Patch #3 - patch notes

The list of fixes is so huge that I gave up reading it all lol.

All I care for is Mac support. Lovely it is there now. It is 18.00 at the moment where I live. Children will go to bed early and I will game away. Perfect start after a long week.

Longest patch notes I've ever seen. 23.5k words btw

I read the whole thing, some great changes and bug fixes for issues I experienced!

Don't read it if you haven't beaten the game. Some major spoilers in there

BG3 Devs are amazing.. look at the size of that fix list! Unbelievable.

"Added a journal step for when the tieflings leave the Emerald Grove. The Forging of the Heart quest will also close if Dammon is no longer available in the region."

Does this just mean that the quest log will update to clarify that the next step is later in the game? Or are you just locked out of Karlach's story entirely if you recruit her after Dammon leaves the Grove now? I'm already annoyed that I'm locked out of her romance because I listened to the game and thought resolving the Grove stuff was time-sensitive, so I dove into it right away before meeting Karlach. I was hoping that they would change it so the romance options would trigger even if the first upgrade happens in Act II, but I guess my poor Dwarven cleric is just going to be lonely on this playthrough.

I have no idea what happened but my performance and FPS increased by 10-30 FPS.

For comparison I normally play at ~20 FPS and now in some locations I have stable 50. That's crazy. I actually increased my details to high and it's still playable. Thank you Larian.

It doesn't seem to be explicitly mentioned in the patch notes, but PS5 co-op performance is hugely improved.

Before it was taking over 5 second to swap characters or split/join (and summoning a minion was a 15 second job) and now it's instant. All the frustrating clunks seem to be gone.

Have they fixed Mol yet? I still want my belongings

Your selected trade mode (trade or barter) is now saved to your player profile.

Best change I've seen so far.

Performance improvements in lower city! Hopefully that means I won't only get 30fps there anymore

Man, getting the bug where the music doesn't play in that boss fight would suck. Looks like they made the fight harder too (or at least fixed the cheese option with Otto's).

This might be the patch that gets me to jump back in. I only read some of the notes and I still saw a few of the combat/item things I was hoping would get fixed. Very cool!

My partner and I just downloaded Patch #3 today and have reached the...

...part of the story, but the Woe quarterstaff isn't dropping (or showing up in any character's inventory) after the battle.

Is anyone else running into this?

I started to read these and thought, meh only the magic mirror and the level up thing affect me, and then I started scrolling and realized I cannot possibly read all of this

Wow, just wow. Now for me only FSR2-support is missing. Thx, devs!

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Ever since the patch my extra attack on all my characters is gone. They only get 1 attack per round now and they're all level 11.

Anyone else?

Grym suddenly got eerily smart and was avoiding the Crucible in the Adamantine Forge. With a nervous laugh, we dumbed him back down a little.

Probably for the best, since the whole thing is a gimmick fight and it needs to be winnable. Though I will say that having it all planned out and seeing my target avoiding it and choosing to attack from behind me, directly opposite where he was supposed to be if I had any hope of killing him, was one of the most memorable moments of that battle.

The amount of ice in my veins when I had to lure the damn thing into place by climbing on the forge myself and just hoping I could run really fast before I had to bring it down on my own skull or he got wise and fucked off.

I can see the necessity, it was just...adrenaline-inducing.

Ranger Companions will not be summonable in combat.

Not a dnd player, is there a tabletop basis for this? Being able to summon Scratch in battle simply because he is a good boy but not being able to call a companion animal when doing so is your whole class feels weird to me.

Fixed the game thinking you're dating Gale instead of Karlach in one of the dialogues with Karlach.

Prevented Gale from demanding your attention after talking to Tara when he doesn't really have anything relevant to say.

Fixed a bug where, once you got serious with another Origin, Gale would always break up with you on the topic being discussed.

Not gonna lie, I kinda wish they just wouldn't even touch Gale. You'd think it would get in the way and I get that they technically should fix it because his behavior wasn't the devs' intention for the kind of person they seem to have wanted him to be, but how he's acting has actually added a lot to his personality to me.

Gale is unintentionally incredibly realistic as a Nice Guy,™ enough for me to recognize it instantly for what it is and build my perception of him around it, and his worst trait is being a walking teachable moment. Pointing to how uncomfortable Gale makes everyone literally helped me explain on a more visceral level how "fun" it is to put up with irl to someone last night.

He just sat alone in his tower for years with no normal interaction, so now his judgement is off and he makes a ton of sometimes insane assumptions because you didn't leave him to die and asked him about his cat once and now he won't stop. Even in the middle of the Shadowlands, he's entirely, awkwardly inappropriate for just zero reason.

Withers commented that I'm in a relationship now, and even my character had the option to brush it off as one night spent with a friend, just two buddies talking about magic, 6ft apart because it's not like that.

And I mean, I really didn't notice it wasn't a thing games ever did before I saw others pointing it out. Because between Astarion's dramatic fuckboy attitude and whatever tree Gale and his unholy libido are hiding behind, that's just how guys react to me when I talk to them. I didn't notice it was weird.

Please don't make Gale entirely normal, the jokes are hilarious and he's actually really believable without inherently being unlikable.

Nothing new about minthara.

Maybe patch 4?