Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian said he was “changing the way we deploy patches” after a crash issue forced us to roll back yesterday’s Hotfix #4. This action temporarily prevented players from accessing saves created during the update rollout.
Naturally, this rollback caused an uproar among the affected players, and now Redeployment message for today’s Hotfix #4 On PC, Larian said, “We are aware of the frustration this has caused and would like to apologize, so we intend to change the situation.”
But first, we provide some background on yesterday’s buggy release, stating that “Hotfix #4 went through a rigorous QA pipeline and was confirmed as a release candidate yesterday. Triggered a rebuild of the version just before the target.” Unfortunately, the cooked version was plagued with compiler breakage, and certain exceptions that normally wouldn’t cause crashes. “We weren’t ready for it. We should have been. We failed.” ,” he added.
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“To prevent this from happening in the future, any changes made to future version candidates, no matter how small or harmless, are always passed through our full and comprehensive QA pipeline. ,” continued the studio. This includes a global in-house QA team, automated testing, unit testing, and save game compatibility testing. ”
Larian has already announced that Baldur’s Gate 3’s first major patch is in development, following a series of substantial hotfixes to address issues that surfaced since launch earlier this month. Some of these issues are relatively minor (e.g. missing gnome pants), but others are much more serious, such as a save corruption bug affecting some players. This issue was first reported by Eurogamer after contributor Ruth Cassidy was affected during a playthrough. their review.
A second major patch is also in the planning stages, which Larian said will “include a few requests,” possibly including the ability to switch character appearances in-game.
All of this will hopefully give PlayStation 5 owners a relatively smooth launch experience when Baldur’s Gate 3 hits general release on consoles on September 6th. As announced yesterday, those who pre-purchased the Digital Deluxe Edition on PS5 will be able to start preloading the game on August 31st at 5pm BST.