Baldur’s Gate’s massive patch 7 went stay yesterday, including a slew of latest content material, enhancements, and built-in mod assist. However that is not the top of the story, as Larian says it nonetheless has extra to come back.
We referred to 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 acquired just a few extra patches up our sleeve for Baldur’s Gate 3—which can embrace each crossplay and photograph 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 stay panel for Baldur’s Gate 3—it’s time for the staff to return to our cave and dangle the armour on the wall whereas we give attention to bringing you our subsequent challenge.”
However shortly after the story went stay, Larian clarified that it is not absolutely 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 isn’t our closing replace. Crossplay continues to be being labored on!”
Larian publishing chief Michael Douse additionally weighed in, tweeting, “Excellent news youngsters it is not the ultimate replace.”
“We ain’t gonna discuss what’s coming for the sport as a result of it places undue stress on the devs,” Douse wrote, “however there are issues we’ve mentioned we’ll do which can 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 fingers over the entire thing.
(For the file, I do not assume Luke was really 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 at the very least just a few issues which can 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 latest patch notes. Does that depend as “main?” Having the ability to go adventuring along with your console buddies is a reasonably large deal, and there is lots of potential to do enjoyable issues with pictures, however in comparison with significant gameplay updates like the brand new endings we acquired 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 greater issues in retailer than we understand. Tales of the Sword Coast 2, anybody? No, in all probability 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 may snag the whole lot from Divine Divinity to Divinity: Authentic Sin 2 for simply over 30 bucks. Belief me, that is a deal.