Still basking in the afterglow of the BAFTA sweeps, Larian has released an update on Steam detailing what we can expect from Baldur's Gate 3 in the immediate future and what we can expect from the studio in the future.The main thing included in the upcoming Patch 7 for Baldur's Gate 3 is, An expansion of the game's wicked ending cutscene, a feel-good party supplement already in the hands of all well-adjusted and happy gamers. What follows will spoil all the endings.

In this post, there are three teasers for the new ending, which seems to be an extended cutscene instead of a small playable segment of the Withers'Party, which I think fits the tone and content. It's pretty sickening, pretty wicked, and makes sense.

The second visual was right up my alley. Almost certainly from the "Bhaalist" ending of "Dark Urge," it embraces its legacy as the son of a god of carnage and utilizes the Absolute in the name of some sort of brutal, omniscidal apocalypse. In this shot, the default Daj, an albino dragon-born sorcerer, wanders through a lake of blood and corpses in the black sun. Blatant "Berserk" homage is welcome, and I can't wait to see this on YouTube (I'm too good-natured to play it myself)

The post also features a fragment of a new song for the ending by now BAFTA-winning composer Borislav Slabov, Baldur. 's Gate 3 atmosphere is still present, but "March of Darkness" is a far cry from the game's hopeful and fragile main theme "I Want to Live". I especially like the sickening violin bits in the new song." The sense of "I don't know if I made a morally upright dialogue choice to get here" is well conveyed.

We already have a taste in the game of how bad things can get with these new endings. The Wizards Party epilogue is mostly a reward for being a good guy and doing all the right things, a jolly good hang, but if you play as the Dark Ages, fail to break the curse, and even side with Baal for the mega-bad ending above If you choose not to, there is a chilling epilogue six months after the game ends in which your character is a murderous, gibbering shell of a man, ready and willing to brutally murder all of our beloved companion characters.

I have previously written about how much I love the undeniably happy epilogue of Baldur's Gate 3, which was added at the end of 2023. Now we get the absolutely brutal ending that befits that wicked choice. In his post outlining Patch 7, Larian also teased what's next for the studio. Two projects based on their own IP (they haven't said Divinity yet) are in the early stages of pre-production. Patch 7 will also include an official mod tool, but it is not expected to be as extensive as "Original Sin 2."