Baldur’s Gate 3’s Patch 3 Finally Lets You Change Appearance

Baldur’s Gate 3 is ready to obtain its large third patch, which can lastly enable gamers to vary their in-game character’s look. Followers have been desperately requesting this function 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 instrument 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 totally change your Tav, stopping you from altering their race and physique kind, 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 — could be modified everytime you like. Beforehand, you had been caught utilizing no matter seems you picked at the beginning, with no manner of fixing it as soon as your Baldur’s Gate 3 journey started. This additionally implies that if you happen to created a brief character, you’ll proceed to stay as such until the tip — or except you begin a brand new run. It would not seem to be utilizing the mirror requires that you simply trade some type of foreign money both, which is good.

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Larian added that one can’t alter Origin characters akin to Karlach, Shadowheart, Gael, and the ilk. “…they’re all very explicit about their hair,” the tweet reads, as a joking comment for Astarion the vampire spawn. Patch #3 can be supposed to convey Mac help 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 had been current within the closing/ important construct launched on PC, in August. In the meantime, Larian has been fixing some quest-related points, particularly of the murderous drow Minthara, whose 1,500+ lines of dialogue had been disabled on account of a bug. The staff additionally added an alternate ending to the cheerful Tiefling Karlach’s arc, and there are additionally plans to broaden the ending ultimately.

Because 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 are able to assume that Baldur’s Gate 3’s Mac model will probably be getting the identical remedy. Plans for cross-play are additionally within the pipeline which ought to assist gamers on completely different programs be capable of interact 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 sometime later this year.