Baldur's Gate 3 mod update will be Larian's 'final delivery' to players

Baldur's Gate 3next mod support update, which Introduces official modding tools to the sprawling Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. later this year, it will effectively serve as Larian's swan song for his work on the game.

That's the perspective of the developers' CEO Swen Vincke, who told the audience during a BAFTA event chronicling the demanding development of Baldur's Gate 3, which spanned several years before and during early access, that opening the game to players to modify it (albeit with some limitations due to use of the D&D license) represented “the point at which we're going to say, 'Okay, now it's completely yours.'” (Thank you, eurogamer.)

Vincke clarified that the update will not mean that Larian will leave the game for good just yet, confirming that they will continue to fix critical bugs, but will see “the level of support decrease” rather than continuing with its current level of focus, which Vincke described as “ work as if the game had just come out.”

When asked if he was waiting for the “final moment of delivery” as Baldur's Gate 3 approaches the one-year anniversary of its release in early August, and almost four years since it first entered early access in October 2020, Vincke expressed his excitement to watch. in the studio's next projects, which – if you haven't seen it already – will not involve Baldur's Gate in any way.

“We are working on our novelty, we are very excited about the new games,” said Vincke. “We are also creative spirits; we don't want to keep doing the same thing, we really want to move forward and do new things.”

Working in at least two new games will be an expanded team that will include a new study in Poland, and Larian said earlier this year that they will focus on developing their own original worlds after spending six years in D&D's Forgotten Realms. As they bid farewell to Baldur's Gate, the developers said their new games would be “fueled by the same fire” as their widely acclaimed and a highly successful role-playing game. Hope they do get to early access the same wayalso.

“I don't know if we're going to make it, but looking at our narrative, visual and gameplay plans, I think what we're working on now will be the best work we've done so far,” Vincke said at the time. “Yes, it's an exaggeration, but it's an exaggeration because it really looks and feels good.”