Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 players still convinced betraying The Emperor is a good idea Larian StudiosDespite his helpful actions, the Emperor is a divisive figure among some Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 players, which is why over a million people have no problem stabbing him in the back when it suits them. Mind Flayers are major villains in Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, including the tadpole in your brain that\u2019s trying to turn you into one. It\u2019s no surprise, then, that players are reluctant to accept the aid of one, even if they initially show up in a pleasing form. The Emperor is responsible for protecting you from the tadpole\u2019s influence throughout the game while maneuvering the party against the Netherbrain, in an effort to save the city of Baldur\u2019s Gate and possibly the entirety of the Forgotten Realms. You don\u2019t have to side with the Emperor, as there are other options available. In fact, Larian Studios revealed that 1.8 million players chose to betray the Emperor when they had the chance. A thread on the Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 Reddit was filled with supporters for pulling a Judas on the squid guy. \u201cHe betrayed me by not being the hot guardian I spent like 40 minutes designing!\u201d one player wrote, while another said, \u201cYou can\u2019t betray someone who\u2019s constantly lying and manipulating you. You can only free yourself from them.\u201d \u201cIt wasn\u2019t really a betrayal,\u201d one user explained, \u201cIt was simply that he forced me into an arbitrary ultimatum where I had no other choice. Orpheus is simply far too big of a factor in the Gith and potentially Illithid liberation that I simply could not allow him to die. \u201cI\u2019m sure Orpheus could have been persuaded to spare the Emperor if he simply allowed me to try, but he decided on his own accord to join the Netherbrain.\u201d Not everyone is down for stabbing the Emperor in the back, especially the more forgiving players. \u201cI\u2019m an Emperor stan, he did nothing wrong\u2026well maybe a few things wrong, but mostly he did nothing wrong!\u201d A big issue fans have is that the Emperor forces you to choose between him and freeing Orpheus, with no middle ground between the two. Those who love the Gith might have to betray the Emperor out of necessity because he gives you no other choice. Hopefully, an upcoming patch for Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 will have an ending that redeems the Emperor. This will give players the option to form an uneasy alliance with him and Orpheus to destroy the Netherbrain. That way, people won\u2019t have to betray him anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 players still convinced betraying The Emperor is a good idea Larian StudiosDespite his helpful actions, the Emperor is a divisive figure among some Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 players, which is why over a million people have no problem stabbing him in the back when it suits them. Mind Flayers are major villains in […]<\/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-20708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20708","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=20708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}