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.

As someone who actually waited to play the Definitive Editions of both Divinity: Original Sin and Original Sin II, I applaud Larian’s excellent and thorough long-term support for their games.

But to quote Shadowheart with regards to a possible Definitive Edition of BG3: “We’ve got a long road ahead of us still.”

I did speculate modding support would drop with the "Definitive edition" of the game. So I wouldn't be surprised if Larian goes with that approach.

Since they mentioned modding will be added in the somewhat near future, but still a way’s off from now, it does make sense to include it with a potential Definitive Edition update to the game.

Maybe schedule it to celebrate the 1-year anniversary of the official launch?

I prefer 'realistic'. All video games are 'complex'. What makes BG3 an exceptional case in terms of AAA releases? Saying that BG3 is 'complex' is something of a mantra on this forum yet no one, to my knowledge, has ever defined 'complex' or explained why BG3 is different. Certainly no one who is qualified.

The word 'eventually' is doing a lot of heavy-lifting there.
The Witcher? What had Larian to do with the Witcher? The DOS games were years ago and much less 'complex'.

Historically they were a smaller company and not paying American rents.

Patches and fixes are expected during EA, that is one of the primary reasons for doing an EA version. Major patches and and hotfixes to fix patches six months and counting after release are not.
Their past record of pushing out quality releases? When was the last time they released anything, or how often have they released anything in the last, say, five years?

Have you actually read the letter or are you just parroting what you read on social media?

So let me see if I have the right of this. You are saying that you are qualified to say what the general public does and does not understand and that you are somehow are qualified to make statements about how much effort Larian will be putting in long-term.

Ditto that…it’s been 3 weeks and I still have not been able to do anything within the lower city as my PlayStation crashes every single time. I’ve tried literally every suggested fix frown

Thanks for the hotfix. Well Minthara still have bug in event dialog for example: then you fix Karlach heart, in previous version she told about it (and can give you point of approval), but after the patch, and hotfix 19, and this hotfix, she talk about prince and emperor, and she talk about it in all event, no matter what will you do. So yes, some of the problems were solved, but others appeared instead, i hope this will be solved

Thanks this hot fix fixed my game crashing every 15mins. Now it crashes about once every 3 hours or so. Much better!

After the murder of Yurgir and Raphael’s conversation with Astarion about ritual, Mintara talks about the Emperor in this way.

Any idea when this fix is coming to Xbox? My game is saying it's still on v4.1.1.4811634. I've tried restarting my Xbox numerous times and have looked to see if an update is available, but it doesn't show that there is.

Hi, i've a bit of a problem. I streamed the Steam game from my pc to the TV via Xbox Series X / Sunshine), so that we can play with my wife who cannot sit for a long time in front of a gaming pc.
We bought two licences on Steam to play together and ended up playing on the same Steam license on split screen TV which is the best thing that happened to a recent game in terms of playing from the comfort of our living room.
The use of Sunshine on the Xbox is really a pain with lots of disconnections and sometimes graphical bugs. It is really irritating to launch with the lost of focus due to the Larian account manager that launches prior to the game.
When it works, though, the game really is a marvel with no input lag on Series X and full 4K (without HDR because my PC screen cannot do that).
So I bought a third licence from microsoft website at full price, in order to play on Xbox Series X natively, though we only we need one amongst the 3 licences bought.

Now we can't play our savegame because the hotfix doesn't roll on Xbox at the same rate as on PC so our savegames are visible after connecting to Larian account but there are only ten of them and not the 30 last ones, where one could have been on the right version we used on steam.

Could you upgrade Xbox at the same rate as Steam so that the 50+ hours cross save work and I can play together with my wife please ? It's been 2 weeks we cannot play and I think we really paid our price for the game now.

I explained on Reddit here the problems with the versions :

"I have the same problem.
I just bought it on Xbox cause streaming from my pc to the Xbox via Moonlight was good when it worked but a real pain just to launch.

I bought it the exact weekend they delivered a patch on pc and not on Xbox.

So it's been a week i can't play on my Xbox my 50hours+ save with my wife.
There are only 10 saves, so i can't even launch old saves on the old version on the Xbox, although i'm absolutely sure i have savegames on this exact version.

They should let us have on cross save 10 normal saves and 10 quicksaves if they want to force a certain amount of saves.
That way, i could probably have launched one of my oldest normal saves with the Xbox version. Now, it's been a full week.

Please Larian, release 4.1.1.4854838 on Xbox. Game manager on Xbox says version 1.6.2.0 and doesn't offer to download a 1.6.2.1 or something else."

And I would add : please do the same each hotfix, or we won't be the only one encountering the problems. Is it a problem with how Microsoft releases yout hotfix ? Perhaps it is not in your hands after all ? And how can i go around this problem ?

Thanks in advance.
Greetings from your neighbours in France.

Same issue. I normally play BG3 on Steam and Xbox, but for the last couple weeks I have been unable to play on my Xbox because of incompatible game saves. If I was just playing on the Xbox it wouldn't be a big deal. I would still be able to play, I'd just be on an older version. But... as soon as the Steam client was updated as the Xbox wasn't I am stuck only playing Steam.

Is there any eta on when Hotfix 20 and 21 will be applied to the Xbox?

Thanks

Same here, I started a whole new campaign on Xbox because my save on Steam is not compatible. This the second or third time Xbox has lagged behind on patches. Is the development platform for Xbox so different from PS5 and PC?