I'm just guessing, but I'm thinking that Patch 7 will be the last update before the game leaves Early Access, and that if they do decide to release more levels, it will be through that update.
I'm not sure if you're being very optimistic (you think it will be a relatively short time until full release) or very pessimistic (you think we'll only get 1 more patch in the next ~16 months).
I'm being pessimistic and basing my guess on Original Sin I&II.
Original Sin was in Early Access for half a year, and Original Sin II was in Early Access for a year, so I figured that Baldur's Gate III might be released around April, 2022, with an improved version being released in 2023.
But in a recent interview Swen basically confirmed full release wouldn't be until 2023.
So it's more likely that we'll get ~3-4 additional patches before full release. Maybe one in January-March, one in late summer/early fall 2022, and then a final one in early 2023. Hopefully one of them will have level 5.
I'm just guessing, but I'm thinking that Patch 7 will be the last update before the game leaves Early Access
Not according to the recent
interview. There will be a longer break then usual before patch 7 arrive, but there are to be multiple further updates after:
It [patch7] will take several months for sure. We're doing this balancing act where we're releasing these updates, but we're also trying to finish the game. And every single update is like release because you have to really tie up and polish everything, and it interferes with release. So it'll certainly be several months.
It's not that it's going to be the last update that we're going to be doing - no, there will be actually multiple updates still coming - but don't expect one next month or in a couple of months. It will take us a little bit of time before we're going to be able to actually do the next update where there's going to be a whole bunch of stuff.
I hope that's true.
There's a lot of improvements that the game would be worse without, and a lot of testing that probably can't be done without multiclassing and the other classes and levels, since some spells, actions and features aren't available right now.
