Baldur’s Gate 3 Hotfix 9 patch notes: Use Magic Mirror on hirelings, change your name, more
Larian StudiosBaldur’s Gate 3 has received yet another update with Hotfix 9, a small update that fixes bugs and crashes, but also revamps the Magic Mirror, so here are the full patch notes.
Baldur’s Gate 3 has been updated frequently ever since its release on August 3, with constant fixes and improvements. Larian have been actively listening to community feedback and their patches reflect that. Patch 3, the last major update, fixed some serious performance issues that players were complaining about and also introduced some highly requested quality-of-life changes.
It still left behind other issues in Baldur’s Gate 3, and recent hotfixes have been fixing these. The last update, Hotfix 8, shaved back His Majesty and fixed the shared stash issue, just as players requested. The new hotfix also fixes some issues, but it adds some new features as well. So here’s everything that was changed with the Baldur’s Gate 3 Hotfix 9 patch notes.
Magic Mirror changes in Baldur’s Gate 3 Hotfix 9
Hotfix 9 for Baldur’s Gate 3 is a small update that fixes some bugs and crashes while also adding new features to the Magic Mirror.
The Magic Mirror feature was added to Patch 3 after the community requested for a way to change their appearance. With this item, you can change your face whenever you want, without having to start a new game. Hotfix 9 extends the Magic Mirror’s utility by allowing you to change your name with it. Additionally, you can now change the appearance of your hirelings with the Magic Mirror in Baldur’s Gate 3.
This can potentially change the way you play the game. Previously, most players would almost always travel with the Origin companions, but now you can create your own squad exactly how you want. Other changes and fixes were aimed at game-breaking bugs, like crashes, dialogue and romance bugs, visual glitches, and even a bug added by Hotfix 8.
Baldur’s Gate 3 Hotfix 9 patch notes
Here are the full patch notes for Baldur’s Gate 3 Hotfix 9:
- You can now use the Magic Mirror on hirelings.
- You can now change your name through the Magic Mirror.
- Fixed a rare crash that could occur when unloading or quickloading a game.
- Fixed an issue causing GPU crashes on PS5 Vulkan.
- Fixed the Guardian Statue repeatedly falling into a chasm, causing the server to stall.
- Fixed a splitscreen issue on PS5 that could cause a black screen when listening in on a dialogue.
- Fixed unpreparing spells not removing their buffs if the spell was upcasted.
- Fixed buffs being removed by unpreparing spells if the buff came from a different source (e.g. a scroll).
- Fixed some character positions and animations breaking if you skip lines in certain dialogues.
- Fixed the previews not working correctly in the Accessibility options.
- Fixed an issue causing Minthara’s romance to unreliably trigger.
- Fixed Minthara’s dialogue after you kill Orin not triggering properly when you talk to her.
- Fixed the Adamantine Splint Armour sometimes making your legs transparent.
- Fixed a geometry stretching bug introduced in Hotfix 8 on Vulkan.
- Fixed characters showing up in their underwear in some intimate scenes even if you have nudity enabled.
- Fixed Feign Death causing an infinite leave–join combat loop in certain circumstances.
- Fixed prices in dialogues not displaying correctly in savegames that were made while the price was on screen.
- Optimised the line-of-sight system for entities with no sight range, like items.
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