Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian has lastly detailed what followers can count on from the long-awaited Patch 7, and teased that it isn’t the sport’s ultimate replace.
In a submit on the Baldur’s Gate 3 Steam page, Larian outlined every thing arising in Patch 7, due out in September. Highlights embody split-screen updates, model new cinematics for evil endings, loads of bug fixes, and official modding instruments.
In now trademark Larian trend, it’s had enjoyable with the patch notes, beneath. Here’s a snippet: “In the phrases of Michelangelo, no nice murals is ever completed, and so too is our strategy to the artwork of snogging.”
Baldur’s Gate 3 is Larian’s enormously profitable Dungeons & Dragons role-playing recreation that blew critics and gamers alike away upon its launch in August 2023. Since then, Larian has issued a lot of updates which have improved and added to the sport. But don’t count on a Baldur’s Gate 4 from the studio, which lately admitted that it gained so many awards it started to have an effect on improvement. Larian has walked away from Baldur’s Gate 3 DLC, a possible sequel, and Dungeons & Dragons generally to work on model new video games of its personal. Indeed Larian boss Swen Vincke has already began to tease considered one of them.
Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 7 Patch Notes (Pre-Launch)
Split Screen Updates
Dynamic break up display mode is incoming! With our subsequent replace, buddies will not be eternally confined to their aspect of the display – as a result of the facility of friendship transcends all obstacles, together with display partitions.
When taking part in in co-op, you’ll now have the choice to have break up screens merge right into a single display whenever you close to each other. You can entry this immediately from the HUD and throughout the recreation settings, each out and in of fight.
Honour Mode Improvements
We’re persevering with to make enhancements to fight in Honour Mode too. With Patch 7, much more creatures have been bestowed further Legendary Actions, together with the bulette, everybody’s favourite neighborhood surgeon, Malus Thorm, and githyanki Ch’r’ai Tska’an, Ch’r’ai Har’rak, and Ptaris.
Dror Ragzlin will now additionally be capable of use a brand new spell known as Arachnid Compulsion to rally the spiders that reside within the close by pit to battle the true enemy – you.
Baldur’s Gate 3 Modding Toolkit
With this replace additionally comes our official modding toolkit! Come September, you can load up your recreation with a variety of recent recreation mods, and even attempt your hand at making some your self.
We advocate giving our Modding FAQ a search for extra info on what modding assist means for Baldur’s Gate 3.
We’re presently working with Baldur’s Gate 3 Mod Authors throughout our Closed Alpha, who’ve been busy testing out the toolkit. To discover out what among the Mod Authors have been engaged on in the course of the Closed Alpha, preserve studying!
The Toolkit itself offers you every thing it’s essential to edit or create completely new content material, together with:
- Items – Equipment like weapons and armours, consumables, and miscellaneous objects.
- Cosmetics – Including totally different hair, beards, and different textures.
- Classes and Subclasses – Creating new variants or modifying present ones to edit talents, powers, and expertise.
- Races – These may be created and edited to find out total look, in addition to their particular person powers and skills.
- Dice Skins – You’ll even have the flexibility to edit or redesign the looks of your cube skins!
- User Interface – Including extensions and restyling of the sport UI.
- Quality of Life Improvements – Such as mods that edit or enhance gameplay that don’t depend on unsupported components.
Evil Endings
And, after all, Patch 7 may also be bringing a number of new cinematics that supply your extra evil playthroughs a grander finale!
From avatar Origin characters, together with the Dark Urge, to the a number of totally different pathways that you may take as your individual participant character, every new cinematic is yours to find by means of nefarious means.
While we don’t need to give every thing away simply but, you may feast your eyes on the teasers beneath – and be looking out for extra heading your means quickly!
Dark Urge Bug Fixes
Along with the brand new evil ending cinematics coming this patch, we’ve launched a lot of enhancements and bug fixes for our Dark Urge gamers – ironing out digicam pops, lacking inspiration, VFX, and some different points.
For occasion, a bug has now been fastened the place fight typically fails to set off within the occasion that you simply determine to homicide considered one of your companions because the Dark Urge and assault the occasion. This will now result in fight with the remainder of the gang. And Minthara will now reply accordingly in the event you’ve been stripped of Bhaal’s affect.
We could have additionally let a sure bard now be a part of the occasion as a controllable character if there’s an empty slot, quickly, after all.
“But will we be capable of kiss Gortash?” we hear you plead. “We need to kiss Gortash!”
Listen, he’s a sophisticated man who’s busy considering the minutia of loss of life cult workplace politics. Babygurl doesn’t have time to kiss.
Origin Character Bug Fixes
This replace may also see enhancements made to some cinematics, endgame dialogues, and Origin characters – particularly issues like clipping points, a few damaged triggers for quests, dialogues, and romances, the odd case of retrograde amnesia, and protracted exclamation marks.
Oh, and the Blade of Frontiers will not absent-mindedly swing his sword mere inches from the aorta of shorter races who attempt to recruit him.
Let’s have a look at among the highlights!
Wyll Highlights
Patch 7 features a heap of fixes for Wyll, starting from enhancements to his dialogue reactivity to fixes for love scenes.
If you’ve skilled points triggering the romance scene with Wyll, this replace will repair that. Should your relationship be headed in that course, the cutscene in query will now set off whenever you converse to Wyll at camp earlier than your Long Rest.
A bug that had been stopping his romance greeting from triggering has additionally been fastened, so gamers in Act III who’ve a steady, loving, and dedicated relationship with Wyll will now see his romance greeting triggering accurately.
We’ve fastened Wyll’s dialogue reactivity in the course of the epilogue for partnered gamers who’ve both joined Karlach within the Hells or Lae’zel within the insurrection, and we additionally decided there merely weren’t sufficient alternatives to kiss Wyll in the course of the epilogue. This replace rectifies that with the choice to ask for a kiss in additional paths of Wyll’s epilogue dialogue.
And in the event you’re in holographic kind in the course of the epilogue, he’ll not mechanically assume he is speaking to Lae’zel, which was bizarre.
Astarion Highlights
In Patch 7, we’ve made enhancements to the facial animations of your character throughout some kissing cinematics, together with with the ascended Astarion.
We’ve additionally made tweaks to how Origin characters react inside sure cutscenes, to boost their emotional influence. For instance, companions will present Astarion extra empathy when he loses his means to resist daylight.
Lae’zel Highlights
Lae’zel will now wait a bit of longer at her recruitment website in the event you inform her you’ll be returning. And as soon as she’s arrange at camp, she may also cycle by means of extra different idle animations.
This replace may also put an finish to an annoying concern the place resurrecting Lae’zel on the seaside in Act I might trigger her to seem within the Party Line however not on the planet, blocking you from leaving Act I.
Karlach Highlights
Along with some extra common fixes for Karlach, she is going to now react to Dammon if she finds him useless after he has advised her that he may also help her.
That sketchy fade-to-black that follows her ultimate scene in Avernus, which additionally unintentionally gave you a really temporary glimpse of the area in gameplay mode, was a visible bug that has additionally been fastened.
The dialogue block brought on by selecting to stick with a distinct companion the morning after your second romance scene with Karlach isn’t any extra.
Also, she’ll not brush the shaved aspect of her head throughout her camp idle animation.
Wrong aspect, Karlach.
Gale Highlights
With just a few tweaks to digicam angles and fixes to animation pops, repeated dialogue, and lacking VFX, we’ve polished up Gale and his scenes and additional refined his donation UI.
That panel that opens when donating magical objects to Gale? This will now present all objects eligible for donation – together with these in your particular person, your occasion’s inventories, and your Traveller’s Chest.
This is a part of the work that started with Hotfix #16 to enhance the donation UI and replace a participant’s means to entry sure quest-related objects, which has now been accomplished. We’re reinstating the supposed behaviour that was eliminated in Hotfix #17 as a short lived bug repair to lacking UI performance. So in the event you now deny Gale a magic merchandise thrice in a row with magical objects both in your particular person, your occasion’s inventories, or now out of your Traveller’s Chest, he’ll depart your occasion.
Alternatively, choosing “I’m not supplying you with something. Not now, not ever” will nonetheless trigger Gale to depart your occasion without end.
We’ve additionally patched up a bug that was stopping the ultimate dialogue between Gale and Mystra from triggering, in addition to a scene within the endgame that may minimize off earlier than you may kiss.
Shadowheart Highlights
In addition to fixing just a few of her animation bugs, this replace fixes a lot of quest points for Shadowheart.
A bug that noticed the Spear of Night both not being obtained, or being spoken about as if it hadn’t already been acquired, isn’t any extra. Another bout of amnesia has additionally been fastened, through which Shadowheart sometimes thought Viconia was nonetheless alive after killing her. The ‘Daughter of Darkness’ quest must also now shut correctly in the event you select to give up Shadowheart to Viconia.
And sure, we’ve tweaked just a few kissing scenes for her too, fixing a damaged romance cutscene that ought to have triggered after giving Shadowheart the Idol of Shar, and a kissing animation that may not kick in earlier than the dialogue possibility is chosen. We’ve additionally polished up the looks of neck kissing. In the phrases of Michelangelo, no nice murals is ever completed, and so too is our strategy to the artwork of snogging.
Party Banter Improvements
Prior to this replace, occasion banter between companion characters was restricted to the characters managed by a single participant. In Patch 7, multiplayer events will assist banter between characters assigned to totally different gamers.
This patch additionally resolves points that had been rendering some romance occasion banters inaccessible whereas adventuring.
A closed beta for Patch 7 is ready for July 22. “With all these bug fixes, updates to gameplay, and new options, we need to be certain that we haven’t damaged something or launched one thing that may make your laptop explode,” Larian joked. Registration to check the patch is now open on Steam.
And lastly, Larian teased there’s extra to return from Baldur’s Gate 3, with Patch 7 not the ultimate replace. Crossplay continues to be within the works, as is a photograph mode.
“It’s onerous to consider it’s virtually been a complete 12 months since we launched Baldur’s Gate 3. But the journey isn’t over but,” Larian mentioned.
“Patch 7 gained’t be the ultimate replace for Baldur’s Gate 3. We nonetheless have just a few issues up our sleeve – together with many community-requested options like crossplay and a photograph mode to seize and share your unforgettable moments. And we’re engaged on a bunch of different enhancements, from gameplay tweaks and quality-of-life enhancements to bug fixes and efficiency optimizations.
“We’ll preserve you looped in on when these are prone to hit a bit of additional down the road. In the meantime, keep in contact with us on our socials, keep tuned, and don’t overlook to put on sunscreen.”
Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.
