A hotfix limiting mod use in Baldur’s Gate 3 is on its solution to the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Collection X variations of the sport, developer Larian Studios introduced on Nov. 14. However the studio says it’s all within the title of “forestall[ing] instability, lowered efficiency, and crashes.”
The upcoming patch, which has but to obtain a launch date, will limit the variety of mods Baldur’s Gate 3 console gamers can allow to round 100, a Larian spokesperson instructed todaysviralmedia. Saves with greater than 100 mods on the time the hotfix drops can be rendered briefly unplayable till a follow-up restores entry. That mentioned, returning to the sport saves in query will nonetheless require uninstalling mods to fulfill the brand new limits.
This isn’t the primary time Baldur’s Gate 3 on consoles needed to make distinctive concessions not discovered on PC. The massively standard role-playing sport was pseudo-console unique to PlayStation 5 for 3 months, not as a result of Sony had made any kind of cope with Larian however as a result of Microsoft’s required function parity between video games on Xbox Collection X and Xbox Collection S was retaining it off the previous whereas the builders struggled to get split-screen co-op engaged on the latter. Microsoft ultimately relented and allowed Baldur’s Gate 3 on Xbox Collection S with out it.
Whereas the mod state of affairs is clearly a bummer, mod assist on consoles continues to be comparatively unusual. Be at liberty to maintain making Baldur’s Gate 3 your personal, however have some restraint. PlayStation and Xbox nonetheless have a protracted solution to go in the direction of providing the identical quantity of freedom as PCs.