Baldur's Gate 3 News

I met the BG3 streamer who played fetch with Karlach's head, and she's not sorry

"I had the severed head of Karlach, and I saw Scratch in the corner of the screen, and I wondered if he would play fetch," Lua 'Luality' tells me in the middle of London, Ontario's glamorous Hilton. We're having a follow up conversation about Baldur's Gate 3, the game that propelled the Brazilian streamer to Twitch stardom. Clocking in at just "four bunnies tall," I didn't take her for a vaguely murderous Tiefling slayer, but it turns out that Lua is, indeed, the reason that you can now play fetch with Scratch using Karlach's head. And she's not sorry, not at all - in fact, she'd happily behead more Baldur's Gate 3 characters if given the chance.

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New Baldur's Gate 3 update stops Dark Urge spilling all their secrets too early

It's been two years now since Baldur's Gate 3 fully launched in all its turn-based, fantasy rich RPG glory, and I'm still obsessed. By this point, I've taken both the high road and the low road through the game and just about every road in-between, tried out several different builds, and romanced - well, if not everyone, then almost everyone. There's no doubt in my mind, however, that playing as the Dark Urge offers the most fun, even when they start talking about their 'father' in Act One even although they definitely should have no recollection of who that is. Luckily, the latest hotfix should fix that little spoiler, amongst other tweaks and improvements.

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Baldur's Gate 3 hotfix takes care of Dark Urge spoilers, and politely hangs up your gang's buggy video calls

If you've ever fired up Baldur's Gate 3 and wondering why the likes of Shadowheart or Lae'zel's portrait shows them glaring at you like they've been summoned into some kind of video call, I bring good news. Larian's rectified this and one other infamous issue as part of the game's latest hotfix.

Don't get too excited, though. The devs are so keen to make sure no one gets their hopes up for any more major additions to the RPG now that its final patch is out of the way that they've dubbed this a "room temperature fix".

The time of Baldur's Gate 3 patches is ended; now is the time of Baldur's Gate 3 hotfixes. God bless 'em, I don't think Larian will ever manage to stop tinkering with its masterpiece—today it returned to Faerûn with BG3's hotfix 33, bringing a smattering of fixes for bugs as diverse as crashes, broken game invites, the Dark Urge accidentally spoiling their whole deal, and weird character portraits. Maybe. That last one is a solid maybe...
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Room Temperature Fix #33 Now Live!

[p]Hello friends, how art thou?[/p][p][/p][p]While Patch 8 may have been the last major game update as we head into development on our next game, we’re still very keen to ensure you can enjoy the best possible Baldur’s Gate 3 experience[/p][p][/p][p]Which means we’re still fixing things, and although more cold than hot, today’s hotfix introduces fixes for some game crashes that had been plaguing us, and finally tackles the slightly ominous character portraits and lag being experienced when navigating the radial menu with a controller.[/p][p][/p][p]There’s also good news for modders in today’s update. If you’ve been struggling to publish larger mods and run into the ‘A task was cancelled’ error, you should now find this resolved! [/p][p][/p][p]Missed out on what’s new on Patch 8? Read all about it here.[/p][p][/p][h2]FIXES[/h2][p][/p][p]EULA[/p]

[p]Updated a link in the EULA to navigate to our new fan content policy which now offers a much clearer overview of how you can share fan content![/p]
- [p]Larian Fan Content Policy[/p]
- [p]Baldur’s Gate 3 Fan Content Terms[/p]

[p][/p][p]Modding[/p]

[p]Increased the timeout when trying to publish large mods to help prevent the 'A task was cancelled.' error.[/p]

[p][/p][p]Crashes and Performance[/p]

[p]Fixed a potential crash when using the Set Slot option in the radial menu.[/p]
[p]Fixed a potential crash related to combat.[/p]
[p]Fixed a crash that could occur after failing a particular Arcana check in Moonrise Towers.[/p]
[p]Fixed a bug causing the game to freeze when hovering over skills on the Action Radial Menu.[/p]
[p]Improved some UI jitteriness on controller when dropping below 75 FPS.[/p]
[p]Fixed a long freeze that could occur on Xbox when levelling up.[/p]
[p]Fixed a potential crash related to the Trade UI.[/p]
[p]Fixed a potential crash on Xbox when resuming the game after suspending it.[/p]
[p]Fixed a potential crash on the 'Press A to continue' screen on Xbox.[/p]
[p]Fixed a bug preventing you from loading savegames due to corrupted data.[/p]

[p][/p][p]Gameplay[/p]

[p]Fixed a softlock on split screen where if Player 2 disconnects while Player 1 is in an active dice roll during a dialogue, Player 1 would get stuck in the dialogue.[/p]
[p]Fixed a bug causing the Lunar Vitality condition to get repeatedly and rapidly added and removed from characters in Starry Form.[/p]
[p]Fixed a bug causing the Shadow Curse condition to be repeatedly applied and removed when a druid uses their Starry Form as their only light source.[/p]
[p]Fixed the Private Dialogue on/off toggle during dialogues, which wasn't working on multiplayer games using the controller UI.[/p]
[p]Told the Dark Urge, everyone's favourite amnesiac, to stop talking about people 'back home' (you don't know where that is yet, bestie) and spoiling the game by mentioning their 'father', among other silly notions, in their overhead dialogues.[/p]
[p]Fixed a bug causing effects triggered by Rage: Wild Magic to remove themselves after Level 9.[/p]
[p]Fixed a bug preventing Hexblade warlocks from using the Accursed Spectre and Armour of Hexes reactions after removing a Polymorphed condition.[/p]
[p]Crawling Claws' Necrotic Claws now only does additional damage on hit and not on miss.[/p]
[p]Fixed a rare bug that would block mouse input after a dialogue.[/p]
[p]Fixed an issue preventing you from sending game invites or joining a cross-play lobby via the Xbox Guide.[/p]
[p]Fixed a bug preventing you from joining a platform lobby via an invite on your platform after playing a cross-play game.[/p]

[p][/p][p]Photo Mode[/p]

[p]Fixed the Highlights setting not working on controller.[/p]

[p][/p][p]UI and Tooltips[/p]

[p]Fixed, probably this time really maybe, the weird character portraits.[/p]
[p]Fixed a typo in the Giant's Rage condition tooltip that indicated the wrong damage bonus.[/p]
[p]The scrollbar on the Mod Details page of the Mod Browser no longer moves at a snail's pace when you're using a controller.[/p]
[p]Fixed some missing icons for certain Bardic Inspiration passives.[/p]
[p]Fixed the Donate UI ('Consumable Items') not letting you donate stacked items.[/p]

[p][/p][p]Art and Animation[/p]

[p]The Gloves of Power no longer get all stretchy-looking when worn by male dwarves who have the Chain Shirt +1 equipped.[/p]
[p]Recovered the Help animation for Ranger's Companions.
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