The great world of Baldur’s Gate 3 speedrunning leveled up as soon as once more this week with a brand new quickest time for an all acts completion of the sport — and it was made attainable thanks to an enormous invisible bear.
Baldur’s Gate 3 speedrunner Mae, who IGN has reported on a number of instances for numerous world information in Larian’s sprawling Dungeons & Dragons role-playing recreation, has executed it once more, setting the primary sub-20 minute completion of all three acts.
Setting a verified, load eliminated time of 19m 20s, Mae employed lots of the techniques which have fuelled Baldur’s Gate 3 speedruns over the previous couple of months, corresponding to leaping like a frog by 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 conversant in 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 right 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’re, the tougher 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 harm. Rinse and repeat for section two. It is a tactic Mae confirmed off in the course of the latest AGDQ Baldur’s Gate 3 speedrun, however now in a world file time. It’s fairly spectacular stuff.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is just half a yr outdated, so there’s loads of room left for speedruns to shave off much more time.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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