Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems List of issues big and small

Second wind ability causes casting character to become frozen. Second wind icon continues to pulse while all other icons are greyed out.
Tried fast travel, short rest, and long rest but the the character is still frozen.

My experience so far...

I noticed that while I get a nat 20, sometimes the game drops fps insanely, to the point where I need to force close it and reload. Running settings on Ultra with a 2070 super.

Sometimes killing enemies causes their body to rubber band around.

The standard light armor has disadvantage on stealth checks? Seems odd when the rogue comes with armor that gives him disadvantage LOL

Occasionally the camera gets stuck and goes around in a circle. This happens when I hold alt and am moving the camera with my q and e bindings

Playing Multiplayer, constantly seeing my teammate is in dialogue then occasionally getting a bug where they can't do anything because the bottom 4 buttons of the dialogue UI are the only options.

Mindflayer tendrils, Tiefling tails, Dragon and Demon wings all seem to have a mind of their own.

During dialogue sometimes characters shake a bit.

After choosing the warlock ability devil vision option, my character was not gaining any of the bonuses.

EggBearer buff/debuff not working as intended. I suppose when you steal the egg from the owlbear cave, you get that debuff in order to lure the owlbear. Instead, I got that buff/debuff once, then loaded the game and never got it back, no matter how many times I tried stealingg the egg, and sometimes the buff appeared out of nowhere when I started a fight with the owlbear.

At the end of the Druid's grove questline, Halsin says to celebrate and return in the morning. When I go to camp to advance time nothing happens as Halsin says the same thing.

Also, Zevlor asks if I am ready to go and I say yes, but nothing occurs (even after going to camp).

So I can't complete Saving the Refugees nor Save the Druid Halsin.

I've got a bug where my PC deals damage when passing through other party members and NPCs. Seems to be about d6 (maybe d4) worth of damage, and happens in camp and in the world. Most recent occurrence happened when passing by the children training in the grove, so I was sent to jail hah!

I've noticed that when playing and getting to specific points my game says it is autosaving and I found out later that it had not been autosaving, instead my last autosave was before leaving the intro scene before reaching the Helm. I had been playing a good three hours of gameplay beforehand and had to reload from pre-Helm. Teaches me to save my games from now on myself.

Just one bug for me. Multiplayer game, host's game crashes whenever the mind flayer appears on the helm. Thankfully it's so early in the game, so we are just going to try to restart.

Minthara can't be killed if engaged in combat outside the gate during the goblin raid on the grove

Zevron is dead due to Druid fight and the NPC that takes his place isn't triggering the party event, thus Druid Halsin isn't progressing to his next bit. Those three quests (Helping the Refuges, Goblin Camp, and Druid Circle) are not able to progress to completion.

A couple bugs i found today:

- The Myconid ally you can recruit in the underdark will perform attacks of oppertunity on the player party

- Zombies spawned by the myconid ally will also perform attacks of oppertunity on the player party

- Perhaps due to this, the player gets caught in permanent turn based mode after the battle with the Duergar in the underdark.

- Throwing something at the gem held by the Selüne-statue in the underdark makes the gem vanish.

- Grease can make players or npcs permafrozen until end of battle, unable to take any action. A minotaur in grease was frozen like this for 10+ turns and never acted.

Sometimes killed enemies start to shudder and twist and become like 50m large (inside), or get 50m large and fly away.


In the options (game-settings) some buttons are in the middle of the selection (german version, maybe an issue with word lengths).


When leaving the secret necromancer lab to the room next (where you get back to the main cellar with the lever to open the wall) becomes partially invisible, as well as the characters.


Nettie has some issues with her character model during the sequence of curing the bird.


The old woman in the druid cove did really strange things with her hands during conversation, looked like the animation wasn't readily programmed.


When trying to pick up the book of Thay the whole dialog sequence immediately repeated.


After picking up the book I got all characters out of the room save (using this combat round mode), but when I switched back to normal, the whole group immediately ran back into the room to get a free fire trap attack.


When saving the girl in the druid cove from the attack of the gnoll after the first gialogue (where she gave me that sould gem), the dialogue immediately reappeared the same way, only that this time she was pissed in the end that someone had stolen her soul gem.


When changing the trader to the lower left, the equipment comparison still refers to the person who initiated the trade, not the selected trader.

not sure if someone already mentioned it. I had an issue that i could not end my turn in battle. i had to reload the game. by the way, this was the first bigger issue after nearly 5-6 houers slow playthrough.

The bugs I've run into are all listed here except that when I attacked the hag Auntie Ethel and she fled, I went to the end of the cavern and found Mayrina Ethel never appeared. I hit the control orb to lower her and got her out but dialogue won't activate on her either.

I don't think this is a bug, plz larian person correct me if I'm wrong.

If you play several characters you'll notice that the difficulty is different nearly every time. For instance Us's first perception roll has ranged for me from 7 to 12 depending on my stats, and my profiencies. From this I've gathered your + and - are in what you need to beat not your roll itself. So if your perpetion is +5 and the original difficulty of the roll is 15 it shows a difficulty of 10.

Bugs in appearance overall
Versatile weapons appear to be only useable in both hand. (unsure if its me missing some button) they do appear to work with shield, but not dual wield. (not thoroughly tested dual wield)


Bugs on the Ship!

cg dragon at final cutscenes flame looks more like it's hurling a stream of puss then actual flames.
Us previous Host go flying when I remove Us from his head. Also glitches elongating, are hovering in air. Side not this happens in other instances throughout game.
if you break the treasure chest the items go flying and don't show up when you alt. (unsure if intentional or not, or related to above bug.) the same has happened with other containers.
A rare glitch causes random things to seeming be immune to damage. though if they take another hit the damage shows up at times.
Explodetion of barrels in some instances cause the AI to take no damage instead of half damage.
CG female. If you push the button in room with cleric the cg starts shows you walking to investigate, after cutscene your still by the button. (unsure if intentional or not)

Bug in CG

Shadowheart = At end of her first meeting cutscene duplicates herself.
Al has his dagger glued to his hand in cutscene of his first meet.
Odd smirk for no reason your characters face in some cg's. Kinda creepy.

Bug Battle
If you get the halfings crew to run, the battle starts when the archer goes within range of La'Ezal???

Made a thread about it and send an email to support, but gonna write here too just in case.
Can't level up from level 3 to 4 with my light domain cleric of Tyr, because all cantrips have disappeared, but the game won't let me click "accept" without choosing any cantrips. Stuck at level 3 now

Bug with incidental dialog with the Tiefling child Mirkon. After completing the quest to save him from the harpies and returning to the kids hideout inside the Druid Grove to talk to him, if the warlock in the party has a familiar summoned then Mirkon will start spamming messages like "Mol! We've got trouble!" and "You can't be here! This is our hideout!" several times a second until the familiar is moved away from their area (moving it out past the banner strung between two posts seems to be the boundary for where this bug occurs.

And another one

Clicking somewhere out of bounds tells you to use jump to reach, even if the target area can't even be walked on.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=0h3m20s

My character climbed up a higher ledge using vines, but my camera was unable to follow as it got stuck, probably on the cliff side
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=0h5m20s

Shove can fail, but nothing really tells you. No 'missed' like overhead message, nor does it say in the action log.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=0h13m0s

Warlock's Dark one's blessing doesn't seen to provide bonus hp sometimes. Not completely sure what causes it, making me wonder if it's a bug, or if I'm missing a mechanic.
Seems losing the hitpoints doesn't remove the buff, and a new buff doesn't overwrite the old one. Maybe comparing the buff's max HP instead of its current HP by accident?
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=0h36m25s
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=2h13m35s

Killing the Mindflayer being rescued by the 3 humans, before any interaction, causes them to just run off. Would expect them to start dialog after their weird experience.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=0h39m00s

On warlock charter sheet, "lvl 1 The Fiend" doesn't have any entries. Dark One's Blessing should be here.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=0h49m15s

Trying to attack a prone target and the % tooltip tells me "Player disadvantage on attack." for some reason.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=0h55m25s

NPC runs away out of range of an enemy during combat, and some weird attack follows. The enemy does what looks like an attack of opportunity, but does so way after the other NPC already moved far away.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=0h57m29s

I was able to cast further than the range ring is showing. I know my ranger has moments where doing so has disadvantage because it's outside the range, but it's not showing in this case. Unsure if this is a bug, or an unclear mechanic.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=1h00m45s

I missclick an attack because of camera shake. Something I pointed out in the first list, but now have 'evidence' of what can happen.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=1h2m32s

Value of an item != actual buy/sell price. I understand the concept, but I'm not sure if it should be pointed out in some way. Maybe a tutorial that tell you how vendor prices might change depending on their reputation?
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=1h12m35s

I have a spear that, when missing an attack with it, applies True Strike on the target. It is applying the buff when I miss with Eldritch Blast.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=1h18m35s

Gloves of Power applies Bane to both the target and the wearer.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=1h19m15s

Some NPC don't do anything during combat. no movement, attack, chat
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=1h26m00s
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=2h47m27s

I miss an attack, my weapon gives the target True Strike.
I attack again, she loses True Strike and I miss the attack again. The action log shows I didn't get advantage on the roll (This is the bug). No new True Strike is applied. Don't know if that part is a bug, or if you can't get true strike again in this situation.
After the fact I realize the 3rd miss got advantage on was because of high ground.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=1h28m3s

During a cinematic in the Druid's Grove, a soup bowl being held is going a bit wonky.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=1h49m45s

Trying to use AoE spell down a stairs, but the range gets cut off, possibly because of terrain height difference.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=2h06m55s

I attack the 3 druids in the Druid's Grove (one that turns into a bear in a cutscene) using Burning Hands, yet they don't react in any way. No dialog, no combat, no fleeing, just tired of life it seems.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=2h08m0s

Starting a fight with these 3 druids causes a flood of NPCs to run up the stairs. Not sure if this is what should be happening, although I later realize what's going on up there.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=2h09m06s

Starting combat with these druids, the one that turned into a bear in the cutscene, has the human model, despite still having the "Wild shape: Bear" buff.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=2h10m30s

Sometimes a character's movement action during combat just stops. In this case it happens once my character walk on top of blood.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=2h19m05s

The Encumbered debuff has a <br> visible in the tooltip
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=2h25m05s

Because of the fight in the Druid's Cove, a couple of tieflings seems to have ran into the prison area and are all standing in the exact same spot
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=2h31m00s

A Couple of druid children in the Tiefling Hideout seem to have done the same
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=3h48m0s

When putting items in a storage container, the list scrolls back to the top.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=2h44m20s

I seems to be impossible to loot Scale Mail Armour off of corpses
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=2h51m30s
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=2h56m00s

I attacked the 3 druids in the Druid's Cove after the cutscene where one turns into bear, and then causing a massive fight. Talking to Locke and Marricko after the fight will have them talk about the death of their daughter and Kagha. but I've never even set foot in that room, causing it to be a rather weird interaction just assuming things.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=2h52m40s

Going to Kagha's room after all this, there isn't a single person or corpse to be found.
Looking more closely to the NPCs running up the stairs when the fight started, I realized the people in these rooms also ran up.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=3h0m12s

Walking around in the Druid's Chambers, I get a success on a perception check. I get a "That might be worth a look" message, but I have no clue what I'm supposed to see. Even looking at it after the fact, I still have no clue what I missed.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=3h1m23s

Opening multiple containers open on top of each other can be confusing when closing them and a similar container is showing, multiple times in a row.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=3h6m3s
In addition, when opening container A with an item, then B with no item, if you click A again, it won't show A again, because it's already open hidden behind B. This can be pretty confusing.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=3h7m37s

If you double click the border of a container window (at least in the top left) the frame will be stuck to your cursor, and move around if your cursor is over the window.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=3h11m22s

I make my Imp fly somewhere, and it just disappeared completely without even taking off.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=3h17m0s
In addition, that area is probably not supposed to be accessible judging by my imp disheartening on landing.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=3h18m45s

Bludgeoning resistance from Blade ward doesn't seem to work.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=3h35m0s

Dialog with the child on the Secluded Cove gets cut short at the end
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=3h41m15s

In the Tiefling Hideout, a parchment in a pouch has a type in the line "May you can turn it..."
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764374767?t=3h54m3s

A small list of bugs I've come across playing Multiplayer with my friend. I know some of this is just because its early access, and some have probably been posted before already, merely posting to let the dev's know what people may come across:

-NPC's in combat take forever to end their turns sometimes

-Lip sync breaks often, leaving someone speaking without moving lips

-Camera position bugs out sometimes, sometimes even showing underneath the map while in conversation

-Partners HUD completely disappeared mid fight, resulting in him having to leave the session and join back to be able to do any actions

-Texture and terrain loading takes a very long time sometimes

-NPC's with no armor and weapons running into combat just to die in one hit. I know this isn't so much a bug as much as AI needs some work

-Character models T-pose when first loading in for an extended time

-And probably the most frustrating for us so far: manual saves wont work after a few minutes of playing the game. We can manually save for a bit, but after a bit we try and nothing happens. I'll save the game (new save, overwriting old save, all have same results) and I'll have the prompt, but after it should start the saving process, the screen never dims and we never get a message saying Save Successful. This gets particularly annoying as we're afraid of continuing and running into another bug without having a save function, and auto saves are spaced out a bit too far to rely on.

We are absolutely loving the game so far, but the saving issue is making us want to just wait for more hotfixes as we don't want to progress just to lose hours of work because the save feature won't work properly. We can't wait to see what the future holds for the game though. We plan to continue playing some more, so I will post more as we come across them

Okay so I'm technologically challenged can't take a screen shot.

In the Ruins after the halfling fight. Go to the room with the hidden button the side room to the left there is a desk with a row of books, above that is a second row of books that is lootable. Yet it says I can't reach it. If someone can screen shot it, for further aid I'd apprecaite it.

Noticed a small miss/possible placeholder.

When examining an object or npc, checking their resistances by mouse hovering over each damage type, the mouse tool tip states that the damage gets halved, no matter what the chart states. I. e. ´Bludging - resistant (damage gets halved). Piercing - vulnerable (damage gets halved), Acid - Immune (damage gets halved) etc