Baldur’s Gate 3 Rolls Out New Hotfix to Address Bugs and Gameplay Issues, Patch Notes and more

Today, Larian Studios has released a new Baldur’s Gate 3 hotfix aimed at resolving a number of issues reported by players. This latest update, dubbed Hotfix #8 and tagged with the version number 4.1.1.3748643, addresses everything from gameplay bugs to visual glitches.

You can find the patch notes below:

Baldur’s Gate 3 October 3 Hotfix #8

• Companions will no longer transfer story items in their inventory to the player upon dismissal, restoring Patch 2 behaviour.
• Fixed reaction popups sometimes showing no text descriptions of the reactions available.
• Fixed a multiplayer crash that would occur when listening to a dialogue after an active roll.
• Eavesdrop will no longer trigger when a character is in any Character Creation session, such as level up or the magic mirror.
• Fixed a bug in Vulkan causing DEVICE_LOST crashes.
• Fixed a bug where Skeletons created using Animate Dead were missing their ranged weapons, despite specialising in them.
• Fixed an issue where the Weapon Master Feat would show as incomplete if a player was already proficient with all weapons.
• Fixed a crash when re-assigning characters in splitscreen.
• Fixed a visual issue with volumetric fog and materials generation.
• Fixed an issue with invalid savegames being created.
• Restored Raphael’s hair colour and horns. The House of Hope is once again fashion-forward.
• Fixed an issue where Splint Armour for Githyanki Females caused some unnecessarily psychedelic visual effects.
• Shaved His Majesty, who is once again a Sphynx. Steelclaw’s eye colour has been adjusted so they are no longer identical twins.
• Fixed Raphael’s portraits after restoring his hair colour. Maybe he’s born with it, maybe it’s Avernus.
• Fixed Twitch drops not being claimable on PS5.