Baldur's Gate 3 player throws away a 92-hour Honour Mode run because they really wanted a specific pair of gloves (2024)

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How bad is honor mode BG3? ›

Firstly, Honour Mode makes boss fights in BG3 much more difficult. In this mode, players will find that boss battles (like Orin and Gortash in Act 3) are much trickier, as bosses gain access to stronger gear, additional bonuses when rolling, and some truly horrific Legendary attacks.

All this is to reiterate that it's hard, which makes it all the more impressive that one speed runner, who goes by Chronos online, beat Baldur's Gate 3 in Honour Mode in just over 38 minutes.

Baldur's Gate 3 has a hidden exploit for Honour Mode that lets you save scum. While the mode typically doesn't let you exit the game without saving, there's a workaround for this, preventing the game from making an exit save, and therefore, letting you go back to a previous save file.

Permadeath aside, Baldur's Gate 3's Honour Mode is also notably more difficult than anything previously in the game⁠—Divinity's version was just Tactician with permadeath, while the addition of "Legendary Actions" for bosses has me nervous as all hell.

Honour Mode is a new difficulty option for Baldur's Gate 3 that adds tougher bosses, stricter rules, a single save slot, and permadeath if you suffer a Total Party Kill. It builds on the game's Tactician difficulty, which already makes things plenty harder, so it's an unrelenting experience for seasoned players.

Only 0.1 percent of players have managed to beat Honour Mode, earning the Foehammer trophy. It's the same over on PlayStation, but luckily, it's under a separate DLC tab. On Steam, if you want to 100 percent Baldur's Gate 3 now, you have to conquer the most challenging difficulty setting in the game.

In a series of stat infographics, Larian shows that 464 parties have finished Baldur's Gate 3 Honour Mode.

I had many people angerly tell me that using Gale as your main character, and detonating the netherese orb in act 3, doesn't gain you the honour mode trophy. Just so you all know, they were wrong. I just did it.

The best Honour Mode builds are the Gloom Stalker Ranger, Berserker Barbarian, and Battle Master Fighter. Each of these classes has high survivability, both range and melee combat and Extra Attack. Each of these solo builds can complete Tactician difficulty solo, and when combined, has a powerful party composition.

How many players have completed honor mode? ›

Only 464 parties have successfully finished Honor Mode as of this writing. That means less than 0.01% of all players have completed Honor Mode. Of the 158,000 players that started a run of Honor Mode, there have been over 34,000 who failed their run.

Items in the environment which belong to another creature are indicated with a red outline and text. They can be stolen without consequences if you're careful. To steal such an item, you first need to make sure that you won't be noticed in the moment you pick it up.

As a non-vampire himself, Astarion doesn't have the ability to turn people completely, either, but that all changes in one very specific path in the game. During "The Pale Elf" quest, upon killing his former master, Cazador Szarr, Astarion will be granted the choice to finally ascend to full vampire status.

party wipe = new game, IMHO. If you reach that point where to continue you need to load a game, you lost. From there, your honor is your own, your rules or if its a contest with others, agree on rules.

The preset modes are, from easiest to most difficult: Explorer, Balanced, Tactician and Honour, with Balanced as the default mode to which all others modes are compared.

Only 438 people have completed Honor Mode according Larian :: Baldur's Gate 3 General Discussions.

Only 0.1 percent of players have managed to beat Honour Mode, earning the Foehammer trophy. It's the same over on PlayStation, but luckily, it's under a separate DLC tab. On Steam, if you want to 100 percent Baldur's Gate 3 now, you have to conquer the most challenging difficulty setting in the game.