So far as I’m involved, Baldur’s Gate 3 is my sport of the yr. It’s the expertise lastly rekindling my love for video games as lengthier affairs with out feeling like a drag. I can’t get sufficient of the forged, the environments are enchanting, and the dialogue is spot-on. I’ve performed it somewhat day by day since launch with no indicators of slowing down.

And the remainder of 2023, I don’t see something dethroning the RPG, not even a messy glitch right here or there, however oh god, did I ever break BG3 final night time. One thing’s undoubtedly gone horribly unsuitable with my set up, or proper, as a glass-half-full form of gal.

You see, I actually get pleasure from modding — test the Scion tattoo — but when a sport might be damaged, I’m breaking it. And out of my good friend group, I appear to have probably the most weird tech issues, main us down advanced rabbit holes for fixes or clumsy workarounds. A number of of us get pleasure from taking part in dolls with fan-made tweaks, which ends up in the occasional headless Tav shock or a floating set of eyes, however we’ve seen all of it.

Besides I believed we’d seen all of it. Final night time, I broke Baldur’s Gate in a approach I’d by no means damaged it earlier than. After work, I loaded up the sport and performed usually for an hour or so. Then I took a break, put in some new mods, tried to start out a brand new sport, and bam — genital jumpscare.

Warning: That is NSFW for nudity. It’s all issues you possibly can see within the character creator, although. This tweet exhibits every part, however right here’s the creative censored model.

Sure, that’s the default Darkish Urge mannequin. And sure, that’s eight bare dudes.

I couldn’t inform y’all what on earth broke BG3 to do that, however as an alternative of pulling up the character creator… that is the scene I used to be greeted with. I really feel like I’ve walked in on one thing I wasn’t speculated to see, however I nonetheless stood there. Staring. Out of shock or delight, I don’t know, however I laughed so arduous I began that gasping-crying quantity.

That’s it, too. That’s all I did. I put in some hair mods, clicked new sport, and as an alternative of the character creator, Baldur’s Gate 3 whisked me off to an ethereal airplane the place everybody’s bare and dominated by a dragon. There’s a lot happening that makes this completely hilarious. All of them appear like the man-standing emoji, and the 4 portraits on the facet kill me. Additionally, the place am I? Why is the Darkish Urge right here? Is he some type of poetic metaphor for no matter is occurring?

Anyway, I imply, in case you’re right here to snort at me, legitimate. But in addition, in case you’re right here since you’ve one way or the other managed to interrupt BG3 in a approach that you simply’re surrounded by eight bare guys and a dragon particular person, I’ve received your again. One way or the other, I managed to repair it.

Merely uninstalling my mods didn’t work; each time I attempted beginning a brand new sport, BG3 greeted me with the Darkish Urge and their nudey band once more. As a substitute, I uninstalled my mods and loaded an older save file — not the latest, that didn’t work both for no matter cause — then exited the sport. Afterward, I might begin a brand new sport and return to “regular” BG3 character creator actions, like making girlfriends for Shadowheart.

Now, I’m again to taking part in Barbies with Larian’s unbelievable workshop like I didn’t simply trigger the weirdest BG3 glitch ever. I’m nonetheless making an attempt to complete my first run, so I hope we by no means meet once more, however I’ll bear in mind the Darkish Urge and their eight-man streaking celebration fondly.