Baldur’s Gate 3 patch 7 lands on PS5 and Xbox – brings 13 new evil endings

Baldur’s Gate 3 followers on PlayStation 5 and Xbox will lastly have the ability to get their palms on Patch 7 – bringing with it 13 cinematic evil endings, together with distinctive ones for every Origin character. The replace may be put in proper now and is available in at a hefty 7.41GB – so be sure you’ve obtained loads of house.

Elsewhere, split-screen gameplay has been revamped for sofa co-op play. This implies either side of the display screen will merge whenever you close to one another and cut up if you happen to separate. There’s even a mod supervisor, which lets console gamers expertise mods created by the group. Over on the PS Weblog, the staff have picked out a few mods that could be value you giving a go. These vary from Adjustable Get together Limits, the place you may create teams of as much as 16, to the Kuo-Toa Playable Race mod.

These on PC have been fortunate sufficient to have their palms on Patch 7 for some time. Whereas the split-screen revamp, endings and mod supervisor are the highlights, there are additionally an enormous variety of extra delicate tweaks and enhancements. The total record of those adjustments may be discovered on the Baldur’s Gate 3 website, and we’ve picked out some highlights for you under:

Efficiency enhancements

• Continued to make efficiency and stability optimisations throughout the sport and applied many under-the-hood code fixes.
• Optimised efficiency. This may have a extra noticeable influence in areas with giant numbers of NPCs (just like the Decrease Metropolis) and can scale back peak reminiscence utilization when loading ranges for the primary time. It should even be noticeable when managing a lot of loot (e.g. when transferring all the pieces from a camp chest to a personality’s stock).

UI enhancements

• Revised and reorganised the in-game video choices to be extra logical and strong. You now have an Upscaling Kind drop-down, an Upscaling Mode drop-down, and an Upscaling Sharpness slider, adopted instantly by the choices which are affected by them.
• Up to date the Reactions UI so that you just solely need to toggle the Reactions you need to use after which verify them. (This protects you from having to pick ‘Don’t react’ a number of occasions!)

Gameplay

• Now you can begin Customized Mode video games utilizing Honour Mode mechanics when beginning a brand new playthrough. You’ll have the ability to do that through the ‘Ruleset’ dropdown.
• The kuo-toa that promised to construct you a military will now help you within the last battle. Until all of them died in Act I.

Animation

• Astarion now has idle animations at camp that aren’t simply him studying a ebook.
• Added a brand new idle animation for Minsc at camp – Boo could or could not have taught him some tai chi.

Larian additionally confirmed extra patches are on the way in which. “We’ve nonetheless obtained just a few extra patches up our sleeve for Baldur’s Gate 3 – which can embrace each crossplay and picture mode, alongside different fixes and updates,” they stated of their blog. “However finally all tales should come to an finish. As Swen stated throughout final week’s PAX West panel in Seattle – our last 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 mission.”