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Baldur’s Gate 3 rolled back first patch after savegame mishapSome players lost their saves, oops
Some players lost their saves, oops
The plan has always been forBaldur’s Gate 3players to leave behind their old saves when the RPG leaves early access, but it wasn’t meant to happen so soon. Larian Studios released the first official patch-patch last night, following a string of wee hotfix patches, and found it accidentally stopped some players from accessing their save games. So they rolled back the patch, reverted the game to its previous version, and say they’ll launch the update again when it works properly.
Larian also shared some of their data on where players are dying, for those who enjoy looking at heatmaps and finding out “oh thank god it’s not just me hating that spot”.
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A wipe was expected, but not now. Larian’searly access FAQexplains, “Due to the amount of updates and changes expected during the Early Access stage, saves made during Early Access will not be compatible with the full version of the game when it releases.” But that shouldn’t be for a year or so, or whenever BG3 ends up launching in full.
Seethe Patch 1 notesfor everything that should have changed last night, and will change again when the patch returns. No word yet on when it’ll be back.
Larian also share heatmaps visualising some player deaths, making clear that certain spots are full of murder.
“As our early access campaign progresses, you’ll see a shift as combat is tuned and content is altered,” they say. “It might not look like much, but this shows us where to investigate. We can correlate this with direct player feedback, balancing feedback, and even bug reports to find outwhy people are dying where they’re dying, and alsois it normal that people are dying there?”
Speaking of, the post shares some numbers, including the facts that Gale has died 333757 times, but has “a party-member kill-rate 4 times higher than any NPC in the game”. Classic wizarding, there. Larian share more big numbers but I won’t get into all of it because some sound weird and surprising and hey, maybe you’d rather see for yourself.
Baldur’s Gate 3is available in early access onSteamandGOG. It is very much in early access, and folks not willing to brave bugs and an incomplete story should probably wait.
“If it were not for this job, and having the self-control of four year old at a birthday party (or games journalist presented with a plate of miniburgers at a press event), I would would want to see this enticing story play out in full,” Matthew Castle said in ourBaldur’s Gate 3 early access review. “Don’t feel pressured to gather your party and venture forth, but based on what I’ve seen, I think that party is in for one hell of a ride when they do.”
Disclosure: Adam Smith, formerly is this parish, writes for Baldur’s Gate 3 at Larian.
