Baldur's Gate 3 News

Baldur's Gate 3 random encounters add an ever-present threat to Faerun

Baldur's Gate 3 is packed with all manner of dangerous encounters, but as you work your way through the lands of Faerûn, you'll slowly start to clear out its paths and leave yourself wandering through comparatively empty zones. If you're someone who likes to backtrack through areas and spend more time exploring, this Baldur's Gate 3 random encounters mod is exactly what you need to keep things spicy.

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One Baldur's Gate 3 sound designer literally learned blacksmithing for the game's metal sounds

It turns out that Baldur's Gate 3's metal clanking sounds are so good because one sound designer literally learned blacksmithing for the game.

Some people go the extra mile when it comes to making their work shine, and it sounds like (pardon the pun) Baldur's Gate 3 sound designer Glen G. Goa is one such person. As spotted by GamesRadar, Goa shared a video showing off them wearing some metal armour attached to their boots, providing an example of the work they did on the game. The description of the video notes that in the recently released RPG, "when you wear shoes with metal on them, we wanted them to have a unique sound layer of metal clanks." I made some sabatons in the forge (I learned blacksmithing) and recorded an hour session of walking on various surfaces with them loosely on."

It's a pretty strong move to just casually drop that you learned blacksmithing, as it isn't the most common of hobbies to take up, especially one that is for the purpose of sound design. But, the proof is in the pudding, as they say, because we all know how great Baldur's Gate 3 looks, plays, and of course, sounds.

Baldur's Gate 3 gets a lot of things right, but perhaps its greatest asset is narrator Amelia Tyler, who serves as your guide and a sort of pseudo dungeon master, explaining your every thought, emotion, and action as you trudge through Faerûn. But now Tyler is bringing a more sinister energy to the Larian Studios RPG, by streaming her very own Dark Urge run alongside her partner and fellow voice actor Jay Britton, who previously provided voices for Larian's Divinity Original Sin 2.

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It turns out good guys can rescue Baldur's Gate 3's evil playthrough companion mod-free by turning her into a sheep and making the sheep stand trial

Drow Paladin Minthara seems like a cool character, even if she placed dead last in PC Gamer's Baldur's gate 3 companion ranking. To recruit her, you have to betray most of act one's questgivers and friendly NPCs to help a bunch of stinky goblins instead, and this route also sees you waving goodbye to companions Karlach, Wyll, Halsin, and possibly Gale...
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One of Baldur's Gate 3's sound designers studied blacksmithing and made a pair of metal shoes just to record armor clanking noises for the game

"In Baldur's Gate 3, when you wear shoes with metal on them, we wanted them to have a unique sound layer of metal clanks," explains one of Baldur's Gate 3's sound designers, Glenn Goa, in a video demonstrating where he sourced the sound effect. "I made some sabatons in the forge (I learned blacksmithing) and recorded an hour session of walking on various surfaces with them loosely on."..
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