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Halsin has a hot body, but his face prevented me from feeling any attraction to him.
He's an elf, why is his face so aged??? He looks like a bulldog with a melting face. 😩

Gortash is also described as a "handsome young man", but his model is ugly and aged, without coherence.

Why does everyone have such aged and ugly faces?
Larian, just give me some hot young men!

I am hoping for anywhere between four and six party members active on the field, with additional characters tagging along and setting up camp who can be swapped in and out as needed.

As far as actual characters are concerned, I hope for a healthy balance between the conventional, traditional options and the more unusual. The most popular combination for gamers in almost every fantasy game is a male human with a sword. To some that may be boring, though to others it is a key element to enjoyment.

Even as someone who admittedly drifts towards the conventionally attractive playable options in any given game I do not like it when every single playable race has their unique elements sanded down in order to be more palatable to those who cannot handle any real quirks, grit or nuance even in settings that make no secret of the fact that they have darker elements present.

Hi everyone,

It's a really sad situation, but it's good to see that it's not an isolated case and it's happening all over different prataforms.
XBOX and PS5 users reporting the exact same error, that's not at all a coincidence.

The mod variable tends to be the most critical in this kind of scenarios, but clearly it's not a mod issue, since there are players (like me) that don't use mods and are having the "not loading crash error".

I really hope that Larian solves this and the game becomes playabel again.

Will be posting day in and out here, also sending Larian, in there Bug Report Mail, this subject, so it won't just vanish in the forum.

I concur. The armor design was often a bit clownish. Without the transmog mod several items wouldn't be of use for me. Medium armor should not look heavier than heavy armor in some cases. There shouldn't be cowboy hats that from the stats you would want to wear together with plate armor. Turn down the amount of spikes and overdone impractical adornments. And so on.

But I found the design lacking also in other parts. Heavy armor should be the most protective and not surpassed easily by some medium armors. Light armor should have an use and not be made almost useless by medium armor. Helmets and shields should have higher importance. Such things.

They have a bit at least, it seems, although I find them still ... ugly and unpleasant. Especially the alien lower legs may have remained. I'm not sure, I'm a not a lizard fan and pro. Relatively early in the trailer, after the dwarf (?) is nudged by the little girl, you see a lizard walking. Sadly only from behind but it could show the inverted joints of the legs. Or not?

Thank you. It's a bit baffling, the usual links on imgur don't show .png or .jpg and also cannot be edited. In the end I took one link with [img] brackets around a .png and edited it on the forum page, by deleting the brackets. Strange but it worked.

I would like a day/night cycle as well, that changes things around depending on the time of day, or night.

On the other hand, it all depends on how much it costs development wise, and what is being left out for it to be in? I don't know.

I already fear what the cinematic approach to dialogue will mean for everything else.

Says in the name.

Whenever I switch to a character, or the character is switched whenever i'm playing this main save with friends, the game just ends up freezing on said character. I believe moves no longer work, they can't move, the game still moves, but if I try reloading a save, the screen goes to black and doesn't do anything, and the only way is to restart the game, which is a bit annoying. This issue only started when we made it to act 2, and head towards the bandit woodmill base.

please add dualsense support to steam

Hello all. I'm trying to create a Story Script for our GM campaign that unequips the player's weapon (weapon slot and shield slot) when a certain status is applied, and then equips that weapon back when that status is removed.

I have created the following story script which saves the player+weapon info to a db, and it is fully working in the Editor, but it does not fully work in the game itself on an actual player's character.

In-game, the script does manage to unequip the item, and it does seem to save the info in the db (I unpacked a saved-game file and checked there, and my other Osiris scripts also keep their db data persistent), however, the script does not manage to equip that item back onto the player's character in-game.

Does anyone know what might be the issue? Thank you.

My Script:

Once again I'm going through BG3 and once again I'm having an affair with Minthara, and once again I'm damn sad about the fact that Larian didn't finish the content with her D:
In general, I agree with many things described in the topic and We have to get Larian to finish her content somehow!!! (I just don't know how)

I ran into a problem that a person described on a Reddit forum. I sincerely do not understand why this is so
https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGat...thara_not_have_a_dark_urge_resist_scene/

I've been trying to find mods that change this, but to no avail.

I have played over 200 hours of DOS2 Definitive Edition. I have always run the game on high settings and have never had an issue despite my set up being fairly old. On my last playthrough I reached the Undertavern and suddenly my performance tanked from 200 FPS to between 5-40 FPS, spiking up and down between these two points. Upon investigation, my GPU use would start at around 40% and then spike to 99% after a few minutes, potentially causing the issues.

I have tried to fix this but have not had any luck. I relaunched the game and it ran fine for about 2 minutes before the performance tanked again. I tried lowering the settings right down to very low, updated my drivers, disabled cloud save, disabled hardware accelerated GPU scaling, capped my framerate to 60FPS and cleared all my other saves on the device. This did nothing to help. I also worked my way through the solutions on a thread on the Larian Studios Support Page titled 'Performance issues' but did bot see an improvement. I started a new game and the same thing happened again on the tutorial deck, running well for two minutes before tanking.

Do you guys have any idea what might be happening and if there is a way to solve it? Would really appreciate any help because I would love to be able to keep playing this game.

Most likely. As it seems that there's just a timer before they decide to rush in. I haven't pinpointed the exact trigger for the timer (Either leaving Shar's domain or going near Moonrise) but there does appear to be one, I found it on one of my first playthroughs as I stopped to recover health by passing around the Peirapt of Wound Closure and chugging health potions and do some inventory management... Only for the Harpers to decide to rush on in of their own accord.


NPC's running headfirst into AoE's is not unique to Harpers. It occurs whenever there are NPC's since there's no code in regards to avoiding them.

There are a number of times when this causes issues, such as the Nere encounter (The terrified gnomes love to go run themselves into AoE's, die and then all get mad at you) as well as several encounters in the city in Act 3 where the civilians in the street can walk into AoE's and cause everyone to get mad at you.

With also some lesser issues that don't involve enraging factions, such as the Druids in the Kagha encounter who love to get rekt by Kagha's Moonbeam (Regardless of if she's an ally or enemy) or even your own party members running through your own AoE's once a fight ends and they rush back to your PC...


Most likely. AI behaviours in this game are not complex enough to factor in choices (There have been complaints in another thread about how Jaheira will act like you have the Artifact even if you pass the skill check to not let her know about it).

So she'll run in even if she's alone.

Can we get any news on a update for the game. It is basically unplayable with friends at the moment. They just constantly time out and we end up not playing after hours of trying to play. FPS drops after a few hours. Teleport is not working making some quest items and the lamp in the frozen cellar harder to obtain. I love these games and just want to be able to share them with my friends.

I'm currently running into an issue where, following the summoning ritual into the next act, the game will give me one of two issues:

1. The game will crash, but I managed to stop this by disabling cutscenes and adding a resolution line to the config file.

2. Asks me for the Play Disc 3 error Play Disc 3, which I have not been able to solve.

Are there any workarounds for this?

Also note, I am playing on the 1.34A patch for the game.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Spoilers!







Shadowheart: "There's so much I can't remember, yet I picked up these implements...I'd know exactly what to do."

Shadowheart: "How many people did I help break upon this thing...?"

Debbie the Emerald Eviscerator: "Take heart! Based on this barrel of clothing that, umm, was no longer needed, you were like Thanos, fair to rich and poor alike. There's that!" smiley-face

Just finished the spectator fight, the one with the statues. Quite a struggle because I F5'd at a precarious, stupid moment. Anyway, after many reloads finally finished it off, went into the cut scene but had no choice but to fight the happy guys I just freed because I wanted teh icy, part 2 starting running on empty, succeed there too.

Fight over, party is all over the place but we're still grouped, so they all run up to me. Gale runs through his own blade cloud.

Series X. Same here! I, too, am experiencing the performance drops after a couple hours or saves, then eventually a crash. Sometimes it happens after a save.

I like supporting Larian; especially DivDiv, Beyond Div, and Div-2 so i have bought multiple copies of these games. I wish to play through Div 2 again and I own 3 versions disk, DKS Steam and Dev Cut. Is there any differences in the loot tables? I always felt the disk version had better drops for some reason.

P.S. I haven't done BG3 as I'm not a D&D guy but prolly should try it one day. Lol, I've been a member for 22 years.

Series X. Same here. My friends keep timing out from my lobbies. Started happening in the late December update and when we reached Act 2. Not sure which was the cause.

Also experiencing the frame drops after 2-3 hours of gameplay or after having saved the game many times or even loading a save many times. Again, not sure the cause, but seemingly all connected.

It's likely they're keeping tabs on the forum. Given that:

1) They implemented this subforum this early. When it would be filled with people's ideas and wishes for the next game given the lack of actual information about it to discuss.

2) Larian do entertain player feedback. It's the basis for their overall development. The whole "Early Access" releases are there to get player feedback to shape development and polish of Act 1. With post-release patches being driven by a lot of player feedback.

Of course, one does have to take this with a grain of salt. Just because they might look at the forum, it doesn't mean they will necessarily act upon any of the wishes people here may have. Since they still have their own vision for what the game will be, as well as however much development that's already been put into it.

Update: Part 2, Chapter 12 is now published. The Hellraisers delve into the vaults of Az'gran, hoping to find Karlach's heart of flesh.

BG3.5 - Hellraisers (Fanfiction)
Baldur's Gate 3.5: Hellraisers - an original fanfic story that is a sequel to Baldur's Gate 3 Fanfic: The Afflicted. It picks up immediately after the events of Baldur's Gate 3 as characters from the previous fanfic - Fiovay, Kai, Aelun, Vlyn, and the other members of their party - travel to Avernus. Their quest is to save Karlach but also to hopefully find and rescue Darson, Aelun's father, from the clutches of Demogorgon.

Here is the link to the blog site: https://baldursgate3hellraisers.blogspot.com/2025/10/baldurs-gate-35-hellraisers.html

I was playing fine 2 days ago and saved in the middle of a battle against Loric because I was getting sleepy (It's possible and I've done it multiple times before so why not).
I went to play again the next day only to find that I cannot load my previous saves.
I thought this was simply a bug from saving mid-battle, but I also tried reloading a past save where no battles are happening, it still has the same error code.
The error: something about the program not being able to copy the save files from the player profile subfolder to the levelCache folder, code 119, 120

Now I know I am not the only ones who had this problem, I've already tried the solutions to the error code from other threads but it's still happening.

I even got to wiping the entire drive and reinstalling the game over again, it still produces the same code.

Loading a New Game file also produces the same error code.

I tried verifying the game file integrity multiple times. Still error :""(

Is this a problem with my drive? Or the save files? Or the game?
I was just getting hooked on the game u_u I don't want to abandon it

So what I'll do is focus right now on writing her as a companion for Tav. Then go over it again adding some Durge and Origin specific stuff - I have some thoughts there. Maybe some Race & Class specific stuff as well; like if you're a Gnome or Bard you can geek out with her over Chiktikka Fastpaws stories, Wizards over magic and 'science'. Maybe Elves can teach her how to Reverie since she might have been too young when she was taken to have learned to do that properly.

For class, right now I have her as a Knowledge Domain Cleric. Nature Domain would be appropriate for Baervan, but originally of course she was a multi-class Wizard/Cleric. Knowledge Domain is probably the closest you can get in one class.

As for her being starting so low-level, I've thought about a few ways to handle that. Like maybe she's already encountered Mindflayers who tried to scramble parts of her mind to make her less of a threat, so she needs time to recover her full strength. Or maybe she is actually very powerful but is pretending not to be so as not to upstage you, because she's nice like that (obviously not serious there, but it could be a fun fanfiction or something). Honestly I don't really worry about level too much. When you encounter Jaheira and Khalid in BG1 they're supposed to have already been adventuring with Gorion over a decade before.

DID YOU KNOW: The word 'geek' came from 19th Century Circus Performers (likely deriving from Dutch and German words meaning fool or freak), who would bite the heads off live animals. Don't worry; Aerie is in fact a geek in the more modern sense of the word.