Wednesday, April 16th 2025
Larian Releases Final Baldur's Gate 3 Patch; Studio Moving onto "Something New"
Well folks, this is it. Our final major game patch for Baldur's Gate 3. You've helped us make BG3 a bigger success than any of us could've ever hoped for, and that passion could keep us tweaking things and making changes until the end of time. But then we'd never be able to create something new. Outside of minor bug fixing, Patch 8 will be the last game patch to introduce new content. That means we won't be adding any new narrative content or significant changes to storylines, Origin characters, or companions. We've told our stories the way we needed to tell them, and tried our best to make them impactful and engaging, and we're continuing to get better at handling our own chaos so that we can continue to create more chaos in the future.
From the start, your feedback has been incredibly important to us, and will continue to shape our future projects. As Swen said during the Baldur's Gate 3 retrospective panel at PAX West in August of last year, it's time for the team to go back to our cave and hang the armor on the wall while we focus on bringing you our next project. If you're already feeling nostalgic, you can click here to watch our last Baldur's Gate 3 panel, where we looked back on Baldur's Gate 3, from early access through to release, and answered some of your questions. From patching in a way to change your appearance with the Magic Mirror, introducing Honor Mode for those of you looking for a hard time, and giving you new ways to make out with your romanced companion, to new cinematics for your most evil runs, and handing you the tools to create your own supported mods, Patch 8 now rounds off with cross-play, Photo Mode, and 12 new subclasses for you to enjoy.
To help us close the door on our last major patch, the party are back with their final animated short in collaboration with Spud Gun Studios—with a special appearance by the man in metal himself: Swen in his animated debut!
Patch 8
Now let's talk about what's new with our final patch!
Steam Trading Cards
Baldur's Gate 3 now supports Steam Trading Cards! And you thought you'd never get them. Collect the unique trading cards to craft badges, and unlock exclusive profile backgrounds and emoticons to use anywhere on Steam! Speaking of Steam, Baldur's Gate 3 is now on sale with 20% off until April 21st.
Cross-Play
Players on PC, Mac, Xbox, and PlayStation 5 will now all be able to enjoy Baldur's Gate 3 multiplayer, with full cross-platform progression and cross-play. Using the Larian Network, you can now join and create cross-play lobbies to take on your adventures together.
Cross-Play & Mods
You'll be able to continue to enjoy creating chaos with mods in cross-play, but it's important to note that all players joining the lobby must have the same version of mods installed. When joining a host's game, you'll be prompted with the Mod Verification window to enable, upgrade, downgrade, or install any missing mods. If you are a PC player creating a cross-play lobby, keep in mind you can use the "Available on Console & Mac" tag to browse mods that will be compatible with consoles and Mac, and that the mod limit on consoles is 100. Third-party mods cannot be used on consoles.
A full breakdown of Patch 8 is available here.
Sources:
Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Profile, Baldur's Gate 3 Official News
From the start, your feedback has been incredibly important to us, and will continue to shape our future projects. As Swen said during the Baldur's Gate 3 retrospective panel at PAX West in August of last year, it's time for the team to go back to our cave and hang the armor on the wall while we focus on bringing you our next project. If you're already feeling nostalgic, you can click here to watch our last Baldur's Gate 3 panel, where we looked back on Baldur's Gate 3, from early access through to release, and answered some of your questions. From patching in a way to change your appearance with the Magic Mirror, introducing Honor Mode for those of you looking for a hard time, and giving you new ways to make out with your romanced companion, to new cinematics for your most evil runs, and handing you the tools to create your own supported mods, Patch 8 now rounds off with cross-play, Photo Mode, and 12 new subclasses for you to enjoy.
Patch 8
Now let's talk about what's new with our final patch!
Steam Trading Cards
Baldur's Gate 3 now supports Steam Trading Cards! And you thought you'd never get them. Collect the unique trading cards to craft badges, and unlock exclusive profile backgrounds and emoticons to use anywhere on Steam! Speaking of Steam, Baldur's Gate 3 is now on sale with 20% off until April 21st.
Cross-Play
Players on PC, Mac, Xbox, and PlayStation 5 will now all be able to enjoy Baldur's Gate 3 multiplayer, with full cross-platform progression and cross-play. Using the Larian Network, you can now join and create cross-play lobbies to take on your adventures together.
Cross-Play & Mods
You'll be able to continue to enjoy creating chaos with mods in cross-play, but it's important to note that all players joining the lobby must have the same version of mods installed. When joining a host's game, you'll be prompted with the Mod Verification window to enable, upgrade, downgrade, or install any missing mods. If you are a PC player creating a cross-play lobby, keep in mind you can use the "Available on Console & Mac" tag to browse mods that will be compatible with consoles and Mac, and that the mod limit on consoles is 100. Third-party mods cannot be used on consoles.
A full breakdown of Patch 8 is available here.
14 Comments on Larian Releases Final Baldur's Gate 3 Patch; Studio Moving onto "Something New"
Gotta say, they delivered on everything, and then some. This is The Way.
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn is widely regarded as one of the greatest RPGs of all time. Planescape Torment is good too, but not near BG2.
"Baldur's Gate II received critical acclaim upon its release,[150] and is listed as the eight highest-scoring PC game on the review aggregator Metacritic (as of August 2024).[177] GameSpot's reviewer stated that, while it is a long game, its fine points are what make it so great, and that it was in a class by itself.[9] IGN concluded with a similar sentiment, saying that the game was incomparable and without peers"
There, now you've read it. I've learned something in the process, the game is still ranked #8 greatest game on PC to this day, BG1 #72, PLanescape Torment #97 and NVM #98.
I'm always fascinated by folks who turn a point of view, from something they know nothing about, into a truth.
BTW guess which game has a higher score on Metacritic than BG2? BG3. So objectively BG3 is a better game than BG2, right? It's quantified, so it must be truth.And so this statement is not true then?
"Also for the record I don't think I have read a single Top RPG list that has BG2 in the top spot, not since around it's release anyway. NWN came out and people promptly forgot about the older games is how I remember it. "
You remember it wrong, and now you've seen a current list with BG2 at the top.
Don't know what else to tell you.