- 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 […]* 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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Yeah this is getting a bit frustrating. I might look into reverting to patch 2 hotfix 6 this weekend, if my saves from hotfix 8 are backwards compatible.
I’m butting up against the edges of what I can do in game without seriously progressing and locking myself out of finishing quests I have basically completed, but just need to talk to someone nearby the strange ox at this point.
If the ooze is still aggroing and killing Dammon, the fix that worked for me was to fast travel somewhere else as soon as Dammon and the ooze spawn in; you have to do it before he gets killed. If done correctly, you can fast travel back and he’ll be there while the ooze is gone. If his stuff is there but not him, that means he died, so reload and try again.
Sadly I’m sure this will affect the story down the road, but the alternative is to wait until Larian fixes this, and it’s been weeks now. Maybe they have by now and just didn’t put a patch note in, but I’ve progressed far enough past that it’s not worth going back to check
Yeah, I’m playing
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Dark Urge, and the strange Ox seems to be in a similar situation, so I would like to follow their plot thread too. I think I know what’s up with it, but still.
I might play around with that a little bit. Hotfix 8 seemed to change the behavior slightly for me, and cause the ooze not to appear immediately, but still fairly soon.
Edited for spoiler tag weirdness
How do you do that? Roll back to a specific patch
If you don’t have filesystem snapshots, I think the simplest way would be to re-install the game and only apply the first few updates. This is easy with GOG. I guess it might be possible with Steam depots, though I haven’t tried it.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3023295121
This is the guide I’ve seen on it, looking into it it seems I am outta luck because you can’t maintain saves from a later version. It might help you if you have been avoiding playing as a result tho. Or if future patches break things.