Many are all too happy to reveal what silly mistakes one can make in Baldur’s Gate 3 – for example, Wyll accidentally became a lemur for many.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a game full of various possibilities – and some options are simply overwhelming and confusing. Especially during the first playthrough, not all mechanics are immediately obvious, or one might overlook a detail that can have devastating consequences.
Such ignorance or short inattention can lead to funny mistakes that the Baldur’s Gate 3 community then eagerly discusses and shares their experiences. In the Baldur’s Gate 3 subreddit, the player HeavyMetalWorrier reported what happened to him:
Mine was on the first day I started playing. I looted Wyll because I thought he was permanently dead. Then I realized I could resurrect him and just couldn’t figure out how to put clothes back on him.
Wyll was just chilling in his underwear at the camp with his wine glass, apparently not bothered at all, while I was frantically Googling “How to put clothes back on companions in BG3.”
With his little story, he also encouraged many others to share their biggest blunders or “dumbest mistakes.” For example, Ranger describes a mistake that surely made many reload:
I yeeted Barcus from the windmill into the distance because I accidentally pulled the wrong lever.
Other small mistakes can also lead directly to death, as SORCERER experienced:
I annoyed Vlaakith a little too much. I should have seen the consequences coming, but I didn’t.
The discussion is about the encounter with Vlaakith in the crib. If you annoy the godlike ruler for too long, you will experience a spell that is more powerful than anything player characters can learn. She simply “wishes” for your death – which occurs immediately.
If you ignore all warnings from NPCs, the beginning of Act 2 can also be particularly difficult. Because there you find a shadow curse that is only dangerous if you do not carry a light source. SixThirtyWinterMorn experienced it this way:
I never understood that you could fend off the “mild” version of the shadow curse with light or torches, so I always moved my characters in round-based mode with strange jumps. Then they were attacked by the shadows and had to fight against both the shadows and the HP loss from the curse.
Soft_Stage_446 felt the consequences of ignoring the companions’ problems for a long time and simply not completing their (supposed) side quests:
I didn’t notice Wyll in the grove; I just didn’t know he was a companion. Then he joined my camp and I thought, “Oh, okay.” Right after that, I immediately forgot his quest. At the end of Act 2, as you go through the gate to the boss, you hear the narrator say something like: “You realize that you forgot something important…”
… and so Wyll was turned into a lemur.
The whole post is definitely worth a look, as the stories in the individual comments are all amusing – and clearly show that it’s not only you who was “too stupid” for some things, but many other players were as well.
Even with us in the editorial team and while playing with friends, we have made or experienced such mistakes. There, the druid grove along with all refugees was “accidentally” killed or the shadow heart was also killed right at the first encounter.
Have you also made such mistakes or made “interesting” decisions?
