Baldur’s Gate 3 20-Minute Speedrun Drops Bears On Bosses

Baldur’s Gate 3’s bear intercourse scene made waves when Larian’s fantasy RPG launched final yr, however the recreation’s speedrunning neighborhood has confirmed that bears are useful for different issues, too. In the event you’ve spent hours strategizing and scheming your manner by way of the sport’s advanced fight encounters, have you ever as an alternative thought of 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 below 20 minutes.

Mae, a Baldur’s Gate 3 speedrunner, has uploaded a run of the sport that goes by way of all three acts in 19 minutes and 20 seconds (thanks, IGN). The run makes use of a handful of different ways which have develop into commonplace within the recreation’s speedrunning neighborhood, akin to placing Shadowheart’s corpse in a field and carrying her around the globe. However it seems Shadowheart isn’t simply helpful as a packaged corpse. In the event you flip her right into a bear and hit her with the precise assist spells, she will take out a few of the recreation’s hardest bosses by leaping on prime of them.

Within the run, Shadowheart transforms right into a bear, after which Mae casts Feather Fall and Improve Leap on the newly reworked teammate, which supplies 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 recreation, together with Ketheric Thorm, one of many largest bosses within the second act. Nonetheless, should you additionally flip this wrecking bear invisible, she will freely soar round a battlefield with out being detected. The top result’s invisible, catastrophic harm to your enemies, and a sub-20-minute Baldur’s Gate 3 speedrun.

Baldur’s Gate 3 is the form of recreation that encourages this form 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 probably the most highly effective enemies within the recreation with a large bear. However untangling all of those superb potentialities will also be overwhelming, so I respect anybody who’s prepared to get their nails soiled digging into how all these programs work.