In Baldur’s Gate 3 a lot revolves around the characters that accompany you on your adventure. One of them is recently not very friendly towards you, no matter how good your relationship has been with him so far.
Who is it about? The probably friendliest companion on your way to Baldur’s Gate is Wyll Ravengard. He is a brave hero and made a name for himself as “Blade of the Frontier”. His fight against injustice and his noble origins shaped him and his life story. He became especially known for his heroic deeds.
However, Wyll also has a dark side. In an attempt to solidify his legendary status by making a pact with a devil, the consequences of this pact haunt him. To us as adventurers, he has always been friendly since the game’s release, as long as you don’t cross him. But that is now different.
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Friendly sounds different
What’s wrong with Wyll? Anyone who wants to talk to the usually friendly Wyll right now will immediately notice that something is wrong. Instead of a friendly greeting, the character snaps at us unkindly: “You’ve got something to say?”. He should actually greet us with “Always good to talk, my friend.”.
It probably doesn’t matter how good the relationship with our character is; Wyll finds everyone equally annoying. According to users, the bug has reportedly existed since Patch 7 on Reddit. There hasn’t been a bug fix from the developers yet, but a player has now taken on the problem himself.
What has the player discovered? On Tumblr, the user autistichalsin wrote a post explaining how to fix the problem. He looked at the game’s code and realized that there seems to be a small error in Wyll’s greeting.
He was able to fix this with little effort in about 5 minutes. On Reddit, bongcommunism shared the find and caused astonishment. Many users initially didn’t realize that the character reacted negatively towards them; others were surprised that the issue could be resolved so easily.
Can the problem be solved by oneself? The problem indeed seems to be as minor as the post on Tumblr suggests. A modder took care of the solution even before the developers did and created a modification for all PC players that you can download from the modding website Nexusmods.com.
According to a post by the modder LAM_humor1156 on Reddit, several greetings work thanks to the modification, but it seems this one greeting is not the only one that is faulty.
What do the players say? The post with the quick fix is gaining a lot of attention on Reddit. The Reddit user purringsporran found Wyll’s greeting like this: “I recently started playing again after a few months. I’ve never heard this greeting from Wyll, and I thought he was just sad because Mizzy had given him the horns, haha.”
The Reddit user uester seemed to have some question marks in his mind: “I wondered why he sounded so rude when I tried to talk to him.”
On Reddit, cihaj is somewhat disappointed: “I thought it was just a new greeting; I didn’t even notice that it was negative 🙁 brings back my best friend”
Before everyone gets their friendly companion back in the usual form, the developers from Larian Studios will likely have to release a proper patch to fix the issue. For those who enjoy playing with mods, they should also check out this one: 5 mods for Baldur’s Gate 3 that are so good that even the developers recommend them
