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Tyler Colp

Baldur's Gate 3's latest hotfix quietly removes artifacts of a cut storyline never meant to be heard

Minthara, a fierce Drow Warrior in Baldur's Gate 3, looks pensive towards the player, illuminated by dim firelight.

Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 8 was stuffed full of wonderful things, like 12 new subclasses and a photo mode, but once it was out some players stumbled into new dialogue they had never heard before. A chat with a certain corpse revealed a snippet of a storyline that didn't actually exist anywhere else in the game. After some speculation over the last few weeks, Larian dropped a hotfix today that solves the mystery for good.

Tucked away in the patch notes for hotfix 31 is a fix that removes "some defunct dialogue that mistakenly made it into Minthara's Speak with Dead dialogue in Patch 8." Clips of the scene before it was removed have a lifeless Minthara revealing that she was going to be a mother—a story beat that apparently was never supposed to make it into the final game.

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