After 7 Patches, Baldur's Gate 3 Is Still Missing This One Feature It Needed At Launch

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After taking the gaming industry by storm, has been getting patches ever since its release to further improve a title that already won Game of the Year back in 2023. Since then, Larian Studios has done seven patches for its golden goose, which have ranged from adding mod support to changing a companion (Minthara) so that they can be recruited in a morally good campaign. There has been very little that hasn't been added to and one of the most requested features, crossplay, is still planned.

After seven patches, it feels as though Larian is finally beginning to slow down work on, with Swen Vincke, the studio's CEO, teasing new projects away from the IP and the world of. It does seem like the right time, since the community can now add all the content it wants with the better mod support, but there is still one feature missing that would have made an even better game. The companion interactions are great as is, but there could be an improvement to party dynamics.

Although companions have become very popular thanks to their charisma and strongly defined characters that develop throughout the game, there isn't a lot of interaction between all of them, especially if there isn't much conflict there. There are small interactions between companions while exploring the world, but these only take place between two characters despite there being space for four in an adventuring party. There are also very few slice-of-life interactions that give players a better idea of what the friendship between two characters is like.

Baldur’s Gate 3 is a thorough adaption of tabletop Dungeons & Dragons, but there are plenty of pen and paper subclasses missing from the video game.

A good example of this is when Wyll mentions that he wants to cook a meal to celebrate in 's third act, and states that Gale is the camp chef, so he will have to convince him to let him cook for that one night. Unfortunately, there isn't a scene of Wyll cooking, and it could have been funny seeing Gale preside over