Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 5 Is Absolutely Massive

Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 5 is arriving "soon." How soon, precisely, the update is releasing, developer Larian Studios does not say, but it does confirm it's going to be an absolute monster to download, which may suggests there's a lot to it. Using the official X account for the game, Larian Studios relayed word that the update will on clock in at roughly 30 GB, however, it will require roughly 130 GB to download. If you don't have enough space for this, Larian Studios suggests uninstalling the game and re-downloading this new patched version. Why the file size is so massive, Larian Studios doesn't say, suggesting it knows very well that this is unacceptably large for a patch. 

"Patch 5 is launching soon," reads the tweet in question "This update will clock in at roughly 30GB and will require approximately 130GB of free space to install. If you find yourself without the space to install the update, we recommend uninstalling BG3 and then re-downloading the patched version."

If you're on PS5, this patch is roughly 30 GB bigger than the base game. We can't remember the last time a single patch for a game has been bigger than the download for the base game, if it has ever happened. On Steam the base game download is roughly 150 GB so the patch isn't as big as this version, but it's close, something you'd never expect. 

As always, we will keep an eye out for more details about the update, but right now, this is it. In the meantime, for more coverage on the popular new RPG, click here.

"Dungeons & Dragons saw an uptick in popularity during the pandemic as players used the technological magic of video calls to see and communicate with each other from across vast distances," reads the opening of our official review of the game. "Now that the world has returned to something that, at least on the surface, resembles pre-pandemic normalcy, it may be more of a challenge for those once-isolated adventurers to coordinate their schedules so that they may gather their party and venture forth on new journeys. While there's nothing like having a group of friends to play Dungeons & Dragons with, Baldur's Gate 3 -- developed by Larian Studios, the team that made a name for itself in the CRPG space with its two Divinity: Original Sin games -- does an impressive job of translating Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition's style of play into video game form."