Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 2 Coming Soon With Performance Fixes, New Ending for Karlach, More

Larian Studios has also found the bug that prevented the ruthless drow Minthara’s dialogue from triggering — it’ll be fixed in a separate update soon.

Written by Rahul Chettiyar, Edited by Manas Mitul | Updated: 30 August 2023 15:40 IST

Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 2 Coming Soon With Performance Fixes, New Ending for Karlach, More

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Karlach's story in Baldur's Gate 3 ended in misery

Highlights

The bug disabled 1,500 lines of Minthara content
The new optional ending for Karlach will be ‘fiery’ and ‘poignant’
Baldur’s Gate 3 released August 3 on PC; PS5 version on September 6

Baldur's Gate 3's second patch is right around the corner, with Larian Studios suggesting that it's a ‘chonky' one. In a community update post on Steam, the developer revealed that the patch will be focused on improving performance issues, specifically in Act 3, where players have reported laggy cutscenes and stutters when the camera pans around. In addition to fixing bugs that halted quest progression, our companion, the cheerful Tiefling Karlach, will be getting a new optional ending — a closure that is described as ‘fiery' and ‘poignant'. The lengthy blog post also touches upon some cut content that was discovered recently by data miners, some of which have now been revealed as a consequence of bugs.

One such case is the ruthless drow Minthara's reactivity in the game, whose dialogue was seemingly heavily cut down and felt inconsequential. Larian has now isolated the ‘very, very stupid' bug, which prevented about 1,500 lines of content from triggering when necessary and will soon release a fix. “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,” Larian CEO Swen Vincke told IGN, adding that her dialogue triggered in previous versions — early access, I'm assuming — and further development caused it to drown out.

Baldur's Gate 3 Review

❤️‍🔥New Karlach Epilogue
🗄️Removing Co-Op Avatars from party
📈Performance Improvements
🔮The Future of Baldur's Gate 3, and your part in it.

Read more in Community Update #24: Looking to the Future - https://t.co/uFPnxnQkbv pic.twitter.com/AzJTIPm5Ec
— Larian Studios (@larianstudios) August 29, 2023

The amount of new information data miners extracted caused some to believe that she was supposed to have an origin quest — similar to companions like Astarion or Shadowheart. Vincke assured in the interview that Minthara was just a side character, though once she's fixed, they might consider doing ‘something extra' with her. It also appears as if the team is looking into expanding Baldur's Gate 3's epilogue, which felt brief and abrupt to most players. As per Larian, the epilogue was heavily trimmed out of fear that the ending cinematics would've played out for way too long. The game already has cutscenes that run for over 174 hours. However, due to popular demand, the team will now expand on it, and we'll get to see its first results starting with patch #2, which introduces a new ending for Karlach that doesn't end in misery.

Larian Studios is also adding a new ‘Withers' Wardrobe of Wayward Friends' feature, which lets you get rid of co-op party members who join your campaign. The developer dropped a funny advertisement for it, which details that you can place any unwanted party members in our NPC skeletal friend's closet and they'll be gone. As for whether Baldur's Gate 3 will feature a physical wardrobe at our camp or if it's generated when you speak to Withers, only time will tell. Besides that, Larian is also cooking up the option to customise our character's appearance midway through the campaign, though there's no release window for it, yet. With each new hotfix and update, third-party mods have had trouble keeping up. So, support for customisation will be added ‘at some point.'

Baldur's Gate 3 is out now on PC. The PS5 version releases on September 6, while the Xbox Series S/X version is slated for release sometime this year.

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Baldur's Gate III

REVIEW
KEY SPECS
NEWS

Good
Deeply thought-out writing
Highly reactive world
In-depth character customisation
Charming characters; stellar voice acting
Combat that rewards creativity
Flexible navigation around the map
Stunning cinematics
No microtransactions or always-online requirement

Bad
Performance issues in Act 3

Read detailed Larian Studios Baldur's Gate III review

Genre RPG

Platform PlayStation 5 (PS5), PC: Windows, PC: macOS

Modes Single-player, Multiplayer

Series Baldur's Gate

PEGI Rating 18+

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