Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General EA content updates vs Full Release Schedule!

Hey y’all,

This is not a complaint AT ALL I’m asking from the perspective of someone who has never played a game beta or early access so this experience is completely new to me. Aka I’m asking to educate myself.

Ok, so since I’ve played EA we’ve had one major content update - the Druid class introduction. Doing some simple math in my head, if we look at all the races and classes inPHB, if the full release is based on EA content release then BG3 will fully release in about a million years.

Point being- how does this process work? Is early access purposely confined to a small subset of the game while other parts of the game (aka the plethora of unreleased classes, subclasses, races, etc) are nowhere in sight? Am I understanding that a lot of the game is being worked on/ has been developed already but will purposefully never be in early access?

How an EA works will vary wildly from developer to developer; but broadly speaking, yes there will be content we won't see until release. I'm sure they will want all classes/sub-classes released for testing and feedback, my guess is a new one roughly every 8-10 weeks. Similar for multi-classing and possibly level 5. Races are less of an issue as feedback is less likely to be impactful.

As far as I know they have stated only Act 1 will ever be released early, and there will probably be no significant increase in level cap as a result. Level 5 would make sense as it's a significant power spike in DnD for most classes and there is already enough XP in the EA to reach it.

At the same time there is a lot of work that can go on in the background without necessarily ending up in the EA. Things like an armour dye system, crafting, new armour skins, new face/hair/make-up options, more PC voices, lighting changes, animation tweaks etc etc. Those things are more of a coin toss IMO...