Seems Baldur's Gate 3 Mod support will be the last major update as Larian Studios looks to move on to other projects.
During the BAFTAs An Evening with Baldur's Gate 3 event, Larian CEO Swen Vincke explained that while development of the mod support feature is not yet finished and that it has been “difficult trying to get it to work,” he and the team “really want to do it.” move forward and do new things” (via Eurogamer).
“One of the most important things for us, and what we're really working on now, is the ability for players to modify [Baldur’s Gate 3] themselves, because then they can do their own things,” Vincke said. “And I think that's going to be the point where we're like, 'Okay, now it's totally yours.'”
The last major update should arrive in September, but Vincke confirmed that the patch will not mean the end of technical support for the RPG, saying that players will “see the level of support reduced to really critical bug fixes” and for now. “We continue working as if the game had just started.”
“We are working on the new, we are very excited about the new games,” he continued. “We are also creative spirits. We don't want to keep doing the same thing; we really want to move forward and do new things.”
The official modding toolkit was confirmed to be in the works back in April and will essentially allow players creative freedom over the game, allowing them to change the game's visuals, animations, statistics, and more.
The toolkit's closed alpha stage began on June 3, allowing players to help Larian in its development, with an additional closed beta scheduled for July that will cap at around 1,000 players that anyone on PC can sign up for. .
The studio has also confirmed that it is still hard at work on the long-awaited in-game photography and cross-play mode, however, there is no estimated release date for these features yet.
