Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Is there a chance party size will be increased or are we stuck with 4 ?

Ok, if you want to force our hand: then I pick SIX.

Plus a revamped control scheme, which doesn't hurt.
And it can't really get any worse.

As someone who played EA almost exclusively with a party of 8, up until the patches became a problem, literally the only issue I had was the ridiculous hoops of starting a bogus multi-player game and save game editing that it required to get there. Once the game started, it was loads of fun with constant party interaction.

All I want is an easy way to mod party size up front. That’s it. No impact to anyone else’s game. And for the uninitiated party size is literally a single integer database entry. Not rocket science folks. This will not bust the games budget.

This is exactly it for me too: an *easy* way to increase my party size. If it has to be a mod, I still need for it to be a very easy process to add and activate the mod in my game. The reason I hate having to mod my games is that I am not very modding-savvy and don't want to have to jump through hoops to add a mod to my game.

for me as well, I can mod just fine, but having to use some janky method of starting 3 different clients up on the lowest graphics setting, make different characters on each of them, get them all in a party, combine that with having to worry about patches breaking everything, it's just not worth it for me right now.

As for the "BUT THE BALANCE" crew, who cares, just make a simple "this game is balanced around a party of four people, if you choose to enable more characters, the balance will be broken" box, and let modders worry about making the game harder if people want it. Difficulty settings "break" the balance anyways.

I already mentioned it elsewhere and (in a summarized form) in the past pages of this thread, but at this point in time more than any VANE hope that Larian could support the feature in any form, my main concern is about Larian removing the arbitrary stopgaps.

- The first boat travel in the Underdark instantly killing-and-removing-from-your-party any extra character above 4, for instance (something you can somewhat work around by removing these characters manually before and then regrouping them)
- The inventory window getting wider than the screen (and with a scrollbar on the bottom) BUT not supporting the mousewheel to scroll the window more conveniently.
- The default formation being freaking awful, with your characters positioning in an unnecessarily widespread triangular setup.

Etc, etc.

Even Larian people when they stated the intent to settle for 4 characters before the EA started (and as usually giving some pretty terrible reasons for it) cheerfully added that "modders will be able to add more if they want". Well, what about not making these modders' job way harder that it has any need to be, then?

There is a mega thread on party size at https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=672266&page=108.

Resurrecting old threads is fine here rather than creating new ones on the same topic, but in this case let’s keep discussion to the mega thread.

I’d also recommend avoiding responding to specific months old messages. It’s best to start a new conversation rather than try to continue an old one, given the original participants may no longer be active here.

Locking this thread now to avoid further discussion here, though of course if folk want to talk about party size (again ) they are welcome to do so on the linked mega thread.