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Robin Valentine

Larian's had to patch Baldur's Gate 3's save files to be infinite size, 'to account for the sheer amount of things you’re all doing on your journeys'

Volo the bard telling a story in Baldur's Gate 3.

Though Larian must be delighted with the reception to Baldur's Gate 3 so far, they maybe weren't prepared for quite how much people were going to play it. Turns out, if you made too many "choices" and "actions", your "personal story database" could grow so large it broke the save system, and the developer's had to release a hotfix to nip the problem in the bud.

Given that players weren't likely to show restraint any time soon, the solution was to uncap the size of the database, allowing it to grow infinitely (or at least as big as your time and hard drive allow), "to account for the sheer amount of things you’re all doing on your journeys". 

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