Baldur’s Gate 3 is ready to obtain its huge third patch, which is able to lastly permit gamers to vary their in-game character’s look. Fans have been desperately requesting this characteristic since launch, and it is scheduled to go dwell later tonight, September 22, alongside fixes for the efficiency points within the densely-populated Act 3 phase. When the replace goes dwell, the sport will add a Magic Mirror to our camp, a stationary software that may be interacted with to presumably open up a restricted model of the creation menu. Patch 3 was initially due on Thursday, however developer Larian Studios determined to take an additional day for ‘thorough testing.’
The Magic Mirror will not allow you to completely change your Tav, stopping you from altering their race and physique sort, which is sensible given how a lot it impacts relationships with different NPCs and basic world interactions. That stated, something that is appearance-based — hair, make-up, voice, pronouns, and such — might be modified everytime you like. Previously, you have been caught utilizing no matter appears to be like you picked at first, with no manner of fixing it as soon as your Baldur’s Gate 3 journey started. This additionally signifies that if you happen to created a brief character, you’ll proceed to stay as such until the tip — or until you begin a brand new run. It would not look like utilizing the mirror requires that you just change some type of foreign money both, which is sweet.
With Patch 3 comes the Magic Mirror, which lives in your camp and means that you can change your Tav’s look everytime you’d like!
💄 Change look, voice, pronouns
🧝♀️ Race & physique sort cannot be modified
🪞 Can’t alter Origins — they’re all *very* specific about their hair pic.twitter.com/fZo4LOOCLO— Larian Studios (@larianstudios) September 21, 2023
Larian added that one can’t alter Origin characters reminiscent of Karlach, Shadowheart, Gael, and the ilk. “…they’re all very particular about their hair,” the tweet reads, as a joking comment for Astarion the vampire spawn. Patch #3 can also be supposed to convey Mac assist for Baldur’s Gate 3. Up till now, it has been accessible through early entry, which lacks a ton of content material and adjustments that have been current within the last/ predominant construct launched on PC, in August. Meanwhile, Larian has been fixing some quest-related points, particularly of the murderous drow Minthara, whose 1,500+ traces of dialogue have been disabled as a consequence of a bug. The crew additionally added an alternate ending to the cheerful Tiefling Karlach’s arc, and there are additionally plans to increase the ending finally.
As the PS5 model rolled out earlier this month, Larian enabled cross-saves throughout platforms, letting gamers carry over their development from PC to console and vice versa — albeit solely the final 5 save information can be synced. We can assume that Baldur’s Gate 3’s Mac model will likely be getting the identical therapy. Plans for cross-play are additionally within the pipeline which ought to assist gamers on completely different techniques be capable of have interaction in on-line co-op adventures collectively.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is out now on PC and PS5, whereas the Xbox Series S/X launch is slated for someday later this yr.
