Patch 4 - Bug regarding beards

[TwoGunTony]

After Patch 4 my character beard look like is painted on. Why? Do you have the same issue?

[mat_enzo]

Good to see I'm not the only one with this problem.

It's pretty distracting especially during cutscenes.

Some beard textures were affected way more than others.

I guess I could use the magic mirror to shave it off until they fix it but I'm kinda used to the way my character looks by now.

[Jeronimosss]

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[Humpenstilzchen]

I have started a new game after the patch dropped and chose a duergar and his beard looks normal. Maybe this bug only affects existing savefiles idk.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Humpenstilzchen:

I have started a new game after the patch dropped and chose a duergar and his beard looks normal. Maybe this bug only affects existing savefiles idk.

I cannot confirm that bug. But if it is like that, that it affects your old savegame, but not your new savegame, you should be able to easily check with respec/magic mirror as it would reload the beard for the affected character.

In the meanwhile I question if affected players did properly cleanup their levelcache and settings before/after patching.

[Jeronimosss]

Originally posted by mat_enzo:

I guess I could use the magic mirror to shave it off until they fix it but I'm kinda used to the way my character looks by now.

This is a great idea actually - maybe shave it off, save changes, and then "grow" it back via Mirror again. This could work (sry I can't check it now myself).

Or try this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/17m9idp/beard_bug_after_patch_4/

[Humpenstilzchen]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by Humpenstilzchen:

I have started a new game after the patch dropped and chose a duergar and his beard looks normal. Maybe this bug only affects existing savefiles idk.

I cannot confirm that bug. But if it is like that, that it affects your old savegame, but not your new savegame, you should be able to easily check with respec/magic mirror as it would reload the beard for the affected character.

In the meanwhile I question if affected players did properly cleanup their levelcache and settings before/after patching.

Could be or couldn´t be. Maybe your idea works, maybe not.

There is no way to know, because there are just too many variables. The bug could be caused by something entirely different in the code. I´m also just guessing tbh but in a game this complex there are a million things that could go wrong after a patch of this size.

I know just as little as you do, I only wanted to show that this bug doesn´t seem to appear when you start a fresh game just like the shadowheart "not following" bug and who knows what else could be affected as well.

I know it sucks, but it is really a good idea for everyone to delete old savefiles and start a new game. It isn´t not a guarantee for no bugs at all but it reduces the likelyhood for issues that didn´t pop up when the devs tested their own patch.

btw I didn´t clean my cache or settings though what I did is verifying my local gamefiles after downlading the patch which is something everyone should do after downloading such a massive update. It is a good way to make sure that there are no corrupted files.

Infact steam has downloaded two files when I verifyed my local gamefiles so I assume these files that got replaced must have been corrupted.

[SQx2]

Same thing for me. Facial hair looks painted on or like it's lower quality now. The grey hairs look blotchy as well. The facial hair has lost fidelity. I don't use any mods.

[mat_enzo]

The magic mirror suggestion does not work and it also affects new saves. Some beards still look ok. This looks like a texture issue with some beards.

[mat_enzo]

Originally posted by Humpenstilzchen:

I have started a new game after the patch dropped and chose a duergar and his beard looks normal. Maybe this bug only affects existing savefiles idk.

Not all beards were affected equally. Longer beards and moustaches seem more or less ok so there's a chance you didn't notice it.

Shorter beards were the ones hit the most so it looks like some specific texture files or alpha maps got messed up.

New chraracters also have the same issue.

I did follow all the steps about deleting certain files in local folders as recommended in the support page by larian and it did not help. File integrity is also ok.

I really don't want to reinstall the entire game and find out it din't help...

[Humpenstilzchen]

Originally posted by mat_enzo:

Originally posted by Humpenstilzchen:

I have started a new game after the patch dropped and chose a duergar and his beard looks normal. Maybe this bug only affects existing savefiles idk.

Not all beards were affected equally. Longer beards and moustaches seem more or less ok so there's a chance you didn't notice it.

Shorter beards were the ones hit the most so it looks like some specific texture files or alpha maps got messed up.

New chraracters also have the same issue.

I did follow all the steps about deleting certain files in local folders as recommended in the support page by larian and it did not help. File integrity is also ok.

I really don't want to reinstall the entire game and find out it din't help...

Oh ok.

Yes my character has the standard duergar beard
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3070464824
this one

Which is why I didn´t notice the issue. Thanks for the clarification.

[SanchoPancho]

The solution provided in https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/17m9idp/beard_bug_after_patch_4/ works. I wrote it lmao. You need to force AFx16 in Nvida/AMD settings.

Anisotropic filtering setting is broken in new patch, issue will not only affect beards but also textures at steep angles.

You can also wait for Larian to fix it

[mat_enzo]

Originally posted by SanchoPancho:

The solution provided in https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/17m9idp/beard_bug_after_patch_4/ works. I wrote it lmao. You need to force AFx16 in Nvida/AMD settings.

Anisotropic filtering setting is broken in new patch, issue will not only affect beards but also textures at steep angles.

You can also wait for Larian to fix it

That workaround worked for me, thanks.

Hope they get around to fixing it at some point though.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Humpenstilzchen:

Originally posted by アンジェル:

I cannot confirm that bug. But if it is like that, that it affects your old savegame, but not your new savegame, you should be able to easily check with respec/magic mirror as it would reload the beard for the affected character.

In the meanwhile I question if affected players did properly cleanup their levelcache and settings before/after patching.

Could be or couldn´t be. Maybe your idea works, maybe not.

There is no way to know, because there are just too many variables. The bug could be caused by something entirely different in the code. I´m also just guessing tbh but in a game this complex there are a million things that could go wrong after a patch of this size.

I know just as little as you do, I only wanted to show that this bug doesn´t seem to appear when you start a fresh game just like the shadowheart "not following" bug and who knows what else could be affected as well.

I know it sucks, but it is really a good idea for everyone to delete old savefiles and start a new game. It isn´t not a guarantee for no bugs at all but it reduces the likelyhood for issues that didn´t pop up when the devs tested their own patch.

btw I didn´t clean my cache or settings though what I did is verifying my local gamefiles after downlading the patch which is something everyone should do after downloading such a massive update. It is a good way to make sure that there are no corrupted files.

Infact steam has downloaded two files when I verifyed my local gamefiles so I assume these files that got replaced must have been corrupted.

Meh. I cannot reproduce the issue anyroads since the game update routine of mine addresses such before they can occur. Unless someone missed out on the update routine it can be anything, but in general nothing DDU cannot resolve. And by the current reports it seems that is on point.

[LordOfTheBread]

So this game is not goatee after all.

Dang that was a terrible joke.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by LordOfTheBread:

So this game is not goatee after all.

Dang that was a terrible joke.

It still managed to get a chuckle out of me.