Originally Posted by Dagless
Originally Posted by Silver/
That's just the thing: I *do* think an epilogue and the tied in companion endings is *reasonable*. It's what the game needs to be bumped up from an 8/10.

You lose nothing from playing it later. I wasn't very optimistic at first, but much of the dropped content is surprisingly developed and reeks of last minute cuts. See it this way: if nothing else, people won't get any of the game breaking bugs. Nor the majorly annoying ones.

The game wasn't finished nor polished when it came out. Not in my eyes.

The most important cut content, *if* you haven't watched it, but do want a summary:

Right. This is exactly the same “summary” that’s been bandied around on Reddit, Steam, here and probably other places. This time in video form with a bit of added speculation by the person who made it. Again with very little detail on what was actually found.

Some of it probably is “cut content” that was “meant” to be the game, such as:

Upper city (since it was mentioned by Sven), some more endings for companions and epilogues, etc and they probably tie in together.

But there’s a lot there I’d be much more sceptical about:

Whole regions for Avernus and the Shadowfell, a Bhaal assault on the Githyanki crèche, etc]

On what basis could you say any of that is “surprisingly developed”? Exactly what has been found?

I’m just saying that lots of people are taking these claims entirely at face value and getting their hopes up it’s all going to be “restored” at some point. For many of these examples, there might well be very little actually made to restore, assuming we can really trust this source in the first place.

Personally I’d like to see a LOT more evidence for much of this before spreading it around further.
The epilogue and companion endings? Mostly fledged out dialogue and voice lines. That digging is the reason we know for example, that the current end of Halsin's romance is what happened originally if no romance flag applied. Unsurprisingly, people in a romance with Halsin hated it.

It's also why we know how Karlach's avernus ending isn't certain death. Yes, the og good ending tied to the upper city, but this one has scraped voice lines for each origin. E.g. Zariel is afraid of dread vampire Astarion (??). Even Minthara is out for blood, etc. Minthara would probably have been scraped, though. Why is she there?

You've got to think and keep expectations in mind. I don't think Larian will redo Cazador's boss fight. They likely won't add Avernus outside of an equally improbable DLC. The epilogue and the cut companion content I'm most positive about since they don't have to tidy up too much. It's work, but it's exponentially less work.

Add an epilogue. Remove the red herrings in various companion storylines that make the player feel cheated out of an ending. Tidy up weird bits like whatever happened with Halsin. Remove the bug infestation. There you have it, a (reasonably) complete and polished game.