If you long to change your character’s appearance in Baldur’s Gate 3, you’ll get the chance soon enough. Larian’s head of publishing Michael Douse briefly mentioned character editing options as an in-progress feature for the PC game on Twitter after a fan randomly requested it on a completely different thread.
Douse originally posted a comment about using the Thunderwave spell – one of our favorite spells in Baldur’s Gate 3 – to send the Phase Spider matriarch into the abyss, which is a pretty good strategy to end most fights quickly.
“Sir please let me change how i [sic] look in the game. I’m BEGGING!!!!” Twitter user TheTrustedTitan said in response.
Sir please let me change how i look in the game. I'm BEGGING!!!!
— Titan (@TheTrustedTitan) August 14, 2023
“Things are being cooked,” Douse responded, despite having over 160 other, on-topic comments on the post.
Currently, you’re locked into the character appearance you choose on the creation screen, though you can change and even dye their clothes.
When it might happen is still up in the air, though. Studio head Swen Vincke said the team’s priorities now include a fourth hotfix, followed by the first major patch with over 1,000 tweaks and updates. A second patch will go live after that and include some features that fans requested, though none of these have a planned release date yet.
We're all very enthused by your feedback. It's very rewarding. Our focus now is fixing any issues you report, but we are listening to suggestions. Current roadmap: a) Hotfix 4, b) Patch 1 (+1000 fixes and tweaks), c) Patch 2. The latter will already incorporate some requests.
— Swen Vincke @where? (@LarAtLarian) August 15, 2023
Some of those tweaks will presumably include fixes for some of the more prominent issues players are encountering later in the game. In busy areas and the city of Baldur’s Gate itself, for example, the framerate drops substantially. It crashes on occasion, quests are bugged, and Lae’zel has a tendency to eradicate the UI and prevent you from acting until you reload.
It hasn’t stopped people from enjoying the game, though. Baldur’s Gate 3 reached nearly 1 million concurrent players within the first week of its launch, making it one of the most popular single-player games on the platform – and then bested that number a few days later.
Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF
