Baldur’s Gate 3 Official Mod Support Announcement: Larian Studio Addresses Player Frustrations and Plans for Cross-Platform Release

The CRPG “Baldur’s Gate 3” created by Larian Studio immediately received high praise from players and media after its launch in August last year, beating out masterpieces such as “The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom” It swept the Game of the Year awards that year. Although the game itself has rich gameplay content that can keep players entertained for hundreds of hours, like every popular PC game, this game also has an extremely large modding community. However, in the absence of official support, players or mod designers often have to go through reinstallation and adjustments after the game is updated. Fortunately, Larian Studio has heard the players Based on your feedback, we are ready to roll out official mod support.

We generally don’t talk about things til they’re ready, but as you may have read, we’re making an exception. We’ve been working on a robust, cross-platform plan for mod support to be released later in year. We love our modding community and we want to support them. It’s coming.

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According to the latest Twitter post made public by Michael Douse, head of publishing at Larian Studios, the development team has noticed that the updates they roll out for the game, whether they are large-scale updates or small hotfixes, will cause the mods installed by players to become invalid. , forcing players to wait for updates from mod designers, and they can only temporarily uninstall these mods if they want to continue playing. In this regard, he emphasized that the development team currently plans to create a more complete and cross-platform module support function for players on all platforms within this year.

“We have a system in place, but it needs to go through testing and other work. We are very excited about it. I understand that it is very frustrating every time the game comes out with an update and the mod breaks. Our community The team will start discussions with the modding community. For now, we are still working on it,” he wrote

In addition, WombatMedic, chief social strategist of Larian, also shared more details in a post on the official Discord server. In a lengthy post, WombatMedic also emphasized that they understand that players are currently encountering problems with game updates that cause mod support to fail, and later stated that the company is currently planning to launch more formal mod support in the future.

“We’ve been working hard on building official mod support for a while now. We want you to have the best experience possible, and that includes building a pipeline for modders to publish mods on different platforms. And In cooperation with the platform, we will work hard to make this plan a reality and have formed a team to support mod creation. We plan to add new classes, UI, customization content, spells and specific Mods of game materials and mechanics will bring support. This will be a very large project. We hope to introduce the preliminary functions of official module support in the next major update, but it will take a few months. Although it is currently possible This will be a bit frustrating for you, but we hope to continue to work with players on this and reach out to popular modders to talk about how to avoid any issues in the future.”

Even without official support, “Baldur’s Gate 3” players can currently install a variety of mods in the game, such as new spells, character races, backgrounds, UI adjustments, negative weights, and new characters. Customized functions, control and perspective adjustments, removal of team limits, modern firearms for characters, and other dazzling contents.

It is indeed a very gratifying thing for players to see that Larian Studio is working hard to make all popular modules run more smoothly, without having to worry about having to reinstall every time there is an update, not to mention It is said that they also intend to bring this feature to relatively closed host platforms simultaneously.