The First Patch of Baldur Gate 3 is Out; Fixes Many Bugs

It has hardly been over a week since the release of Baldur Gate 3’s early access on Steam. Within such a short duration, players have already been complaining about the bugs and errors that the game is overflowing with.

Here, I sympathize with the players. This much-awaited sequel to Baldur Gate 2 has rolled out after more than two decades.

So fans were obviously feverish to play Baldur Gate 3’s early access. Consequently, a lot of fans pointed fingers at devs Larion Studio and marked the glitches out.

Following this disgruntlement, Larian Studio pleaded gamers to remember that the game is still in development.

“All feedback, positive or negative, is extremely helpful and important to us. We’re really grateful to everyone who organizes their thoughts and talks to us on Steam, or the forums, or the feedback form. For us, that’s a big part of what Early Access is about. Keep the feedback flowing, and we’ll keep shooting out those updates.”

Larian Studio

This is not a bad approach by Larian. The key ingredient to the success of any great game is the feedback it receives in its initial stage. If the game can be refined further because of such a response then what’s the harm?

Here is a list of all the improvements and fixes made in Baldur Gate 3’s early access:

Improvements:

• Added polish and bug fixes to several in-game cinematics, such as Shadow Heart recruitment, Astarion recruitment and Volo’s Poem. (These will be ongoing throughout EA).
• Added minor text tweaks to various bits and bobs.
• Altered certain dialogue choices for different NPCs.
• Added extra combat tutorial messages to better explain the basics (let us know how you get on).
• Astarion no longer thinks Lae’zel inspected you at camp when she is not in your party. Quite rightly.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a crash related to having the level up screen open while in a dialog.
• Fixed a crash related to dropping items from inventory.
• Fixed a rare crash that could happen at the start of combat.
• Fixed a possible blocking issue when using the transponder at the end of the tutorial twice.
• Fixed black screen issue when ending tutorial if the transponder was used by any character that is not the main player avatar.
• Fixed a possible blocking issue when reassigning characters to others players while in combat.
• Fixed an issue with lip sync not working correctly.
• Fixed several localization issues.
• Fixed combat UI not updating correctly when someone joined during combat.
• Fixed party shared gold and items not always working in dialog checks.
• Fixed summons from NPC’s getting stuck in combat.
• Fixed levelled up characters having duplicated racial and class features.
• Fixed not being able to level up to level 4 on a Zariel Tiefling Cleric of Light due to cantrip selection.
• Fixed text cut-off issues in several interfaces.
• Fixed party members getting stuck trying to open doors they run past.
• Fixed listening in to dialogs getting stuck in multiplayer, also causing players not being able to save.
• Fixed camp button being broken after closing the camp window with escape key.
• Fixed “end the day” multiplayer message being broken if a player closed it with an escape key.
• Fixed certain quests not having map markers.
• Fixed certain secret entrances incorrectly showing up on the map.
• Fixed incorrect player portraits in the lobby screen as more people joined.
• Fixed Cambion wings and Tiefling tail animations.
• Fixed map not centering correctly on player characters in smaller subregions.
• Fixed health values not being synced correctly to the Baldur’s Gate 3 twitch extension.
• Fixed superiority die not showing actual values when using abilities such as Menacing attack.
• Fixed minor issues with hair, skinning and textures on several models.
• Fixed lighting issue in owlbear cave.
• Fixed not being able to walk over corpses.
• Tweaked ragdolls to reduce the possibility of models exploding.

About Baldur’s Gate III

Baldur’s Gate III is a role-playing game, developed and published by Larian Studios. It features both single and multiplayer gameplay.

Based on Dungeons & Dragons’ tabletop role-playing system, the game is chock full of twists and turns, friendship, betrayals, a never-ending quest for attaining absolute power, along with freedom of choice, letting you be whatever you wish to be!

Fighting against every odd, you will be required to shape the fate of the Forgotten Realms.