@@Bwipy in DOS2, you could hire hirelings. And with the mirror, you could adjust anything for them, backgrounds, visuals, classes and skills. So yes, in DOS2, there was a way to get a full custom party, just not from the beginning.
@@DerDarkfire1the hirelings in BG3 are a bit of a bummer. I thought, how cool it would be, if on my second playthrough I could just hire any class I need and customize their appearance and race. Hopefully they will figure out a way to add this to the game without letting our main character or origin characters to change the race. How cool would it be, if I could recreate on my further playthroughs my previous characters and go to an adventure with them again.
Yeah I thought the hirelings would serve this purpose but they’re not customisable and you can only respec them seems like it wouldn’t take much to change this and add the ability to customise them all the tools are there hopefully Larian adds this later or if not then perhaps a mod to add this would be great
Renovating my cave at present. Once finished I was planning on starting from scratch! With BG1 enhanced edition. So is it possible to keep importing the same character all the way through into BG3 ??
In case anyone was having the same problem this method didn’t work for me because the extra instances would crash after the cutscene finished but when launch the extra instances after watching the cutscene it worked perfectly Thank you giving us a method to do this Bwipy
I was not aware that some people were having crash issues! Thanks for letting me know. Glad you found a workaround, I have pinned it in case others have the same issue.
My Withers was bugged (edit: not bugged I’m just impatient lol) and wouldn't let me get hirelings, but this worked great for me and was super easy! I didn't even have to make a new game, just loaded them all right into my camp at level 2. Thanks :)
@@devinbrunson4871 I did, though I've seen comments from people on other videos saying you can't so maybe there's a cutoff point that I hadn't reached yet. Not sure. My characters were still level 2 and all I had done is enter the druid grove, then go to camp
There's also a wonky way of creating characters mid campaign, like if your friends want to join, you have to activate Withers then speak to him at camp and create hirelings. Not 100% sure on this method though as I have not tested it out myself.
Someone tried to join my solo campaign and I got a pop up warning that if they entered my campaign I wouldn't be able to dismiss their character. If you are doing this then you probably want your custom party the whole game but be warned that this is the party you will be stuck with the whole playthrough. You could probably still respec them with Withers though.
To be fair, we can all play customs because Withers exists, we can turn Lae'zel into Sorcerer and Halsin into Fighter if we wanted to, but the point is to have all 4 differently looking characters, so it's about looks, not about class that people in comments talk about. Though at least for me, this only works with 2 windows, can't go further than that, the 3rd one crashes on launch.
I’m gonna explain why people want this feature, because a lot of people that play bg3 are dnd nerds (me included) and being a dungeon master (essentially what this is) is really fun
Yes, but also its not just looks either because your race obvi gives you different gameplay features too, amd also your background as well as story stuff. I imagine it might feel immersion breaking if your human barbarian is asking to eat your magic sword.
There is a glitch that happens when you dismiss custom characters into the wardrobe and then getting them to rejoin afterwards. Sometimes they won't follow you and will stay that way the entire game. The only way to get them to move is by controlling them. It doesn't happen all the time but often enough. It's really annoying and I haven't found a way to fix the glitch.
Nice, thank you! I'm coming from xbox (wife wanted the tv back), and the steam approach is so hard. The xbox is pretty easy (its basically a supported feature), so I dont know why they added road blocks. Cheers for this easy to follow instructions
@@Bwipy aww, I’m sorry to hear that :( but my crews been doing pretty good ^^ we just had session 15(?), 16(?) this last Wednesday. I actually stream and upload our sessions :) Got a few animation projects in the oven as well. XD My CoS group has been very fun. I hope you’re able to find a good group too!
My computer is pissed, me being too lazy to minimize and reduce the stress on my computer I sat running 4 instances of this game and had the audacity to sit in character customization for 2 hours doing each one.
With the new way that multiplayer works, i.e that you can create a new character when joining an ongoing save rather than having to all start at the same time, would it be easier to do this? Like, instead of having to open a bunch of different instances at the same time, I could just have two open, the main instance and then the dummy instance for the new character, right? So like, basically have the main instance open and another join and make a character, then the main instance saves and you exit the dummy instance. Rinse and repeat until full party?
This is definitely something that you can do as well, the guide I've made is more if you want to start from the very beginning with a full party. Also, I was not aware that they had made it that you could join ongoing games and create a character, from memory when I played back in EA, this wasn't something that you can do, but thanks for bringing that to my attention! I don't know if one is necessarily easier than the other, but having only the one instance open would definitely be easier on the CPU I would assume.
@@Bwipy I tested last night, and you do still need to have multiple instances open at once, but you can absolutely do that after clearing the tutorial with one character. I made a multiplayer game with one character, got through the tutorial as fast as I could, and then chilled in camp once I reached the beach so I could open the other instances and make new characters :) Not necessarily easier, but I liked it.
That's the hope! In the past Larian has been very accepting and supportive of mod creators so hopefully if they don't provide a native solution the modders will save us.
sooo i got this to work with a current campaign. you go to the pause menu and you click the multiplayer tab. press the direct connect itll give you the code. you then open another instance like in the video but you are joining the campgain you are already currently doing im in act 2 and just gave myself another gith soo shadowheart is surrounded by the little nose people @@BoinkrNanis
I haven't tested whether you can or not, but I don't see a reason why it won't work. Unless the character gets set to a specific profile that has to use it? Unsure, but if you have a friend joining and you have an open slot, when they join into your campaign down the track they'll be able to create their own character anyway.
so i did this, played for a few hours then went to bed, but all my save files are gone when i checked today? the save files of the custom campaign, still have my old saves from normal
You may have started the campaign on one of the "debug profile" instances of the game instead of the main instance. You'll need to move your save game file from the dummy instance into the main instance
I tried this, but i lost the save. How do you make sure the save transfers from the offline to the online version? Update: I tried again, and it seems i managed to open the game into the debug instance 1 instead of my regular account. A quick save file transfer from the debug profile to the public one fixed the issue
@@Bwipy thank you sir, I love the base game characters but I would like at least one game with a full custom party, it still has plenty of rp capability with the fact that different characters can interact with the story
Are you making sure to exit steam after finding the folder but before opening bg3? If you open bg3 first before closing steam it will attempt to close any games running as well.
Good to know, I had not tested it out myself but that was my initial assumption, since they are full custom characters they don't really have anywhere to stay at camp. If you're wanting to bring along a few of the main origin characters, it might be worthwhile creating 2-3 custom origins and then having a space open for whoever you want to bring with you at the time.
i managed to dismiss them easily. ou can't do it on the ship, but once you reach the main area you can dismiss your custom avatars by clicking on them, similar to dismissing an origin character. you'll find them in withers' wordrobe
I did some research but it looks like the only way to do this on console is to have 2 PS5s and use SharePlay, then launch each in co-op mode and make 2 characters on each system. Unfortunately it looks like the all tav party is a pc only mode right now.
@jakobrettensteiner55 are you logged off of steam? Are you running the .exe's in admin? You could possibly even turn off your internet as the game doesn't require an active connection to play. It isn't a live service game.
@jakobrettensteiner55 you right click on the .exe and an option "runs as administrator" pops up, or right click thr .exe and go to permissions and toggle thr always run as admin option. I gotta say, this isn't a hard thing to do. Simple instructions in the video. Of you follow every instruction to the T, if it doesn't work then, then type into Google your problem. You're not the firdt person to have whatever issues and won't be the last and someone has figured it out already so go look. But if you're to lazy to make thr shit work then stop trying and move on. Isn't many responses if it works for others. Idk what to tell ya fam except keep trying as many work around as you can. Open a main client, start a group multi-player on LAN, copy the direct link, start a character and get to thr opening scene and do that with every other custom character until all 4 are on the ship then save on your main, close out all extra clients that arnt your main, save again, then have a fun time. Go to steamapps/common/balders gate 3/bin right click the directX version of the launcher and select run as admin.
@jakobrettensteiner55 but if it's simply to hard, then just play the game normally. You lose out on a lot by filling your party with people you cant exchange out and you miss like 70% of the story.
If you have two controllers, you can try to create split-screen local multiplayer (simply try to activate a second controller). Don't know if you have to do anything else on console to get out of split-screen, but on PC I just disconnected second controller and used my mouse (so disconnecting might be enough). It's possible you can use PS4 controller for that, but I can't test it for you. Hope it helps.
@@Matriarchator yeah I’ve got 2 ps5 controllers since I bought the one with the back paddles and I have the one that came with it. Have done a play through with 2 customer characters with that method before but not sure it’s possible to create 4 from the start without having friends join the game then leave.
Make sure that you are opening the bin folder after opening the initial folder that opens when you use Steam. If you can't see the exe files in the bin folder, you might need to verify your game files then try again (though you shouldn't be able to launch the game through steam at all if there's no exe in that folder)
And here I could not even complete the game as Tav, but had to reroll as Durge, as I felt too disconnected from the plot, lol. 4 customs sound horrible.
Omg thank you. Made me so happy to see a video about this that wasn't 20 minutes long. You the goat.
This is an awesome guide, but I hope Larian just enables starting with custom characters without workarounds.
That's my hope too, but I don't believe they implemented that at all with DOS2. Fingers crossed they do on this one!
@@Bwipy in DOS2, you could hire hirelings. And with the mirror, you could adjust anything for them, backgrounds, visuals, classes and skills. So yes, in DOS2, there was a way to get a full custom party, just not from the beginning.
@@DerDarkfire1the hirelings in BG3 are a bit of a bummer. I thought, how cool it would be, if on my second playthrough I could just hire any class I need and customize their appearance and race. Hopefully they will figure out a way to add this to the game without letting our main character or origin characters to change the race. How cool would it be, if I could recreate on my further playthroughs my previous characters and go to an adventure with them again.
Does this still work after patch 5?
I hope they add a legit way of doing this. The origin characters are great and all, but I really love the idea of creating my own set of murder hobos
Exactly what I did, made 4 little martial dwarves who are going to shove as many people off high places as they can.
Hirelings? It's basically the same
@@th5154 Nope
Yeah I thought the hirelings would serve this purpose but they’re not customisable and you can only respec them seems like it wouldn’t take much to change this and add the ability to customise them all the tools are there hopefully Larian adds this later or if not then perhaps a mod to add this would be great
Renovating my cave at present. Once finished I was planning on starting from scratch! With BG1 enhanced edition. So is it possible to keep importing the same character all the way through into BG3 ??
In case anyone was having the same problem this method didn’t work for me because the extra instances would crash after the cutscene finished but when launch the extra instances after watching the cutscene it worked perfectly
Thank you giving us a method to do this Bwipy
I was not aware that some people were having crash issues! Thanks for letting me know. Glad you found a workaround, I have pinned it in case others have the same issue.
@@Bwipy np and thank you for pinning
good pc or bad pc ?
So I could do a full bard party, my band of misfits each own instrument, I shall call them the Murderous Musicians
That sounds catastrophic, I love it. I'm using this method to do an all Dwarf Martial class playthrough.
Now theres an idea @@Bwipy
My Withers was bugged (edit: not bugged I’m just impatient lol) and wouldn't let me get hirelings, but this worked great for me and was super easy!
I didn't even have to make a new game, just loaded them all right into my camp at level 2. Thanks :)
You can do this mid campaign?
@@devinbrunson4871 I did, though I've seen comments from people on other videos saying you can't so maybe there's a cutoff point that I hadn't reached yet. Not sure. My characters were still level 2 and all I had done is enter the druid grove, then go to camp
@@Fracture.Gaming how do you do it mid campaign
There's also a wonky way of creating characters mid campaign, like if your friends want to join, you have to activate Withers then speak to him at camp and create hirelings. Not 100% sure on this method though as I have not tested it out myself.
Someone tried to join my solo campaign and I got a pop up warning that if they entered my campaign I wouldn't be able to dismiss their character. If you are doing this then you probably want your custom party the whole game but be warned that this is the party you will be stuck with the whole playthrough. You could probably still respec them with Withers though.
Latest update, Update 2, Larian added a feature that lets you remove multiplayer custom characters from your party and store them.
Awesome guide! First thing I did was make a save with ALL bards and have them play together as a band XD It's pretty epic!
To be fair, we can all play customs because Withers exists, we can turn Lae'zel into Sorcerer and Halsin into Fighter if we wanted to, but the point is to have all 4 differently looking characters, so it's about looks, not about class that people in comments talk about.
Though at least for me, this only works with 2 windows, can't go further than that, the 3rd one crashes on launch.
I’m gonna explain why people want this feature, because a lot of people that play bg3 are dnd nerds (me included) and being a dungeon master (essentially what this is) is really fun
Yes, but also its not just looks either because your race obvi gives you different gameplay features too, amd also your background as well as story stuff. I imagine it might feel immersion breaking if your human barbarian is asking to eat your magic sword.
There is a glitch that happens when you dismiss custom characters into the wardrobe and then getting them to rejoin afterwards. Sometimes they won't follow you and will stay that way the entire game. The only way to get them to move is by controlling them. It doesn't happen all the time but often enough. It's really annoying and I haven't found a way to fix the glitch.
The most recent patch fixed this for me.
awesome. I hope larion studio's adds a feature to be able to do this without having to open multiple instances in a patch.
you changed my life finally 4 dwarfs i love you mate
thank you so much for this explanation! I was really hoping it would be possible.
Nice, thank you! I'm coming from xbox (wife wanted the tv back), and the steam approach is so hard. The xbox is pretty easy (its basically a supported feature), so I dont know why they added road blocks.
Cheers for this easy to follow instructions
Glad I could help
I used to do this in Divinity but it had a slightly different method. thank you for instructions!
Thank you for educating us!
You made this so easy to follow Its idiot proof i mean I had it working first time :) Thank you for posting
XD ty for this, I was able to creat my CoS group for a play through with this
I hope your CoS Crew lasts longer than 3 gaming sessions! Our Strahd games always died after 3 sessions
@@Bwipy aww, I’m sorry to hear that :( but my crews been doing pretty good ^^ we just had session 15(?), 16(?) this last Wednesday. I actually stream and upload our sessions :) Got a few animation projects in the oven as well. XD My CoS group has been very fun. I hope you’re able to find a good group too!
Short, neat, thank you for the tutorial ! :)
This doesn't work? Followed all instructions. Each time I try to open a second instance it just doesn't. No crash, no error, just nothing.
My computer is pissed, me being too lazy to minimize and reduce the stress on my computer I sat running 4 instances of this game and had the audacity to sit in character customization for 2 hours doing each one.
Lmao that computer was probably going miles in its program thinking you were nuts
Nice one, Really informative vid..
Glad you liked it
With the new way that multiplayer works, i.e that you can create a new character when joining an ongoing save rather than having to all start at the same time, would it be easier to do this? Like, instead of having to open a bunch of different instances at the same time, I could just have two open, the main instance and then the dummy instance for the new character, right? So like, basically have the main instance open and another join and make a character, then the main instance saves and you exit the dummy instance. Rinse and repeat until full party?
This is definitely something that you can do as well, the guide I've made is more if you want to start from the very beginning with a full party.
Also, I was not aware that they had made it that you could join ongoing games and create a character, from memory when I played back in EA, this wasn't something that you can do, but thanks for bringing that to my attention!
I don't know if one is necessarily easier than the other, but having only the one instance open would definitely be easier on the CPU I would assume.
@@Bwipy I tested last night, and you do still need to have multiple instances open at once, but you can absolutely do that after clearing the tutorial with one character. I made a multiplayer game with one character, got through the tutorial as fast as I could, and then chilled in camp once I reached the beach so I could open the other instances and make new characters :) Not necessarily easier, but I liked it.
The recruit any character mod is a much easier workaround.
They recently added hireling customization, I haven't checked it so I wonder if this is still necessary
I hope they impliment an easier way. This sounds janky as fuck
That's the hope! In the past Larian has been very accepting and supportive of mod creators so hopefully if they don't provide a native solution the modders will save us.
Or pay the low price of 300 gold buy 3 hirelings and then you can make them look however you want with what ever class
I really hope they just make this a feature. Such a strange work around and it's got some unintended bugs.
Here's to hoping! If Larian doesn't implement it in the future, I'm sure the modding community has our backs.
now do i need to make a new playthrough for this or can i continue my current one by sending all my current NPCS to the CAMP?
Hmm, I havnt done this yet, but I assume this may work. But it's probably better to start from the beginning to do it.
sooo i got this to work with a current campaign. you go to the pause menu and you click the multiplayer tab. press the direct connect itll give you the code. you then open another instance like in the video but you are joining the campgain you are already currently doing im in act 2 and just gave myself another gith soo shadowheart is surrounded by the little nose people
@@BoinkrNanis
youre the goat
Glad I could help thanks for watching
Will the mods i have apply to those too?
thanks man
Why does mine say NATpunch, unable to perform?
great short video.
I hope they may add an easier way to do this...
I win the contest as my pc wouldn't run both the windows at once :)
After creating characters can you open the save up through online multiplayer with a buddy
I haven't tested whether you can or not, but I don't see a reason why it won't work. Unless the character gets set to a specific profile that has to use it? Unsure, but if you have a friend joining and you have an open slot, when they join into your campaign down the track they'll be able to create their own character anyway.
so i did this, played for a few hours then went to bed, but all my save files are gone when i checked today? the save files of the custom campaign, still have my old saves from normal
You may have started the campaign on one of the "debug profile" instances of the game instead of the main instance. You'll need to move your save game file from the dummy instance into the main instance
I tried this, but i lost the save. How do you make sure the save transfers from the offline to the online version?
Update: I tried again, and it seems i managed to open the game into the debug instance 1 instead of my regular account. A quick save file transfer from the debug profile to the public one fixed the issue
calls a 1070 a potato :') its still an all-star to me.
Oh. Bummer. This is for PC (found *that* out in the first 34 seconds of this video). I'm playing on Steam Deck. Offline.
Has angone else found the custom tavs dont follow the 'main avatar'
Can i do this in a pre existing save?
Whenever I try to start it through the files it forces open steam and the launcher
Haven't tested yet but I hope they haven't fixed/patched this. Heard a rumour about it thou
I'll try and replicate this on my end when I get the chance and if so I'll try and find a workaround for you.
@@Bwipy thank you sir, I love the base game characters but I would like at least one game with a full custom party, it still has plenty of rp capability with the fact that different characters can interact with the story
my guy found work around open directly from bin skips opening steam
once in save game and open back up through steam i was able to lock in 3 chracters before pc died
any one else unable to close steam with out bg3 closing with it
Are you making sure to exit steam after finding the folder but before opening bg3? If you open bg3 first before closing steam it will attempt to close any games running as well.
If I dismiss a character would I then lose them forever or would they be in camp?
I just tested it out myself, and if anyone else was curious once in your party it looks like you can't dismiss the party members.
Good to know, I had not tested it out myself but that was my initial assumption, since they are full custom characters they don't really have anywhere to stay at camp.
If you're wanting to bring along a few of the main origin characters, it might be worthwhile creating 2-3 custom origins and then having a space open for whoever you want to bring with you at the time.
i managed to dismiss them easily. ou can't do it on the ship, but once you reach the main area you can dismiss your custom avatars by clicking on them, similar to dismissing an origin character. you'll find them in withers' wordrobe
Anyone know how to do this for PS5 without using another console or ask friends for help?
I did some research but it looks like the only way to do this on console is to have 2 PS5s and use SharePlay, then launch each in co-op mode and make 2 characters on each system. Unfortunately it looks like the all tav party is a pc only mode right now.
Is there a way to do this on PS5?
The npcs companions they created are shitty garbage I just want my own party of cool dragonborns. Hope they will do a legit way to do this
Did anyone found a way to do this on Mac please I need it
My files don'd say ".exe", also if i try to open it the launcher pops up. What am i doing wrong?
Disabled the launcher, but the second game still won't open
@jakobrettensteiner55 are you logged off of steam? Are you running the .exe's in admin? You could possibly even turn off your internet as the game doesn't require an active connection to play. It isn't a live service game.
@@BoinkrNanis i just put steam into offline mode and i have no idea how to run an exe in admin
@jakobrettensteiner55 you right click on the .exe and an option "runs as administrator" pops up, or right click thr .exe and go to permissions and toggle thr always run as admin option.
I gotta say, this isn't a hard thing to do. Simple instructions in the video. Of you follow every instruction to the T, if it doesn't work then, then type into Google your problem. You're not the firdt person to have whatever issues and won't be the last and someone has figured it out already so go look. But if you're to lazy to make thr shit work then stop trying and move on. Isn't many responses if it works for others. Idk what to tell ya fam except keep trying as many work around as you can.
Open a main client, start a group multi-player on LAN, copy the direct link, start a character and get to thr opening scene and do that with every other custom character until all 4 are on the ship then save on your main, close out all extra clients that arnt your main, save again, then have a fun time.
Go to steamapps/common/balders gate 3/bin right click the directX version of the launcher and select run as admin.
@jakobrettensteiner55 but if it's simply to hard, then just play the game normally. You lose out on a lot by filling your party with people you cant exchange out and you miss like 70% of the story.
Helpful, super chill and very helpful - Subscribed thanks man
Ah another reason I hate being an Xbox owner
Wish I could do this on PS5
If you have two controllers, you can try to create split-screen local multiplayer (simply try to activate a second controller). Don't know if you have to do anything else on console to get out of split-screen, but on PC I just disconnected second controller and used my mouse (so disconnecting might be enough).
It's possible you can use PS4 controller for that, but I can't test it for you. Hope it helps.
@@Matriarchator yeah I’ve got 2 ps5 controllers since I bought the one with the back paddles and I have the one that came with it.
Have done a play through with 2 customer characters with that method before but not sure it’s possible to create 4 from the start without having friends join the game then leave.
@@SomeLad12 Oh sorry, you're right. I never had a reason to create more than two avatars, so I didn't account for it.
cool
No YOU'RE Cool! Thanks for watching :)
someone help pliz my game doesn't have a exe file
Make sure that you are opening the bin folder after opening the initial folder that opens when you use Steam. If you can't see the exe files in the bin folder, you might need to verify your game files then try again (though you shouldn't be able to launch the game through steam at all if there's no exe in that folder)
And here I could not even complete the game as Tav, but had to reroll as Durge, as I felt too disconnected from the plot, lol. 4 customs sound horrible.
How about you add PC in your title bro
Video's 2 minutes long.
I tried it but it told me already connected can anyone help?