Baldur's Gate 3 PS5 - 14 Things You Need To Know Before You Buy

foreign [Music] after weeks of hype and glowing praise for the PC version Baldur's Gate 3 finally comes to PlayStation 5 on September 6th larion studios's epic role-playing game is six years in the making with over 174 hours of cinematics and a script roughly 2 million words long and more what should console players Expect When jumping in especially with Early Access going Live this week here are 14 things to keep in mind classes races and multi-classing when creating a character there's an absurd amount of choice for selecting your class subclass race Etc there are 12 classes from Paladin and Ranger to Barbarian and monk with 46 total subclasses including gloomstalker oath of Vengeance Berserker and more you also have 11 different races in 31 sub-races each with benefits and unique traits like dark vision that can influence a playthrough if that weren't enough multi-classing allows mixing and matching classes in different ways to create absurdly powerful builds spells actions and more Baldur's Gate 3 offers over 600 spells and actions which is crazy when you toss up casting magic into the mix thanks to the level cap of 12 you gain access to disintegrate Circle of Death I bite globe of invulnerability and more such powerful spells you can further customize characters with Feats like alert for more initiative and a total lack of surprise which is a good thing when ambushed and actor for an increase to Charisma exploration inspiration points and goals exploration is a pretty big part of the game as you encounter new characters and quests while adventuring it always pays to go off the beaten path especially since you gain XP for simply uncovering new parts of the map however completing background goals is also encouraged these are objectives associated with your background like defeating a strong enemy with a single attack as a soldier which provides inspiration points inspiration points are good for skill checks allowing you to retry if you fail and potentially obtain a different outcome Target 60 frames per second on PS5 for all its Brilliance Baldur's Gate 3 has its share of performance issues on PC especially in act 3 larion Studios is working on addressing the same but the PS5 version will at least Target 60 frames per second out of the gate per a Playstation blog post from June there are no details on the resolution or file size on PS5 but be expected to occupy a significant amount of installation space controller support though there's some concern over playing such a massive role-playing game on a controller the implementation is handled quite well on PC character movement feels better since you directly move a character instead of pointing and clicking oddly enough it even has some Superior features like sorting items by value and weight when trading with an NPC man selling from everyone's inventories instead of clicking through each manually the only trade-off is that item and party management feel like more work so hopefully the PS5 version will address some of this how combat works if you never played a Dungeons and dragon Style game before don't worry combat and Baldur's Gate 3 is turn-based but characters with higher initiative get to go first an invisible die determines whether an attack succeeds or misses how much damage it deals if it lands and whether the target can mitigate or avoid incoming attacks there are critical misses which always fail and critical hits which always land and result in more damage you have a set amount of movement and along with regular actions you can take bonus actions including jumping to cross greater distances there are other factors like proficiencies advantages disadvantages and much more to account for but you can still get by through understanding the basics choices and consequences Dungeons and Dragons by its very nature is driven by decisions and the ensuing consequences Baldur's Gate 3 is no different and the outcome may not always be what you expect depending on who you side with who you decide to spare or kill who you help and the dialogue chosen different things may occur and they steer the story in all kinds of directions so before reloading from a previous save consider letting the story play out freedom of choice Baldur's Gate 3 isn't a Sandbox Title by any stretch of the imagination but it offers an insane degree of Freedom when a pickpocket someone and sell their Wares for some quick coin drop a piece of the environment on an enemy to get the drop on them speak to corpses to glean information or shape-shift into different characters the game allows for all of that and then some even in combat you can shove enemies throw weapons or Allies at them and much more Split Screen Co-op of course another appeal to playing Baldur's Gate 3 is the co-op with up to four players teaming up to cause chaos the PS5 version supports local split screen so each can go their separate ways and potentially hinder each other inventories and inspiration points are shared though you can lock the former if you don't want a party member taking your items all PC updates the PC version has seen several updates since its launch including four hotfixes and a major patch with over a thousand fixes the good news is that all of this will be available when the PS5 version launches patch 2 is also on the way with improvements for performance and fixing a bug that prevented about 1500 lines of dialogue for a particular companion cross save with cross save you can take your progress on PC and carry it over to PS5 and vice versa if you want to play local Split Screen Co-op on the console but use an existing character you should be able to do that a new feature is also in the works that allows for removing Co-op players from a campaign hopefully this means you can bring a character over play with a friend in split screen and then dip out to continue your campaign on PC time will tell Early Access purchasing the digital deluxe edition will provide 96 hours of early access to the PS5 version allowing you to jump in on September 2nd oddly enough the PlayStation store listing previously indicated 72 hours of Early Access for act 1 only but it's been updated the preload should be live at the time of writing which should help with the large install size playtime before release larion Studios touted that Baldur's Gate 3 would take about 75 to 100 hours to complete switch could go up to 200 hours for a completionist playthrough how long to beat estimates about 186 hours based on how leisurely you are but it's important to remember that this doesn't Encompass all of the content in the game depending on your class decisions and more you can have a different experience with unique cinematics characters and endings multiple endings speaking of which there are multiple endings to unlock based on your choices while 17 000 variations was thrown about before the PC versions launch it's important to note that this applies to the epilogue as you see the effects of different decisions think of it as a way to see how your overall Journey Turned Down For Better or Worse don't go expecting 17 000 different endings and that brings us to the end of the video a quick request we upload new videos every single day and if you like what we're doing please consider subscribing it really really helps us out also don't forget to enable all notifications by clicking the Bell icon so that you can receive daily video updates thanks for watching

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Published: Thu Aug 31 2023