Road to 2.6 | Is the Baldur's Gate 2.6.3.0 Patch Ready to Release?

srdbeamdog

Patch 2.6 is close to release!

Steam Beta 2.6.3.0 for Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition is available now for public testing!

Based on your feedback on Build 2.6.2.0, we've added some fixes and removed a few regressions. HUGE thanks to everyone testing these games and helping us make this patch a success.

IMPORTANT:
Patch 2.6 will NOT be the last patch for Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

• Patch 2.6 will not fix every issue— but we hope to make further improvements in future
• Here's what in the patch: 2.6 Patch Items

System Requirements have changed:
Minimum: Windows 7, 8.1, 10 64-bit, OS X 10.9, Ubuntu 18.04 or equivalent

• Please check your device meets the updated System Requirements before testing
• Make sure your device supports 64-bit games

TEST OBJECTIVE: Start questing! Is the patch good enough to release?
How to Participate

- Playthrough some quests & VOTE on the release
- Tell us about *new bugs (the beta shouldn't add any issues) - comment below!
- Tell us about major issues affecting saves, visuals, sound & quality - comment below!

How to opt-in & verify you're using the correct version

• Please make sure you're using a clean (unmodded) install. Clear your override folder before testing the beta build
• In your Steam Library, Right-Click Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition and choose “Properties”
• Click on the Beta Tab
• Choose the road_to_2.6 in the drop down menu
• If you don't see the road_to_2.6 in the drop down menu, please restart Steam
• In-game, on the main menu, you will see that the build is 2.6.3.0

WHAT CHANGED SINCE THE LAST BETA

All Games | Green lines no longer visible in various places
All Games | Interrupting client character creation causes bad state
All Games | Debug Console should now support up/down arrow keys to select previously executed commands
All Games | Nearest Neighbor Scaling should now behave as expected
BGEE | Dialogue following Tazok fight no longer loops when Kivan is in the party
BGEE | Silence (Cleric Silence and Dragon Silence) spell should now function
BGEE | Checking area background in AR2700 no longer causes graphical issue
BGEE | Non-Detection should prevent VFX from Detect Evil (Wizards)
BGEE | Tiax should detect traps when his AI script is set to do so
BGEE | Allies leaving the party should not be immortal after using Story Mode
BGEE | Game no longer crashes when attempting to load after idle
BGEE | Bassilus undead should either attack or die
BGEE | Transition from BG1 ending to SoD beginning should now occur as expected
BGEE | Negative Plane Protection no longer has unexpected spell visual
BGEE | There is no longer a premature end game at Ducal Palace
BGEE | Players can now teleport back to the Chessboard in Durlag's Tower
BGEE | Silence "wear-off" sound now plays as expected
BGEE | Vampire's Revenge should now function as expected
BGEE | Dark Moon Monks no longer immediately start an attack after entering Cloudpeak Mountains
BGEE | Fixed issue with soundsets assigning sound index randomly

We won't move forward with a 2.6 Patch release until we hear feedback from enough Windows, Linux & macOS players for each Infinity Engine Title:

- Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition
- Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear
- Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition
- Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition

*Note: We're focusing on Windows macOS & Linux now, but stay tuned for details on the 2.6 Patch for Android & iOS!

Join the Beta & Vote Below!

Testing Status:
10/20 Windows Players
0/3 Linux Players
0/3 macOS Players

jaypee

I'm still seeing problems with cumulative use of potions of power.

I had a character with 43 HP drink 24 potions of power in a row, this boosted his HP to 235 (so 8HP gain per potion).

When the first potion wears off you see his max HP drop 8 to 227, but his current HP drops 120 instead of only dropping 8, so now he has 115/227.
After the second potion wears off he has 43/219.
After the third potion wears off he has 43/211.
Etc, all the way down to 43/43.

I've also noticed a second bug here, if I load the save where charname had drunk the 24 potions, his HP is 163/235 instead of the full 235/235.

500MetricTonnes

I don't expect it to be fixed in 2.6, but there's a noticeable graphical glitch in Candlekeep: The shadows cast by the fountains have a strange dithering effect on them, and the edges of the pools have black pixels along the border:

TasmanDevil

System: Windows 10 - version 20H2 19042.804
GPU: GTX 1060 6Gb
CPU: i5-3350P 3.10Ghz (4CPU)
RAM: 12Gb
Launch: Success
Load game, or continue: FAILED <-- game will crash
*tried different renderer, same problem...

Hope it will help !

EDIT: When disable cloud saving in-game in menu it start working... Anyway I'am playing on PC on weekends and on laptop on weekdays. So I need cloud saving.

JuliusBorisov

Please add the game to your Antivirus's exception list, and also add Documents - Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition folder there.

TasmanDevil

JuliusBorisov wrote: »

Please add the game to your Antivirus's exception list, and also add Documents - Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition folder there.

Of course, I don't use Antivirus, but I already find out, what do this problem. It's steam cloud sync in-game in menu.

Keeptrucking

I've been playing a bit of the beta, and I'm curious if there would be any negative consequences of starting a playthrough using the beta with mods and custom portraits?

The game was good to play before and seems to be in working order in the beta.

Khyron

There is a very real chance that the patch will break all your mods, meaning you need to delete everything, reinstall the patched game, then add the mods and continue your game.

Things that can go wrong:
New install order breaking the save
Missing mods breaking the save
Mods no longer working on 2.6 patch, thus breaking the save

But if the 2.6 patch is of little interest to you, you can just copy the BG folder to a new location and play from there.

Keeptrucking

I see. Thanks for your help.

MERLANCE

I played through the game. I didn't notice any new bugs. I had the pathing issue where characters get stuck stacked on top of each other significantly less. Maybe... two or three times total. I'm happy about that.

ATigersClaw

With everything coming closer to an end and things getting wrapped up for 2.6, do we already have a rough goal of when the patch is supposed to be released like does it take days, weeks, months @JuliusBorisov?

JuliusBorisov

ATigersClaw wrote: »

With everything coming closer to an end and things getting wrapped up for 2.6, do we already have a rough goal of when the patch is supposed to be released like does it take days, weeks, months @JuliusBorisov?

Sorry for the long wait: we've listened to the community and decided to include a few extra fixes into 2.6, so we plan to release another beta build to test soon.

Felipefpl

Sorry for the long wait: we've listened to the community and decided to include a few extra fixes into 2.6, so we plan to release another beta build to test soon.

Dont EVER apologize for a long wait because of new fixes/content/restorations, take ALL the time you need, we WILL wait for it.