A Baldur's Gate 3 player who, by their own admission, role-plays "a klepto monk that practices the Way of the Sticky Hand" found themselves facing the RPG's final gauntlet alone after a spot of petty theft went spectacularly awry.
24.02.2024 - 13:27 / screenrant.com / Honour Mode / Andrew Zhou
Although updates for continue to make improvements to the game, one issue with the game's multiplayer still has yet to be addressed. Despite building a good reputation for its deep RPG gameplay, ambitiously-sized world, and reactivity to player choice, has been plagued by numerous bugs and glitches since launch, and although many of the game's most major issues have been fixed by post-launch updates, some have persisted.
After its successful launch, has received several major updates which have fixed long-standing bugs, cleaned up unintended interactions, and even added entirely new features like the crushingly difficult Honour Mode. Most recently, 's Patch 6 added improvements to player romances, a number of quality-of-life changes, minor additions to Honour Mode, and yet more bug fixes. However, while the game's various updates and patches have successfully fixed many of its biggest issues, one annoying multiplayer problem is still present in the most recent version of the game.
In an issue that only affects console versions of the game, an annoying interface problem with 's local split-screen co-op can have multiple player name tags appearing in the top left corner of the screen, covering the first player's minimap and making it significantly harder to use for navigation. As of the most recent patches,the problem has yet to be fixed, despite having been a known issue for many months, and a major annoyance for anyone attempting to go through a local co-op playthrough of the game.
While it's hard to know how difficult any given issue is to fix, and developers obviously can't just snap their fingers and rectify bugs instantly, this problem seems like one that should be on the simpler side to remedy by moving the names to the top-left corner of the first player's screen, or giving an option to not display the names at all. Since local multiplayer likely makes up a small minority of the player base, the bug is probably low-priority, but it's an annoying and (seemingly) simple enough issue that a fix should've been expected sooner rather than later.
Although it's a small issue that affects a tiny portion of the overall playerbase, and it by no means makes the game unplayable, player usernames covering the first player's minimap is a constant annoyance for anyone trying to make use of the local split-screen co-op. Some workarounds, like plugging a headset into each controller, have been found to remove the names from the screen, but an officially implemented fix should be a priority for .
Developed and published by Larian Studios, Baldur's Gate 3 is an upcoming role-playing game set to release in August of 2023. Players will create a character to embark on a large-scale journey and can do so solo or
A Baldur's Gate 3 player who, by their own admission, role-plays "a klepto monk that practices the Way of the Sticky Hand" found themselves facing the RPG's final gauntlet alone after a spot of petty theft went spectacularly awry.
Although has a wide variety of items, not all of them will be vital parts of a playthrough, but it can often be hard to know what to hold onto. Ingots and gems are common finds in, which may set up the expectation that they'll be used in some kind of crafting system, either through the game's own Combine function or through one of the many blacksmith NPCs such as Dammon. Players who do hold onto these items, however, will inevitably end up having to contend with a cluttered inventory and carry weight restrictions.
often lets the party decide how they want to approach obstacles. However, the options that they're given to deal with obstacles can include — and usually do include — some rather immoral choices. And like in a classic game, committing party fouls and unethical actions often ends up being the most efficient approach.
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Patch 6 brought plenty of appreciable improvements to , but it seems like this particular update may not be going over as smoothly as many of its predecessors. It's not uncommon for game fixes to introduce problems of their own, as even careful meddling with complex code often runs into unintended consequences. For the most part, however, has avoided making things worse with major patches, and an early hotfix that caused crashes for some players made the studio revise its approach to pushing fixes in general in favor of extreme caution.
With Patch 6 now live, there's never been a time to revisit . This is the first major update the game has gotten since 's Patch 5 last November, most infamous for introducing the ultra-hard Honour difficulty mode. But where Patch 5 sought to find cruel and unusual ways to punish players, Patch 6 is all about love — apropos of its just-after-Valentine's release date. Still, that doesn't mean there's nothing in it for those who prefer to spend their nights at camp alone.
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's Honour Mode introduced a swath of changes to make its unique premise more challenging. One of these was giving some bosses in the game Legendary Actions, similar to bosses in. Of course, this has made several already difficult boss encounters much tougher now, as each has a special move that makes thinking tactically even more important.
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Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 6, which is out now, offers up some fantastic new features and changes for players to enjoy.
Larian Studios has its priorities straight. It’s newly published patch improves a fan-favorite activity in Baldur’s Gate 3: kissing. Baldur’s Gate 3 already had a bevy of potential lovers — like everyone’s favorite, Shadowheart — and offered plenty of opportunities for kissing. It’s important! But the studio’s been hyping up improved smooches for days now, and on Friday, players got a look at what that actually means.
Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 6 is live now, with patch notes promising everything from improved kissing animations to party management.