Summary
- Hotfix 25 for Baldur's Gate 3 addresses crashing issues when trading and hovering over enemies, as well as an issue with Us the pet.
- Larian Studios aims to continue providing updates for Baldur's Gate 3, but mod users may face issues with compatibility.
- Larian Studios is working on new projects while still supporting Baldur's Gate 3 with patches.
Hoftix 25 has been released by Larian Studios for Baldur's Gate 3. This small update seeks to provide solutions for a few issues Baldur's Gate 3 players may be experiencing while they wait patiently for Patch 6 to arrive.
Since its full release in August 2023, Baldur's Gate 3 has received critical acclaim, winning Game of the Year and other such coveted awards many times over. The game has also been a hit commercially, reportedly earning the owners of the Dungeons & Dragons IP, Hasbro, over $90 million as of February 2024. Baldur's Gate 3 also continues to fare well in the eyes of its fans, with the game boasting nearly 600,000 daily players even months after its release.
Hotfix 25 arrives only a few days after Baldur's Gate 3 Hotfix 24, and at a comparable size, containing six fixes as opposed to the four in Hotfix 24. The update mainly focuses on preventing rare code crashes when trading, hovering over enemies, or when loading Act 1. Also contained in this update is a fix for an apparent issue some players experienced following the game's tutorial with the pet Us remaining in the party, which prevented players from taking short rests.
While Larian's updates for Baldur's Gate 3 are, of course, welcomed by the game's fan base, updates to the game are expected to cause issues for mod users. Earlier this year, Larian Studios announced it was working on implementing mod support for Baldur's Gate 3 after finding itself in a few tense social media exchanges with the fan community. Since the announcement of mod support, Larian Studios' official Discord has set up a channel devoted to Baldur's Gate 3 mod creators and continues to acknowledge that official support is in the works, with a tentative start date towards the end of 2024.
Recently, Larian Studios announced that Baldur's Gate 3 will not see any DLC, nor will it be working on Baldur's Gate 4. Larian Studios has already set its sights on its future post Baldur's Gate 3, and is working on its next title. While players are certainly sad to hear of that development, the studio will continue to provide updates to Baldur's Gate 3 by way of patches and hotfixes, though the scope of what these updates will contain may be limited.
Baldur's Gate 3 Update Patch Notes
- Fixed a rare code crash when loading the Act I region.
- Fixed a rare code crash when hovering over enemies.
- Fixed a potential crash when loading a savegame made while trading.
- Fixed Us not wanting to leave the party after the tutorial, causing some more cases where Short Rest could get blocked. Also made further fixes to Us being in the party when it shouldn't be.
- Fixed item splitting not working in trade when moving items from your companions' inventories.
- Fixed the context menu not showing trade actions on items that are in a companion's inventory.
Baldur's Gate 3
- Released
- August 3, 2023
WHERE TO PLAY
Abducted, infected, lost. You are turning into a monster, but as the corruption inside you grows, so does your power. Forge a tale of fellowship and betrayal, sacrifice and survival, and the lure of absolute power. Caught in a conflict between devils, deities, and sinister otherworldly forces, you and your party will determine the fate of the Forgotten Realms.
THE ULTIMATE D&D EXPERIENCE
Choose from a wide selection of D&D races and classes, or play as an origin character with a hand-crafted background. Adventure, loot, battle, and romance as you journey through the Forgotten Realms and beyond. Play alone or as a party of up to four in multiplayer – and select your companions carefully.
A CINEMATIC STORYTELLING EPIC
Forged with the new Divinity 4.0 engine, Baldur’s Gate 3 gives you unprecedented freedom to explore, experiment, and interact with a world that reacts to your choices. A grand, cinematic narrative brings you closer to your characters than ever before, as you venture through our biggest world yet. Romance, deceive, aid, obstruct, and grow alongside your friends thanks to Larian's next-generation RPG engine.
- Genre(s)
- RPG
