Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Story & Character Discussion This epicly awesome fight breaks multiple storylines?

Instead of being rewarded with a brass-balls trophy, if you instead of getting a huge reward or at least an "achievement" badge, it breaks multiple storylines and future quests are unavailable and/or broken. and I feel like quitting and/or having to start over and then will be forced into . I'm miffed. Did you not think it would be possible? How is a player in a choose your own adventure get punished for taking the most difficult but also most badass route to victory? Please please please fix this. is I think a choice many good players will want to make.

You could...reload prior to the fight.

Or quit.

I've dumped several starts and enjoyed restarting with new knowledge of storyline outcomes but yeah, the first time I accidentally laid waste to the Grove and slaughtered the teeth-lings was a bit of bummer.

This has nothing to do with OP post but it made laugh a bit.

I wonder, how does one .

And I also do this more than I should. :p

Just seems like my specific situation should be an EXPECTED CHOICE by many good players who enjoy a challenge and don't want to make any deals at all with someone who you KNOW DAMN WELL you'll need to kill eventually.

Oh yes, basically Larian expects you to go along with what you are given but then there are multiple ways you can refuse Gortash and start a fight yet that has no reactivity in the game whatsoever and like you said going that route will break multiple quests in the game.

Meanwhile in act 1 you could attack Priestess Gut on sight and a fight against the entire gobbo camp would break out (if enemies got to the drums and alerted everyone) and the only things you could possibly lose in that scenario is a couple of conversations and approval points from companions. But that's it, the quests would still update that you slaughtered the 3 leaders and no further quests would break.

But it's clear that Larian has worked on act 1 and all the possible approaches to boss fights and the world's reactivity to your actions a lot more (3 years of EA, yo!) while multiple approaches to questing are still somewhat present in act 2, but nearly forgotten about and dropped in act 3.

It's why so many of us abhor act 3.

I don't really get why people say this. Like yes of course you can reload and do things differently, but it is perfectly reasonable to express some level of disappointment. It is a storybased game focused on choice, so when a choice doesn't seem to have a thought-out conclusion people can be bummed.

Now I want to try it even if it does break the shit out of the rest of the game!

Everything in the spoilers made me nod and chuckle and think, yeah, if that had just happened in my run I'd be hella pissed too.