Highlights
- A new mod called Party Limit Begone for Baldur's Gate 3 allows players to have a maximum of 16 characters in their party and supports up to eight players.
- The mod was created by Nexus Mods user Sildur and is aimed at players who find the base game too difficult or want to experience the chaos of larger battles.
- However, using the mod may lead to bugs during certain story sections and cutscenes, as the game was originally designed for a party of four.
A newly debuted Baldur's Gate 3 mod raises the maximum party size to 16, all the while extending some of its core multiplayer features. Its arrival is just the latest example of how the fandom has been transforming Baldur's Gate 3 with mods as soon as the game hit the market on August 3.
The third numbered installment in the iconic RPG franchise is currently one of the most played games on Steam, as hundreds of thousands of players flocked to experience Larian Studios' take on adapting the classic Dungeons and Dragons formula to video game form. As is the case with many popular PC titles, that popularity promptly attracted significant attention from the modding community, which already enhanced Baldur's Gate 3 with The Elder Scrolls races, UI improvements, and gameplay tweaks, among other things.
The latest such modding addition to the hit RPG was authored by Nexus Mods user Sildur, who took it upon themselves to quadruple the game's maximum party size, raising it to 16 characters. Their newly released mod, aptly called Party Limit Begone, also doubles the maximum size of Baldur's Gate 3 multiplayer parties to eight players per co-op session.
Larian's latest RPG offers 10 recruitable companions, two of which are mutually exclusive, allowing players to enlist a maximum of nine characters per a single playthrough. Meaning that the only way to use this newly released mod to its full extent is to hire additional Baldur's Gate 3 party members from Withers. While the game's companions are fully voice acted and fleshed out with backstories, as well as romanceable, hired help merely exists to boost a given party's combat prowess.
The ability to bring 16 recruits to battle should trivialize all of the game's many fights, not least because Baldur's Gate 3 has been designed for a party of four. Given that state of affairs, the Party Limit Begone mod primarily caters to players who find the base game too hard, or simply want to relish in the chaos of bringing a small platoon to each fight.
As for mod's multiplayer capabilities, extending co-op sessions to eight players requires starting a new playthrough. The Party Limit Begone creator also noted that eight-player sessions might lead to some bugs during certain story sections, largely because a number of Baldur's Gate 3 cutscenes were hard-coded for up to four characters, so the extra bodies could cause unforeseen glitches requiring restarts.
Baldur's Gate 3 is available now on PC and launches September 6 on PS5, with an Xbox Series X/S port also in development.
Source: Sildur / Nexus Mods, VG247
