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Baldur's Gate 3 devs share more wild statistics, like what NPCs died the most
Polygon.com • • technology
Key Points:
- Baldur's Gate 3 celebrated its third anniversary with Larian Studios sharing new player statistics, highlighting interesting player behaviors and character deaths.
- Alfira, a bard, died in 48% of Dark Urge runs, with more non-Dark Urge players killing her than Dark Urge players, indicating her frequent demise regardless of playstyle.
- Dark Urge players embraced violent role-playing, killing key NPCs like Isobel (62%), Zevlor (48%), Wulbren (32%), and Popper (30%) during their runs.
- The most killed story NPCs include Zevlor (12.31 million deaths), Rolan (8.62 million), Isobel (7.2 million), Volo (4.62 million), and Alfira (2.62 million).
- Beyond deaths, players have downloaded mods 500 million times, and unique stats reveal rare combat moves and extreme save-scumming, such as over 560 manual saves in a single playthrough.
