Baldur’s Gate 3’s bear intercourse scene made waves when Larian’s fantasy RPG launched final 12 months, however the sport’s speedrunning neighborhood has confirmed that bears are useful for different issues, too. Should you’ve spent hours strategizing and scheming your means by means of the sport’s advanced fight encounters, have you ever as an alternative thought-about dropping a bear on the fiercest foes in Faerûn? That’s how one speedrunner managed to finish all three acts in Baldur’s Gate 3 in underneath 20 minutes.
Mae, a Baldur’s Gate 3 speedrunner, has uploaded a run of the sport that goes by means of all three acts in 19 minutes and 20 seconds (thanks, IGN). The run makes use of a handful of different techniques which have grow to be commonplace within the sport’s speedrunning neighborhood, reminiscent of placing Shadowheart’s corpse in a field and carrying her all over the world. Nevertheless it seems Shadowheart isn’t simply helpful as a packaged corpse. Should you flip her right into a bear and hit her with the proper help spells, she will take out a number of the sport’s hardest bosses by leaping on high of them.
Within the run, Shadowheart transforms right into a bear, after which Mae casts Feather Fall and Improve Leap on the newly remodeled teammate, which provides Shadowheart much more air time than your common Baldur’s Gate 3 hero. So when she comes crashing down, she does so with sufficient weight and momentum to kill most enemies within the sport, together with Ketheric Thorm, one of many largest bosses within the second act. Nonetheless, in case you additionally flip this wrecking bear invisible, she will freely soar round a battlefield with out being detected. The tip result’s invisible, catastrophic injury to your enemies, and a sub-20-minute Baldur’s Gate 3 speedrun.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is the sort of sport that encourages this type of wild experimentation as a result of its programs are so dense and elaborate. It lets you pull off maneuvers so simple as avoiding fight encounters by teleporting round them, and feats as wild as defeating one of the vital highly effective enemies within the sport with a large bear. However untangling all of those wonderful prospects will also be overwhelming, so I respect anybody who’s keen to get their nails soiled digging into how all these programs work.
