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Major spoilers for ending of BG3:

!This is my first playthrough where Lae'zel wants to free Orpheus (and not just to immediately kill him) so the choice of whether or not to do so is harder than just "do I trust the Emperor or not?". I'm definitely not the first to feel weird about the options you're given here and how they play out in terms of The Emperor's actions, but I thought it'd be fun to write out my headcanon for the direction I wish I could have taken the conversation (a direction I believe would stay true to what Larian intended with this scene). !<

• !After your character indicates they want to free Orpheus and The Emperor gives its speech about trust, your character can say "I trust you, but we can't let Orpheus be killed. We need to find another way."!<

• !The Emperor responds "There is no other way. An Illithid is needed to dominate the Netherbrain, and I cannot exist outside of the astral prism without absorbing the protection provided by Orpheus."!<

• !You can

Recently, I started my second campaign in Baldurs Gate in addition to the campaign I play with my wife in co-op. My wife and I opted for the easiest difficulty in our playthrough since neither if us ever played similar game.

This time I felt like it would be such a breeze since I already know a bit more about the game and DnD in general. I opted for the balanced mode with my new character and started going through Act I and boy oh boy do I get wrecked almost everywhere. Multiple of my characters already died and I had to revive them.

I feel very scared going into each combat and trying to plan as much in advance as possible (keep in mind I mostly know what awaits me there, because I've gone through Act I already).

:::spoiler Where I got wrecked I got wrecked at the church before you get to Whithers, I got wreck

Let's add a friendly image so that people don't see any spoilers by accident.

So, the way I see it the Emperor probably tailed Shadowheart's team who liberated the Astral Prism. Maybe he even got the Nautiloid and some cultists and Mindflayers from the Elder Brain so that he could extract Shadowheart's team. Orin left her sibling on there for good measure. Mindflayers doing Mindflayer things they abducted Shadowheart.

But as soon as the Prism was close enough the Elder Brain lost its grip on the Emperor. Probably just him because he already was able to leave an Elder Brain once. Seeing the opportunity he killed the Mindflayers near him and took control of the Nautiloid.

Being the practical Mindflayer he probably sought to build an army of tadpoled people with super duper Illithid powers to fight the Absolute. He went to Baldur's Gate to find more people and thus snatched up Tav and the others.

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Hello everyone,

We’ve got a new hotfix for you today, addressing several bugs, visual issues and blockers.

Have you ever had a romance so intense, that everything melts away? Well, sometimes that isn’t intentional. We’ve fixed an issue where Gale’s romance scene was playing in what looked like some kind of black void. Consider the ambience restored.

We are aware of an issue with kissing animations for Astarion, and are currently working on a fix. We expect this to be released in a future update. Thank you for all your reports and messages, and thank you for playing Baldur’s Gate 3! If you have any bugs to report, please reach out to our support team.

FIXES

• You can now use soaps encountered in savegames before Patch 4.
• Fixed the game sometimes freezing indefinitely after a reaction to a spell that hits you with multiple projectiles.
• Fixed a crash after using a reaction that causes an attack against a dead creature.
• Fixed an issue causing you to get stuck in certain dialogu

Just so no one else reloads 131 times like I did to get a +2 wisdom bonus for Shadowheart, it doesn't work for her since she has "nothing more to give."

Yes, I kept track of how many times I reloaded.

Are there any good collections anyone might be aware of, for EA information or datamined information.

I'm curious to see what ideas got scrapped and how things changed. I know of a few things, like a little on Daisy. How certain abilities were actually going to be handed out.

But places like Grymforge really elude to something... there's a bunch of stuff hints that something might be near. From whatever caused some of the destruction you see. Because I refuse to believe it's all a vague reference to Yurgir.

And then there's some MTG pictures I saw, that list someone has potentially the main villain, in the very least a bad guy, and in the current game plays a very different roll.

Edit: Added spoiler tag just in case

::: spoiler Full game spoilers

• Orpheus is freed from his prison. I was initially torn by the choice and willing to keep working with the emperor despite their manipulations, just not at the expense of a prisoner. I freed Orpheus ready to save-scum, but upon seeing the emperor's immediate decision to join the Elder Brain I never looked back.
• The emperor dies in combat the first round on the Elder Brain. I don't even know what he does although I assume it's the regular mind flayer abilities like when Orpheus turns or myself.
• Music concert with Hope.
• During the battle with Hope, waste her miracle on the mace and chuck it for me to scoop up after the battle. Shadowheart keeps her single-use miracle for a rainy day and I get a divine weapon.
• Keep Shadowheart in the party until she loses the prism to you. I think her leaving the party or after an event in the creche triggers the prism to go from her inventory to yours. Until then during rests in camp she'll be fiddling with it like

Warning: spoiler about the ending with a specific companion

I was just curious, has anyone beaten the game with Astarion?

Thanks for your time!

Should I revert my game after killing ::: spoiler Spoilers for Act 3 Raphael in Sharess' Caress in Wyrm's Crossing ::: ? I was able to throw them off the balcony with several shoves, dealing ~1100 damage (and only granting 65 XP).

Because the game keeps teleporting you out and never technically entered combat, I'm guessing they weren't supposed to be killed here. Some quick google searches suggest they're supposed to appear later on too - will this break my game at all or is it safe to continue with this save file?

Finished the game yesterday and have some thoughts on how the ending is handled.

Personally I'd have liked something deeper than the 'and they lived happily ever after' I got in my playthrough. In Divinity: Original Sin 2 you get a recap of how your decisions influenced certain places and characters, but BG3's epilogue is almost non-existent, other than your party acknowledging that they did in fact complete the main quest.

I'm not saying the ending is bad or that I didn't enjoy it - quite the opposite. But then credits rolled and my first thought was 'wait, what about everything else I just did, am I not getting to see any of it?' My issue isn't with the story that is told, but rather the part that is omitted.

Now, I must also mention that ::: spoiler Slight ending spoilers here before the final fight you meet up with allies you gathered throughout the campaign. Who shows up and aids you depends on your choices, so in a way this serves as a summary of your adventure. :::

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