Hotfix #32 for Baldur’s Gate 3 launched today, aimed primarily at combatting remaining bugs with cross-play, introduced last month with Patch 8. This minor Hotfix also made some small fixes to some of the abilities belonging to the new subclasses, as well as a few other minor fixes.
In addition to a new Hotfix, Larian also bundled the announcement in with Community Post #34, letting them dive into detail about cross-play, their take on the new subclasses, and plenty of community art. First, in a section entitled “Cross-Play – A Brief How-To Before You Begin,” Larian explains the steps you need to undergo in order to play Baldur’s Gate 3 across different consoles, including how to enable the feature, add friends, and host or join a lobby.
Larian has also gone through the trouble of writing out brief descriptions of each new subclass added with the huge Patch 8 in order to “help you choose,” followed by showcasing plenty of meme-laden art made by the Baldur’s Gate 3 community on X, Reddit, and their Discord server, some of which was made using the new photo mode in the game. If you want to check that out, you’ll need to see it on their Community Post on Steam!
We’ll let you see that for yourself. In the meantime, here are the patch notes for the actual Hotfix #32:
Baldur’s Gate 3 Hotfix #32 Patch Notes
Game Version: 4.1.1.6848561
MODDING
The update to the toolkit will begin rolling out later today
- Fixed a potential crash caused by entering invalid control characters when renaming or creating resources.
GAME
- Fixed a crash when changing input mode while launching a multiplayer game.
- Fixed a crash on Xbox cross-play when suspending the game while transitioning between regions.
- Fixed a crash when playing on split-screen with DLSS on Vulkan.
- Fixed some potential crashes and performance issues as a result of auras trying to apply themselves to items that can’t have auras.
New Subclasses
- Fixed a bug causing Starry Forms to be removed by the Shadow Curse.
Gameplay
- Fixed a bug on multiplayer where the client’s avatar would appear invisible until they moved around.
- Fixed a bug causing the game world and the Main Menu background to appear black after you return to them from Character Creation.
Cross-Play
- Fixed a bug letting you enable cross-play and invite players while running a non-cross-play session. If you want your friends to join you in an existing campaign, you’ll need to make sure the save you want to use has cross-play enabled. Find out how by reading on below!
- Fixed some developer text appearing on the Upcast Bonus tooltip when upcasting Shadow Blade.
- Fixed a bug causing the latest savegame to get deleted instead of the currently selected one if you quickly spam the delete button.
- Fixed the ‘Enable’ button being greyed out in the Mod Verification window while using a controller.
- Made sure the Direct Connect option doesn’t show up in the cross-play settings, where it is not possible to use.
Art
- Half Plate Armour +2 having missing material for male halflings and causing clipping on female gnomes.
Larian is still streaming Baldur’s Gate 3 on their YouTube Channel, Larian: Channel From Hell, and still seems happy to promote the community to continue adding content in their stead, but with Patch 8 being their “final” major patch and the Hotfixes becoming smaller and smaller, it seems that their time actually working on the game might finally be coming to an end. That means that the version of Baldur’s Gate 3 we have right now is likely to be it’s final version, so if you’ve been waiting for a good reason to get back into it, now you have it. After all, you’ve got a city to save!
