Baldur's Gate 3 hotfix rolled back due to surprise bug, some saves may be temporarily unavailable
The fourth Baldur's Gate 3 hotfix went live on Steam earlier today, a smaller update than the previous three but one that still promised to fix a number of problems with «crashes, bugs, flow issues, and companions who keep trying to sleep in.»
Unfortunately, it apparently caused new crashes, too, so Larian has rolled it back. If you saved your game during the brief period when Hotfix 4 was live, you won't be able to load those save files until the hotfix is re-published, which Larian says it'll do as soon as it fixes the crashes.
There's no word yet on when the fourth hotfix will be made live again, but we'll let you know when it happens.
Aside from the rollback, the fourth hotfix is also noteworthy because, assuming there are no surprise changes to the roadmap, it will be the last one before the release of the first full patch for Baldur's Gate 3, which will contain more than 1,000 fixes and tweaks. After that will be a second patch that Larian said «will incorporate some of the biggest requests we’ve received from the community since launch.»
Two weeks after its release, Baldur's Gate 3 remains an absolute phenom: It remains at the top of Steam's Top Sellers charts and in second place on the Most Played chart, well ahead of perennial second-place holder Dota 2. It would be an impressive accomplishment for any game, but for a complex, niche party-based fantasy RPG from a developer that had to use Kickstarter to fund its previous games, it's nothing short of remarkable.
And don't forget, all of this is before the release of the PlayStation 5 version of the game, which is coming on September 6, and a presumed Xbox release sometime next year.
As always, the hotfix patch notes contain numerous spoilers. In the past I've
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