Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Story & Character Discussion Cut content's future?

So I consider a 2nd playthrough on max difficulty, but was wondering what if eventually we get cut content restored. Id rather spend time on a more complete version of the game, not to mention new(cut) content would make it much more enjoyable and fresh expirience. Is there any official stance on cut content and game's future? Can we expect any major changes? I imagine it would be too much work (new voice lines/motion capture etc), but one can dream. Id rather see current game polished, than DLC and such, especially since Larian told how DLC would be problematic to implement.

There was a recent article where Larian confirmed that they want to do more with this game beyond the scope of just releasing patches but they're going to decide on what that means after taking a holiday. Could be DLC/expansions. Could be reintroducing cut content. Who knows?

I think the chances of a great deal of the cut content ever returning is slim to none. Epilogues are obviously coming, probably some stuff like Minthara's romance or Karlach's ending that everyone's talking about, but a lot of the sweeping changes are pretty much baked into the plot at this point. I don't see consequences for using tadpoles/removing them or the cut Upper City making a comeback and its associated endgame content, etc.

If you look into the news section, the cut content question got addressed by Larian. Look at the advert thread for the new patch by Salo.

To summarize, they don't believe it's cut content, and their epilogue was the intended version. They might adjust that in the future, but not anytime soon.

Good they wrote a whole article for me and so quickly! Good job!

On a serious note. Ive said more than once that its ok if Larian decide to refuse some of our requests and ideas. We should respect creators vision, otherwise game becomes our fanfic. But I still strongly insist on them providing some love for evil players and give at least one or two extra party members even if in distant future. Moonrise tower has some possible options for that. Too much people lose when they decide to side with Minthara. And I say it as someone who prefer good roles and can't even imagine slaying tieflings or even druids.

Anyway good to know cut content isnt caused by early release or anything or at least not at significant level. How could they think we wouldnt want long and detailed final scenes? We got invested into characters and of course we'd like at least some details on what happens next to them. Give us LoTR style ending!

I wouldn't take everything in that post at face value.

Also I guess this means Minthara neither having a quest line nor a romance is apparently intended since they only talked about some missing reactivity? Some very weird takeaways from this.

Yeah, that post is really something. It's damage control and very carefully worded damage control at that. "Some" or Minthara's reactivity will be fixed, Karlach is getting a "poignant" ending "she deserves" (so, don't crack the champagne just yet, guys and girls), the upper city being as intended and that they cut the epilogue because they thought it was what the players wanted...

Makes sense larian has to be careful about the optics of changing endings in favor of one romances, next thing you know you've instigated another fan upset who wants a golden ending for their romance
and it is just a long slippery slope down from there

Yeah its over for Minthara fans. Guess get her for good playthrough isnt even considered at this point if her fix is reactivity and not some restored romance.

Didn't they say they fixed her last time too? But yeah, the language they are using to describe her is super not-promising in regard to her. Particularly how they avoid mentioning the word 'romance'.

At this point I'm hoping that they don't cut out the remaining references to her romance that are still in the game and say they fixed some triggers that were misfiring.

Anyways, I take that stuff about their vision being finalized earlier in the game with a grain of salt. Remember they were hyping up Minthara as a romance option and the Upper City basically a month before release.

Which wouldn't be excused even if it was something fixed in stone early in development anyways. The reason there's so many rustled feathers over the cut content is because it was cut so very....roughly....in the first place. There's just so many places in the game where the 'cuts' were so rough and it is obvious that something is missing. It's hard to feel like the game was shipped in a finished state sometimes.

I know there has been news today, but let’s continue to use the same thread for potentially cut content over at https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=888406.

I’ll just lock this one to cut down on duplicate discussion.