Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Missing Profiles Option

Game title screen/start menu is missing Profiles option (after patch 9), I hope this is a bug and "not" a removal of a UI feature that I loved. Having a single save folder for all games is an absolute disaster, totally hate this if it was intended.

Seconded

I wondered if this was something to do with the fact that saves are now grouped by character, which I think is helpful. But they do all seem to be being dumped in one Public profile folder. If we're going to lose the ability to create different profiles then I'd at least like to see different folders for different characters. Though I did like the ability to apply different mods to different profiles, and it would be a pity to lose that.

I believe they got rid of profiles because now they made it so saves are character based, rather than profile based. Quality of life in my opinion.

Plus for me, disaster to remove the Profiles option.
Can no longer use different settings for single-player / multi-player
Can no longer test various mods without messing up other playthroughs

etc.

Found this in the "Known issues and General Troubleshooting suggestions" thread:

Patch 9 uses a single 'Public' profile for saves, grouping the saves by the player character, and can not switch to any profiles used by earlier patch versions.

Even here I can just wonder how you will save by player character when going multi-player.
Sorry to say, but I think Larian just made an awful mess off saving / profiling etc. with no good reason whatsoever.

All of the above, plus one more thing, my partner occasionally plays and the lack of profiles means one central save location... profiles also enabled me to save via rp or just dps builds.

As stated before, all off the above and furthermore I forgot to mention the fact that I cannot use different key-bindings anymore.
Need that for mouse on left or right side off my keyboard.

Getting worse.....
All autosaves are numbered across all used characters.
ie. Tav1 gets Autosave_0 , 1, 2.
Tav2 gets 3, 4 ,5

Guess what happens when maximum autosaves is reached....
Yup, Tav1 will be overwritten.

So Larian can name " You can now delete save files by playthrough." as a highlight, but you really don't have to bother. The saves will be deleted for you.