Baldur's Gate 3 Hotfix 23: Lae'zel Changes & Trading Fix

Even months after receiving the 'Game of the Year' award, Larian Studios is continuing their ongoing support for Baldur's Gate 3, with new patches and hotfixes being deployed every few weeks. Not only do these updates fix some of the longstanding issues of the game, but the recently introduced Patch 6 also added some new content, in the form of new kissing and camp animations for all of the party members. With a project of this scope, it's quite normal for new updates to break some of the existing systems within the game, and for the past few weeks, one of the bigger issues has been how trading works.

For this reason, Larian Studios has deployed Hotfix 23, which not only aims to fix these issues with the trading system but also some of the crashes that have been plaguing the game for the last few months. Here is the full list of changes that are coming with the latest hotfix for Baldur's Gate 3.

• Crashes and Blockers
• UI
• Scripting
• Code and Gameplay

Baldur's Gate 3 Hotfix 23 Patch Notes

While Hotfix 23 isn't a huge patch when compared to some of Larian's previous updates, it does fix a ton of issues that players have been having during the last few months. A lot of bugs and crashes have been reportedly fixed, with the highlight of the update being the removal of most of the exploits surrounding the trading system. Players were able to generate gold by buying multiple items while only paying for one of them if they dragged the items into a container.

While this does sound quite funny, it did break the economy of the game and Larian has finally dealt with the issue. Here is the full list of patch notes for the latest Hotfix 23 update for Baldur's Gate 3:

Crashes and Blockers

• Fixed a bug causing you to get stuck in Lae'zel's recruitment dialogue if you saved halfway through the dialogue and then loaded that savegame.
• Fixed a potential rare crash related to our particle system.
• Fixed a crash when throwing the Black Pudding Platter.
• Fixed a crash during Character Creation.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when selling a container with items in it, buying it again, and then selling it again.
• Fixed a rare crash related to VFX material loading.
• Fixed a bug preventing you from equipping items and using spells because an item kept being equipped.
• Optimised Poltergeist auras to reduce memory usage and prevent an out-of-memory crash.

UI

• Fixed an issue where selling all wares didn't remove the proper gold amount from the trader inventory.
• Fixed a bug letting you generate gold by buying multiple items but only paying for one of them if you dragged the items into a container.
• Fixed a bug letting you 'buy' a stack of items for free when dragging the stack into a container and using the item splitter.
• Fixed equipped items blocked by shapeshifting being tradable, allowing you to get paid even if the items don't transfer to the trader's inventory.

Scripting

• Fixed clubs from the Moonrise Towers Prison getting automatically equipped when you picked them up.
• Fixed a bug causing Nightsong to continuously gain and lose the Soul Caged condition if she had a condition that provided Immunity to being Incapacitated.
• Fixed Balthazar not finishing his turn when he is too far from the Colony ritual spot to reach it in one turn.
• Fixed a bug where a civilian would call for help and a group of Flaming Fists would appear, but instead of moving to the crime scene, they would just stand where they were spawned.

Code and Gameplay

• Fixed a bug causing party members to be wrongly ungrouped and fixed savegames in this broken state.
• Fixed randomly occurring issues with dialogues, like repeating lines and options not showing up correctly.
• Fixed some characters missing their spell SFX when going from camp to the world.
• Fixed the bulette getting permanently stuck under the ground when you passed by in Turn-Based Mode.

That concludes the full list of changes that are coming to Baldur's Gate 3 with Hotfix 23. Following this update, players should experience a lot fewer instances of crashing, and the many exploits centered around the trading system should now be removed. For more Baldur's Gate 3 news and guides, make sure to check out the rest of our website!