It has been exactly one year since we published news that Larian was done with Baldur's Gate 3. You'd be forgiven for forgetting, given that the studio has released one patch and seven hotfixes for the game since then.
But wait, there's more. Yesterday, Larian announced that it's got a third stress test update for everyone currently helping the studio test its upcoming patch 8, which promises to bring 12 new subclasses to the game alongside a whole host of other tweaks and changes.
In Larian's parlance, 'stress test' seems to be a synonym for 'beta'—a way to make sure the patch doesn't break more than it fixes before the studio releases it to the general population, and this third update is a doozy. There are crash fixes, banished bugs, and an alteration that stops Halsin suddenly becoming a set of floating limbs in camp. But the big one for me is a single Honour Mode fix.
"Fixed an Honour Mode issue at High Hall where all party members would die when reaching the top of the stem if anyone in the party was being dominated by an enemy, causing a Game Over," reads the patch note. Oof. For those of you unacquainted, Honour Mode is BG3's Ironman Mode: a trial by fire where everything is harder, you only get one save slot (that self-deletes when you load it, preventing savescumming), and where you lose your shot at its ultimate reward—a set of sparkly golden dice—when you die.
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