Before its release, promised to include 17,000 different endings — but does it really? There's undeniably a ton of player choice and variation in the game. There are even hundreds of contingencies and failsafes in case players try to break . It wouldn't be too much of a stretch at all to say there are thousands of different ways its story can play out, but 17,000 endings is an entirely different kind of claim.
Stay winning: Baldur's Gate 3 patched out a popular trade exploit while simultaneously being crowned GOTY
08.12.2023 - 20:09 / gamesradar.com / Swen Vincke
As you might've heard, Baldur's Gate 3 took home GOTY Thursday night at The Game Awards 2023, but what you might not have seen amid the celebrations is a new patch for the RPG that dropped right in the middle of the show.
Hotfix #13 is mostly tuned to fix bugs and crashes, but the biggest highlight is a fix for a popular exploit that players were using to "buy out a trader with only 1 gold and a container."
In a tweet, Larian says the patch makes "traders across Faerûn wise to your little schemes," which is a funnier way to say: this here little loophole's been closed for good.
The update also fixes a crash that was happening when leaving Act 2, issues with the price of tooltips not showing correctly and balancing offers in trading, a mixup that was making empty bags sold to vendors cost the same as their combined contents, and some performance problems on PS5 related to "the Knights of the Shield situation."
Notably, and as many were quick to point out, this patch arrived right as Baldur's Gate 3 was taking home awards for best RPG, best multiplayer game, best community support, and player's voice - not to mention casually announcing its launch on Xbox.
I'd say the whole team deserves a nice long nap, especially Larian founder Swen Vincke, who accepted the GOTY award clad in a suit of shining armor. That stuff's gotta be heavy.
Under 1% of Baldur's Gate 3 players reached the end with no companions, but this route still has unique dialogue: "We are chasing that feeling of absolute freedom."
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