Baldur’s Gate’s huge patch 7 went reside yesterday, including a slew of latest content material, enhancements, and built-in mod help. However that is not the tip of the story, as Larian says it nonetheless has extra to return.
We known as patch 7 the “closing main replace” for Baldur’s Gate 3, an outline largely impressed by Larian’s personal phrases within the patch notes. “We’ve nonetheless obtained a couple of extra patches up our sleeve for Baldur’s Gate 3—which is able to embrace each crossplay and picture mode, alongside different fixes and updates,” Larian wrote. “However ultimately all tales should come to an finish.
“As Swen mentioned throughout final week’s PAX West panel in Seattle—our closing reside panel for Baldur’s Gate 3—it’s time for the workforce to return to our cave and grasp the armour on the wall whereas we concentrate on bringing you our subsequent challenge.”
However shortly after the story went reside, Larian clarified that it is not totally completed with the sport simply but.
Okay, a pensive pingu is not the clearest clarification ever, however Larian shortly clarified the clarification with a brief followup message: “Patch 7 is just not our closing replace. Crossplay continues to be being labored on!”
Larian publishing chief Michael Douse additionally weighed in, tweeting, “Excellent news children it is not the ultimate replace.”
“We ain’t gonna speak about what’s coming for the sport as a result of it places undue strain on the devs,” Douse wrote, “however there are issues we’ve mentioned we’ll do which might be nonetheless coming, and the cooks should prepare dinner.”
Larian communications director Luke Karmali emphasised the “not speaking about it” angle in his personal tweet, and was additionally apparently able to throw arms over the entire thing.
(For the report, I do not assume Luke was truly ready to do violence over this, however I do benefit from the psychological picture of him packing a blade and hopping a aircraft for PC Gamer HQ like a personality from Kill Invoice.)
Regardless of that reluctance to speak, we all know of a minimum of a couple of issues which might be within the oven, as a result of, effectively, Larian already mentioned so: Crossplay, a photograph mode, and people “different fixes and updates” talked about in the newest patch notes. Does that rely as “main?” Having the ability to go adventuring together with your console friends is a reasonably large deal, and there is a variety of potential to do enjoyable issues with images, however in comparison with significant gameplay updates like the brand new endings we obtained in patch 7—a few of them apparently fairly wrenching—I must say “no.”
Maybe Larian disagrees (put the knife down, Luke), or possibly there are larger issues in retailer than we notice. Tales of the Sword Coast 2, anybody? No, most likely not, however at this level, with all Larian has plowed into Baldur’s Gate 3 since its launch greater than a yr in the past, I am not discounting something.
Talking of reductions, Larian presently has each RPG it ever made on sale on Steam, that means you’ll be able to snag every little thing from Divine Divinity to Divinity: Unique Sin 2 for simply over 30 bucks. Belief me, that is a deal.
