How to get the Baldur's Gate 3 epilogue and have one last party at camp

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Reunite with your companions in the BG3 epilogue

Baldur's Gate 3 epilogue
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The Baldur’s Gate 3 epilogue is a fantastic coda to the game, giving you a chance to give your long last pals a wonderful send-off. It was added in Patch 5 along with honour mode, a new Baldur’s Gate 3 difficulty, and is a wonderfully refreshing moment after all the horrors that your party has endured.

To see the epilogue, you’ll need to either load into an old save or keep playing your current one. This guide can’t really be spoiler-free due to its very nature, but we hope that it helps you witness one of the best goodbyes in gaming.

How to trigger the Baldur's Gate 3 epilogue

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To trigger the BG3 epilogue scene, load into a save file that takes place either before, during, or immediately after the fight against the Netherbrain. You must choose to destroy the brain, or you won't get the epilogue. If you've started a new game since Patch 5, you don't need to do anything other than complete the game.

When does the epilogue happen in Baldur's Gate 3?

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The Baldur's Gate 3 epilogue happens right after the pier sequence at the end of the game, once the Netherbrain has been destroyed. 

There is a moment at the end of BG3 where you make a crucial choice to either dominate or destroy the Netherbrain, and a lot of people might have saved beforehand to see what happens either way. Choosing to dominate the brain will not give you the happy epilogue (quelle surprise), but by destroying it, you will leave all your companions and the rest of the world alive to join you at a special party just before the credits roll.

The game used to end with a monologue from Withers (sometimes with BG3's Raphael interjecting, if you gave him the Crown of Karsus), but the new epilogue party scene seems here to stay for all future and past playthroughs.

You might also get to see the epilogue by loading into a save from the pier scene itself, post-Netherbrain final battle, but this caused some texture dropout and other performance issues when we tested it. Still, at least you now know what to look out for if you either want to reload a finished game to see the finale, or power through your current one!

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Jasmine Gould-Wilson
Jasmine Gould-Wilson
Staff Writer, GamesRadar+

Jasmine is a staff writer at GamesRadar+. Raised in Hong Kong and having graduated with an English Literature degree from Queen Mary, University of London in 2017, her passion for entertainment writing has taken her from reviewing underground concerts to blogging about the intersection between horror movies and browser games. Having made the career jump from TV broadcast operations to video games journalism during the pandemic, she cut her teeth as a freelance writer with TheGamer, Gamezo, and Tech Radar Gaming before accepting a full-time role here at GamesRadar. Whether Jasmine is researching the latest in gaming litigation for a news piece, writing how-to guides for The Sims 4, or extolling the necessity of a Resident Evil: CODE Veronica remake, you'll probably find her listening to metalcore at the same time.

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