The updates for Baldur’s Gate 3 are coming thick and quick. The most recent, Hotfix 21, is dwell now throughout PC, Mac, and PlayStation, but Xbox gamers should wait.
Hotfix 21 takes purpose at bugs, crashes, and blockers, and restores the power to ship gadgets to particular camp companions whereas exterior of camp. “Be happy to ship all of your heavy gadgets to Karlach for straightforward entry,” developer Larian mentioned in usually enjoyable patch notes. “She will deal with the pressure, don’t fear.”
What isn’t enjoyable, nevertheless, is what’s taking place with the Xbox model of the sprawling Dungeons & Dragons role-playing recreation. Xbox gamers are nonetheless ready on Hotfix 20 and at the moment are ready on Hotfix 21 additionally, with each updates nonetheless present process testing for Microsoft’s console. Larian mentioned that is the results of the invention of a crash bug unique to Xbox, so it’s taking the time to examine and remedy the problem “so your future adventures go a little smoother”.
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This has an unlucky knock-on impact, nevertheless: at present, cross-saves should not loadable on Xbox if they arrive from platforms which have already been up to date to Hotfixes 20 or 21 (from right now, that’s all of the others). “We apologise for any inconvenience this may increasingly trigger and are working to carry these hotfixes to Xbox as quickly as attainable,” Larian mentioned.
As Larian tends to with all Baldur’s Gate 3 patch notes now, it points a warning about mods:
“As with earlier updates, when you’re experiencing any points after putting in this newest hotfix, please examine whether or not the problem nonetheless persists with all mods uninstalled. Should you proceed to expertise this challenge after uninstalling mods, please contact our assist group and submit a full report to assist us remedy your challenge.”
Final month, Larian referred to as on the Baldur’s Gate 3 neighborhood to stop what it referred to as “threats and toxicity” over mod assist, insisting conversations round new options “take time”. Ever since Baldur’s Gate 3 got here out in August 2023, gamers who use mods have been pissed off with having to uninstall, reinstall, replace, and re-juggle their mods each time a new patch is launched. So the current announcement that official mod assist is on its approach was seen as a constructive. Nevertheless, a vocal minority throughout the neighborhood took issues too far.
Baldur’s Gate 3 Hotfix 21 Patch Notes:
CRASHES AND BLOCKERS
- Mounted a crash associated to Avatars now not being within the social gathering.
- Mounted a potential blocker the place having Gale would kill your character, leaving you as a mote within the epilogue, unable to speak to anybody.
- Mounted a multiplayer bug inflicting your character to get caught in case you have the Eavesdrop possibility energetic and attempt to decide a lock similtaneously one other participant triggers a cinematic dialogue.
- Added some further error checks for when the sport fails to load a save.
- Mounted a crash through the transition between a dialogue with and Shadowheart’s dream about
- Mounted a crash when switching characters in Character Creation.
UI
- Made the ‘Promote Wares’ and ‘Supply Wares’ buttons work for all social gathering members in a buying and selling session as a substitute of simply the character with the wares of their stock.
- Enabled multiselection within the Commerce UI for keyboard and mouse. Additionally mounted ‘Purchase Again’ costs.
- Mounted a bug inflicting social gathering gold to initially be set to 0 when buying and selling or bartering, providing you with an ‘Inadequate Gold’ warning, irrespective of how a lot you truly had.
- Mounted ‘Ship To’ not displaying camp characters within the context menu when choosing a number of gadgets.
- Promoting a container to a dealer and then swapping to a totally different character within the Commerce/Barter UI now not permits you to use ‘Take All’ to switch the dealer’s inventory to your stock.
- Restored the power to ship gadgets to camp companions whereas exterior of the camp. Lots of you felt this was a good quality-of-life characteristic, so it is again!
- Mounted a bug letting you place gear into incompatible gear slots. Please take these gloves off your toes.
- Mounted lengthy Waypoint names generally clipping within the map on keyboard and mouse.
- Restored the ‘Ship To’ and ‘Choose Up’ choices within the context menu for gadgets within the Traveller’s Chest.
- Mounted a bug the place rebinding the left mouse button would take away its performance, stopping you from clicking.
- Mounted the ‘Type By’ perform not working correctly for containers and inventories when sorting by the identical filter twice in a row.
- Mounted the ‘Type By’ perform not working for corpse inventories.
- Mounted an exploit that might provide you with free gadgets from a dealer by rapidly escaping the Commerce UI whereas dragging an merchandise to the Barter UI stock.
- Mounted the Upcast view on the hotbar closing prematurely while you change your Upcast choice, forcing you to select the utmost variety of targets. Additionally mounted the hotbar incorrectly reflecting the present spell state after you alter your Metamagic choice.
SCRIPTING
- Mounted a dialogue not triggering after if all of the Gondians, together with Zanner, died.
- Mounted a bug inflicting Minthara to hold repeating a greeting that additionally occurred to be a good little Act III spoiler.
- Mounted a bug inflicting the owlbear cub to disappear from camp. Little buddy simply bought misplaced.
- Mounted the crime dialogue for trespassing getting spammed beside the Metal Watch Foundry when you triggered the alarmed door and then saved the sport throughout the forbidden space exterior the Foundry.
- Mounted an edgecase the place having Minthara round may teleport the social gathering again to the Emerald Grove as a substitute of the Decrease Metropolis.
- Mounted Wyll’s quest not beginning while you recruit him by changing one other companion with him.
- Mounted the ‘Enemy of Justice’ situation making use of to your participant character upon reaching Créche Y’llek or the Shadow-Cursed Lands when you knocked out Minthara in a earlier area, or upon reaching the Decrease Metropolis when you killed a guard at Moonrise Towers and Araj Oblodra witnessed it.
- Mounted a bug the place the sport wouldn’t realise knocked-out Minthara had been defeated in Act I when you took a Lengthy Relaxation between knocking her out and defeating the opposite goblin leaders.
GAMEPLAY
- You’ll be able to now not save your recreation whereas the credit are rolling. That is to forestall points with the sport not figuring out which state to load.
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