Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Latest News Hotfix #20 Now Live! Version Number: v4.1.1.4854838

Hello everyone,

We have another hotfix for you today, fixing several bugs, issues, and blockers.

Was Minthara exercising perhaps a little too much independence? We’ve fixed an issue where everyone’s favourite drow would simply decide to not follow the party in Act II or Act III. You should find her more willing to fall in line now - at least in terms of keeping up. She’s still something of a free spirit.

Mac players, you’ll be pleased to hear that this hotfix brings the full release of Patch 6 and subsequent hotfixes to the platform, so kiss without delay. Thank you for your patience!

As with previous updates, if you’re experiencing issues after installing the latest hotfix, please check whether the issue persists with your mods uninstalled. If you continue to experience issues after uninstalling mods, please contact our support team with your report.

We’re continuing to work on further fixes and patches, but in the meantime, thank you for supporting us and playing Baldur’s Gate 3!


FIXES

• Introduced a few crash safeguards to ensure that when a savegame fails to load, you'll be sent back to the Main Menu.
• Fixed some issues causing the second player on split screen to have a black screen for 30 seconds.
• Fixed a bug preventing you from opening containers (like the Camp Supply Sack) while trading if you selected a different character from the one who initiated the trade. This also fixed a sneaky money exploit.
• Fixed a bug causing the environment to never take its turn, blocking combat from progressing.
• Fixed a bug causing you to get stuck in combat if there were still some bats remaining after you defeated Cazador.
• Fixed an infinite loot bug that would duplicate Herdmaster Skardjall's Scale Mail every time you removed the Whipping Cane from his body.
• Fixed a bug causing the crime dialogue for trespassing to get spammed beside the Steel Watch Foundry.
• Fixed some banding and shader issues in cinematics that were causing VFX artefacts on faces at certain angles.
• Fixed Minthara sometimes not following the party in Act II or Act III.
• Fixed a case where Halsin wouldn't move to his position when you arrived at Last Light in Act II.
• Fixed an issue where Minthara wouldn't leave the party after being escorted out of Moonrise Towers.
• Fixed an issue causing characters to tell you they were too busy to talk to you when you tried to speak to them. They were lying.
• Fixed missing tab textures in the Trade UI.
• Hid the filter tabs for traders when bartering with them, these will be reintroduced in a future update pending further testing.
• Fixed a potential crash when preloading complex cinematics.

any news if the lower city crashing got fixed or an eta for that?

any news for the Halsin/Zelvor not responding after the 3 leaders are dead, with Minthara knocked down?
please, me and my friends are waiting since the patch 6 dropped for this fix to continue our campaing...

Since this Hotfix addressed Minthara specifically (again), what I am curious about is whether she is still royally spoiling the plot for everyone upon recruitment?

I logged into the game today, and yeah, she's still talking about the squid. It's still replacing all her reactions. I was hoping I could continue my multiplayer run this week but alas

Why has the latest update still not come to Mac? People affected by this should be compensated in some way since this delay has happened multiple times with a lack of communication.

Aw man, I’ve just started Act II and it won’t be long now before I recruit her. Still, I guess I will play up to that point and then pause my playthrough until they fix this issue.

There’s no way I am letting this bug ruin my first playthrough because I am simply loving the game too much to have it spoiled like this.

This is simply amazing, very well done!

So nothing on the Enemy of Justice Bug? The game is basically unplayable with this issue Is there an ETA or some kinda update

Minthara continues to go on her own, she does not follow the group

I appreciate knowing that the team is still working furiously at improving the game. That is very encouraging.

At the same time, I’m feeling disappointed that the hotfix didn’t address Shadowheart’s Grymforge kiss animation with a cleric of Selune (which has been broken for four whole months), or Minthara’s broken dialogue reactivity, or the brokenness of the Act 1 main quest if you knock out Minthara then long rest.

Thank you for the continuing hard work, hopefully it all gets sorted in good time!

Yup, same here.

What I’m guessing is, this bug is actually a very tangled kind of knot that takes a lot of time to unravel.

Still, it’s a shame that after literally thousands of fixes brought on by 6 patches and 20 hotfixes, the game is still this buggy.

Just goes to show what a complex game BG3 really is!

Definitely agree with you. This game is beyond complex! How the conversation system with all it's reactivity alone works blows my mind!

I just wish QA was better, but, speaking from experience (I'm a programmer), QA seems to be lacking in our industry. I personally don't think patch 6 should have gone out.

Still, I love the game!

But why male models?

It's out for Mac, it's there in the title. Downloading right now.

Or how poorly made.

We are on our way to seven months after launch and according to Larian the next big patch is 'several months away'. I'm guessing that this next big patch will be the last apart from perhaps a couple of hotfixes to fix things the patch breaks.

Thanks, appreciate all the work that goes into these. I have the game both on Mac (Steam) and PS5. I'm not normally a mouse/keyboard player, but it seemed the right way to play it. Then, because I found myself to be very bad at the camera on keyboard and the cross-save feature seemed nifty, I got it on PS5. This worked well, initially. Then having cross-save enabled on the Steam version started crashing the game on load. This was apparently addressed in a subsequent hotfix, because after the last one, I could see my PS5 saves again, and the game didn't crash, however, the saves were grayed out so that I couldn't load them. With today's hotfix, I can now see and load the saves, great news. But there's a weird, glitchy border around the bottom and right side of the screen that scrolls thumbnail images and words, or something. Has this been reported yet?

Still no fix for the issue with the new trade windows where control and shift cannot be used to multi select items that started in patch 6

Please.

Bit of a pessimistic view, this game is very complex, each time they update the game to make fixes there are unforseen circumstances which generate more fixes required.
Larian are proven to eventually get on top of all problems, if you review their past performance on The Witcher series and DOS, so personally I would say the outlook is positive for BG3.


Doubt if it will be the last, thats probably optimistic on Larians view, and they wont leave it in a poor state because they are very responsible Devs historically.

We have 6 major patches so far, and 19 hotfixes inbetween those major patches .. But thats only since the game went public out of Early Access. During Early Access there were just as many major patches and hotfix releases before it went public.

I cant see Larian putting it to bed leaving a lot of bugs, no matter how pessimistic a view anyone has, its just against their past record of pushing out quality products.

There has been a lot of public outcry recently due to the modding community being a bit entitled.
And a lot of people moaning because their personal most notable issues have not been fixed yet.

But if the general public understood more of the amount of effort going into the long term plan of fixes there would be far less concern.

If you believe something is not being addressed, give a detailled report to the official bug reporting site https://larian.com/support/baldur-s-gate-3

Moaning here on the forum is not going to help anyone.

Edit : PS, I get it, everyone wants this game to be the best it can be and hope that Larian do come through with the most perfect D&D 5e experience we could possibly have out of this game. And maybe even more if there will ever be a DLC to expand it further (Personally I have my fingers crossed for just that happening). So dont get me down as just a mindless fanboy defending the company producing it, I also want more more more polish/expansion to the best game ever. I just think Larian have already proven in the long run they are up to the challenge.