Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Five companions would be great

We got so many classes here it would be great to have five compaions.

I am okay with 3 and would not be upset with 4. To have 5 companions I think they would need for the game to be in hard mode all the time or up the general difficulty across the board.

More companions with you would be great. Not just for combat but for story purposes also. I always feel awkward picking up one party member to go talk to just one npc and then going and dropping them back off for another. Four would be more my thing, 3 for story and 1 you just always want to be there, but five could be fun for multiplayer or if you wanted one of those guys you hire in there too.

People cryuing that "Story mode is too hard" goes to show that there's no making everyone happy in any case, when it comes to difficulty.

I'm already using the "Party limits be gone" mod, anyway, which luckily doesn't even lock achievements, so having a native and officially supported option would be nice in principle but make little difference at this point.

That said, holy shit if I'm not missing some option for "formation control" on the other hand.

I'd like an extra companion slot just for story reasons, always juggling party not for mechanics but for quests

Finished my first run with a 6 man party on normal difficulty and the game balance felt fine to me. Honestly those extra 2 party members weren't even much of a factor when a hasted Karlach was starting almost every battle with 2 frags anyway.

Really baffling that we don't have this option natively. Could even add a disclaimer like "the game is balanced for 4 man parties, don't use this if you care about that" etc.

I care more about adventuring with my pals compared to having balance in this single player game. Obviously not the case for everyone but they can always play the game as intended.

Because with a 6 party members Larian would be obliged to make party group orgies a thing in cRPG video games.

The bane of RPG compagnions you always have to leave somone behind and it doens't make it better when the characters voice how unhappy they are with your choice. They could at least say they will do some other useful or minding their own buisness in the meanwhile. Even if it is only to not make you feel bad, right Garrus, are you going back to your calibrations. And when you have a game with 5 compagnions joining you they usually give you still more characters, just that you never will be able to travel with all your compagnions at the same time. Truly evil rpg developers, the hours I spent just to hear some more banter or comments from them.

That aside. What really looks strange, when you have a conversation in camp adressing all or concerning more characters this only ever involves your current party like the rest of the camp doesn't exist.

We have a huge megathread on these forums about party size that's been going since early access and to which folk are free to contribute further: https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=672266&gonew=1.

I'll therefore lock this thread to try to cut down on duplicate discussions.