2y ago

Baldur’s Gate 3 Continues One Annoying PC Gaming Trend

Baldur's Gate 3 may be a fantastic fantasy RPG, but Larian Studios also decided to follow an annoying PC gaming trend that could have been avoided.

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It’s a launcher, if you aren’t interested in clicking through.
And I agree. No reason for this game to have a launcher.
- Gamerant continues one annoying article title trend.
  
  Your post contains one annoying point. Click here to find out what! Upvote and /s
- It's also trivial to skip the launcher by adding --skip-launcher to the Launch Options.
  
  I am going to try this tomorrow. But I have to figure out a way to default to Vulkan without launcher.
Game Reviewer: Let's see, after early release they didn't abandon it after taking in some beta money. It's not flooded with pay to win or micro-transactions. It seems to play well and is getting good reviews. What can we complain about? I've got it! The damned launcher!
- Sure, sure. No argument, and upvote. It's just nice that a game I purchased early access was actually completed and seems to be a banger so far. I usually avoid beta launches, and have yet to commit to another favorite, Kerbal 2. I'm thinking that may wind up as $50 abandonware. Having tons of fun with BG3 so far though. Happy gaming!
- There's a launcher?
  I have a shortcut directly to the executable on my desktop and it just launches right into the game.
Launcher are not needed. I should be able to do everything a launcher does in the game settings. All 3 of Larian's games have a launchers.
Anyway, I still love their games. Hope they drop the launcher for Divinity 3.
- Id be suprised if they make a divinity 3, i figured bg3 is kind of a spiritual successor
  
  I saw somewhere saying they'd be down in doing DOS3, but not anytime soon
Can very easily skip it using launch arguments. I believe it's "--skip-launcher"
- Yeah took me 30 seconds to google the command and put it into steam lol.
Is it disabled by default on Linux? Because I've never even seen it.

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