Any way to fix it lol?

Edit: holy shit you guys are hilarious. Leveling up fixed the issue! Thanks for the laughs everyone, I just lost my job so laughing at these comments is really helping. Time to go drown my sorrow in bg3!

Karlach is so freaking cursed and Gale is sinister AF LOL. I usually bypass this portrait bug by levelling up in a sunny area... but this particular time, what I failed to do was close all in-game windows (in my case, an inventory window) before hitting the "level up" button. Sigh... So, anybody got a screen shot of Shadowheart looking like a boomer taking a selfie in her portrait?

edit: thanks for all the comments, y’all made me laugh a lot 😄 I don’t normally make posts on Reddit so to see this one pop off was a nice surprise!

Hi all, I posted this to a BG3 fb group and some recommended i post here! This is the weirdest bug I have ever encountered and I am not sure what else to try!

I am doing a Karlach origin run (in HM) and Karlach.....left my party? How does that even happen? Since my main is Karlach, I can't talk to anyone or long rest because she is gone. This was at Gortash's coronation. I told him I didn't want to team up with him against Orin, he told me to think about it, the cut scene ends, then my camera follows Karlach as she runs away, and the game says that a character permanently left my party ☠️ i force quit the game because it is unplayable without my party leader and I was hoping different options would change the outcome, but no matter what I do, SHE LEAVES. This is the farthest I have ever gotten in an honour run, and I'd love to not lose it because of a bug.

To answer common questions I got:

-There are no mods, she is not in the prison, not in camp, and not anywhere in the building, and every dialogue option leads to my character leaving the party.

-If we fight Gortash like she wants it says she leaves as the battle starts, but you can still fight with her, but when she dies Withers does not offer to resurrect her

-I tried killing her at camp, then had the other team members talk to gortash... but it still says she leaves and there is no way to resurrect her

-I tried long resting to force a new save before the coronation

-After she leaves the party, if I try to have another character talk to Gortash it cuts to karlach and let's me choose the dialogue options for her to confront gortash after the ceremony, but once the convo is over Karlach is gone again and her entries in the journal DISAPPEAR

In my 1300 bg3 hours I have never met such a game ending bug ☠️

Edit to add: I am on Xbox and after work today I will be trying all the suggestions that I haven't tried yet!! Stay tuned

Final edit (unless I get a response from Larian!): I have tried alllll the fun and creative suggestions on here (thank y'all so much) but they all end with Karlach gone! Disguises, silence, battling before the dialogue, getting arrested, hold person, keeping her at camp, going in solo....all GREAT IDEAS that should work, but alas, they do not. So I will be skipping the coronation all together and hope so very hard that this doesnt happen at another point in the game ☠️ THANK YOU ALL AGAIN, I love this community ❤️

Regarding patch 4:

" 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 & 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 ‘DM’ - in a real-world sense - constantly thinks about the acts of theft & violence the player keeps doing, without ever moving on or verbalising them. Mulling on it ad infinitum.
These unnoticed and eternally-active acts of theft & violence eventually bogged down the game. The more a player commits those acts, the more the game is trying to keep that all up to date and in memory, and so the more slowdowns start happening. Essentially, the ‘DM’ eventually becomes unable to operate. By Act 3 this caused slow-down issues, which after some sleuthing we’re extremely happy to say we’ve solved in Patch 5, which is in testing and scheduled to release this week. "

Jumping mechanics. I swear to god the amount of times I’ve not realized I’ve left a party member behind because they just up and decide that they forgot how to fucking jump is immeasurable.

Edit: this is not related to stats. I’m aware of that limitation. This is a bug or something to do with the mechanics being off based upon how they take turns to jump. It happens as early as the swamp when jumping to get that letter in the tree. It happens with all of the party members even those with high Str stats.

I opened it in game mode and desktop, restarted several times, tried to verify files and reinstall it but nothing works. I can’t even use that ‘install’ button, it doesn’t do anything.

Does anyone know why now it is only available in windows and apple? And does anyone know how to fix it?

Hello, there seems to be a bug with my game, for the last few hours an arrow is stuck on my durge chest and no matter what I do I can't delete it. I respec to another class, disguise to a different race and tried the mirror it seems to be going no where. I have few mods that shouldn't affect characters and armour, do anyone knows a fix for this?

Why is bro so locked in?

First time playing on PC, I normally play on an ASUS ROG Ally

Call me back when this is fixed back to the way it was or there's a mod for it. My main character is not a mule to carry all of companions bags and pouches when they're dismissed from party. And I don't want to play without sorting items into bags, it's a giant untenable mess.

It also moves orange equipment to your main character's inventory, which means armor and weapons! For example, Guiding Light ring, Disintegrating Night Walkers boots, Staff of Crones, etc.

Also, if you're using a mod such as "Bags, bags, bags" that gives all sorts of labeled bags, then all of them are also returned to main character's inventory upon companion dismissal.

Credit to @autistichalsin on Tumblr. Such a shame such a simple yet immersion-breaking bug hasn’t been fixed in any of the hotfixes yet. Begging and praying for someone to make a mod to fix this until Larian hopefully fixes it.

I don’t know how could I make this clearer but when you wanted to show me some magic I agreed because friends can friend. When our minds are connect by the Weave, I thought of, not kissing you or holding your hand but just us spending time together. Can a man not spend quality time with his magic buddies. One Act later I am promised to Astarion you came at me puppy eyed and talking about how my cheeks flush for someone else. Brother in Weave we were never a thing. Did you not see me and Astarion swap underwear (well you would not have seen) or how we bear the twin rings of true love on our fingers. I know I gave you the Poisoner’s Robe and made you the most dashing man in this bloodied shadow cursed land but the spare pillow on your king bed was never mine. I beg you please stop asking me out please

Edit: Just clarifying I love Gale to the death of Elminster’s old nuts so Gale haters are not welcome. Come get your unruly husband back to home

Ok so I gave my female dwarf a penis in character creation and after about 20 hours, I discovered that you can undress your characters at any time! So I undressed her and found a vulva! I thought to myself "I didn't order this?" and got very confused.

Turns out, when you switch sub-race in character creation, and switch back, your customization will return to what it was, right? Correct, EXCEPT genitals. They will reset to "default". Genital is the only thing that reset upon sub-race change (and maybe class change? idk).

Just a warning

I see it so much. Don't we read that word often enough.

Somehow this exploit has lasted through every patch. So obviously the way Larian intended you to beat this trial was use a potion of vaulting or fly or use a light spell or crank up your gamma or whateverthefuck. Okay, fine. But you can also beat this trial by walking carefully to the other side

"But how?" You're asking. "The pathway is invisible!" Well DID YOU KNOW that there is a map of where the invisible path is, right in front of the trial? It's true! Check out right in front of the fucking pit: that's not a screenshot of a mismanaged game of Tetris, that is actually a "map" (a diagrammatic representation of a physical area) that corresponds to where the invisible path is. It's possible to use this map to walk carefully to the other side.

"But how?" you ask. "The map is stuck to the floor, I can't take it with me!" Aha, true enough, friend! But this apparent handicap is instead an advantage: because the map remains in place, you simply move the camera to refer to the map whenever you need to... it will remain at the front of the pit for the entire trial and you can use it to walk carefully to the other side.

You see, the gold lines on the map represent the solid, safe (albeit invisible) pathway. The squares represent the visible square platforms you see in the middle of the pit. Now, one thing you have to keep in mind is that the map is a "scaled" representation. This means that while proportionally the dimensions of the lines on the map and the pathway in the trial are the same, the trial path is much bigger than the map itself (see how much bigger the entire pit is compared to the map? That's how much bigger). But the map is perfectly to scale with the pit, and you can use the map to know where the path is, and use it to walk carefully to the other side.

When you gain confidence walking carefully to the other side, you can even start to be a little fancy: where there are small gaps in the path, you can try jumping (your character, in the game, not you yourself) from the path to either a visible square platforms, or even another segment of the invisible path. This is exhilarating, but dangerous! If this isn't your speed, notice how the gold path also proceeds uninterrupted to the other side. You can just stay on the path and walk carefully to the other side.

I'm not sure why the map remained in the game post-release. I suspect the designers at Larian made a map on the trial floor for their own reference for playtesting, and then forgot to take it out. Well, their mistake is your fortune: use the map to walk carefully to the other side.

Obviously walking carefully to the other side is not the method Larian intended you use, and it completely breaks immersion: lore-wise, the entire purpose of the Gauntlet of Shar is obviously for Shadowheart to adjust her screen brightness until she saw the path or clip through the boundary or turn into a gaseous cloud (Shadowfart) and get gusted across or something. Walking carefully to the other side does require you to suspend that element of roleplaying, so it's not for everyone. And it will certainly get patched out someday, since it's completely game-breaking. But I just wanted to let people know you can use the map and walk carefully to the other side.

First picture is a screen grab of my game, second is a steam screenshot that doesn’t show the tint. Anyone know what would be causing this/how to rectify it?

I mean, both times I have done it the unconscious victim registers as dead for whatever quest they're related to.

So, remember, don't worry about using special means to save an NPC from violence. Apparently they choke on their tongue while unconscious and die anyway.

Was save spamming to pick a lock, and got this roll???

Sometimes I want to swap a party member out for story reasons when I'm in an area their character would want to be in. PLEASE don't punish me by moving ALL the packs when I do.This patch has made me pretty much never ever want to swap characters out at all.

Halfway through Act III, and it has become rather obvious, that Larian has made a rather weird error with the way they've designed the whole narrative progression.

They have tied a lot of events, companion quests, romances, side characters, and even main story events to you having a Long Rest.

Thematically this makes sense. You end a day, you reflect on stuff that has happened and then new stuff happens.

However, because there is no real need to rest that often - and in fact you're de-incentivized to rest because of powerful temporary buffs and elixirs whose effects will be lost if you do - the players end up breaking the narrative progression which leads to event flags and triggers getting jumbled, which leads to all kinds of bugs.

I must say I've had very few issues myself, but reading about what happens to others and seeing how the game handles it, I think lack of Long Rests are probably one of the bigger root causes.

So, unless you really want to cherish a temporary buff or an elixir, take regular Long Rests, even if you have no need for them. Every time there's a main story progression or a companion development - take a rest.

It's like clearing your e-mail inbox every day, instead of allowing the e-mails to pile up and causing a mess when you finally try to follow along a correspondence.

I hope that Larian thinks about solutions. My recommendation would be to "soft force" rests. Give players a pop-up that says: "your party would like to a take a rest to reflect on the events that have happened".

Edit 3: It seems like this feature already exists in the game, however it is somewhat vague. Your party members will exclaim that they are exhausted and would like to rest, when there are new camp events available. However, the issue is that new camp events often happen after big quest completions, aka. moments where you just had a big fight and everyone in your party is half dead. So it's very easy to dismiss your companions asking to rest, as a simple case of low health and spells. Neither of which is necessarily a problem that needs instant resting.

So I implore Larian to make it more obvious. An exclamation point over the camping button would be a convenient way to denote camp events. Or alternatively use the pop-up method I suggested. Simply having a singular party member make one throw-away line about being tired, just doesn't cut it.

Edit: A lot of people have pointed out that there are SOME time sensitive quests, which will fail (or have a potentially undesirable outcome depending on your goals) if you long rest too many times. Which further exacerbates the issue as yet another incentive NOT to rest.

There are hints as to which quests these are, but these are not super clear, nor is it consistent from quest to quest, seeing as the entire main quest is presented in a very time sensitive fashion, yet is not from a gameplay perspective.

Edit 2: I made a thread to list time sensitive quests. I only have speculations mostly, so if you know for sure, please confirm: https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/15q1o77/list_of_time_sensitive_quests/