Baldur’s Gate 3’s bear intercourse scene made waves when Larian’s fantasy RPG launched final 12 months, however the recreation’s speedrunning neighborhood has confirmed that bears are useful for different issues, too. If you happen to’ve spent hours strategizing and scheming your method via the sport’s advanced fight encounters, have you ever as a substitute 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 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 out to be commonplace within the recreation’s speedrunning neighborhood, resembling placing Shadowheart’s corpse in a field and carrying her all over the world. However it seems Shadowheart isn’t simply helpful as a packaged corpse. If you happen to flip her right into a bear and hit her with the fitting assist spells, she will be able to take out a few of the recreation’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 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 greatest bosses within the second act. Nevertheless, if you happen to additionally flip this wrecking bear invisible, she will be able to freely bounce 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 sort of recreation that encourages this kind of wild experimentation as a result of its programs 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 recreation with an enormous bear. However untangling all of those wonderful prospects can be overwhelming, so I respect anybody who’s keen to get their nails soiled digging into how all these programs work.