Baldur’s Gate 3 update buffs the Magic Mirror to add customisable hirelings
Larian Studios continues to update and fix its acclaimed RPG on with yet another hotfix designed to squash bugs.
Well, the hotfixes for Baldur’s Gate 3 keep coming and they don’t stop coming. Because hot on the heels of Hotfix #8 reshaving popular cat NPC His Majesty and leaving you less encumbered when dismissing party members (amongst a suite of other fixes) developer Larian Studios rounded of the week by sneaking out another Baldur's Gate 3 update, Hotfix #9. Available now for players on both PC and PS5, it’s again targeted at providing fixes, but there are a couple new features focused on personalisation added to the RPG too.
The headline feature for the new Baldur’s Gate update is the addition of customisable hirelings, the characters you’re able to temporarily recruit to aid and join your party. Larian has taken note of fans’ request to be able to change their appearance, and now they can so as to help make them feel like a genuine party of your team alongside regulars such as Astarion and Shadowheart. This can be done by visiting the in-game Magic Mirror, where people can now also change their player-character’s name.
Outside of this, Baldur’s Gate 3 Hotfix #9 provides the expected litany of balance tweaks and bug fixes. The patch notes – found on the game’s Steam support page – detail that an issue has been fixed where character animations would break when certain dialogue lines are skipped, for instance, and a split-screen glitch on PlayStation has been fixed that will no longer see the game blackscreen when listening in on some instances of dialogue.
Baldur’s Gate 3 update – Hotfix #9 patch notes
Here's the full list of patch notes for Baldur’s Gate 3 update known as Hotfix #9:
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- You can now use the Magic Mirror on hirelings.
- You can now change your name through the Magic Mirror.
- Fixed a rare crash that could occur when unloading or quickloading a game.
- Fixed an issue causing GPU crashes on PS5 Vulkan.
- Fixed the Guardian Statue repeatedly falling into a chasm, causing the server to stall.
- Fixed a splitscreen issue on PS5 that could cause a black screen when listening in on a dialogue.
- Fixed unpreparing spells not removing their buffs if the spell was upcasted.
- Fixed buffs being removed by unpreparing spells if the buff came from a different source (e.g. a scroll).
- Fixed some character positions and animations breaking if you skip lines in certain dialogues.
- Fixed the previews not working correctly in the Accessibility options.
- Fixed an issue causing Minthara's romance to unreliably trigger.
- Fixed Minthara's dialogue after you kill Orin not triggering properly when you talk to her.
- Fixed the Adamantine Splint Armour sometimes making your legs transparent.
- Fixed a geometry stretching bug introduced in Hotfix 8 on Vulkan.
- Fixed characters showing up in their underwear in some intimate scenes even if you have nudity enabled.
- Fixed Feign Death causing an infinite leave–join combat loop in certain circumstances.
- Fixed prices in dialogues not displaying correctly in save games that were made while the price was on screen.
- Optimised the line-of-sight system for entities with no sight range, like items.
While PC and PS5 players can enjoy these benefits right now after updating their game file, it’s expected that all the above fixes and additions will be available on day one when Baldur’s Gate 3 eventually makes its way to Xbox Series X|S. This will make that version surely worth the wait, though it's still without an exact release date.
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