Finally no more hoarding of items! Patch no. 16 also puts an end to many bugs for good. We have the patch notes for you
Christmas may be over, but Larian is still giving you presents – in the form of new updates for their role-playing epic Baldur’s Gate 3. Hotfix 16 has just been released, which is once again very impressive in terms of scope.
A completely new feature is also included. Instead of just fixing bugs, the role-playing game is now much more convenient in one important respect. And if you have a lot of time and reading to do, you know where to find the full patch notes: as always on page 2!
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Finally no more hoarding of items
Do you know this too? For fear of not having an important quest item to hand at the right moment, you don’t put it down, but simply hoard it with one of your active party members. At some point, the heroes will be groaning under the weight of all the items
This is now a thing of the past! Thanks to Hotfix 16, you can now access many quest-relevant items even if they are in the inventory of inactive characters waiting in camp.
Hotfix 16 is now live for Baldur’s Gate 3, handling multiple bugs, issues, and blockers.
Party members hoarding trinkets? You can now access certain quest-related items on the spot – even if they’re not held by your current party!
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More highlights of the new update
- Waypoints: Waypoints are now sorted into categories, which provides a better overview.
- Kissing Gale: From now on, Gale’s dialog will no longer be abruptly interrupted when you ask him for a kiss – how romantic!
- Pixel mud: From now on, low-resolution textures will no longer occur as the game progresses.
- Bugs? Which bugs? Of course, numerous smaller and larger bugs will also be addressed.
The complete patch notes can be found on the next page. If you’d rather hear about other sad, funny or otherwise exciting adventures from the world of Baldur’s Gate 3 instead,
Baldur’s Gate 3 – Hotfix 16 – Changelog
Highlights
- The cross-save functionality will no longer synchronize modified saves, as console players will not be able to access them.
- Categories have been added to the waypoint list, grouping waypoints by location.
- You can now access certain quest items on the spot, even if they are currently in the camp chest or in the inventory of a companion waiting in camp.
- A few animal language potions have been added to the Epilogue.
- Karlach now gets her scene in Avernus, regardless of whether she is an avatar or a companion.
- Wyll will now correctly follow Karlach to Avernus.
- The “Hide Helmet” option has been reset for companions after saving and loading.
- Cazador now has 3 variations of his legendary action, depending on how many ritual charges he has. The more charges he has, the more dangerous his vampire swarm is.
- Fixed several issues with low-resolution textures that occurred after extended playtime.
- Fixed a visual bug where certain doors would briefly reappear after being destroyed.
- Gale’s dialog no longer ends abruptly when you ask him for a kiss. Enjoy the moment.
Crashes and Blockers
- A possible crash in connection with fast loading has been fixed.
- Fixed a crash that occurred when unloading and then loading a region.
- Fixed a crash when changing the VSync settings.
- Fixed a crash when destroying the spider web under the spider matriarch.
- Fixed the possible cause that the game could not be saved (error 701, game crash).
- Fixed a crash that could occur when a pop-up message was displayed after unlocking an item.
- Fixed an issue that caused the grenade launchers to bypass turn-based mode during Gortash’s fight and use grenades in real-time, which could cause a crash. We call that cheating.
- Fixed a crash that occurred when removing condition-based auras from modified savegames.
- Fixed a potential crash that occurred when receiving the available party gold during a trade.
- Fixed some issues that could cause game saves created under rare conditions to fail to load.
Battle and balance
- The “Spectral Form” passive is no longer hidden.
- Balthazar’s Spectral Form no longer triggered when Balthazar made a saving throw but still took damage.
- Fix: Aunt Ethel did not use the strange magic wave when hit by Repulsive Blast in Honor Mode.
- The damage mitigation mechanism for Scrying Eyes in Tactician Mode no longer works when they are damaged for the first time.
- On Tactician difficulty, Cazador now transforms into a unique mist form that threatens enemies with a necrotic aura.
- Ability Drain can no longer reduce a target’s ability below 1.
- The functionality of Legendary Resistance has been improved and now only triggers when it is actually useful.
Gameplay
- Fixed Astarion not being available from the camp pet menu when sent directly to camp during the recruitment dialog.
- In Honor Mode, the “Egg Bearer” condition is now also applied when the Mummy Owlbear is dead but the Daddy Owlbear is alive.
- Fixed an issue in Honor Mode where damage from smiting spells would not trigger items to activate when damaged.
- You can no longer trade with Grukkoh the Bugbear via the dialog button before you, uh, get his attention.
- When using a weapon that uses the spell ability modifier instead of the normal ability modifier, the spell ability with the highest value is now selected.
- Group Hide no longer works correctly when a group character is downed.
- The weapons of Myrmidons can no longer be looted from their bodies after a long rest.
- The conditions “Elemental Weapon”, “Magical Weapon”, “Heat Metal” and “Daylight” remain on the weapon after a long rest.
- Fixed an issue that affected some players who controlled more than one avatar, causing multiple naked characters to appear on top of them after the first Dream Visitor dream.
- Fixed an issue that caused a player to be assigned an avatar in Withers’ Wardrobe when reconnecting to a multiplayer session without removing that avatar from the wardrobe. They cannot be opened from the inside!
- If you steal a couple hundred items at once, the game will stop responding for some time while it engages in kleptomaniac debauchery. However, it may still freeze for a short time while it processes the inventory transfer.
- NPCs on the floor below you can no longer “see” you when you are up there looting corpses.
- When returning stackable stolen items (e.g. healing potions), you no longer lose them all, but only the number you stole.
Flow and Scripting
- Fixed an issue that prevented some players from progressing to Act III, causing them to loop back to Act II.
- Barcus Wroot should now correctly appear in the Last Light Inn if you have rescued him from his previous troubles.
- Avatar Karlach can now initiate the first love scene with Lae’zel after proving herself worthy to Lae’zel, which she shouldn’t be able to do since her engine hasn’t been upgraded yet.
- The trigger conditions for the first love dialog with Lae’zel after proving yourself worthy to her have been changed so that it will only trigger if the player controlling her has a single avatar. This is to prevent the dialog from accidentally triggering with an unwanted avatar if you have multiple avatars.
- Fixed some incorrect character behaviors that were likely introduced in Patch 4.
- Fixed an issue where some dialog options with Alfira and Nadira were not displayed.
- Aunt Ethel was prematurely teleported to Act III when picking up her corpse in Act I.
- Gale is now less likely to lie about returning the crown of Karsus when he makes his decision in the endgame.
- Raphael will no longer make a surprise appearance in the epilogue if you made a deal with him and then decided to kill him.
- Wyll will now appear during the opening scene of the epilogue when he is the Blade of Avernus and has no partner.
- Fixed some issues with Mizora’s dialog getting stuck.
- Fixed a blocker in the House of Hope where Raphael would not appear when silenced in Sharess’ Caress.
- Fixed a bug where you could banish Hope while she was chained, preventing you from rescuing her.
- The avatar dismiss dialog will now close if the user resumes the session while it is still active.
- Duke Ravengard is now correctly holding onto the bars of his cell door while trapped on the Iron Throne, instead of remaining idle and seemingly unconcerned with what is happening.
- Characters who are attacked while disappearing out of sight will now disappear again after the fight has ended. Back to the shadows with you.
Performance and optimization
- Fixed an issue where switching between party members caused a drop in performance.
- Fixed a texture issue with character creation on low and medium settings.
UI
- The skill bonuses on the “Explorer” difficulty level are now correctly taken into account during character creation.
- Fixed an issue that caused the Level Up screen to display an incorrect HP increase when increasing Constitution.
- Fixed some cases where incorrect items were selected when dragging items in the trade menu.
- Fixed an issue that prevented switching to a Draconic Bloodline wizard when selecting a spell that was already available in the Draconic Bloodline.
- The values in the skill tooltips on the Level Up screen are now updated when adding expertise.
- The ‘Uncontrollable’ warning no longer disappears under certain circumstances.
- Fixed an issue that briefly prevented you from interacting with an item in inventory if it was previously equipped or unequipped with the X button.
- When a tutorial pop-up refers to an option in the radial menu of shortcuts on the controller, the option is now highlighted.
- Fixed ‘(Empty)’ sometimes appearing briefly next to the name of an item when it is highlighted on the Xbox.
- Added descriptions for the different difficulty levels in the options for additional combat mechanics in custom mode.
- Fixed a caching issue in the radial menus. This could, for example, cause some options for “Self Disguise” to no longer be displayed after canceling and recalling the spell.
- The pretty dark veins you get on your face when you become a partial illithid are now displayed correctly in the spell mirror.
- Surface names were sometimes displayed above the characters on the controller.
- The opacity of certain text fields in the reaction surface on the controller has been increased to improve visibility.
- Fixed an issue where UI popups could not be closed if the window behind them was closed first. This could happen, for example, if a cinematic dialog was triggered and the map was closed while still naming a custom marker.
- The loading screen did not display an image when joining a multiplayer session.
- Corrected the damage type in the tooltip of the Crushing Fist spell.
- The tooltip of Legendary Resistance: Incapacitation now indicates that it can only be used 3 times.
- The grid in the supplies is now drawn correctly when the grid gets smaller.
- Removed a low-resolution version of one of the loading screen images.
- Fixed an issue that caused some video settings such as VSync and refresh rate to be reset when starting the game.
- Removed the option to confirm or reset options in the “Change Custom Mode” menu for players who are not the host of a session.
- Total group gold is no longer displayed in swap mode.
- Fixed an issue with the radial menus on the controller that caused the same items to be re-inserted into the same submenu and the “Action” radial menu to sometimes appear empty.
Level Design
- Removed some world labels that appeared for a pair of dice in Withers’ chapel in the Epilogue camp, making it appear that they could be picked up. Also replaced a cutting board.
Art
- The appearance of platforms with chains in Grymforge has been optimized.
- Some minor visual issues with weapons have been fixed.
- The impact VFX/SFX did not work for some projectiles.
Animation
- Fixed a zombie assuming a T-pose when pulled from inventory.
- Fixed some destruction animations not working properly.
Sound
- Fixed incorrect ambient sounds in the Last Light region and the Wyrm’s Rock Fortress.
Writing
- Wyll is now appropriately solemn after the Netherbrain’s defeat.
- Added text to the tooltip for Cazador’s Misty Escape ability in Tactician mode.
- The tooltip for Gerringothe Thurm’s ability “Sublimation” no longer states that it kills the target instantly.
- Wyll now has a line during the end scene when he realizes the tadpoles are gone.
- Added an additional dialog option when talking to Shadowheart in the epilogue to correct a path that only offered one choice.
- Corrected the “Wrathful Spirits” condition, which states that the affected creature is immune to all damage, instead of being vulnerable to all damage.
