Baldur’s Gate 3 Hotfix 8 is now live and aims to address a range of crashing issues, but most importantly, it makes His Majesty hairless again.
Larian Studios released the following hotfix for its RPG and while the minor update mainly fixes technical issues, the developer has listened to player feedback to get one character looking like his original self again.
During your travels you may have encountered His Majesty: a Sphynx cat with a sassy attitude that players quickly fell in love with. But it turns out he was never meant to be a Sphynx cat after patch 3 – the same patch that finally allowed us to change our character’s appearance – made the cat have a full coat of hair.
Players were outraged by the change and asked Larian to make him bald again. They did and in Hotfix 8 you will notice that His Majesty is back to his usual hairless appearance. Thank you, Larian.
Hotfix #8 is now live for Baldur’s Gate 3. This update fixes several crashes and issues, including your party members transferring every important item upon dismissal. More importantly, we shaved His Majesty. Read more: https://t.co /KTwWD93LzH pic.twitter.com/IyqXLkomK9October 3, 2023
Raphael’s original brown hair color has also been restored after turning black in the same patch that made His Majesty hairy, another fix implemented in response to player feedback. The devil’s portrait in the House of Hope has also been restored to its original appearance.
In addition to some crashing issues that have now been fixed, another specific issue that has been frustrating players concerns companions loading their equipment onto them whenever they are dismissed from their party.
This bug was fixed by Larian saying, “When they get fired, they no longer give you all the stuff they care about carrying, like a toddler in a grocery store.” You can read the full patch notes below.
Baldur’s Gate 3 Hotfix 8 patch notes
- Companions will no longer transfer story items in their inventory to the player when fired, restoring Patch 2 behavior.
- Fixed an issue where comment popups would sometimes not show text descriptions of the available comments.
- Fixed a multiplayer crash that occurred when listening to dialogue after an active roll.
- Eavesdropping no longer triggers when a character is in a character creation session, such as leveling up or the magic mirror.
- Fixed a bug in Vulkan that caused DEVICE_LOST crashes.
- Fixed a bug where skeletons created with Animate Dead were missing their ranged weapons despite being specialized in them.
- Fixed an issue where the Weapon Master Feat was displayed as incomplete if a player was already proficient with all weapons.
- Fixed a crash when remapping characters in splitscreen.
- Fixed a visual issue with volumetric fog and material generation.
- Fixed an issue where invalid savegames were being created.
- Restored Raphael’s hair color and horns. The House of Hope is fashionable again.
- Fixed an issue where Splint Armor for Githyanki females was unnecessarily causing psychedelic visual effects.
- His Majesty shaven, who is once again a Sphynx. Steelclaw’s eye color has been changed so that they are no longer identical twins.
- Fixed Raphael’s portraits after his hair color was restored. Maybe he was born with it, maybe it’s Avernus.
- Fixed Twitch drops not being able to be claimed on PS5.
If you wait Baldur’s Gate 3 coming to Xbox, there’s good news, as Swen Vincke, CEO and game director of Larian Studios, has revealed that the RPG will release on Xbox Series X|S before December, along with every major patch that has already been released.
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