Baldur's Gate 3 News

Baldur's Gate 3's "hidden" mind flayer skill tree sounds equally cool and gross

Four years ago, Baldur's Gate 3 was announced with a trailer that showed how a human could succumb to the small illithid tadpole stuck inside his noggin, thus becoming a mind flayer. The process begins with excruciating headaches, escalates to fingers twisting by themselves, and culminates with an octopus head spouting out of the body. That gross transformation is what you’re (maybe) trying to avoid at the start of Baldur’s Gate 3, but developer Larian Studios have now explained how the parasites "tie into" its RPG systems. Yep, you can choose to either embrace or resist the tempting corruption, with the former giving you some pretty cool party tricks, while the latter means you won’t be subjected to David Cronenberg-esque body horror. Tough decision, I think.

Baldur's Gate 3 is almost upon us in all of its Dungeons & Dragons glory, as the release date set for the RPG game arrives later this week. Larian Studios has been hard at work perfecting Baldur's Gate 3 and its coming features, preparing the game for its flight out of the early access nest it has been within for years now. The developers have released community updates detailing the release version's contents, with one posted today in which Larian Studios went more in-depth on the parasitic mind flayers and their in-game role.

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Baldur's Gate 3 is a 122GB download and you can't preload any of it

Baldur's Gate 3 is going to be a very big game—in the neighborhood of 122GB, according to Larian—and it brings me no pleasure to inform you that you will not be able to preload any of it in advance of the August 3 release date...
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Baldur's Gate 3 has a 'hidden skill tree' for Illithid powers

The central premise of Baldur's Gate 3 is pretty straightforward: You have an illithid tadpole in your head and you want it out. But what if you decide that you don't actually want that at all—that what you really want is even more mind flayer madness? The Baldur's Gate 3 Steam page states plainly that players can "embrace corruption and become ultimate evil" if that's what they're into, and today Larian finally got around to explaining more about how that's going to work...
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Baldur's Gate 3 can't set the standard for RPG games, Larian says

Baldur's Gate 3 is the talk of the town, in turn spawning debates about whether Larian's project will set a new standard for RPG games, and with the Baldur's Gate 3 release date closing in director Swen Vincke has addressed these discussions in an interview. Whatever your feelings towards Baldur's Gate 3, we're within touching distance right now, and that's exciting.