Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Multiplayer Discussion LETS BUILD: Top 10 MULTI-PLAYER Suggestions

Feel free to add more multi-player necessities folks, amazing job thus far!

SUGGESTION: MAKE SPLIT SCREEN A TOGGLE PLAYER CHOICE.

This so much! A game like this needs it, otherwise it's just confusing and it kills the immersion. DOS 1/2 did it perfectly.

Yes, THIS! It's unplayable without the dynamic split-screen.

This. Needs to be dynamic split screen with screen merge in combat and when characters are close together

This is the big one. This absolutely needs to be implemented. As is, local coop is not a very enjoyable experience. And it breaks my heart to say that because I've been nothing but a total fanboy for anything Larian created.

I absolutely LOVE this feedback. My guild Tyrs Paladium has helped game developers over the years make quality-of-life changes that improve game enjoyment and replayability (DDO, Neverwinter and several other official D&D titles). We came to the forums here because we believe in a useful forum and we want to hear from EVERYONE. I find the BG3 community to be excellent all around. So please continue to add feedback like the last three posters have and the ones before them.

Keep 'em comin'!!

SUGGESTION: The ability to add/remove custom characters at will. We have a group of 8 or so who like to play but cannot always be on all nights, it would be great if custom characters could be cycled in and out like the normal NPCs do.

Would be great if multiple players could trade with a vendor at the same time. It’s a bit annoying waiting for the other person to be done before you can sell your stuff.

Absolutely. This is game-breaking for many. This fits within SUGGESTION 4: PARTY LEADER NEEDS COMPLETE CONTROL OVER PARTY CONFIGURATION AT ALL TIMES. IN PARTICULAR, WHEN SOMEONE JOINS A FULL PARTY, THE PARTY LEADER SHOULD HAVE CONTROL OVER WHICH NPC TO REPLACE OR TO DISMISS OR PARK A CHARACTER THAT NO LONGER PLAYS.

Brilliant. Great quality of life suggestion that would assist many.

The overwhelming amount of people talking about the split screen co-op is proof enough it's an issue, but I'm quintupling down on it: dynamic split screen on couch co-op is desperately needed, and the game must needs a combined screen for combat.

Thank you Legislator! Indeed, "quintupling" is allowed in the bylaws (my Realtor mindset is now activated!)

Anyhow, the devs ARE READING and executing! Keep those ideas and opinions flowing PLEASE!

NICE JOB DEVS! Newest update -- The party leader will now have the ability to remove custom characters!

THIS, 100%.

The fact that there are 4-6 threads specifically about this shows how many people are upset by Larian's decision to completely change how it worked PERFECTLY in their Divinity games.

Please include vastly improving the ps5 local multiplayer performance. It's basically unplayable ATM (lots of people in on these forums have said they had to stop or are asking for refunds). The 10-40s freeze lag whenever you switch characters, change turns in battle is unbearable. It makes you take minutes just to get set up. Summoning and transforming takes almost a minute of freeze per spell far into act 1 because of the issue...it's the number 1 priority for ps5 multiplayer for sure.

I really just want them to fix the exploits to start, especially in the multiclass system. Outside of that I love this list, but I have resigned myself to us probably not seeing DM mode.

I also understand that the Wardrobe doesn't work quite as I would have liked. You can't store multiple player-made characters - or at least not more than the 3 people can make - I need to test it more. Ideally it would act as a system that allowed you to sub people in with their own characters, but you should be able to access them and pull items off them. It would be fun to play a game multiplayer on the Larian discord where you just tell people where you are, they make a toon and jump in and then they can outfit themselves from what's in the group chest and join you.

I posted this in the other thread but putting it here too in case it helps. Something that has seemed to work for me - I disabled the tutorial tooltips from the options menu and now I’m noticing very minimal lag when switching characters. Still lags when performing summons but it’s MUCH better. Worth trying for anyone experiencing performance issues.

My group shares the same issues with multiplayer and dialogue #3, #6, & #10. A lot of the time, friends just do not realize there's chatting going on; the ear icon is so tiny and on the edge of the window that it's easy to miss when attention is focused at the center of the screen. We are constantly streaming in Discord to ensure each other is following along, but some of the story is still missed.

Just last night, one member of our group missed the Bugbear and Ogre barn scene, which sucks. The character was in proximity but from their perspective, the rest of the group we just idling outside the door.