Baldur's Gate 3 Gets New Hotfix Update

Highlights

The fifth hotfix for Baldur's Gate 3 is now live on PS5 and PC, fixing bugs and glitches in multiplayer and resolving issues with Minthara's dialogue.
Larian Studios is rapidly releasing hotfixes to provide the best experience possible for players.
This hotfix unlocks new dialogue options and conversations with Minthara in Act 3, allowing players to deepen their relationship with her in Baldur's Gate 3.

Baldur’s Gate 3 receives its fifth hotfix that’s currently live on PS5 and PC, fixing several bugs, glitches, and issues that may occur when playing multiplayer. Not only that, but this hotfix also resolves issues that players have faced revolving around Minthara, giving access to more lines of her dialogue in Baldur’s Gate 3.

With how fast these hotfixes are being released, it’s apparent that Larian Studios is doing everything it can to provide the best experience possible since Baldur’s Gate 3 is the highest-rated new game of 2023. While this recent hotfix does address other underlying issues that were present in the game, this one unblocks several new pieces of dialogue a player can encounter when adventuring with Minthara, especially when they are in a relationship with her.

Once players reach Act 3 in Baldur’s Gate 3, if their approval is high enough with Minthara, dialogue options and conversations that weren’t present before will now be available. With this, players can further their bond with Minthara as they can learn more about her backstory and deepen their relationship in Baldur’s Gate 3 with the Paladin. In addition to fixing content surrounding Minthara, the new hotfix also adds dialogue for party members whenever players are in a relationship with her.

With the PS5 early access version of Baulder’s Gate 3 released and soon to follow on the base editions, PS5 players are also taken care of with this hotfix as there were also some fixes implemented catering to their gameplay experience. Those who play on PS5 should no longer have graphical issues on HDR TVs, and audio should no longer stop working as well.

In order to provide a smoother online experience when adventuring with friends, multiplayer gameplay has been patched. While a chunk of these fixes primarily fixes problems regarding split-screen, there are some issues fixed surrounding a player’s Baldur’s Gate 3 avatar in a multiplayer session.

Given how ginormous the world is in Baulder’s Gate 3, this certainly won’t be the last time we see a rapid succession of hotfixes being released. Despite all the praise the title's being given, Baldur’s Gate 3 isn’t perfect, meaning Larian Studios will keep deploying hotfixes to provide the best experience possible for players.

The Baldur’s Gate 3 hotfix #5 patch notes can be seen below. BE WARNED: These Notes Contain SPOILERS.

Baldur’s Gate 3 Hotfix #5 Patch Notes

NOTE: These Notes CONTAIN Spoilers

Highlights

Fixed a bug that locked players out of many of Minthara’s lines of dialogue.

Crashes and Blockers

Fixed sometimes not being able to talk to NPCs or party members because the game thought you were still in a dialogue.
Fixed a rare crash that would occur when faraway characters got close to the party.
Fixed a crash that would occur if a guard responding to a crime created a summon (e.g. an elemental), and you fled the combat or were incapacitated without killing the summon.

PS5

Fixed an issue causing the game's audio to stop working on PS5.
Fixed graphical issues on HDR TVs when the HDR black level calibration was set to 0.
Fixed a crash that would occur when opening the onscreen keyboard.

Performance

Fixed a memory leak when creating and destroying many objects.

Multiplayer

Improved performance when cycling through Character Sheet tabs in splitscreen.
Fixed splitscreen not working correctly when a client with splitscreen already enabled joins a multiplayer game.
Fixed dismissed avatars not showing up properly in Withers' Wardrobe if the host is at camp and is already looking inside the wardrobe.
Fixed characters sometimes disappearing on splitscreen when the client reconnects after disconnecting while listening in on a dialogue.
Clients rejoining a multiplayer game where there's a dismissed avatar in Withers' Wardrobe will now be able to pick that avatar up again rather than have to create a new avatar. (This bug would happen when the client left the session and another player selected that client's avatar in the middle of the dismiss-to-camp dialogue.)

Flow and Gameplay

Trader NPCs will now retain their Approval Rating of avatars and companions even after they're dismissed to Withers' Wardrobe.
Fixed the Emperor not dying and therefore not triggering the Game Over flow if you bring him to 0 HP outside of combat in the Astral Plane.
Fixed not being able to talk to Minthara at camp if you dismissed her outside of camp.
Fixed Level Up not working as expected if you level up while the game is saving.
Fixed Hag's Bane not having an effect on Auntie Ethel.

UI

Fixed text being cut off in the title of tutorial pop-ups.
Fixed button prompts getting cut off on the Multiplayer Settings screen on splitscreen.
Fixed some UIs not updating when saving, causing, for example, Shadowheart's inventory to appear empty when you recruit her on the beach.
Fixed the tadpole count in the Radial Menu on controller.