Larian Studios has launched a patch for the Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 8 stress take a look at, signalling progress is being made in the direction of a full launch of the ultimate main replace to the beloved Dungeons & Dragons primarily based role-playing sport.
Stress Test Update 1 is now out there throughout PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S, and PC, and consists of largely bug fixes specializing in issues like Gale getting grasping for magical objects once more and radial menus displaying their descriptions as meant.
Larian has additionally made “some fixes” for crossplay however continues to be investigating the right way to get it working correctly. Photo mode has additionally been up to date to incorporate further options and quality-of-life adjustments, alongside common massive fixes too. The full patch notes can be found under.
Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 8 marks the tip of an period for what’s arguably probably the most beloved role-playing sport of all time, although given its grandeur Larian launched it in a closed beta type to iron out kinks forward of a correct launch.
It initially went stay a contact early however every thing is so as now, with Larian seemingly planning to launch a couple of patches for the patch earlier than it is deemed prepared for public launch. No launch window has been given for when this is likely to be.
In our 10/10 evaluate of the bottom Baldur’s Gate 3, IGN mentioned: “With crunchy, tactical RPG fight, a memorable story with advanced characters, extremely polished cinematic presentation, and a world that at all times rewards exploration and creativity, Baldur’s Gate 3 is the brand new high-water mark for CRPGs.”
Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 8 – Stress Test Update 1 Patch Notes
Gameplay
- Fixed containers inside inventories not scattering their contents after they get destroyed, which might doubtlessly result in key quest objects getting misplaced for good.
- Fixed a bug inflicting Oath of the Crown paladins to lose spell slots as a substitute of gaining them when levelling up.
- Fixed a difficulty the place choosing up objects from the bottom in multiplayer might then block motion by way of the controller stick.
- Fixed the Wild Shape: Panther’s Prowl motion and Prowling situation not working appropriately.
- Fixed a bug the place objects getting added to the stock would lose their circumstances. This might trigger, for instance, the Elemental Cleaver buff to vanish when the imbued weapon is thrown.
- Shadow Blade will now retain the behaviour of being locked to the caster when upcast.
Photo Mode
- Added an in-game pop-up for Photo Mode that triggers on the seashore initially of the sport and might be discovered within the Journal.
- Updated Photo Mode’s screenshot perform on Steam Deck in order that it makes use of Steam’s proprietary screenshot perform, so you may entry your photographs extra readily from the Steam Screenshots web page.
- Prevented characters from having the ability to pop into non-public cutscenes whereas activating Photo Mode when taking part in in multiplayer.
- Hid the ‘Toggle Photo Preview’ legend whereas taking screenshots by way of Steam’s screenshot perform.
- Fixed Photo Mode making the display go blurry when opened on cut up display.
- Added digital camera shutter SFX when taking a photograph in Photo Mode.
- Fixed the Attacking and Jumping poses for wolves.
- Fixed a cross showing in the course of the display when the Vignette is at its thickest setting.
- Fixed some creatures not listening when you choose the ‘Look At Camera’ possibility.
- Fixed the sport generally freezing when switching rapidly between tabs in Photo Mode.
- Improved the Depth of Field sliders so the energy and distance scale in proportion to the slider itself.
- Fixed a difficulty inflicting dragonborn tails to look indifferent from the physique.
- The Grasping Vine’s poses now work appropriately.
Cross-Play
- Fixed a difficulty that might get the shopper caught in a loading display if the shopper unfriends the host after which clicks ‘Join Party’ after re-adding the host.
- Fixed a few of the PS5 splashscreens not displaying up when they need to.
- Fixed a crash initially of fight.
Subclasses
- The Booming Blade tooltip now updates its values when upcast.
- Fixed an inaccurate bonus worth within the Rakish Audacity tooltip.
- Updated Toll the Dead and Bursting Sinew to work with Potent Cantrip and deal half injury on saves.
- Fixed Pact of the Blade’s Extra Attack being added to Deepened Pact even if you happen to did not select Pact of the Blade.
Art
- Fixed a difficulty inflicting the Flaming Fist armour to clip and customarily freak out a bit.
UI
- Fixed a bug with Gale’s donation UI stopping you from feeding him magical objects.
- All of the Hexblade’s class actions and subclass options are actually proven appropriately in Character Creation.
- Fixed button or keyboard shortcut inputs within the UI generally not working.
- Fixed some Reaction tooltips like Divine Allegiance not displaying some values appropriately within the description.
- Fixed a bug inflicting the UI to lock up when quickly switching between keyboard and mouse enter and controller enter.
- Fixed a bug the place opening the Main Menu on controller would not routinely choose the ‘Resume’ possibility on the high of the menu.
- Fixed the situation icons on the get together line getting duplicated when transitioning between acts throughout cross-play.
- Fixed some settings that have been lacking their wrap-around navigation performance on controller, stopping you from looping from the final possibility again to the primary possibility with the identical button enter.
- Fixed a bug the place you’d must deselect your present passive when respeccing a personality earlier than choosing a brand new one. Now, you may simply click on the brand new one.
- Fixed a bug that brought on the toggleable Illithid Powers to vanish from the Character Sheet and be uninteractable within the Illithid Powers UI.
- Fixed participant avatars not displaying up within the multiplayer/cross-play foyer.
Scripting
- With 12 new subclasses arriving in Patch 8, we’ve rechecked some achievements, together with making certain the armed model of Stunning Strike not counts as an unarmed assault for the Fists of Fury achievement, and its unarmed variant now does.
- Monks’ Unarmed Strike bonus motion now additionally appropriately counts towards the Action Surge achievement.
Crashes
- Fixed a crash when making an attempt to start out a sport from a foyer a number of instances.
- Fixed a number of crashes and freezes associated to the UI.
- Fixed a crash on Vulkan when taking a photograph in Photo Mode.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll discuss The Witcher all day.
