There's also a slight dip in texture quality - the PS5 doesn't quite reach the level that PC does, which is a shame, particularly when in conversations and faces are seen up close.
The result is a slight juddering and feeling of sluggishness. It's in the 40s whereas the target is 60 - so Larian is aware of this and working on it. I prefer this way of moving because it feels more natural to me, and I don't misclick on things, but the issue on PS5 at the moment is that locking the camera to the player exacerbates the game's frame-rate, and on PS5, currently, it's not great. You don't point and click to move as on PC. Movement on PS5, meanwhile, is directly controlled by the thumbstick, as you'd expect.
The radial menus are also customisable so you can shove all your most-used abilities on one and it becomes much simpler to use. The PS5 version - as with the console versions of Divinity: Original Sin - uses radial menus in place of hotbars, and for menu navigation, which is a bit fiddly but works. And broadly, it works well, though there are still some things that need improving, and, thankfully, there's still some time to do that - the PS5 version comes out 6th September, a month after the PC version on 3rd August. I played the PlaySation 5 version of Baldur's Gate 3 last week, though I didn't get the opportunity to try split-screen co-op. "Well if you talk about feature parities, split-screen is a must for us," he said, "and we don't want to release it without split-screen, so we wouldn't want to do that."
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That requires memory."Īnd so to the elephant in the room: if Larian cannot get split-screen co-op running to standard on Xbox Series S, can it, if it wants to - bearing in mind Microsoft's desire for feature parity - remove it? "We have the same thing in a game like BG3, where it's all fine and well if you have one character walking around the city, but if the party splits up and there's four characters going in four different directions in the city, and they start doing the crazy shit that I'm doing - fireballs, - it's a lot of simulation that has to happen on one screen. They were talking about Call of Duty and they said every single time there's a player that comes in, you get a little zone around the player, and the more zones you have, the slower it becomes. He added: "Somebody told me the other day and I thought it was a really good way of saying it. "If it's possible, they'll make it happen. "I'm confident in the team," he answered. "The team will manage because they managed to make run on the Switch - but it took time." You'll have to skip through this a bit, but it's Larian's latest Panel from Hell stream, from mere days ago, featuring lots of new release-build footage of Baldur's Gate 3.ĭoes that mean, then, that Vincke is confident it will happen? So here, we're dealing with a situation where we just go through the motions. And the problem with optimisations is you finish one thing and then a new one pops up. "The team has been working hard on making it work, but they're still working on it. "It's challenging," Vincke said after a brief pause. So when I spoke to Larian boss Swen Vincke about this last week, I asked whether a decision had yet been made.
The last we heard from Larian was that it was working on it, and that it was weighing up some "compromises" - the suggestion being that split-screen co-op on Xbox Series S could, potentially, be removed. They are happening but they're held up by Xbox Series S, which is struggling to run split-screen co-op at an acceptable performance standard.Īn added complication is that Microsoft wants feature parity across the Series X and S versions of the games - so much so there's a suggestion Larian would not be able to release one Xbox version of Baldur's Gate 3 with split-screen co-op, and the other without it. There's currently a question mark hanging over the Xbox versions of Baldur's Gate 3.
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