You can now get the ninth update for Baldur’s Gate 3. Larian Studios shared the news on Friday. This comes right after they released the eighth patch, which happened only three days after they made some small changes to the game.
Hotfix #9 is now live for Baldur’s Gate 3. In addition to this update fixing several bugs, issues and crashes, you can now change your name through the Magic Mirror, as well as changing the appearance of Hirelings!
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The Belgian studio has been busy improving its newest RPG since Baldur’s Gate 3 was praised on August 3. They’ve released a total of twelve patches, with three big updates that brought changes to balance and even some extra stuff.
Even though the newest update for Baldur’s Gate 3 is just a quick fix, it brings a couple of cool additions. Now, you can change your main character’s name using the Magic Mirror in the game.
This magical mirror, introduced in September, can also tweak the looks of hirelings, those extra helpers you can get from Withers at the camp to sub in for your main crew during fights.
So, there’s a new update for Baldur’s Gate 3 that came out on October 6. They made some changes to how things like traps and items are seen in the game.
The update also fixed 15 different issues, from small bugs to bigger technical problems that could make the game crash. And good news for split-screen players on the PS5—there’s a fix for a problem that sometimes made the screen go black during multiplayer.
The ninth hotfix for Baldur’s Gate 3 will bring the game’s version number to 4.1.1.3767641. If you’re using Steam, the update will be downloaded automatically. The same goes for PS5 users as it’s the default setting.
However, if the PlayStation version doesn’t update on its own, even with an internet connection, players should make sure that the Automatic Updates option in the Saved Data and Game/App Settings menu is turned on.
The Xbox Series X/S version of Baldur’s Gate 3 will have all the updates released by Larian so far when it launches. But, it doesn’t have a release date yet. It got delayed compared to the PS5 version because Larian faced challenges making split-screen multiplayer work smoothly on the Series S.
Baldur’s Gate 3 Hotfix 9 Patch Notes
- You can now use the Magic Mirror on hirelings.
- You can now change your name through the Magic Mirror.
- Fixed a rare crash that could occur when unloading or quick-loading a game.
- Fixed an issue causing GPU crashes on PS5 Vulkan.
- Fixed the Guardian Statue repeatedly falling into a chasm, causing the server to stall.
- Fixed a split screen issue on PS5 that could cause a black screen when listening in on a dialogue.
- Fixed unpreparing spells not removing their buffs if the spell was upcasted.
- Fixed buffs being removed by unpreparing spells if the buff came from a different source (e.g. a scroll).
- Fixed some character positions and animations breaking if you skip lines in certain dialogues.
- Fixed the previews not working correctly in the Accessibility options.
- Fixed an issue causing Minthara’s romance to unreliably trigger.
- Fixed Minthara’s dialogue after you kill Orin not triggering properly when you talk to her.
- Fixed the Adamantine Splint Armour sometimes making your legs transparent.
- Fixed a geometry stretching bug introduced in Hotfix 8 on Vulkan.
- Fixed characters showing up in their underwear in some intimate scenes even if you have nudity enabled.
- Fixed Feign Death causing an infinite leave–join combat loop in certain circumstances.
- Fixed prices in dialogues not displaying correctly in savegames that were made while the price was on screen.
- Optimized the line-of-sight system for entities with no sight range, like items.
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