Larian has bid a last farewell to Baldur’s Gate 3, its beloved breakout hit that received a legion of followers and propelled the studio to a brand new degree of stardom.
At this time, as previously announced, marks the release of Patch 8 – the sport’s last content material replace. This provides PC, Mac, PlayStation and Xbox crossplay, a photograph mode, a dozen extra subclasses, plus the long-awaited arrival of Xbox Series S split-screen multiplayer.
Larian has marked the patch’s launch right this moment in a contemporary blog post, which additionally features a last animated quick that includes the Baldur’s Gate 3 forged occurring one final journey. There’s even a particular fourth wall-breaking cameo from Larian’s personal head honcho Swen Vincke, wearing his swimsuit of armour.
“You’ve got helped us make BG3 an even bigger success than any of us may’ve ever hoped for,” Larian’s weblog put up reads, “and that keenness may preserve us tweaking issues and making adjustments till the tip of time. However then we might by no means be capable to create one thing new.
“As Swen mentioned in the course of the Baldur’s Gate 3 retrospective panel at PAX West in August of final 12 months, it is time for the group to return to our cave and cling the armour on the wall whereas we deal with bringing you our subsequent challenge.”
What’s Larian’s subsequent challenge? All we all know formally is the game will be unrelated to Dungeons & Dragons, one thing “huge and impressive” and “new within the sense that it’s totally different from the issues we have achieved earlier than”.
What a few Baldur’s Gate 4, then? Properly, D&D owner Wizards of the Coast has said we may still get one of those too from another developer, although it wasn’t “in a hurry” to rush it out.
