Baldur’s Gate 3allows players to approach problems in a large number of ways, using intertwining conversation trees, combat strategies, and stealth to let players make their own playthroughs. The sheer number of things you’re able to do in the game is almost impossible to quantify.
Yet there are certain things that surprised a lot of players, actions that no one really expected to be able to do. In fact, there might be even more things you can get away with that no one has found yet, but for now, these are the most outrageous ones we could find.
7Skip Most Companions
Games with multiple party members often have a few that are hard to find since you can easily beat the game without them. Yet in Baldur’s Gate 3, you can skip meeting nearly all of them and still reach your destination; it won’t be easy, but it is possible.
Withers offers Hirelings services for players who want to form a party with characters who don’t have a story in the world.
You are forced to meet Lae’zel during the game’s beginning, but you don’t have to recruit her afterward. Besides her, Shadowheart is the only other forced encounter, but the Astral Prism she holds always ends up in your inventory, so you don’t need her to stick around at all.
6Kiss The Dying Mind Flayer
We Aren’t Talking About The Emperor
During your first explorations of Act 1, you’ll encounter a dying Mind Flayer crushed by some debris, who’ll try to pitifully lure you so it can eat your brain. You aren’t supposed to succumb to his allure since he’s too weak to influence your mind, butyou can willingly surrenderyourself to it.
Your character will see the Mind Flayer as the most beautiful thing in the world and reach to it for a lover’s kiss. In return, the Mind Flayer will kill your character, gaining some hitpoints and likely killing whatever is left of your party with a well-placed Mind Blast.
5Using A Potion To Revive After A Lethal Blow
Skip The Death Saving Throws
An often-used strategy against Grym is to lure it towards the forge’s hammer, thendrop a health potionon the ground. Once you trigger the hammer, it will kill your character and destroy the potion, spilling its contents all over your character and instantly making them succeed with their death saving throws.
Well, you can make those moments happen all throughout the game since none of your enemies have death saving throws. Simply place a potion on the ground, lure enemies to a big explosion (that’s what the many explosive barrels in the game are for), and blast everyone to smithereens, leaving you as the sole survivor.
4Walk Past Act 1
No One Can Really Stop You
It is obviously not recommended to skip an entire Act of the game since you’ll end up with fewer levels and resources than you are supposed to have for the challenges ahead. But you’re able to simply skip the entire first Act of the game and head straight to the Shadow Cursed Lands.
If you end up in the Shadow Cursed Lands earlier than expected, don’t worry; you can still go back to the Act 1 areas, at least until you beat the Gauntlet of Shar.
The best way to do this is to go through the Mountain Pass and then sneak past the many undead with calculated jumps or potions of invisibility. To get to Act 3, you do need to interact with what Act 2 has to offer, making Act 1 the only one you’re able to skip with some calculated pathing.
3Trick Esther Into Paying You For An Owlbear Egg
It Isn’t Profitable, But It Is Funny
When you first enter the Mountain Pass, you’ll stumble upon Esther, an adventurer trying to get a Githyanki egg from a nearby Creche. You can get the real thing if you want, but you can also give her an egg of a similar size and still gain a reward.
The egg in question is anOwlbear Egg, found in a cave near the Druid’s Grove. You don’t see Esther again after this encounter, and we can only assume she was no longer hired for work by her employers since Githyanki’s eggs are green, and she came back with a brown one.
2Kill Nere By Going To Sleep
A Lethal Good Night’s Rest
True Soul Nere works as the last confrontation you’ll face before reaching the Shadow Cursed Lands, at least if you journey therethrough the Underdark.He is trapped under some rubble, and once you discover him, you are on a time limit to save him; he’ll die if you take a long rest.
The thing is, most quests will ask you to kill Nere (the Miconid colony asks for his head, for example), so the Drow dying from too long under rubble can be beneficial. The gnome slaves will also die, and all the Duergar here will leave camp, but it is the easiest way to deal with the True Soul and still earn nearly all the rewards.
1Use Gale’s Netherese Orb Early
End Things With A Bang
Once Gale is tasked by Mystra to use his Netherese Orb to slay the Absolute, he’ll gain a new skill that you can use whenever you feel like it: the Netherese Orb Blast. As the description states, it will destroy everything in a wide radius, all of your party members included (even the ones at camp), hence ending things in a game over.
While Gale can use the Orb in Act 2 (for a fake ending) and Act 3 (for a real ending), you never need to use that skill at all. It is simply there because Gale can technically do it, but there is never a use for it unless you want to finish your Honor Mode run with style.
