Baldur’s Gate 3 Will No Longer Let You Rip Off Merchants After New Hotfix

A new patch for Baldur’s Gate 3 removes some bugs that created some interesting merchant exploits.By Hayley Williams on December 7, 2023 at 9:17PM PSTWhile Baldur’s Gate 3’s last patch was a huge file that added a heap of new content and features, its latest hotfix is just a small one. Hotfix 13 is live now, fixing some bugs that impacted merchant transactions, among a few other issues.”Traders across Faerûn have been coming to us, claiming that enterprising adventurers have been ‘pulling a fast one on them,'” the patch notes read. “We’ve had a word with their guild, and made them aware of your tricks.”

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The exploit in question was likely introduced in Patch 5, and allowed players to buy as much stock as they wanted from a merchant with a single gold coin and a container. The hotfix will also mop up other errors that can occur in merchant transactions that involve containers.

The patch also fixes a crash that can happen at the end of Act 2, as well as “peacefully resolving the Knights of the Shield situation on PS5” to improve performance on the console.

Baldur’s Gate 3 won a number of awards at The Game Awards tonight, including Game of the Year (as well as being chosen as GameSpot’s own Game of the Year). After a delay in the game coming to Xbox, Larian also stealth released Baldur’s Gate 3 on the Xbox Series X|S during the awards ceremony.

Check out the full patch notes for Hotfix #13 below:

FIXES

• Fixed a possible crash when leaving Act II.
• Fixed an exploit that let you buy out a trader with only 1 gold and a container.
• Fixed the total price on tooltips within containers not updating when the contents change while trading.
• Fixed balancing offers when bartering not working properly when there is a container in the offer with gold in it.
• Fixed empty bags sold to vendors costing the equivalent of the items that were stored in that bag.
• Improved performance in Baldur’s Gate after peacefully resolving the Knights of the Shield situation on PS5.