Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Story & Character Discussion To those disappointed in the endings...[Reddit post]

I'll be copying and pasting since this is very much important;
I think there is good reason to assume the situation will be fixed in the (near) future. If you look in the game files (an extract of the decompiled dialogue files can be found here) you can find;
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1toM2E_7-cpiCvpvXQMjKt_Brh2ChhL2o

>END_GameFinale_CompanionFates

>Withers has gathered the companions together one final time as a reunion of sorts 6 months later. They each exposit their various activities. Minthara is not here because she is only present if she is partnered with the player (she is still a speaker here but can change).

>END_GameFinale_WithersGathersCompanions

>6 months later after saving Baldur's Gate, Withers gathers the companions and player around a campfire to invite them to recollect what they've been doing.

>END_GodsAndMonsters_WithersChronicles

>Scene that plays after END_GodsAndMonsters_WithersMeeting in which Withers settles the accounts of what happened to all the characters after the events of the game ended.

These files have tons of variations in them and are overly long so I will not copy everything that's in them here, but in my opinion it can be assumed that these are the "17000 endings" Larian talked about just before release. Maybe the game was shipped with everything leading up to the ending finished so they could get it out the door and had time to add all of this stuff later, but nevertheless I feel people should know that these files exist and that there is already a major framework for an epilogue, ending slides etc.

If you want to take a look yourself, go to the link above. There is so much in there that it's hard to cover everything at once, but my personal favourites so far are [spoiler]Karlach having her ending slides take place in the City of the Dead if she dies at the end while playing as her and Withers repeating the question you asked him at the beginning back to you at the end.[/spoiler] It's such a shame this is not in the game already.
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This makes me glad that there is a ending somewhere in the games files, but it also makes me upset that they decided to launch their game without an ending. Maybe they did'nt think the game would garner a lot of attention, but I hope they will patch everything in real sooner rather than later.

FYI your spoiler tags didn't work.

I wonder why this got cut. Seems like it'd resolve a lot of the complaints that the ending felt incomplete or inadequate.

It's especially damning since they moved the release date up when they should have been delaying it. Even if there's eventually going to be a real ending, many players will play their first playthrough of the game without experiencing it and that's a real bummer.
It will alleviate some complaints about not knowing how our companions fare after the ending. What it won't fix is the fact that there's basically only 2 (3 if you're generous) ending variations in an RPG that is predicated on player choice.

It seems that what we missing a real epilogue is in this file END_GodsAndMonsters_WithersChronicles I realy, realy hope it will be added in game soon, it is what we lacking in game ending.

By the way, I found a stream where Swen clearly saying that in game is EPILOGUES WHERE IS ALL YOU CHOICES and it is for at least 15 minutes long.

Who want to hear it start from 41:00

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And in this stream You can hear, that Larian some stuff have cut off to release it later by patches.

Start from 53:00

You are reading too much into this, he just means which bugs they fix now, which later and which never. Nothing about adding back content.

Maybe, but about epilogue he say clearly that there he is in his game, so I hope we will get it too soon.

Epilogue was even voiced.

Swen and Larian said a lot about that BG3 which turned out false and not only because of bugs.

I mean Larian were also saying how amazing Upper City is month before the premiere. How incredible and complicated the romances are. How INCREDIBLE Sarevok is and how they RESPECT his character. Yeah they said a lot. Said.

I think that at least for the moment we should be patient...stuff like the epilogue will most likely happen in the first couple major patches and I'd imagine it's quite the priority for Larian right now. If the second major patch passes and still no epilogue then I will be far more concerned. And since Swen mentioned this so very close to release I think there is also reason to hope for the upper city to be implemented at some point though it might be too much to hope for in the first two big patches.

Pretty sure they will fix the endings at least for the PS5 release, perhaps not the full blown epilogues, but at least things should trigger correctly?



Now as for a lot of the other items that feel missing/incomplete such as certain companion stories and other items, not sure.

Oh was wondering why on the bridge towards Upper City the Emperor warns you not to go now or all will be lost, but the gate stays always closed!