Huge thanks to the folks over at the CRPG discord for help with this route ! Also, this video has some weird audio corruption issues here and there, sorry ab that I tried my best to resolve them :)
I read on reddit that one can possibly use knock on shar's door so shar's trials can be avoided? I haven't tried it myself tho, so idk, if it's true :3
i actually am not one of the runners for any% but i do help glitch hunt and document the tricks for those categories ! you'd be thinking of Taiyl and Mae www.twitch.tv/imtaiyl www.youtube.com/@maeeeeeee
Dude, this is so freaking cool! I find both any% and glitchless runs to be completely fascinating in their own unique ways, so it’s been a delight watching your videos.
This video was super interesting, Personally I dont mind the glitches for speedruns of this game, however I think it is a shame that any% ends with gale in act 2, perhaps a galeless% would be interesting to explore what exploits can be found in act 3
hehe, I have actually seen some of that guy's videos. I haven't seen that one though, he did SWTOR videos some months ago, where I know him from, but yeah, that is a terrible take. Speed running games is fun. I like playing really old games like Might & Magic 6 from 1998 and, you can speed run that game in minutes with or without glitches if you know all the secrets. the fling technique is used in DoS 2 as well, which I suspect it is from, since BG3 uses the same engine, which is why flinging works.
Hate comments? Wtf why? Your content is amazing. Thanks for compiling the speedrunning progression and for doing one yourself. Hope you get more subscribers!
Absolutely love how each type of speedrun has different and creative approach to it. Love the explanations and tactics used and it made an entertaining video! Excited to see more development in the speedrun strats for BG3!
This was fascinating - I love the straightforward explanation especially. It is almost tempting to give it a go myself (though I doubt I'll be any faster, just being able to say I completed the game in an afternoon would be brilliant!) Countering the hate comments with a subscribe.
Love the video, people always want to see things done their way, play it how you enjoy it. Also speed running is a massive skillset in and of itself, a lot of people can play a game not many can speed run it.
lmao, honestly i should have guessed a no glitch run would have been just save scumming and barelmancy. but still, it answer the question i had about mandatory encounter. anyway, great video!
you can get arrested at start of Rivington and misty step+invis out of the prison and unlock the waypoint there. this unlocks the castle without an invitation or a speech check.
there will always be people who hate oyu for anything. well done on finding the speedruns. I have to say though, that a glitchless speedrun can be as entertianing as an any% speedrun, so I am glad you took up the challenge regardless.
I don't have anything against any%, I often find them hilarious, but there's also something satisfying about how badly you can break a game's difficulty using only the mechanics the devs intended. Also there's more fireworks in the basement of a mansion in Rivington, the one some refugees claimed. I don't know if it's more efficient though since it requires passing a bunch of perception checks to find them and there are traps to watch out for.
Speedrunning is cool. Glitch-hunting is cool. You're cool. Being the antichrist is cool. To hell with the bigots. Much support to you and your endeavours.
At some point I think I clicked a random beard man video when it came up on my feed and closed it after like 20 seconds because it was generically dumb. Don't let the trolls get to you (I know the point of trolls is that they get to you). Is anybody doing a glitches-allowed "3act%" (basically, just don't do the Gale suicide bomb ending) run? I feel like that would be fun to watch; I would love to see what crazy stuff y'all can come up with in act 3.
While there is a large interest for glitchless speedruns among more casual viewers of speedrunning, it's ultimately up to the runner to decide what type of run they would like to play. There's no need to pay attention to the people who choose to get angry because your preference is not the same as theirs.
Also dont worry about that neck beard. He is definitely that type of gate keeper who insults kids for playing a human fighter while first learning dnd.
cant wait for that guy to whine about the barrelmancy and make the claim that avoiding any part of the game is antithetical to the developer's values or some other insane idea.
I love speedruns, but I do appreciate glitchless speedruns more than glitch speedruns. Someone playing a game "perfectly'" the "normal" way (for some definitions of perfect and normal) is more entertaining to me than someone glitching through walls or doors or timing frames. I have huge respect for the speedunning communities working together to find ways to optimize and find new paths through games, and for the individuals who pull it off, but the full version is just more interesting to me.
speedrunning was made up by the radical left in order to promote laziness in society. However weedmoders glorious hair hypnotized me into watching. I'm seething and throwing up rn.
I play as chaotic good in my BG3 run so I fully condone all speed run shanagans. :D Looks like you could finish the game a hundred times over the time it took to finish my first play through.
I noticed in the gauntlet of shar you seemed to legitimately do the puzzle at the entrance with the strange crystal and black fog. I don't know how consistent it is but in my last playthrough I just jumped inside, got knocked back but was able to just click the crystal before a second knockback clearing the first puzzle
Thank you for the amazing video and for being amazing! Gotta ask, why drow though? I see other speedrunners go halfling with criminal background. Though they are using glitches
drow was used to get into goblin camp without an illithid check; but also this run predates the halfling runs by a few weeks ill have a new glitchless video (honour mode so no savescums) coming out in a few days thats way easier and cuts the time down by over an hour so if youre interested stay tuned for that !
Heyo. I dunno If this is known now, but you dont need to play shar temple. You can knock(spell) the last door before shar's plane so you only need 1 gem to get down. I love knock it opens everything and it even opens a lot of lockpicking impossible doors
I don't enjoy doing speedruns myself - I'm more of an "explore and collect everything" kind of player. But I do love watching people come up with crazy tricks to beat the clock. Pay no attention to Mr. Beardy. He probably never had any real problems in his life and has to invent bullshit ones to feel superior.
I wonder how I missed this great vid, thanks for this other nice speedrun of BG3 :) Could you possibly upload the full run, perhaps as hidden with just the link in the description?
I'm personally more interested in glitchless categories. But I don't get the hate for any % runs either. Some people just need to know there is a difference.
You're joking right? Fuck these comments, the views speak for themselves. And yeah, the point of a game like BG3 isn't to speedrun it, it's to enjoy it. But I'd watch a 3 min speedrun just for laughts anyway.
pretty sure you can avoid alot of that act 3 gortash rolling by gettting arrested answering the skulls riddles and sneaking out the prison(idk how youd get the key im not a speedrunner sorry). but doing that triggers gortash inviting you anyways and at most you have to pass a watchers 15 roll instead of 30. your companions can just tp to the castle waypoint too
we actually found a way faster version of gortash already with giving jaheira eldritch knight so she can do the trick (her jump distance is way farther and she can just jump straight up the side) but thanks for the suggestion !
not even ps5 has load screens that fast 😭 the whole time i was wondering why the real time was so short when considering load screen times being long on my ps5
Whoever thinks any% isnt a real speedrun is like... unworthy of consideration. Zero knowledge of speedrunning or basic social awareness lmfao. Nice of you to do full run as well but pay no mind to the eternal neckbeard
Pay that old geezer no mind. It's your game, play it however you want. Video games are full of exploits, speedrunning is just one of them. If he doesn't care for it, he shouldn't be watching speedruns.
So you didn’t watch his video and don’t know what he said, but you are willing to take her opinion of it; even though she claims SHE was called the devil RIGHT BEFORE.. showing you a clip where he called speed runs the devil. Honestly you people are mentally Ill. His entire video was about how he doesn’t like to watch speed runs, he doesn’t like them. So read your stupid comment again and try to find the context you clearly ignored. Then apologize
Also I just found his channel now and realized he's not a geezer at all he's like way younger then me.. Guess he just went gray as a teenager. Kind of surprised me like Tom Scott did :p
If you refuse to do some basic game analytics and math and invest everything into cut-scenes - someone will do it instead of you. That's fair. ( I might regret my words later, then we will release our own game, but whatever.. I'm mentally prepared )
it seems like using minor illusion doesnt work on gortash anymore, at least nothing happened when i tried it. Literally everyone else exceot him caught onto it ;(
@@delphara oh, then how did you take care of the 50 or so people in the room with him :0 when id aggro him it would just initiate battle and my characters would never get enough initiative to do anything hah
@@sebakisniesebakisnie6109just make sure youre not in the room and the patrol is dead, then invis and flee when you push him off (you do need high initiative i use alert feat for that)
So we actually dont even go through the drawbridge anymore because jaheira can enhance leap straight up the side of the castle, but in this case we were still debating if flying through drawbridge was allowed because technically the drawbridge isn't a physical entity and the pathfinding for it doesn't work as intended + its funnier for the concept if i reroll nat 20 a bunch of times lmao
@@KrakeAFK its actually not that bad since laezel will teleport to you once you enter mind flayer colony, just run up to fight while invis and switch the barrels over to tav and have laezel start running to fight while we pass dialogue checks and free nightsong
I mean the run is nice but why did you attack some guys physical appearence over the phrase "is the devil" which is a generic turn of phrase and spin it like he said *you* were the antichrist. Also I kind of want to find the source since the way its clipped here makes it look like it was grabbed from an unrelated video to your previous one... Edit: Just saw your comments below that you made it up to farm views, nevernind I guess. Sneaky :p
real??? im not trying to hate because i think this cool, but the "worlds first real" the world record for this game is like 3 mins and some change, this isnt the first speed run ever done for this game... this isnt the top time in the any % category, Title should be (speed run no glitches) any %. not the world first because it def aint
I swear it’s people like you that make me question if there really are NPC’s in the real world. She literally starts the video by explaining what she means by “real” and why she made the video. Just watch the video lol
If this was true at one point, it isn't any more. Assuming you're referring to Knock, that spell doesn't work because the door is held by an arcane lock. Knock only works on mundane locks. If there's some spell I'm missing by all means let me know.
Huge thanks to the folks over at the CRPG discord for help with this route !
Also, this video has some weird audio corruption issues here and there, sorry ab that I tried my best to resolve them :)
I read on reddit that one can possibly use knock on shar's door so shar's trials can be avoided? I haven't tried it myself tho, so idk, if it's true :3
@@lahedali think this was patched out but i may be wrong
So it's you who's responsible for these boxed Shadowheart runs! This is hilarious, keep up the good work!
i actually am not one of the runners for any% but i do help glitch hunt and document the tricks for those categories !
you'd be thinking of Taiyl and Mae
www.twitch.tv/imtaiyl
www.youtube.com/@maeeeeeee
Dude, this is so freaking cool! I find both any% and glitchless runs to be completely fascinating in their own unique ways, so it’s been a delight watching your videos.
Great video hope that glitchless% gets some more love despite the rng as its the category I prefer watching in most speedruns.
This video was super interesting, Personally I dont mind the glitches for speedruns of this game, however I think it is a shame that any% ends with gale in act 2, perhaps a galeless% would be interesting to explore what exploits can be found in act 3
this actually already exists and is where i got a lot of the framework for this route ! www.speedrun.com/baldurs_gate_3?h=any-no-gale&x=7kjyoe4k
hehe, I have actually seen some of that guy's videos. I haven't seen that one though, he did SWTOR videos some months ago, where I know him from, but yeah, that is a terrible take. Speed running games is fun. I like playing really old games like Might & Magic 6 from 1998 and, you can speed run that game in minutes with or without glitches if you know all the secrets. the fling technique is used in DoS 2 as well, which I suspect it is from, since BG3 uses the same engine, which is why flinging works.
Hate comments? Wtf why? Your content is amazing. Thanks for compiling the speedrunning progression and for doing one yourself. Hope you get more subscribers!
Absolutely love how each type of speedrun has different and creative approach to it. Love the explanations and tactics used and it made an entertaining video! Excited to see more development in the speedrun strats for BG3!
Amazing video! Love to see a new up and coming channel with such quality
Thanks for the amazing video! Watched the Shadowheart in the box video and it was great how you explained it!
This was fascinating - I love the straightforward explanation especially. It is almost tempting to give it a go myself (though I doubt I'll be any faster, just being able to say I completed the game in an afternoon would be brilliant!)
Countering the hate comments with a subscribe.
The editing for this is great. Love the creative strategies!
Very well done! Love the video and the way you made it!
Love the video, people always want to see things done their way, play it how you enjoy it. Also speed running is a massive skillset in and of itself, a lot of people can play a game not many can speed run it.
Thank you, just found your channel. This looks cool
lmao, honestly i should have guessed a no glitch run would have been just save scumming and barelmancy. but still, it answer the question i had about mandatory encounter.
anyway, great video!
You beat the game in 2 hours, like the actual end boss. That's simply amazing.
This is amazing lol. Thank you for your hard work.
You look and sound the most convincing ive ever seen, well done.
you can get arrested at start of Rivington and misty step+invis out of the prison and unlock the waypoint there. this unlocks the castle without an invitation or a speech check.
there will always be people who hate oyu for anything. well done on finding the speedruns. I have to say though, that a glitchless speedrun can be as entertianing as an any% speedrun, so I am glad you took up the challenge regardless.
I don't have anything against any%, I often find them hilarious, but there's also something satisfying about how badly you can break a game's difficulty using only the mechanics the devs intended.
Also there's more fireworks in the basement of a mansion in Rivington, the one some refugees claimed. I don't know if it's more efficient though since it requires passing a bunch of perception checks to find them and there are traps to watch out for.
Speedrunning is cool. Glitch-hunting is cool. You're cool. Being the antichrist is cool. To hell with the bigots. Much support to you and your endeavours.
At some point I think I clicked a random beard man video when it came up on my feed and closed it after like 20 seconds because it was generically dumb. Don't let the trolls get to you (I know the point of trolls is that they get to you).
Is anybody doing a glitches-allowed "3act%" (basically, just don't do the Gale suicide bomb ending) run? I feel like that would be fun to watch; I would love to see what crazy stuff y'all can come up with in act 3.
Any% No Gale is a category on the speedrun page for bg3. People are still routing it, but it doesn't have many runners.
While there is a large interest for glitchless speedruns among more casual viewers of speedrunning, it's ultimately up to the runner to decide what type of run they would like to play. There's no need to pay attention to the people who choose to get angry because your preference is not the same as theirs.
Really good vid, enjoyed it hep up the speedruns
really interesting and well edited video. gg
Also dont worry about that neck beard. He is definitely that type of gate keeper who insults kids for playing a human fighter while first learning dnd.
cant wait for that guy to whine about the barrelmancy and make the claim that avoiding any part of the game is antithetical to the developer's values or some other insane idea.
Lol the Gortash kill is genius, I'll have to try that!
Larian confirmed Barrelmancy as a next class and I approve! 🙂
I love speedruns, but I do appreciate glitchless speedruns more than glitch speedruns. Someone playing a game "perfectly'" the "normal" way (for some definitions of perfect and normal) is more entertaining to me than someone glitching through walls or doors or timing frames. I have huge respect for the speedunning communities working together to find ways to optimize and find new paths through games, and for the individuals who pull it off, but the full version is just more interesting to me.
I almost spit out my whisky and coke at barrelmancy.
that's 1 more sub
speedrunning was made up by the radical left in order to promote laziness in society. However weedmoders glorious hair hypnotized me into watching. I'm seething and throwing up rn.
hahaha jebaited me with the title :P was like "Oh so any% isn't real" awesome video ty
You could have just made any % glitches less why can't people tell the difference
I play as chaotic good in my BG3 run so I fully condone all speed run shanagans. :D
Looks like you could finish the game a hundred times over the time it took to finish my first play through.
I noticed in the gauntlet of shar you seemed to legitimately do the puzzle at the entrance with the strange crystal and black fog. I don't know how consistent it is but in my last playthrough I just jumped inside, got knocked back but was able to just click the crystal before a second knockback clearing the first puzzle
yeah you can animation cancel to brute force it but it only saves a few seconds so i didnt really care bc its against the spirit of the run
Thank you for the amazing video and for being amazing! Gotta ask, why drow though? I see other speedrunners go halfling with criminal background. Though they are using glitches
drow was used to get into goblin camp without an illithid check; but also this run predates the halfling runs by a few weeks
ill have a new glitchless video (honour mode so no savescums) coming out in a few days thats way easier and cuts the time down by over an hour so if youre interested stay tuned for that !
@@delphara I'll definitely watch that! Thanks for being awesome! ^^
always happy to see the durge being meta :)
you got a sub :) great vid
Heyo. I dunno If this is known now, but you dont need to play shar temple. You can knock(spell) the last door before shar's plane so you only need 1 gem to get down. I love knock it opens everything and it even opens a lot of lockpicking impossible doors
At least SH wasn't boxed this time
Yeah, just thrown off a cliff or something similar)
Dang honestly as annoying as the loads for that run were. That’s impressive time. Also great video love the humor and spite that led to this run.
Great video, love the intro too! Keep up the great work!
Yes I love misrepresenting old people so young people can prove themselves correct 😂
@@wartome3196 old man
I don't enjoy doing speedruns myself - I'm more of an "explore and collect everything" kind of player. But I do love watching people come up with crazy tricks to beat the clock. Pay no attention to Mr. Beardy. He probably never had any real problems in his life and has to invent bullshit ones to feel superior.
Crazy cool run!
I don't speed run but that was fascinating, cool vid
that netherbrain kill was fire 🔥
ignore the um actually's and the gatekeepers. speed runs are super fun, and clearly a ton of work. keep gettin it!
I wonder how I missed this great vid, thanks for this other nice speedrun of BG3 :)
Could you possibly upload the full run, perhaps as hidden with just the link in the description?
interesting strategy to feed the trolls 🤔
lovely video, you might become my favourite antichrist yet
I just got arrested and sent to gortashish castle. Plus they give you free invisibility to escape the prison. No lock picking.
Nice job !
Great video, subscribed
holy shit that crazy
I'm personally more interested in glitchless categories. But I don't get the hate for any % runs either. Some people just need to know there is a difference.
Damn thats impressive!
You're joking right? Fuck these comments, the views speak for themselves. And yeah, the point of a game like BG3 isn't to speedrun it, it's to enjoy it. But I'd watch a 3 min speedrun just for laughts anyway.
Now we need a full romance category for each companion to counter sex% speedruns
is that an Adams apple
pretty sure you can avoid alot of that act 3 gortash rolling by gettting arrested answering the skulls riddles and sneaking out the prison(idk how youd get the key im not a speedrunner sorry). but doing that triggers gortash inviting you anyways and at most you have to pass a watchers 15 roll instead of 30. your companions can just tp to the castle waypoint too
we actually found a way faster version of gortash already with giving jaheira eldritch knight so she can do the trick (her jump distance is way farther and she can just jump straight up the side) but thanks for the suggestion !
I very much enjoy glitchless runs, as the any% always just turn into bughunts, and not actually playing the game as intended.
Barrelmancy I can't 🤣
Is killing gortash faster than allying with him? He dies anyway in a cutscene with the brain.
wow, nice!
not even ps5 has load screens that fast 😭 the whole time i was wondering why the real time was so short when considering load screen times being long on my ps5
Anti Speedrun nonsense is...well nonsense. I don't get how people just fail to grasp the idea of a Speedrun.
Whoever thinks any% isnt a real speedrun is like... unworthy of consideration. Zero knowledge of speedrunning or basic social awareness lmfao. Nice of you to do full run as well but pay no mind to the eternal neckbeard
Yesus, im 150+ hours in and I'm still on my first run
IMO Speed runs are all about the research we don't see!
Pay that old geezer no mind. It's your game, play it however you want. Video games are full of exploits, speedrunning is just one of them. If he doesn't care for it, he shouldn't be watching speedruns.
So you didn’t watch his video and don’t know what he said, but you are willing to take her opinion of it; even though she claims SHE was called the devil RIGHT BEFORE.. showing you a clip where he called speed runs the devil.
Honestly you people are mentally Ill. His entire video was about how he doesn’t like to watch speed runs, he doesn’t like them.
So read your stupid comment again and try to find the context you clearly ignored.
Then apologize
Also I just found his channel now and realized he's not a geezer at all he's like way younger then me.. Guess he just went gray as a teenager. Kind of surprised me like Tom Scott did :p
@@CenKyne sooo ur ancient?
@@panpan4757 Maybe. Half my friends call me a typical millennial and people on VRChat call me a boomer if I reference an N64 game.
Playing this game without encountering any glitches is Kinda hard xD
Amazing job! Subscribed. If you blow gale up in act 2 does this consider finishing game with a speed run :))))?
yes thats what the any% video i mentioned at the beginning is all about !
If you refuse to do some basic game analytics and math and invest everything into cut-scenes - someone will do it instead of you. That's fair.
( I might regret my words later, then we will release our own game, but whatever.. I'm mentally prepared )
it seems like using minor illusion doesnt work on gortash anymore, at least nothing happened when i tried it. Literally everyone else exceot him caught onto it ;(
you need to agro him with magic missile first, mightve left that out this video was a bit rushed lmao
@@delphara oh, then how did you take care of the 50 or so people in the room with him :0 when id aggro him it would just initiate battle and my characters would never get enough initiative to do anything hah
@@sebakisniesebakisnie6109just make sure youre not in the room and the patrol is dead, then invis and flee when you push him off (you do need high initiative i use alert feat for that)
@@delphara i see thanks! idk how ill aggro him if im not in the room but ill try anything i can!
@@delphara ok i tried it but invisibility wears off on attack so the battle starts anyway hah
Anti speed runners are the same ones who are gonna shame you for save scumming all the while they're gonna cry in their iron man modes 😭
Question why do you have to do a nat 20 to enter Gortash’s castel? You can just fly trough the doorbridge with the Mindflayer ability or fly potion
So we actually dont even go through the drawbridge anymore because jaheira can enhance leap straight up the side of the castle, but in this case we were still debating if flying through drawbridge was allowed because technically the drawbridge isn't a physical entity and the pathfinding for it doesn't work as intended + its funnier for the concept if i reroll nat 20 a bunch of times lmao
@@delphara ah make sense thank you
bro, how did you find a 2000s era recording setup
I heard the runner is a devil worshipping pigeon 0/10
So how are you having that many explosive barrels in your inventory without some sort of cheat or mod?
send them to camp silly, you can hit take all and just not be able to move, shift them around party members to get places
Gonna take awhile to get the the boss of act 2 then xD@@delphara
@@KrakeAFK its actually not that bad since laezel will teleport to you once you enter mind flayer colony, just run up to fight while invis and switch the barrels over to tav and have laezel start running to fight while we pass dialogue checks and free nightsong
I mean the run is nice but why did you attack some guys physical appearence over the phrase "is the devil" which is a generic turn of phrase and spin it like he said *you* were the antichrist. Also I kind of want to find the source since the way its clipped here makes it look like it was grabbed from an unrelated video to your previous one...
Edit: Just saw your comments below that you made it up to farm views, nevernind I guess. Sneaky :p
speedrun the trilogy lol
this is a dude
👁 Perception Successful
its nice to see up and coming transsexual making it on RUclips.
Is that a dude?
hate
Great Video! I don't recommend this method for a first playthrough though
Why not pick up Gale and just skil the final fight in ACTIII?
Imagine not understanding Any% Speedruns in the year 2023, actual Boomer L
real??? im not trying to hate because i think this cool, but the "worlds first real" the world record for this game is like 3 mins and some change, this isnt the first speed run ever done for this game... this isnt the top time in the any % category,
Title should be (speed run no glitches) any %. not the world first because it def aint
i literally made a video all about the any% category already did u even watch before you commented its just clickbait
I swear it’s people like you that make me question if there really are NPC’s in the real world. She literally starts the video by explaining what she means by “real” and why she made the video. Just watch the video lol
@@freedmfe8934 keep making no sense man you’re doing great
@@freedmfe8934 Lol ok, low-IQ troll, whatever you say. Automated bot response that makes no sense but you keep saying it. Boring
you're schizophrenic take your meds@@freedmfe8934
lol wasnt even 11min speedrun the video is cut
no shit? theyre not posting a vod of the speedrun
Great video
For the gauntlet of shar, the Unlock spell actually allow you to open the last door without making any of the 3 remaining trials !
If this was true at one point, it isn't any more. Assuming you're referring to Knock, that spell doesn't work because the door is held by an arcane lock. Knock only works on mundane locks. If there's some spell I'm missing by all means let me know.
Damn, they patched it probably lol@@aghostcalledscotty
way to overreact to comments. XD
just doing my duty of farming views o7
This comment makes no sense 🤦🏻♂️