Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Latest News Community Update #12 – Patch 4: Nature’s Power

It’s been a busy few weeks here at Larian HQ. In between finalizing our transmogrification spells, sourcing cows for experimentation, and training them to sign extensive liability waivers with their hooves, we’ve been hard at work putting the finishing touches on Patch 4.

After much anticipation, today we awoke to the holy noise of bells chiming. It was our QA team in the hallowed Larian belfry, each of them clutching a bell rope in their face-tentacles to ring in the good news: Patch 4 ready to go live!

Before we get into it, a quick shoutout to everyone who helped Divinity: Original Sin 2 reach 100,000 reviews on Steam, where it sits with a 95% positive rating. What better way to celebrate that, than with a hefty patch for Baldur’s Gate 3!

If you watched the Panel From Hell 2 last week, you’ll know that this is our biggest Baldur’s Gate 3 patch yet. Thank you to everyone who tuned in. It was a big success, and that means we can think about doing more. (Alternatively, if you missed the livestream, or just fancy seeing Swen in armour again, you can watch it in full just below:)



Coming in at a whopping eight pages, Patch 4: Nature’s Power contains a juicy number of fixes, updates, and one particularly major addition: Druids are now a playable class.

You may have spotted us subtly teasing the Druid class in the lead-up to PFH2 with one or two strategically placed references to…cows, as well as vines!. “Will cows be coming to Baldur’s Gate 3?” wondered many a bewildered reader. Well, no. Instead, we would hire a Professional Cow Actor (Stephanie) to appear live on the stream, and through the power of Movie Magic have her use the Wild Shape ability to transform from bovine beauty into an actual Druid.



This is Stephanie the Cow, and she is ready for her close-up.

RIP Stephanie.

Just kidding, she’s fine. Nick on the other hand has grown udders.

With Patch 4: Nature’s Power, Druid characters will be able to use the Wild Shape ability to transform into a variety of different animals, each of which has their own unique abilities. Dire Wolf, Deep Rothe, Aberrant Shape, and Polar Bear forms offer new heavy attack options in combat, while Cat, Raven, Spider, and Badger provide additional strategic and defensive maneuvers – through stealth, flight, web-spinning, and burrowing, respectively.

Like their D&D equivalents, Druids in Baldur's Gate 3 will be able to choose one of two Druid Circle subclasses which impacts interactions in the game: Circle of the Land or Circle of the Moon. The former offers Druids additional perks as a caster, allowing you to pick a specific biome for which you are connected and then grants you additional spells. The latter allows players to boost the combative power of their Wild Shapes and gives you access to the mighty Polar Bear shape.



Druids can speak with their animal kin while in their Wild Shape forms, which provides an alternative to combat encounters via diplomacy. You saw a bit of this in action during the livestream, where we showed a Druid use their Wild Shape ability to transform into a bear and convince a fellow bear to quit blocking a previously impassable entryway. Previously this encounter would have kicked off a combat scenario. Now with the Druid class, players have the option to trigger an adorably non-lethal tête-à-tête.

Loaded dice: toggle for sanity, or disable for purity

Another new feature in this patch is Loaded Dice. The aim here is to smooth out the extremes of the dice-rolling bell curve that might otherwise see players roll a series of unlucky Natural 1s or all-too-lucky D20s in a row. We’ve been considering this for some time, but it’s really a matter of taste and therefore is an optional feature. If you prefer the purity of RNG rolls, those are still available to you. But if you are easily prone to dice-related headaches or if you have angered the algorithm and are now cursed with randomly-generated bad luck, then it's worth a toggle.



Cinematic speak with dead - spooky AND immersive

The Speak with the Dead ability now includes many new corpses to hunker down with for a chat. This means lots of new dialogue and, naturally, new accompanying cinematics. And yes, there is method to our gothic madness. To quote from Swen during the livestream: "If you killed everybody like an idiot and you didn't pay attention to the story and don't know what to do anymore, you can just go talk to their bodies!" Speaking of cinematics, Patch 4 comes with vastly improved lighting and animation and with over 25,000 cinematic nodes throughout Act 1, the game is looking better than ever. Not that we’re done yet. There’s still loads of improvements coming.

Quality of life and user experience tweaks and changes a happier player maketh

A number of quality-of-life changes are included in this patch as well. Targeting allies and enemies will now be easier, and you can do so just by clicking on their portraits - A nice little UI upgrade that means no more blindly clicking your way between characters within the world to find them. Additionally, for those who enjoy playing BG3 with other human beings, you'll now be able to see other players' full Equipment, Spells, Inventory, and Character Sheets. Darker areas of the game have also been improved with a newly dedicated torch button, while a long awaited flee button is now available in the game for easier escapes from combat. Annoy your friends by leaving them to fend for themselves with a tactical retreat!

Sharp-Eye now pees from the “correct approximate bodily area”, which is an example of a quality of life improvement for specifically one NPC, and whoever may be responsible for their laundry.

You can also expect to find stability fixes galore in this update. Here are a few favourites, hot off the patch notes:
- Baelan’s wig was removed and he is now correctly bald, as stated in Derryth’s dialogue.
- Sharp-Eye now pees from the correct bodily area (previously too high up).
- Fixed not being able to shove characters off the skiffs in the Underdark. Happy shoving!



We’ve also been working with Razer to bring Chroma support to the game, including support for Philips Hue bulbs, so you can match your entire abode to Baldur’s Gate 3’s vibe, if you’re so inclined. If you’ve got a Chroma connected laptop or peripheral, you may notice a little extra flair when you launch the game having downloaded Patch 4.

We grow, our patches become smaller.

With so many updates to the game - and many more to come as we continue to build toward launch - it isn't surprising that we've expanded our development team. As announced last week, Larian has opened two new studios in Guildford, England and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. That brings us to a total of six studios spanning Belgium, Ireland, Russia, Canada, England, and Malaysia, working together to bring Baldur's Gate 3 to life.

And good news for your computers: In the future you can expect our patches to be smaller in download and install size, regardless of how hefty they may be. The short version is, we've split large pak files into smaller chunks. To put that in Wild Shape terms, our patches will go from chonky badger to svelte feline.

That just about covers today’s major points!

BEHOLD THE HEFT. The appropriate way to read the following patch notes is by putting on an epic soundtrack, pouring yourself a nice glass of Caprisun, and blitzing through like one of those cool robot secretaries from Ghost in the Shell.

New

• Added the Druid class, with two unique subclasses - The Circle of the Moon and the Circle of the Land.
  -Circle of the Moon - Transformation is no problem for most Druids, but those who keep the ways of the moon gain the ability to morph into more powerful combative Wild Shapes - like the Polar Bear.
  -Circle of the Land - Keepers of the Old Faith, these Druids gain additional power based on the region and what type of geography they’re connected to.
• Wild Shape:
  Embodying nature's adaptability, Druids can assume the shape of a host of distinct and potent creatures using the power of their magic. Oftentimes during Baldur's Gate 3's journey you'll be called upon by your party to destroy opponents. For such occasions, the Druid enlarges, gaining the killing form of a Dire Wolf or, in the case of Druids of the Circle of the Moon, a Polar Bear. Combat could also be affected if the Druid were to transform into a sinuous Spider, entrapping enemies in their sticky webbing. In traversing Faerun, the party may rely on their Druid to scout the surrounding countryside or cityscape as a Cat, from beneath as a Badger, or from the soaring skies as a Raven. Lastly, in truly desperate circumstances, the Druid may decide to embrace the tadpole - implanted in their brain by the Mind Flayers. In doing so, the Druid transforms into the mysterious Aberrant Shape, and reaps the terrible and powerful consequence.
  -Wild Shapes included: Deep Rothe, Dire Wolf, Badger, Spider, Polar Bear, Raven, Cat & an Aberrant Intellect Devourer form
• Druidic Spells being added:
  -Entangle - Animate vines, weeds and creeping roots to snare and restrain your foes in a specific area.
  -Flame Blade - Summon a scimitar of flame, shedding bright light around you and swinging it to scorch enemies.
  -Moonbeam - Create a damaging pillar of radiant moonlight.
  -Produce Flame - Light dark areas with this flickering flame in your palm, illuminate torches, and immolate patches of flammable liquid.
  -Shillelagh - When more powerful spells fail the Druid, this Cantrip imbues a melee weapon like a club or staff with glowing energy and makes it hit much harder.
  -Thorn Whip - This prickly vine lasso cuts your enemies and yanks them closer to you.
  -Barkskin - The Druid turns their skin, or an ally’s, as hard as the bole of an oak tree.
  -Destroy Water - Remove damaging fog or hazardous puddles in your path.
  -Enhance Ability - Give an ally or yourself Bear’s Endurance, Bull’s Strength, Cat’s Grace, Eagle’s Splendor, Fox’s Cunning or Owl’s Wisdom.
  -Flaming Sphere - A ball of fire that sticks around, Druid’s can keep this blazing orb rolling into the path of their foes.
  -Goodberry - These berries grant some healing that can be carried in your inventory or eaten right away.
  -Heat Metal - Superheating metal can have harmful - or even deadly - effects, especially if an opponent of yours is wearing that metal.
  -Protection From Poison - This spell neutralises toxins in the blood and also acts as a silver bullet against all known forms of poison.
  -Spike Growth - Druids can transform nearby terrain into a nest of barbs that slows and damages their foes.
• Added reactivity for Druids
  -Additional paths in multiple dialogues that reflect your druidic training and history.
  -There are now big additions to the Druids grove, where Druid players can gain additional options and insights into the activities and challenges there.
  -Gain powerful new magic items and depending on your actions become the Faithwarden.
  -New reactivity and options for talking to animals while in a Wild shape form.
• Rebuilt and refined combat encounters. Druid NPC’s are now true druids; following the same ruleset as the player character. All potential combats within the Druid’s Grove have been rebuilt to reflect the new abilities and spells these NPC’s can use.

Improvements:

• Dice rolls are now weighted to avoid streaks of success or failure. This affects attack rolls and saving throws, as well as active rolls within dialogues.
• Updated speak with dead cinematic dialogs with VFX and animations.
• Added more polish to overall cinematics.
• Added a dedicated button that allows party members to escape a combat encounter. To use it, a character needs to be 27m away from the nearest enemy.
• Several new custom animations were added for animals during cinematic scenes.
• NPCs now react more aggressively when being attacked by summoned creatures.
• Added Razer Chroma support.
• Improved lighting in several key locations and in specific cutscenes.
• Split large pak files into smaller chunks. This will allow future patches to be smaller in download and install size. This does mean that this patch will be a much larger initial download.
• Reskinned several interface screens:
  -Character Tooltips
  -Main Menu and Profile Menu
  -Surface and cloud tooltips
  -Death saving throw
  -Container UIs
  -Notifications
• Improved performance in the Options UI and restructured it.
• Improved pathfinding around other characters.
• Gith now have proper Gith weapons.
• The Flaming Fist now have a shield with their coat of arms.
• Improved navigation around the village windmill.
• Added Cross Play through direct connect with Mac version.

Usability:

• Made trading and bartering prices clearer, showing both the original value and adjusted trade price in the item tooltips.
• Added tooltips to conditions in the combat log.
• Players can now disable traps by double-clicking on them if they have a trap disarm toolkit.
• Players can now see all other players' inventories in multiplayer.
• In combat, your current player character will be outlined in blue if it's not their turn
• Added support to drag-and-drop attackable items.
• “Show on Map” in the journal will now centre the map on the selected quest marker.
• Fixed not being able to correctly see the updated state of Steam Cloud savegames.
• Long rest is now applied to all recruited characters, not just current party members.
• In multiplayer, made selecting characters with F1 through F4 more intuitive for clients.

Balancing Changes:

• Locked Selûne’s fort supply room door. The key can now be found in <REDACTED>
• Removed bonus action costs from herbs and mushrooms.
• Bumped Devil's Sight to 24m to match Superior Darkvision.
• Added Searing Smite to Zariel tieflings at level 3.
• Stinking Cloud no longer affects items.
• Metal doors are no longer vulnerable to slashing damage.
• You can now apply multiple Hunter’s Marks to targets.
• Damage against resistance now deals a minimum of 1.
• Hellish Rebuke can no longer be blocked by terrain.
• Allowed Dash to double stack.
• Level 2 Jump no longer costs a level 2 spell slot.
• Removed cooldown from Dash and Disengage.
• Witch Bolt now electrifies any surfaces the target is standing in.
• Devil Sight now grants immunity to the Blinded condition from darkness,
• Can no longer use Armour of Shadows with armour equipped,
• Players can no longer summon a companion or a familiar on top of another character,
• Sunwalker's Gift now gifts Darkvision,
• Arcane Ward now gives 2 times wizard level + intelligence modifier temp HP.
• Hook Horror can now be silenced.
• Improved Harpy flight and casting.
• Sazza is now tougher.
• Ogres can now target enemies on the wall with their javelin.
• Using nautiloid restoration item now uses an action point.
• Colossus Slayer now properly only triggers when target is not at full health.
• Level 2 Charm Person is now an AOE spell that targets up to 2 creatures.
• Fire surface created by fallen chandelier now disappears after a while.
• Mindflayer's Enthrall is now bound by concentration.
• Imps and Quasit now have Darkvision
• Increased Phase Spider Queen weight (to large creature)
• Improved consistency of all Phase Spider bites.
• Imps drop light crossbows instead of heavy ones.
• Created specific treasure for the Bulette.
• Decreased amount of water around Wood Woads, moved NPCs behind the tree, and reduced mud surfaces.
• Reduce weight of Scale Mail

Stability:

• Fixed a crash related to sound events.
• Fixed a crash when reloading several times in a row after autosaving.
• Fixed a crash related to a long rest getting interrupted.
• Fixed a rare crash when triggering a follower jump shortly after adding a summon.
• Fixed a crash related to AI logic not having enemy targets to select from.
• Fixed a crash when saving in between requesting a roll and it completing.
• Fixed a crash related to saving right after a summon killed a character.
• Fixed a crash when killing multiple entities in the same frame.
• Fixed a crash in multiplayer when trying to access a character that's being destroyed.
• Fixed a crash when having a dismissed/dead familiar in the Examine panel.
• Fixed a crash when a summon kills Gale.
• Fixed a crash when loading a game while triggering traps.
• Fixed a crash when clicking on “Personal Gold Carried”.
• Fixed a crash when swapping characters during dialogue.
• Fixed a crash on closing the inventory with context menu still open.
• Fixed a crash when a party member leaves the party while the player is still dragging their portrait.
• Fixed a crash when swapping to another party member after giving Mayrina away to Auntie Ethel.
• Fixed a crash related to joining surfaces.
• Fixed a rare crash in multiplayer when loading into the tutorial.
• Fixed a rare crash when players would initiate resting at camp.
• Fixed a crash related to multiplayer and multiple summons.
• Fixed a crash related to projectiles and movable objects.

Fixes:

• Fixed several issues with (incorrectly) targeting invisible characters.
• Fixed projectiles not hitting invisible characters.
• Fixed spell casting requirements not always being checked when casting a spell from an item.
• It’s now possible to self-cast spells when invisible.
• Fixed equipment colours changing when invisibility ends.
• Fixed not being able to take all equipment from corpses.
• Fixed not being able to drag items from a corpse into the world.
• Fixed picking up items from containers not breaking invisibility.
• Fixed being able to see sneaking circle when a target is invisible.
• Fixed invisible characters not being capable of detecting sneaking characters.
• Fixed passives from previous levels disappearing from hotbar on level up.
• Fixed summons incorrectly receiving XP and levelling up in the background.
• Fixed summons sometimes blocking short rest.
• Fixed summons being able to initiate and participate in certain dialogues.
• Fixed approval rating incorrectly appearing for your main player avatar.
• Fixed sometimes getting stuck in long rest in multiplayer.
• Fixed followers sometimes jumping on moving platforms and missing jumps.
• During combat, downed characters now skip their turns at the front of the group.
• Fixed some characters automatically opening doors that aren't on their path.
• Fixed Undead Guardians moving when it's not their turn.
• Fixed characters standing too far away after melee attacks, so that their attacks of opportunity would not trigger.
• Fixed some thrown objects not doing any damage.
• Fixed a camera sharing view problem when levelling up a party member at the wrong time, causing the screen to flicker.
• Fixed some enemies not being properly surprised when attacking from stealth.
• Fixed combat not ending when only invisible enemies remain.
• Fixed slow combat AI when using spells next to groups of exploding items.
• Fixed combat being stuck when the player tries to run away from the bulette while being in a prone state.
• Fixed several text issues with tooltips.
• Fixed misleading calculations in combat log for skill checks.
• Fixed spells and action tooltips in the combat log.
• Fixed several translated strings being cut off.
• Fixed an issue that caused "Can't Reach Destination" error messages at valid positions.
• Fixed force attack (using CTRL and hovering over targets) getting lower priority than most other actions.
• When pathfinding,characters will no longer check for dangerous surfaces on different floors.
• Color changing in character creation no longer reloads the entire model.
• Fixed Warlock and Ranger level up passives selection issue.
• Fixed swapping control of characters during combat resulting in followers being unable to end their turn.
• Fixed characters standing on top of nearby objects when standing too close to them after loading
• Fixed not being able to progress when the player denounces Kagha. Nettie will now remain in her default state correctly.
• Added crime behaviors for Myconids.
• Fixed several item names.
• Fixed javelin attack roll type.
• Player characters controlled by AI will no longer use dip spell.
• Frog can now use Reflective Mucous more than once.
• Frog won't use Reflective Mucous when buff is already active.
• Raiding Party Gloves trigger on damage now (not attack).
• Rally no longer targets the caster.
• False Life no longer affects nearby characters.
• Can no longer cast Speak with Dead in combat.
• Hold Person is now considered a hostile spell.
• Fixed Thunderwave scroll.
• Fixed some classes' missing weapon proficiencies.
• Fixed Weapon Master feat missing some weapon proficiencies.
• Removed Detect Thoughts from Magic Initiate: Warlock spell list.
• Fixed Raven's beak attack icon
• Made gas pits in the Dank Crypt invulnerable.
• Blast mine in the Chapel can no longer be moved.
• Spiders will no longer regard web surfaces as difficult terrain.
• Added Selûne's Seal status icon.
• Sitting status now has an icon.
• Fixed Crippling Pinch spell description and icon.
• Added Bugbear Assassin sneaking icon.
• Fixed combat fallback dialogue; spiders no longer "roar".
• Mud Mephits no longer perform ranged attacks of opportunity.
• Wood Woads properly heal from twisted vine surfaces.
• Fixed Wood Woad mace visuals
• Addled Frog will no longer hurt itself jumping.
• NPCs can no longer cast Smash and Slash more than once per fight.
• Fixed not being able to see in the dark on certain characters when using the Darkvision spell.
• Fixed an issue with NPCs not being able to pass through certain doors.
• Fixed characters sleeping right next to their beds on the floor.
• Fixed surfaces not updating correctly during turn ticks, causing issues like NPCs not taking fire damage in certain cases.
• Fixed characters getting stuck in the prone condition when shoved off objects in Force Turn-Based mode.
• Fixed being stuck in Force Turn-Based mode after saving Benryn.
• Force Turn-Based mode is cancelled when entering long rest and is now blocked during rest.
• Spell containers now also get greyed out on the hotbar when all spells within are unavailable.
• Fixed an issue with poor character members. Trading when having 0 gold now behaves correctly when pressing the balance gold button.
• Fixed Life Cleric's Bless only affecting 3 characters instead of 4 when upcast at spell level 2.
• Chill Touch now properly applies Disadvantage.
• Fixed Mage Armour stacking with shield.
• Fixed Level 2 Ensnaring Strike not dealing damage.
• Magic Initiate spells now use correct modifier to calculate saving throw difficulty check
• Fixed several nodes in camp related to Astarion’s reactions to events.
• Updated text of Halsin's Shadowcursed research journal to remove references to killing Isobel.
• Volo now reacts correctly when you save him.
• Added and updated several crime reactionary behaviors.
• Fixed several looping dialogues and incorrect greeting nodes.
• Fixed several timing issues with Lae’zel’s recruitment dialogue.
• Fixed glowing bulbs not having a destruction effect.
• Added glowing effect to certain potions and flasks.
• Sharp-Eye now pees from the correct bodily area (previously too high up).
• Added more destruction VFX to several items.
• Fixed a flickering issue with Gale’s aura when he dies.
• Updated blood, water, oil and ooze footsteps visuals to better match each other.
• Fixed positioning of the temporary hit point gauge.
• Fixed incorrect number of movement points in the hotbar tooltip.
• Fixed recurring Inspiration Point notifications when recruiting a new character or summoning a familiar.
• Fixed visibility of dead characters in some UI panels.
• Fixed an issue where you could not swap characters during trade after selecting a dead party member.
• Fixed an issue with the target UI when cancelling a ranged attack
• Fixed misaligned icons when dragging them.
• Fixed incorrect selection when creating a new profile.
• Fixed being able to permanently remove common actions from the hotbar.
• Fixed a misalignment issue with the inventory background in multiplayer.
• Fixed being able to open multiple spell level selection windows and not being able to close them.
• Fixed level 2 spells not greying out when there are no available level 2 slots.
• Fixed temporary HP being reset after loading.
• Fixed lockpick progress bar not disappearing when the action is cancelled.
• Fixed UI panels getting stuck when rapidly switching between them.
• Fixed Strength requirement not being checked when equipping items or moving them to characters' inventories.
• Fixed solo characters not having access to the Sort button in the inventory.
• Fixed cut-off text in the "Current Game" details in the main menu.
• Fixed Pickpocket text action displaying debug text.
• Fixed Party level filter incorrectly going up to 25+ in the lobby.
• Fixed being able to make save game files with illegal characters.
• Fixed Armour Class stat going to 0 when previewing items.
• Fixed bonuses to skills not appearing correctly in the character sheet.
• Fixed bonuses not being updated when dragging items between characters.
• Fixed sometimes getting a second confirmation box that asks if you want to go to bed in camp.
• Fixed an issue where swapping players would disable all End Turn buttons when only having a summon in the turn order bar.
• Fixed “Us” not having its Claw attack in the hotbar.
• Fixed goblin kids not reacting to shoving the dead adventurer's corpse.
• Fixed not being able to steal the antidote after Nettie poisons you.
• Fixed Nettie being hostile after the player saved the grove.
• Stealing the owlbear egg now results in the mother owlbear being killed by goblins.
• Fixed Brynna and Andrick disappearing immediately upon dismissing and attacking them through Force Turn-Based mode.
• Fixed several issues with Abdirak trying to start the penance scene.
• Fixed Nymessa and Damays not responding in the event that Laezel dies while caged.
• Fixed minor flow issues with Lae’zel’s recruitment dialogue.
• Goblins at the goblin checkpoint now become hostile if the festivities area goes hostile.
• Fixed an issue with returning from camp to difficult to reach locations, sometimes resulting in full party death.
• Fixed being able to interrogate Fezzerk when he’s dead.
• Fixed not being able to give Gale magic items while he's in camp.
• Fixed being able to summon many Connors (undead from Second Marriage wand).
• Fixed savegames at the start of the Zhent hideout causing the hideout characters to be aggressive to the player.
• The masks no longer attack the player if the Hag is already dead.
• Fixed the moon puzzle half moon symbols sometimes flipping as they rotate.
• Fixed NPC reactions to killing Brem and other Zhent.
• Fixed Gale no longer being recruitable after an initial refusal.
• The hag’s masked victims now die if you remove their masks while they are still alive.
• Fixed Ethel not starting combat if the player skips past her to her initial ambush range.
• Fixed being able to shove Magro, leaving her head hanging in the air.
• Fixed breaking the Bitter Divorce quest not updating the journal
• Prevented Auntie Ethel from appearing in her lair if she's already dead.
• Updated several outdated journal entries.
• Fixed Sazza being reported as killed while she is still alive, after shoving the goblins into the spider pit.
• Fixed an issue where the Myconid Circle would immediately turn hostile to players upon seeing Glut.
• Fixed Lae'zel being hostile against the player even after choosing to attack the tieflings.
• Improvements on Speak With Dead sounds to support new VFXs.
• Fixed a bug that caused overhead dialogue to loop endlessly.
• In multiplayer, you now don't hear other player sounds of leveling up or gaining personal XP.
• Master volume now controls the volume of CGI videos as well.
• New music track plays while resting in the camp.
• Wood Woad should now creak and groan like a good sapling.
• More sound objects for cinematics for a better 3D audio experience.
• Fixed item drag-and-drop sounds being played in movement preview.
• Fixed equip and unequip UI sounds from NPCs being heard.
• Added missing sound events for certain containers.
• Fixed sounds not playing correctly when picking up items similar to other items already in your inventory.
• Fixed certain destruction sounds not playing correctly.
• Camp music will now play correctly after loading a game and going straight to camp.
• Fixed placement of several smaller sceneries and items to reduce pathfinding issues.
• Fixed physics issues on village house roofs.
• Baelan’s wig was removed, and he is now correctly bald, as stated in Derryth’s dialogue.
• Fixed circlets not fitting correctly on Githyanki heads.
• Added new icons and updated several existing ones for statuses, spells and tooltips.
• Fixed some portraits of NPC’s not being centered correctly.
• Fixed not being able to shove characters off the skiffs in the Underdark. Happy shoving!
• Fixed several instances of helmet hair (hair disappearing in spots it should not, when equipping helmets on specific characters).
• Fixed an issue with fire bowls not falling down after shooting the hinge.
• Fixed missing tails on cambions.
• Made it harder to accidentally jump off the ship in Avernus.
• Added correct dog collar model.
• Fixed several minor clipping issues.
• Fixed a few item destruction models.

I love you, Larian! Awesome work, thank you so much for you, your work and all the effort to make the best rpg the World have ever known <3

Thank you and all the hard working Larian employees. Lets find more bugs shall we?

Thank you for your hard work, patching now!

Downloading now, I'm really excited for the druids.

+1 great news and glad to see the patch notes.

(altho and not to make waves, lol but i still cant seem to shake the same feeling of being patronized i had from their previous panel announcement and idk if i really care to hear about dos2's steam success given some of the concerns cited here as part of bg3's development - but thats just me)

Woohoo!! Downloading now!

Any idea when the patch will come to stadia?

Level cap is still 4 ?

Excited for many of the changes in this patch. Bit unhappy I didn't see anything in the notes about fixing the problem that summons like mage hand keep cancelling find familiar, but overall these patches are going in the right direction

Wait, isn't Mage Armour *supposed* to stack with holding a shield...?

P.S. Thanks for the patch ;-p

Does this mean the Spider Queen (and other Large+ creatures) is harder to shove?
Or does this just affect fall damage taken by the queen/you if she falls on you?

Yay! Great! But this is 38GB no joke?

They said that this patch will be larger so that future patches can be made smaller.

Awesome. Can't wait to play again.

"NPCs can no longer cast Smash and Slash more than once per fight."

Thanks so much for this! Great news.

Still no fixes for dualwielding ? (off hand attack chance & dualwielder feat)

It's available on Steam, GOG and Stadia now.

Oh! That's fantastic! Thank you for letting me know. I was prepared for a couple of more days of waiting. Thank you so much.

Anyone else having weird graphics issues? I just uninstalled and I'm downloading and reinstalling because the character creator gave me a PC with just hair and eyeballs.

(kinda interesting that models actually have fully fleshed out eyeballs)

Edit: Re-download fixed it. Kinda interesting look behind the scenes -- who would have thought they would have gone to the trouble of designing the back of an eyeball?

yeah what is up with that? Did they seriously still not fix Two Wep Fighting?

I don't have those graphic problems, but I can't use the hotbar on my druid. I have to open teh character menu to use anything - what's up with that?

Try verifying your game files and see if this fixes the issue for you.

The patch notes say Zariel’s tieflings now know how to use Searing Smite.

Searing Smite is a Paladin spell.

Hmm...

How do I do that?

If you're on Steam - right click the game in your library, click properties, select "local files" and then there will be a "verify integrity of game files" button.

With the GOG version, in the (optional) Galaxy client, select the game, then the settings icon at the top right (beside the Play button) and under Manage Installation select 'Verify / Repair'.

I did that and did get no error , but it still is not working.

Do you have any mods installed?

Not at the moment, but there might be files. I have deinstalled the game, erased all files, that were still there and am now reinstalling.

Let me know how you get on!

You guys are amazing! Thanks for the hard work and the new patch!

It might take a while, I might post tomorrow since it is getting late here in Europe. But thank you for your help. I'll let you know, how it did go.

<< Mac user.... I know and if they ever restock the new 3080 rtx I would build a new pc.
however at this im stuck with the mac and the limited games it plays.

before installation of patch 4 game ran great. after installation game loads to a white screen and locks up. I also had it load and be completely yellow tinted. you can hear the audio play in the background.

Macbook Pro 2018. Version 11.2.2
2.9 GHZ I9 6 core. 32 GB 2400MHZ ddr4

Yikes, d20s don’t produce a bell curve. Let’s just hope Jess misspoke and it’s not a fundamental lack of understanding at Larian. I wonder if someone will be able to reproduce Niara’s RNG analysis and see if we’re still getting the sine wave, with and without loaded dice turned on.

Very happy to see this...thank you, Larian!...;) Thank you, Jess!

Jess: I've long meant to compliment your avatar here. It looks as though you are solidly in the throes of ecstasy, eyes closed, as a beautiful in-game nymph has materialized in your office and is giving you a truly memorable foot massage...:) (Am I close, yes?)

Seriously, you guys are doing a great job...am in awe of the studios being created seemingly for this game! You guys are really pouring on the resources which is fantastic to see! I fully imagine you will exceed every expectation I had for this game...I think you are on the way to making not just the Game of the Year (it ships), but very likely the game of the decade! This is making me very happy to have gone with the EA!

GOG's Galaxy has just told me that the patch is installed and ready to play...so I'll see you guys in X hours!

okay so it looks like its a full screen bug on the mac... i was able to switch it to window mode and the UI popped up!!!

I was about to ask you if rebooting your Mac might make a difference, after patch installation--assuming you haven't done that already.

THANK YOU LARIAN!!!

Thank you, Larian staff!!! "Once more upon the Goblin Breach, dear friends, once moooooooore!!!!!!!!!"

boom! managed to guess right for once in my life.

Thanks for the detailed fix list.

it's a subrace feature - it's in the sourcebook

Small glitch with Ray of Frost: if aimed at close and medium range, instead of landing at the destination the vfx of the Ray travels straight and the impact occurs where the caster is. But the glitch appears to be only visual.

As soon as I get it downloaded, I'm going to try starting a multiplayer session with myself. I'll do 2 druids and a main character (probably a Drow Ranger). If I run into any issues or encounter any bugs I'll be sure to post them... at least now I know not to mention the Ray of Frost if I see that one.

And Zariel Tiefling's spell.

I couldn't change the name of the character when creating it, did you see this in the new patch ?

We all Tav now?

You can change the name. It's just real hard to get that cursor to show up.

Yeah, it's really hard. I found that changing the tab and coming back sometimes helped. And otherwise its a game of click here . . . no? How about a millimeter to left . . .

Double clicking on the name did it for me.

I reinstalled the game and it works now. I have my spells, items and movements on the correct hotbars.
That's a lesson: no more mods in EA, I only had a hair mod, but I guess, that was enough.

"We grow, our patches become smaller." Well, it's still 55 GB, it's not smaller but less huge
Nice to see the progress and a new class!

Is it normal that a lolth-sworn drow druid is actually registered as a worshiper of shar?

2176 / 5000

Thank you for your hard work. I'm going to my third PT right now. Thanks also for supporting the game on Mac.

Despite being anxious for the following implements:
- Quality of life: change the chain system for the group.
- Quality of life: being able to cast the Concentration spell on a character who is already talking to an NPC.
- Quality of life: being able to select multiple items in the inventory, holding Shift, and clicking on them.
- Companions: Please, avoid odd numbers to the maximum in the abilities of the companions. Will, for example, has four odd-numbers on that, making me have to fix that with Feats.
- Interface: The character's photo does not need to appear three times on the screen. Nor the number of Hit Points has to appear four times.
- Interface: Option to hide the mini-map from the screen, just as we can do with the log.
- Interface: Improves the quality of the map, which is very pixelated and blurred.
- Interface: Take off the square and triangle icons that are under the skill bar. It's taking too much space. This already happens out of combat.

The next suggestions are purely for personal taste. I know that implementing them is much more complicated.
- Day-Night Cycle: It can be purely cosmetic, without having to program different behaviors for all the NPCs. A modder did this for DOS2 and it was excellent (although the contrast and saturation were overwhelming). But it would be nice if the characters received penalties for darkness and stealth bonuses during the night.
- Customization: It would be perfect if we could modify our physical form. Tyranny, for instance, has the simpler mechanic (3 body types), and ESO has the more satisfying.
- Spells: It would be nice to reduce the spell area with the mouse wheel (PoE has this).

Nevertheless, thanks again.

Thank you!

PLEASE PLEASE Fix the GoG updates for this game. GoG forces you to download the entire (60GB) game every time it is updated.

Yeah day night cycle would be super interesting esp for Drow and Astarion

Hooray! Thanks for letting me know that was the culprit. Glad it's working for you now.

Try disabling HDR in the launcher window.

I started a patch 4 game and have just defeated the intellect-devies on the beach. This is the point where in my previous games, me and Shadowheart leveled up to 2.
This time, only I leveled up. Shadowheart needs 9 more XP.
In earlier gemes, all characters, even those in camp, had the same XP, I believe. This no longer seems to be te case. Although I don't see this mentioned in the list of changes that was posted here.

I also noticed this in my playthrough, although for me the difference is 30 points between myself and Shadowheart. I have made a note of this and forwarded to the team.

In my game the difference is also 30 XP. Meanwhile , we met Astarion and he came in with the same XP my player has. (So also 30 above Shadowheart)

I experienced the same pattern. When I further added Gale he also, like Astarion, had the same XP. Furthermore, it has continued. When my character reached level 3, with Gale and Astarion, Shadowheart was delayed by 30xp or so.

Thanks for the info!

Hi, thanks for the new patch! I'd really love to play it but I can't see it on steam: only 2 and 3 are available to me. I unistalled and reinstalled the game and still there's no patch 4 to be seen. Previously I had no mods installed at all and I really don't know what I'm doing wrong :c

In your Steam settings, in the beta tab make sure the setting is set to "none" and then Patch 4 will come through for you.

Was the DC on the lockpicking for the Chapel door changed? It seems *much* harder to open and the combat log is double reporting failures and reporting a failure immediately after a success. Just wondering if this is a bug in the combat log/lockingpicking system, or an intentional change to make the door harder to pick?

*Edit* For what it's worth I've run it multiple times to check against statistical probability. If I've just been unlucky I've been SERIOUSLY unlucky... :P

I've seen a few reports of this, will forward to the team to investigate.

Oh...
It worked.


Thank you so much!
And sorry for asking the dumbest question in this thread.

Not a worry at all, glad you got it sorted!

Has anyone else got the problem the characters lips don't move a lot of the time when they are talking especially in the cut scenes. Its so annoying it has rendered the game unplayable. Looks like we should have kept this one in the oven a bit longer.

Jess where are you? Have I missed something has ventriloquism become one of the new talents all characters in the game have been given? Is anybody out there?

Well I've been doing my homework and this is a well known bug that has been there since the release for some players. Most of them seem to think it would have been patched out by now but instead Larian decided to patch it in for anyone who was missing out on it. Well done!!!!!!!!

My hotbar is empty, no jump, sneak, no spells and i cant slot any spells nor do the quick commands for sneaking and jumping work, making it impossible to get past the jump after 'Us'. I've unistalled and reinstalled and no change, no mods installed either

Ya that happens off and on, usually lasts a couple frames for a animation sequence.


I've seen several posts about this, all of them seem to be related to a mod. Check your documents if you haven't already.

Is anyone else failing the majority of their dice rolls now? I am at probably a 75% fail rate (I am loosing more rolls than winning). It's a little frustrating; playing a druid and well, he should be better at Animal Handling or Wisdom rolls, but he's failing them (I reloaded one scene 13 times (Edowin's Tadpole) and lost most of those rolls - ended up letting the little squirmer go; and couldn't read the Owlbear but did manage to back away).

I wasn't expecting this but THANK YOU for the massive update to the controller based UI! it's kind of wonderful to be able to pick a hair color, manage my inventory and spellbook and correctly level up! I love what you've done to the place. I had all but given up playing on my tv until this patch as the keyboard and mouse UI was so much more functional.

I really don't understand where Larian are coming from with this game. What we have seen has so much potential and furthering the franchise in the image of some games they have done before is only to the benefit of the game. I personally couldn't go back to the original format as much as I enjoyed it all those years ago. If Larian need funds to finish this game I don't think this was the way to do it. I for one would be happy to contribute (on top of buying the game in the first place) to the ongoing development of the game. Perhaps they could offer all of us early adopters a chance to buy in to this project. I'm not talking about working our names in or anything like that, I could think of nothing worse, this game needs to be free of those things. I would just like to see it get finished. I'm an older person and love a story and larian always tell a good story.

I did not see this improvement in the list from the top post (maybe I looked over it)
Maps found now get copied on the player's map. Well, at least the Harper's cache is marked after you find the map. In earlier versions, it was shown beifly only the turn you found the map, then disappeared. Now you can see it every time you show the map.

Love the update but are we going to get out of the starting Area anytime soon? There is a big world out there and it seems like we have been stuck in the starting area for too long.

Love the game BUT over 37 Gigs to have basic stuff broken makes me sad

Love the update. Giving Zariel tieflings the correct level 3 racial is a nice change. I'm wondering why Azmodeus tieflings still don't have their level 3 racial. Hopefully can receive it before patch #5.

Fixed Warlock and Ranger level up passives selection issue.

Yes but did you fix the Dual Wielder Feat which gives a +1 to AC? I'm not quite to level 4 and I'm curious

I don't think it makes the game anything close to unplayable, but, yes, I have seen more than one instance where the character is talking but his lips aren't moving at all.

I read too many complaints about the game reminding people of D:OS2 and I have a suggestion that would go a long way towards alleviating that branch of complaint: try and remove all of the D:OS 2 soundtracks from the EA. When I hear it I instantly recognize it and it does transport me back to D OS2, or maybe even D OS1, briefly. I think BG3 deserves an entirely new soundtrack--and the original stuff I'm hearing in BG3 so far is great, imo, but the D OS1/2 tracks really need to be pulled. There's nothing "wrong" with them--they just vividly call the earlier games to mind (as I spent hundreds of hours in both games!)

The EA version consists only of Chapter 1 in the game. We will not be getting out of the starting geography until the game ships and we can go on to chapter 2 and far beyond. This is the way Larian does its EA's--it was that way for D OS and D OS 2, as well. Disappointing in a way...but the advantage is that when the game ships we'll get a boatload of new content we've never seen. Larian hasn't announced a change in that, so Chapter 1 only is the entire EA.

No, I'm sorry. I disagree 100%. The soundtrack is by the same guy (Borislav Slavov), yes, but it's beautiful and fits the world perfectly.. Also, what you're saying makes very little sense to me. I also disagree with the DOS2 comparisons, if anything, the game is more reminiscent of Dragon Age Origins. Of course some things will feel similar, since it's the same developer/studio, but c'mon...

Regarding the music: what you're saying is like telling the musician to take the soundtrack off of Superman the movie, because it reminds you too much of the Star Wars soundtrack (both by John Williams). An erroneous argument is my opinion.

Edit: I actually think the soundtrack, musically speaking, is one of the BEST out there in terms of sweeping, epic orchestral symphonies.

Sorry for me it has made the game unplayable it is so distracting. The new patch introduced this into the game for me so I wonder what went wrong there. Nothing to worry about I'm sure there is a fix 'just around the corner' in six months or so. Apart from that I think the game is shaping up well.

Kerro, in another thread you JUST said that you think this game wasn't getting rleased...? So, which is it now?

lol Marco. This is months old, dude. Feelings changed.

So yeah, to answer your question, "which is it now?" I can't speak for Kerro, but if I were a bettin' man, I'd bet he'd say "the more recent one".

Oh lol didn't notice the dates XD. But still, he's seems like such a 180 degrees type of person, that he must be 13 or something. I mean, how does he go from "it's shaping up well" to "It won't be released" within a MONTH? Gotta be a young teen.

Two months, good question. Why not ask him?

I DID, footface (in another thread too). The dude just never responded...

Edit: Others asked him too, but he (or she) just seems to want to post momentary thoughts/opinions, not having a conversation with anyone, much less respond.

... And Larian will get a boatload of bugs they never knew existed, because they didn't allow us to test them during EA.

I can practically see pages of Bug Report threads with similar titles, like "Fighter lvl 5 multiattack is broken".

If the example of Cyberpunk 2077 is any indication, a modern game of this degree of complexity will be next to unplayable for the first several months after its release. Unless, of course, the release is actually years away.

Oh, just go away, man....

We actually need to get another patch out soon hopefully with some more content its gotten a little stagnant again at this point it would be nice to see more communication from Larion on upcoming content its sad we do not see more upcoming content news regularly they really should hire someone to come out and speak with people on a regular basis with news like. Hey guys this is what were currently working on even if its not major updates. Small pieces of news even is better than no communication something that they are horrible for.

Well SOMETHING has been changed in the BG3 Steam file database over the past couple days and as recently as 8 hours ago... just not made public yet!! But I get the feeling it will be SOON!

You cant write "SOON" without â„¢ ...
Its against the laws of digital nature. :P

LOL, oops. I don't know how to make the TM symbol here.

Really? oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!! I love it when we get close to a patch. My imagination goes wild :P Love it!

It's just Around the Cornerâ„¢

Really? How do you know?