The fifth hotfix for Baldur’s Gate 3 is live. The update brings many changes to gameplay, story scenes, and more. Minthara is now finally more talkative, and numerous dialogue lines have been unlocked. We at MeinMMO will tell you what’s inside.
The fifth hotfix for Baldur’s Gate 3 is finally available and brings a wealth of improvements and fixes for the game. The update focuses particularly on the experience of players who have chosen a romance with the companion Minthara.
Previously, a bug blocked parts of Minthara’s dialogues and the reactions of group members to this relationship.
Players who opted for Minthara had to deal with restrictions and missing dialogue lines. But that is now a thing of the past.
What hotfix 5 improves in Baldur’s Gate 3
This update adds thousands of missing dialogue lines from Minthara that should have been in the game from the start. If your approval is high enough, you can now continue your romance with Minthara in the third act and gain further insights into Minthara’s backstory.
In addition to the corrections related to Minthara, this hotfix also addresses several issues that occurred specifically in the PS5 version of the game.
These include graphics problems and sound issues that have been fixed. Furthermore, numerous gameplay bugs have been eliminated to make the gaming experience smoother.
You can find the complete English patch notes here:
Highlight
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.
Performances
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.)
Caution Spoiler: 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.
Controller
Fixed characters getting stuck when the Analog Stick Selection setting is set to Left Stick and you rotate the stick in circles as far as it can go.
Caution Spoiler: Art
Added nipple covers to Cazador’s spawn for when the nudity filter is enabled.
Level Design
Moved Withers’ Wardrobe in the crèche camp to avoid clipping with Shadowheart’s tent.
Overall, hotfix 5 of Baldur’s Gate 3 shows the developers’ commitment to addressing player feedback and continuously improving the gaming experience.
With these changes, you can finally engage in a deeper relationship with Minthara if you are brave enough.
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