Baldur’s Gate 3 has already dazzled followers with its scope, and the diploma to which it helps participant creativity. You may improvise melee weapons — throwing rotten meals, sneakers, and even companion characters. You can too fill your pockets with absolutely anything you’re sturdy sufficient to hold, and make some outrageous performs by inserting these gadgets strategically. One among my private favourite facets of the sport’s freeform merchandise aesthetic is the made-up class followers name a “barrelmancer,” somebody who collects flammable barrels, then units them off to create a daisy chain of explosions.
The barrelmancer technique went viral on Reddit and X (née Twitter) final week. Within the clip, content material creator Okoii scrolls by way of a listing stocked with almost 40 incendiary barrels. Their Halfling character — who’s extraordinarily yoked — then locations these barrels in a domino-like configuration all by way of the Goblin Camp within the recreation’s first act, scrambles onto a perch, and tosses an Alchemist’s Fireplace grenade to set them off.
It apparently took much more barrels than I may have probably imagined. Through electronic mail, Okoii instructed me simply what number of: “I used about 70 barrels however i didn’t rely the precise quantity, there have been restricted explosive barrels so i clustered them across the vital targets and used largely Oil and wine barrels for the remainder with the occasional throwable gadgets positioned in between spots the place i used to be working out.”
A full minute of the remainder of the video’s run time is devoted to documenting the chain of explosions that completely ravage the Goblin Camp. This consists of, after all, each enemy dying dramatically, whether or not they failed or handed their financial savings throw. It took about eight hours in whole to put the barrels and movie the assorted digital camera angles. “Essentially the most satisfying half was throwing the very first firepot setting off the barrels outdoors the camp,” Okoii stated.
Okoii additionally posted a full-length YouTube video edit of his crew of Halfling barbarians — a crew that very a lot reads like a bunch of buff hobbits — inflicting chaos all through The Sword Coast. (The footage posted to Reddit and X is simply the final minute of the complete YouTube video.)
“4 Halfing Barbarians are not any joke, barbarians on the whole particularly early recreation are extraordinarily sturdy so we had completely no hassle with any fights even with out barrels,” Okoii stated.
Divinity: Unique Sin 2 followers additionally obtained a kick out of barrelmancy, so it’s no shock to see Baldur’s Gate 3 followers pulling off the identical trick. However the scope of this — 70 barrels and eight hours! — nonetheless blows my thoughts.