Readers, our lengthy nationwide nightmare is over. An injustice has been rectified, gentle shines the place as soon as there was solely darkness, your youngsters can sleep soundly of their beds. I converse, in fact, of Baldur’s Gate 3’s newest hotfix, which has restored His Majesty—everybody’s favorite overweening feline—to his authentic, superior, and hairless kind.
It is also mounted a bunch of different bugs, however, like, no matter.
As PCG’s Ted Litchfield coated not even a day in the past, BG3’s third patch tweaked and stuck plenty of stuff when it dropped in September, nevertheless it additionally made one controversial change: His Majesty, a pompous cat you’ll be able to meet on the Final Mild Inn within the sport’s second act, had been up to date from a hair-free sphynx to a fluffy longhair. To be truthful to Larian, it was a change made in order that His Maj was not similar to Steelclaw, one other cat you’ll be able to meet in the identical act, however followers (myself included) weren’t blissful. The furball look simply did not swimsuit the moggy monarch.
After some reflection, Larian clearly agreed, as a result of at this time’s hotfix #8 has “Shaved His Majesty, who’s as soon as once more a sphynx,” and as a substitute modifications Steelclaw’s eye color so the pair are not twins. Phew.
The hotfix wasn’t solely about fixing that cat, thoughts you. It is also rolled again a patch 3 change that was supposed to make social gathering members you dismiss hand over all of the story gadgets of their stock earlier than they return to camp. Whereas that change labored high-quality in post-patch new video games, it bumped into some points in case you had been operating a pre-patch save. Specifically, it made your dismissed social gathering members hand over each single merchandise with an orange spotlight—together with their extremely heavy camp provide packs—earlier than toddling off, which just about assured you’d end up overencumbered.
That system is now gone completely, and companions “will not provide you with all of the gadgets they deem necessary so that you can carry, like a toddler in a grocery retailer”. The way in which the studio has executed that’s to revert companion behaviour again to its pre-patch 3 standing. That’s to say companions now simply preserve maintain of all of your orange gadgets—whether or not camp provide packs or quest gadgets—whenever you dismiss them.
I’ve acquired my fingers crossed that Larian can deliver the system again in the way in which it initially supposed sooner or later, although. It might be good to get my story-relevant gear again from social gathering members with out additionally getting their camp provide packs and alchemy pouches.
I’ve reached out to Larian to ask if the magic pockets system will return in a brand new and improved kind in a later patch, and I am going to replace if I hear again.
These are the headline gadgets, however they’re removed from the one modifications Baldur’s Gate 3’s hotfix #8 makes. Yow will discover the complete patch notes beneath:
- Companions will not switch story gadgets of their stock to the participant upon dismissal, restoring Patch 2 behaviour.
- Mounted response popups generally exhibiting no textual content descriptions of the reactions obtainable.
- Mounted a multiplayer crash that will happen when listening to a dialogue after an energetic roll.
- Eavesdrop will not set off when a personality is in any Character Creation session, similar to degree up or the magic mirror.
- Mounted a bug in Vulkan inflicting DEVICE_LOST crashes.
- Mounted a bug the place Skeletons created utilizing Animate Useless had been lacking their ranged weapons, regardless of specialising in them.
- Mounted a difficulty the place the Weapon Grasp Feat would present as incomplete if a participant was already proficient with all weapons.
- Mounted a crash when re-assigning characters in splitscreen.
- Mounted a visible challenge with volumetric fog and supplies era.
- Mounted a difficulty with invalid savegames being created.
- Restored Raphael’s hair color and horns. The Home of Hope is as soon as once more fashion-forward.
- Mounted a difficulty the place Splint Armour for Githyanki Females brought on some unnecessarily psychedelic visible results.
- Shaved His Majesty, who’s as soon as once more a Sphynx. Steelclaw’s eye color has been adjusted so they’re not similar twins.
- Mounted Raphael’s portraits after restoring his hair color. Perhaps he is born with it, possibly it is Avernus.
- Mounted Twitch drops not being claimable on PS5.