Recently, the developers of Baldur’s Gate 3 spoke about their fears that the game would be too small. In fact, it is so large that even content was removed. A YouTuber has now discovered an additional 15 minutes of cutscenes that shouldn’t actually exist in the game.
Why does the game have cutscenes that shouldn’t exist? The development of Baldur’s Gate 3 spanned many years, with only three of those in Early Access. During this time, all elements of the game – story, game design, art style, characters – underwent various iterations.
During development, Larian CEO Swen Vincke even expressed fears that the game might be too short at times. Therefore, they designed a whole series of regions that did not make it into the game. Consequently, there are also countless fully synchronized and finished cutscenes that simply can’t be triggered in the final game.
One of these cutscenes has Companion Karlach breaking the fourth wall: One cutscene is so rare that a YouTuber will gift you 470 euros if you find it. A YouTuber has now discovered even more such scenes and published them.
A smaller channel finds cool scenes
Who discovered the scenes? The 15 minutes of new cutscenes were posted by the YouTube channel SlimX on August 27, 2024. Currently, the YouTuber has 6,100 subscribers. The first video appeared there 17 years ago.
For about eight months, the channel has been posting videos about Baldur’s Gate 3, offering tips on Honor Mode, companion reactions, and now hidden scenes. To unlock them, he changed the command Impossible
behind the cutscenes to True
.
This is how he accessed all the new scenes.
Interrogated by Minthara, more dialogue with the lovestruck Shadowheart
What kind of cutscenes are they? The video includes a whole series of scenes that cannot be unlocked in Baldur’s Gate 3. Among them are these scenes:
- Companion reactions to the Shadow-cursed lands in Act 2 – including reactions from Tav, the player character, or even Dark Urge.
- A very special Minthara scene: If you only knocked her out and freed her in the towers of Moonrise, she wants to know why you spared her life.
- Shadowheart asks the player what they think of her new hairstyle – provided she starts Act 3 as a follower of Selûne.
- Special voice lines from Shadowheart when you romance her and the possibility to hug her.
- New lines from the narrator, praising the player to high heaven.
- The companions teasing Gale for staring sadly at the river at Baldur’s Gate after a successful victory.
- Short lines from Gale that he says in camp.
All these scenes can be watched in the video here:
It’s quite possible that these 15 minutes of cutscenes are still not all that didn’t make it into the final game. Presumably, there are still quite a few scenes hidden behind the Impossible
command – or they aren’t even implemented at all.
According to the developers, some funny things happened during the development of Baldur’s Gate 3. One of the scenes that are playable in the final game is one of the more intimate ones and caused the responsible developer to take very specific measures: So you can get intimate with the Mind Flayer in Baldur’s Gate 3, a developer used Oreo cookies as a comparison.
