Larian Studios might not be engaged on full-fledged Baldur’s Gate 3 DLC, however there are at the very least extra evil endings on the best way – and founder Swen Vincke says “they’re actually evil.”
In an interview with IGN, Vincke teased extra marketing campaign endings, saying that whereas gamers are “not going to see huge content material modifications,” the workforce is devoted to delivering on the fan suggestions they’ve obtained since launch. That features some love for Baldur’s Gate 3’s extra villainous gamers.
“In order that they’re engaged on the evil endings proper now,” he mentioned. “I’ve seen a few of them. They’re actually evil. So the evil gamers will probably be glad with that.”
Baldur’s Gate 3 lets gamers be the sort of Dungeons & Dragons character they’ve at all times dreamed of – even when it means being a foul particular person. Evil acts vary from comedically kicking squirrels and being imply to NPCs to creatively killing – and even torturing – among the characters you’ll find all through the story. Larian even included a Darkish Urge background for many who get pleasure from including a little bit of spontaneous evil spice to some encounters. Evil endings specifically, nonetheless, are one thing followers have needed to be fleshed out since launch. Now that we all know they’re on the best way, evildoers can lastly sit up for extra satisfying narrative conclusions.
Help for evil endings ought to appease a few of Baldur’s Gate 3’s extra nefarious gamers, although Vincke says updates will probably be much less substantial after beforehand promised options launch. He says Larian will finally “scale down,” including, “It is simply going to be help on bugs, as a result of we would like the workforce to be engaged on new issues.”
Baldur’s Gate 3 has continued to brush award reveals since its full launch arrived final yr, however the victory laps can solely proceed for thus lengthy earlier than Larian lastly closes its D&D chapter. To assist make the transition a bit simpler to swallow for followers, the studio has one other promising replace on the horizon: cross-platform curated mods.
“So we’re working with Wizards, Sony, Microsoft… loads of companions to align,” Vincke tells us, “however we’re attempting to get cross-platform curated mods in there so that folks on console can benefit from the mods which are being made for the PC additionally. In order that’ll be an enormous factor, I believe, as a result of there’s loads of mods already, after which we cannot have the ability to help all the pieces, however we must always have the ability help fairly just a few.”
Even because the Larian workforce transitions towards a brand new future, Vincke is assured within the daring new course. In an X/Twitter thread, the founder sympathized with those that are upset to listen to that the developer received’t be creating any main expansions or Baldur’s Gate 4. Nonetheless, he says the studio’s accomplishments have paved the best way for a promising future. It’s unclear when updates for Baldur’s Gate 3 will come to an finish or the order gamers can anticipate to obtain modifications, however followers at the very least have evil endings and extra mod help to sit up for.
“The workforce has grown loads throughout Bg3 and I believe you might be very excited for what that development means for our subsequent recreation,” he mentioned.
It’s not straightforward for us to say goodbye to them however we additionally knew from the get go we’d must in the future. We learnt loads from creating them and I’m very wanting to see these classes utilized to new characters.
— Swen Vincke @the place? (@LarAtLarian) March 22, 2024
Whether or not your character is nice or evil, Larian’s RPG masterpiece is already stuffed with storylines to find. It’s so filled with content material, in actual fact, that it options greater than triple the phrase depend of The Lord of the Rings books. For extra on Baldur’s Gate 3, be sure you take a look at an early model of Astarion that traded in Excessive Elf ears for a Tiefling’s horns. In the event you’re nonetheless hungry for extra, it’s best to take a look at our 10/10 assessment.
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