‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Patch 5 Will Stop the Game From Thinking About All Your Crimes So Hard

Baldur’s Gate 3 has a new patch “cooking for this week”, and according to the devs, it’ll speed up the game despite your crimes.

Baldur’s Gate 3 takes so, so much into account on every playthrough. There’s the companions you’ve recruited. The ones you haven’t. All the decisions you’ve made. All the hotties you’ve banged, and the ones you’ve kissed too. And, as it turns out, all the crimes you’ve been doing. Which has been, in part, responsible for a “nasty bug” that caused the game to slow down.

With the forthcoming release of Patch 5 (the same patch that will be released in the physical editions), that shall be no more.

Also, Astarion will kiss better, so those of you who can’t get enough sexy white-haired vampire twink love in your life (you know who you are), will have a lot to look forward to.

Baldur’s Gate 3 – Patch 5 Will Fix “Thefts & Violence” Slowdown

The announcement comes via Twitter/X, where Larian’s Director of Publishing spoke about the upcoming Patch with excitement. After Patch 4, some players had reported slowdown issues, which turns out was at the heart of a recent fix. In a statement to IGN, Larian got to the bottom of it:

“In Patch 4 we introduced a fix that would prevent the Scrying Eyes in Moonrise Towers from immediately calling the guards on you when stealing, even if you were sneaking, or invisible for example.

This fix had the unintended consequence of causing unnoticed thefts and acts of vandalism to remain stuck forever within the ‘did anyone see me’ pipeline, rather than timing out and moving on, as is intended. Essentially, your dungeon master — in a real-world sense — constantly thinks about the acts of theft and violence the player keeps doing, without ever moving on or verbalising them. Mulling on it ad infinitum.”

And as a result, the more crimes the player commits, the more the game is trying to keep track of. But, as of Patch 5, you can crime to your heart’s content, and the game will no longer punish you for it.

Well. Not with real-world consequences. You’ll still be punished in-game if you’re caught. Especially if Karlach disapproves.

Some wounds just don’t heal.

Author: J.R. Zambrano

Bell of Lost Souls Staff Writer and DM, J.R. covers RPGs of all stripes and on occasion eats sandwiches. You can ask him about either at [email protected]