Can I have an ending where I don't need to have a mind flayer in the player party?

[Stix_09]

I don't really like the choices given to end act3 which require me to either make my char a mind flayer, or one of my party one, and I don't want to make Orpheus become A Mind Flayer either, these are all crap choices.

[Ranpo]

Get Gale to blow up.

[Rabbit]

It sounds like having to defeat a netherbrain and having a mindflayer tadpole in your head is going to suck, surprising

[Stix_09]

Originally posted by Ranpo:

Get Gale to blow up.

thats not a great option either

[SoloQ]

Uh becoming a mindflayer is one of the best parts of the game.
You get to eat brains.

[Orion Invictus]

Originally posted by Stix_09:

Originally posted by Ranpo:

Get Gale to blow up.

thats not a great option either

The only other alternative is losing, like the Emperor said.

[Tingly]

Kill the Emperor at the beginning of Act 3. Instead of needing 'a' mindflayer, your whole party turns into them.

[Stix_09]

i think i will skip ending and not finish game, don't like any of these options they all suck...

[Ranpo]

Originally posted by Stix_09:

Originally posted by Ranpo:

Get Gale to blow up.

thats not a great option either

Gale blows up, gets together with Mystra forever, Orpheus is free to down Vlaakith and continue the fight with the ghaik, no one turns into a ghaik. Win-win.

[Stix_09]

Originally posted by Ranpo:

Originally posted by Stix_09:

thats not a great option either

Gale blows up, gets together with Mystra forever, Orpheus is free to down Vlaakith and continue the fight with the ghaik, no one turns into a ghaik. Win-win.

ok well that sounds better if Gale gets the girl i can live with that option, thx

[Zenkarda]

Best option
1) Let the Emperor kill Orpheus
2) Persuade (tough) Lae'zel and Voss to relax
3) Persuade Lae'zel to stay with the party
4) Let Wyll and Karlach journey to Avernus together.

Basically, everyone lives to fight another day. We can rescue Wyll and Karlach or help the Gith overthrow Valakith later on.

[Kradtasticdad]

Originally posted by Ranpo:

Get Gale to blow up.

" I question the wisdom of that decision, but so be it"

[seeker1]

You didn't spoiler tag this thread, so ... spoiler warning?

The answer is to side with the Emperor, but I consider him a scumbag, and it screws over the Gith people, so .... other than making Gale the suicide bomber ,,,

... if it was an option, I would take it ... but it isn't ....

... I would take Omeluum with me as the mind flayer (and still free Orpheus, but leave him in his original body.)

Consider it "a choice Larian has not given". BTW: there is a mod which effectively short circuits the normal ending of the game by allowing a non mindflayer to channel the netherstones, think it requires script extender. I have no idea if using it would wreck the epilogue.

Somebody also posted a hack/exploit getting around all this, too, though I forget it at this point.

[SirLío]

Originally posted by seeker1:

You didn't spoiler tag this thread, so ... spoiler warning?

The answer is to side with the Emperor, but I consider him a scumbag, and it screws over the Gith people, so .... other than making Gale the suicide bomber ,,,

... if it was an option, I would take it ... but it isn't ....

... I would take Omeluum with me as the mind flayer (and still free Orpheus, but leave him in his original body.)

Consider it "a choice Larian has not given". BTW: there is a mod which effectively short circuits the normal ending of the game by allowing a non mindflayer to channel the netherstones, think it requires script extender. I have no idea if using it would wreck the epilogue.

Somebody also posted a hack/exploit getting around all this, too, though I forget it at this point.

It would have been nice to have the option to take Omeluum with you to help destroy the Brain, but, since you can't, the best ending for me is Gale blowing up. I think it's a nice conclusion to his character and nobody needs to transform into a mindflayer.

[GriffinPilgrim]

Sometimes there isn't a perfect solution to a problem.

[seeker1]

Spoiler warning again?

I would certainly agree there is no "perfect" ending for Karlach, to be sure, just finding which of two less worse choices for her.

Is it better for her to have to go back to Avernus, but at least not, this time, alone? Or to become a mindflayer, which IMHO does not appear to be working out for anyone other than Omeluum .... the first choice only now sounds better now that we have additional info from the Epilogue, I suppose.