Baldur’s Gate 3 Hotfix 9 Out Now — Here’s What it Does

The Baldur’s Gate 3 hotfixes are coming thick and fast. After Hotfix 8, which shaved His Majesty after a cat backlash from fans, came out earlier this week, Larian has now released Hotfix 9, which brings the sprawling Dungeons & Dragons-themed role-playing game up to version number 4.1.1.3767641.

Hotfix 9 squishes multiple bugs, issues and crashes, Larian said, as well as lets players change the appearance of their hirelings via the Magic Mirror.

“The same restrictions apply as when you edit your Tav, but we hope this enables you to create the party of your dreams,” Larian explained in a post on the Baldur’s Gate 3 Steam page. “Or, someone else’s nightmares. We can’t wait to see it.”

Hirelings are characters you can hire to join your party. They are summoned by Withers to lend aid when you seek their services. According to Withers, these individuals are spirits of fallen adventurers who were former cult members of the Absolute. For more information, check out IGN’s How to Unlock and Recruit Hirelings guide.

Sticking with the Magic Mirror, players can now use it to change their character’s name. “We’ll be using this to add Cool in front of every one of our characters, but you do you,” Larian joked.

Here are the Baldur’s Gate 3 Hotfix 9 patch notes in full:

• 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 SPOILERS 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 savegames that were made while the price was on screen.
• Optimised the line-of-sight system for entities with no sight range, like items.

In IGN’s review of Baldur’s Gate 3, which returned a 10/10, we said: “With crunchy, tactical RPG combat, a memorable story with complex characters, highly polished cinematic presentation, and a world that always rewards exploration and creativity, Baldur’s Gate 3 is the new high-water mark for CRPGs.”

For more, check out IGN’s comprehensive Baldur’s Gate 3 walkthrough.

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