Sunday, August 27th 2023
Baldur's Gate 3 Patch #1 Now Live
Hello everyone, we have released our first major patch for Baldur's Gate 3, addressing over 1000 bugs, balancing, flow issues and much, much more. So what can you expect from this update? Well, we've eliminated issues like NPCs who sometimes spot you when they really shouldn't be able to, floating items like mugs and newspapers that should abide the laws of gravity, and the conclusion to Shadowheart's romance scene not triggering for some players, among others. With expansive systems come many unknowns, so our support team continues to work with you to relay any issues to us. Please don't hesitate to reach out with further reports. Patch 1 also tackles a few visual bugs, and sprinkles on more post-launch polish. We're bringing back Short King Summer with better kissing contact for short races!
You won't be waiting long for Patch 2, which is right around the corner. This update will feature significant performance improvements - but we'll go into more detail about that closer to its release. In the meantime, did you know that collectively you've played over 200,000,000 hours of Baldur's Gate 3 since launch? That's over 22,000 years! The most popular class choice is currently Paladin, followed by Sorcerer, while the award for least popular class goes to Cleric. Human and Elf characters reign supreme in Faerûn, followed swiftly and unsurprisingly by Half-Elf. On the opposite end of the spectrum we find Dwarf, Gnome, Githyanki, and Halfling. We get it, they're not exactly the most ethereal beauties of the Realms but they'd still form a rad metal band. For now, as we focus on fixes, thank you for playing Baldur's Gate 3 and continuing to share this adventure with us.
SPOILERS - Please bear in mind some of the entries might contain spoilers, proceed at your own risk.
It's party time! Baldur's Gate 3 is out now on PC. 6 years in the making, we sincerely hope you enjoy the adventure!
Steam: larian.club/y_BG3onSteam
GOG: larian.club/y_BG3onGOG
Sources:
Baldur's Gate 3 News, Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Page
You won't be waiting long for Patch 2, which is right around the corner. This update will feature significant performance improvements - but we'll go into more detail about that closer to its release. In the meantime, did you know that collectively you've played over 200,000,000 hours of Baldur's Gate 3 since launch? That's over 22,000 years! The most popular class choice is currently Paladin, followed by Sorcerer, while the award for least popular class goes to Cleric. Human and Elf characters reign supreme in Faerûn, followed swiftly and unsurprisingly by Half-Elf. On the opposite end of the spectrum we find Dwarf, Gnome, Githyanki, and Halfling. We get it, they're not exactly the most ethereal beauties of the Realms but they'd still form a rad metal band. For now, as we focus on fixes, thank you for playing Baldur's Gate 3 and continuing to share this adventure with us.
It's party time! Baldur's Gate 3 is out now on PC. 6 years in the making, we sincerely hope you enjoy the adventure!
Steam: larian.club/y_BG3onSteam
GOG: larian.club/y_BG3onGOG
23 Comments on Baldur's Gate 3 Patch #1 Now Live
something tells me if Starfield has over 1000 bugs people won't be so nice to it...
Everyone sees what they're trying to do and we're here for it.
EA on the other hand -- as soon as I see that logo I'm already annoyed, as an example.
My BG3 experience has been very positive so far.
It's the complete opposite of Bethesda/Starfield. They'll sell a bijillion copies now, 5 years from now, and for the 10th anniversary release. Yet they still found the
needgreed to partner with AMD for even more cash. Even if it's just the impression that DLSS was cut out because of the "partnership" (I don't really care if it's true or not), it makes it pretty clear that we (endusers/gamers) aren't their first priority. It's the cash from AMD that was.With Larian, it's clear they're putting us first.
Please remove the poor Calimero egg hat :) Bethesda is given far too much credit as it is and Starfield will sell regardless of endless complaints.Why does it matter? It only matters when a company takes the offer, imho, PLUS, BG3 has a Nvidia Gameworks ad popping up before title. Relevance? Whatever imhoThis is what makes the difference. And not only is the journey TO launch great, but the actual launch is a resounding success too.
There are lots of similarities to how Crate handled Grim Dawn, and I might dare say both are sleeper hits, and similarly fantastic games to play with hundreds of hours of (re)play value.
You also have different industry and team standards as to what even constitutes a bug. While generally programmatic in nature, it can be as simple as an item appearing as the wrong color, or the text in a box appearing before the lips move. Maybe they spelled a main characters name incorrectly in a different act.
The majority probably arent noticeable, even more may only be noticeable when using a certain system config or driver version.
I judge things like this as a positive not a negative against the company, because they are putting in the man hours to fix what I can only imagine is obscure to most. Out of all of these 1000+ bugs you might notice like 5. 3 of which your not even sure if it was supposed to happen and 1 you didnt even notice.
My play through so far has been great thankfully, my only issue is swapping out my 4090 for my A770 caused the game to get angry, which I imagine is because it doesn't detect GPU changes. When the crash log showed up I reported it and even added that it may be because the game settings were still set for m 4090 and that the issue may go away if they implement a feature to detect GPU settings and auto reset to default.
Yeah, we all know that is meaningless bullshit - just moronic marketing going desperate.
PS I know it’s you’re
so yeah, if this is considered the gold-standard these days, brave new world indeed.
Thanks.
Anyway, out of curiosity, Is your PC setup somehow special, overclocked etc, or what have you done in game to cause these? The general consensus seems to be that crashes in the game are pretty rare.
..but different than a fundamental engine flaw or a game crashing intermittently
there are different types of bugs you do know that
and to finish, Larian is not Bethesda + Xbox, released the game in early access and listened to feedbacks for years, more transparency is always rewarded
Cyberpunk even feels like an nvidia published game but it sure didn't stop 8million people from pre ordering it