Hoftix 25 has been released by Larian Studios for Baldur's Gate 3. This small update seeks to provide solutions for a few issues Baldur's Gate 3 players may be experiencing while they wait patiently for Patch 6 to arrive.
Since its full release in August 2023, Baldur's Gate 3 has received critical acclaim, winning Game of the Year and other such coveted awards many times over. The game has also been a hit commercially, reportedly earning the owners of the Dungeons & Dragons IP, Hasbro, over $90 million as of February 2024. Baldur's Gate 3 also continues to fare well in the eyes of its fans, with the game boasting nearly 600,000 daily players even months after its release.
Hotfix 25 arrives only a few days after Baldur's Gate 3 Hotfix 24, and at a comparable size, containing six fixes as opposed to the four in Hotfix 24. The update mainly focuses on preventing rare code crashes when trading, hovering over enemies, or when loading Act 1. Also contained in this update is a fix for an apparent issue some players experienced following the game's tutorial with the pet Us remaining in the party, which prevented players from taking short rests.
While Larian's updates for Baldur's Gate 3 are, of course, welcomed by the game's fan base, updates to the game are expected to cause issues for mod users. Earlier this year, Larian Studios announced it was working on implementing mod support for Baldur's Gate 3 after finding itself in a few tense social media exchanges with the fan community. Since the announcement of mod support, Larian Studios' official Discord has set up a channel devoted to Baldur's Gate 3 mod creators and continues to acknowledge that official support is in the works, with a tentative start date towards the end of 2024.
Recently, Larian Studios announced that Baldur's Gate 3 will not see any DLC, nor will it be working on Baldur's Gate 4. Larian Studios has already set its sights on its future post Baldur's Gate 3, and is working on its next title. While players are certainly sad to hear of that development, the studio will continue to provide updates to Baldur's Gate 3 by way of patches and hotfixes, though the scope of what these updates will contain may be limited.
Baldur's Gate 3 is a Dungeons and Dragons inspired RPG developed and published by Larian Studios. Featuring both a single player and cooperative element, players create their character by selecting a starting class, take on quests, level up, and engage in turn-based combat using the D&D 5th edition rule set.
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