The fantastic world of Baldur’s Gate 3 speedrunning leveled up as soon as once more this week with a new quickest time for an all acts completion of the sport — and it was made attainable thanks to a huge invisible bear.
Baldur’s Gate 3 speedrunner Mae, who IGN has reported on a number of instances for numerous world data in Larian’s sprawling Dungeons & Dragons role-playing recreation, has achieved it once more, (*3*).
Setting a verified, load removed time of 19m 20s, Mae employed lots of the ways which have fuelled Baldur’s Gate 3 speedruns over the previous couple of months, reminiscent of leaping like a frog by way of a lot of the sport, and stuffing poor Shadowheart’s corpse in a field to set off skips ahead. However there’s a key distinction this time: killing a boss as a 11,000 pound bear.
These aware of Baldur’s Gate 3 will know that it’s attainable to wildshape into numerous animals, together with a bear. Throughout the Act 2 boss combat with Ketheric Thorm, Mae turns turns Shadowheart into a bear, casts Feather Fall on her, then Improve Leap, then makes the bear much more huge by casting Enlarge on it. In Baldur’s Gate 3, the larger you might be, the more durable you fall, and so this monstrous 5005kg bear falls fairly arduous.
All that’s left is for Shadowheart in bear type to down a Potion of Invisibility for uninterrupted motion across the enviornment, then, from a excessive vantage level, leap on prime of the unsuspecting Ketheric for 120 factors of bludgeoning injury. Rinse and repeat for section two. That is a tactic Mae confirmed off in the course of the current AGDQ Baldur’s Gate 3 speedrun, however now in a world report time. It’s fairly spectacular stuff.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is simply half a yr outdated, so there’s loads of room left for speedruns to shave off much more time. And given how freeform the sport is, who is aware of what cool tech speedrunners will uncover subsequent?
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