Baldur’s Gate 3 Developer Larian Continues to Have Fun With its Patch Notes
Larian is closing out 2023 with yet another Baldur’s Gate 3 update, and as usual, it’s had loads of fun writing the patch notes.
Baldur’s Gate 3 Hotfix #15, now live, isn’t a game-changing update by any means, but it still makes a number of important improvements and fixes to the sprawling Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. Chief among them are fixes for crashes, blockers, and gameplay issues.
“Have you found some characters’ faces turning into stretched eldritch horrors with pits of flesh in place of eyes?” Larian asks in the patch notes published to the Baldur’s Gate 3 Steam page. “That should not be a problem anymore!”
The patch notes are published in full below, but I want to draw your attention to the aforementioned fix. Here’s the relevant line:
“Fixed several cases of what we've dubbed the Pinocchio issue, where characters' noses (and cheeks) get stretched in cinematics. They also happen to lose their eyeballs, turning the sockets into pits of flesh.”
That really paints a picture, doesn’t it? I haven’t had this particular bug during my ongoing playthrough, but I kind of wish I had now.
More seriously, the hotfix also addresses a bug I have encountered quite a bit: your followers not jumping after you. “Fixed companions not being able to jump when following the player character,” the patch notes read. Huzzah!
As Larian says, this hotfix also addresses an issue that was preventing players from loading a save if the mods used had changed. “Bear in mind some saves might still not load depending on the mods that have changed, but the menu should now let you continue,” Larian said.
CRASHES AND BLOCKERS
PERFORMANCE AND CODE
MULTIPLAYER
FLOW AND GAMEPLAY
OTHER FIXES
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