The first major Baldur's Gate 3 patch is absolutely massive, making it easier to friendzone Gale and letting short kings smooch Karlach

pcgamer.com:

The first major patch for Baldur's Gate 3 has dropped—and it's a doozy, so much so that it can't even fit on the Steam page: «Patch 1 is too big for our usual patch notes due to Steam’s character limit». 

It's an all-around tuneup to Larian's hit RPG—which was already pretty damn good on release, with our Baldur's Gate 3 review knighting it with one of PC Gamer's highest scores. That said, any new release has problems—especially a game of this scope and size. I myself noticed an uptick in performance problems and story weirdness in Act 3, even if it wasn't enough to spoil the experience, so I'm pleased to see Larian rolling out fixes in relatively short order.

First off, the patch addresses a whole goblin horde of animation bugs, glitches, and dialogue issues—such as Shadowheart talking about a fight with Lae'zel she's never had. Here are some of my favourites pulled from my initial scroll-through:

Speaking of our resident wizard, some fixes address problems players were having with him being a touch keen on the romance side of things. This was due to some dialogues leaning too heavily towards romance. Reddit user Rogaharhighlighted one scene earlier this week related to Gale's cat familiar, in which the only non-flirtatious option was to tell him you hate talking about cats. Which isn't true—I love talking about cats, I just don't want to kiss a wizard.

Larian has made it «less ambiguous that you're starting a romance with Gale», as well as making adjustments to a later scene where he teaches you how to cast some basic spells. «During Gale's spell-teaching scene, you now have the option to picture a future with Gale that falls somewhere in between kissing him and kicking him in the head.»

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