Baldur's Gate 3's monster second patch is live, serving up justice for our favorite character and letting you stuff your friends in a closet
After only a few days' buildup, Larian has released the second major patch for Baldur's Gate 3. In addition to a host of bug fixes and UI changes, Patch 2 also adds new story content for PC Gamer's top ranked Baldur's Gate 3 companion, Karlach.
There's also a new epilogue for Karlach that builds on an ending option already in the game, a mondo-spoilery breakdown of which can be found past the other patch additions.
The promised Withers' Wardrobe of Wayward Friends is here, letting you boot your co-op partners' custom characters when you reach that point in every gaming group where someone is no longer free on Tuesdays at seven.
Patch 2 also brings a host of gamepad tweaks and optimizations to BG3 ahead of its Playstation 5 launch on September 6, including improved radial options, tooltips, and pathfinding. Additionally, Larian has introduced a number of performance tweaks, including the cryptic «improved CPU load,» that will hopefully improve things across the board, but especially in the CPU-punishing city of Baldur's Gate itself.
If you don't mind hearing spoilers, more details on that expanded Karlach epilogue can be found below (but you have been warned):
Even before the endgame, the patch has «added new moments for companion and avatar Karlach to reflect on the state of her engine between acts.» These are likely meant to better foreshadow the possibility of her infernal engine being irreparable.
Rather than an all-new ending for Karlach, this patch expands on the pre existing ending where she returns to Avernus with either a renewed pact for Wyll, or a romanced player character. Notably, the language of the patch notes seems to imply that a player character who hasn't romanced Karlach can now join her in hell:
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