In Baldur’s Gate 3 the Honour Mode is the hardest difficulty level. Any minor mistake, including bugs, can lead to a game over – which a player had to experience bitterly.
What is the Honour Mode? If you are looking for an especially tough challenge, the Honour Mode is the right choice for you. In this difficulty level, you only have a single chance, with no possibility to reload the game.
Every decision must therefore be well thought out, as there is no way to correct mistakes. The Honour Mode is similar to the hardcore mode of other games and there is no way to save scumming
if, for example, you are unhappy with a dice roll.
Spoiler: The article contains story spoilers about Act 3.
How did the run fail? On Reddit, the player Daxtr0 writes that he lost his 80-hour run in Honour Mode in the dumbest way possible
. His adventure in the third act of the game did not end with an epic boss fight, but rather with a faulty dialogue.
He had already played through the game twice before and was confident that he could handle the challenges in Act 3. Together with his companion Lae’zel, he entered the Astral Prism to free Orpheus.
He began speaking to the Emperor about Orpheus’s release. But for some reason
, he decided to denounce the lies and deceptions of the Emperor (the true identity of your guardian, who has become a mindflayer) and express his distrust toward him – which turned out to be a fatal mistake.
The player writes:
I don’t know why I did that, it just seemed logical that my character wanted to trust the Emperor, but obviously couldn’t because he was a lying bastard. He responded with some words in random order, and the next dialogue was reduced to a single option: “Continue.” I pressed the button, and I saw my character hand the stones [Nesser Stones] over to the squid [Mind Flayer]! […]
What, what? In just a few seconds he uses the stones, devours Orpheus, runs away, the Elder Brain finds me, I am transformed into a squid and the game is over. […] I should have just beaten his ass right then and there. I’m such an idiot…
Daxtr0 on Reddit
Fortunately, I’m not that stupid
Many players pointed out in the comments under his post that this is a known bug in the game where the option Continue
does not display the actual dialogue options the player can actually choose from. The player assumed that the Continue button
was the consequence of his decision.
I’m not sure whether this makes me happy or makes me sadder that this bug occurred at such a crucial point in the game, but oh well
, writes Daxtr0 and thanks the community for their support.
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