Baldur’s Gate 3’s next patch will improve performance, begin expanding epilogue
The second major patch for Baldur’s Gate 3 will improve the game’s performance — particularly in Act 3, where it often struggles — and begin a push to expand on the game’s epilogue, including fleshing out the endings for the Karlach character as many fans have requested.
That’s according to a new community update that the developer, Larian Studios, posted to Steam on Tuesday. The developer wasn’t specific about the timing of Patch 2, but said it was “just around the corner.” Larian has been updating the game at an impressive pace since its launch four weeks ago, pushing out several hotfixes and one major bug-squashing patch already.
With Patch 2, the team said its focus would expand beyond fixing bugs to improving performance and answering some of the most prevalent fan requests. Larian also took time to address proliferating community reports of “cut content” that had been datamined, dismissing claims that this was the result of the game being rushed to release. Larian argued that most of the reported cut content was either the result of bugs — for example, companion reactions that don’t trigger as they should — or deliberate creative decisions that Larian took for the good of the game.
One of those decisions was to streamline the game’s epilogue “because we were afraid the ending cinematics were becoming too long and would detract from the epicness of the experience,” Larian said. However, this is being revised in the face of fans disappointment at the resolution — or lack of it — of several story threads. “Clearly, not everyone agrees with us! So we’re going to do something about it.”
Many players feel that the companion character Karlach is poorly served by the conclusion of the game, and this is the first part of
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