So, how broken is Act III at this time?

[Gweihir]

While I had almost no bugs in Act I and II, in Act III, I have had so far: Containers opening other containers, being accused of stealing with a non-red container and containers refusing to open at all. All fixed by a save & reload.

These are all just annoyances, not serious. Do I need to expect game-breaking bugs in Act III at this time?

[Lani]

I've encountered very few bugs in ACT III since around September, but it's an area where mileage definitely varies.

The problem with stating how broken Act III is is that it varies incredibly from player to player. The varying levels of drama or even histrionics on display when people complain about things doesn't help either. To some what you refer to as annoyances, and I agree with that assessment, are not only game-breaking but signs of cultural depravity and the Larian fueled fall of western civilization as we know it. :-)

It is the most complex part of the game, both in terms of simultaneous quest-lines that can impact and even exclude each other and in terms of bystanders factioned NPCs and interactable environments which I suspect adds to it being buggier for some then others.
It's the most CPU intensive part of the game and lots of people have gaming rigs which tend to be heavy on GPU and memory but with the CPU budgetted down and that may impact their experiences.

[Renlish]

No bugs at all in Act III for me.

[Fliqpy]

I haven't had any stuttering issues since Patch 5 was released. It's very much playable now.

[Gweihir]

Originally posted by Lani:

I've encountered very few bugs in ACT III since around September, but it's an area where mileage definitely varies.

The problem with stating how broken Act III is is that it varies incredibly from player to player.

Fair enough.

Originally posted by Lani:

It's the most CPU intensive part of the game and lots of people have gaming rigs which tend to be heavy on GPU and memory but with the CPU budgetted down and that may impact their experiences.

That is one thing I do not get. I tend to spend more on CPU than on GPU and currently I have an AMD 7800X3D on the CPU side. Probably because I am entirely fine with full HD and never saw any need for more.

[Gweihir]

Originally posted by Renlish:

No bugs at all in Act III for me.

Thanks.

[Daviz0]

I am playing act 3 now, in Wyrm's crossing / lower city. it crashes every 10 minutes.

[Metallicus]

Act III has no bugs for me, but this is pre-patch. I haven’t played Act III since update 6.

[seeker1]

The only major bugs I ran into in Act 3 were intermittent crashes I got in the Jannath House from the poltergeists. I didn't see anything about a fix for those in the patch notes, nor have I seen any reports on whether that's changed for folks, and I have not been back into the house to see if anything's updated. (It is an intermittent bug, I didn't always get it, which is why I could finish that quest, but it happens with frequent occurrence.)

AFAIK, Patch 6 didn't take care of that problem. But granted, finishing Free the Artist is not required to finish the game.

[Ricback2]

Free the Artist is completely ****ed for me. I have tried everything I have seen on the internet that doesn't ask you to load the game because I cannnot be bothered.

[travleer33]

Almost every major quest in Act III has been bugged for me. I keep hoping one day they fix all the Act 3 quest bugs. I might just start over someday and hope I get lucky with a new playthrough, but a lot of the bugs seem fairly common from the internet.

[ULTRA]

♥♥♥♥ floating around everywhere outside of the Ansur room in multiplayer, we see it for every client connected to a multiplayer game

[droggen]

Only one I can think of was Mizora just hanging out at my camp not really caring at all I saved a certain character, Also Asterion getting really pissed at me during his story then as soon as the battle was over talking to me like I was his best friend again and that I made the right choice for him?