The next installment in the Baldur’s Gate series is now in development at Larian Studios and will be released sometime shortly. Being based on the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop RPG system, this is the third main installment in the Baldur’s Gate series. Early access to the game launched on October 6, 2020, for Windows, macOS, and the Stadia streaming service. It is anticipated that the game will be in early access until 2023.
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Baldur’s Gate Iii Gameplay
It’s important to note that Baldur’s Gate III is a role-playing game that can be played both with solos and with others. To progress through the game’s story, players can create one or more characters and establish a party with other, AI-controlled characters. Players will have the option of taking one of their characters online and joining forces with other players to form a party. Baldur’s Gate III, like Larian’s prior games Divinity: Original Sin and Divinity: Original Sin II, has turn-based combat based on the D&D 5th Edition rules, rather than the real-time action of the previous games in the series.
Baldur’s Gate Plot
The forces of darkness are on the rise in the year 1492 DR, more than 120 years after the events of Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn and just a few months after the events of Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus. The player-named character has been captured by the invading mind flayers who have declared war on Faerûn. They’ve parasitically implanted the protagonist and a slew of other creatures with illithid tadpoles, which can turn them into mind flayers.
The mind flayers’ nautiloid flying ship is attacked by githyanki soldiers and their red dragons, and the survivors must escape through several realms, including Avernus, the first of the Nine Hells before they can be transformed. During the conflict, our hero escapes captivity and pilots the crippled ship back to Faerûn, where it eventually goes down. The protagonist meets human wizard Gale, half-elf cleric Shadowheart, high-elf vampire rogue Asterion, human warlock Will, and githyanki fighter Lae’zel as they search for a cure for their parasite.
Baldur’s Gate Development
In 1998, BioWare and Black Isle Studios collaborated with Interplay Entertainment to create the first Baldur’s Gate game. The game followed the Forgotten Realms edition of the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) rule set. As a result of its popularity, the developers created follow-ups such as Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn and its expansion, Icewind Dale and its sequel, and Planescape: Torment. After starting development on Baldur’s Gate III: The Black Hound in 2003, Black Isle Studios was shut down by Interplay due to the company’s severe financial difficulties, effectively canceling the game. As of 2008, Atari had taken up Interplay’s D&D video game license. In the future, Atari launched Neverwinter Nights and its sequel, Neverwinter Nights 2. Following their acquisition of TSR, Wizards of the Coast took control of Dungeons & Dragons and has been steadily updating the core rule sets for years. Larian Studios’ next sequel has nothing to do with the scrapped Baldur’s Gate III: The Black Hound.
Different creators were interested in acquiring the rights to use the series’ IP. For at least a decade, developers Brian Fargo and Feargus Urquhart of Obsidian Entertainment have been trying to acquire the IP rights. Fargo founded both Interplay and inXile Entertainment. [5] After the success of Divinity: Original Sin in 2014, Larian Studios approached Wizards of the Coast about developing a new Baldur’s Gate game. Wizards of the Coast decided against granting the company the Baldur’s Gate license since it was still too new to the industry. The sequel, Divinity: Original Sin II, was created by Larian and released in September of 2017.
Wizards of the Coast was so impressed by the game’s pre-release materials that they approached Larian to see whether they were still interested in developing Baldur’s Gate III. Larian accepted, and while finishing off the release phase of Divinity: Original Sin II, a small team got together to create the concept document for the new Baldur’s Gate to pitch to Wizards of the Coast.
The game will be based on the 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons rule set, with certain changes and adjustments made by Larian to make it work better as a video game. It is expected, for instance, that the combat mechanism would be more balanced in favor of the player than in the tabletop version.
The developer Larian Studios announced Baldur’s Gate III’s existence a week before E3 2019. They made the announcement officially during Google’s presentation on the Stadia platform before E3, confirming its release for both Windows and Stadia. Wizards of the Coast published the tabletop adventure Baldur’s Gate: Descent Into Avernus in September 2019, calling it a “prequel” to Baldur’s Gate III. The events of the Descent into Avernus tabletop module are set some 100 years after the events of Baldur’s Gate II, while the events of Baldur’s Gate III are set immediately after the conclusion of the Descent into Avernus adventure. The game was confirmed for release on macOS, Windows, and Stadia by Larian Studios on October 5, 2020.
The initial release date for Baldur’s Gate III’s early access was September 30, 2020.
This date has been pushed out to Sunday, October 6, 2020. The initial release only included the game’s first act, which amounted to about 25 hours of material and a fifth of the game world’s map. There were initially 16 different race options and 6 different class options in the character builder, with more to come in the final version. As development continued toward a final release, patches were released to the early access version to include new features and content, such as multiplayer and other classes. The game’s final release will not be compatible with saved data created during the early access period.
The release date for the full game is set for 2023, but the game will stay in early access until then.
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