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The long-requested feature will let you alter appearance-based aspects like hair and makeup, but you can’t change the race or body type. 6q5hi

Written by Rahul Chettiyar, Edited by Richa Sharma | Updated: 22 September 2023 19:32 IST

Baldur’s Gate 3 ‘Big’ Third Patch Finally Lets You Change Appearance

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Performance improvements for Act 3 are also expected in the patch

Highlights

Baldur’s Gate 3’s Patch #3 adds an interactive Magic Mirror to the camp
Origin characters like Astarion, Shadowheart’s looks can’t be changed
Patch 3 — out late Friday (IST) — also brings Mac

ment

Larian Studios decided to take an extra day for ‘thorough testing.'

The Magic Mirror won't let you entirely change your Tav, preventing you from altering their race and body type, which makes sense given how much it affects relationships with other NPCs and general world interactions. That said, anything that's appearance-based — hair, makeup, voice, pronouns, and such — can be changed whenever you like. Previously, you were stuck using whatever looks you picked at the start, with no way of fixing it once your Baldur's Gate 3 journey began. This also means that if you created a short character, you will continue to remain as such till the end — or unless you start a new run. It doesn't seem like using the mirror requires that you exchange some form of currency either, which is nice.

Baldur's Gate 3 Review

With Patch 3 comes the Magic Mirror, which lives in your camp and allows you to change your Tav's appearance whenever you'd like!

💄 Change appearance, voice, pronouns
🧝‍♀️ Race & body type can't be changed
🪞 Can't alter Origins — they're all *very* particular about their hair pic.twitter.com/fZo4LOOCLO
— Larian Studios (@larianstudios) September 21, 2023

Larian added that one cannot alter Origin characters such as Karlach, Shadowheart, Gael, and the ilk. “...they're all very particular about their hair,” the tweet reads, as a joking remark for Astarion the vampire spawn. Patch #3 is also 1,500+ lines of dialogue were disabled due to a bug. The team also added an alternate ending to the cheerful Tiefling Karlach's arc, and there are also plans to expand the ending eventually.

As the PC to console and vice versa — albeit only the last five save files would be synced. We can assume that Baldur's Gate 3's Mac version will be getting the same treatment. Plans for cross-play are also in the pipeline which should help players on different systems be able to engage in online co-op adventures together.

Baldur's Gate 3 is out now on PC and PS5, while the sometime later this year.

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Baldur's Gate III 2m5145

REVIEW
KEY SPECS
NEWS

Good
Deeply thought-out writing
Highly reactive world
In-depth character customisation
Charming characters; stellar voice acting
Combat that rewards creativity
Flexible navigation around the map
Stunning cinematics
No microtransactions or always-online requirement

Bad
Performance issues in Act 3

Read detailed Larian Studios Baldur's Gate III review

Genre RPG

Platform PlayStation 5 (PS5), PC: Windows, PC: macOS

Modes Single-player, Multiplayer

Series Baldur's Gate

PEGI Rating 18+

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