Another Baldur's Gate 3 Patch, Another 1,000+ Fixes on PS5

@Max_the_German No game is bug free. Even GoW:R and TOTK had and have bugs. LOD pops, hitching, clipping, collision issues, physics issues, you can find them if you know what you're looking at and you're looking hard enough.

God of War also had a few patches for bugs and new content and features post launch. Post launch is included in the dev cycle nowadays to encourage people to buy the game later, keep playing, or play the game again.

With BG3 day one, it was still a full experience. They've just added more things because post launch is a core part of Larian's dev cycle, they will compile these fixes, enhancements, and added features into a Definitive Edition of some sort as they have for their previous games, and even those games will have some sort of post launch support. That's how modern dev cycles work nowadays.

@Max_the_German BG3's metacritic is a 96. That's is not a half baked product. Sure you can choose how you want to release a game, and whether or not to offer post launch support, but why would any studio not want to offer that? Even TTK has that with updates and DLC.

I work in QA, it is a very long and thorough process. Some bugs are not even present on our equipment the way they are on some of the end user's equipment. This is due to the sheer amount of people getting to play verses the very limited amount of QA Functional and Requirements testers that are testing the game.

There are also deadlines and end user expectations. Delaying due to the game being a little buggy just wouldn't make any sense. Even a two week delay is a big financial hit, as you have to play your employees, and not only that, but it can cause more stress and more potential for burnout in the organization which will lead to a worse products. Delays to meet an arbitrary standard by some random people online just don't make any sense when you can ship a game that is up to Publishing's or the studio's quality standards.

And when you look at analytics, these games are released in a "great" state. Most of these bugs the typical end user wouldn't run into. They're either bugs a few people ran into, or bugs picked up by more extensive QA testing during the post launch cycle.

@figboot It is meant to be like that. It's a CRPG so it's a top down perspective for most everything but exploration. Being able to move in third person with a controller is very unusual for genre, and on PC on mouse and keyboard you can't even do that, it's all top down and you point and click where you want to like the genre standard.

That's like asking for an FPS to fix not being able to go into third person. It's by design, not baffling at all.

As for inventory the game already gives you all the tools to organize your inventory. You can go back to camp whenever you want, even when you're overencumbered and have chests there for each type of item you have, or even put them into bags to organize them... What else could you possibly want? It's an RPG with a lot of items, and the game will already let you sort them by type? So really not seeing how inventory is bad or even obtuse in any way.

@Max_the_German I agree, and I am glad my insight is appreciated. You are very welcome.

The types of bugs you are talking about are very high priority, and get fixed fast. There aren't going to be too many of them out in the wild if any, but sometimes things happen and it is very important for the end user to call that out so it can be fixed ASAP!

In BG3, I encountered 1 bug that kinda locked me out of, not an ending, but a possible resolution to a quest due to doing things out of sequence. QA didn't account for me not wanting to commit to something, and then coming back later! I could still finish the quest, and get the "same" resolution but I had to lie to an NPC and tell them their family was still alive lmao. Which in and of itself, is amazing, I think, that is even considered.

@Fiendish-Beaver This is exactly why early access is good for games sometimes. You can play the game in a unfinished state and follow the development, you're not obligated to submit bug reports, but if something bad happens you will probably talk about it and the devs will take notice once more and more people start talking about it.

A game like this, with so many different outcomes for so many quests....oh man. It'd be so fun to be QA for this game.

Like I said in the comment above, bugs that lock out a resolution to something might not even lock it out entirely because of the bevy of systems in place to utilize.

One other "bug", but more like a quirk of the game's systems is an NPC having me protect them while they do something, them finishing, and me still having wall of fire up. To which they walked into it, went hostile, turned into a zombie, walked back through the fire, and then died.

Gotta remember to unconcentrate those spells... Classic D&D DM trap right there. That'll teach ya to leave walls of fire everywhere, you think I'm made of wall of fire tiles?