Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Silence Bug Still Exists

Had a 12 hour game get completely nuked by the silence bug, looks like it's been in the game since before final release.

Summary:

No character can interact with any other npc or pc
None of the camp menu buttons work
The bug ruined previous saves, so reloads to earlier points don't work

All solutions failed:

Casting silence then walking in and out didn't fix it
Killing and reviving tav didn't fix it
Downloaded a respec mod to see if wild shape could fix it, it didn't
Fast traveling from place to place didn't fix it

This is both deeply frustrating and disappointing.

Today, I finally got around to downloading all the patches and updates. At least, I think it was all. I am now running Version 4.1.1.3735951. Until a few hours ago, I was still playing the game in its Release Day version. I was ready to resume my Dark Urge playthrough I started this afternoon. Cue the silence bug. I can only echo the OP: deeply frustrating and disappointing.

EDIT:

I fixed my problem. Not sure what exactly did it. I uninstalled BG3 last night and set about reinstalling overnight. This morning, I launched the game and noticed I was getting an error message on Steam ... something about "Mismatched data" or some such. The error message gave me a path to navigate, which I followed to delete several folders from a few locations. After that, the game works fine now. ::crosses fingers::

I've spent the last hour checking and rechecking previous saves from my first two playthroughs. They all seem fine now. Also, apparently I am still running the updated version: 3735951.