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These are the bugs I encountered playing the game:

I

I had looped dialogues in two instances.

1. Nadira - he gave me a coin as a thank you, after which the dialogue ended and a second scene automatically appeared. I had to talk to Nadira about her saving her again and about the coin she wanted to give me. But this time Nadira said she was pick pocketed and can't give it me.
2. Volo - first conversation in the goblin camp was never ending. I was able to pick every dialogue option and the conversation wasn't progressing further. (I was able to end the conversation using "leave" option, but I was curious of all the convo options).

II

Hitting an NPC while walking by (is this even possible???)
After ending a conversation with a Tiefling Child called Mol, my team was passing him by and Mol suddenly lost half of his health. It never happened passing by other NPCs.

III

Cutscene with the gnome tied to the windmill.
- The gnome's model was invisible, only the rope was visible. Gnome appeared only after he was cut down from the windmill.

IV

Auntie Ethel quest - if it helps I tried to do it before visiting the goblin camp.
I was fighting Ethel and everything was going smooth up until I accidentally ordered Wyll to go into a puddle of grease. Wyll of course slipped and spent an entire round in it. And the game decided to have somewhat of a hiccup. I ordered Wyll to leave the greased area but after that he stopped responding to commands. When I tried to move him or attack (I clicked multiple times) he wasn't responding. Surprisingly enough the only area that was viable for him to move was back to the puddle of grease. After that the entire A.I. system fell apart. All the characters (my team and enemies) started to pass their turns and the battle turned into an endless loop of inactivity.

I reloaded a previous save file (from before the combat started) trying to resolve the quest differently. I discovered a secret door in the fireplace. Suddenly Ethel appeared in her true form. Cutscene froze and disappeared. Ethel was also gone and all the item in the room became inactive/unclickable, so I wasn't able to progress any further.

V

The worst bug that I encountered so far:
- Shadowheart wanished from the party.
I recruited Shadowheart at the very beginning of the game. It was all going well until I had to decide whom to kick from the party so to bring Lae'zel with me. I returned to the camp with the party and at the camp I told Shadowheart to wait there for now. I took Lae'zel in her place. After at least several hours of gameplay I returned to the camp and Shadowheart wasn't there anymore.
I was able to find her again in the Tiefling camp, but she was behaving like she was never recruited in the first place.

VI

Racial descriptor bug.
When talking to Ethel about Mayrina I was given the racial dialogue option [Human] despite the fact I was playing a Tiefling.

VII

Halsin bug. (This is a bug I did not experience myself, but I was asked to add in the report)

"I found Halsin in the goblin camp in his bear form. I did not help the goblin children throw rocks at him. I actually went against them, so when the combat started and Halsin got free. He froze. As in, he was standing in the middle of the dungeon not attacking or moving just passing turns and being a big target for the goblins. I was able to dispatch all the enemies and immediately after the combat ended Halsin returned to him elven form and accused me of a crime and wanted to arrest me. I was able to convince him through a die roll to let me off the hook, but was baffled of what crime he was speaking off."

A couple of today's bugs:

Scratch brought me a ball but it didn't appear in my inventory. Reloading to a previous save fixed the problem.

Other than that. Scratch also brought me a line of code in his mouth. Such a good boy:

I don't know if this kind of thing counts as a bug but today I had conversations that were timed wrong/appeared in places they shouldn't have.

- Lae'zel asked me to find Zorru because she must find her people - but I already brought Lae'Zel to Zorru earlier and I already had this conversation with him. Besides Zorru is gone because the Tieflings moved on to Baldur's Gate.
- Wyll started to tell me what will he do after Spike is dead. Thing is Spike has been dead for several hours of gameplay.

Also a small weird thing that popped into my head just now:
- Lae'zel during the Tiefling celebration party told me she is going to sleep with Gale. But in the morning she told me she slept with Wyll.

I've had the same issues with:

Nadira, at least twice (two playthroughs)

Shadowheart vanishing from camp after leaving her for Laezel (maybe that intentional since she hates Laezel, but then it should come up when you see her in the Druid Grove.)

@jmos - No, like I said -> she was behaving like she was never recruited in the first place. For her it was first time joining the party.

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Bugs from today:

Zhentarim hideout

- I convinced a mage to let me in but I failed my persuasion check with Zarys, so I had to re-load a previous save.

Bug: if the player has a save where player was already let in but FROM BEFORE the conversation with Zarys the entire scene/conversations won't trigger again. You need to have a save from a floor above, before the mage let's you through and where you did not see Zarys yet. (I tried to trigger this multiple times)

And:
Once I entered the area (where I failed my persuasion check with Zarys) all the barrels suddenly exploded. Not sure if a bug but it was so unexpected and wasn't presented with any warning.

Bug from today

Afrer saving Karlach I can't finish her quest. Journal says to tell her about killing the cultists - so I did. The quest itself is marked as finished in the journal but the conversation with Karlach about the cultist is stuck on repeat and I can't progress with her further. I can have the conversation with her about the cultists time and time again and nothing changes. And on top of that her square quest marker on the map is still present.

So I have a visual bug to report after patch 3.

Despite the fact that MC is sitting properly, Gale decided it's a good time to maybe nibble on her ear. Come on, Gale, it's her spot.


Besides that after patch 3 - Mol (tiefling child) has a dialogue line that loops when saying goodbye to the MC. She says the same thing twice. (it does not matter how many times I talk to her). If it's of any help - I was robbed by the kids, but we came to an understanding. I saved Mikron and Arabella and I did not agree to steal the druid's holy statuette/idol.

And - Aradin has a broken animation - he can't decide if he wants to sit on a chair or to jump off it.

A funny bug I encountered today:

Scratch brought me a ball to play with. I threw the ball and in response the dog attacked me. And no, I did not threw AT dog, I threw near him.

Also Wyll:

- During the rooftop goblin ambush at the gate I convinced the goblins not to fight - pacifist solution. But later at camp Wyll was impressed with how many goblins I killed.

And:

- The encounter at the mill. I was able to weaken the goblin Wyll wanted to interrogate. Wyll talked to him about Spike, everything was going great. But after that he says "now you die" we have a fade to black and it is implied Wyll killed the goblin off-screen. The problem here is that when I talked to Wyll later he started to complain that the goblin died before he got the chance to interrogate him.

I'm having pathing issues with characters getting stuck on climbing points.

Bug from the goblin fortress:
I tried to poison the goblins. I was caught and using my persuasion skill I was able to convince the person that caught me that I'm spiking the cauldron with stronger alcohol. After a successful persuasion roll the scene looks like this - and I am unable to progress any further everything just freezes. (I replicated this 3 times to check if this is a bug and each time it ended the same time)



On the other hand when you add poison WITHOUT getting caught the scene works just fine.

Bugs from today. When I am returning from a long rest the squad mate I swapped is locked to the place from where I decided to go to camp.

I will give an example. I was in the Goblin Fortress I decided to have a long rest and swapped Wyll for Gale. After returning to the game world from them camp MC and two companions are in the fortress but Gale was still standing in the Druid Grove as this was the place when I decided to swap him for Wyll earlier.

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Also there is something wrong with Abdirak after the new patch. Before he was working fine. Now that you can roll the dice more than once I had this bug:

2 out of 3 Lovitar trials were passed successfully
I failed the third trial, so I rerolled and passed it.

But the game registered BOTH outcomes. Abdirak first congratulated me passing all the trials and then another scene triggered where he says I didn't pass all the trials and my efforts are not enough. I had this problem two times.

And then after trying this for the third time. Abdirak congratulated me after TWO trials. The third trial never happened.

During the battle with the goblins at the mill in blgthed village, Gale was killed. My cleric character wanted to use the scroll to resurrect him and then I got this... The only option was to quit the game.
This is patch 3

A bug I encountered today after fight with Auntie Ethel in her pit. After talking to Ethel Lae'zel died. (despite having a lot of health). Her body was teleported to the camp. I don't really understand why the game decided she is dead (and also teleported to camp), but I was forced to resurrect her.
And if it helps - despite me starting the conversation as the MC (the MC was picked for next rund not Lae'zel), the game decided that it is the Lae'zel who will talk to auntie Ethel.

Not that it's not a bug, but I've seen similar a few other places, like certain approaches to the Gith encounter at Mountain Pass, and at least there, hitting spacebar a few times can clear it, or bring up dialogue options.

Bugs I encountered today:

During the cutscene with the Gnolls (where you need to take back the chest for Zarys) the game decided that Lae'zel should be the one to talk to them despite the fact I started the conversation with my MC.

And:
The entrance to the Zhentarim hideout bugged out on me. I couldn't access the hidden stairs with the MC, I had to change the character I was controlling and send in a party member. (I tried at least few times. If it helps - mage gave me the key):

Ok, Underdark time. Bugs from today.

More of an aesthetic bug than anything. Omeleuum's model is visible/appears during the entirety of this conversation:
(he just stands still before his big reveal)

And now for a more serious bug. I killed Thulla out of curiosity to steal her shoes. But I was unable to loot her body. Option to loot her body was visible but it wasn't responding to my attempts.

Underdark fight against Hook Horrors and a Drow. Through the whole encounter the turn order in the left upper corner was flickering or was entirely invisible. One of the Hook Horrors was constantly passing the round without doing anything substantial (he was jumping up a wall and then coming down from it). This had to be one of the buggiest fights I ever had in the game up to this point:

I got stuck on this dialogue. No exit except by exiting the game
(patch 3)

I had this same issue when I had to use Astarion to pass the two checks. It seemed that it depended on what he answered after the two checks how I entered.

I sure hope that in the next update will fix these bugs as well as for the bugs in some of the weapons and the feats not to mention give us more game play and raise our level