Baldur’s Gate 3 final patch drops; Here’s why should play again

After Baldur’s Gate 3 launched, sweeping gamers everywhere off their feet with the massive and exciting adventure in the Forgotten Realms, the guys and gals at Larian have just dropped the latest (and final) patch to their hit game, and you’ll definitely want to play again.

Indeed, Patch 8 is one of BG3’s biggest updates yet, bringing tons of new content, including support for Steam Trading Cards, subclasses like the Path of the Giant Barbarian, Death Domain Cleric, or Way of the Drunken Master Monk, the photo mode, and cross-play, the BG3 team said on April 15.

As it happens, the notes for Patch 8, announced earlier by Larian’s senior communications developer (and part-time mind flayer) Aoife Wilson, contain as many as about 48 pages of material (if calculating in Google Docs typical format) and represent a bittersweet conclusion to the Baldur’s Gate 3 epic adventure. 

What Baldur’s Gate 3 final patch brings to the game

Furthermore, the studio’s development team has explained in its YouTube videos several areas of innovations, including the photo mode, cross-play, and subclasses. 

For instance, the photo mode provides a full set of camera options, including in multiplayer, split-screen, adventuring, and even mid-battle. You can pose your characters, add animations, toggle enemies, NPCs, and party characters on and off, play with stickers, frames, and effects, and have free movement of the camera.

In terms of cross-play, you’ll be able to “reach across the Astral Plane and play seamlessly with your friends no matter your party configuration” or gaming platform, adding and removing people to and from your friends list (lobby), and inviting and managing co-players via their Larian Account username.

Finally, the new subclasses allow you to explore what it’s like to be a glamour bard, a giant barbarian, a necromancer, a night-sky druid, an arcane archer, a drunken monk, a swashbuckler, a shadow mage, and others, with many exciting options and abilities.

All things considered, Baldur’s Gate 3’s final patch brings so much newness to the already fantastic adventure, giving it the feel of an entirely new game to experience and, let’s face it, every time you launch the game even before this patch, there was something new to find and explore.

Meanwhile, BG3’s Patch 8 arrives at about the same time as another exciting announcement for the fans of turn-based strategies – the launch of XCOM-inspired Star Wars Zero Company for Xbox, Playstation 5, and PC – which will be officially presented this weekend.