Baldur's Gate 3 News

Baldur's Gate 3 streamer's very honourable honour mode run ends with the "perfect" tragic defeat

If you feel bad about some of the embarrassing or painful deaths your party has suffered in Baldur's Gate 3, it’s well worth checking out how one poor streamer’s attempt to complete an honour mode playthrough as honourably as possible ended. Tragically is the answer, in case you’re wondering.

For the uninitiated, BG3’s honour mode, added to the game late last year, is designed to provide a hardcore challenge for those who just aren’t satisfied by difficulty levels that don’t feel a bit like shoving your nose into a toaster’s bread slot and turning it on. There’s permadeath, a bunch of other stuff with bad vibes, and - up until recently - the threat of getting permanently stuck if you left your hammer at home.

Yet, that’s not enough tough stuff for some players, with streamer WolfheartFPS (thanks, GamesRadar) having decided to add some extra rules and turn an honour mode run into something even more honourable. Naturally, their reward was a tragic death while battling the Netherbrain that made Baldur’s Gate 3 director Swen Vincke declare “that was perfect” like a proud dad.

Baldur's Gate 3 director and Larian CEO Swen Vincke says all distribution platforms switching to paid subscription models will see the discoverability of new games become "savage." Vincke also champions the notion that "content will always be king," adding that it'll become harder to see good content if every platform relies on the subscription model.

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Despite our fears, the 'future of gaming’ probably won't be dominated by services like PS+ and Game Pass

There’s been a lot of chatter recently with regards to subscription services and their potential to eventually become the dominant force model-wise in the games industry. However, it looks like the current data on offer doesn’t indicate that a dystopian future like that coming to fruition is anything like a foregone conclusion.

In case you’re out of the loop, Ubisoft’s director of subscriptions Philippe Tremblay kicked off a bit of a discourse by suggesting in an interview with GiBiz earlier this week that players need to get more comfortable with the idea of not owning their games in a traditional fashion in order for subscriptions continue growing at the same rate they have been so far. As you might expect, a lot of people aren’t fans of the idea of those services becoming the only way games are served to players and getting to dictate what kinds of games get made.

However, it looks like the current data and forecasts games industry analysts are seeing doesn’t really support the idea of the gaming space being subjected to total subscription service domination any time soon.

Глава Larian Studios Свен Винке прокомментировал слова директора по подпискам Ubisoft о потенциале для их роста в индустрии. Как считает автор хитовой Baldur's Gate 3 (наш обзор), если подписочная модель станет доминирующей в индустрии, разработчикам будет сложнее выпускать хороший контент.

Baldur's Gate 3's latest hotfix makes Gale less cranky when he doesn't get his way

Baldur's Gate 3 companion Gale may be "the Sword Coast's biggest wife guy," but he's also apparently a bit of a touchy sort who will permanently leave your party if you don't cough up magic items when he asks for one. Not cool! Also not intentional, as it turns out, as the latest Baldur's Gate 3 hotfix prevents him from doing so—unless you want him to...
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