One Baldur’s Gate 3 participant has already unlocked Larian Studios’ full developer toolkit which means modders can now create totally customized content material and campaigns within the Dungeons & Dragons primarily based role-playing sport.
GamesRadar noticed the BG3 Toolkit Unlocked mod from Siegfre on NexusMods, which “unlocks all options and write permissions for the BG3 Toolkit together with degree enhancing, save enhancing, and extra.”
The BG3 Toolkit arrived alongside Baldur’s Gate 3’s extremely anticipated Patch 7 and acts as an official modding software for the beloved sport, letting gamers pull belongings already made by Larian and create customized content material with them.
However the BG3 Toolkit Unlocked mod takes this one step additional, primarily breaking via the pre-approved record of options and granting gamers full entry to Baldur’s Gate 3. Larian did not intend on gamers having entry to this a lot, as CEO Swen Vincke informed PC Gamer in March 2024 that Baldur’s Gate 3’s mod assist would not be as in depth because the one launched for Larian’s earlier sport, Divinity: Authentic Sin 2.
This was as a result of its “instruments are very sophisticated” so Larian as a substitute centered on issues it knew gamers needed to mod. “Not all instruments are going to be shipped, as a result of we would not give you the chance to assist them,” Vincke mentioned.
Solely time will inform what gamers do with each the official mod assist and now the unofficial unlocked model. Baldur’s Gate 3 captured the eye of followers to such an extent that it is nonetheless an everyday subject of dialog one 12 months later, regardless of it being a predominantly single-player sport with no expansions.
Gamers are already exhausting at work too, as Vincke revealed on X/Twitter greater than 1,000,000 mods had been put in inside 24 hours of the Toolkit’s launch. The founding father of ModDB replied later that day to reveal the quantity had crossed three million and was “accelerating.”
Patch 7 added far more than simply official mod assist although, together with an “completely steel” ending for Karlach and a hidden evil ending too. Gamers will even be relieved to hear that it isn’t the ultimate Baldur’s Gate 3 patch in spite of everything.
In our 10/10 evaluation of the sport, IGN mentioned: “With crunchy, tactical RPG fight, a memorable story with advanced characters, extremely polished cinematic presentation, and a world that all the time rewards exploration and creativity, Baldur’s Gate 3 is the brand new high-water mark for CRPGs.”
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll discuss The Witcher all day.