Larian’s ambitious role-playing game will get a new update very soon. Patch 6 will bring a new class as well as a more than unusual new weapon.
Update October 14, 2021: Today marks the official launch of developer Larian Studios’ biggest update to date. If you want to be there live, you can watch the unveiling of Patch 6 in the livestream.
When and where will it start? The stream will start on October 14, 2021 at 6pm German time. You can watch it either onSteam or onTwitch:
Original message: In a perfect world, Baldur’s Gate 3 would be close to its release by now. Because actually planned the developer studio Larian circa with one year Early Access. But in the meantime, the release has been postponed to 2022. Instead, the Early Access version will continue to be upgraded with new updates.
After players were last rewarded for good role-playing in July with Patch 5, Larian now announced the imminent release of Patch 6. The studio also already gave some first information about the contents. We summarize everything worth knowing in this article.
When will Patch 6 be released?
Larian has not yet announced an exact release date for Patch 6. However, the update should be released in the next few weeks. So far, there has only been the pre-patch announcement. In the case of Update 5, there were exactly two weeks between its announcement and the actual release. Accordingly, a release on October 20 would be conceivable.
How good Baldur’s Gate 3 is in Early Access in general, we have already looked directly at the release and summarized in a video.
What new features does patch 6 bring?
Exact patch notes have not been provided yet. In its announcement, however, the developer studio already announced two innovations that await us in any case. Once you can look forward to a new class and additionally the developers promised a new … Wait, let me read that again … a new salami sword.
- What’s the deal with the class? At the start of Early Access, only six classes were available, the druid came as the seventh class with patch 4.If all the basic classes from DnD 5 are to be included by the finished game, Larian still has to add barbarians, bards, paladins, monks and wizards. Which of them exactly is still open.
- Salami swords, are you serious? Yeah, we didn’t make that up. With Patch 6, players will be able to equip salami sausages as one-handed weapons. This little gag came about after Larian’s big larp event, during the last patch reveal. Here, chat could decide how developers should behave in costumes in certain situations. One decision was to poke an armor with a salami.
How big will the patch be?
Salami swords and a new classes are not all that Update 6 brings. In fact, this will be the biggest patch Baldur’s Gate 3 has ever received. Larian also already warned that you better free some space on your hard drive.
The patch will be a whopping 60 gigabytes in size.
When will there be more details?
In the announcement for the new patch, a new panel From Hell was additionally promised. This is what Larian calls the big live streams where they present the content of their new updates in detail and interact with their viewers in a creative way. The Panel From Hell for Update 6 does not have a date yet. Last time, the panel took place a week after the announcement. So we expect the stream on October 14.
However, the new class will be unveiled earlier. Namely, during EGX 2021, one of the biggest gaming exhibitions in England. The event runs from October 7 to 10 in London.
What happens to the game scores?
Since this is such a major update, older game saves will not be compatible afterwards. If you don’t want to update and prefer to continue your existing game, you can do that as well. However, you will have to play on a different beta branch.
How to switch the version of Baldur’s Gate 3:
- Right-click on Baldur’s Gate 3 in your stems library and select Properties:
- In the next menu navigate to the item Betas.
- Click in the upper field to expand it.
- Here you can now choose the version that is still compatible with your saved games.
Larian also notes that you should deactivate all mods if you want to download Update 6.
