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Disclaimer: I know that on some level, I'm partially to blame for what I am about to share, but I come here hoping the right dev at Larian may see it and take pity.

So a few years back, I played DOS2 on my PC and LOVED it. When I heard it was coming out on Switch, I was thrilled to pick it back up again so I could do another campaign on the go.

Fast forward to today. I got through Act I on a near completionist run, and was bit into Act II. My husband said he wanted the TV, so I said no problem - it can cross save, right, so I'll continue on my computer!? I enabled cross saves on my Switch via the game options menu. It gave me a quick prompt about transferring my current switch save to Steam, which I accepted! Or so I thought.

I open DOS2 it via Steam on my PC, only to find my old saves from my precious run a few years ago, no current campaign save from my switch to be found. "No problem," I think, and go back to my switch to re-open my current, locally-saved campaign.......to find out the local save files have been overwritten by my old campaign files from my steam account. I try deactivating steam saves in the menu and rebooting, to no avail.

In toil and despair, I go through the stages of grief (aka trying everything humanly possible to find a non-existent backup / pouring a whiskey). I finally accept the disappearance of my new campaign, and restart my game from the beginning on my switch. I finally land on the beach, and go to save. Being extra careful, I enable steam saves, and double check that prompt I mentioned before.

Well, it turns out if you press A, it uploads your switch saves. However, if you press B, it OVERWRITES local saves with your steam cloud saves. Unfortunately for me, I also have an Xbox (my usual console of choice), which has the A and B buttons reversed compared to the switch controller. I am so confident that I just mixed up my buttons on a single press, resulting in the erasure of my local saves. I realize this is technically my fault, but it would be REALLY helpful if this prompt was a little less easy to mess up! Yes, I know that I pressed the wrong button. But having only a half inch between cross save bliss and total campaign annihilation seems a little flawed, too.

Larian - I love you! I will play your games until my eyes pop out and Ifan gives me little kisses on the forehead. Please please please make this prompt more obvious for others! I feel the void has cursed me this day.

Signed,

BackOnTheBeach

Did you find a solution for this issue?

Mine started occurring infrequently in Act 2, maybe once towards the end of the act, turned into 10 or so times in Act 3 and now in Arx it happens constantly.

Clearing Levelcache and deleting old saves works for a little but the issue always returns.
The amount of save files doesn't seem to be the issue because when it's working I can quicksave 30+ times with no issue. However when the crashes start occurring I need to delete levelcache and saves in order to be able to save again.
Tested nearly all fixes I've found online, I've even reinstalled the game.

Steamcloud disabled.
Created new profile and moved saves.
Disabled Onedrive (Uninstalled)
No AV
Lowered inventory size
No mods except bedroll and 8 AP from giftbag
Lowered settings
Lowered total save count

Another thing I've noted is that when enabled any other feature from the giftbag the game is guaranteed to crash on the next save, so I can't enable anything else.

I'm over 100 hours into my first playthrough and this is just so frustrating. Never had anything like this in BG3.

It was the version on mod.io https://mod.io/g/baldursgate3/m/impui#description

Do you mean Gandrel? You meet him outside and should speak to him before entering Auntie Ethels Teahouse. Never heard about such a bug with him? But based on what you've described and the fact that the Vettel no longer appears, your game seems to be quite buggy or that you haven't explored her lair thoroughly enough.

In Baldur's Gate 3, you have to be extremely careful with this kind of approach! It backfires more often than you might think! I've seen so many complaints where suddenly your own camp has become completely hostile, and then on top of that in Honor Mode...

Hi everyone. Me and my friends have just started playing a few weeks ago, with me on my macbook, the host on their PC, and our friend on his PS5. I constantly and consistently keep getting disconnected, and I don't know what to do. I've followed all the advice online. We've all turned off autosave and cross save and enabled cross play. It doesnt work even if I use an ethernet connection. We've tried changing hosts and this still happens. I've tried playing with and without a VPN and it still happens. I dont have private relay on on my mac either. It also happens even if I launch from steam or directly from the app file and log in through larion. Please provide any advice or fixes that have worked for you guys, cause I got no idea what to do.

I'd like to see more dynamic environmental systems, involving weather-based mechanics and interactive construction

There's this mod which allows companions to ascend; really it resets it to the way it was before one of the bug fixes.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1691183676

Update: Part 2, Chapter 19 is now published. Who will survive the treachery at Nevrik's Keep?

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

Statistical spikes are always memorable. On tabletop many players have their lucky dice others aren't allowed to touch, almost superstitiously using some dice for attacks, others for saves and yet others for skills. One Star Wars D6-session we played in the mid-2000s was especially memorable. As the GM, I was rolling for both the gunners of a pirate transport with the player characters aboard, one also manning a turbolaser and their Imperial adversaries. They were intercepted and chased by TIE Bombers. When we rolled combat, all the pirate NPCs and player characters rolled normally, but when it was my turn to roll for the Imperial pilots, the Wild Dice rolled straights of 1s, read: One critical failure after the other. This pattern was stable not for one round, but for three consecutive combat rounds even when I switched the sequence. This resulted in the TIE Bombers annihilating each other or themselves. The in-game explanation was that there must have been sabotage by Rebels, but at the table we were like, what the Force was that? In BG3, I remember both some memorable 20s at the Waning Moon accompanied by weird crashes I couldn't reproduce later and Astarion having really bad luck with that mined intersection in Act 1 near the Goblin Camp. "Hey, should we go back to camp and ask Volo?" Other than that, I think the dice behaved pretty normally if you kept Karmic Dice unchecked.

I am well aware that you can, however you still have to handle her being evil for all of SoA and large parts of ToB. Parts in which for example your reputation may not exceed 18, or Viconia will leave (like all evil characters).

I remember first time I played Baldurs Gate, I simply disabled AI all the time so I could have Edwin in party with reputation 20. Not sure if that even works anymore with the EEs.

Yes, but just faces and the like, no game-altering things AFAIK.

Oh. It seems that this feature is not actually available in BG3 Mod Studio. Regardless, editing save files sounds far too complicated and risky. Why make it so complicated? It's easier to filter the .pak file of your AMD+REL mod. All you need is the name of your item or even better also it's description and search for it and you will also find the UUID. Do you need help with it? I can look for it if you tell me the items name or show me a screenshot?

Hello! This issue should now be resolved after the latest update:

https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=959594&an=66#Post959594

Hello! The latest update should have resolved this issue. Make sure you're on the latest game version and check if the performance issues are still occurring!

https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=959594&an=66#Post959594

Hello! This should now be resolved with the latest update!

https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=959594&an=66#Post959594

Version Number: 3.6.0.7178759

Hey all,

We hope you’ve been enjoying playing Divinity: Original Sin 2 on the latest generation of consoles! Today, we’re ironing out some kinks with a small update for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S that should resolve some performance issues, low FPS and multiplayer connection issues.

Changes: 
- Resolved some issues causing performance and FPS drops on Xbox.
- Fixed a bug preventing you from equipping items even if the equipment conditions were met.
- Improvements to loading speed for some savegames.
- The Teleportation skill should now allow you to move items on Xbox.
- Fixed multiplayer disconnection issues on Xbox.

Totally keeping it together. 

I'm working on a mod for BT1 and I want to be able to test out the model in-game before exporting. Having to exit and startup again just to get shadowheart is annoying.

Got a similar response to a bug report I filed yesterday. Would be nice if they gave a heads-up to the public instead of staying silent unless you reported a bug.

I’ve had something similar happen after a few updates as well. The mod manager sometimes seems to “forget” the enabled state even though nothing actually changed. What helped a bit for me was launching the game once, enabling everything, exiting completely, and then restarting so it writes the modsettings again.

Still feels pretty inconsistent though, especially after patches. I also play the game on laptop.

it would also add two dozen pages of code most people don't use and Larian didn't test actually works

apply hold as a bonus action first i.e, custom bonus action spell effect... personally i'd use a summon which turns invis and just has this custom attack mode [X per rest] as that is very easy to code and does the same thing

Unfortunately game (steam version) crashes on 2 my last quicksaves. It happened after I dropped teleporter pyramid in treasure room of dragon worshipers and went to Ars magicana to sold loot. I make 2 quicksaves near merchants I now cannot load them.
Older saves can be loaded without troubles.
Is there a way to troubleshoot what went wrong and fix my saves?

Hello again, sorry I wasn't responding for long, I've been quite busy. Thank you for your adviced, I attempted to do just like you asked but it was unsuccessful. Furthermore, I went as far as to completely reinstall my entire OS, and the game still won't load. And as a final nail in the coffin, I've now stumbled into a new problem: now the game won't load the main menu past 95%, HOWEVER! Only on my first attempt at launching it. Should I attempt to launch it a second time it will load the main menu but will fail to load a new game past 81%. I did some operations with mods (turning them off and on individually), and I succeeded at loading up a new game ONCE, but after I attempted it again, I was met with failure and now the bug that prevents the main menu from loading past 95% became permanent.

I'm really desperate here, I feel like there's no hope and there's something wrong with my PC at this point.

I always wanted to do a run where I never freed the pixie, but had to run around with a lantern out, just for Astarions and giggles.

Well, in this one, I went the Dryder route, straight to Moonrise, and he kept the moonlantern and scootered up the side of the tower to the top.

Later I went up the outside and cleared it except for Ketheric, and got the moonlantern. I didn't do anything with it (and on retrospect, not sure I could.)

Anyway...


I didn't even know this was possible. I suppose all those dead pixies should have been a clue, it wasn't just due to sloppy work by Balthazar. I've no idea if it was me or the dryder who was responsible.


I plead dumb. Which is easy with an 8 int.