Baldur's Gate 3 colossal new patch adds a playable epilogue set six months after the game ends with 3,589 new lines of dialogue, 2 new difficulty modes, and I'm running out of headline space

It just doesn’t stop.

Wow…just wow. I am amazed at the dedication of Larian to improve their game and actually listen to their customers and try to please them.

I am a fan of Larian.

I get what you’re saying, but it’s sad that this very basic aspect of listening to customer feedback and implementing said feedback is so foreign to us now.

Credit where credit is due, Larian was always like this. Even with their less successful titles they still made sure to fix all issues before moving on.

I am also a fan of Larian.

I own divinity and divinity 2, and you are correct. They keep giving up improvement and fun adds for the game long after release.

I’m playing the new difficulty and its great. If you fuck up there is no way back except to your last save. You can’t even quickload. I don’t think it’s more difficult than tactician so far but I’m still in act 1.

I might do this for my second play through with my gf. Increase the stakes. Can you still load if you die?

I don’t know yet as I haven’t died yet but I believe death is final in that mode.

In the words of Scar:

Be prepared.

You can load, but it won’t be considered an honor mode run

I’m still in act 1, so they have a permadeath mode?

I think I read somewhere that it is but don’t quote me on that. The biggest reason I’m playing it is because if you beat Honour Mode you get golden dice.

I think you can choose to play on after dying, but you won’t get the golden dice after completion.

I’m so glad they love this game as much as I do. If they eventually added a DM or creative mode to run custom campaigns I’d be over the moon. Take my money Larian!

What is this DM mode?

WotC should hire the studio to build the engine for the VTT in dndbeyond.

The problem wouldn’t be the studio making it, it would be the monetization imposed on every facet of it. Any possible add-on would be dlc or part of a subscription. They wouldn’t even allow them to do significant free updates unless it was tied to a paid product or hefty subscription fee.

I don’t really want Larian getting looped into being a WotC shill. I hope they stay independent and keep on making the best games they can make. Single player or small party story games never get old.

DNDBeyond is just another bullshit live service with subscriptions in perpetuity.

Amen to this!

If anything I would love for Larian to continue developing their DoS rules engine further. Playing BG3 I just wanted the rules from DoS. More punts and more combo barrels.

Want 2 short rests? Fuck you, pay me.

Want to respec? Fuck you, pay me.

Want to recruit Scratch? Fuck you, pay me.

Pretty sure custom campaigns will definitely arrive at some point, just like they did with DOS2. I want to say Larian has even stated that they’ll eventually open the doors for it and potentially modding support?

Mod support has definitely been mentioned as an eventual goal, IIRC though they didn’t have plans to implement an official DM mode.

I kinda bet WotC would take issues with them making a dm mode like in Divinity… Since they are trying to get people to only ever play dnd on the dndbeyond vtt, I doubt they’d be keen on letting larian basically build a better version, lol.

do an expansion pack or w/e set in exandria with the critical role voice cast (along with the og cast ofc because they’re awesome)

The performance improvements alone are insane. I’m playing on PS5, just got into act 3. I turned it off on Tuesday a little frustrated by how the game was running inside of the lower city. Turned it back on after patching and everything is smoother than the entire rest of the game has been for me.

Also, being able to access all party member inventories is a game changer.

The lack of decent inventory management meant that when I got new companions later on, I just didn’t use them for more than their story quest, and they were mostly wearing their default gear.

Just seemed more effort than it was worth to sort through everything, including all those chests that litter the camp but might as well be voids because as soon as something went into one, I never used it again.

Im still in the beginning of the game so maybe I haven’t noticed something, but I’m confused by what you’re saying. I’ve been able to access all thier inventories at the same time.

Do you mean sorting the inventory?

Once you’ve been playing longer, you’ll see. At the start you can pretty much just carry everything about, but later on you’ll be sending armour and weapons to camp or dumping them on a character you think they might be useful on in certain situations.

Then, if and when you get a new companion (and you might not get them depending on your choices), you think “oh, I wonder what gloves I should put on him”.

And that’s when you realise that all the gear is scattered among the camp chests and characters in camp, and you end up just not bothering.

It’s even a thing between your origin characters, as you mess about decking e.g. Gale in all the best magic gear, and then you need to use Wyll for something and you just can’t be bothered to move it all over so don’t use him because you know you’re going to have to move it all back again when you want a companion that isn’t such a whiny bastard.

I used the chests mainly to hold camp supplies, and also a loot dump when there was a lot of valuable armor to loot that was too heavy to carry. Loot until full, send to camp, loot more. Go to the vendor, sell all, go to camp, grab until full, go back to the vendor.

That’s good to read. I had a bug for a few patches where I couldn’t even use DLSS (local multiplayer) so act 3 was quite annoying. Everytime we went into a basement it was noticeable smoother and enjoyable. This was fixed I believe with patch 4.

Hopefully this brings the frame rate up and that will let me enjoy and end act 3.

Game is fucking legendary. Every ounce of respect, already earned.

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