The multiplayer in Baldur’s Gate 3 sorely needs a dungeon master

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By Sean Hollister, a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget.

Baldur’s Gate 3 sounds like a fantastic single-player experience. I wish I’d tried that instead of playing with my closest friends!

This isn’t about difficulty: I fully expected to be beaten, shot, stabbed, and otherwise destroyed for taking on enemies too fast. I just wish developer Larian had designed a multiplayer experience that gave me the first freaking clue what’s going on.

Want to make sure you don’t miss an important conversation that might determine the course of the game? Better make sure you’re watching your companions’ character portraits on the left of the screen like a hawk! At any moment, they might click on something or walk somewhere that triggers a cutscene, and a tiny conversation indicator is the difference between getting to listen in — or not.

Want to make nice with the locals instead of becoming a mass murderer and watching entire settlements put to the sword? Well, I sure hope none of your party walks past certain NPCs instead of walkingup to them when two people click simultaneously! Not that anything in the game explained that to me afterward. From my perspective, they attacked without provocation, we defended ourselves, and then they went on an unstoppable massacre.

Want to trade your hard-won loot for coin? The first few times I tried that, I was greeted with a totally greyed conversation menu with no dialogue choices — which is apparently Larian’s way of telling you the trader is busy trading with another player. I guess I should have noticed that, but maybe the game could have said something.

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