Summary
- Larian Studios releases hotfix 23 for Baldur's Gate 3, focusing on bugs and crashes to enhance player experience.
- The update fixes various bugs impacting gameplay, including economy issues and potential game crashes.
- This includes one particularly strange incident where a player could sell a container with items in it, buy it back, and then sell it again, causing the game to crash entirely.
Larian Studios releases hotfix 23 for Baldur's Gate 3, which aims to continue improving the player's experience by addressing various bugs, crashes, and other oddities. It's been a bitter-sweet week for fans of the massively popular RPG, as Larian Studios boss Swen Vincke confirmed that Baldur's Gate 3 isn't getting any expansions, DLC, or even a sequel. The studio instead intends to move on to new projects, with many speculating that the popular Divinity series could be Larian's focus going forward.
While the surprising news was likely disappointing for many, Larian still intends to support Baldur's Gate 3 with new updates and hotfixes for the time being. There's no word on when that support could end, but for now, the studio continues to release new updates fairly often with even more features reportedly upcoming. Cross-platform mod support remains high on the list for many players, with the assumption that it will be included within Larian's upcoming major update for Baldur's Gate 3. For now though, the studio has released the latest hotfix, a smaller update that addresses many of the remaining bugs and crashes impacting the game.
Major Baldur's Gate 3 Villain Was Once Playable
Larian reveals that one major Baldur's Gate 3 villain was once meant to be a playable character, in addition to disclosing some other cut content.
The latest hotfix, posted to the official Baldur's Gate 3 social media account, largely addresses the various bugs still active within the game. Specifically, there are several bugs within this update that have been negatively impacting commerce within the game, including the proper amounts of gold not being removed from the Trader's inventory as well as other tricks players have found for generating lots of money in Baldur's Gate 3 in ways that Larian likely never intended.
The update also addresses a handful of potential game crashes that could happen when creating a character, saving the game at the wrong time during a conversation, VFX materials loading, as well as one strange incident where a player could sell a container with items in it, buy it back, and then sell it again. Scripting related errors have also been addressed in this hotfix including one related to the clubs inside the Moonrise Towers Prison area in Baldur's Gate 3.
This latest update follows closely on the heels of Hotfix 22, which finally brought parity between all platforms. Prior to Hotfix 22, the Xbox version of Baldur's Gate 3 lagged behind in terms of updates as Larian needed more time to test solutions to crashes that could happen if the game was suspended. However, after the launch of Hotfix 22, Xbox fans are now caught up to the PC and PlayStation specific versions, with upcoming updates as well as Hotfix 23 continuing to maintain that parity for all players.
Possible light spoilers ahead. Beware.
Baldur's Gate 3 Hotfix 23 Patch Notes
CRASHES AND BLOCKERS
- Fixed a bug causing you to get stuck in Lae'zel's recruitment dialogue if you saved halfway through the dialogue and then loaded that savegame.
- Fixed a potential rare crash related to our particle system.
- Fixed a crash when throwing the Black Pudding Platter.
- Fixed a crash during Character Creation.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when selling a container with items in it, buying it again, and then selling it again.
- Fixed a rare crash related to VFX material loading.
- Fixed a bug preventing you from equipping items and using spells because an item kept being equipped.
- Optimised Poltergeist auras to reduce memory usage and prevent an out-of-memory crash.
UI
- Fixed an issue where selling all wares didn't remove the proper gold amount from the trader inventory.
- Fixed a bug letting you generate gold by buying multiple items but only paying for one of them if you dragged the items into a container.
- Fixed a bug letting you 'buy' a stack of items for free when dragging the stack into a container and using the item splitter.
- Fixed equipped items blocked by shapeshifting being tradable, allowing you to get paid even if the items don't transfer to the trader's inventory.
SCRIPTING
- Fixed clubs from the Moonrise Towers Prison getting automatically equipped when you picked them up.
- Fixed a bug causing Nightsong to continuously gain and lose the Soul Caged condition if she had a condition that provided Immunity to being Incapacitated.
- Fixed Balthazar not finishing his turn when he is too far from the Colony ritual spot to reach it in one turn.
- Fixed a bug where a civilian would call for help and a group of Flaming Fists would appear, but instead of moving to the crime scene, they would just stand where they were spawned.
CODE AND GAMEPLAY
- Fixed a bug causing party members to be wrongly ungrouped and fixed savegames in this broken state.
- Fixed randomly occurring issues with dialogues, like repeating lines and options not showing up correctly.
- Fixed some characters missing their spell SFX when going from camp to the world.
- Fixed the bulette getting permanently stuck under the ground when you passed by in Turn-Based Mode.
Baldur's Gate 3
- Released
- August 3, 2023
WHERE TO PLAY
Abducted, infected, lost. You are turning into a monster, but as the corruption inside you grows, so does your power. Forge a tale of fellowship and betrayal, sacrifice and survival, and the lure of absolute power. Caught in a conflict between devils, deities, and sinister otherworldly forces, you and your party will determine the fate of the Forgotten Realms.
THE ULTIMATE D&D EXPERIENCE
Choose from a wide selection of D&D races and classes, or play as an origin character with a hand-crafted background. Adventure, loot, battle, and romance as you journey through the Forgotten Realms and beyond. Play alone or as a party of up to four in multiplayer – and select your companions carefully.
A CINEMATIC STORYTELLING EPIC
Forged with the new Divinity 4.0 engine, Baldur’s Gate 3 gives you unprecedented freedom to explore, experiment, and interact with a world that reacts to your choices. A grand, cinematic narrative brings you closer to your characters than ever before, as you venture through our biggest world yet. Romance, deceive, aid, obstruct, and grow alongside your friends thanks to Larian's next-generation RPG engine.
- ESRB
- M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Partial Nudity, Sexual Content, Strong Language, Violence
- Developer(s)
- Larian Studios
- Publisher(s)
- Larian Studios
- Franchise
- Baldur's Gate
- Number of Players
- 1-4
- Split Screen Orientation
- Vertical Only
- Platform(s)
- PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PC, macOS
- Genre(s)
- RPG
