Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 players divided over romance being \u201cnerfed\u201d in latest update Larian StudiosBaldur\u2019s Gate 3 players have been left divided after the recent patch nerfs romance and companions\u2019 advances. Since its arrival out of Early Access in September, Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 has received tons of hotfixes and large patches, with the aim of making the game much more enjoyable for players, removing all those tricky bugs, and even adding in new elements. However, all the changes made to Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 aren\u2019t going to be popular among the community, with certain elements being removed or nerfed. One such nerf is romance, which serves to reduce the speed and intensity of the companions\u2019 advances \u2013 but it\u2019s not a change everyone wants. Some Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 players upset as update \u201cnerfed romance\u201d Sharing their frustrations on Reddit, one user explained how the \u201cStupid patch [is] de-hornying everybody\u201d and that their second playthrough isn\u2019t allowing them to romance their companions as easily or quickly. Many other players felt the same frustrations, explaining how \u201cThis new patch fix really has ruined my second play through, not only is the romance nerfed but none of [the] companions react or give s**t about anything happening\u201d perhaps hinting to a larger change than many realized. \u201cPatch 3 really was a rough one, man\u201d stated one Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 player. Explaining how, despite having a high approval, players were shot down by companions. However, others gave an alternative perspective as to why this change was made: \u201cLast patch they nerfed romance. Reasoning was that people were complaining they were constantly getting hit on. Need higher approval now, they won\u2019t say they want to taste the sweat dripping off your muscles anymore when they have a neutral or negative opinion of you. Need that high approval rating.\u201d Such a change is certainly a nerf, but it\u2019s also arguably more natural for many players. Interestingly, some players suggested other ways Larian could reach the approval of all players, explaining how they \u201cwish there were obvious flirty dialogue options that would trigger romance routes instead of approval making them want to jump my bones. Like I\u2019m just being friendly guys.\u201d Others suggested adding a \u201clibido slider. Let us adjust how rampagingly horny our companions are.\u201d It seems, in both real life and video games, romance is a hotly contested topic that\u2019s never as easy as it seems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 players divided over romance being \u201cnerfed\u201d in latest update Larian StudiosBaldur\u2019s Gate 3 players have been left divided after the recent patch nerfs romance and companions\u2019 advances. Since its arrival out of Early Access in September, Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 has received tons of hotfixes and large patches, with the aim of making […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}