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Game News Baldur's Gate 3 Community Update #10: Patch 2 - Romance Numbers & Cinematic Tweaks

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Tags: Baldur's Gate 3; Larian Studios

The Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access build received its second major patch today. The patch includes the usual raft of bugfixes, but the highlight seems to be an overhaul of the game's dialogue cinematics. In the accompanying community update, Larian also shared some more telemetry data about players' romance choices and other things.

Hello everyone!​

It’s big patch time. But this time, not only are you going to feel the improvements, you’re also going to see them. As we’ve previously said, Early Access is about improving and iterating on every single facet of the game, and that includes all of the things you see and hear.

In this big patch, we’ve got general fixes for cinematics such as this one below. He was starting to get a crooked neck, and we’re pretty sure he doesn’t have health insurance so we helped him out a bit.

It’s not just about tweaks though. As many of you know, despite playing through the Early Access content sometimes for up to a hundred hours or more (wow!) you still haven’t seen all of the content, because incrementally new things are seeded into the game. In this case, a missing cinematic. Where once was darkness, there is now light!

See if you can spot the differences in the game for yourself, or continue to read this Community Update with attached patch notes for spoilers. You know you want to.

A certain song has also been ‘re-shot’ by our cinematics team, which gives you an excuse to check it out again. Did you need one? Side note: we’ve been watching your reactions to this song in your VODs and YouTube videos, as well as in various streams, and the reactions are beautiful. Watching you play the game as we improve it is very motivating for all of us.

On the topic of music and joy, last week saw the Symphony of Sin, which included the first ever live performance of some of the music from Baldur’s Gate 3, as well as some wonderful songs from Divinity: Original Sin 2. You can watch the VOD here, it’s well worth it:

With that said, let’s look at some of the data that’s been making us smile over the week.

Everyone knows you can pet the dog in Baldur’s Gate 3, but did you know the dog has been petted 400k times? Such a good boy deserves that many pets.

Speaking of good boys, last update we discussed how Gale was ultimately attacked quite a lot. Check out last week’s update for the stats on that. Somewhat contradicturally, he’s the most “romanced” of the party. He’s been “romanced” by 33% of players. Shadowheart came second, falling in love with 31% of players, and in return 31% of players fell in love with Shadowheart.

1.37% of players chose to sleep alone. Which is cool too! We have the other stats, but thought it might be fun if you gave it a shot and guessed them. One thing we’re seeing is the stan memes aren’t correlating with the actual “romance data”. For sure, there’s enough tinder in the campfire to ignite some flames.

On a less romantic note (though this really depends on your tastes), 5.87% of players tried to steal the ring… but 26.3% of those players merely sucked a toe. If you haven’t got there yet, you’ll know when you see it. Since we’re talking about failure statistics, many people have made it to The Underdark. But 40.79% of players who jumped down a large, dark hole arrived dead, because they leapt without Feather Fall.

We’re saving perhaps the most interesting until last. Slight spoiler, so if you don’t want spoilers, don’t read this. You may know that at a point in the game, you may side with one of two factions: the Tieflings against the goblins, or with Minthara who demands the gates are opened for the goblins to attack the Druids Grove.

74.85% of you stood with the Tieflings, and 25.15% of you sided with Minthara. Good outweighs evil, it seems.

An optimistic note to end on.
See the full update for the changelog and animated GIFs of some of those tweaked cinematics.
 

elverkongen

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Did you know you can petted the heckin doggerinos?!
We collected your data (and semen) and found out that 99% of you jacked off to the sex scenes we wrote for that purpose. This pleases Der Vincke.

This is such a reddit game.
 

a cut of domestic sheep prime

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How long before people start getting doxed and canceled for taking the "evil" options in games?
 

Roguey

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He’s been “romanced” by 33% of players. Shadowheart came second, falling in love with 31% of players, and in return 31% of players fell in love with Shadowheart.

Gay men and straight women are the equal to straight men and gay women, at least in early access, eh?
 

jac8awol

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He’s been “romanced” by 33% of players. Shadowheart came second, falling in love with 31% of players, and in return 31% of players fell in love with Shadowheart.

Gay men and straight women are the equal to straight men and gay women, at least in early access, eh?

A fair conclusion based on the data. Another one would be that only fags play early access.
 

Zeriel

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He’s been “romanced” by 33% of players. Shadowheart came second, falling in love with 31% of players, and in return 31% of players fell in love with Shadowheart.

Gay men and straight women are the equal to straight men and gay women, at least in early access, eh?

Straight men aren't playing this game. :cool:
 

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"74.85% of you stood with the Tieflings, and 25.15% of you sided with Minthara. Good outweighs evil, it seems."

TLM (Tiefling Lives Matter)

Looks like we're getting three fucking cringe furry companions and no playable Aasimar :argh:
 

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"74.85% of you stood with the Tieflings, and 25.15% of you sided with Minthara. Good outweighs evil, it seems."

TLM (Tiefling Lives Matter)

Looks like we're getting three fucking cringe furry companions and no playable Aasimar :argh:

Does your count include the ambiguously gay vampire spawn?

From what I read

Karloch (furry sassy demon gal)
Tiefling (furry asian Werewolf bard)
Tiefling (furry Sorc from official lore)
 

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