Larian is closing out 2023 with yet one more Baldur’s Gate 3 replace, and as ordinary, it’s had a great deal of enjoyable writing the patch notes.
Baldur’s Gate 3 Hotfix #15, now stay, isn’t a game-changing replace by any means, nevertheless it nonetheless makes numerous vital enhancements and fixes to the sprawling Dungeons & Dragons role-playing recreation. Chief amongst them are fixes for crashes, blockers, and gameplay points.
“Have you discovered some characters’ faces turning into stretched eldritch horrors with pits of flesh instead of eyes?” Larian asks within the patch notes revealed to the Baldur’s Gate 3 Steam page. “That shouldn’t be an issue anymore!”
The patch notes are revealed in full beneath, however I need to draw your consideration to the aforementioned repair. Right here’s the related line:
“Fastened a number of instances of what we have dubbed the Pinocchio problem, the place characters’ noses (and cheeks) get stretched in cinematics. Additionally they occur to lose their eyeballs, turning the sockets into pits of flesh.”
That actually paints an image, doesn’t it? I haven’t had this explicit bug throughout my ongoing playthrough, however I sort of want I had now.
Extra significantly, the hotfix additionally addresses a bug I’ve encountered fairly a bit: your followers not leaping after you. “Fastened companions not having the ability to soar when following the participant character,” the patch notes learn. Huzzah!
As Larian says, this hotfix additionally addresses a difficulty that was stopping gamers from loading a save if the mods used had modified. “Keep in mind some saves may nonetheless not load relying on the mods which have modified, however the menu ought to now allow you to proceed,” Larian stated.
Listed below are the Baldur’s Gate 3 Hotfix #15 patch notes in full:
CRASHES AND BLOCKERS
- Fastened a possible crash throughout autosave after shifting to one other degree.
- Fastened a multiplayer crash that would happen for the shopper when the host hundreds a savegame after a Sport Over display.
- Fastened a crash associated to deleted physics objects.
- Fastened a crash that may happen whenever you disarmed an NPC twice throughout fight and made them drop two completely different weapons (e.g. as a result of they had been dual-wielding), incapacitated them, and ended the fight with out killing them, after which the incapacitating situation bought eliminated.
- Fastened not having the ability to load a savegame that was began with a mod that is now lacking.
- Fastened a crash that would happen on Xbox when dropping web connection whereas modifying a foyer identify.
- Fastened a possible crash on Xbox associated to the sport checking whether or not you may have the Deluxe Version.
- Fastened a crash that would happen when swapping to Honour Mode.
- Fastened a crash that would happen when altering ranges.
PERFORMANCE AND CODE
- Fastened potential efficiency points on the finish of the cinematic the place Shadowheart within the Shadowfell.
- Fastened a difficulty associated to lava bubbles close to the Sentient Amulet in Grymforge inflicting savegames to turn out to be very massive.
- Fastened a reminiscence problem when closing containers on controller.
- Fastened the Low Mannequin High quality choice typically not working as anticipated.
- Fastened a difficulty that would make sure particular gadgets, just like the Idol of Silvanus, enter the unsuitable state when decluttered to a Traveller’s Chest.
- Decreased reminiscence utilization associated to animation skinning.
MULTIPLAYER
- Fastened the Traveller’s Chests typically disappearing when altering to or from Honour Mode within the Multiplayer Settings.
- Fastened a multiplayer problem the place, if the host was controlling a companion and a split-screen shopper joined the sport, the shopper would acquire management of the host’s avatar.
- Fastened a multiplayer problem the place a reconnecting participant would not get their characters assigned again to them appropriately.
- Fastened Participant 2 not having the ability to put together spells if Participant 1 strikes their focus throughout a split-screen recreation.
FLOW AND GAMEPLAY
- Addressed a difficulty that prevented you from speaking to NPCs at camp when going to camp by way of the Lengthy Relaxation button.
- Fastened some unsuitable character behaviours probably launched in Patch 4.
- The ‘Cope with the Satan’ quest now accounts for various outcomes within the Epilogue.
- Karlach ought to now get her scene in , no matter whether or not she’s an avatar or a companion.
- Fastened companions not having the ability to soar when following the participant character.
- Fastened a difficulty the place ending the tutorial with solely Lae’zel alive prevented you from saving the sport in Act I.
- Fastened Gale’s dialogue ending abruptly whenever you ask him what he wished to present.
- Fastened participant factions typically changing into hostile in the direction of one another once they should not.
- Fastened Create or Destroy Water solely casting Create Water at Degree 2.
OTHER FIXES
- The Korean language pack is now enabled on Mac.
- Fastened some weapon textures.
- Fastened a number of instances of what we have dubbed the Pinocchio problem, the place characters’ noses (and cheeks) get stretched in cinematics. Additionally they occur to lose their eyeballs, turning the sockets into pits of flesh.
- Fastened gear tooltips opened by way of the Stock typically randomly closing on controller with out participant enter.
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