Every option you can change in Baldur's Gate 3 Custom Mode
Dec. 1, 2023Custom Mode lets you adjust all sorts of gameplay and difficulty settings in Baldur’s Gate 3
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Baldur’s Gate 3 Custom Mode has arrived with Patch 5, providing plenty of difficulty and game customization options from enemy aggression to turning off multiclassing.Baldur’s Gate 3already has a few difficulty options, but these customization settings will let you tailor the experience to your preferred style even more. You can make the game even more forgiving than Explorer, even tougher than Tactician, or even more like real D&D by choosing to hide things like NPC health bars and Difficulty Classes for checks. Whatever you’re after, I’ve laid out all the details on the new Custom Mode in Baldur’s Gate 3, including all the options you can change.
How to choose Custom Mode in Baldur’s Gate 3
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Like all the otherBaldur’s Gate 3 difficulty options, you can pick Custom Mode as soon as you choose to start a new game. Make sure you navigate all the way to the right of your screen to reach it as it’ll be off the screen at first, along with the new Honour Mode – a brutal permadeath mode also added with Patch 5.
Next, select the ‘Customize’ button and you’ll be presented with a long list of options you can toggle or modify. Once you’re happy, select ‘Start Game’ and you’ll get right into your adventure with character creation.
Unlike the three main difficulty options,you cannot switch to Custom Mode during a game that you have already started. Custom Mode is for new games only.However, you can adjust your Custom Mode settings by opening the game’s menu and selecting the ‘Difficulty’ option if you find you don’t like an option or need to rebalance something.
Here is every single option you can adjust for a Custom Mode game:
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