Wednesday, August 19th 2020
Baldur's Gate 3 Available in Steam Early Access from September 30th; System Requirements Outed
Larian Studios-developed Baldur's Gate 3, the next installment in the long-running and critically-acclaimed series, will be available in Early Access form starting September 30th. The distribution will be made via Steam, and Larian says that gamers are in for a treat. Baldur's Gate 3 will have a much deeper initial Early Access plethora of features than their previous game, Divinity Original Sin 2. Some numbers comparing both releases, for clarity, are as follows: Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access will feature a total of 80 combat scenarios (22 in D:OSII); some 45,980 lines of dialog (17,600 in D:OSII); a total of 596 interactable characters (142 in D:OSII); and 146 available spells and actions (69 in D:OSII).
The relative length of the available content remains about the same (Larian estimates 20-30 hours of playtime in Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access content, the same as in D:OSII), but Larian says that Baldurs' Gate 3 is infinitely more replayable, with unprecedented player agency. System requirements aren't too high either, at least for an Early Access version of the game; however, Larian is quick to point out that these requirements will only go down - not up - as optimizations are achieved within the games' development. It seems that the engine feature set is already fixed, and that the studio isn't looking to upgrade it until the games' release. Look after the break for the Minimum and Recommended hardware configurations for this latest romp through the world of Dungeons & Dragons.
Minimum:
Source:
TechSpot
The relative length of the available content remains about the same (Larian estimates 20-30 hours of playtime in Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access content, the same as in D:OSII), but Larian says that Baldurs' Gate 3 is infinitely more replayable, with unprecedented player agency. System requirements aren't too high either, at least for an Early Access version of the game; however, Larian is quick to point out that these requirements will only go down - not up - as optimizations are achieved within the games' development. It seems that the engine feature set is already fixed, and that the studio isn't looking to upgrade it until the games' release. Look after the break for the Minimum and Recommended hardware configurations for this latest romp through the world of Dungeons & Dragons.
Minimum:
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor: Intel i5-4690 / AMD FX 4350
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 780 / AMD Radeon R9 280X
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 70 GB available space
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor: Intel i7 4770k / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 1060 6 GB / AMD RX580
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 70 GB available space
17 Comments on Baldur's Gate 3 Available in Steam Early Access from September 30th; System Requirements Outed
You have the full game at the end of the road for less money.
This studio right here, deserves only praise. I'm not going to go into an Early Access for story driven games though, its a complete waste of great first experiences.
So far all is looking extremely well and its clear the studio has a tight and well determined project scope, seeing what they've got at this point, its pretty significant. Its clear they are just iterating on all that was great from DOS. This is how the dev game is meant to be played, bois. Faith in humanity... +10 :)
But I hate early access in general. Seems a lot of game get stuck there and never really finish. I dont wanna spoil the game for myself so I really hope there will be a point when its actually finished and at that point I will play it!
I remember more the frustration I experienced in the 2nd game like...being stun locked during an entire epic fight where only my friend could play.
You would understand better the 2nd game's story after finishing the 1rst.
There are just so many (potentially) good games and so little time...