Baldur's Gate 3 Releases Hotfix Update 22
Larian Studios releases Hotfix 22 for Baldur's Gate 3, bringing more crash fixes and UI improvements to the game, while also bringing the Xbox version back up to date with the other platforms. The latest Baldur's Gate 3 update continues a steady trend of keeping the massively popular RPG update to date between smaller, more common Hotfixes and the rarer but larger updates.
However, even with the consistent updating, the Xbox version ofBaldur's Gate 3 eventually fell behind the PC and PS5 versions. Following the launch of Hotfix 20 and 21 for Baldur's Gate 3, the Xbox Series X/S versions were held back by Larian Studios so additional testing could take place due to the large amounts of crash fixes that were being prepared. Thankfully, Larian has wrapped up those tests and with Hotfix 22 now live, there's now parity across all available platforms for Baldur's Gate 3.
Taking to social media to confirm the hotfix details, Larian revealed the full patch notes and specifically thanked the Xbox community for being patient while they tested solutions for the various crashes that could happen when Baldur's Gate 3 was suspended. Alongside those updates, the improvements made in Baldur's Gate 3 Hotfix 20 and 21 are also arriving in full, including fixes for the companion Minthara. Ironically enough, Hotfix 22 also makes a fix to a legacy dialogue flow that had been unintentionally enabled due to those exact changes, revealing choices that likely hadn't occurred in the game to that point.
In addition to those crash and blocker updates, Hotfix 22 also made a number of quality of life improvements as well. Specifically, syncing and cross-saving messaging in Baldur's Gate 3 has been improved by clearly stating when it has failed and giving players an option to try again. The user interface has also been cleaned up, as Larian fixed issues where voice chat would overlap the minimap in split screen, saving and cross-saving messages no longer appear for «secondary local players» and the
