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Obtaining a platinum trophy on the PlayStation 5 version ofBaldur’s Gate 3can be as straightforward as spending around an hour loading PC saves, according to some early player reports. This discovery emerged online at the tail end of theBaldur’s Gate 3PS5 early access periodleading up to its official September 6 release on Sony’s console.
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Apart from the inherent level of convenience offered by this feature, it turns out thatBaldur’s Gate 3cross-saves are also useful for quickly unlocking the game’s platinum trophy on the PS5. At least two players already managed to do so within hours of the RPG’s official release on Sony’s console, PlayStation LifeStyle reports. PSNProfiles forums user StyxSense also confirmed that popping achievements via cross-saves is a viable strategy after doing so to unlock the Critical Hit trophy for “completing” the PS5 version of the game on Tactician difficulty.
SinceBaldur’s Gate 3has 53 achievements in total, using cross-saves to fast-track the game’s platinum trophy on the PS5 still requires players to have access to a fairly extensive library of strategically made saves. Nevertheless, completionists who care about achievements might find that spending some time loading saves is a fairly efficient time investment, even compared to mostPS5 games with extremely easy platinum trophies.
This relative ease of unlocking the platinum trophy on the PS5 version ofBaldur’s Gate 3is plausibly not an oversight on Larian’s part, but merely a side effect of the RPG’s cross-save support. After all, a similar loophole also allowed players to fast-track their way to a platinum trophy on the PS4 version ofDivinity: Original Sin 2.
And though it’s theoretically possible to side-load someone else’s saves on PC before using them on Sony’s console to pop trophies, doing so still requires buying the game twice. Between that requirement and the fact thatBaldur’s Gate 3isn’t a competitive game, Larian is presumably fine with letting anyone who wants to obtain a platinum trophy by abusing cross-saves to do so. This shortcut is hence also likely to be available on Microsoft’s consoles, as the developer already confirmed that theXbox version ofBaldur’s Gate 3will support cross-savesas well.
Baldur’s Gate 3is available now on PC and PS5. An Xbox Series X/S port is expected to launch in late 2023.
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