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YouTube Baldur’s Gate 3 knowledgeable SlimX, who dropped at our consideration developer secrets and techniques just like the offscreen “asylum” the place plot-critical NPCs conceal, is again with one other chunky set of secrets and techniques and reduce content material from our favourite fantasy RPG/wiki deep dive topic. This time he is highlighting the endgame, discovering issues we might by no means have seen in any other case within the recreation’s finale and epilogue.
As an illustration, the truth that Minthara can find yourself serving the Absolute in a sewer. Most gamers both kill or recruit the drow dommy-mommy in act 1, however when you do not—after which do not recruit her the second time you meet her in act 2—she hooks up with a squad of dangerous dudes within the Higher Metropolis Sewers.
Which sewer is that? Most likely one you did not see, as a result of it is beneath the courtyard you must struggle via in your technique to the Excessive Corridor and the netherbrain on the finish of act 3. Completionists can discover a approach beneath the streets and bash up some cultists and a dying knight there, and maybe discover Minthara amongst them.
Until she’s a zombie. One different unusual end result for Minthara when you do not recruit her is that she will be able to grow to be undead and be lumped in with a bunch of different zombies within the thoughts flayer colony beneath Moonrise Towers in act 2. Issues actually do not go nice for Minthara when you do not decide her up.
That is simply one of many many oddities SlimX has uncovered on this newest video. There’s additionally the unused seashore the place the ending might have taken place—a pleasant mirror to the seashore the story started on 90 hours or so earlier—and Mephistopheles’ vault, which might have supplied a house for the Orphic Hammer in a model of occasions the place it wasn’t in Raphael’s Home of Hope.
All these mysteries and extra are revealed in SlimX’s video above. He additionally has pleasant video rabbitholes explaining Shadowheart’s hidden Nightsong rating, Gale’s related hidden factors system, and what occurs when you spear Nightsong however spare Isobel.