Baldur's Gate 3 DLC | 2024 Update – What You Need To Know

a hey folks Jack to here I want to wish you all a massive Happy New Year to every single one of you this year we're going to see Dragon Age dreadwolf which I know is very exciting for most of my viewers now I don't know about you but I spent the festive season diving straight back into the world of Fon with a brand new cleric of saloon X shadowart playthrough and I loved every single second of it however as I finally wrapped up the wyers epilog party for the first first time I was left peaked by the potential tease of DLC expansions or a potential sequel well nothing has been officially confirmed recent comments from laran Studios as well as in-game teasers suggest exciting developments may be in the pipeline for our favorite RPG of the decade and so today I am jumping into everything that you need to know about potential Boulders get 3 DLC as it stands in 2020 24 so just after balers Gate 3 released in August 2023 there was an interview with IGN talking with laran senior product manager Tom Butler as they hinted at the post patch and PST production plants at the time Tom Butler stated we'll carry on patching for a while and then we're all going to take a holiday and then we'll figure out what to do next but at the moment we genuinely have discussions we want to do more but we don't know what yet since then of course the team have gone on to patch the game with fixing aspects of carlax ending it's still not completely there but there's at least bonus content working out carax Kinks at the end and we've had plenty of other editions like the mirror where you can change your appearance and of course the wers epilog party there's been a lot of postlaunch support of bg3 and it has been amazing to see Lan Studios effortlessly dedicate their time to polishing up bg3 and they continue to do that with the p PS5 and Xbox series launches as well I know that there is currently an Xbox save bug which is more so on Microsoft side then it is Lan's with Microsoft's own cloud save system but even so Lan are hot on the case of fixing that and so as Tom Butler said they're going to have their holiday and they're going to figure out what to do next they want to do more but they don't know what they're going to do yet and so with 2024 now in full swing it kind of implies that DLC expansion of bg3 could potentially be on the horizon as each team member from the studios returned to work following their previous focus on patching balancing and refining the existing game now adding more fuel to the fire bg3 director Sven Vin speaking on the Dungeons and dragon YouTube channel left the door wide open for DLC possibilities he noted you could do different things in the DLC so it doesn't necessarily have to be at the end of the game V also revealed Len Studios is concurrently working on another game adding to the intricacies of their current workload think addressed the potential of raising Le level cap stating that it would be challenging but not impossible while bg3 limits plays to level 12 Vin acknowledged the uniqueness of level 13 to 20 in D and D and emphasized the need for different Stakes different environments protagonists and antagonists almost setting up a brand new campaign all together if laran went in this direction for a DLC so there we have it the development side revealing an eagerness for laran to create altogether tinged with a caution about the specifics of what they could create with the addition of surpassing level 12 of DnD fused with the entire idea of something brand new with new Stakes new characters and new antagonists setting up what I feel could be a completely different brand new Campaign which we'll talk about more on in a sec but with a new year unfolding and numerous patches since the initial thoughts on potential DLC I think it's fair to say that optimism abounds for the future of bg3 content especially after the game's rocketing success and the tantalizing hints dropped in the game's last 2023 patch featuring the wyers epilog party so small spoilers about this if you have not finished Boulders SK 3 and you want to experience this post-ending party yourself but upon completing Boulders Gate 3 Withers plans a heartwarming celebration at the original campsite bringing together all the close companions for a post Victory reunion when it all concludes Withers delivers a cryptic toast stating it is over for [Music] now thou played thy part in weaving the fabric of Fate itself but for every thread you swld so did the gods unravel another sleep rest Revel but be ready for thou May yet be needed now for me this was just an overt nod to Future content which could be a direct sequel or something else entirely there is just a intentional setup for what may come next which could be anything never winter nights ice wind Dale bg3 DLC balers gate 4 who knows what and it's noteworthy that this ending party was patched in 3 months after the game's initial release in August signaling the developers latest intention to introduce some form of DLC or additional content potentially even Paving the way for a sequel and it's this timing that I think is the biggest deal here because it implies a response to the incredible reception that bg3 has had with the developers keenly being aware of the impact these lines would have on the player community it's a straight up deliberate tease suggesting that laran wouldn't include such hints without a plan to follow through and if we explore that a bit more before bg3 shipped expectations for the game success were modest it's harder to witness that in the hardcore Gaming Community but as a mainstream fan base the developers envisioned a niche but dedicated fan base for bg3 and so therefore the prospects of no additional content seemed very much likely for them to follow akin to what they did with divinity releasing a deluxe edition with added or deleted content a year after initial release and that was the initial Prospect for bg3 given its Niche status of being a fantasy RPG following turn-based combat systems however as we understand it now the game's unexpected colossal success has dramatically altered the landscape which I believe fuels a growing demand for DLC creatively and as a business forian Studios now the Strategic move would be to reinvest in the success gared by bg3 into DLC while the other teams simultaneously gear up for their next project now alternatively further smaller chunks of content could and obviously most likely will still be patched in and to me these smaller bits of content are things like fully fixing CarX engine the addition of the upper City in balers gate more hairstyles more dyes outfits an extension on manthara plot line Etc but it's some chunkier more substantial content that would justify the price point of DLC and things that have already already initially been teased in the base game of bg3 I do have a few ideas that come to mind extending from bg3 story and the first one is helping Lazelle fight FL venturing into the astral sea to Aid Lazelle and the GIF Yan in their battle against FL this DLC would easily provide a rich post level 12 campaign introducing all the core elements that Sven talked about with a vast new location with familiar allies and fresh adversaries and we'd be able to fully enveil the Revelation surrounding orus and resolving a massive lingering plot point from the main game I really enjoyed the GI Yankees content in bg3 with the crush orus and Lazelle but I do feel like this would really complete that entire overarching story it would also be brilliant just to take on another so-called God in the bg3 universe next up we have kill zariel in Aus or just a fullon Aus storyline basically exploring more of a verus expanding Beyond Raphael's home in the House of Hope this being with ties to carlac and Will's backstories as well as the teling refugees having a proper exploration of the layers of hell I think would be absolutely compelling and ultimately confronting and dealing with zariel being such a powerful figure in the balis skar 3 narrative this would offer a Redemption Arc for KAC some closure for Will and the opportunity to of course find Bing Bong the Imp that apparent Shad heart BR with myav after they had defeated the absolute let's find bing bong and have him as an imp pet and he can be the ring bearer at Min Shadow heart's wedding that would be absolutely brilliant next up very broad but fighting more evil gods of fun and I leave this on Broad because with it said but for every thread you swld so did the gods unravel another now maybe I'm reading too much into this but hey that is my brand perhaps there are more malevolent Gods banding together since we defeated the absolute since other gods witnessed the impending threat that we have on the world of fairon maybe they've been awakened maybe they now seek the sord cast this definitely seems like it could be a completely new game's approach and maybe that was the tease that Withers was hinting towards but I would not hesitate in the slightest to fight against the likes of sha with my cleric of saloon Tav plus sha that'll be brilliant closure and I know it's asking for a lot but that line of dialogue certainly has me intrigued by what threads the gods have since unraveled again another broad one more classes and character creation options you are dealing with the world of DN D here I did see on Reddit that the artificier class was something pretty much everybody wanted as well as playing as an asima a Goliath or a Cobalt even playing as a goblin since there are so many assets of goblins in the base game these additions would just provide us all with more diverse and customizable choices for our character as if we don't already have enough but even more is of course always welcome as well as even more subclasses more races there were certainly quite a few that were cut from the base game so why not add them in there as either free DLC or tying into a storyline I'm sure they could do something with that and I mean I can go on visiting Gail's Tower going to Water Deep a wedding day DLC magical heists from the astral sea to the hells there are many ideas that I would like for bg3 DLC but truly lar and Studio Studios will already have a long list of Epic Adventures that we could embark on next if DLC is coming to bg3 I've only gathered a few suggestions based on the game's final moments with wers but what do you think about the possibility of DLC and what would you like to see next just given the huge colossal success of bg3 that even unpreceded laran Studios expectations with demands higher than ever what do you think laran are going to do especially with the added lines there from with us at the end let me know all of your thoughts down below but of course I'm going to wish you all again a Happy New Year I hope that you're all having a brilliant start to 2024 and of course we'll see you in the next one but until then I have been jackor and I should go 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Published: Wed Jan 03 2024