While the Baldur's Gate 3 community has done a stellar job of uncovering the game's secrets over the years, one especially talented dataminer managed to crack the case of its most persistent mystery. Ever since Larian Studios launched the 1.0 version of Baldur's Gate 3 in August 2023, clips of Karlach having a strange existential crisis have surfaced online, teasing players with the opportunity of seeing a fun fourth-wall-breaking moment. Many are unsure about how to organically trigger the moment, but it seems eager fans finally have an answer.
In a video posted to YouTube, content creator and dataminer SilmX revealed why some players have managed to encounter the mysterious Karlach scene while others can't: It's technically impossible without tweaking Baldur's Gate 3's code.
Within the game's files, the scene is specifically tagged with a developer's note that reads "impossible," meaning the only way to see the Tiefling Barbarian's meltdown is to remove the restriction. So it seems anyone who's insisted that they've seen Karlach's fourth-wall break naturally may have altered some of the code rather than stumbling upon it organically.
Karlach can be a great character to have a relationship with in Baldur's Gate 3,...
