Baldur’s Gate 3’s Most Efficient Strategy Is A Huge Party Foul

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. 

certainly doesn't have a shortage of items the party can find during their journey, especially if they meticulously dig through every area and open all storage containers. It's not unusual to pick up items that don't seem to have a use besides selling them to a vendor, but even items that are pieces of a puzzle or a quest later in the game aren't always obvious at first glance. However, part of the fun of a game based on 5e is exploring and discovering how the choices a player makes affect situations later.

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.

Baldur's Gate 3's top speedrunners are currently battling for the Honour Mode world record.

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.

Many Baldur's Gate 3 players are reporting a plethora of new issues following the game's newest update. Baldur's Gate 3's recent patch, which is unfortunately causing significant frustration, also introduced plenty of new features.

'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.

is a massive game with content that changes depending on the choices that Tav and their party make. As a result, there are plenty of hidden interactions, dialogue, and cutscenes that end up being missed. And since some choices are more popular than others, that leaves a lot of these interactions unseen by the majority of parties.

The highly acclaimed Baldur's Gate 3 has brought home yet another set of accolades after the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences announced its yearly DICE Awards winners. The recent victory comes after Baldur's Gate 3 dominated The Game Awards late last year.

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.