Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General 4 Character Party Limit Too Small?

Not to beat a dead horse, but I was making a half-assed attempt at a new playthrough with the release of Patch 8 and I found myself thinking about the party limit again.


For something that Larian was absolutely adamant in not conceding, with the excuse that they would "leave it up as an option to modders". I have to say that they almost went out of their way to make the experience miserable for the player.

Let's put aside for a second the atrocious default control system and the baffling lack of "drag to select", the game is RIDDEN of "bottlenecks" where activating a larger party brings game-stopping bugs.

The usual boat in the Underdark is a notorious one, but now the modders confirmed that the long rest bug that could eventually brick your save is caused by having a party limit above 4. Even using the party expansion mod available on mod.io you'll have disable/ungroup the extra companions every time you rest to avoid technical issues.