The only saving grace is that it's not, er, actually supposed to be this way. In an announcement made to the Baldur's Gate 3 Discord, a senior community manager by the name of Salo writes: "No, the Patch 8 stress test hasn’t yet begun. Yes, PS5 players do currently have access to Patch 8."

Larian Studios is extremely confused right now, and a newly-created channel on the company's Slack server proves it. The much-anticipated patch 8 for Baldur's Gate 3, supposed to be a final hurrah for their landmark title,

So, yes, while you’re free to play around with Patch 8 on PlayStation 5, it sounds like you’re going to want to be careful of doing so with your main Baldur’s Gate 3 save le

Baldur's Gate 3's long-awaited Patch 8 is currently available to players on PS5...but it's not supposed to be. In a social media post today, the official Larian Studios account revealed that PS5 players do indeed have access to Patch 8 through what seems to be an accident somewhere,