Baldur’s Gate 3: all the news and updates on one of the best RPGs of the year

Xbox didn’t get Baldur’s Gate 3’s most recent updates due to a bug that caused the game to crash on the Series X / S. This prevented players from loading cross-saves on platforms with the update.

But now, Larian has announced that hotfixes #20, #21, and #22 are coming to Xbox, which should fix any issues with syncing game saves. The latest update also addresses some crashes and issues with Minthara’s dialogue.

Larian Studios keeps giving the people what they want with each Baldur’s Gate 3 update. The most recent patch added a bunch of new kiss animations, some sweet, some very spicy. But there’s one ask from the BG3 community that Larian’s director of publishing says is coming soon: official mod support.

With mod support, patches to the game are less likely to break mods and it’ll be easier overall to make mods for the game. Prime opportunity for some freaky, frightening, or just plain fun additions to the game.

As Larian promised, this latest patch is absolutely crammed full of new content and bug fixes for the game. The new companion smooches will hopefully appease fans who were collectively trolled by the studio earlier this week for assuming the patch would arrive on Wednesday.

The next Baldur’s Gate 3 patch improves how you can kiss your favorite bear.

Patch 6, arriving next week, will add new camp idle animations and new legendary actions for the game’s hardcore Honor Mode. But the biggest news; improved kiss animations!

Despite the game’s valiant attempts, kissing in Baldur’s Gate is not that much better than drinking was in Mass Effect. Excited to see what the new animations look like, and just in time for Valentine’s Day too!

Some BG3 players on Xbox have had to deal with lost saves, which is obviously frustrating in a game as massive as Larian’s hit RPG, but Microsoft says a new system update should fix things. Larian said last week the firmware update was coming.

Larian Studios says that Microsoft will release an Xbox firmware update on January 16th that fixes the save bug on Xbox. That said, Larian hasn’t been able to verify the fix, so we might have to wait and see if it actually works.

Just kidding, it’s Baldur’s Gate 3. The full list of winners for the 2023 Steam Awards is out now, and most of them are on sale until Thursday as part of Steam’s Winter Sale.

In celebration of this year’s game of the year finally arriving on Xbox, Larian Studios is giving fans a little treat. Because we deserve.

Larian, in collaboration with Mashed animation, writer Emily Gera, and the principal Baldur’s Gate 3 voice cast, created this fantastic animated featurette about the Tadfools getting together to celebrate the holidays.

Now that Baldur’s Gate 3 is finally available on Xbox, the natural follow up question is when will the undisputed game of the year arrive on Game Pass? But in an interview with IGN, Larian CEO Swen Vincke said, essentially, never.

“Oh, we always said from the get-go, it wasn’t going to be on Game Pass,” Vincke said to IGN. “We made a big game, so I think there’s a fair price to be paid for that, and I think that that is okay.”

Larian Studios has released an update with “stability fixes” and is encouraging users to update their Xbox consoles to help address issues with “saves disappearing after a crash.”

The Game Awards’ game of the year came out on Xbox on Thursday.

The latest Baldur’s Gate 3 patch has given me the chance to make my bear boyfriend Halsin very very uncomfortable.

Minthara, one of Act I’s goblin camp leaders, is a much desired companion. Problem is, you have to commit a lot of murder and risk Halsin leaving your group (y’know because of all the murder) to recruit her. While some players have found interesting ways to get around this, Patch 5 now seems to let you simply knock her out during her fight and recruit her later in Act II.

Larian just released another massive patch for Baldur’s Gate 3, adding new visual settings for color-blind players and appearance customization for hirelings upon recruitment.

There’s also loads of bug fixes and fun gameplay updates — for example, soaps and sponges can now be used to clean up party members. Maybe NPCs will stop commenting on how bad you smell after a quick wash.

BG3’s new patch lets you customize the appearance of hirelings so they match your dream (or nightmarish) aesthetic, and fixes some broken character positions and animations in dialog cinematics.

It also stops your characters from being forced back into their undies when you have nudity enabled, allowing degenerates to enjoy the spicy romance scenes buck-naked once again (it’s me, I’m the degenerate).

The new update reverts His Majesty to his nude glory, restores Raphael’s former hair color and horns, and stops your companions from dumping their bags on you when dismissed.

Some bugs and crashes that appeared after the recent patch, have also been fixed, though more notable issues — including those affecting cutscene animations and a certain blacksmith — haven't been addressed.

Somewhere, someone’s in front of an i-device thinking aloud: “I wanna play Baldur’s Gate 3.”

App Store developer Initial Link appears and answers, “We have Baldur’s Gate 3 at home,” and shows them Nevermore: Idle Immortal RPG... an idle RPG gacha game complete with a harrowing App Store icon that features a yassified Astarion!

From what I can tell this game has absolutely nothing to do with Baldur’s Gate, fortunately people of the Apple persuasion need not despair as Baldur’s Gate 3 just released on Mac last week.

Some updates have been rolled out to fix a handful of crashing and save game issues related to corrupted item files and multiplayer sessions.

Developer Larian said it’s also preparing additional hotfixes based on player feedback following its recent patch, which includes addressing the stack of shared items you receive when dismissing companions. Still no word if they plan to shave the cat again though 😔.

My favorite testament to the open-endedness of Baldur’s Gate 3 so far: this short, lightly spoiler-y guide to beating one of the game’s hardest bosses using the status effect of a minor side quest NPC. (If this hasn’t been patched yet... it likely will be soon.)

The phenomenal cast of Baldur’s Gate 3 is now live on Twitch playing a Dungeons and Dragons one shot as their characters. I don’t typically watch D&D actual plays, (sorry Critical Role fans) but I will be present and seated for this because I love all my murder hobo companions and I can’t get enough of them.