Baldur’s Gate 3 update lets Sratch loose off the leash and fixes bugs

As additional detailed in our Baldur’s Gate 3 review, the brand new DnD-style RPG from Larian Studios leaves little to be desired with its intensive record of options. From every ridiculously well-written Baldur’s Gate 3 class to the characters you’ll come throughout whereas enjoying, you’re sure to by no means run out of enjoyable content material. With the sport’s participant rely constantly hovering and its group hungrily consuming up the Baldur’s Gate 3 quests, it’s no surprise that the devs have been so fast with updates.

A number of of crucial adjustments detailed within the Baldur’s Gate 3 patch notes embrace will increase to hit factors, adjustments to NPC dialog and reactions, fixes for audio and visible results, in addition to many adjustments to the story and quests. You’ll even be delighted to know that Scratch has now been let unfastened off of his leash. The goodest boy can discover digging spots on his personal. For those who’re a fan of the Baldur’s Gate 3 character creation, then you definitely’ll even be pleased to listen to that issues with colour decisions, particularly for Tiefling horns, have been reoslved.

Baldur’s Gate 3 patch notes – Hotfix replace – Friday, August 11, 2023

Crashes and blockers

• Mounted a problem with spell slots that may stop you from levelling up whereas multiclassing.
• Mounted an edge case difficulty stopping you from initiating a Lengthy Relaxation.
• Mounted a cross-save difficulty inflicting you to get caught syncing indefinitely, which prevented saving and loading.
• Mounted a crash that may happen when deciding on a summon with out a hotbar whereas a deck within the hotbar was maximised.

Multiplayer

• Mounted the Hireling UI from being break up in half on every monitor in splitscreen.
• Mounted some visible artefacts showing on split-screen when utilizing Vulkan.
• Wyll now appropriately recognises and confronts Karlach once you communicate to him with a Karlach avatar after one other avatar has already spoken to him.

Fight

Character creation

• Mounted mismatches between colors in Character Creation and in sport, primarily affecting horns.

Audio

• When issues go south in Crèche Y’llek, the music now goes from mellow to metallic.

Gameplay

• Mounted a problem stopping you from speaking to Withers in Act 3.
• Companions can now additionally set off varied tutorial pop-ups.
• Scratch can now discover digging spots by himself.
• Mounted a hatch within the Emerald Grove not unlocking after a profitable verify.
• The Satan’s within the Particulars achievement can now be achieved by all social gathering members, together with followers.
• Mounted a problem with crimes that meant you wouldn’t get caught committing against the law if one other social gathering member had already dedicated a extra extreme crime and resolved it peacefully.
• You now constantly get the Cold situation the morning after Astarion bites you.
• Mounted a bug permitting you to spam social gathering members’ voiced traces close to the log the place you’ll be able to recruit Karlach.
• Wyll now not says it’s best to discover and slay Karlach after you’ve recruited her.
• If Jatlo continues to be disguised after the shadow curse has been lifted, he’ll now drop his disguise when attacked.
• Made positive Youth Vis’kiir appears to be like like he’s cleansing earlier than you discuss to him in Crèche Y’llek.
• Mounted the hatchery and infirmary map markers in Crèche Y’llek.

• Lae’zel will now not completely go away the social gathering if you refuse to observe via with Vlaakith’s orders.

• Mounted a bug stopping you from utilizing the planecaster in Crèche Y’llek.
• Eliminated possession from the portraits of Lohse and Sebille in order that taking them isn’t against the law.
• Elevated the bounds of the Inquisitor’s room in Crèche Y’llek in order that the sport doesn’t assume you’ve left when you enter one of many aspect rooms.
• When enjoying as Shadowheart, telling Astarion about your affiliation with Shar now impacts his approval ranking.
• Astarion will now be higher at remembering whether or not you’ve seen his again.
• You may now not loot the objects belonging to the Inquisitor in Crèche Y’llek with out consequence.
• Mounted the vary indicators on the orthon’s shortly ticking mines.
• The dialogue that follows fight with Cazador will now set off appropriately even when you work together with a sure sarcophagus throughout fight.

• Alfira’s lute is now not invisible whereas she performs it at camp.

• Mounted the explosion VFX for the toy chest within the barn in Wyrm’s Crossing.
• Added a correct identify to a notice in Sharess’ Caress.

• Carrion will now resurrect with full well being as an alternative of 0 HP, and now you can attain his jars.

• Interacting with sure rune slates on the nautiloid now appropriately triggers the narrator’s line.
• Mounted the alarm within the Counting Home going off when it shouldn’t.

• Orin will now react to Wild Formed characters in the Temple of Bhaal.

• Added a world label to Orin’s physique so she’s simpler to seek out.
• Eliminated duplicated furnishings within the Elfsong Tavern.
• Made a door within the Elfsong Tavern indestructible.
• Mounted edge instances the place characters wouldn’t appropriately connect to the sport grid, inflicting knock-on points.

Journal

Move and scripting

• Mounted Shadowheart’s dialogue on the nautiloid enjoying twice when enjoying as Avatar Lae’zel.
• Eliminated a dialogue choice that’s now not related when speaking to Karlach.
• Made positive you get Astarion’s bitey scene at camp when you uncover his secret via different means.
• Mounted Astarion mentioning issues that haven’t occurred but when you romance him early on.
• Mounted Avatar Gale’s starvation not progressing if doesn’t meet Tara earlier than leaving the nautiloid crash website.
• Mounted a problem that prevented Brakkal from triggering the proper dialogue when he’s being launched if his goblin guards left with Minthara for the raid.
• Minthara now reacts extra appropriately when you kill all of the tieflings.
• Eliminated pointless VFX in a dialogue with Raphael at Final Gentle.
• Mounted Glut saying the incorrect line when he reanimates a spore servant.
• Made the dialogue choices with Therezzyn extra related when you’ve already been to the hatchery.
• Mounted a bug inflicting the incorrect dialogue to play when chatting with the Reconstituted Duellist when you haven’t met him earlier than.
• Mounted the identical dialogue choice showing twice when interacting with the Mirror of Loss.
• Kled will now play the proper dialogues in Outdated Garlow’s Place.
• Made positive Lakrissa and Alfira don’t seem within the Elfsong Tavern when you didn’t save them.
• Mounted a line about Lorroakan showing in a dialogue at camp when you haven’t met him but.
• You may now not ask Isobel the identical query about Ketheric on two separate events.
• Mounted some incorrect traces enjoying once you attain a late stage of the sport.
• Mounted Toobin considering you’ve got a runepowder bomb once you don’t.
• Mizora now not disappears from the sport after you resolve the Iron Throne state of affairs.

• After Mizora pops up on the Iron Throne, she is going to now be again at camp as an alternative of disappearing.

• Wyll now not talks about his father as if he’s not there anymore if his father was saved.

• Mounted Havkelaag accepting the gith egg through dialogue when he doesn’t have sufficient gold for it, and made it unimaginable to pickpocket again when you bought it to him.
• Korrilla is now higher at recognising the way you responded to Raphael’s deal.
• Swapped two {couples} within the Elfsong Tavern in order that they sit on the proper tables.
• Mounted Jaheira turning into a follower in Moonrise even when the situations weren’t met, which might trigger different points with Jaheira’s movement.
• Mounted Jaheira not returning to her human kind as soon as she leaves your social gathering.
• If Cazador’s bats are too removed from the participant to hitch fight, they are going to now be a part of anyway.
• Mounted the dialogue ability checks when you die in fight with the honour guard and are revived by the Emperor in Wyrm’s Lookout.
• Mounted the AI taking management of Lae’zel and kicking you out of a multiplayer sport, with Lae’zel turning into hostile in direction of the remaining participant in the event that they selected to betray Vlaakith and Inquisitor W’wargaz.
• Improved Halsin’s reactivity as to whether or not you’ve been to Grymforge.
• Mounted some incorrect choices exhibiting up in dialogue with Halsin a couple of explicit drow couple.
• Mounted Orin assuming you ate a selected morsel, even when you didn’t.
• Mounted a blocker stopping Nightsong from going to Ramazith’s Tower, and different points associated to her showing within the incorrect place or not showing in any respect.

UI

• Made Blue Behir Cube completely out there on all platforms with simply the bottom sport.
• Mounted the UI seemingly disappearing as a result of the sport thinks a personality continues to be in a dialogue, which might occur when going right into a dialogue in the midst of fight.
• Mounted the Assault button disappearing from the dialogue UI after loading a savegame made throughout a dialogue.

Cinematics

These are the Baldur’s Gate 3 patch notes for the hotfix replace. If you wish to take a look via Larian Studios’ full record, you are able to do so here for a extra detailed understanding of the gameplay adjustments and different changes.

For those who’re excited to see how Baldur’s Gate 3 has modified with the third replace, it’s best to take a look at a few of our helpful guides that can assist you as you journey. You may look via our overview of Baldur’s Gate 3 quests to help you as you traverse the expansive world when you wait in your patch to complete downloading. Alternatively, take a look at our information on the most effective Baldur’s Gate 3 companions to get an thought of what your social gathering composition ought to seem like.