Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Act 3 is very broken on PS5 now

Rush beginning of act 3 by doing quest: Open Hand Temple Murders, Bypass the first guards on the right side by jumping to the platform and talk to the second ones and give them a pass from quest and go to lover city game there work fine.

I'm on my second playthrough and loving and appreciating the game even more. Now, I read about the issues with Act 3 and hoped it was maybe all exaggeration, but, nope, it's really bad. As soon as I got to Rivington my team kept refusing to follow me. Then, when I stepped onto the drawbridge to Wyrm's Rock they not only froze, but I couldn't open a door, switch characters or talk to anyone. It basically became unplayable.

A month ago this all ran perfectly. I hate to see a magnificent game like this fall apart. And I really feel for new players who didn't get to experience it prior to this issue. Not sure what happened, Larian, but please fix it asap! In it's current state it may end up being embarrassingly yanked from the PS Store like Cyberpunk.

Still broken as of November 23rd - same issues as described; the game is now entirely unplayable once you hit Act 3. I don't understand how this is just sitting out here without even a 'we're working on it'; backing out the broken patch would at least give the developers time to figure out where they went wrong. Fix this ASAP.

If u can push past Rivington it gets much better

I feel like the first post have exactly this issue, i made a vidéo of it (made it today). Im on pc.

Hard to describe without vidéo...
I send it to larian report bug tool

It just happened to me as soon as I got to Rivington. Main character walking, and the companions just stop following, they’re frozen. I look around and all the NPCs are frozen, then main character freezes and the game just freezes. If I restart or reload they’ll move for like 2 seconds BUT when I reach wyrm rock bridge the game has a brain fart, gets stuck and dies. I can’t play act 3 and this is my day off I was planning to play. SMH -_-

Yup it's still broken, companions won't follow me, npcs walking in place, areas don't load up properly, sometimes i can't save or load so i end up quitting to main menu, and dialogues aren't great either as i have to wait 10 seconds after each line (not always but it happened a couple of time). I don't think im continuing this playthrough tbh cause it's ruining my enjoyement so much that i just stand there waiting instead of playing the game. I'll probably start another playthrough with a different class, but i really want to experience what happens in the end but i can't do that right now. I hope they release a patch and fix this.

Can we roll this last patch back?

My first playthrough of act3 was issue free and now my second time through barely functions.

Any word on a fix!?
Has Larian acknowledged the issue!?

Played all the way up to act 3 twice just to make sure it wasn't a coincidence. Third act on PS5 is having some serious problems, and it desperately needs resolving.

They Post another Day for yu to ROll Back to patch 4.0 but dosent help much becouse the game was only working Properly in 2.0
and this Problem yu all are Having on Ps5 its the Same on PC..
just posted the Same Bug another day Here in some other Post..

And Larian Adressing any Mistake or Bug ? Forget it.
Since 3.0 this Game is Broken Very Hard and evry Patch just Make Things Worse evry day.
they Never adress or Say anything even the Bug Reports they are not responding anymore..
Maybe Next Weak they will Drop another Big Patch or Hotfix and Hope for evrything go ok..
and dont want to Trow more Salt in the stuff..
but they already Planning on Move on From the Game.. so i really dont know how this will help us in any way..
Best advice i can Gave yu all before yu get pretty pissed off with this game like Me..
Just Drop Off and Play another Stuff before yu start to feel like me..
i really dosent see any reason anymore to go back an Play.
and i really dont beleave i will ever Buy anything from Larian ever again in the Future.

BTW im playing since Release.. and like i told many times before..
the Best Version of this Game was in Lounch or 2.0
(was the Least Bugged Version.. only 2 characters were cousing Problems if yu avoid then things would run perfect.)

I agree with every word
it's a disappointment. the game is already graphically and technically dated, but since it is DnD everything is forgiven.
but with each patch it gets worse... like getting vaccinated... you think you're solving one problem and you cause yourself three.

regarding the support they give during the reporting phase... zero
but they all took the money for the game

This is precisely what loads of folks have been reporting for a while now - myself included.

While it has gotten better for me after hotfix 11, it is still very much a thing (I'm on a PC).

Not so much while running around the city or teleporting using waypoints (although it does happen there too, still) - most annoying is the fact that this seems to happen before any major fight I've done so far in Act III.

- counting house Stone Lord fight - game hung for at least one minute, probably longer, before pre-fight cutscene started
- Cazador fight - a minute or two of wait time before I could do anything. This was more like how lag happens in the city for me, meaning my selected character could still walk around but everybody else is frozen.
- House of Grief fight: Not too pronounced and actually quite playable
- Orin fight at the Bhaal-Temple: Probably the longest wait time of all. Game froze upon opening the inner temple door leading to the main chamber. Probably a minute or two here. After that (exploring the inner temple, talking to Orin's mom and to Orin, start of the fight) ran pretty much as normal.

EDIT: Just started the House of Hope sub-quest but only got as far as talking to Hope for the first time (and preparing the final fight location for Barrelmancy .. ) before I went to bed last night. So far, everything worked flawlessly.


In the city itself, the game will sometimes still freeze when changing between certain locations on foot and/or when fast-traveling to a waypoint. Some waypoints seem more susceptible to this than others and some sub-areas also seem to trigger this more often. For example: Walking back from Dandalon's towards the south will cause lag for me when the party reaches that underpass.

Leaving camp will also sometimes result in companions being stuck in their last camp animation for a while (like SH kneeling in prayer) before everything starts to work as it should. It's not as bad (for me) as it used to be right after patch 4 dropped, but it can still be very frustrating and it seriously disrupts the flow of the game when it gets really bad.


S.

It's November 25th and still, the problem persists. They need to fix this issue ASAP because the game is not playable in the last act. I feel like all of the hours I have spent playing this game have been wasted if I'm not even able to finish it and see how the story ends for my party. They should roll back the patch for PS5 so we can at least play the game again

Same problem here. Nearly 3 weeks into the game, 80 spent hours and having the gaming time of my life. Yesterday I hit Rivington and the nightmare started...
The game is unplayable with times from 10 to 50 seconds to speak with any NPC.
I am forced to give up the game temporarily until this is fixed, but I am very sad.

There is any message from Larian acknowledgin the issue? My major concern is that this post started 15d ago...

This game is totally busted, and quite frankly with such a shallow ending even when it was working it's about to get uninstalled at this point

Just to put it in perspective, BG3 got the GOTY nomination while Act 3 was nearly unplayable on ALL platforms.

I can’t understand how they can think this acceptable, for everyone to pay so much money for there game which is unplayable. The worse part is I was really enjoying the game up until the issues in act3. It’s not even a cheap game. Hopefully we don’t have to wait much longer for them to fix it

I’m putting out a wild guess they’ll start addressing these problems sometime after the GOTY results, on December 7. Either that or they just release a fix and move on. I hope the news will at least cover this soon.

In fairness: This was never an issue prior to patch 4. At least it wasn't for me.


Seeing how there is a DIY solution to this (which I'm too lazy to try), I would imagine this should be a relatively "easy" fix for the development team.

From what I understand, Larian are aware of this problem, BTW.


S.

It isn’t just a PS5 issue neither solely Act III. I’m on a Mac and I’ve had issues with Act 1. Though wonder if some of this may be because of order of quests:

Act -1 non crèche and non underdark: no issues
Act - 1 crèche: some combat lag (hits and spell effects delayed)
Act- 1 underdark: area semi-active and numerous bugs - getting unplayable.
Act - 1 initial area return: If you should return to initial areas all monsters resurrected but without interactions.