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Ok, so my friends and I wanna play Baldur's Gate 3 together. Now, almost all of us bought the game via Steam, and one friend acquired the game in a 'non-standard' way. How do we make multiplayer work?

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I think you all need to be playing the same version to play together.

The smart one among you, the one who pirated, has a headstart. The rest of you need to get your act together, pirate it, and then use something like Hamachi to simulate a LAN environment. This will allow you to play online together without having to pay for it.

[-] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 6 days ago

Fake a LAN connection? I've played with someone using an unusual acquisition method and bg3 literally just let it happen over lan, 0 fucks given and no work around. That was about a year ago, though.

[-] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 13 points 6 days ago

I know my cousin and his friends used hamachi back in the day, if setting up your own vpn network is too much work that might be a solution.

[-] MangoPenguin 7 points 6 days ago

Tailscale or Zerotier are the current best options I think.

[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 6 days ago

Use zerotier/tailscale to set up a VPN/VLAN between your desktops with almost no effort (think modern day hamachi)

[-] Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social 10 points 6 days ago

Yup, zerotier works surprisingly well for stuff like this.

[-] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

Absolutely not. Tailscale is witchcraft.

[-] commiunism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 6 days ago

Have you tried just giving the friend MP code and them joining through it? Worked for me without any zerotier, so it could be repack dependent. I used the GOG version.

[-] Bitcrazy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago

Assuming it’s GoG just play… verify your installer though

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 6 days ago

Pretty sure even pirated copies can make a Larian account and add friends thru that.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 8 points 6 days ago

The game is DRM free. Nothing is stopping you.

[-] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

just get GOG version and you can just direct connect to your lobby with code

I had it on GOG and played with my Steam friends via the code for the session, i imagine it would work? But i may be terribly wrong on this, so dont take my word on this

this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2025
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