Just as the title says, everything that wasn’t in the Early Access is still so buggy. Quests not continuing, randomly dying NPCs, characters disappearing in cut scenes (or dancing while there’s a emotional scene…). I am just so annoyed right now, I invested so much time since last week in these characters just so the game can show me from time to time the middlefinger.
I’m not even done with Act 1 and I have run into a ton of bugs that make me wonder if I did a sequence break or something, and other little niggling issues.
- I can’t cast light on my own character.
- Several animals won’t let me use Animal Friendship on them saying they aren’t beasts (worgs, rothe, etc; any animal actually used against me in combat apparently isn’t a “beast”)
- Cutting Words keeps getting triggered by my own party members and never by the enemy.
- My bonus actions keep getting eaten without any reason.
- All the effects that are supposed to activate when I miss an attack don’t actually go off.
- Dialogues sometimes seem like I should have something or have done something to get the dialogue options I have, because they make little to no sense in context with what I have done previously.
- Perception checks often reveal things that don’t get marked/highlighted, or are rolled again on traps and things I’ve already taken care of.
- Lae’zel, and ONLY Lae’zel, constantly get stuck in a broken bit of dialogue forcing me to reload a save when it’s her turn in combat sometimes.
Still having a fun time, but boy do these things irk me.
I feel you, I also had a lot of fun with the game, but these bugs are sometimes really hard to ignore. I just did what the other commenters said. I cut this playthrough short and just killed the endboss. I will try a new playthrough when all these bugs got fixed.
Here’s also a list (written mostly spoiler free) of bugs I encountered:
• While choosing an answer with a roll, the Boni are from time to time shown as „0None“ • Halsin is able to die during a quest to a condition that shouldn’t be able to affect him there, which breaks the quest • Quests which were already finished by coincidence (finding the subject in the open world without having the quest) make the quest stuck, when later found (the quest marker never disappears and isn’t getting marked as completed) • Some of the rescued tieflings die AFTER their completed questline suddenly in a safe place and the journal says then, that I killed them • While continuing Karlachs quest, she at one point got an exclamation mark on her head, but she doesn’t want to talk, the exclamation mark remained for the rest of the playthrough there • At a certain point when you’re able to call your allies, I called the harpers, they were summoned, but were immediately hostile towards me, which made no sense in the context of calling „allies“ • Multiple times the corpses of NPCs distort and twist very weirdly • Sometimes when my character became encumbered, the condition didn’t go away, even when I got under my weight limit again, only killing the character and reviving fixed that problem
And these are only the ones I can remember from yesterday and today.
Well, I bet Larian will fix most of this stuff in the coming weeks/months, they seem to go fast with their hotfixes.
The quest thing is currently getting me. I progressed into the Underdark, and got two side quests at the myconid colony: Destroy the Dueregar invaders and Rescue the deep-gnomes. I was sneaking around pretending to be one with the absolute until I came to some rothe that were being whipped. I used speak with animals and convinced the Roth to kill the dudes whipping them. They killed 2 dudes. We were off in a random corner where nobody else in the camp/base/temple heard anything… But it killed the dude I was trying to save, killed all the slaves I was supposed to rescue, and killed all the dueregar even the ones in the previous map area, and my journal only updated for the “kill the invaders” quest. I then spent 8 hours running around the map looking for a thing to fix another thing necessary to continue and never ever found it before moving on, finding some Harpers and then triggering a fight I can’t run from nor can I win after trying to talk to what I thought was just a random NPC. One thing here is probably a bug. The rest is just horrible pacing. It’s presented like I can’t survive the area I moved into without a special lantern, but my special lantern is broken and after exploring every possible inch I can get into on all the maps I can explore at the moment, I haven’t found a way to fix the lantern. I find notes or books seemingly related to the quest, but the text of them gives no insight. Half the time it’s nothing more than a description of text you don’t actually get to read.
It really does feel like the further I get, the jankier shit becomes. And not just the mechanics, but the pacing of the plot, and what triggers scripted events. Like Gale’s personal quest keeps getting progressed but I don’t have him with me and haven’t spent time conversing with him to even know his deal. Usually with games like this in the past, if you never actually talk to the NPCs, you don’t actually do their quest. BG3 seems to progress their quests based entirely on XP level or areas you explored, and it inserts itself very weirdly when you’re doing side quests and not progressing the main one, since all their side quests seem to be tied to the main one in some way. This is where I’ve hit a point where I am seriously wondering what the hell the devs were thinking with some of the design choices I’ve encountered last night. I’ve sunk 40 hours into this game already, and it’s starting to feel like I paid $60 for a $20 quality game.
I haven’t played past Act 1 yet, so I can’t comment, but we have gotten two patches since release. Maybe put it down for a week or two and keep an eye on the release notes to see if things improve for you.
I don’t know about OP, but I’m hooked and won’t be able to put it down for a week or two to wait for patches. Though, I haven’t played much of Act 2 yet, what I have played has been fine. I did encounter one ridiculous bug though and had to reload an earlier save.
