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]]>Revealed in a new community update (opens in new tab), Baldur’s Gate 3 will be getting a big patch that will have fixes for multiple cinematics, gameplay bugs, frequent crashes, and general system improvements.
To start off, the new patch will fix several cinematics, including one where a certain Goblin character seems to have a crooked neck. Detailed in the community update is also a lengthy list of fixes for in-game crashes and bugs, which include fixes to combat AI, gameplay bugs, characters stuck in animation, loading saved game while in dialogue, and more.
The release of Baldur’s Gate 3 Early Access saw players sink in up to a hundred hours of playtime but still miss content that wasn’t quite right, with one rather dark looking cinematic featuring no character models. Another cinematic that had a musical number has also been re-shot. Both of these cinematics will be fixed within the next update.
Also revealed in the community update are some interesting player statistics from Early Access. According to the Larian, players have petted the dog in Baldur’s Gate 3 400k times. It’s what he deserves. In terms of romancing, Gale has been romanced by 33 percent of players, with Shadowheart falling in second place earning the love of 31 percent of players. 40 percent of players also jumped down a large hole and died because they didn’t use the Feather Fall ability, which is rather amusing.
Here is the list of improvements that will be added in the next patch include.
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]]>The founder of Larian Studios, Swen Vincke, gave the news in an update on his personal Twitter account, also linking to an interview he’d done for a larger industry reactions piece in the New York Times (opens in new tab).
First New York Times interview was not exactly about what I would’ve imagined, but it does bring some good news: While we’re slowed down, development on BG3 keeps on progressing and we still expect EA this year https://t.co/BvT7qCQD2VApril 21, 2020
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The first few weeks of production with teams working remotely from self-isolation “went really well,” Vincke explained in the article. However, communication became more difficult as employees started grappling with concerns at home, problems keeping regular hours, and external partners also shutting down in response to the pandemic.
While much of the work on a game like Baldur’s Gate 3 can be done from any properly equipped and connected computer, certain elements are much more difficult to replicate like remotely. Performance capture, which helps bring characters to life with animations recorded from real-life actors in purpose-built studios, is one such stumbling block. Vincke said he’s hoping that his studio will be able to responsibly return to the capture studio soon.
“We don’t have a solution for it,” Vincke said. “We’re hoping that eventually we’re going to organize something.”
Still, even with all these new concerns stacked on top of the studio, Vincke said the studio is still operating at 70 to 80 percent of its normal capacity. Larian had never given any more specifics about when people could start playing Baldur’s Gate 3 beyond teasing an early access launch later this year, and the studio is still on track for that broad goal at least.
While we’re waiting for early access, check out our first look at Baldur’s Gate 3 gameplay (opens in new tab).
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]]>In a new teaser trailer for the game on its official Twitter account (opens in new tab), Larian promises that “there’s been many developments since last you were in Baldur’s Gate”, with a February 27 date provided as the next day you need to circle in the calendar for big incoming news. Check it out below:
Something’s Brewing. #baldursgate3 pic.twitter.com/FMSkrYmjklJanuary 17, 2020
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Larian has yet to provide an official release date, or even a vague launch window, for Baldur’s Gate 3 since the game was first announced, so it’s likely that such a reveal can be expected next month.
Additionally, the RPG has already been slated for PC, but with the launch of PS5 (opens in new tab) and Xbox Series X (opens in new tab)on the horizon, there’s a chance that a next-gen console release isn’t off the cards either, especially as a PlayStation Meeting (opens in new tab) is also expected to take place sometime in February too.
Baldur’s Gate was originally revealed at E3 2019 (opens in new tab), confirmed as in the works from the studio behind the critically acclaimed Divinity: Original Sin series, which themselves represent love letters to the kind of RPGs that Baldur’s Gate helped bring into mainstream popularity. Given the heritage of both the franchise, and the team working to bring it to a modern audience, February 27 can’t come soon enough.
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]]>The warrior is human, but he doesn’t stay that way for long – his body starts warping, fingers, lengthening, tentacles lolling out of his mouth. He is transformed into a mind flayer (you may also know them as Illithid), a monstrous species of humanoids who are some of the most vile, feared villains in the world of Dungeons & Dragons. They can control your mind and eat your brain for a snack and gross stuff like that.
As the man-turned-mind flayer floats above the streets, we see even more mind flayers in the sky behind him. Looks like Baldur’s Gate is a beachhead in an interdimensional Illithid invasion… which is pretty metal, but not the kind of thing you ought to let go unchecked. I get the distinct impression that a ragtag party of unlikely adventurers will be just what the Dungeon Master ordered to get this whole thing taken care of.
No Baldur’s Gate 3 release date was announced in the Stadia Connect presentation, nor did we get any teasers on if or how it will tie into the events of the first two Baldur’s Gate games. They both came out roughly two decades ago, so Larian Studios will probably make the game pretty welcoming even for folks who never played the BioWare originals.
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