Although Larian have to be delighted with the reception to Baldur’s Gate 3 thus far, they perhaps weren’t ready for fairly how a lot individuals have been going to play it. Seems, in case you made too many “decisions” and “actions”, your “private story database” might develop so massive it broke the save system, and the developer’s needed to launch a hotfix to nip the issue within the bud.
On condition that gamers weren’t more likely to present restraint any time quickly, the answer was to uncap the scale of the database, permitting it to develop infinitely (or no less than as huge as your time and onerous drive enable), “to account for the sheer quantity of belongings you’re all doing in your journeys”.
Simply over every week on from launch, individuals on the Baldur’s Gate 3 subreddit and elsewhere are already discussing having accomplished the sport, regardless of it operating round 120 hours lengthy—so clearly various of you’ve gotten been taking some cheeky sick days to hang around in Faerûn continuous. In the meantime, it took me 5 hours simply to resolve what class to play.
I am unsure I get the necessity to rush by means of it—the sport is splendidly absorbing, for positive, however in case you’ve already completed it it seems like it should be an extended look ahead to an enlargement, if it ever comes. Although I assume that simply means it is time to roll up a unique character or decide a unique origin and begin a second playthrough.
This small hotfix follows a bigger patch launched earlier this week that smoothed over bugs together with lacking gnome underwear and githyanki’s penises coming out of their trousers. A save file bug appears very tame by comparability, admittedly, however it’s all good polish on one of many 12 months’s greatest video games.