YouTuber Bouch isn’t any stranger to Baldur’s Gate 3 problem runs. He is crushed the sport by ending each struggle in a single hit; he is crushed it by throwing underwear; he is crushed it with out utilizing any motion pace. What else is there left to attain? Effectively, the place Alexander would possibly’ve wept for need of worlds to beat, Bouch changed into himself cheese. And sure. He beat it.
As reported by GamesRadar, to even start his cheese quest, Bouch needed to take a crack at mod creation. By rewriting a line within the already-existing Choose Your Statuses mod, Bouch gave himself the power to show right into a cheese wheel by toggling on the Polymorph: Cheese spell—a spell that in a simply world could be the spotlight of each wizard’s repertoire, however in Baldur’s Gate 3 is just utilized by a single djinni in Act 3. Having efficiently authored one of many world’s most particular recreation mods, Bouch rolled off in cheese-shape in direction of journey.
You will be shocked to study that the fight capabilities of cheese wheels aren’t notably heroic. When polymorphed into cheese in BG3, you may’t use tools. You’ll be able to’t use gadgets. You may have only one hp, and simply 10 AC to safeguard it. Your Energy, Dexterity, and Structure scores all get dropped to 10. You’ve got simply obtained three doable actions to work with: leaping, smacking enemies together with your cheese wheel physique for 1 injury, and emitting a pungent fuel cloud that forestalls enemies from taking actions. Cheese in Faerún runs fairly ripe, I assume.
Taking a look at all that, it nearly appears like Larian did not intend so that you can play the sport as a pélardon paladin, or perhaps a briebarian. And you would be proper. However do not lose hope: the cheese% playthrough is feasible. Your munster simply must be a monk.
Whereas Polymorph: Cheese units most of your capabilities to “no,” it crucially leaves passive options unaffected—like, for instance, all of the wild shit that Monks get off the bat. Monks get an AC bonus from their Knowledge modifier, which Polymorph: Cheese conveniently leaves unaffected. And along with getting an additional unarmed assault as a bonus motion, Monks get a flat injury bonus to “assaults with Monk Weapons and unarmed assaults,” together with your otherwise-feeble cheese smack. Cheese is a monk weapon now.
With correct mastery of the self, a mountain of tactically-employed explosives and spell scrolls (cheese can learn), and the power to fart out a cloud that leaves close by enemies unable to behave whereas he bludgeoned them to loss of life, Bouch efficiently proved the fight viability of cheese throughout all three BG3 acts. Cheese cannot, nevertheless, speak to most NPCs. It is a lonely highway that cheese wheels roll alongside.
There have been, tragically, a pair moments the place Bouch needed to briefly swap out of cheese-shape to progress, however I am prepared to miss the asterisk. And I feel for those who watch the run your self, you’ll, too.