Wahey, Baldur's Gate 3's massive Patch 8 is out now, and Larian's made a whole animation to ensure you know this is the game's last big update for realsies

Baldur’s Gate 3’s big Patch 8 is now reside, lastly supplying you with your probability to dive into its new subclasses, cross-play mechanics, picture mode, and extra. Yep, your days of jealously staring by way of the window in any respect of these stress testers having fun with some early enjoyable at the moment are over.

Larian revealed a number of what’s on this Patch final yr, and advised that it will be the sport’s last main replace, actually, it swears this time. The cross-play it consists of the principle factor the studio was on the lookout for suggestions on from its stress testing, which by chance led to some PS5 people getting a kinda damaged model of the patch early again in January.

Anyway, as Larian introduced final week, Patch 8 has simply rolled out in the present day, April 15. Listed here are the patch notes, and so they’re simply as beefy as Swen Vincke advised.

After all, the most important headlines are the stuff that was already introduced – these 12 new subclasses, the cross-play between console and PC, and the picture mode that’ll allow you to pose your faves nonetheless you wish to create countless memes about bear intercourse. The sport additionally now has Steam buying and selling playing cards, for some purpose.

There’s additionally a message from Larian that makes rattling positive you already know that this patch is the final large one BG3’ll be getting: “That is it. Our last main sport patch for Baldur’s Gate 3. You’ve helped us make BG3 an even bigger success than any of us may’ve ever hoped for, and that zeal may hold us tweaking issues and making modifications till the top of time. However then we’d by no means have the ability to create one thing new.

“Exterior of minor bug fixing, Patch 8 would be the final sport patch to introduce new content material. Which means we received’t be including any new narrative content material or vital modifications to storylines, Origin characters, or companions. We’ve instructed our tales the best way we wanted to inform them, and tried our greatest to make them impactful and fascinating, and we’re persevering with to get higher at dealing with our personal chaos in order that we are able to proceed to create extra chaos sooner or later.”

Doubling down even additional, Larian’s collabed with Spud Gun Studios once more to create a particular last patch animated brief, which sees studio CEO Vincke blast a dragon’s pores and skin off whereas floating atop a swarm of bees in full plate armour. Basic.

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For a deeper dive into Patch 8, you can even tune into the dev stream Larian’ll be working on its official Twitch channel tomorrow – April 16, 1pm UTC is the date and time it will kick off.

So, there you go, dive in and have some enjoyable. Additionally be certain that to remain tuned for extra information in regards to the litany of attention-grabbing BG3 customized marketing campaign mods at the moment within the works and stuff just like the BG3 Stardew Valley mod, which’ll hold the enjoyable flowing as Larian strikes extra of its consideration in the direction of no matter it is making subsequent.