Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 2 Will Address ‘Very Stupid Bug’ That Blocked 1500 Lines of Minthara Content [IGN]
Minthara is finally getting the justice she deserves.
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Aug 29, 2023 10:35 pm
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Aug 29, 2023 10:24 pm
Baldur’s Gate 3’s next big patch is releasing soon, and by all accounts it will be a chonky one, featuring a host of performance improvements and other fixes. Even better, Patch 2 will apparently address Minthara, who has been hobbled by what director Swen Vincke describes as a “very, very stupid bug.”
Speaking with IGN ahead of Patch 2’s release, Vincke talked about how the scope of Baldur’s Gate 3 can cause cascading reactions that can sometimes lock out content by accident. Such is the case with Baldur’s Gate 3’s drow murderess.
“The game is super reactive and there were a couple of bugs that caused some of the companions to not react as they should. And so that felt like the content was not showing up. So you weren’t seeing it specifically with Minthara,” Vincke explained. “So [lead writer Adam Smith] told me there’s about 1500 lines of Minthara that weren’t showing up as a result of a very, very stupid bug that we now isolated. So we’re solving it.”
[W]e’ll first fix what her problem is that blocks her content, and then we’ll see how she’s going to land with the fence, and then we’ll see if we can do something extra with her
Still, Larian Studios are leaving the door open for more development in the future.
“[W]e’ll first fix what her problem is that blocks her content, and then we’ll see how she’s going to land with the fans, and then we’ll see if we can do something extra with her. I mean, the feedback to the game has been phenomenal and overwhelming for us. So, it’s definitely much more than we expected. So, we’re taking it all in, and then we’re…filtering through it. And so we’ll see where it goes,” Vincke says
“We made this game for the players, for them to enjoy it. If there’s things that don’t really land, I think you can be rest assured that we’ll probably do something about it at some point, except that we can’t do miracles. We’re still a limited team with a limited amount of people that have been working very, very hard on making this.”
In addition to restoring access to Minthara’s content, Vincke says fans can expect a new epilogue for fan-favorite Karlach (he cryptically hints that if you see a cigar you’ll know that you’ve found the new content), and that it will “make a lot of people happy.” It will also include improvements to co-op as well as a “number of other things people have been asking about.”
Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 2 is currently in QA testing and should be out this week. While you wait, check out how one Baldur’s Gate 3 player found a way to make every character miserable, as well as our complete guide to Baldur’s Gate 3’s
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