Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 player shares \u201cdisaster\u201d Honor Mode victory LarianA Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 player told the wild story of how they managed to just barely beat Honor Mode in a manner that gave them \u201cthe worst possible ending.\u201d In Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, there\u2019s perhaps no accomplishment more sought after than an Honor Mode victory. Completing the game on this exceptionally punishing difficulty \u2013 and without even experiencing a total party kill \u2013 is no small feat, and doing so for the first time gets you the Foehammer and a special gold d20 to use on subsequent playthroughs. There are plenty of stories of players either exploiting mechanics to beat Honor Mode or losing their runs in devastating, sometimes hilarious, ways. However, one player who managed to complete Honor Mode has explained why it didn\u2019t feel like much of a win following a disastrous final battle. Note, spoilers for Baldur\u2019s Gate 3\u2019s final boss battle to follow. BG3 player gets \u201cworst possible ending\u201d after barely finishing final battle Reddit user Fuzzy-Ad6915 shared their experience on the BG3 subreddit. After making it through most of the game with little difficulty, the player figured they\u2019d breeze through the final boss fight. Unfortunately for them, \u201cPretty much everything that could go wrong did.\u201d After losing every party member except for Gale, the player assumed their Honor Mode run was over. However, when looking over Gale\u2019s abilities for anything useful, they noticed Netherese Orb Blast was still an option. The player decided to try it, triggering a cutscene \u201cwhere Gale says how this fight hasn\u2019t gone as planned and unfortunately he\u2019s going to have to use the nuke.\u201d This, of course, leads to everyone dying, but the game still counts it as a victory. Since the player\u2019s Dark Urge also died in the fight, they were only able to witness the epilogue party as an \u201cecho\u201d who couldn\u2019t interact with the only three surviving companions. While the player may not feel like they\u2019ve won, as others have commented, what matters most is that they made it through Honor Mode. As one commenter put it, \u201cHey, technical victories are still victories.\u201d \u201cDoesn\u2019t matter, gold dice!\u201d said another. Ultimately, this player can always try Honor Mode again if they want to attempt a more triumphant victory. Either way, this story can serve as a cautionary tale against getting too comfortable with an optimized build \u2013 after all, you\u2019re always at the mercy of the dice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 player shares \u201cdisaster\u201d Honor Mode victory LarianA Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 player told the wild story of how they managed to just barely beat Honor Mode in a manner that gave them \u201cthe worst possible ending.\u201d In Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, there\u2019s perhaps no accomplishment more sought after than an Honor Mode victory. Completing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}