Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 reveals that the most popular character is also the deadliest Larian StudiosAn infographic of stats for Baldur\u2019s Gate 3\u2019s first weekend shows Gale is the most popular Origin character \u2013 and also a dangerous companion to have around. Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 has only been out for a week, but Larian Studios already has a massive critical and commercial success on its hands. To celebrate, Larian Studios has released a detailed infographic that puts Baldur\u2019s Gate 3\u2019s opening weekend into numbers. While there\u2019s plenty of interesting information here, such as the most and least popular classes and races and the fact that players have already put over 1,225 years worth of hours into the game, perhaps the most fascinating tidbit is that the most popular Origin character is also responsible for quite a few player deaths. Gale is Baldur\u2019s Gate 3\u2019s most popular Origin character \u2013 and a leading cause of death According to Larian, 93% of players chose to create their own character, with the Dark Urge Origin counted among them. Gale was the most popular Origin character among the remaining 7%, with over 27,000 players selecting him. Karlach and Astarion are a bit behind with around 22,000 each, while Lae\u2019zel is the least popular at a little under 12,000 players choosing her. Interestingly, Gale is also the 7th most common cause of player death. While no specifics are given, Larian jokes that \u201cyou only have yourselves to blame for being so flammable.\u201d That, combined with a later stat revealing 12% of player deaths were caused by friendly fire, makes it safe to assume the wizard\u2019s area-of-effect spells are to blame. The graphic doesn\u2019t reveal exactly how many players have been victimized by Gale \u2013 or the body counts of any other companions. Still, the fact that Larian felt the need to call him out here indicates that intra-party killing isn\u2019t as much of an issue with other characters. The rest of the information Larian shared is also interesting. Paladin is currently Baldur\u2019s Gate 3\u2019s most popular class by a decent margin, followed by Sorcerer and Warlock. The least popular class by quite a bit is Cleric, with the rest pretty evenly distributed. As for race, half-elf, human, and elf are easily the top three. Githyanki is the least popular, closely followed by the halfling. With the exception of the Dragonborn (which is at #4), it appears the more humanoid races are the most popular, while smaller and more monstrous options are chosen less frequently. Of course, these numbers are just from the very first weekend, meaning things could have changed already. Larian noted that it expects more players will pick up the Origin characters after completing the game with their custom ones, which was the case with Divinity: Original Sin 2. As more players get their hands on the game with next month\u2019s release on PlayStation and existing ones start new playthroughs, it will certainly be interesting to see how things change \u2013 or stay the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 reveals that the most popular character is also the deadliest Larian StudiosAn infographic of stats for Baldur\u2019s Gate 3\u2019s first weekend shows Gale is the most popular Origin character \u2013 and also a dangerous companion to have around. Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 has only been out for a week, but Larian Studios already […]<\/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-20787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20787","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=20787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}