Is there really 17 thousand different endings?

[EGGZxOVERxExZ]

no way

RESPONSE : word ty for the clarification folks

[Cpt.P1mp]

nah. more like 4.

[Earanak]

~4 with minor variations.

[Settings]

There are 4. The 17K thing was a reference to the epilogue system but it was cut less than 2 weeks before the game launched.

[Dr. Sinclair]

no there arent.

[stage]

Think there are like 5 for achievements, but like hundred variations of the cut scenes and such.

[Malaficus Shaikan]

No.
But if you take 1 ending and change 1 thing it counts as a new ending.
So you killled shadowheart?
Ending gets a 1 line change.
You didnt kill shadowheart?
You get a different line.
You made shadowheart a dark justiary?
One line change.
Etc, etc.
17 thousend different endings is very easy if you count single line changes as different endings.

[Settings]

Originally posted by stage:

Think there are like 5 for achievements, but like hundred variations of the cut scenes and such.

No, there are actually less cutscene variations than there are endings since 2 of the endings share 1 cutscene and another ending doesn't have a cutscene at a all, just a dialogue showcase of Raphael looking into the camera, alone.

[Dr. Sinclair]

Originally posted by stage:

Think there are like 5 for achievements, but like hundred variations of the cut scenes and such.

yeah basically you either have a helmet or you dont

[Cpt.P1mp]

its ok they lied to us. but its Larian, not CDProjekt Red.
So its acceptable.

[Kyutaru]

Yes, but you have to understand what a different ending counts as.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fnv/comments/nipw31/how_many_unique_combinations_of_ending_slides_are/

Fallout New Vegas's base game has 1,113,652,592,640,000 different endings, not including variants for the Courier's gender. That's one quadrillion, one hundred and thirteen trillion, six hundred and fifty-two billion, five hundred and ninety-two million, six hundred and forty thousand unique endings. Mass Effect 3 eat your heart out, I suppose.

BG3 similarly has many combinations of endings. That said, there are even early endings, like getting Wished out of existence by a god, blowing up Gale in nuclear fashion to save the world, refusing to take a mindflayer's advice and getting brain dominated, and other not so great endings. But there are many combinations to the actual ending too because of who you side with, whether you take the devil's deal, and how you deal with the final villain.

[Settings]

Originally posted by Cpt.P1mp:

its ok they lied to us. but its Larian, not CDProjekt Red.
So its acceptable.

Ding ding ding

[Trip]

A 5 number combination lock can have 100,000 combinations right?

You just have to shuffle things around a little bit.

[Cpt.P1mp]

Originally posted by ᛊᚨᛁᛚᛟᚱ ᛗᛟᛟᚾ:

Originally posted by Cpt.P1mp:

its ok they lied to us. but its Larian, not CDProjekt Red.
So its acceptable.

Ding ding ding

i hope people get it and dont missinterpret.

[CloudKira]

Originally posted by ᛊᚨᛁᛚᛟᚱ ᛗᛟᛟᚾ:

There are 4. The 17K thing was a reference to the epilogue system but it was cut less than 2 weeks before the game launched.

It sure is incredible to cut something so significant which was on top hyped about by devs so short before release.

That really sucks...

Damn...I could understand if a dozen of those or even a 100 were scrapped because they contradicted stuff...but ALL of them?!

[Khern]

It's a sweet little lie, just like Todd Howard did for Fallout 3, no there's not 17k endings.