Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Dialogue bugs hotfix 22

Hi all!

I just wanted to share a list of dialogue bugs my partner and i experienced since hotfix 21. They are still present in hotfix 22 and make our honour mode run quite tedious:

- When starting a new dialogue, the character just freezes and can't do anything. Other characters can listen to this dialogue normally, but the character starting the dialogue is locked until reloading the game.

- Some dialogue lines are playing twice, possibly skipping another line of dialogue.

- When casting "speak with dead", sometimes the first question is restaring the casting animation, wasting the question.

- Sometimes the only option in a dialogue is "Continue". This can lead to devastating results in an honour mode run.

The last one on your list has been going on for a long time. The first one on the list I've experienced in my current co-op run since 21 as well. As a result that run has been entirely unplayable for us for almost two weeks.

I reported the bug right after 21 dropped and was told that it was a known bug with a fix in the works, only to see 22 drop without it being addressed. When I reported it a second time, I got the exact same form letter response email from the exact same support rep. This is the first time I've been genuinely disappointed by Larian's responsiveness.

Interesting, i reported the bugs today and got the same answer as you.

I was hoping that hotfix #22 would fix this issue, but it looks like it got worse. Happened 5 times today in half an hour.

Just wanted to add a +1 to this, have been having the first, second, and last problems during a 2-player co-op honor mode run with the spouse.

Tried having a dialogue with Minthara in camp and got all three problems, making it incoherent and forcing a reload due to being stuck in dialogue. (A reload is a big annoyance in honor mode, as there is no quick save/quick reload. The game has to be shut down to main menu and restarted, and other players rejoin)

Seems like it's related to Hotfix 21 but we've been having the problem since we got into Act 3. It's bad enough that the spouse doesn't even want to finish the game.

I have a separate single player game and I haven't ran into this issue in single player.

Im having the same problem. Doing a honour mode solo run. My character got stuck in a dialogue with ketheric Thorn and the conversation goes in an infinite loop, so i just cant do anything. I tried to reload game, closed and opened with no results. Im not going to start another campaing just because the game is broken. Its a shame thought. I hope it get fixed soon.

We're in the same boat on our Tactician game together, we haven't played it for two weeks now waiting on a fix. We had planned to start another game with a third player and can't because this bug has gone unaddressed this long.

Hello!

Could you confirm if after updating to Hotfix 23 the first issue on the list still persists?

I‘m on a vacation right now until next week. Maybe someone else here can confirm?

Thanks for your hard work, i really appreciate it!

Doing a little limited playtesting with two computers and didn't have this issue reappear. It's hard to know for sure since it seems to be somewhat random, but it didn't occur in ~30 minutes, including in the last place I had saved before encountering the problem and in running around through the grove initiating conversations with both party Tavs. We'll be able to put some actual multiplayer time in tonight, I'll update if I do run into it then!

Seems this bug has returned, and it starts at the beginning of the game for me, when trying to open Shadowheart's pod my character gets all the way through to the "will it open" option and then just sits there no other dialogue just the spacebar icon n the lower right to skip but pressing the space bar does nothing, reloading doesn't help, it is just hard stuck. when using the console. this continues through to several parts of the game for me and this means it cuts entire portions of the story from progressing. Even went the nuclear route and completely wiped my game files and deleted every save. to start a new game after reinstall and it continues to get stuck.