Not lengthy after Larian launched its official modding toolkit for Baldur’s Gate 3, it took subsequent to no time for modders to learn the way to unlock additional features that’ve helped get the ball rolling on the likes of {custom} maps and probably full {custom} campaigns additional down the road. Utilizing a modified model of these official instruments, one modder’s now put collectively what appears to be like to be one of many recreation’s first fully-custom quests.
To my information this is not the primary try at including a quest to BG3, with Household Legacy being a pre-modding instance that accomplishes its aim utilizing notes and a few distinctive gadgets, however it does seem like considered one of – if not the primary – to utilize each the {custom} location creation and in-depth tweaking of NPCs/quest mechanics that these new instruments could make attainable.
The aim of this mod, Soul of Kiran’s ‘Clown Tent MoonGlasses Showcase’, is to point out off what’s attainable with ‘Moonglasses – BG3 Prolonged Toolkit’. This can be a challenge produced by a variety of BG3 modders on Discord that goals to construct on the stuff made attainable by modder Siegfre’s ‘BG3 Toolkit Unlocked’, by facilitating issues like extra superior dialogue and cinematic tweaking.
As you’ll be able to see within the video beneath, the clown tent showcase is principally a really brief {custom} quest added to the beginning of Act 1, that sees you are taking a portal right into a bizarre tent dimesion the place a clown named Agnesius – voiced by the modder themselves – chilling, pink hair and all.
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Throughout a chat with him, you may both find yourself agreeing to retrieve the nostril that funnyman misplaced throughout “the nice clown struggle” – cue my mind filling with pictures of that Willem Dafoe scene from Platoon, however with somebody referred to as Juggles – or informing him that you simply aren’t a fan of clowns.
When you retrieve the nostril, which even squeaks in the event you transfer it round in your stock, you may accomplish that by way of a {custom} quest itemizing that ought to lead you to discovering it close to the Nautiloid crash website, and bringing it again to finish your mission.
Then again, in the event you anger the clown throughout that first combo, you’ll be able to provoke fight and slaughter him, leaving the nostril misplaced to the ages. You can even decide the nostril up earlier than you even meet him for the primary time, with this being programmed as an alternate means for the hunt to set off and direct you to the tent.
All in all, this little mission reveals off “{custom} map ranges, dialogues [made] from scratch, dynamic timelines & cinematic cameras, {custom} voice-over, {custom} journal quests, [and] superior dialog logic & triggers”. So, hopefully it is only a style of what modders would possibly be capable of accomplish {custom} campaign-wise additional down the road.
Another BG3 modders have not too long ago been busy including real-time fight and {custom} romance cutscenes to the sport, that are additionally nicely value trying out, even when the previous continues to be very a lot in an experimental stage.
