Larian Studios shows some initial statistics from Baldur’s Gate 3. Players who start their first run with a pre-made character prefer Gale. However, he is also one of the most common causes of death in the game.
How is Baldur’s Gate 3 doing?
- Over 700,000 players enthusiastically flocked to Steam on launch weekend.
- Currently, it ranks number 1 of the best games of 2023, even surpassing the acclaimed Zelda.
- On Twitch, the enthusiasm for Baldur’s Gate 3 is also evident. There viewer numbers are skyrocketing.
Gale is the most popular origin character and at the same time the deadliest
What do the statistics say? The release of Baldur’s Gate 3 was about a week ago. Creator Larian Studios shows some initial statistics based on players. In the community, the charming wizard Gale is the most popular origin character.
Larian Studios has published detailed statistics on Steam. 93 percent of players created a custom character and 7 percent chose a pre-made character. Here are the choices players made for the different characters:
- Gale with 27,784
- Karlach with 22,514
- Astarion with 22,286
- Shadowheart with 15,966
- Wyll with 14,862
- Lae’zel with 11,765
Gale is also often the reason why you die: The charming wizard Gale is thus the most popular choice among players when they play an origin character. Even though Karlach and Astarion are closely behind him. Who could blame them? Gale is a multifaceted character who flaunts his charismatic nature and vast knowledge. He manages most problems in an elegant manner.
His insatiable thirst for magic leads to explosions. With his fireballs, Gale causes a lot of turmoil in the group. So far, he is also, according to Larian Studios, the seventh most common reason why many players die. A powerful fireball can cause enormous damage to your own group, so be careful and watch out for things like oil barrels when aiming.
If you don’t play Gale as your first character, you can also have a romance in Baldur’s Gate 3 with him, though it may not be as exciting as with the hot tiefling lady Karlach.
What do the statistics say otherwise?
- You have played over 1,225 years of Baldur’s Gate during the launch weekend.
- 386 players have finished the game in an incredible 3 days.
- 88 years have all players spent combined in character creation.
- Among the races, half-elves are the most popular. Githyanki are less so.
- The most popular class is the Paladin.
- The Cleric is the least popular choice. As a Cleric main, my heart bleeds.
- Almost 10% of players have spent at least 1 hour in character creation.
- The sweet scratch has been petted over 750,000 times.
- Sleeping with Astarion seems to be difficult. Almost 100,000 players have already been turned down.
- All players together have talked to animals over 2.4 million times, and to corpses 1.4 million times.
- 12% of all player deaths have happened due to “friendly fire.”
You can find the complete statistics on Steam.
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