Baldur’s Gate 3’s enormous final content update – which has been undergoing public stress testing for a good few months now on PC – finally has a release date, and is launching for Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC next Tuesday, 15th April.
Patch 8 was unveiled last November, with developer Larian Studios promising some major final additions before it waved goodbye to Baldur’s Gate 3 and moved onto pastures new. These included cross-play, a photo mode, the long-awaited addition of split-screen co-op on Xbox Series S, and most significant of all, new subclasses for each of the game’s 12 existing classes.
It seemed like quite the parting gift, then, but rather than slinging it at fans and calling it a day, Larian announced Patch 8 would initially undergo public testing ahead of a full release so it could “catch things before they [could] become an issue once a patch has been released.”
Testing eventually got underway at the end of January after a bit of a premature start and, following a steady period of finessing, the end is now firmly in sight. Larian confirmed Patch 8’s 15th April arrival in post on social media, noting it’ll be marking the occasion with a special Twitch stream a day later, taking an especially close look at its new subclasses.