New Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch Improves Kissing
Baldur’s Gate 3 may have won Game Of The Year (both at The Game Awards and here at GameSpot), but that doesn’t mean developer Larian Studios is finished refining its award-winning RPG. Ever the perfectionists, Larian devs recently announced that an upcoming patch will improve one of the game’s many romance features: kissing.
Larian has taken the game’s more amorous moments seriously from the beginning, with Patch 5 including a fix that “improved the lip contact when kissing Minthara in the endgame for large male humans and female dragonborns.” So what do players have to look forward to when locking lips after the upcoming patch?
Love is in the air in Faerûn, and we’ve made improvements to locking lips with your romantic partner!
Releasing next week, Patch 6 includes improved smooches, new camp idle animations, new Legendary Actions in Honour Mode, and plenty of bug fixes 🛠️ pic.twitter.com/z0tgqaMaQF
— Baldur’s Gate 3 (@baldursgate3) February 9, 2024
Unfortunately, it’s hard to say–the tweet announcing the patch only mentioned “improved smooches,” but it’s hard to imagine what that might mean given the fact that this is far from the first time Larian has put the aforementioned smooches under the microscope. Over the past few months, the studio addressed issues that caused players with short characters to have trouble kissing their in-game beaus, and devs recently fixed an Astarion-specific bug that saw the vampire spawn grab the player-character by the hips and proceed to passionately smooch the air just above their head. The issue first arose after Astarion and the other companions were each given new, unique kissing animations, so it’s hard to imagine what other kissing-related improvements Larian might has in store for players.