Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 speedrunner sets new record by stuffing Shadowheart\u2019s corpse in a box Larian StudiosBaldur\u2019s Gate 3\u2019s any% speedrun record has dropped well under five minutes thanks to a handy new trick. Dubbed \u201cShadowboxing\u201d by speedrunners, the technique involves packing Shadowheart\u2019s remains in a box. Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 has quite the storied speedrunning history for such a fresh release. Players have been finding whatever game-breaking methods they can to whittle the timer down and roll credits. Some Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 speedrunners don\u2019t even have to do that. One popular category to see who can get the speediest smash is now officially recognized on speedrun.com as \u2018sex%\u2019. Certain methods are so busted that Larian has even patched them out of the game and we think that this one may follow suit. Here\u2019s how famous Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 speedrunner Mae managed to finish the game in four minutes and 15 seconds by desecrating the corpse of our favorite Cleric. Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 \u2018Shadowboxing\u2019 speedrun Mae\u2019s start seems relatively simple, pick Gale as the player character and take Enhance Leap and Feather Fall as first level spells. This allows her to bound past any combat encounters from the first act and book it to the Mountain Pass. At this point, Shadowheart auto-joins the party thanks to spoilery story reasons and Mae proceeds to leap past any further encounters and into Act 2. This is where the infamous \u2018Shadowboxing\u2019 comes into play. For whatever reason, murdering Shadowheart and placing her corpse in a suitable receptacle makes Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 fall apart and skip the second act entirely. Mae crams Shadowheart\u2019s carcass into a crate, sets it ablaze, and shakes it until she\u2019s suddenly transported to the final boss of Act 2. From here Mae opts for the ending in which Gale detonates his chest nuke in the Cult of the Absolute\u2019s hideout turning everyone of note into a Mindflayer. Credits roll and there you have it, a sub-five-minute run with plenty to unpack in therapy. Mae is prolific in the Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 speedrunning community and has set multiple records in the any% and sex% categories. This latest effort puts her a full 11 seconds against the next quickest run and she has a habit of coming back if someone takes her spot. We probably can\u2019t help you beat a sub-five-minute run in Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 but we do have a bunch of guides to assist you in your adventure. Check them out to help you make the most of the game. Best Sorcerer build | Best Bard build | Best Rogue build | Best Fighter build | Best Ranger build | Best Barbarian build | Best Druid build | Best Warlock build | Best Wizard build | Baldur\u2019s Gate 3: What\u2019s the max level cap? | Best Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 classes tier list | How to revive characters in Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 | Can you multiclass in Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 | Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 Soul Coins: How to get them & what they are | Baldur\u2019s Gate 3: Fastest ways to get XP & level up | Baldur\u2019s Gate 3: How to respec your character | Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 Karmic Dice: What are they? | How to unlock Displacer Beast in Baldur\u2019s Gate 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 speedrunner sets new record by stuffing Shadowheart\u2019s corpse in a box Larian StudiosBaldur\u2019s Gate 3\u2019s any% speedrun record has dropped well under five minutes thanks to a handy new trick. Dubbed \u201cShadowboxing\u201d by speedrunners, the technique involves packing Shadowheart\u2019s remains in a box. Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 has quite the storied speedrunning history […]<\/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-20820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20820","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=20820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}