{"id":746508,"date":"2025-11-24T13:58:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T13:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/PjUufpgXcWRKmZZjuiNxxD"},"modified":"2025-11-24T13:58:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T13:58:51","slug":"baldurs-gate-3-players-collectively-hallucinate-a-valentines-day-release-for-patch-6-despite-larians-chaotic-pingu-posting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/baldurs-gate-3-players-collectively-hallucinate-a-valentines-day-release-for-patch-6-despite-larians-chaotic-pingu-posting\/","title":{"rendered":"Baldur’s Gate 3 players collectively hallucinate a Valentine’s Day release for Patch 6, despite Larian’s chaotic Pingu posting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Patch 6 of Baldur's Gate 3<\/strong><\/a> is releasing sometime this week\u2014though if you asked the community around 24-48 hours ago, they'd say it's slated for Valentine's Day. Those of you with an eye on your calendar may notice that date is long-gone, with nary a patch note to be spied.<\/p>\n

That's because Larian Studios never actually confirmed the date. Instead, the community simply hallucinated one based on what I can only describe as vibes. Now in fairness, the Baldur's Gate 3 Twitter account did tease us with the phrase “love is in the air in Faer\u00fbn”, but still.<\/p>\n

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The great wheel of conspiracy was grinding a full day before that, however, when one dyingome on Twitter<\/a> made a bold prediction that Patch 6 would hit on February 14. Larian Studios would later reply with a well-placed picture of beloved children's television mascot (and meme icon) Pingu the Penguin.<\/p>\n

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Pingu's second appearance occurs in a reply to SergeantDaynes<\/a>, with Larian making use of a gif of the penguin staring dead-eyed towards the reader like a threat. Fittingly, the gif's origin comes from a video by Telepurte<\/a> set to Mozart's Lacrimosa, which Google tells me is Latin for “weeping”.<\/p>\n

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Larian did some pot-stirring itself over the course of the week, posting some previews of Patch 6's updated smooching animations. These included a slightly awkward pecking of the shoulder blades from Shadowheart (she has amnesia, it's not her fault) and an Astarion scene that's so chemically engineered towards a certain kind of person that it's weapons-grade. Not that I'd know anything about that.<\/a><\/p>\n

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I suppose you\u2019ve earned it \ud83d\ude0f pic.twitter.com\/fun5hhbtA5February 12, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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On. Your. Knees. pic.twitter.com\/YToF94drzsFebruary 14, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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At the end of a long day of waiting, and as a coup de gr\u00e2ce to the whole affair, the Larian Studios' Twitter account dropped a gif of Pingu shuffling into bed with a smug (disturbingly toothed) smile on his nightmarish face. Captioned: “sweet dreams<\/a>“. People's responses were normal in air-quotes so large I can't format them for our website.<\/p>\n

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The game's official subreddit hasn't fared much better. One player even artistically superimposed Gale's outfit over Pingu in an act of desperation, as one commenter coined the event “patchgate<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

Spending Valentines Day waiting for Patch 6<\/a> from r\/BaldursGate3<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n