Man why are you taking sponsorships from actual walware level browsers? Opera has a past of selling every piece of personal information they can get on their users and working closely with the chinese govt. Not a good look.
@@AbiBomb because its what big gaming corps want you to get. they want you to trust influencers and spread memes of consumerism. dont let it get to your head and remain critical when watching anything with brand placement
I have spent 700 hours on this game and beaten it several times on multiple difficulties including honor mode, and till this day I still find new encounters, loot and npcs I've never experienced once in any of the other playthroughs. Just goes to show how much there is in the actual game.
@@kel_ski Didn't expect a reply haha, loved the video, you captured a lot of the feelings I had when I started playing honor mode and honestly, I can't get back into playing the other difficulties after experiencing it. Though i admit, I fucking hated how you pronounced Lae'zels name 😭
@@jackalope_hunter Yeah, but they seem to be just flavoured. If anything, if you're planning on doing a full evil save, wait till patch 7 comes out which is most likely in November. Adds evil endings etc.
@@Aikidragon_Prime I make sure everyone has at least 200 gold in their inventories.... and if Astarion's one of my dead people, he gets rezed first so he can start pickpocketting Withers
@@bunnyboygamille I use Wyll for my lock and stealing because of his +1-10 plus ring, necklace and gloves gives him a +9-17 good enough for anything. I prefer not to use Astarion because of his continuous complaining, same as the Gith.
Crucial tip for Honor Mode, especially in act 2: do not put all your characters on an elevator platform at once. There is a random chance that they will all bug out and fall through the platform and die, ending your run.
@@Jules_Diplopia i wish we could choose the formation in which the party moves, is a little too common for the party to fuck itself because they can only walk by sniffing each others asses and ending up 3ft away from Tav
One thing I don’t like is that you can’t switch party members when speaking to someone. In real D&D, any party member can say “Oh, I have high strength so I can do this.” But the game forces you to use who ever you are playing as at that moment.
I've done it, there is a button on the bottom left next to the barter button when you're talking click that and you can pick another member and steal everything while the other member talks.
Not sure I'd classify that ability as real D&D. No GM I know is going to allow that to happen. No way I can turn to my Bard friend and have him take over a conversation that's about to go horribly because I'm not as charming and/or will definitly fail the that I can see is about to happen. His response in that situation would be "She should have started the conversation, not you".
@@jmike8934 I don't think you understood his statement. The person doing the talking is still talking, you can then change to the rogue to do the theft. Your rogue can pickpocket while the conversation is happening and not be stuck if the interface doesn't allow it.
I remember first time on Honor Mode I rolled a 1 for getting Shadowheart out of her pod and I was so angry, but then I realised Lae'Zel didn't try, so she tried and got Shadowheart out instead, and I was so happy about it.. XD
19:10 Withers is a gentleman and demands small-talk before you can resurrect someone. Click through the small-talk dialouge options, leave, then speak with Withers again and you can use his services.
On my first Honour Mode playthrough I almost wiped from the goblin ambush in Moonhaven (the blighted village). I had to use a potion of Fly to escape, and sneak back in to revive them. I felt like an idiot almost wiping to silly goblins.
a drow would have just walked in there in broad daylight, commanded them to lick the streets clean of any dirt and used their asses as chair to sit on.
I had to rewind 3 times to make sure I heard those words correctly. "... on my first full playthrough." That makes this video far more interesting to me as I watch it.
@@gabrielabautista2966this is too true. In my first tactician run, he was the only one standing after Raph. I had him revive my Durge and then they left the House of Hope together and wandered around just the two of them for a bit because 1) I was not wasting extra scrolls and 2) I'm quite sure if Astarion was the last man standing he would just resurect the only person he cares about and then convince them we can just pay Withers to bring Halsin and Shart back later... considering the pair basically duo'd Raph with a little help from Hope... we were just punishing Halsin and Shart for not pulling their weight.
"The best part about D&D is failing" 100% agree. Failing; the chance to fail; experiencing the world on the other side of a fail; and surviving a fail that should have killed your party. The game has become so much better with Honor Mode. Now try Solo Honor Mode ;)
I mean, that partially true, i prefer to put this with the actual tabletop gaming, in a way or another the game will still respond with some selection of actions depending on how you rolled, which can make it a little frustrating
Many CRPGs have "Honor Mode" options. They usually call it "Hardcore Mode" or something similar. Gotta look around on the difficulty setting page when you start a new campaign in whatever RPG you fire up. It's usually on either the difficulty list or an extra checkbox option that adds on to the difficulty level you picked.
Yeah, some of them even allow it in the lower difficulties, like Pathfinder and the Obsidian ones. And thank god for that, their highest difficulties are truly hell compared to BG3. There's also XCOM, but that's a different vibe.
@@zzxp1 "Iron man" mode. But yeah anyways, it's pretty common in RPGs and also tactics/strategy games. XCOM is a good example. Paradox games like Crusader Kings 3 and Stellaris, too. A more obscure one is Battle Brothers, a tactics/management game where you control a mercenary company in a really gritty medieval fantasy world. Not very widely known, but great game.
@@kel_ski hahaha yeah! I think excluding the one you have to feed the elevator, you get five in total from the tree and the garden, which is the exact amount you need to incapacitate all of them in honor mode :) they skip their turn entirely so you can just focus on Bernard (the big guy)!
I've only done one playthrough, and it was regular Tav. I'm now doing Honor mode with Durge. I'm actually using the same half-elf face as you but half-drow and with a dad mustache and the buff bod. I've been playing smart-ish, but still screw up. It's led to some ridiculous outcomes so far. Like I stalled on using Silence on Priestess Gut and ended up killing all the goblins in that area. I used the crag spiders for that (the ones by the guidance amulet) and they all survived. Afterwards when I was exploring, I sent a mage hand into a hole I found and the spiders followed it in. It was the room where Roah went to hide with the other Zhents and one of them freaked out and used a firebolt and they freaking obliterated everyone and everything in the room with the smokepowder barrels. Then it goes to the party on the other side just none the wiser to what happened. Rip Roah. I'm at level 6 at the creche now. Wish me luck.
In Honour Mode, I started thunderwaving goblins into the pit that's to the left of Dror Ragzlin's room before I could talk to Gut (I wanted the brand because Nere drops a ring that buffs thunder attacks if you have the brand.... and I am sorbard that uses a lot of thunder magic)... accidentally aggro'd the whole camp instead of quickly and quietly taking care of the gobs in that area. The map turned red, and Dror's whole group ran over into that area and I thought I was done for. Some well actioned crowd control from Shart and Karlach being Karalch saved the day. Had to finish clearing out the rest of the area before we could long rest, but thankfully Gut and her minions are all chumps and that smokepowder the Zhent have was a fun little present to gift Minty with.
My dude!! i would love a stream of bg3! but if it doesn't sound to crazy, i would recommend you to do it off stream and keep the vods. Because the back seat that you are going to endure will be HORRIBLE. love your vids kels
Whomever was writing the evil choice options was living his best life. I still remember laughing for a solid couple of minutes in act III when the guild members thank you for saving them from the evil Rock Lord goons and then TAV hits em' with the "I'm pretty evil myself, it's time to die" Option .
Having done Honor mode Act 1 as well at one point during the Auntie Ethel fight one of her duplicates bugged out and became an unkillable hostile enemy in the room even after the fight ended. Of course I can’t talk to Mayrina cause there’s still an enemy in the room, and I can’t just reset the fight because honor mode. So I had everyone skedaddle, then carefully stealthed Astarion with an invisibility potion past the line of sight of Ethel to not draw aggro, and finally got the convo to proc. Of course it did mean Astarion was leading the conversation to a woman who was in a lot of emotional distress, but we can’t win every battle.
Honour Mode needs to be turned into a Roguelike. Bonuses to get better start options and increased encounter difficulties with harder, new enemies and NPC upgrades.
I'm trying honor mode for the first time too, almost my whole team died fighting the gnolls during act 1, only Astarion was left alive and I thought my honor mode was done for, that twink killed the remaining enemies and save my life. now he's my romance choice for the next playthrough, I owe him that lmao
My last playthrough had one moment of punishment. I had a super OP party roll into rivington, start a fight with the guild goons, and Gale goes to disintegrate one of them only for the vagabond NPC we're saving to literally run into the blast. I didn't even know a spell could be literally intercepted like that, but there goes my intention with that quest as the guy im saving turns to dust.
Darkest dungeon prevents you from save scumming. The game constantly saves itself and there’s only one save file. Once characters in your party die then they are permanently dead. It’s also just a really hard game.
I lost a 70 hour Honour mode run due to a single cocky decision that snowballed a fight in act 2 completely out of control, don't think I've ever been as devestated by a game before. 10/10 But that's the point, the stakes are actualy real which makes every action feel so important. I never played another difficulty again and have now completed HM 3 times, 1 normal, 1 no magic run, 1 only magic run (ironically somehow harder than the no magic at some points), and I've now died 4 times trying the epitome of BG3 difficulty: the Solo Honour mode run. Honestly can't get enough of this game.
My older brother tells me once in a while "You should get Baldur's Gate 3" I've only heard about the game and I've never seen what it's about. Thanks Kelski for making this video, you're a LEGEND!
You beautifully explained the thrill of honor mode in general. Currently I play Kingdom come deliverance in such way and in even the simplest things are scary - from robbing a house to travel between locations
I know honor mode is difficult, but as someone who’s spent way too much time playing D&D, me and my friends just creatively destroyed every situation we got into, and min maxed the shit out of our builds which made things a lot easier. Game is so fun.
To replicate the difficulty of most real life DnD at least in my experience it would be more like easy or normal difficulty with no reloads. IRL DMs often are nervous about getting the party killed because we described something poorly, players often don't take away the meaning that we want them too. Also unless we really want to put in a ton of time for prep (which I always have a hard time doing because my players often don't even know how their own characters work and there's like 50% chance someone last minute cancels anyway) we probably aren't testing our encounters beforehand. Now this isn't such a problem IRL because when I realize I've made a fight too hard or too easy I just slyly adjust the stats of my bad guys or try to find a way to let the survivors escape.
Great video and you are a very brave man! I finished my first honor mode after practicing in tactician mode. I thought I was prepared for what was about to come in honor mode. Oh boy how naive I was. Honor mode was the wildest ride in 20 years of gaming for me.
Honor mode is where you haul out the broken builds. Gloomstalker/Thief/Battlemaster Hand Crossbow, Dual Staff Storm Sorc, Throwbarian or Tiger CC Barbarian, Tavern Brawler Moon Druid, Lore bard with Cleric Dip, and Bard/Paladin are all incredibly strong. Open hand monk if you're ok with the consumables. Clerics are just innately strong (though you'll need to fix Shart's build because trickery is an under powered domain and her stats are unoptimized for a full caster support cleric. Most of these builds pop off best in act 2 and 3 because that's when the itemization starts to land, but they're strong throughout. Throwbarian and Moon Druid are probably the easiest to play and the barb gets a lot of its kit in act 1 and is feels great as early as level 3 (once you get your subclass). If anyone is struggling with Grym, grab your moon druid, assume owlbear form, station them and your caster up the stairs in view of where Grym spawns, have someone go down and start the fight, enlarge the owlbear druid with magic and engage turn based mode, and then use the owlbear's jump ability. It scales with distance, size, and it's bludgeoning damage. I did 800+ damage in one move. Big Bird > Robot
I did a honor mode playthrough as my very first playthrough as well. It is difficult, but very doable. A word of warning, the last stage of the final boss of the game is the only time I felt the game was completely unfair for someone going in blind on honor mode. I would suggest asking someone to tell you what the mechanics for the final part of final boss to help you cross the finish line.
Playing it straight on honour mode is crazy! I started with explorer, got to act 3, restarted on tactician, got to act3 then restarted and now I'm doing honour mode test runs
Always have a character with misty step. Invsibility along with it as emergency only uses and you can get out of fights. It works every time, most of the time.
I'm in the same boat played a little on release but the game was lowkey in a rough shape(performance-wise it ran like ass in my system), I was also addicted to another game now I'm playing and I'm already depressed cuz you never get to play this for the first time, a second time. The devs deserve all the love they can get.
nice to hear another person who loves this game. i also was more emotionally invested in BG3 Honor Mode than any other game (or movie or book) and the stakes ramp up. as a solo entertainment it is unique for me and I have been playing computer games for nearly 50. I have several playthroughs and although combat becomes easier the more you know there is still new content if you make the more risky choices. i’d love to see more of your adventures.
Having the lucky dice has been a massive help in so many situations. I also cast Friendship whenever I have the chance to hide after so they don’t accuse me of charming them lol
Im on my first honor mode run. Not really thinking I'm going to make it. So I started playing loose, but I've pulled out of two major hiccups. First major f up? Picked up something in the grove, but it triggered the druids attacking the tieflings and shutting down all my grove quest lines. I'm sure it's a glitch because it's only supposed to be if you steal the idol, but boy. Second was getting caught trying to poison the beer in the goblin camp. It's a completely different experience not being able to go back and just live with these huge mistakes. I also made the mistake of dumping my charisma stat. Oops. I agree about resources. I literally spend more time looking and preparing resources before I move on to anything. It's rewarding.
I got my golden dice a few weeks ago. It was absolutely incredible to finally get through it. Act 1 was the most difficult for me, once I got to Act 2 and had my first real fight I realized how well off I was, the rest of the campaign went pretty smoothly. I only focused on what I needed to to get to level 12 so I didn't do a lot of quests in Act 3. Excited to see the rest!
I don't mind that the bad guys get smarter, but the good guys shouldn't go braindead. During the siege of moonrise tower Jaheira killed herself numerous times (yes, I reload on stupidity) by casting area spells and being in the area, death. Or doing the same spell bringing her to under 10hp then she walks away from the creatures she's engaged with allowing hits of opportunity, death. Food is 20/member on everything but the easy which is 10/member.
Jaheira is braindead in that fight regardless. I tried numerous times but I just couldn’t find a way to save her from not Leroy Jenkins-ing and getting killed in 2 turns
Pro tip to encourage good rp from players in live DND ; let the players choose the best player of each session and he receives a quick save dice that allows him to do one quick save and load and everyone has to play along
I did a 1 man party run of this game in honor mode. 3 runs were killed by fall damage in the Emperor domain. 1 run was killed by fall damage in the realm where you free night song. Once I finally got my achievement for honor mode I put the game down for a good while.
I’ve been nursing my own honor mode, and in my meticulous hunt through Act 1, I’ve run into more optional encounters that have killed more party members than in my OG save
I just lost in honor mode because I left camp without companions to buy instruments for an achievement? Got jumped by four mineflayers, stunned every turn, brain extracted, and killed my character… I only had to do the last mission too, got all three nether stones and was feeling great…
I love the new mechanics and how punishing fights can be, i mean i'm a soulsborne fan so I love it when the game kicks my ass and forces me to tackle it in a different way, and thank god the most recent upde lets you use all of that without the threat of a single save because i can only imagine how annoying it must be to have your entire game fucked up due to some annoying bug or weird thing happening. For instance, i went to last light inn and suddenly everyone started attacking and killed all of us because we were very low on health and got very unlucky with the initiative rolls, that's bad enough but turns out it was actually halsin who was causing the whole problem, and i think it was because the game reacted as i was taking him, who's not tadpoled, to moonrise towers, so everyone turned hostile. This didn't happen on honour mode but man, if i had been playing on that mode i would had raged so hard. But set that aside, i'm sure it's a great mode that replicates the core dnd experience much better than even tactician
Yes, another masterpiece. I really loved the sponsor segment. I like how you went all out on the difficulty. And yeah, D&D IS about the things that DON'T happen and the consequences of those. Really seems like BG3 replicates the D&D experience as perfectly as a video game can.
2:54 Oh yeah that 5th one really _cast a spell_ on me. Really _gets my potion pot brewing_ . I blame *Dark Magician Girl* It's not a bug Yugi boy, it's a magical feature 🌌🌠
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Aight, gonna switch from GX to GX then i guess
Man why are you taking sponsorships from actual walware level browsers? Opera has a past of selling every piece of personal information they can get on their users and working closely with the chinese govt. Not a good look.
@@AbiBomb because its what big gaming corps want you to get. they want you to trust influencers and spread memes of consumerism. dont let it get to your head and remain critical when watching anything with brand placement
Kelski, bro, I'm sorry but it's over.
I have spent 700 hours on this game and beaten it several times on multiple difficulties including honor mode, and till this day I still find new encounters, loot and npcs I've never experienced once in any of the other playthroughs. Just goes to show how much there is in the actual game.
They truly cooked up a game of the decade here
@@kel_ski Didn't expect a reply haha, loved the video, you captured a lot of the feelings I had when I started playing honor mode and honestly, I can't get back into playing the other difficulties after experiencing it.
Though i admit, I fucking hated how you pronounced Lae'zels name 😭
I've played it 650 hours, got 45/54 achievements and still haven't finished it once...
Any cool options/dialogue/interactions for evil-aligned clerics? Lolth, tiamat, etc
@@jackalope_hunter Yeah, but they seem to be just flavoured. If anything, if you're planning on doing a full evil save, wait till patch 7 comes out which is most likely in November. Adds evil endings etc.
I love “bald man’s game 3” that’s why it got game of the year truly a masterpiece.
Truly made me lose all my hair, 10/10
I think you miss read something it’s bald man’s gay 3
Real 10/good
Having Astarion Thief as your back pocket "shit shit shit i need to get the fuck out of here and pay Withers to revive dudes" is a must
SO helpful
I loved doing that so much
you probably know this, but you can steal all the gold you've given Withers without repercussions.
@@Aikidragon_Prime I make sure everyone has at least 200 gold in their inventories.... and if Astarion's one of my dead people, he gets rezed first so he can start pickpocketting Withers
@@bunnyboygamille I use Wyll for my lock and stealing because of his +1-10 plus ring, necklace and gloves gives him a +9-17 good enough for anything. I prefer not to use Astarion because of his continuous complaining, same as the Gith.
Crucial tip for Honor Mode, especially in act 2: do not put all your characters on an elevator platform at once. There is a random chance that they will all bug out and fall through the platform and die, ending your run.
That's what happened to me. Fortunately my tav was a half orc and her race ability saved my whole run
@@ewe_e- half orc, githyanki and halflings are the best races
In actual fact, in Honour Mode always have one party member hang back a little in every situation... Just in case!
@@Jules_Diplopia i wish we could choose the formation in which the party moves, is a little too common for the party to fuck itself because they can only walk by sniffing each others asses and ending up 3ft away from Tav
@@babyzzzzzzzz That would be a nice, to be able to set a formation.
One thing I don’t like is that you can’t switch party members when speaking to someone. In real D&D, any party member can say “Oh, I have high strength so I can do this.” But the game forces you to use who ever you are playing as at that moment.
I've done it, there is a button on the bottom left next to the barter button when you're talking click that and you can pick another member and steal everything while the other member talks.
@@Aikidragon_Prime Sadly you still can't swap your character mid-dialogue to get most proficient checks
@@neekneek5465 If you're at a choice (1,2,3,4) in a conversation you can, I just did it. You can't if the conversation doesn't have choices.
Not sure I'd classify that ability as real D&D. No GM I know is going to allow that to happen. No way I can turn to my Bard friend and have him take over a conversation that's about to go horribly because I'm not as charming and/or will definitly fail the that I can see is about to happen. His response in that situation would be "She should have started the conversation, not you".
@@jmike8934 I don't think you understood his statement.
The person doing the talking is still talking, you can then change to the rogue to do the theft. Your rogue can pickpocket while the conversation is happening and not be stuck if the interface doesn't allow it.
I remember first time on Honor Mode I rolled a 1 for getting Shadowheart out of her pod and I was so angry, but then I realised Lae'Zel didn't try, so she tried and got Shadowheart out instead, and I was so happy about it.. XD
19:10 Withers is a gentleman and demands small-talk before you can resurrect someone.
Click through the small-talk dialouge options, leave, then speak with Withers again and you can use his services.
On my first Honour Mode playthrough I almost wiped from the goblin ambush in Moonhaven (the blighted village). I had to use a potion of Fly to escape, and sneak back in to revive them. I felt like an idiot almost wiping to silly goblins.
a drow would have just walked in there in broad daylight, commanded them to lick the streets clean of any dirt and used their asses as chair to sit on.
I had to rewind 3 times to make sure I heard those words correctly. "... on my first full playthrough." That makes this video far more interesting to me as I watch it.
0:12 ROCK AND STONE
ROCK AND STONE LADS
LETS GOOOOOO ITS BEEN BASICALLY 1 YEAR SINCE YOU MADE A VID ON BALDURS GATE!!!!!!!!
OHHH you right you were there for the OG stream!
@@kel_skismh everybody talking about Kelsin but nobody remembers Kelborn the OG
19:10 Withers can only resurrect your companions if they are dead. I believe at that moment, your companions were still down.
Bro Astarion left all his buddies behind literally lmao.
@@SavageDragon999 Astarion would 100% do that
@@gabrielabautista2966this is too true. In my first tactician run, he was the only one standing after Raph. I had him revive my Durge and then they left the House of Hope together and wandered around just the two of them for a bit because 1) I was not wasting extra scrolls and 2) I'm quite sure if Astarion was the last man standing he would just resurect the only person he cares about and then convince them we can just pay Withers to bring Halsin and Shart back later... considering the pair basically duo'd Raph with a little help from Hope... we were just punishing Halsin and Shart for not pulling their weight.
"The best part about D&D is failing" 100% agree. Failing; the chance to fail; experiencing the world on the other side of a fail; and surviving a fail that should have killed your party. The game has become so much better with Honor Mode. Now try Solo Honor Mode ;)
I mean, that partially true, i prefer to put this with the actual tabletop gaming, in a way or another the game will still respond with some selection of actions depending on how you rolled, which can make it a little frustrating
Aye since im a save scummer it was liberating being able to accept my actions and not backtrack at every corner
Im a simple man. I see that Kelski has uploaded and I press on it no matter what
Insanely based
i would never even play bg3 and i did the same thing 😅
HELLO AGAIN, NEW VIDEO FINALLY
I'm fully settled into the new office and got my new PC up and running. Let's make some videos, yeah?
Are you gonna be doing fallout 2 this week also is fallout tactics on the table
TECH SUPPORT TECH SUPPORT
@@DramaticBatu yuh also I got gifted a membership during the half life Alex stream
Fallout 2 tomorrow:^)
@@kel_ski tech support tomorrow, please, WE NEED IT
Kelski opening my gates with the baldur's gate video
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@@kel_ski he baldurs my gate untill i 3
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Many CRPGs have "Honor Mode" options. They usually call it "Hardcore Mode" or something similar.
Gotta look around on the difficulty setting page when you start a new campaign in whatever RPG you fire up. It's usually on either the difficulty list or an extra checkbox option that adds on to the difficulty level you picked.
Yeah, some of them even allow it in the lower difficulties, like Pathfinder and the Obsidian ones. And thank god for that, their highest difficulties are truly hell compared to BG3.
There's also XCOM, but that's a different vibe.
Iron mode is the most broad term used. X-COM for example has a similar mode and is downright diabolical.
@@zzxp1 "Iron man" mode. But yeah anyways, it's pretty common in RPGs and also tactics/strategy games. XCOM is a good example. Paradox games like Crusader Kings 3 and Stellaris, too.
A more obscure one is Battle Brothers, a tactics/management game where you control a mercenary company in a really gritty medieval fantasy world. Not very widely known, but great game.
watching him fight the animated armor in arcane tower without the sussur blossoms pains my soul
THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE AHHH, why did I not think of that 🥲
@@kel_ski hahaha yeah! I think excluding the one you have to feed the elevator, you get five in total from the tree and the garden, which is the exact amount you need to incapacitate all of them in honor mode :) they skip their turn entirely so you can just focus on Bernard (the big guy)!
I've only done one playthrough, and it was regular Tav. I'm now doing Honor mode with Durge. I'm actually using the same half-elf face as you but half-drow and with a dad mustache and the buff bod.
I've been playing smart-ish, but still screw up. It's led to some ridiculous outcomes so far. Like I stalled on using Silence on Priestess Gut and ended up killing all the goblins in that area. I used the crag spiders for that (the ones by the guidance amulet) and they all survived. Afterwards when I was exploring, I sent a mage hand into a hole I found and the spiders followed it in. It was the room where Roah went to hide with the other Zhents and one of them freaked out and used a firebolt and they freaking obliterated everyone and everything in the room with the smokepowder barrels. Then it goes to the party on the other side just none the wiser to what happened. Rip Roah.
I'm at level 6 at the creche now. Wish me luck.
In Honour Mode, I started thunderwaving goblins into the pit that's to the left of Dror Ragzlin's room before I could talk to Gut (I wanted the brand because Nere drops a ring that buffs thunder attacks if you have the brand.... and I am sorbard that uses a lot of thunder magic)... accidentally aggro'd the whole camp instead of quickly and quietly taking care of the gobs in that area. The map turned red, and Dror's whole group ran over into that area and I thought I was done for. Some well actioned crowd control from Shart and Karlach being Karalch saved the day. Had to finish clearing out the rest of the area before we could long rest, but thankfully Gut and her minions are all chumps and that smokepowder the Zhent have was a fun little present to gift Minty with.
god please continue this series. Such copious amounts of seratonin just gave my body a facelift.
Kelski truly rolled a Nat 20 on video production, this is another banger.
I’m glad it came out good 🙏 always be putting my all into em!
@@kel_ski definitly notice that, your uploads are some of my favorite to see in my inbox and watch! Keep it up!
World wide weave was actually genius. You're funny, internet man. I'll even subscribe and smash that like button like a good little consumer
Thank you other internet person, I’m glad you enjoyed the video
For real, that was one of the better sponsor segues I've seen
My dude!! i would love a stream of bg3! but if it doesn't sound to crazy, i would recommend you to do it off stream and keep the vods. Because the back seat that you are going to endure will be HORRIBLE. love your vids kels
Phewww you’re probably right on that backseating lol, I’m sure people would judge every single dialogue option I choose
But thats honestly the chat interaction that will boost views even if it may be insufferable to endure😂
@@kel_ski Imagine getting caught with no game live. That would be be like your homies in real life seeing you choke lmaoo
Whomever was writing the evil choice options was living his best life. I still remember laughing for a solid couple of minutes in act III when the guild members thank you for saving them from the evil Rock Lord goons and then TAV hits em' with the "I'm pretty evil myself, it's time to die" Option .
A dark urge honor run as your first run is genuinely masochistic
I always love hearing castle crashers music in videos
You even got the best Knight profile pic too hell yeah
Having done Honor mode Act 1 as well at one point during the Auntie Ethel fight one of her duplicates bugged out and became an unkillable hostile enemy in the room even after the fight ended. Of course I can’t talk to Mayrina cause there’s still an enemy in the room, and I can’t just reset the fight because honor mode. So I had everyone skedaddle, then carefully stealthed Astarion with an invisibility potion past the line of sight of Ethel to not draw aggro, and finally got the convo to proc. Of course it did mean Astarion was leading the conversation to a woman who was in a lot of emotional distress, but we can’t win every battle.
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Thats why you enable "Karmic Dice" in the settings
no, never do that. it takes the fun out of the game.
Puss
Honour Mode needs to be turned into a Roguelike.
Bonuses to get better start options and increased encounter difficulties with harder, new enemies and NPC upgrades.
I'm trying honor mode for the first time too, almost my whole team died fighting the gnolls during act 1, only Astarion was left alive and I thought my honor mode was done for, that twink killed the remaining enemies and save my life. now he's my romance choice for the next playthrough, I owe him that lmao
“Extremely curvy and clickable” is DIABOLICAL description 😂
My last playthrough had one moment of punishment. I had a super OP party roll into rivington, start a fight with the guild goons, and Gale goes to disintegrate one of them only for the vagabond NPC we're saving to literally run into the blast.
I didn't even know a spell could be literally intercepted like that, but there goes my intention with that quest as the guy im saving turns to dust.
Darkest dungeon prevents you from save scumming. The game constantly saves itself and there’s only one save file. Once characters in your party die then they are permanently dead. It’s also just a really hard game.
I’m interested 👀
I lost a 70 hour Honour mode run due to a single cocky decision that snowballed a fight in act 2 completely out of control, don't think I've ever been as devestated by a game before. 10/10
But that's the point, the stakes are actualy real which makes every action feel so important. I never played another difficulty again and have now completed HM 3 times, 1 normal, 1 no magic run, 1 only magic run (ironically somehow harder than the no magic at some points), and I've now died 4 times trying the epitome of BG3 difficulty: the Solo Honour mode run. Honestly can't get enough of this game.
14:25 i'm glad I wasn't the only one surprised by that encounter and died...honor mode is something else man
My older brother tells me once in a while "You should get Baldur's Gate 3" I've only heard about the game and I've never seen what it's about. Thanks Kelski for making this video, you're a LEGEND!
I gotchu 🙏 hope you give the game a try!
You beautifully explained the thrill of honor mode in general. Currently I play Kingdom come deliverance in such way and in even the simplest things are scary - from robbing a house to travel between locations
Gotta be the funniest thing I've watched in a while.
Can't wait for part 2!
Now if that wasn't THE best commercial integration I've ever seen...
I know honor mode is difficult, but as someone who’s spent way too much time playing D&D, me and my friends just creatively destroyed every situation we got into, and min maxed the shit out of our builds which made things a lot easier. Game is so fun.
This is exactly how I did my first playthrough, dark urge honor mode. It was unbelievably cool
We are so back! I was hoping you would do a Baldur's Gate video, but I never thought you'd actually do it
I always wanted to haha, but since I was late, doing it Honor Mode style seemed like so much more fun
I really hope you're making more of these of Kelsin's adventures!!!
To replicate the difficulty of most real life DnD at least in my experience it would be more like easy or normal difficulty with no reloads. IRL DMs often are nervous about getting the party killed because we described something poorly, players often don't take away the meaning that we want them too. Also unless we really want to put in a ton of time for prep (which I always have a hard time doing because my players often don't even know how their own characters work and there's like 50% chance someone last minute cancels anyway) we probably aren't testing our encounters beforehand. Now this isn't such a problem IRL because when I realize I've made a fight too hard or too easy I just slyly adjust the stats of my bad guys or try to find a way to let the survivors escape.
man i didnt even think about blowing gale up in the colony to get the honor mode completion
1:30 that was so smooth of an AD
Great video and you are a very brave man!
I finished my first honor mode after practicing in tactician mode. I thought I was prepared for what was about to come in honor mode.
Oh boy how naive I was. Honor mode was the wildest ride in 20 years of gaming for me.
Best game in the last decade hands down. My fav game of all time. Currently replaying DOS 2 trying to fill the hole left by BG3
11:10 that is baldur's gate in the intro cutscene. You can even find the destroyed tower in the lower city lmao
Honor mode is where you haul out the broken builds. Gloomstalker/Thief/Battlemaster Hand Crossbow, Dual Staff Storm Sorc, Throwbarian or Tiger CC Barbarian, Tavern Brawler Moon Druid, Lore bard with Cleric Dip, and Bard/Paladin are all incredibly strong. Open hand monk if you're ok with the consumables. Clerics are just innately strong (though you'll need to fix Shart's build because trickery is an under powered domain and her stats are unoptimized for a full caster support cleric.
Most of these builds pop off best in act 2 and 3 because that's when the itemization starts to land, but they're strong throughout. Throwbarian and Moon Druid are probably the easiest to play and the barb gets a lot of its kit in act 1 and is feels great as early as level 3 (once you get your subclass).
If anyone is struggling with Grym, grab your moon druid, assume owlbear form, station them and your caster up the stairs in view of where Grym spawns, have someone go down and start the fight, enlarge the owlbear druid with magic and engage turn based mode, and then use the owlbear's jump ability. It scales with distance, size, and it's bludgeoning damage. I did 800+ damage in one move. Big Bird > Robot
I absolutely throw it back to the song at 9:52 whenever it comes on in my game
I was not expecting this but as someone with 504 hrs in bg3 im so down for it
Chef kelski cooked another delicious meal
Hope you enjoyed it 🙏
@@kel_skitruly delectable
So true
I did a honor mode playthrough as my very first playthrough as well. It is difficult, but very doable. A word of warning, the last stage of the final boss of the game is the only time I felt the game was completely unfair for someone going in blind on honor mode. I would suggest asking someone to tell you what the mechanics for the final part of final boss to help you cross the finish line.
Epic, a new Kelski video! I wonder who's sponsoring him this time.
my friends and i did a honor mode with me as dark urge half orc barbarian. was pure chaos and we did full evil playthrough was so much fun
12:19 Lite work no reaction
He was always there… I just never noticed until now
Just in time for lunch, hell yeah
Lunch? It’s 4 am for me
@@CurryCrusader7114 am? Its 7:01 PM for me
LMAO it’s 2 am for me
@@kel_skifucking up our sleep schedule gang 😴 🤝 🥱
15:25 This cracked me up so hard, I can't breathe
Playing it straight on honour mode is crazy! I started with explorer, got to act 3, restarted on tactician, got to act3 then restarted and now I'm doing honour mode test runs
those f*ckin magical swords of the legendary gith in the crech are PTSD here
The kicking the squirrel thing works for anyone if you make it go away haha not just the Durge, but the Durge seems to enjoy it
2:52 BIOSHOCK MENTIONNED 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Legendary franchise
Always have a character with misty step. Invsibility along with it as emergency only uses and you can get out of fights.
It works every time, most of the time.
I just got my honor mode dice a couple days ago 🙏 it was a grueling playthrough but the end was sooooo satisfying
Act 2 might be my favourite so I'll be waiting but the ending on tactician and honor modes is scary. Every single time when I do it I'm celebrating
“We don’t reach for her artifact bc Kelsin knows consent”
Be like Kelsin. But like… not too much
Also, I forgot what Withers looks like without a giant rack. I have a mod installed that give him massive tits
This is so good 👍👍👍 Really want this to become series
I'm in the same boat
played a little on release but the game was lowkey in a rough shape(performance-wise it ran like ass in my system), I was also addicted to another game
now I'm playing and I'm already depressed cuz you never get to play this for the first time, a second time. The devs deserve all the love they can get.
nice to hear another person who loves this game. i also was more emotionally invested in BG3 Honor Mode than any other game (or movie or book) and the stakes ramp up. as a solo entertainment it is unique for me and I have been playing computer games for nearly 50. I have several playthroughs and although combat becomes easier the more you know there is still new content if you make the more risky choices.
i’d love to see more of your adventures.
9 minutes of intro are wild
I love that you customized your character to look similar to Balduran
working on my honor mode and honestly if I wasn't playing a Divination Wizard and could mess with some of the rolls, I'd be in so much more trouble.
Having the lucky dice has been a massive help in so many situations. I also cast Friendship whenever I have the chance to hide after so they don’t accuse me of charming them lol
Im on my first honor mode run. Not really thinking I'm going to make it. So I started playing loose, but I've pulled out of two major hiccups. First major f up? Picked up something in the grove, but it triggered the druids attacking the tieflings and shutting down all my grove quest lines. I'm sure it's a glitch because it's only supposed to be if you steal the idol, but boy. Second was getting caught trying to poison the beer in the goblin camp. It's a completely different experience not being able to go back and just live with these huge mistakes. I also made the mistake of dumping my charisma stat. Oops. I agree about resources. I literally spend more time looking and preparing resources before I move on to anything. It's rewarding.
I beat honor mode last week and it was so awesome to finally complete it :D
thank you larian for this game!!!
please continue this series 🙏
Please make another bg3 video my wife and i loved this video, we need more
can't wait for kelski to upload a wall video where he talks about wall
Don’t leak my 1 million special!
@@kel_ski lmfao
I got my golden dice a few weeks ago. It was absolutely incredible to finally get through it. Act 1 was the most difficult for me, once I got to Act 2 and had my first real fight I realized how well off I was, the rest of the campaign went pretty smoothly. I only focused on what I needed to to get to level 12 so I didn't do a lot of quests in Act 3. Excited to see the rest!
I don't mind that the bad guys get smarter, but the good guys shouldn't go braindead. During the siege of moonrise tower Jaheira killed herself numerous times (yes, I reload on stupidity) by casting area spells and being in the area, death. Or doing the same spell bringing her to under 10hp then she walks away from the creatures she's engaged with allowing hits of opportunity, death.
Food is 20/member on everything but the easy which is 10/member.
Jaheira is braindead in that fight regardless. I tried numerous times but I just couldn’t find a way to save her from not Leroy Jenkins-ing and getting killed in 2 turns
They walk into my cloud of daggers every. Single. Time. And then attack ME after we win the fight. Like don’t blame me for your stupidity
Pro tip to encourage good rp from players in live DND ; let the players choose the best player of each session and he receives a quick save dice that allows him to do one quick save and load and everyone has to play along
YES fallout 1 deathscreen mentioned🗣🔊💦😤🗣🔊
Had to add it hahaha
What a video man, so glad you made a video on this in your special way
Thanks for watching brotha 🤝 glad I could put my spin on it!
I did a 1 man party run of this game in honor mode. 3 runs were killed by fall damage in the Emperor domain. 1 run was killed by fall damage in the realm
where you free night song. Once I finally got my achievement for honor mode I put the game down for a good while.
i also did my first playthrough in honor mode as the dark urge. i wiped at myrkul like the dev intended...
We need more Balders Gate 3 content, I can’t wait for more 😂
Bet 👀
@@kel_ski can’t wait!
The other Larian games also have honor mode. A bunch of ARPGs have it too, it's called Hardcore. There's no saving in Grim Dawn, for example.
Great video! Durge could be considered THE origin character, given how deeply his backstory is interwoven with the games story.
I’ve been nursing my own honor mode, and in my meticulous hunt through Act 1, I’ve run into more optional encounters that have killed more party members than in my OG save
Love your video, I can't wait to see other ones about this game
I just lost in honor mode because I left camp without companions to buy instruments for an achievement? Got jumped by four mineflayers, stunned every turn, brain extracted, and killed my character…
I only had to do the last mission too, got all three nether stones and was feeling great…
I need PART 2!
I love the new mechanics and how punishing fights can be, i mean i'm a soulsborne fan so I love it when the game kicks my ass and forces me to tackle it in a different way, and thank god the most recent upde lets you use all of that without the threat of a single save because i can only imagine how annoying it must be to have your entire game fucked up due to some annoying bug or weird thing happening. For instance, i went to last light inn and suddenly everyone started attacking and killed all of us because we were very low on health and got very unlucky with the initiative rolls, that's bad enough but turns out it was actually halsin who was causing the whole problem, and i think it was because the game reacted as i was taking him, who's not tadpoled, to moonrise towers, so everyone turned hostile. This didn't happen on honour mode but man, if i had been playing on that mode i would had raged so hard. But set that aside, i'm sure it's a great mode that replicates the core dnd experience much better than even tactician
Yes, another masterpiece. I really loved the sponsor segment.
I like how you went all out on the difficulty. And yeah, D&D IS about the things that DON'T happen and the consequences of those.
Really seems like BG3 replicates the D&D experience as perfectly as a video game can.
I always try to make the sponsored segments fun haha, thanks for watching 🙏
Oh man I want to watch this but saving my Durge playthrough for 7.0 :)
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Oh yeah that 5th one really _cast a spell_ on me. Really _gets my potion pot brewing_ .
I blame *Dark Magician Girl*
It's not a bug Yugi boy, it's a magical feature 🌌🌠
That "Spawn-Die" reference just earned you a sub lmao
Only took us a month to get a new Kelski upload. Nice.
LMAO new record
I have started so many campaigns because I enjoy creating a character XD, I go back to them every now and then but it's like I have 20 timelines.