Larian Studios may not be working on full-fledged Baldur’s Gate 3 DLC, however there are a minimum of extra evil endings on the best way – and founder Swen Vincke says “they’re really evil.”
In an interview with IGN, Vincke teased further marketing campaign endings, saying that whereas gamers are “not going to see massive content changes,” the staff is devoted to delivering on the fan suggestions they’ve obtained since launch. That consists of some love for Baldur’s Gate 3’s extra villainous gamers.
“So they're working on the evil endings right now,” he mentioned. “I've seen some of them. They're really evil. So the evil players will be satisfied 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 – a few of the characters you’ll find all through the story. Larian even included a Dark Urge background for many who get pleasure from including a little bit of spontaneous evil spice to some encounters. Evil endings particularly, nonetheless, are one thing followers have wished 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.
Support 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's just going to be support on bugs, because we want the team to be working on new things.”
Baldur’s Gate 3 has continued to sweep award shows since its full launch arrived final 12 months, 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 are working with Wizards, Sony, Microsoft… a lot of partners to align,” Vincke tells us, “but we're trying to get cross-platform curated mods in there so that people on console can enjoy the mods that are being made for the PC also. So that'll be a big thing, I think, because there's a lot of mods already, and then we won't be able to support everything, but we should be able support quite a few.”
Even because the Larian staff 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 won’t be creating any major expansions or Baldur’s Gate 4. However, 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 a minimum of have evil endings and extra mod assist to sit up for.
“The team has grown a lot during Bg3 and I think you can be very excited for what that growth means for our next game,” he mentioned.
It’s not simple for us to say goodbye to them however we additionally knew from the get go we’d must sooner or later. We learnt quite a bit from creating them and I’m very desirous to see these classes utilized to new characters.
— Swen Vincke @the place? (@LarAtLarian) March 22, 2024
Whether your character is sweet or evil, Larian’s RPG masterpiece is already full of storylines to find. It’s so full of content material, in reality, that it options (*3*). For extra on Baldur’s Gate 3, you should definitely take a look at an early version of Astarion that traded in High Elf ears for a Tiefling’s horns. If you’re nonetheless hungry for extra, it is best to take a look at our 10/10 review.
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