Baldur’s Gate 3’s bear intercourse scene made waves when Larian’s fantasy RPG launched final yr, however the sport’s speedrunning neighborhood has confirmed that bears are useful for different issues, too. In case you’ve spent hours strategizing and scheming your method via the sport’s complicated fight encounters, have you ever as a substitute 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 via all three acts in 19 minutes and 20 seconds (thanks, IGN). The run makes use of a handful of different techniques which have turn into commonplace within the sport’s speedrunning neighborhood, equivalent to 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. In case you flip her right into a bear and hit her with the precise help spells, she will take out a few of the sport’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 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 greatest bosses within the second act. Nevertheless, in the event you additionally flip this wrecking bear invisible, she will freely leap round a battlefield with out being detected. The tip 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 sport that encourages this kind of wild experimentation as a result of its methods are so dense and elaborate. It means that you can pull off maneuvers so simple as avoiding fight encounters by teleporting round them, and feats as wild as defeating one of the highly effective enemies within the sport with an enormous bear. However untangling all of those wonderful potentialities may also be overwhelming, so I respect anybody who’s keen to get their nails soiled digging into how all these methods work.