Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 5 Preview Notes: Astarion’s Kiss, Slows, and More

2023-11-28 19:54:04
Estelle Vernet

❘ Published: 2023-11-28T13:26:58 ❘ Updated: 2023-11-28T13:27:05

Larian Studios has announced a major new update that promises to resolve romantic interactions with Astarion and the significant slowdown caused by a Patch 4 fix. Here’s everything on the Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 5 preview notes.

Since its successful release, Baldur’s Gate 3 has had several significant updates. While some patches are intended to address minor issues, Larian Studios typically releases larger patches for more complex issues.

Fortunately for players irritated by Astarion’s short kisses during his romantic interactions, the developers have confirmed that Patch 5 will arrive within the week to permanently fix the issue. The developers also confirmed that they have found a solution to a critical bug caused by Patch 4, which caused a significant slowdown.

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Here’s everything we know so far regarding Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 5.

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Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 5 Preliminary Notes

On Twitter/X, Larian Studios spoke regarding the arrival of Patch 5 which will notably correct Astarion’s short kisses and slowdowns that occurred following the previous patch.

We’re aiming to release Patch 5 this week, which fixes the eternally-active acts of thefts & violence causing slowdowns, introduced in the previous patch. It also fixes Astarion’s little kisses, and more! pic.twitter.com/APRAPdSouN

— Larian Studios (@larianstudios) November 27, 2023

The Community Manager of Baldur’s Gate 3 also confirmed via Larian Studios forumson November 27, 2023, that the development team particularly focused on a bug that occurred following the Patch 4 update. Here’s what Larian Studios said regarding the Patch 4 bug:

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“In Patch 4, we introduced a fix that prevented the Searching Eyes in Highmoon Towers from immediately calling the guards in the event of a theft. Even if you were sneaking around or invisible, for example.”

This fix had the unintended consequence of causing unnoticed thefts and vandalism to remain stuck in the “has anyone seen me” queue indefinitely, instead of expiring and to move on, as planned. In fact, your “GM” constantly thinks regarding the acts of theft and violence that the player continues to commit, without ever moving on or verbalizing them. He thinks regarding it ad infinitum.

These unnoticed and eternally active acts of theft and violence eventually slowed down the game. The more a player commits these acts, the more the game tries to keep everything up to date and in memory. And so the slowdowns start to happen. Ultimately, the “GM” ends up unable to function. By the third act, this caused slowdown issues. After some research, we’re extremely happy to say that we’ve fixed this in Patch 5, which is in testing and scheduled for release this week.”

And that’s all we know regarding the Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 5 preview notes. To learn more regarding Larian Studios’ RPG, check out our Baldur’s Gate 3 section.

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