Can you only tackle the Honour Mode in Baldur’s Gate 3 with really terrible strategies? A YouTuber wanted to find out – and the result is painful.
The Honour Mode of Baldur’s Gate 3 is considered a particularly tough challenge. After all, you have only one save file, and once the group is wiped out, the game is over. Therefore, good planning and foresight are essential to master this difficulty.
Some strategies considered “cheesy” can help. But what happens when you rely solely on such strange strategies? That’s what YouTuber Fracture shows, and we promise: You will repeatedly facepalm.
What rules does he impose on himself? To keep the run exciting, Fracture has imposed a few special rules on himself. These include:
- Each strategy is used only once per run.
- The characters are mostly naked. Exceptions are made only when a strategy requires specific equipment.
The result is that he is now forced to use as many different strategies as possible to tackle or bypass the battles in Baldur’s Gate 3.
What strategies does he use? Those who expect only fair and honorable methods will now be enlightened.
- For example, he leaves one of his characters stand aside from the fight and creates a pool of poison on the ground. He then dips a sausage (a mace) in it and passes the poisoned sausage around among all the characters every time they get to attack.
- Another strategy is quite macabre. The group kills the mage Gale. Since he creates a necrotic aura upon death that damages everyone nearby, one can use the mage’s corpse as a weapon. Fracture puts Gale in a bag and tosses it back and forth on the battlefield, causing damage every time – infinitely per round.
- Equally bad: He lets the little tiefling girl Arabella die first, only to resurrect her in the Underdark – and attack the Druid Grove. Children do not participate in round-based combat, so Arabella can kill absolutely everything without the fight progressing.
- Right in the first village, he completely robs the merchant with a trick: If you sell a bag to the merchant, you can then push the entire inventory of the merchant into that bag and then pass it on to your own bag. This way he has a lot of equipment to master the start of the game.
- Before the fight against the goblins in the camp, he respecs all his characters and summons 4 Mage Hands, which then drink strength potions (don’t ask). After that, they rain projectiles mercilessly down on the poor goblins.
Is all of this intended? Whether one sees all these strategies as “legal” or “fair” is probably up to personal interpretation. Some tricks, such as the method of completely robbing a merchant without resistance using two bags, should clearly be considered an exploit. Other methods, such as the “Gale in a bag,” are certainly strange, but the developers have repeatedly stated that Baldur’s Gate 3 was designed with the intention that fans would find strange ways that feel like exploits.
