After 4 hotfixes, the primary fully-fledged Baldur’s Gate 3 patch is right here and, unsurprisingly, it’s an enormous one. The Baldur’s Gate 3 replace goals to handle the truthful variety of issues which have sadly plagued the RPG sport since launch, with Larian Studios claiming it’s squashing greater than 1000 bugs.
The official patch notes are too lengthy for the Steam Group character restrict, so that you’ll have to go to the Larian boards to see the total textual content. Remember that the patch notes are full of many spoilers for the plot of Baldur’s Gate 3, so proceed with warning. Notably, a number of points that trigger BG3 to crash in late-game areas have been addressed. It additionally fixes identified visible bugs like floating objects and, vitally, permits shorter races to kiss taller characters with smoother, extra polished cutscenes.
The patch focuses closely on story circulation points, together with NPCs that spot gamers by means of partitions and the conclusion of the Shadowheart romance storyline not triggering for some gamers. Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 1 additionally fixes some bugs with character interactions with NPCs and social gathering members. Gamers will get extra dialogue choices throughout a cutscene with Gale, which makes it extra apparent that you simply’re beginning a romance with everybody’s favourite wizard. The bug that forestalls Wyll’s storyline from persevering with has additionally been addressed on this patch.
Lastly, Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 1 addresses a number of steadiness points with the sport. The largest change is rising character hit factors on the Explorer issue setting and rising the quantity of gold provided by a number of containers within the sport throughout all issue modes. Bards have additionally gotten a lift, with greater than a dozen spells added to their Magical Secrets and techniques characteristic.
Whereas the primary Baldur’s Gate 3 patch is fairly huge, Larian has hinted that Patch 2 is already on the horizon however stops in need of giving any element about when it will likely be launched or what it should cowl. Within the meantime, gamers can hopefully get pleasure from a smother gameplay expertise the place the one bugs are a few pesky part spiders.
