Pillars of Eternity's buff-stripping bug getting patched later today

Obsidian has announced “tentative patch notes” for the upcoming patch 1.03 for Pillars of Eternity, which is expected to fix the major buff-stripping bug that players may experience if they double-click items in order to equip them.

Here are some of the big ticket items Obsidian plans on making available in patch 1.03:

• Bears and Cats can now be equipped with hats. This is most likely not a joke... but might be a joke.


• Double-clicking to equip items was causing passive abilities to get removed from the character. This has been fixed and we were able to retroactively fix the problem for people that have already run into the issue. If you open your saved game in the latest patch, your characters will be repaired.


• Fixed a problem where attributes on characters could permanently increase by equipping certain items. This will also retroactively fix the problem in saved games that have characters with this issue.


• The crash in Raedric's Hold has been fixed.


• Fixed the looping audio sounds that can occur if you play with minimized tooltips.


• Previously Wizard summoned items could persist after the spell's duration. This has been fixed and it will also retroactively fix the problem in saved games that have characters with this issue.


• The items Drinking Horn of Moderation and Talisman of the Unconquerable were causing Ciphers to permanently lower their amount of focus gain. We've included a fix to retroactively resolve the issue on Ciphers but the effect is still on the items. Unfortunately the fix will not fix the broken effect on those items, so you'll need to keep those items unequipped until the next patch. If you do equip them, perform a Save/Load to fix your Cipher.

Other additional improvements includes a graphics setting to toggle antialiasing levels, a lot of new icons for items, new voice sets, quest tweaks, UI changes, and some balance changes among a number of other updates. To get the full list of changes, head on over to Obsidian’s forums.

Patch 1.03 is currently being tested, but if all goes well, Obsidian plans to release it to the masses by the end of the day. In the meantime, why don’t you read some of our guides that help you complete Act I tasks and side quests?

Pillars of Eternity's buff-stripping bug getting patched later today