A bug in Baldur’s Gate 3 is driving the community to despair. This bug often appears, is annoying, and can have frustrating consequences.
Whether on PC or PlayStation 5 – Baldur’s Gate 3 is a complete success and a strong contender for Game of the Year 2023. However, even though there is much praise and a lot of positive feedback, smaller bugs sometimes appear that the community finds bothersome. A specific bug is one that everyone has probably seen at some point, causing not only exasperated groans but also disadvantages in combat.
What kind of bug is this? It concerns the situation where one sometimes notices in conversations or battles that one’s party only participates with three members, as the fourth member seems to be absent. When checking what the absent character is up to, it quickly becomes clear: The character is stuck on an edge and has failed to make a jump.
According to comments in the subreddit (and also our own experiences), this has nothing to do with the values of the respective character. It often affects heroes who have high jump ability and could jump much further than their team members.
It becomes particularly annoying when one wants to manually rescue this character from their predicament, only to find that the rest of the group has not been unselected, causing the entire team to jump back to the one character who caused the problem.
12,000 players are frustrated about “this one jump bug”
When is this not a bug? Characters sometimes staying back at a jumping opportunity is a desired mechanic. Group members refuse to automatically follow the currently “active” character when they…
- cannot jump far enough and would thus fall into the abyss
- are so heavy that the jump would cause them falling damage
Especially for plate carriers or characters with heavy loads, it might be necessary to issue the jump command manually, even if that means some points of falling damage.
However, these are not the cases that are criticized by the community.
The corresponding post has now received over 12,000 upvotes:
“I keep fighting without a tank” – Jump bug is to blame
This is what the community says: In the subreddit for Baldur’s Gate 3, it seems that there is a consensus that this jump bug is one of the few genuinely legitimate criticisms of the game.
Because when a character stays behind, often there is no discernible reason for it.
- “For some reason, my heroes with 8 strength manage to make the jump, but my guy gets stuck. I keep running into battles without my tank.” (tanktechnician on reddit)
- “Yes, it’s such an annoying thing, especially when someone like Lae’zel gets left behind, who can actually jump like an Olympic champion. Then I run back, and Lae’zel is just standing there, refusing to move. Then I select her and forget to ungroup her, causing everyone to jump back the moment I finally have Lae’zel on the right side, and AAAaaaAAgh!” (Sylassian on reddit)
Some also note that the problem has become much larger only with the second patch of Baldur’s Gate. Previously, characters would only get stuck if they could not make the jump or would take damage or were separated from the group. Now individual comrades also get left behind even when there is nothing preventing them from jumping.
- “I’ve noticed a significant increase since patch 2, where a single group member fails the jump while the rest succeed. I know they can do it because Tav is my character with the lowest strength. But there’s always one who gets left behind, and it’s a different one each time.” (SnarkyRogue on reddit).
However, since Larian is quite quick with hotfixes and patches, it’s only a matter of time before this problem becomes a thing of the past.
Have you also had problems with the jumping mechanics? Or do your heroes always do exactly what you want them to?
Some also wish for changes to Baldur’s Gate 3: For example, to the concentration mechanic.
