When Baldur's Gate 3 launched earlier this month, it earned near universal praise for its gameplay, characters, and apparently infinite choices. Since then, many have been taking it slow through the first two acts to discover everything hidden across the continent of Faerûn.
However, as players reach act 3, many are discovering that it's... a touch less polished than the first two acts.
Warning: Many of the threads linked contain heavy spoilers for act 3 of Baldur's Gate 3. Click through at your own risk.
On the Baldur's Gate 3 subreddit, a number of users have chimed in to express frustration at act 3 for being buggy, laggy, and in some cases, seemingly unfinished. For instance, u/rejian called out that they had 11 quests in their journal in act 3, six of which were impossible to complete due to bugs. u/meramipopper had a similar experience. Others, such as u/justchiller and u/IceyCoolRunnings brought up serious performance issues.
Still others, including u/CynicalSigtyr and u/paradox-paradise called out a number of quests that seem inconsequential or even unfinished once they reached Baldur's Gate 3. While you could chalk that up to someone not liking the story, users including u/noobiestboob have noted large amounts of cut act 3 content still present in the game's files, especially pertaining to Minthara and Karlach.
People don't want to admit it because it's a great game but I'll take one for the team and tell the truth:
Baldur's Gate III has bugs...and it gets especially buggy in Act 3
Go ahead, roast me all you want. My work is done
Minthara in particular has drawn attention from fans in the wake of Larian's big patch. While many players probably killed the villainous drow in the goblin encampment without a second
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