Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 player realizes they cannot fix Astarion Larian StudiosWhile playing through Act 3, a Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 player finally concluded that there\u2019s no way of fixing Astarion. Companions in Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 have their own trials and tribulations to work through over the course of the experience. Thankfully, players can lend a helping hand by completing companion-centric side quests. But because the role-playing title features such a colorful cast of characters, not every companion will finish their arc as a hero. One hopeful player learned this lesson the hard way after completing Astarion\u2019s arc and realizing they\u2019re \u201cgoing to have to deal with him.\u201d (Spoilers follow for Baldur\u2019s Gate 3.) Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 player \u201cmade a terrible mistake\u201d with Astarion In a Reddit thread, a user named Confident-Gas-6563 shared their disappointment in Astarion\u2019s refusal to be better. The Redditor said they\u2019ve helped their companions become better versions of themselves by \u201cletting them make their own choices.\u201d And the assumption with Astarion was that he\u2019d lean toward being \u201ca depressed loner who wants to get back at daddy and stop his abuse.\u201d Upon completing the Ascension mission, however, the user realized that Ascendant Astarion is now \u201ca confident vampire lord who\u2019s talking about making an army to plunge the world into darkness.\u201d Now the player\u2019s thinking their only option is to \u201cdeal with him\u2026 I guess lucky for me Karlach can kill him in two or three attacks, so I got that going for me.\u201d Other BG3 fans in the comments don\u2019t understand why the Redditor trusted Astarion to begin with. One response reads, \u201cGotta say, trusting the guy who has repeatedly spoken of taking control of tadpoles, cults, elder brains, and anything else he thinks he might be able to control to dominate masses of people is definitely a show of faith on your part.\u201d More people reminded the player that Astarion made his intentions clear from the very start. It seems most have accepted that there really is no fixing bad boys, no matter how hard one tries. There is a way to prevent Ascendant Astarion from coming to power, thereby saving thousands of vampire spawn. (It takes a lot of convincing on the player\u2019s part, though.) And, by all accounts, the unascended version of the character is much more pleasant to be around. Ultimately, players have to decide what works best for their own story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 player realizes they cannot fix Astarion Larian StudiosWhile playing through Act 3, a Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 player finally concluded that there\u2019s no way of fixing Astarion. Companions in Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 have their own trials and tribulations to work through over the course of the experience. Thankfully, players can lend a helping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}