Broken Dice Rolls Delay ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Patch 7 Beta
Baldur’s Gate 3‘s Closed Beta for Patch 7 has been delayed, and the culprit is rogue dice who just don’t want to work.
Nothing is more Dungeons & Dragons than not being able to move forward with your plans because the dice aren’t with you. Developer Larian Studios is currently right in the midst of that very lesson.
The Closed Beta for Patch 7, which will introduce official modding tools, updated evil endings, and a whole lot more, was set to begin this week. Only now, Larian Studios has announced a delay. In a post on Steam, the developer cited difficulty with “passive rolls.” But it’s not all bad news. The delay comes with the announcement of new and much-looked-for features. Let’s take a look!
Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 7 – Closed Beta Delays Mean More Feature Highlights
In a post on Steam, Larian announced the delay:
Well, the Patch 7 Closed Beta was set to begin today, but while preparing the build for you, we were once more humbled by the classic lesson taught to every game dev while playing bug-fix whack-a-mole: if you fix one bug over here, another one might still pop up over there.
This happened with one of the fixes we wanted to introduce in Patch 7, which has caused passive rolls to stop working. We’re trying to figure out how we got here, so while we do that, we’ll be pushing the Closed Beta back to later this week
And while the Beta is delayed, that means there’s still time to sign up at the Baldur’s Gate 3 steam page. Larian promises more than 1,000 fixes and improvements in the patch.
So far, we’ve seen glimpses of new evil endings, the modding toolkit, and some party member fixes. But today, Larian previewed a few more. Fans of the challenge of Baldur’s Gate 3 combat will be pleased to know that in Patch 7, you’ll be able to enable the Honour Mode combat mechanics in Custom Mode, so you can have all the new boss abilities without the crushing pressure of Honour Mode.
What does that mean? Here’s a taste, courtesy of Larian.
- If Dror Ragzlin finds himself inside the spider pit, he’ll try his best to befriend the spiders residing there with a new spell called Arachnid Compulsion so they can band together to fight the real enemy – you.
- The Bulette has a new condition called Diamond Scales and a new Legendary Action called Shredding Scales.
- Malus Thorm has a new Legendary Action called Grasping Appendage.
- Added a new aura and spell for Spectators: Panicked Sentinel and Ocular Nightmare, respectively.
- Ch’r’ai Tska’an, the leader of the githyanki ambush in Act II, has a new Legendary Action called Soul Sacrifice.
- Ch’r’ai Har’rak, the githyanki leader at the Knights of the Shield Hideout, has a new Legendary Action called Tu’narath’s Embrace.
- Ptaris has a new Legendary Action called Ptarian Dogma.
