Larian Studios has said that it plans to support Baldur’s Gate 3 PC and console cross-play in the future.
The feature will enable players onPC,PS5andXbox(if the Series X/S version has been released) to play together online.
“It was always in the planning, but we knew it wouldn’t be for launch,”Larian‘s director of publishing, Michael Douse, toldEurogamer. “It’s in the roadmap, and though we have an idea of when we’d like to get it ready for, we don’t want to put a date on it until we’re sure.”
Baldur’s Gate 3currently features cross-save compatibility between platforms, enabling PC and PS5 players to carry their progress with them wherever they play. To use the feature, players are required to log into a Larian account, but aPlayStationPlus subscription or additional purchase isn’t necessary.
Following Baldur’s Gate 3’scritically acclaimed PC release last month, the PS5 version launched on Wednesday asthe console’s highest-rated game to date, according to aggregation sitesMetacriticandOpenCritic, with the caveat that only a relatively small number of reviews have been published so far.
A delayedXbox version of Baldur’s Gate 3 will arrive later this yearafter split-screen co-op was removed as a feature on Series S.
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In a recent interview withIGN, Larian senior product manager Tom Butler said the studio isdiscussing the possibility of expanding Baldur’s Gate 3with DLC, but that its current focus is on releasing the console version and improving the base game.
“We’ll carry on patching for a while and then we’re all going to take a holiday and then we’ll figure out what we do next,” he said. “But at the moment, we genuinely have discussions. We want to do more. We don’t know what yet.”
