Patch 4 Datamined! | Baldur's Gate 3 Datamining

hello my name's chublot but because we're friends you can call me chablot larian dropped the latest patch a while back introducing a whole host of changes far too many to go over individually the biggest inclusion was of course badgers and the people that turn into badges i guess but as with every major patch since the game entered early access there's a considerable amount of content that was changed on the sly in fact some of larian's changes to the game files made data mining quite a bit more difficult but adopting my best bear grylls mindset i drank 12 liters of my own urine and figured out how to modify visual assets those events are absolutely related don't at me now hypothetically this means i could strip certain characters of their clothing or spend hours creating several different color profiles for the githyanki half plate so i can play as the githyanki rangers but that would be a huge waste of time and with great power comes great responsibility so now the novelty of running around as the cast of homeward down 3 direct to dvd has worn off slightly let's talk about what else there is a true friend of nature or perhaps a lunatic i know i've let myself down this video will contain data mined content and spoilers first i quickly want to address something said during the panel from hell 2 that has confused a few people batch 4 is going to be the last really big batch some people have taken this to mean there won't be any more major content updates even though they did then explain i mean a big download so yes there's still content coming larrion were referring to both back end changes like how they pushed the updates to steam and how the game is stored on your system [Music] they split the huge texture and virtual texture files into smaller parts this is useful in the event an update only involves the textures stored in one of the multiple pack files rather than having you download and replace the whole 30 gigabyte file you now only need to redownload one of the considerably smaller part files they've also significantly reduced the size of the game my install went from over 80 gigabytes to around 60. overall an excellent change for most people before we get to the juicier bits just a heads up that i've stripped out what i consider to be explicit story spoilers and they've all been relegated to a section near the end of the video you'll get another warning just before we hit that section let's begin as we did last time with the models there were quite a few new models and monster entries added including this katana when i posted this on twitter where you can sometimes see early data mining tidbits some people asked if it was the sword depicted in will's key art and i'm not sure he does look good with it though two of the more interesting armor sets added to the game are the baldur's gate watch armor in metal and leather flavors as the name implies these are the uniforms worn by the watch a police force whose members are normally stationed in the upper city which is the wealthier part of baldur's gate several of the monsters added to the game with patch 4 don't have models yet so i'm a bit wary of showing them all off i'd like to just focus on a small handful of the ones i found more interesting like this spider which is actually intended to be a dryder drieders are the answer to the question what does an emo centaur look like 50 drow 50 spider and 100 pure edge plant type enemies are coming to the game in the form of blights with entries for both needle and vine blights existing blights are plants that are tainted by evil their presence in this game will presumably be linked to the shadow cursed plant life mentioned in the game files and perhaps the most obscure one the vampire squid and its two tentacles one of which is a wolf for some reason as far as i can tell vampire squids are from way back in 2nd edition d d and they don't seem to have appeared much since i had to dig up this dragon magazine entry from 1996 when dinosaurs roamed the earth their beings created by and under the control of mind flayers and they're normally found in the waters of the underdark it's pretty cool that larren are bringing some ancient monsters to the forefront again we also have a few entries for important characters like grand duke alder ravenguard who as of act 1 has been kidnapped and transported to moonrise towers according to floric drow have taken grand duke older raven guard westward [Music] and the gift queen herself now has a model and unique armor i still think mine is better keep in mind that while the face body and armor are all directly from the game files i had to select the skin hair and eye color as well as the hairstyle this isn't necessarily the proper version of lacketh but i'd say it's a pretty close approximation now we still can't be sure if the real vlakketh will be making an appearance in the game laissel tells you that her dream person takes the form of her queen it was blackith that came to me my own queen so there is a chance this model will only appear if you play lazelle as your origin character speaking of player controlled characters something a lot of people have asked about are the different sized models for character creation i did show them off a bit back during patch 3 but they were prone to excessive nudity now however i can clothe them there's quite a variety of clothing available and gameplay is smooth for the most part the biggest issue with the large models right now is the camera it really doesn't know what to do and just sort of embeds itself in the floor during some cutscenes but this is a clear sign of progress on the topic of body sizes larian have also included a model they've labeled as corpulent which is a nice way of saying fat is that your sandwich not anymore i have a sneaking suspicion that this isn't intended as a selectable body type though it's just one textureless blob while most models consist of separate assets for the head and the body now when i floated my carlac as a barbarian theory in my previous video one thing a lot of people seem to agree on is that if carlac were to be a barbarian she'd need a bigger model and guess what larian did even half finished i love this model yes this is intended to be carlac well the face and body shape at least wait where have i seen this progression before she's currently lacking a tail and spines which are things you'd expect from a tiefling but for most of the average sized races larian just uses a variation of the basic human model so i assume that stuff is being added later i've not found any hairstyles for her yet but she does have this very detailed facial scarring which totally fits her backstory i'd actually feel a little let down if she'd emerged from tearing her way through demons in a vernis without some sort of visible damage they've also addressed the one horned issue kind of the horns don't currently fit carlax model they're rigged at the height of an average male tiefling meaning they end up lodged firmly in her eye sockets one more step and i'll put a bolt through your eye ironic so here's an idea of how they look gotta say if we don't end up getting romanceable daddy halsen mama carlack is the one i'll be inviting to homecoming and i don't even know what homecoming is after those tasty additions we have to come back down to earth a little and talk about what we lost i did my best to make it clear in my racial tag video that there was every chance the additional race tags did not mean that those races would ever be officially added to the game things in the files may change they may have already changed by the time you see this video and with patch 4 larian have stripped out a lot of the tags related to the extra races in fact it's going to be easier for me to tell you what we have left the only ones that weren't removed are gnomes dwergar deep gnomes dragonborn and half hawks i think it's fair to assume the removal of the tags is a good indicator of what they're planning it's clear that they're trying to avoid ending up in development hell yeah we had actually big discussions about the dinosaur because nick wanted to put the dinosaur in and i had to put my foot down and say we one day we would like to ship this game so if dinosaurs had to be shelved for the sake of development time it wouldn't be a surprise at all if the more exotic races ended up on the same shelf but it's not all bad news maybe larian's removal of the extra race tags was just the removal of the tags all the logic surrounding those tags is still in the game and if you pull a sneaky little maneuver you can still get them to trigger for example the bestial tag will still trigger unique dialogue instinct if only i'd been so blessed the blade was not born so much as made it has many things a hatchery a training grounds a shelter this is not a nest or haunt any place of comfort even the line referencing a war forged player character is still exactly where it was revel in the sensation the flesh has so much to offer so who knows classes are so difficult to predict based on data mining so i'm not even going to hazard a guess at which class will be added next there was a change to how the game handles both the cleric and the paladin tags though take my paladin of glitter gold as an example i know he doesn't look like much of a paladin his character sheet doesn't even display the basic paladin tag it is still there though just invisible i think this is beyond most people larian decided to stop both the paladin and cleric tags alongside their alignment tags from appearing on your character sheet however if i add a god tag to my gnome then boom he's a paladin it's easy he's beautiful it works the same way for clerics although it's weirder for shadowheart she starts with the invisible cleric tag but no longer has the cleric of shah tag and she doesn't get those unique responses save your breath they're too dead to hear you this was probably done to help her keep that very well kept secret that nobody could ever figure out after she outs herself as a scharontologist i worship shaw the mistress of the night she's granted the tag and all the edgy dialogue options that she could wish for hard to forget idiots like these oh and yeah carlax still has the paladin tag it's just invisible now so likely still a paladin don't gather as much in this final section i'm going to be dealing with all of the things i felt were far too close to being story spoilers if you aren't interested in that type of spoiler thank you so much for watching but it might be best if you click away now first let's check back in on the currently inaccessible duergar camp this is the location you're supposed to end up in after you board the boat in the underdark the main storyline is the same as before blast this rubble to the fugue plane we can finish the stone skulls in the confusion as are the side quests leave the rocks there don't let the bad things out structurally though a lot has changed the collision detection in this area is very broken you can walk through walls there are invisible stairs you can straight up levitate things inside the walls won't stop exploding and if you try and move the camera towards the exit you get flashbangs still good to see work is progressing you're under arrest in addition to the models and objects i've already mentioned there were a few more spoilery ones while a lot of the content surrounding the night song was removed including her voice lines and other characters voice lines relating to encountering her in her statue form the stone was warm to the touch energy radiated from the statue calling to the surrounding shadows embrace the night song and be sworn to eternal shadow i did find a new entry for her heart which you can eat pretty grim the evil moon elf chosen of shah ketherik thorm also has a visual asset entry though he doesn't look much like his statues his apparent daughter isabelle got an entry as well one interesting thing to note larian made a point of mentioning in the patch notes that they removed reference to house in coma daddy killing isabel they've also added certain configuration files that seem designed to handle some broad aspects of scene direction three characters with visual entries are mentioned by these files two mysterious and one nostalgic the mysterious characters are called orin and gortash they look extremely unfinished and i know absolutely nothing about them the nostalgic character though that's kind of a big deal it's likely no surprise to anyone interested in datamined content that there are very strong indications that one of the upcoming origin companions is a returning character a hamster i'm afraid the armory is fresh out of attack rodents but it looks like we'll be meeting another old friend jahira like minsk was a companion in the original games she's a half elf and a powerful druid which likely explains how she can look so good 100 years on while i'm not completely sure which role jahira will be playing in the game it doesn't seem as though she'll be a companion when you reach the shadow cursed lands a file is supposed to play that makes halsen leave camp while telling you to meet him at an inn and jahira is supposed to be found in an area the game calls haven specifically at an inn it looks like there's going to be some sort of argument between helsin and jahira relating to the character isabel which results in jahira leaving i don't know what happens after that but it's a pretty cute call back that they have you meet your hero at an inn it is imperative that you make your way to the friendly arm inn there you will meet khalid and jahira just to quickly clarify what i'm showing you are the actual visual assets allocated for these characters in the game files but it does seem likely that at least some will be receiving updates especially in the face area since right now they're just character creation assets but do you know what isn't a character creation asset this rejected pokemon design it's a holly fant and the reason i didn't mention it earlier is because it's potentially a major spoiler holly fans aren't the sort of creature you just stumble across in your backyard yeah they're celestial beings that normally reside in the upper plains they look like tiny flying elephants that can transform into giant war mastodons and they have a pretty broken aura that prevents any spell at fifth level or lower coming from outside that aura from hurting them [Music] but those familiar with the descent into a werner's story are likely aware of a famous holly fant called and i'm not making this up lulu lulu was a friend of zarya's from before she became the ruler of avernus and an amnesiac lulu can play an important role in helping the player party during descent into avernus now while i can't really confirm that this is intended to be lulu we do already have some very strong links to the descent like zevlor's refugees karlak's personal connection to zariel and the tutorial taking place in avernus it just doesn't feel like that much of a stretch also look how tiny she is companion stories are clearly being worked on as well if you've ever wondered why laezel seems pretty cool with shadow hart playing with a stolen gift relic wonder no more there's an unimplemented scene where laizel confronts shadowhart about the relic and i could only get it to sort of work by forcing the scene to take place between gail and gail there's no voice acting but basically they square up to one another and then during the night shadowheart straight up tries to murder laizel then tav chimes in you can try to convince them to let the mata rest with a persuasion check a really really tough persuasion check like yeah my dwarf has 12 charisma but having to roll a 19 or above that's tough even when i set my charisma to 30 i still needed to roll a 10 or more to smooth things over and if you fail that role there is no way to prevent bloodshed you have to choose that's right you lose laser you choose one of them to get rid of it's your choice whichever whichever one of the two at first i thought this was really harsh but now i feel like it kind of works the animosity between the two of them is intense from the word go no point in showing a mad dog kindness it'll still bite you in the end you have a sharp tongue elf would that your mind proved its equal you [ __ ] killed her dude so it makes sense it'd be difficult to get them to work together if you decide to play the scene as one of the participants though laizelle in this case not only do you get voice acting i could have just buried this dagger in your throat i still could then no more lazel to stick her metaphorical nose in my affairs but it's much easier to defuse the situation if i knew you weren't a threat to me to my mission then perhaps we could make peace so can you let the mata drop or should i put you back to sleep permanently and since we're talking about shadow heart a lot of people have noticed that patch 4 added an item on the nautiloid called a pod key you'd be forgiven for missing it though because it doesn't highlight currently it does nothing doesn't do anything but since there's a terminal next to shadowheart's pod and dialogue options that refer to you looking around for a way to free her hurry please you may have come to the conclusion that you should be able to rescue her while still on the ship and that's a conclusion that i think is correct among the voice lines added for patch 4 are several that seem to be shadow heart variations of lazel's lines during the tutorial keep going get to the transponder we also got lines added for shadow heart that seemed to support an often mentioned theory about her life before the memory wipe the moon maiden smiles upon me seluna's light touches all seluna arm me with your silver light there are other things that support the theory like a cleric of seluna who apparently knows who shadow heart is but i don't want to delve too deeply into that theory in this video because it already feels like this video is taking me way too long to do last but not least is my name is starring i'm tiny i'm below average i'm quite short really aren't i okay maybe least there was a campsite scene added where astarian is struggling to figure out what exactly the scar on his back says line with a fork and one two three dots the player can offer to help either by passing an arcana check or by just being a tiefling you run your eyes over the runes hacked into his flesh and recognize an all too familiar language infernal it's the language of the hells the scar is written in infernal which is a language tieflings are considered fluent in infernal i who knows the player can determine that the scar is not as historian was told a poem it's not a poem that can't be good it's part of an infernal pact between casador and a devil the lines describe oaths and the fires below but the language is fragmented and strange this is just a piece of a larger text historian apparently didn't know about this but he has a theory as to where the rest of the pact could be i wasn't his only spawn so it's possible there are others with scars like these right now we don't know what the pact is for and astarian can't even help us out because he's never seen casador hanging around with any devils casador was only figuratively hellish there were never any devils hanging about the crypt so we'll have to wait and see when it comes to what historian's body is being um used for i guess would be the right term no wonder he wants me back what have i run off with and with that it's time to thank you for watching so thank you everyone that stuck around despite two months of nothing for watching i i cannot explain to you how much i appreciate your support and your understanding and your patience with me and i cannot apologize enough for how long this video has taken anyway bye go get yankee rangers

Channel: Chubblot

Views: 89,705

Rating: 4.9407496 out of 5

Keywords: chubblot, baldur's gate 3, bg3, baldurs gate, dnd, dungeons and dragons, larian, datamining, spoilers, rpg, halsin, karlach, astarion, shadowheart, vlaakith, lae'zel

Id: 8xZhtM4NZb0

Length: 21min 23sec (1283 seconds)

Published: Tue May 04 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/Chubblot]

Oh hey, I know that guy!

... Can't believe I forgot to post this here. Thanks for the catch op <3

[u/That_Border]

Damn, even half-finished, Karlach already looks awesome. Shadowheart just got some serious competition...

[u/GKP22]

I won’t lie, I really liked Karlach and the placehold model currently in the game. I don’t mind the new model, but I got so used to her current look it’s going to be strange to see her look so different.

[u/yog-sothoth666]

Halsin is great, but can we talk about SH trying to off Lae'zel? (not sure if this needs spoiler tags)

I was wondering if they're going to include something akin to Virmire dilemma in the game and there it is. I mean, it's obvious there's a conflict going on and one of them was bound to blow sooner or later, but that's brutal, I don't want to lose either of them. I guess the "choose 3 guys and the rest go off and die" thing is happening after all.

[u/shinelikethesun90]

The updates to Karlach are everything I could have hoped for. 😳

[u/salmon_samurai]

Party Spoilers ahead.

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Alright, so if we're going off the video and *this* is the way Larian has us commit to our party, with varying people arguing and having to pick a side, I'm not necessarily against it. I still don't like it, make no mistake; this isn't DoS where we can respec and have complete control over a class and its abilities, but if it's woven in narratively like this, I can give it a pass. A begrudging pass, but a pass. Even if I think it's lame that you have to pass such a high speech check for it not to happen, because at that point it's one of those "We don't actually want you to pass this" checks.

[u/HarbsNarbs1]

This video is amazing! Well done Chubblot, I didn't think it was possible but you've actually out done yourself... incredible editing and massively well worth the wait.

About 6 months ago someone posted their own translation of Astarion's scars: https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/jfnymv/spoilers_so_i_transcribed_and_analyzed_cazadors/

[u/lenor8]

I want more of SH and Lae's squabbling.

[u/JbtheG]

Halsin has been hiding a gym and loads of protein somewhere in the grove.