Although the game can be modified from Larian Studios already, soon the situation will improve even more.
Baldur’s Gate 3 can be considered a huge success. Even the Belgian team’s expectations far exceeded the Dungeons & Dragons-based IP BioWare was launching: Larian CEO Swen Vincke admitted he’d be flattered if the number of people playing simultaneously on Steam reached a hundred thousand. On Sunday, more than eight times that amount came together on Valve’s front. In his interview with PCGamer, Vincke talked about plans to support the game: so far, they do not plan to compile some kind of add-on for the game, because this entails many challenges that will not be an easy task for them either.
“For level 12-20 adventures, the opponents (who must be defeated) must be handled differently. They require a lot of development to get them just right, which in terms of development efforts would be much more than just scaling. Many D&D adventures are below level 12 For this very reason.So this looks like neat and easy expansion items until you start to think about it, and it’s not as easy as you might think.
I know what we want to do and the team knows where we are going. We’ll see where this goes. I’ve learned in the past that you have to be careful about announcing things before they’re ready because sometimes you have to cancel them because they don’t work. We could be working on a Baldur’s Gate 3 expansion and it could be boring and we should stop working on it because if we kept working on something that was boring we would have to sell it to you guys and then we would have to say ‘this is boring and we want you to buy it’. That wouldn’t be good. So we need the freedom to experiment and do our own thing. And when we’re ready to announce it, we’ll announce it,” Fink said.
We also wrote earlier that Larian wanted a smaller project after Baldur’s Gate 3, and the add-on would fit that idea. The PlayStation 5 port will be released on September 6, and the interview mentioned that Baldur’s Gate 3 will become “significantly more modifiable” after the PS5 release, so they could plan to release the full modding toolbox by then.
Although there are already interesting ideas: for example, Tactician Plus from Feriat111 makes Larian more difficult …
source: WCCFTech
