On the finish of a PAX West panel trying again on the event and reception of Baldur’s Gate 3, Larian boss Swen Vincke revealed that the sport’s extremely anticipated Patch 7 will finally arrive next week after months of teasers and playtesting.
We first heard about Patch 7 again in April, and the marquee additions are official mod help and overhauled evil endings. On the modding entrance, we cannot be seeing a full campaign-building toolset like Divinity: Unique Sin 2 had, however BG3’s instruments and help will make it far simpler to create and set up customized lessons, UI parts, spells, QoL fixes, cube, and extra. Additional, the official instruments will hopefully make it much less doubtless that future patches—Larian has stated it is virtually, however not fairly finished tweaking BG3—will bork your mods or modded saves. Patch 7 positively will although, at the very least till mod authors catch up, so be careful for that.
The evil endings appear like they’re going to be bone chilling prolonged cutscenes for the vilest of the vile bastards on the market, one thing to make up for his or her lack of a feel-good shindig when all is alleged and finished. Larian’s teased snippets of two primary deviations: a Darkish Urge and non-Darkish Urge model with slight variations of the non-Durge evil ending for different Origin characters. The default evil ending is fairly classico, paying homage to one thing like Knights of the Outdated Republic, however that is not a nasty factor. The protagonist asserts psychic management of all of the tadpoled schlubs on the market to discovered their very own evil not-Thoughts Flayer kingdom. I actually dig a clip Larian confirmed of one such schlub’s perspective, imagining they’re simply selecting apples and having a homosexual outdated time whereas in actuality they are a psychic slave in the dead of night world. Kinda jogs my memory of Meet the Pyro in a bizarre method.
The Darkish Urge one is gnarly although, with previews exhibiting the default albino Dragonborn Durge killing off their companions and wandering via a meaty, bloody afterscape underneath a darkened solar. Suppose The Eclipse from Berserk or Elden Ring’s Frenzied Flame ending. It is not like the sport did not warn us: “At night time, you dream of a lifeless world,” reads an early in-game journal entry for the Durge’s private quest. “Lakes of gall, pulsating heaps of expired flesh. You are the one residing being. When the crimson solar burns out, you drive the final dagger via your coronary heart.”
Partial patch notes for the replace, in addition to scuttlebut from playtesters on the BG3 subreddit, point out there will be a lot for non-omnicidal gamers as nicely. Continued QoL adjustments, added reactivity all through the sport, and what sound like some fairly massive adjustments to the facet character, Alfira.
I used to be a giant dummy although and began a brand new Honour mode run slightly bit in the past although—I misplaced my first one at 80 hours early this 12 months and have been itching to get again at it. I’ve already blasted via to the center of Act 2 in 45 hours, however hopefully I do not get an excessive amount of farther earlier than Patch 7 drops. Earlier patches have not adopted any sample to when within the week they arrive out, and quite than getting an actual date from Larian forward of time, the studio will most likely simply implement it within the coming days.
