vulchor: Bingo. There are a few niggles with using GOG as your main storefront, like patches taking longer to release, and on very rare occasions devs just completely abandoning the platform and never releasing updates at all (this has only happenened a handful of times, and usually they were very small indie devs and their game didn't sell well), and sometimes games will release with achievements on Steam but not on GOG Galaxy (happens very infrequently these days, but used to happen a lot).

However I prefer the people that run and own GOG to Valve or Epic, I like their pirate history, thier DRM-Free stance, better pro-consumer record (although not spotless), a support team that actually answers your emails and is fun to interact with on the forums, a good community of old school gamers, and just more choice. I hope you stick around.

JClosed: There we go again...

People (like me) buy games on GOG specifically because they get off-line installers!!!!
That's the whole reason to buy games on GOG to begin with.
Off-line installers give you the possibility to install on any device at any location and without any internet connection or client running in the background. It is also safe, because you have your files locally. Some of us prefer it that way.

Do not forget that people here made that choice, because they don't like mandatory clients like the Steam client. If you are forced to use a mandatory client, there is no longer a reason to buy games on GOG.

Also - People that are here from the start know there was not even a Galaxy to begin with. Galaxy was developed far more later, and was presented to us buyers as a "absolutely optional" alternative, and it was sworn to us that the off-line installers never ever would suffer because of the "optional" Galaxy...

And here we are. Now other users give us a bad time because we do not want to use that "Steam wannabe" "completely optional" Galaxy client that "would never get in the way of off-line installers". We feel lied to, and mistreated.

I really fear the moment that GOG turns into a Steam clone and no longer provides off-line installers. That's the moment I leave GOG and go back to Steam, because there is no reason at all to stay on GOG. Call me paranoia, but I am already busy backing up all the off-line installers for my games. I just feel insecure with GOG to be honest.

daerragh: Has the hotfix #2 been released as an offline installer, yet?

JClosed: There we go again...

People (like me) buy games on GOG specifically because they get off-line installers!!!!
That's the whole reason to buy games on GOG to begin with.
Off-line installers give you the possibility to install on any device at any location and without any internet connection or client running in the background. It is also safe, because you have your files locally. Some of us prefer it that way.

Do not forget that people here made that choice, because they don't like mandatory clients like the Steam client. If you are forced to use a mandatory client, there is no longer a reason to buy games on GOG.

Also - People that are here from the start know there was not even a Galaxy to begin with. Galaxy was developed far more later, and was presented to us buyers as a "absolutely optional" alternative, and it was sworn to us that the off-line installers never ever would suffer because of the "optional" Galaxy...

And here we are. Now other users give us a bad time because we do not want to use that "Steam wannabe" "completely optional" Galaxy client that "would never get in the way of off-line installers". We feel lied to, and mistreated.

I really fear the moment that GOG turns into a Steam clone and no longer provides off-line installers. That's the moment I leave GOG and go back to Steam, because there is no reason at all to stay on GOG. Call me paranoia, but I am already busy backing up all the off-line installers for my games. I just feel insecure with GOG to be honest.

Apekiller: I completely agree with you buddy. The whole point of owning games on GOG in the first place was that I didn't need another launcher and would keep the games as offline installers to use whenever I please, without internet connection.

vulchor: Would this be a bad time to mention that both patch 1 and 2 were successfully delivered by GOG Galaxy? I'm sorry, just trying to have some fun. I understand your point, and I too felt hurt that GOG promised that offline patches and installers wouldn't suffer because of Galaxy, and we both know that was a lie. And even though years ago I thought I'd never move over to using a client, I have since gone to the dark side because I like achievements. It will be bumpy, but they'll get the offline patches sorted for this game too like they always do.

Cheers.

SolanQ: Yeah, it looks like they only released part of patch 1, they forgot the smaller update which Galaxy installed first.

To clarify, my BG3 version history updated through Galaxy currently looks like this:

v4.1.1.3630146 - Patch Patch0_Hotfix2
v4.1.1.3624901 - Patch v1 <--- they added an offline installer for this bit
v4.1.1.3624901 - Patch <--- but they forgot this bit <_<
v4.1.1.3622274

Not sure if this is Larian or GOG being drunk, but I think it's safe to say someone's rushing the patches out a little too hastily.

melandis1973: There is now an offline installer for "Patch" and once you apply this you can apply the offline installer for hotfix 1

melandis1973: There is now an offline installer for "Patch" and once you apply this you can apply the offline installer for hotfix 1

vulchor: I use Galaxy now because achievements help my ADHD brain remember what the hell I had been doing in the game, but there are still a lot of folks left who do things the old ways around here.

SavageKangaroo: Nice, howerver I get a "404 - Page error" when I click on the patch. Is it working for anyone else?

SavageKangaroo: Nice, however I get a "404 - Not Found" when I click on the patch. Is it working for anyone else?

SavageKangaroo: Nice, however I get a "404 - Not Found" when I click on the patch. Is it working for anyone else?

SolanQ: Just out of curiosity, what browsers are you guys using? I seem to recall my husband having similar issues in the past, and I think that was on Firefox. Just wondering if temporarily using a different browser might allow you to at least work around the problem.