Baldur’s Gate III is ready to obtain its first patch and by the appears to be like 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 skill balances, primarily based on consumer options. First up, is hotfix #4, which might make some emergency fixes to crashes and progressions blocks, along with any bugs that hinder the overall interface. That can be adopted by the huge patch, boasting over 1,000 fixes, adopted by patch 2, which can ‘incorporate some requests.’ It is unclear what these requests could possibly be, however we already know that the crew is planning an replace that might 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 power to vary their look within the recreation. When you lock in a suited look initially of your Baldur’s Gate 3 journey, the sport merely does 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 recreation. This doesn’t appear to be the case with character courses, which you’ll be able to respec by merely interacting with the NPC Withers at your campsite in alternate for 100 gold items. It is a wild anomaly for a role-playing recreation, contemplating how a lot customisation is current in different facets of the sport — some even tied to story parts. I will assume that this has to do with arduous coding one’s look to work flawlessly with all cutscenes from the second they have been created.
We’re all very enthused by your suggestions. It’s totally rewarding. Our focus now could be fixing any points you report, however we’re listening to options. Present 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
One more reason 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 may look nice within the character creation display screen, however as soon as they’re set towards the sport’s atmosphere, it finally ends up wanting means too uninteresting or brilliant. When Larian does implement the replace sooner or later, I really feel like there are extra inventive methods to do it. As an example, as an alternative of opening a menu or interacting with an NPC, we are able to stroll over to the rogue Astarion’s tent and use his mirror to vary our look — akin to the mirror on the Roundtable Maintain in Elden Ring. I feel it might even be nice if there aren’t any limits to how typically you may change your appears to be like or if it does not ask for any in-game forex or consumables for it.
The newest 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 recreation 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 recreation, sitting proper beneath Hogwarts Legacy. In an interview, Larian boss Svencke claimed that because the RPG was already playable in early entry for 3 years, he believed that the sport had already peaked. Because of this, he was anticipating the total launch to interrupt solely 100,000 gamers, solely to be shocked with eight instances the quantity.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is out now on PC. The PS5 model releases September 6, whereas the Xbox platforms may not see a launch before 2024.
