Developer Larian Studios launched its first main patch for the behemoth 5E Dungeons & Dragons role-playing recreation Baldur’s Gate 3, and it’s, likewise, big. The patch addresses “over 1000 bugs, glitches, and blockers” discovered all through the sport, Larian wrote on Twitter August 25, leading to a patch so huge that the accompanying notes “truly exceeded Steam’s textual content restrict.” One essential repair? “Quick gamers could have a better time kissing.” Let the gnomes of Faerûn rejoice!
These full patch notes listing some spoilers, so view it cautiously should you’re afraid of them. The complete patch notes are additionally really—as Larian admitted and Steam safeguarded in opposition to—comically, Biblically lengthy. I wrangled a restricted few spoiler-free highlights so you may get the concept, although.
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You may assist downed celebration members with out encountering a “Sport Over” display glitch
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Attacking talking NPCs after you’re downed will now provoke your arrest, not a “Sport Over”
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Quite a lot of crashes have been addressed, together with one associated to destroying projectiles, one associated to going to Lengthy Relaxation within the camp on split-screen, and one in Vulkan API
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Your character ought to not get caught in an infinite falling loop
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Dialogue notifications will stay on the display longer for readability
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Some gold bounties are “extra beneficiant”
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Gamers in Explorer Mode will obtain a 100% HP bonus slightly than 50 %
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The Membership of Hill Big Power bumps Power as much as 19 “and never some puny 15”
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NPCs are much less more likely to assault Non secular Weapons
And listed below are the actually vital enhancements…
Attractiveness:
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Partial ceremorphosis will rot your enamel
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Human feminine robust and feminine half-orc physique varieties will be capable of put on barbarian armor with no sneakers with out their decrease legs changing into invisible
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Cameras will deal with brief races extra appropriately
Romance:
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Lae’zel received’t float up and down whilst you focus on relationship
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Astarion will break up with you should you don’t assist with Raphael’s quest
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Gale’s romantic dialogue choices can be much less ambiguous
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There’s contact if you kiss Shadowheart throughout her foremost dialogue
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The tip of Shadowheart’s romance scene ought to not be “triggering for some gamers”
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Shadowheart’s romance additionally will get an additional animation
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Tall gamers received’t clip whereas hugging, brief gamers could have a better time kissing
Nudity:
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The modesty filter accurately applies to dragonborns
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Invoke Duplicity creates a clothed, equivalent copy of your character
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Some bald and bare Absolute Cultist corpses within the Metropolis Sewers are not bare
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Minthara’s camp high is “ever-so-slightly” extra modest
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Lae’zel’s underwear will “extra precisely mirror the colour of dyes used on it”
Is there a repair you’re particularly pleased to see? Does BG3 have one other concern you’re ready for Larian to deal with? Let me know within the feedback.
BG3 releases on PS5 September 6; its Xbox model will come out someday this yr, although it should lack splitscreen play on the Collection S.
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