The new endings in Baldur’s Gate 3 are really evil again. They turn your character into the ultimate loner.
One of the most interesting aspects of Baldur’s Gate 3 is the fact that there are extremely many ways to conclude the story. Because depending on your decisions, there are several options for how the entire plot is wrapped up. With Patch 8, the last major patch for the game, two new endings are added that are clearly recognizable as “evil.” Because they make you or your hero party absolute egoists.
What are these new endings? In the Baldur’s Gate 3 subreddit, Hyperspace_Towel noted that there are two new endings in Patch 8 that were previously inaccessible. These endings become available during an “evil” playthrough.
After you have subjected the mind flayer to your control, you can decide how to proceed with all the infected. As before, you can choose whether you want to be a dark dictator or more of a destroyer – or eliminate all the infected.
However, the two new endings give you two more options:
- You can choose to remove the larva from your head and then disappear with your allies.
- Alternatively, you can remove the larva from your head and leave all your companions behind.
What makes the endings so evil? The sheer fact of acting this way is extremely selfish. Because at this point, you already have full control over the mind flayer. You could have also decided to free all the infected from their larvae – that would have required the same effort as just freeing yourself.
Acting so selfishly is basically like flipping the middle finger to everyone who has accompanied you on your journey and also to all those you met in Baldur’s Gate and its surroundings.
The ultimate egoist. But that fits a bit with Astarion, as shown in this video:
It is nice to see that Larian is still paying so much attention to the evil endings of Baldur’s Gate 3, after they were quite disappointing in the launch version.
How does one reach this ending? The new endings are only available if you choose to let the mind flayer live at the end and control it yourself. So it is definitely something that can only happen during an “evil” run. At the same time, you must not have become a mind flayer by that point – because then it is of course much too late to remove the parasite from your head, since the transformation is already complete.
However, the two new endings are just a small detail of Patch 8. Because it also brings many other innovations, such as a number of new playable subclasses and plenty of additional improvements, such as crossplay and an extensive photo mode.
