Baldur's Gate 3 Mods Are Coming to PS5, with Official PC Modding Tools Set for September (2024)

Mods are always welcome. PC multiplats are almost always a better option just for that reason.

Excellent news. Larian continue to deliver the goods.

I've just started so even thinking about mods is far too intimidating.

Any reason for another replay.

Finally, I can remove the ugly black veins off my character's face. It's unfathomable for me that this is not an option in the base game.

This is great news. Though I do wonder how it will impact performance. Mods on PC you can ramp down settings to be able to run more mods smoothly that usually isn't available on console.

@themightyant Yeah, I was wondering if there’s a possibility this will break or destabilize the PS5 version to any degree. I suspect that’s what this testing period is for.

I’ve yet to play through my first run on the game yet. I just messed around with it a little and discovered it’s something that requires my undivided attention, at least at first until I learn the systems. So I put it on hold until I wrapped up some other games first. And also, I knew this update was coming so I figured maybe wait until the mods were available. Although now I’m wondering if I need to do my first playthrough unmodded to get the full effect. I don’t really know how mods work, necessarily. But it would be nice to enable something to help me if I’m getting stuck because I’m not adept at D&D.

@edgar14 Shouldn't have swallowed those tadpoles, sunshine 😉

But will it break trophies? It probably needs to, but I hope it doesn't.

How do you use mods on console? I don't usually use mods, but when I did, I had to copy files into the folder where the game was installed. Just wondering how do you do it on console.

@zhoont the only other games with mods on console (that I know of anyway) are Fallout 4 and Skyrim, and using mods disabled trophies in both of those instances, so unless we hear otherwise probably best to assume this will be the case with BG3 as well.

@CutchuSlow Skyrim and Fallout 4 simply have "mods" sections on the main menu, and then from there you can browse mods and activate them and such. It takes care of the load order automatically.

@tangyzesty, consoles games have had mods other than Skyrim and FO4. My first use of mods were with the SNES console in 1993. Mods were very common with PS1 and PS2 console games, but became very rare starting with the PS3 console. However those mods were called cheats and not mods.

Thankfully Fallout 4 has mods where just a few simple mods improve the game without feeling like cheating. Mods like improved settlement scrapping, improving weather, improving graphics, and cleaning settlers dirty faces. Game enjoyment easily overcomes trophies being disabled.