A new Hotfix has landed for Baldur’s Gate 3 that finally allows players to change their name by using the recently-added Magic Mirror.
Recent hotfixes to the massively popular RPG – check out our Baldur’s Gate 3 review here – have seen changes such as cats growing hair and getting shaved again. However this latest one, Hotfix 9, is more focused on fixing some pesky crashes on the PS5 version and squashing some other bugs. That being said, many people are sure to be pleased to hear they can now change their name at the Magic Mirror, as well as use the appearance changing item on hirelings when at camp.
You can check out the full patch notes for the latest Baldur’s Gate 3 Hotfix below care of Larian. Beware a mild spoiler in one of the notes.
Baldur’s Gate 3 Hotfix 9 patch notes
Changes
- 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 (spoiler) 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.
For more on the game, check out our Best Baldur’s Gate 3 Sorcerer build guide or our Baldur’s Gate 3 Astarion companion guide.
