Baldur’s Gate 3 Hotfix 8 patch notes: His Majesty shaved, shared stash fix, more

Rajarshi Acharya
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Baldur’s Gate 3 received Hotfix 8 which fixes several bugs and crashes, but most importantly, it resolves the shared stash issue that players were complaining about.

Larian launched Baldur’s Gate 3 in a very stable state, but they have been updating it frequently. The game had recently received Patch 3, a major update that changed quite a bit about the game. It fixed some major performance issues, along with countless bugs and crashes.

However, some issues were still left behind, which Larian have been fixing with small hotfixes. The last one, Hotfix 7, fixed some issues related to save game corruption and crashes. This latest patch does a bit more than that, but it doesn’t add any major feature to the game. With that in mind, here’s everything that was changed or fixed with Hotfix 8.

Everything changed in Baldur’s Gate 3 Hotfix 8

Hotfix 8 for Baldur’s Gate 3 is a minor update that fixes some crashes, visual issues including those with Raphael and His Majesty, and the shared stash.

One major complaint with Patch 3 was that the game now had a shared inventory, where companions would send key items over to your main character when dismissed. Another complaint was that His Majesty, the Sphinx cat in Act 2, now had hair and was visually identical to Steelclaw, another cat in the same Act.

Thankfully, Larian took notice of these complaints and have fixed these issues with Hotfix 8 for Baldur’s Gate 3. His Majesty has been shaved, the shared stash has been undone, and many visual glitches, including Raphael’s hair color, have been fixed as well.

Baldur’s Gate 3 Hotfix 8 full patch notes

Here are the full patch notes for Baldur’s Gate 3 Hotfix 8:

  • Companions will no longer transfer story items in their inventory to the player upon dismissal, restoring Patch 2 behaviour.
  • Fixed reaction popups sometimes showing no text descriptions of the reactions available.
  • Fixed a multiplayer crash that would occur when listening to a dialogue after an active roll.
  • Eavesdrop will no longer trigger when a character is in any Character Creation session, such as level up or the magic mirror.
  • Fixed a bug in Vulkan causing DEVICE_LOST crashes.
  • Fixed a bug where Skeletons created using Animate Dead were missing their ranged weapons, despite specializing in them.
  • Fixed an issue where the Weapon Master Feat would show as incomplete if a player was already proficient with all weapons.
  • Fixed a crash when re-assigning characters in splitscreen.
  • Fixed a visual issue with volumetric fog and materials generation.
  • Fixed an issue with invalid savegames being created.
  • Restored Raphael’s hair colour and horns. The House of Hope is once again fashion-forward.
  • Fixed an issue where Splint Armour for Githyanki Females caused some unnecessarily psychedelic visual effects.
  • Shaved His Majesty, who is once again a Sphynx. Steelclaw’s eye colour has been adjusted so they are no longer identical twins.
  • Fixed Raphael’s portraits after restoring his hair colour. Maybe he’s born with it, maybe it’s Avernus.
  • Fixed Twitch drops not being claimable on PS5.

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