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Interview with Larian Studios unveils update for Baldur’s Gate 3 coming soon to Stadia

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This morning, Larian Studios held their Panel From Hell 2 live stream and revealed a new playable class and other content updates arriving in an expansive update coming soon. Available now in Early Access on the Stadia store, Baldur’s Gate 3 is an expansive RPG set in the world of Dungeons & Dragons, giving players unprecedented freedom to explore, experiment, and interact with a world that reacts to your choices.

Don’t worry if you missed today’s live stream - we chatted with Kieron Kelly, Product Manager at Larian Studios to get all of the details about this new content update for players to explore.

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We've been looking forward to the Panel From Hell 2 livestream for a while! Can you tell us what your team at Larian revealed today for Baldur's Gate 3?

We revealed Nature’s Power, which is our latest update for Baldur’s Gate 3 and the biggest patch we’ve ever worked on! In Nature’s Power we reveal the Druid class, the latest addition to your role-playing experience in Baldur’s Gate 3. 

But it’s not just about the Druid! The update also includes more polished cinematics, a host of quality of life improvements and additions to UI, a large list of community requested fixes, and much more. 

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Why is the new Druid class so exciting for players?

Druids are incredibly versatile party members, taking powerful elements from the Cleric and Wizard classes and combining them to be a great caster. They can support their party with healing and controlling magic, or call on nature’s wrath to bring a destructive wildfire to destroy your enemies. What’s more, they have great utility with Wild Shape, an ability where they can transform into different animals like wolves, cats, spiders, or bears.

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 What are some interesting ways that players might use the Wild Shape ability in-game?

Wild Shape offers a huge amount of utility to the Druid. Changing into dangerous animals like a large wolf or spider can be useful for fighting - but the Druid’s Wild Shape also provides excellent utility outside of combat. Use a bird form to fly to a hard to reach location, adapting yourself for a possible traversal challenge. Change into a cat to remain inconspicuous even while spotted by guards, increasing your ability to succeed while stealthing. Don’t have an ability to speak with animals? No problem - just Wild Shape into your polar bear form and have a conversation with a bear guarding the Druids Grove!

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This update is just one of many that has come to Baldur's Gate 3 in Early Access on Stadia. How has the community response been to the game since its initial launch?

The community has been wonderful in these opening months to Baldur’s Gate 3’s Early Access. There’s already a huge amount of time invested into the game by many of our players, and feedback and ideas are consistently streaming in.

In this update alone, there’s a big list of community-requested changes that we’ve made to the game. While there’s plenty of minor bug fixes, there are some important elements that are a direct result of player feedback. For instance, players can now select enemies and friends for their spell effects and attacks using the in-game UI portraits, rather than selecting the character model in-game. This makes spell targeting much easier in more complex battles. Most importantly, we’ve made sure to fix the banana that looks like a citrus. Every detail matters!

This just highlights how important Early Access is to us as developers, keeping a constant dialogue open with our players and improving the game based on a huge amount of player feedback. It’ll make for a Baldur’s Gate 3 we can all be proud of when the game is finished!

We're all looking forward to getting our hands on the new Druid class - when can we expect to play it on Stadia?

It’s been incredibly exciting to share this preview of the Druid class and other new content today, and we’re working hard to bring the Nature’s Power update to the Stadia community. It’s coming soon to players - we’ll share more info on specific timing when available.

Of note, the amount of changes within the Nature’s Power update will invalidate previous saves, similar to previous updates to Baldur’s Gate 3 while in Early Access. As a result, saves prior to the release of the Nature’s Power update will be removed once the new content arrives on Stadia.

Baldur’s Gate 3 is now available in Early Access on the Stadia store for $59.99 USD or €59.99.

Keep your eyes on Stadia’s Twitter and Facebook for more news on upcoming games and other up-to-the-second announcements.

 

18 Comments
SirHandsomeJack
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

DRUIDS!

RXShorty
Platinum Stadia Guide
Platinum Stadia Guide

Very sweet! Played this game for a while ago... Noticed I wanted to wait a bit longer.
Keep them comming!

SQUiDzzz
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Can't wait to go bear form 

DaddyRim
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

When is "Ark:survival evolved" coming to stadia?

DirtyPenguin
Founder
Founder

@DaddyRim ttalk to the developers of Ark, they make that decision not Google

Kagey
Founder
Founder

Flight is gonna be interesting... Wonder how devs are handling that. My guess is you still have to traverse the normally pathed areas, just higher up, as opposed to free flight anywhere.

N0N1337H41
Founder
Founder

I’ll be playing everything Larian releases until I die. I got hooked hard when Divine Divinity dropped and I’ve been in love ever since. I’m so happy that they’re doing BG3!

 

@MaxMarshall : As much as our political views seem to align, this really isn’t the place to fight that battle. Also, what you’re referring to essentially boils down to Alphabet Inc. deciding to pay News Corp. for viewed articles and stop paying legal fees and fighting massive endless lawsuits by News Corp. (Something else to consider: Alphabet Inc. companies are generally doing very questionable/abhorrent things to our global culture and our future as well, you just have to dig a bit harder to find it.)

Marc2000
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

What about other games from Larian Studio ? I whould like to se Divinity Orginal Sin 2

Noizemancer
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Can't wait for the final release of this game, after that it will be a secure buy for me

Chufu
Platinum Stadia Guide
Platinum Stadia Guide

Niiiiice a druid that can turn into a badger :beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Time to have a look into the game again, even though it annoys me that previous saves are never working... well Early access.

Shipman
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@StadiaTeam not spending a PENNY until Google/Stadia give reassurance service will remain for at least the next 12 months or you clarify what’ll happen if service is pulled.

 

I’d love to see your sales figures right now :grinning_face_with_sweat:

DirtyPenguin
Founder
Founder

@Shipman they did that when it launched, or even before, it was posted somewhere that even if Stadia died the servers would be left to run paid purchases, it's been well over a year so I'm not sure where I read that but I do remember it, and there is no sign on the horizon that Stadia is going anywhere. As a pro subscriber I've had zero issues, none of my pro games have vanished and my purchased games have run pretty smoothly on my internet, rdr2, cp2077, ac valhalla, pga2k21 all great so far

Whito
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@Shipman 

We are already in the part where Stadia is off and in maintenance mode.

  • SGAE was in charge of everything and is no longer there.
  • No more Ubisoft games, Jade Raymond is gone.
  • No more Bethesda games, now at Microsoft.

That's 80% of the great Stadia games.

Games like Moto GP 21 don't make it to Stadia.

Games like Sekiro don't get discounts on Stadia. Madden is empty, Fifa will be empty.

Only short-term scheduled games arrive.

Once the year ends, the closing of the platform will be announced.

The technology can already be replicated.

Nobody is buying anything.

Shipman
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@Whito agreed, or at least they shouldn’t be.

 

Stadias ignorance and failure to tackle these questions head on has made this a self-fulfilling prophecy.

 

I guess we’ll all be buying the Amazon equivalent soon enough.  I don’t want to give Amazon more money but at least I know they’ll manage it right.

silentwolf32
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@Whito you are making misinformartion.

How SG&E was in charge of everything? Did Google said that once? 

How Ubisoft games release were related to Jade Raymond?

Sekiro was discounted on launch and during Christmas.

The problems with Bethesda can be said for all platforms not Xbox

I guess i'm a nobody because i've bought AC valhalla yesterday :expressionless_face:

 

Whito
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

December 10 Cyberpunk ----->> March 17 FIFA  ----->> who knows....

themacvictor
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I am planning to play it on my TV.

With previous larian games i had severe issues with font size.

Does someone plays on TV ? Is the font resizable/increasable in any way ?


Thanks.

Dunder
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Final release date?

Do you have a plan for a final release date?