Baldur’s Gate 3 Gets Hotfix #3, WASD Mod, and Data on Player Choices

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Baldur's Gate 3 remains at the very top of Steam's best-selling games chart, even though it doesn't look like it will break another concurrency record this weekend.

Meanwhile, developer Larian Studios released hotfix #3 late Friday, fixing over 200 bugs. Scratch, the dog that can potentially join the player's camp, has had his behavior tweaked so that he can now seek nearby treasures on his own without needing the player's prompt. Additionally, the Blue Behir Dice cosmetic is now available to all players. This was supposed to be exclusive to the PlayStation 5 version due on September 6th, but players had found its existence by rummaging through the game files, and an unlock mod appeared yesterday. Larian subsequently decided to, in their own words, 'roll with it'.

Yesterday, Larian's weekly community update also shared some interesting data on the player's choices made during the opening weekend of Baldur's Gate 3.

In that narrow timeframe, players spent over 10 million hours in the developer's rendition of Faerûn, which would translate to over 1225 years of playtime. 93% of the users chose to create a customizable protagonist (including The Dark Urge Origin), with Half-Elf being the most popular race choice and Githyanki the least popular. When it comes to classes, Paladins topped the chart, and Cleric closed it. Among those who picked an Origin character, Gale was the most popular choice and Lae'zel the least common one. Overall, users spent an estimated 88 years in the Character Creation process, and nearly 10% spent at least an hour creating their characters.

Around 815K enemies have been shoved into a chasm, while a sizable 12% of all player deaths in Baldur's Gate 3 were caused by friendly fire (likely a misplaced Gale