It wouldn’t be one of the best games of the year, and perhaps the best in history in its genre, without the developers making constant, quality updates to keep the game running. Just a few days ago, Larian Studios released patch number 14 with several adjustments. But that was not enough, Well, now they are releasing patch number 15 and perhaps the last one of the year.
According to patch notes, one of the main reasons we did this right before Christmas was because there was a bug that ruined the experience in an unexpected way. As they say, the characters’ faces became “stretched supernatural horrors with flesh holes for eyes.” Additionally, there were issues with autosaving on Xbox and other issues that could affect the state of saved games.
Baldur’s Gate 3 continues to improve on Xbox
With the recent arrival of the game on Xbox Series X/S, this version is the one that poses the most technical problems. Over the past few weeks we have had new patches, but none have managed to completely fix autosave errors. This is why it seems that patch number 15 will completely end these errors on the platform. In addition, they fix the most important bugs in the modeling of certain weapons and the problem of distortion of characters’ faces.
Here are the full patch notes:
Review #15
ACCIDENTS AND BLOCKERS
- Fixed a possible crash when autosaving after moving to another level.
- Fixed a multiplayer crash that could occur in the client when the host loaded a save after a Game Over screen.
- Fixed a crash related to physical objects being deleted.
- Fixed a crash that occurred when you disarmed an NPC twice during combat and made them drop two different weapons (for example, because they had two weapons), incapacitated them, and ended the fight without killing him, then the incapacitation condition was removed.
- Fixed an issue that prevented loading a save started with a now missing mod.
- Fixed a crash that could occur on Xbox when losing internet connection while changing the name of a lobby.
- Fixed a possible game-related crash on Xbox when checking if you have the Deluxe Edition.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when switching to Honor mode.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when changing levels.
PERFORMANCE AND CODE
- Fixed an issue with lava bubbles near the sentient amulet in Grymforge causing saves to become very large.
- Fixed a memory issue when closing containers in the controller.
- Fixed low model quality option sometimes not working as expected.
- Fixed an issue that could cause certain special items, such as the Idol of Silvanus, to enter an incorrect state when stored in a Traveler’s Chest.
- Reduced memory usage related to animation design.
MULTIPLAYER
- Fixed Traveler Chests sometimes disappearing when switching to or from Honor Mode in Multiplayer Settings.
- Fixed a multiplayer issue where if the host was controlling a companion and a split-screen client joined the game, the client took control of the host’s avatar.
- Fixed a multiplayer issue where a player who reconnected would not have their characters assigned correctly.
- Fixed Player 2 not being able to prepare spells if Player 1 moved their focus during a split-screen game.
FLOW AND PLAY
- Fixed an issue that prevented you from talking to camp NPCs when traveling to the camp using the Long Rest button.
- Fixed incorrect character behavior likely introduced in patch 4.
- The quest “Deal with the Devil” now has different results in the epilogue.
- Fixed companions not being able to jump while following the player character.
- Fixed an issue where completing the tutorial with only Lae’zel alive would prevent the game from being saved in Act I.
- Fixed Gale’s dialogue ending abruptly when you ask him what he wanted to show.
- Fixed player factions sometimes becoming hostile to each other when they shouldn’t.
- Fixed Create or destroy water only casting Create Water at level 2.
OTHER FIXES
- The Korean language pack is now enabled on Mac.
- Fixed some weapon textures.
- Fixed several cases of what we called the Pinocchio glitch, where characters’ noses (and cheeks) would stretch. in the cutscene. They also lose their eyeballs, turning the eye sockets into pits of flesh.
- Fixed equipment tooltips opening in inventory and sometimes closing randomly on the controller without player intervention.
