Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General OMG, say it's not so! Just heard it was confirmed!

There will NOT be an option to create a custom party at launch. Massively Disappointed!

Please don't just throw something out there blindly where did you hear that?

Man’s like Eris and the apple of discord over here

Yes and no? If you absolutely need a full custom character party from minute 1 you could still just create a multiplayer game, fill all 4 slots with other player characters, then assign them all to yourself as the controlling player. If however you can wait until like an hour in when you realistically unlock the guy that lets you get hirelings, just grab 3 of those and boom, you're set. The latter option is actually more sensible because if you were to use just regular companions, that's how long it would take you to have a full party anyway.

uh-huh, and what stops you from creating a LAn multiplayer session with 4 custom members and then playing it alone?

What stops you from starting a multiplayer game, having 4 people play custom characters and then continuing the game privately?

yeah, I don't think this is true.

Personally this doesn't bother me as much since companions with no personality are generally a no-go for me in this type of game.

That said, since they included hirelings anyway, I don't see why they couldn't make them fully customizable. If anything, it would be another excuse to play around with the super-detailed character creator.

Im partialy with OP ...
It is indeed disapointing.

And the reason are exactly Hirelings ...
I mean, you said it yourself people ... we still can use multiplayer workaround ... we will be able to get hirelings possibly very soon ...

So what is purpose of this limit?
Is Larian somehow worried that our Tutorial experience will be so unballanced?
Seems just just like odd decision to me ... they could make many people happy, and qutie easily at the top of that ... and yet they dont, bcs ... well i dont know, thats why its so disapointing. :-/

But yes, hirelings may be acceptable ...
Its like decision between sausages thawed in the sink ... or free BigMac menu ...

But they MAY be acceptable, if they will be fully customizable.
I want my Full Githyanki party ... if Hirelings wont be possible to be all Githyanki, they are useless to me. :-/

"It's not an issue for me so it's not a problem"

I respectfully disagree. If there is a janky way of doing it, why isn't there a proper way of doing it?

On one hand I can't genuinely say I care that much about creating 4 custom character from the get go.

On the other hand, given that is something already possible through fairly convoluted means and it's a popularly requested feature, I can't help but wonder what's preventing Larian from allowing it.
I'm fairly sure it wouldn't be a technically challenging feature.

The cracks are starting to show that Larian is not all that good of a developer and relies on graphichs and shock/meme effects to hide that.

Bit of a stretch innit?

Considering that nearly all infos that are revealed lately have been bad, both from gameplay and story point of view and match Larians previous performance its not that much of a stretch.

Larian can create interesting setpieces but seems to be unable to tie them together into a cohesive whole.
That was already visible in early EA with the weird turns the story took. And the newly announced system continues the trend to have a completely disjointed story because Larian just wants to squeeze another of their ideas in.

That's not what I said even if you paraphrase it. I fully intend to have a custom rogue in my party, I wouldn't mind having it from the start. But I don't need it, you got that part right. I pointed out his intel was faulty, there is a possibility to start the game with a full custom party, "janky" though it is. And there's a fully acceptable alternative if you can stomach not having a full party until roughly how far into the game you would normally get a full party.

Now if the hirelings aren't fully customizable, then sure, feel free to be up in arms. I'll be right there with you. But we don't know that they aren't? They said in the panel there was 1 for each class, but they also said you could have a "full barbarian" party which somewhat contradicts that one restriction.

1) There will be the option to create a custom party at launch.
2) There will not be the option to create a custom party when you immediately start your adventure at launch, you need to find the custom party member/hireling person.

LOL...A true politician...Get a clue bro.

Statement of fact is a politician? How? Anything in the 2 points incorrect?

Additional question to you, did the Owlcat Pathfinder games allow custom parties at launch?

Larian said they would make this a feature. They lied.

Meanwhile everyone that has actually played the game seemingly need a change of underwear.

The game has some issues here and there, some things that I would personally argue could have been done in a better way, some design choices that I can't in all honesty say that I agree with. But there's really not much of a case that it is a "bad game". And while the homebrew detracts a bit from it as a 5E game, it might still be the best game released this year.

The weird multiclass thing isn't great but I'd very much like to see it in action before I believe it. The idea that a sorc 3 / cleric 1 is essentially a sorc 4 / cleric 4 from caster perspective is so completely nuts that I won't quite believe it until I see it. And everything else is minor grievance rather than something actually gamebreaking.

I’m a big fan of playing with fully custom parties in RPGs, and I think this is completely fine. I can start with one main character and then build the rest of my party after an hour. Narratively, it also makes sense to have a primary protagonist and it could also benefit some stuff under the hood.


They lied? Really? Larian said that everything is subject to change as is always the case with game development.

The amount of bootlickers in today gaming world even surprises me.

To say, "creating a "CUSTOM" party will be an option." is cut and dry.

You can mince the words, or put a political spin on it if you wish...but the bottom line is, they spoke a mistruth...

But hey, if you feel better about yourself spinning the words to say, "it's the same thing"....ie what will be available at launch....so be it...

Just don't try to sell me your line of BS...Because I aint buying it.

I'm smart enough to know the difference, and I will not argue with an idiot....because we all know that quote...or do we?