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Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke has taken to social media to tell fans the follow-up to Baldur’s Gate 3 is “not what you think” it is.Larian has been busy in recent months with the release of Baldur’s Gate 3 in August 2023 but their CEO and founder Swen Vincke is already thinking about what comes next.Taking to X/Twitter, he posted an update after finally figuring out the first act of “this thing I’ve been working on,” that will presumably be the follow-up to Baldur’s Gate 3. He went on to explain he’d spent the past four months “rewriting and rewriting and abandoning ideas and then revisiting them”.Been a great morning! After 4 months of rewriting and rewriting and abandoning ideas and then revisiting them, finally figured out what act 1 on this thing I've been working on needs to be.

Microsoft has begun to unban players who accidentally uploaded NSFW clips from Baldur’s Gate 3 to Xbox servers.Baldur’s Gate 3 has quickly earned a reputation for being the horniest game on the market, thanks to a huge number of adult romance options and nudity that players are presented with.However, last week it was reported that players received bans from Microsoft due to captured NSFW clips being automatically uploaded to public Xbox servers. According to Microsoft’s rules set out to protect players from offensive imagery, “nudity and sexual content” is banned from public servers but captured clips are uploaded by default.“This shouldn’t even be possible,” wrote one fan on Reddit.

Baldur’s Gate 3 player has customised their character to look like Taylor Swift, however, they’ve selected an extremely bloody origin story for the bard.In the role-playing game, players have the option to create their own character or embody one of the eight origin stories – Astarion, Gale, Lae’zel, Wyll, Karlach, Shadowheart and the Dark Urge.That last one causes the character to battle with an internal impulse to kill others, which the player can choose to try to overcome.Based on the screenshots that Reddit user mokomokojojo1 of their Taylor Swift, it seems that they were not totally successful in that task.

Pillars Of Eternity and Pillars Of Eternity 2: Deadfire, has said he would develop a third game if it was on a Baldur’s Gate 3 budget.Sawyer talked to Touch Arcade about the anniversary of Pentiment, Obsidian Entertainment‘s medieval murder mystery game, and how the developer’s technology and goals for its games have evolved over the years.Presently, the team is split between the development of Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2, however, there is still a lot of love for Obsidian Entertainment’s older games and a resurgence of enthusiasm in classic role-playing games after the success of Baldur’s Gate 3.When asked whether Sawyer would want to work on Pentiment 2, Pillars Of Eternity 3 or Fallout New Vegas 2 if there were no time or budget restrictions and he was able to recruit anyone he liked, he answered Pillars Of Eternity 3.“I think if it truly was an unlimited budget, I think I would try Pillars 3 because I know what the budget was for Deadfire, which was not a whole lot,” he said.“I have heard from multiple people what the budget was for Baldur’s Gate 3, and I’m not gonna talk about numbers, but if I got that budget, sure, I’ll make Pillars 3.”He added that while he’s pleased with the way that the previous two Pillars entries turned out, it would be “a lot of fun” to make the next Pillars Of Eternity game with no limits.Regarding the hypothetical third game’s combat structure, Sawyer would follow what the fans wanted, but he shared his bias towards turn-based combat.“I just think it’s easier to design more intricate combats. I like games with a lot of stats, obviously,” he elaborated.

Baldur’s Gate 3 actors Samantha Béart and Neil Newbon have pulled together Spotify playlists that reflect their respective characters.Spoilers for Baldur’s Gate 3 follow.In the game, Béart played Karlach and Newbon played Astarion, two characters who have won over scores of fans for their personalities and arcs across the sprawling storyline.As a result of her heart being replaced with an infernal engine, Karlach is slowly dying. In spite of this, she remains compassionate, comical and fiercely defensive of those in need or those who have the odds stacked against them.Astarion, on the other hand, is initially manipulative and self-serving and it is difficult for players who are sticking to a good alignment to get him to like their character.

Baldur’s Gate 3’s companion characters came together to play a one-shot campaign of Dungeons & Dragons which was livestreamed this weekend.Hosted by Mark Hulmes of High Rollers Dungeons & Dragons, the scene was set by Amelia Tyler, who voices the narrator of Baldur’s Gate 3. Then, Theo Solomon as Wyll, Samantha Béart as Karlach, Jennifer English as Shadowheart, Devora Wilde as Lae’zel, Neil Newbon as Astarion and Tim Downie as Gale started their adventure without the player’s input.The premise was that the custom character that the player pilots, normally named Tav, was stuck in a paralysis spell that none of their companions could cure. As a result, they were left to their own ends, spelling a variety of chaotic events like Shadowheart adopting an Imp which she named Bing Bong to Lae’zel’s chagrin.In fact, Solomon’s actions as Wyll were the anchor that prevented the rest of the characters from strolling into harm’s way.

Baldur’s Gate 3 were brought together to play a Dungeons & Dragons one-shot which was “utter chaos” and an “absolute blast”.Though the session with is pre-recorded, it will go live at 7.00pm BST (11.00am PDT/12.00pm MDT/1.00pm EDT/4.00am AEST the following day) on September 22 on High Rollers Dungeons & Dragons Twitch channel. Alternatively, it will be listenable as a podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify after the stream has ended.This Friday at 7pm BST/2pm PDT join us and the cast of Baldurs Gate 3 for a very special live D&D adventure on Twitch! /highrollersdnd @larianstudios #dnd #baldursgate3 #ad pic.twitter.com/889AYParv7— High Rollers (@HighRollersDnD) September 18, 2023Helmed by High Rollers’ Mark Hulmes, the party consists of the origin and companion characters from Baldur’s Gate 3 played by their respective voice actors.These are Theo Solomon as Wyll, Samantha Béart as Karlach, Jennifer English as Shadowheart, Devora Wilde as Lae’zel, Neil Newbon as Astarion and Tim Downie as Gale.Amelia Tyler, who voices the narrator in the game, is also present in the livestream though her role is a secret from fans.

Baldur’s Gate 3 will get cross-play between PC and PS5, and eventually Xbox Series X|S, according to an interview with a Larian Studios employee.Michael Douse, director of publishing for the developer, shared the news with Eurogamer. “It was always in the planning, but we knew it wouldn’t be for launch,” he said.

Larian Studios dropped Baldur’s Gate 3 patch 2 today (August 31), fulfilling the promise to players that the conclusion to Karlach’s story would be changed.Spoilers for Baldur’s Gate 3 will follow. In Act 3, it’s apparent that there is no peaceful ending for the Tiefling Barbarian, and this tragic realisation broke the hearts of many.

Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S versions of Baldur’s Gate 3 will not share the same features, but this is an concession that allows Larian Studios to release the role-playing game for the consoles before the end of the year.At the moment, Baldur’s Gate 3 is only playable on PC with a PS5 port arriving next month. Yet, the game has been an enormous success for Larian Studios, snagging enviable review scores and becoming a sensation on social media.Phil Spencer, Microsoft‘s CEO of Gaming, recently stated that the feature parity policy between the two consoles is something that guarantees as much accessibility as possible.

Baldur’s Gate 3 are competing amongst each other for the world record for the fastest time to get into a character’s pants.A speedrun is the attempt to complete a video game as fast as possible – occasionally adding extra conditions like “no hits” or “no glitches” to their playthrough. Mae is a Baldur’s Gate 3 player who aims to complete the game in this way, also known as a speedrunner.

Baldur’s Gate 3 player discovered a uniquely effective tactic against some of the stronger enemies in the game – squishing them with an Owlbear.Spotted by Games Radar, there has been an recent reversal in the strategy that some Baldur’s Gate 3 players have adopted, which was to drop enemies off ledges.

Baldur’s Gate 3 hotfix 2.1 has resolved the issue where story databases would balloon in size as a result of the player’s rising total of campaign choices.In the post to Steam, Larian Studios also announced that cross saves for PlayStation 5 have been reactivated for the release of the role-playing game on the console in September.“As it turns out, many of you were doing so much in Baldur’s Gate 3 that some of your personal ‘story’ databases (where your choices and actions are stored) got too big,” said the developer.“We now made the size infinite (or at least as infinite as you have storage space), to account for the sheer amount of things you’re all doing on your journeys,” it explained, adding that any other issues should be sent to the Baldur’s Gate 3 support team for fixes.Baldur’s Gate 3 has been a sensational success for Larian Studios, with over 800,000 players jumping into the game on the weekend after its mid-week launch. At the time of writing, it is the highest rated release of the year, toppling The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom from the number one spot on Metacritic.Yet, the developer was in hot water when it was found that none of the Brazilian Portuguese translators who worked on more than one million words of story were credited.Only the executives of Altagram Group were seen in the list and the developer clarified that this was a complete oversight.

Larian Studios said that adding an expansion to Baldur’s Gate 3 isn’t as easy as it might appear to players.Baldur’s Gate 3, which draws on Dungeons & Dragons‘ Forgotten Realms campaign, restricts players to a level cap of 12. Usually, tabletop players are able to reach level 20, and so PC Gamer asked in its interview with Swen Vincke whether or not an expansion would let players surpass this constraint.“Honestly, we haven’t started on an expansion,” started Vincke.

Baldur’s Gate 3, has shared some outtakes of her flubbing her lines while recording for the upcoming game.The events of Baldur’s Gate 3 are described by the narrator to emphasise that this is a Dungeons & Dragons game, as the narrator is the Dungeon Master. While Larian Studios did alter the fifth edition rulebook so that the game would be both accurate and entertaining to players, this narrator is how a lot of the newcomers to D&D will be introduced to the world of Faerûn.Nevertheless, there is a vast volume of writing that makes up Baldur’s Gate 3, and Tyler has had to pronounce tricky fantasy words and names perfectly every time that they’ve cropped up.

Baldur’s Gate 3, one of the game’s three villains.“Orin is, affectionately, unhinged,” said Robertson of her character in a video from Larian Studios reintroducing players to the shapeshifter. “You don’t know when she’s going to pop up, you don’t know in what form she’s going to be, she’s incredibly tricksy.”Orin the Red briefly appeared in a Panel from Hell livestream from Larian Studios in early July with the assurance that fans would learn more about her motivations.

Larian Studios, the developer behind the upcoming Baldur’s Gate 3, addressed the future of its other series Divinity and assured that there will be a return.“We’re definitely gonna get back there at some point,” answered CEO Swen Vincke in an interview with IGN, mentioning that Divinity: Original Sin is Larian Studios’ own creation while Baldur’s Gate 3 is set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe.Vincke explained that it is “quite a thing” to see the team pour all of their efforts into Baldur’s Gate 3 over the course of six years of development. “We will get back there at some point.

Baldur’s Gate 3‘s Karmic Dice is a feature that might put the player at risk of suffering a major spike in enemy damage outputs, and fortunately, players are sharing a guide on how to switch this off.Via GamesRadar, players akdavidxy and Havelok worked together in the game’s subreddit to alert new Baldur’s Gate 3 fans that this setting will be active at the start of their playthroughs. Karmic Dice alters the outcome of the next dice roll in a sequence when the rolls have consistently failed, allowing the player to succeed in that specific situation.

Baldur’s Gate 3 should not create a “raised standard” for other role-playing games, due to the upcoming game’s large scale.Xalavier Nelson Jr, accomplished independent developer and founder of Strange Scaffold, took to Twitter to explain that Baldur’s Gate 3 is an abnormal game. To exemplify this, Larian Studios began work on the new entry in the series in 2017, using seven different studios with over 400 developers, and benefitted from a significant volume of fan feedback in a three-year early access period.Like a lot of people, I'm deeply excited about what the lovely folks at Larian accomplished with Baldur's Gate 3, but I want to gently, pre-emptively push back against players taking that excitement and using it to apply criticism or a "raised standard" to RPGs going forward1/10— Xalavier Nelson Jr.

Baldur’s Gate 3 has been moved forward, if you’re on PC.Larian Studios has confirmed that Baldur’s Gate 3 will now launch almost a month early for PC on August 3, 2023, while the PS5 release will come a little later on September 6, 2023.“We’ve always been a studio that aims to release on as many platforms as possible, in order of readiness,” said director of publishing, Michael Douse “We’ve also aimed for the highest possible quality on every platform we’ve released on.”The Baldur's Gate 3 Collector's Edition is still available in strictly limited quantities, and now comes with a Deluxe Edition upgrade! Stuffed with treasures and digital delights, get yours before it's too late! Secure your Collector's Edition: https://t.co/08FNbYKwy5 pic.twitter.com/XhtTxh3Kri— Baldur's Gate 3 – Launching August 31st (@baldursgate3) June 9, 2023It may be delayed by a week, but the PS5 version of Baldur’s Gate 3 is still moving forward.“We’re at a point where we’re reaching 60fps on PlayStation 5, which is remarkable considering the breadth and depth Baldur’s Gate 3 aims for,” said Douse. “It features over 170 hours of cinematics, more than twice the length of the entirety of Game of Thrones, and more than three times the dialogue of all three Lord of the Rings novels combined.

Baldur’s Gate 3, which has now received a confirmed release date.The game was announced back in 2019, and a new trailer announced an August 2023 release date late last year.Now, it has been confirmed by developer Larian Studios that the game will arrive on August 31 to PC, Mac, and PS5.Starring in the game as General Ketheric Thorm will be J.K. Simmons, and a new release date trailer has been shared alongside footage of Simmons in the booth during recording for the game.A new blog from Steam said of the game’s narrative: “Meet General Ketheric Thorm, a seemingly invincible necromancer leading an army of the dead towards the city of Baldur’s Gate.

Larian Studios has issued a new hotfix for Baldur’s Gate 3 that fixes several glitches, including restoring the sky on the game’s menu.In what the studio admits is a “small hotfix“, it replaces an “unnerving black void” that had appeared in the RPG’s main menu screens and “replaced it with sky”.Larian dismissed the glitch with an in-universe joke, saying the “Shattered Sanctum apparently did it” and that while it “isn’t quite a Clue-level mystery”, the “precious clouds have at last been returned

Nvidia has announced that their DLSS tech is coming to 10 new games including big recent releases like Back 4 Blood and Baldur’s Gate 3, as well as older titles like Shadow of the Tomb Raider.READ MORE: ‘Baldur’s Gate III’: early access, classes and everything you need to knowIn an announcement posted to their website, the graphic card giants announced that the full list of games that would receive the DLSS tech would be Baldur’s Gate 3, Chivalry 2, Crysis Remastered Trilogy, Rise of the Tomb

Larian Studios has teased some news for the upcoming update six for Baldur’s Gate 3. Those heading to EGX in London will get to see more.Larian Studios released Baldur’s Gate 3 into early access last year and has been updating the Dungeons and Dragons based roleplaying game with new content.

Baldur’s Gate III on PC adds a host of new features and improvements to existing content.Upcoming features were teased through the ‘Panel From Hell III’ livestream, which sprinkled Patch 5 information through a viewer-directed Twitch LARP.The patch will release on Tuesday, July 13.Patch 5 focuses mainly on making improvements to existing content and bringing over several new features from D&D.Players now have many more ways to deal with enemies during encounters, as the patch will allow new ways

Larian Studios will be revealing the contents of the next patch for Baldur’s Gate III through a live action role-play session on Twitch.The contents for the fifth major Baldur’s Gate III patch will be revealed in “Larian’s first LarPG” on July 8, 7PM (BST).Posting on Twitter, Larian Studios shared that it will be streaming “an interactive adventure that explores Baldur’s Gate 3‘s new patch content” and viewers will “help us define the adventure.”Join us July 8th on an interactive adventure that

BioWare’s classic RPG game Baldur’s Gate II in 3D as a mod for Neverwinter Nights 2.Dubbed Baldur’s Gate II: Reloaded, this fan-made mod is set to be a remake of both the original Shadows Of Amn base game and the Throne Of Bhaal expansion pack.

Dark Alliance have announced that split-screen co-op mode will be introduced to the game after its release.In a recent tweet and developer stream, the developers of Dark Alliance confirmed the addition of the multiplayer ‘couch co-op’ mode. The decision was made following requests from fans, who enjoyed the co-op aspect of the previous two games.Just announced on the Dev Stream: We heard you loud and clear.