 

[AJUMP23]

An amazing game, I hope every person that made the game has found success.

 

[Nocty]

An amazing game, I hope every person that made the game has found success.

I think in 'the making of' documentary on Larian, one of the videos Sven mentionned that the staff each get the option of shares in the comapny, so yeah, I think they will be well looked after financially.

 

[AJUMP23]

I think in 'the making of' documentary on Larian, one of the videos Sven mentionned that the staff each get the option of shares in the comapny, so yeah, I think they will be well looked after financially.

Is the Doc on Youtube?

 

[StereoVsn]

Well shiiiit

I need to start a new playthrough at some point

Yep, going to see if there are major bugs and if not, time to update my mod list and start a full on second playthrough.

 

[ADiTAR]

Is there a bug fix report? did they fix the Jahira shit show and the old hag?

 

[DenchDeckard]

Looks like it's time to play.

 

[ultrazilla]

There are mods which turn the combat into real-time with pause, like Dragon Age. I don't know if they are available on Xbox or PS5, but they're definitely available for PC.

Brawl - Real Time Combat

Real-Time Combat With Pause

www.nexusmods.com

Real Time Combat

Complete Real Time Combat system, with a QuickCast hotbar, smart AI behavior, and a Mana ball system. Seamless transitions between turn based and real time combat.

www.nexusmods.com

And also mods for WASD movement and full third-person camera control

WASD Character Movement

Explore Faerûn from an immersive Third-Person view and use WASD to move your Heroes.

www.nexusmods.com

Native Camera Tweaks

Native open source plugin providing several camera tweaks. Unlocked camera pitch, zoom, controller stick deadzone. No separate executables. Configurable.

www.nexusmods.com

Ok now this is awesome! Thank you RickSanchez

 

[darrylgorn]

There are mods which turn the combat into real-time with pause, like Dragon Age. I don't know if they are available on Xbox or PS5, but they're definitely available for PC.

Brawl - Real Time Combat

Real-Time Combat With Pause

www.nexusmods.com

Real Time Combat

Complete Real Time Combat system, with a QuickCast hotbar, smart AI behavior, and a Mana ball system. Seamless transitions between turn based and real time combat.

www.nexusmods.com

And also mods for WASD movement and full third-person camera control

WASD Character Movement

Explore Faerûn from an immersive Third-Person view and use WASD to move your Heroes.

www.nexusmods.com

Native Camera Tweaks

Native open source plugin providing several camera tweaks. Unlocked camera pitch, zoom, controller stick deadzone. No separate executables. Configurable.

www.nexusmods.com

Yes, the camera mods are mandatory imo. I often play the game in first person and the controller implementation is also great.

 

[Lokaum D+]

sadly, to big of a game for me

 

[pudel]

Yes, the camera mods are mandatory imo. I often play the game in first person and the controller implementation is also great.

Yeah, I even spend money to the camera mod guy. Such an awesome mod.

 

[YeulEmeralda]

I was bored today and decided to give it a spin. Going to mod the shit out of it to make all the women cute princesses.

Stop Using Mods To Make Female Characters Prettier

Baldur's Gate 3 is the latest game to be beset by gamers deciding that every woman needs to be endlessly beautiful and always glamorous

www.thegamer.com

 

[pudel]

I was bored today and decided to give it a spin. Going to mod the shit out of it to make all the women cute princesses.

Stop Using Mods To Make Female Characters Prettier

Baldur's Gate 3 is the latest game to be beset by gamers deciding that every woman needs to be endlessly beautiful and always glamorous

www.thegamer.com

There are some really nice NSFW mods for clothing stuff out there (also SFW version). Should I ever start another run I definitely going for these mods as well...yep!

 

[Steve Holt]

I thought the Series S couldn't handle split screen

The fact that this feature wasn't in from the start and that the beard guy has still got a job at MS is the biggest mystery for me.

 

[LordNerevar76]

I was bored today and decided to give it a spin. Going to mod the shit out of it to make all the women cute princesses.

Stop Using Mods To Make Female Characters Prettier

Baldur's Gate 3 is the latest game to be beset by gamers deciding that every woman needs to be endlessly beautiful and always glamorous

www.thegamer.com

That article made me laugh. It's self defeating because they criticize gamers for beautifying women via mods, but isn't their whole concept that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it's all kind of subjective and relative? The author implied that more women in games should have armpit hair etc, but isn't that just their preference? So by that logic, if some gamers prefer beautifying video game women, don't they have the freedom to mod that in?

 

[diffusionx]

How is the game on PS5 (Pro) at this point?