Baldur's Gate 3's 28th hotfix is teased by Larian as'something small before something big'

You are all criminals. In the past year, I've been writing Baldur's Gate 3's patch notes. Faerun's humble Merchant class can't compete with a few millions dedicated players. In March, Larian had no choice but to crack down on players who were stealing money from the game's merchants by putting their items into containers. Now? The studio must stop you from using your most solemn oaths for a quick buck.

Hotfix 28 for BG3 is now available. It contains all sorts of small tweaks and adjustments following Larian's humdinger patch. The majority of the fixes are related to modding and fixing minor issues in the new mod manager. But the one that caught my attention was this: "You cannot add items to your wares if they can't become wares, such as pact weapons. By selecting pact weapons along with an item that can be turned into a ware, you will no longer be able to add them to your wares. This prevents an exploit where you can sell your wares but the bound items will not leave your inventory."

Larian, as if heaving an sigh added the note "Any more up your sleeves?" I suspect that the answer is yes. The denigration D&D's petite-bourgeoisie is going to continue for the rest of time.

There are also a lot of fixes for modding. Modders with a lot of mods can expect faster loading times. Mod dependencies that didn't load in the correct order have also been fixed. A bug that prevented PC users from opening the mod manager with gamepads has also been resolved. In other non-modding news, Wyll will no longer send you a negative greeting even if you like him. We hate a hot-and cold king.

You'll probably agree that this is all good stuff, but Larian has more plans in the works. Michael Douse, Larian's publishing director, said in a cryptic way that the studio would release "Something So Small Before Something So Big" with hotfix 28.

This is most likely a reference to plans that the devs discussed in September. Crossplay, photo mode, and other mysterious things that the studio won't discuss are on their way. So patch 7 may not be the final update as far as the studio is concerned. I guess I'll have to postpone my second playthrough, but what do you think? Fine. I'm happy for Larian's chefs to cook.

The full patch notes for hotfix 28 are available here:

Modding

• The 'Continue" button on PS5 will now function the same as the "Load Game" screen, in that it won’t allow you to begin a game if any mod issues are present.
• When loading a console savegame with unresolved mod problems, the Mod Verification window will no longer ask you to redownload or uninstall mods if the action has already taken place.

Mod Manager

• After enabling/disabling certain mods, the mod dependencies were not loaded in the correct sequence.
• After clicking 'Download', the animated bar that appears in the Mod Verification window after clicking 'Download' is now fixed.
• The horizontal scrollbar on Mod Details page is now vertically centred.
• Fixes a bug that prevented you from opening Mod Manager on a PC when using a Controller.
• The button prompts on the Mod Details page were not updating correctly if you used a controller.
• The filter tags in Mod Manager no longer appear in localised languages. We also ensured that the English string will be shown as a back-up in case the translation is not available.
• The scrollbar of the mod browser is reset to the top position when you navigate from one page to another.
• Mod Manager on PS5 now accurately reports the amount remaining memory after uninstalling mods.
• Fixed a crash which could occur when changing the pages in Mod Manager.
• Clients on a multiplayer games were caught in an enable/disable loop when trying to disable mods that the host didn't have.
• The 'Mature Content" filter has been renamed to 'Explicit Content.
• The name of the Mod Issues Window has been changed to 'Mod verification window' in order to better reflect its purpose. Its description has also been updated.

Gameplay

• Players with multiple mods installed will experience improved loading times.
• You cannot add items to your wares if they are not wares. By selecting pact weapons along with an item that can be turned into a ware, you can prevent a trade exploit where you could sell your wares and the bound items would not leave your inventory. This prevents an exploit where you can sell your wares but the bound items will not leave your inventory. Do you have any more tricks up your sleeve?
• If you have previously loaded an Honour Mode game, fixed Honour Mode features like Legendary Actions will carry over to non-Honour Mode games.
• On PS5, the DualSense lightbar now updates colours in every frame of the game if a user logs in using a different controller.
• Wyll no longer uses negative greetings, even when he likes you.

Crashes & Blockers

• When using a controller, the character models were offset when switching from barter to trade.
• The crash was fixed when loading into a playthrough instead of a specific savegame within the playthrough.
• Fixes a crash which could occur when loading savegames.
• On PS5, fixed potential crash when going to full disco with the DualSense lightbar.