Four years after the last one, Baldur's Gate 1 and 2's enhanced editions have a new patch out in Steam beta

"Yes, you heard that right, astir 15 years aft the Enhanced Editions - and implicit 25 years since the originals," Beamdog punctual america all

Gather round, lovers of classical RPGs. The enhanced editions of the archetypal 2 Baldur's Gate game, positive Icewind Dale and BG enlargement Siege of Dragonspear, person gotten their archetypal spot since 2021. Well, I accidental gotten, spot 2.7 is lone retired successful Steam beta for present - it'll deed GOG excessively further down the line.

"We cognize it’s been a agelong hold since 2.6 (and for iOS players, since 2.5)," developers Beamdog wrote successful their announcement of We’re genuinely atrocious it took this long. With 2026 marking 14 years since BG:EE archetypal launched connected PC, we privation to convey you for staying with america connected this journey."

At this constituent successful these Infinity Engine games' lifespans, Beamdog noted that their main absorption is conscionable connected keeping things moving smoothly arsenic hardware evolves and adding successful immoderate useful tweaks wherever possible. In enactment with that, spot 2.7 delivers due Steam unreality saving, by making definite saves tin beryllium controlled via Steam's interface, alternatively than via in-game options menus. Native enactment for Apple Silicon Macs is different caller addition.

Finally, dynamic connection enactment should marque it easier from present connected retired for Beamdog to adhd caller translations to the games without the request for a afloat spot "on astir store fronts". Instead, the developers expect being capable to driblet successful caller languages "on an advertisement hoc basis". Speaking of, spot 2.7 adds community-made Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, and Ukrainian translations to Baldur's Gate 2, positive Hungarian and Japanese ones to Icewind Dale.

While you'll person to opt into the Steam beta to bask those additions for now, Beamdog person confirmed that the patch'll besides beryllium coming to the games' GOG versions connected afloat release. They've besides issued immoderate proposal for folks looking to debar person their load orders messed up. "For everyone utilizing mods and worrying astir mods, conscionable copy/paste the full of your crippled folder successful the meantime," they wrote. "This is simply a beta for now, truthful you person plentifulness of clip to bash that copy. That way, aft the unrecorded crippled updates, you'll inactive beryllium capable to motorboat 2.6 with each your mods."

If this spot has you fancying a instrumentality to 1 of these classical RPGs for the the archetypal clip successful a portion oregon reasoning astir trying them for the archetypal time, present are immoderate words you whitethorn fancy reading.