{"id":1175460,"date":"2026-02-13T18:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T18:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Q7xUZpKJDCnBcGCFWG9i9M"},"modified":"2026-02-13T18:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T18:02:22","slug":"baldurs-gate-3s-patch-8-is-among-its-biggest-holding-48-pages-approx-19000-20000-words-of-patch-notes-in-its-vast-and-bountiful-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/baldurs-gate-3s-patch-8-is-among-its-biggest-holding-48-pages-approx-19000-20000-words-of-patch-notes-in-its-vast-and-bountiful-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Baldur’s Gate 3’s Patch 8 is among its biggest, holding 48 pages (approx. 19,000-20,000 words) of patch notes in its vast and bountiful form"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Patch 8 of Baldur’s Gate 3 releases tomorrow, April 15. And while I’m already scheming to build my gang of build-broken nightmare people to tackle Honour Mode with for a second time, I’m also wondering how I’m going to break it to my friends, family, and loved ones that they will not see me for the next two weeks.<\/p>\n

Maybe three, actually, since Larian boss Swen Vincke’s assertion<\/a> after the announcement last week<\/a> that Patch 8 of Baldur’s Gate 3 has, uh, a lot <\/em>of notes to get through. Vincke writes on X: “I just read the 48 pages of patch notes on this. If there were a Michelin guide to patches, I\u2019d give this one 3 stars.”<\/p>\n

48 pages is a lot. <\/em>However, if you go on any of the patch notes on the Larian website, you’ll notice that they aren’t actually divided up into pages. So how big is Patch 8, really? Well, I spent a not-insignificant amount of my work day copying and pasting patch notes into google docs to craft a rough guestimate.<\/p>\n

In 11-point Arial text on an A4 document with Google doc’s default of 2.54 cm margins, Larian’s average patch notes are around 500 words a page. This is when I’ve pasted them completely unformatted, stripped of bullet points and sundry that would likely take up more space, so let’s shave down that number to a conservative estimate of 400 words.<\/p>\n

I hence predict that Baldur’s Gate 3’s Patch 8 notes will have a rough, approximate, kitchen-nap length word count of around 19,000 to 20,000. Give or take.<\/p>\n

Out of curiosity, I decided to go ahead and share my word-count findings from the other patch notes for comparison’s sake. Keep in mind, some of these patches have lengthy pre-ambles explaining certain features or giving status updates, while others don’t:<\/p>\n