The developer of Baldur’s Gate 3 has issued an replace on the deleted save bug that’s affecting the just lately launched Xbox model of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing recreation.
The difficulty causes saves to disappear after a crash, which for a recreation as concerned and lengthy as Baldur’s Gate 3 is a big concern.
Yesterday, December 11, Larian issued a small replace to Baldur’s Gate 3 that included stability fixes, however players reported it failed to stamp out the bug. This morning, December 12, Michael Douse, the Director of Publishing at Larian, tweeted to say the developer is working with Microsoft on a second repair “that ought to hopefully clear up it”.
“It’s wanting optimistic,” Douse continued. “Not so simple as simply patching the sport itself, so kudos to the inexperienced staff for being so on prime.”
Within the meantime, Douse referred Xbox gamers to Microsoft’s recommendations to “assist restrict” the potential of operating into the issue.
“Excellent news is it shouldn’t be current on the Xbox retail model,” Douse stated, “as long as your Xbox firmware is up to date.”
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Right here’s are Microsoft’s suggestions to restrict the Baldur’s Gate 3 Xbox crash save bug:
- Guarantee your console stays powered, even when turned off.
- Your Xbox console is designed to nonetheless carry out checks and features when turned off to assist optimize your expertise. If you flip your console off, be sure it’s accomplished correctly. Any technique that entails turning energy off to the console immediately could cause sudden points.
- Examples of those are beneath, however not restricted to
- Turning energy off on the wall or outlet the console is linked too.
- Turning off an influence strip or surge protector the console is plugged into.
- An sudden energy outage
- Examples of those are beneath, however not restricted to
- To show off your console correctly, observe these steps.
- Maintain down the Xbox button in your controller.
- Choose Flip off console.
- You can even simply press the Energy button on the entrance of the console to provoke a shut down.
- To study extra about energy choices and varied energy states in your console, go here
- Your Xbox console is designed to nonetheless carry out checks and features when turned off to assist optimize your expertise. If you flip your console off, be sure it’s accomplished correctly. Any technique that entails turning energy off to the console immediately could cause sudden points.
- Be sure your Xbox is up to date.
- Guarantee your system is up to date as console updates often embody fixes to how video games function.
- Even when your console is about to obtain automated updates, you should still have to do a guide replace to guarantee your console is as up to date as it may be.
- To carry out a guide replace, observe these directions.
- Make it possible for your console is linked to the web, after which press the Xbox button to open the information.
- Choose Profile & system,
- then go to Settings.
- then to System.
- and eventually Updates.
- Below Updates, you’ll see:
- Console replace accessible. Choose this to start your replace, or
- No console replace accessible. This implies your console is up to date.
- Below Updates, you’ll see:
- To study extra about Xbox console updates, go here.
- To see the historical past of Xbox updates and what every replace contains, go here.
- If you want to preserve your console up to date however wouldn’t have an Web connection accessible, try our article on performing an offline system update.
- Shut your recreation utterly if you find yourself accomplished enjoying.
- Save your progress within the recreation first.
- Exit the title to your Residence display screen.
- You need to use the Xbox button in your controller to choose Residence to get right here.
- On the Residence display screen, choose Baldur’s Gate 3 out of your just lately performed listing.
- This can be in the direction of the highest of the dashboard.
- Spotlight the sport, after which press the Menu button in your controller.
- Choose Stop
- If it is not current, the sport just isn’t at the moment operating.
- To study extra about Fast Resume, go here.
Baldur’s Gate 3 launched on Xbox Sequence X and S final week over 4 months after it got here out on PC and three months after it launched on PlayStation 5. Larian labored with Microsoft to assist get the sport operating nicely sufficient on the much less highly effective Xbox Sequence S, which had precipitated points. The concession: Xbox Sequence X consoles have the split-screen characteristic, however Xbox Sequence S doesn’t.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is among the greatest video games of 2023, and took house the highest prize of Recreation of the 12 months at The Recreation Awards 2023.
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