Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 6 requires 150GB of free space to install

Better make some room

Marco Wutz | Feb 14, 2024

Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 6 requires 150GB of free space to install /

Larian Studios has begun revealing details on Patch 6 for Baldur’s Gate 3, the next large update for 2023’s undisputed Game of the Year. “Large” really is the most apt description for the patch, which will require around 150GB of free storage space to install. The Patch 6 download size is a bit more forgiving at least with 21GB.

If you don’t have enough free space on your machine, be it a PC, handheld, or console, and are unable or unwilling to clear enough storage, your best option is to make a clean install of Baldur’s Gate 3 once the patch is available – so just uninstall and re-download the game entirely. This will result in a longer download time, of course, but may save you from having to uninstall a bunch of other titles and re-download those afterwards. Space management is getting more difficult, huh?

Baldur's Gate 3 Withers. — That feeling when you have to wait for Baldur's Gate 3 to download again / Larian Studios

Patch 6 will introduce a wonderful quality-of-life improvement for changing your party by allowing you to dismiss one of your current party members while asking a different companion to join your party, essentially enabling you to do a one-to-one replacement without having to jockey around between your companions in camp. That’s going to be a timesaver for sure.

A fix for Shield Bash and Rebuke of the Mighty will be included in the update as well, enabling your passive skills to correctly trigger saving throws again.

Another change Larian already communicated ahead of time is that automatically triggered dialog will try to prioritize your own character as the main speaker, not your party members – main character privilege and all that.

Patch 6 is set to launch for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S soon, while Mac users will have to be a bit more patient for the update to arrive.

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Published Feb 14, 2024

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg