Baldur’s Gate III is ready to obtain its first patch and by the appears of it, it looks like an enormous one. Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke confirmed a roadmap on Twitter, promising to repair points and make related tweaks to capacity balances, primarily based on consumer recommendations. First up, is hotfix #4, which might make some emergency fixes to crashes and progressions blocks, along with any bugs that hinder the final interface. That shall be adopted by the large patch, boasting over 1,000 fixes, adopted by patch 2, which can ‘incorporate some requests.’ It’s unclear what these requests could possibly be, however we already know that the workforce is planning an replace that may let gamers change their character’s look mid-game.
That declare comes from Michael Douse, Director of Publishing, Larian Studios, who responded to a fan’s tweet requesting the flexibility to alter their look within the sport. Once you lock in a suited look initially of your Baldur’s Gate 3 journey, the sport merely would not allow you to change it — forcing you to stay with no matter tattoos, coiffure, or make-up you selected, main as much as the tip sport. This doesn’t appear to be the case with character courses, which you’ll respec by merely interacting with the NPC Withers at your campsite in change for 100 gold items. It’s a wild anomaly for a role-playing sport, contemplating how a lot customisation is current in different elements of the sport — some even tied to story parts. I’m going to imagine that this has to do with arduous coding one’s look to work flawlessly with all cutscenes from the second they had been created.
We’re all very enthused by your suggestions. It’s very rewarding. Our focus now could be fixing any points you report, however we’re listening to recommendations. Current roadmap: a) Hotfix 4, b) Patch 1 (+1000 fixes and tweaks), c) Patch 2. The latter will already incorporate some requests.
— Swen Vincke @the place? (@LarAtLarian) August 15, 2023
Another cause I might consider why an individual would need to change their look has to do with its lighting results, the place any punkish colors reminiscent of teal or pink would possibly look tremendous within the character creation display, however as soon as they’re set towards the sport’s surroundings, it finally ends up wanting manner too boring or vivid. When Larian does implement the replace sooner or later, I really feel like there are extra inventive methods to do it. For occasion, as an alternative of opening a menu or interacting with an NPC, we will stroll over to the rogue Astarion’s tent and use his mirror to alter our look — akin to the mirror on the Roundtable Hold in Elden Ring. I believe it could even be nice if there aren’t any limits to how usually you possibly can change your appears or if it would not ask for any in-game foreign money or consumables for it.
The latest hotfix (#3) makes it in order that your canine Scratch now finds digging spots by himself, along with resolving a number of bugs in Act 3, a few of which prevented sport completion. Since its launch, earlier this month, Baldur’s Gate 3 has turn into a fast success, garnering 875,343 peak concurrent gamers on Steam, cementing its place because the ninth-highest-ranking PC sport, sitting proper beneath Hogwarts Legacy. In an interview, Larian boss Svencke claimed that for the reason that RPG was already playable in early entry for 3 years, he believed that the sport had already peaked. For this cause, he was anticipating the complete launch to interrupt solely 100,000 gamers, solely to be stunned with eight instances the quantity.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is out now on PC. The PS5 model releases September 6, whereas the Xbox platforms won’t see a launch earlier than 2024.
