Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General So Custom Party question

Having gone thru the game and completed it with the amazing companions that Larian created for us to use, is there still going to be an "official" way to do a custom party of all 4 created characters or is that not a thing anymore? Would like to go it again with a group of customs even if I miss out on some of the side quests that are offered. I know the workarounds to try and get it done and all, but I thought that was something that was going to be official supported at some point, or am I misremembering?

Unfortunately, Larian had a different idea what custom party is. Technically hirelings do let you play with a custom party in terms of classes, but that’s not what people want.

Furthermore, the last hotfix broke the unofficial method, and that is no longer available. All you can do is make two custom characters with split screen co-op if you have two controllers.

Larian has said that they are listening to feedback, and will be implementing many requested features in an upcoming patch. Hopefully 4 custom characters from the start is one of these things. They did eventually add this to DOS2, so chances are pretty good.

Ok got ya...thanks for the reply. Hopefully upcoming then!

I would so love custom party. (I feel like I'm approaching spam levels with how often I've said it, so I should probably stop doing that.)

If Larian is adding it, great! I would very much love if they tied them into the story, though. I've also mentioned several ideas in other threads, but I think I've settled on my dream approach now. During character creation, you have a screen that gives you the option of adding 0-3 custom characters. If you select 0, you are done. If you select 1, you have a character screen that basically tells you "this is an ally who will join you at the start of the adventure." That way you leave open all the character slots you need for Lae'zel and Shadowheart on the nautiloid. If you select 2, then your second character screen would tell you "this is an ally who is looking for you and will eventually find you in camp" then have them show up when you take a long rest (during any long rest that doesn't have some other event take place). And if you select 3, then your third character screen would tell you "this is an ally who is currently dead but you can resurrect" then have Withers show up with a dead body and add a dialog option to say "who is this" with a response "This is a potential ally. Resurrecting them is a matter of coin;" if you resurrect them, they can join your party. If you aren't the Dark Urge, they could make the 3rd custom character the Dark Urge, too. "This a murderer who could be a potential ally, but you must be careful." The first ally could be tadpoled, but the second and third would not be. It's more immersive that way.

Edit: And get rid of vessels. Nobody wants them anyway.

Question:
"Multiplayer" workaround is not working anymore ... or am i doing something wrong?

Try to do it with steam disconected. Open your bin file with steam (or wathever you use) disconected and try to open the game in multiple windows. It worked for me a week ago, after the hotfix that broke the unofficiall method. I even managed to make a party of five characters using a mod XD.
Hope Larian implement custom party creator though.

If it was a thing in DOS2, I don't get how Larian thought their implementation of hirelings in this game was fine.

Players want to customise everything on their party characters, race, background, appearance, name. Even for companions, backgrounds and starting stat bonuses shouldn't be locked.

I hope this get added at some point

This is also my number one hope for the game, as I would dearly love to do a full custom party run.