I love how a dude who was just a hobo turned assassin stumbled upon a nether stone he has no use for at all. I can just picture him selling the thing afterwards.
I consume so much bg3 content and I’m always so impressed with how you manage to take hours of gameplay and make it entertaining and new even though I’ve played through this game so many times! Also the way you edit it down is so funny and the narration is always so good.
Always read the notes and books in the game my man. They quite often give you hints about things and sometimes will put you onto the path of unmarked quests.
@@ProxyGateTactician I'm fairly certain I read that note, but I didn't understand the hint ended up just brute force guessing because apparently they don't have a security system against that lmao
OK killing rats etc is a nice start. When you said a kobold fight went 40 rounds I was thinking OK, it must be tough at low level. But the bank vault fight? I find that a battle even with full party and summons. Edit: or the barber battle, dear lord.
That one wasnt bad because I had the door to dip in and out of over and over, and could usually get a hit from stealth then run out and let the NPC's tank while my turn reset
My favourite thing apart from the immersive roleplay in your videos, is seeing you cheese every battle. I've been really struggling with doing honour mode so I've been taking notes from you. (eg. rats can open doors, wolves can't xD)
I was a huge fan of his as well. He's my main inspiration for the challenge videos, and I probably wouldn't have done videos in that style if not for him.
It definitely shows in this vid in particular. It’s heartbreaking he’s gone, but it also makes me happy to see how many other people he’s inspired and encouraged. His legacy will definitely live on through that.
Yeah. I wish you could level up higher because then you’d do SOMETHING with all that experience you get. And actually, more achievable levels would make the final battle so much easier for me, and I love grinding... you know, wish I didn’t just have 12 levels to put all the skills I want in.
your scripts, editing and humor are just awesome dude. Idk how you keep coming up with ways to make the game we've all been playing on repeat fun and interesting, but you do, and I'm here for it.
What sets you apart from other "challenge run" youtubers is how seamlessly you mix your comedy in the script. Not only do you complete some hard achievements for content, but you make those videos also really enjoyable to watch!
Glad to hear people enjoy it lol the original script is always much longer because I try to cut out so many jokes. Like this one for example the first draft my voice lines were 24 minutes
So close to 50k Subscribers! Thanks to everyone for watching. My computer died during the making of this video so if there's some areas that looks weird it's because I had to use a different computer while editing. Hopefully can get that fixed pretty soon! Thanks for checking out the video and if you enjoyed it let me know. I do try to change up the format a bit whenever I can to keep things fresh.
@@gumballz.9259 I used the debug book mod and went through its commands to teleport a fresh character there. Plus the tutorial chest mod so I could add the debug book to my items instantly.
Amazing! This is actually really useful to know: essentially, as long as you can make it through act 2 alive, there is always enough XP in Baldurs gate to reach max level by questing. So you can wend your through to act 3 without having to worry about skipping encounters.
@@ProxyGateTactician if you ever want to make an experiement with a longer RP idea like this at a slower pace, maybe with some ingame sounds or speechlines from npcs, rest assured i will be there to slurp it all in! i really loved it! And im now trying to find more of this xD
Late to comment on this, but I gotta say I was a huge fan of this idea. Really like the way you edited it all together, and your cat at the beginning :) Def earned my sub for sure!
imagine the main party getting to baldurs gate and realizing everybody they were going to talk to already died and most of the problems have already been solved.
Dang, Larian really overstacked Part 3. I knew it had a lot of 'level redundant' content, but I never imagined it would be 'you only need half the region can take you from 1 to 12' degrees. I know they've always said 12 was the intended cap but given they had to cut the entire Upper City... was it *really* the intended cap? PS; so long long to you reckon it'll be before PCGamer pumps out another article about you for this?
lol I'm pretty sure they're AI articles, but most of the challenge videos I did have had one. I wish it was no level cap like Divinity 2, but understand why they went the way they did.
@@MargaManterola it gets exponentially harder to code and design the game mechanics as the levels increase due to D&D's crazy top tier spells and abilities.
You write the best scripts of all the challenge runners and always teach me something new about this game. I'm currently playing with an unlocked level cap mod and have reached level 14, just playing normally and not murder-hoboing. Still got houses of grief and hope to go as well as Orin and Gortash fights.
@@ProxyGateTactician I'm also using the no party size limit mod and a difficultly mod (Combat Extender) as well so it's hard to say how balanced it is in isolation. I've let Lae'zel and Gale continue to gain levels in fighter and wizard but it doesn't seem to really be worth it due to bugs or missing stuff, better to start multiclassing once you reach level 13.
@@ProxyGateTacticianI did a whole play-through with it killing just about every bad guy and ended around 16-17 levels. I think level 20 would need a slight xp increase mod cause the requirements get pretty high.
@@ProxyGateTactician I reached level 16 before fighting either Gortash or Orin. I feel confident I can reach 17 before climbing the brain stem. I have only killed 3 innocent guards so far so level 18 is probably achievable for an evil character.
I'm at the brain stem and just short of level 18. Might go over in the final fight when I do that this evening. I got to 17 just after crossing the under city lake. Edit: got to the epilogue: 187xp short of level 18, lol. Minsc made it over the line though, he always had about 3k extra because I recruited him early. Edit 2: decided to reload from the last turn of the final fight and let a few more squidies parachute in. Made it to level 18 with 24xp extra.
I had this video on in the background as I was writing emails, and I just had to do a double take when I heard "the first grave contained a living man"
heres my guess: yes and youll still have half the content left over. i have no idea why larian decided to cap levels at a pathetic 12 (seriously a would be god is defeated by some random level 12 adventurer??) when they put so much content in act3 where u have no reason to do it because u will be max level after doing like 2 quests and almost all the loot is worthless truly inexplicable.
I don't think the intent is for you to clear all content in a single playthrough but to do some of it over different ones. Keeps things more challenging and fresh when only doing part of the content.
there are 9 classes bruh. each one they have to spend meticulous time porting over and appropriating the skills from 5e to fit the game, with extremely powerful abilities that would be hard to describe without an imagination playing the game. if they delayed it, we would've gotten it.
I’m honestly surprised it’s possible; and this is without any of the optional quests you can get from act 1 and 2 like killing the hag, saving the artist, and fighting lorroakan
You still had a few quests left too! Like finding the womans missing daughter, to start the quest go to the right of the entrance to the lower city into the Flaming Fist training area and then go into the door on the left, there you meet the woman and the mind altered guard, you go to the mermaid tavern or whatever it is called and then there is a door next to the bar which leads to the 2nd Hag fight but even if you can't fight the Hag you can just kill the 4 guards outside for something like 400-500 exp if needed
@@ProxyGateTactician There is a trigger for that? Damn I never knew I just thought it was like every other encounter since I always deal with her in act 1, thanks for letting me know!
This video has just convinced me even more that we need a mod that extends the level cap to around 15. Act 3 gives out so much XP but if you've been playing the game right you'll be at least level 8 when you get there, and at least level 12 by the time you're even halfway done with the content in it.
The craziest thing about this is that there has apparently been an additional section of Baldurs gate, the upper city, that has been cut/scrapped before release. Could you Imagine how much more content there would have been if they completed their original vision? Baldurs gate would have probaply rivaled act 1 in size.
This is kind of off topic, but does anyone else have 10+ different characters, yet a strong tendency to lose the will to keep playing upon reaching act 3? I have about 1000 hours in the game but have not once completed it yet
@@ProxyGateTactician Right as I read this comment I'm in 3 hours deep in a session trying to force myself to finish the game, but even though I'm just trying to finish the main quest, I keep running into roadblocks where I have to look up the solution. Granted, I'm impatient and not giving the same care to try and read through everything, but it's kind of making me hate playing, ngl.
Don't know if these quests were available to you but there is enough XP in Baldur's Gate to go even a little beyond LVL12 if there wasn't a cap: - House of hope - Stop the presses - Underwater prison - Hag quest - Zhentarim VS The Guild - Mystic Carrion and perhaps even more, those are just some i though of right away.
It was capped, but the hag wouldn't show up as i started in act 3 without doing act 1. I did do mystic carrion & zhent vs guild in the video. I didn't show the stop the presses, but did do it. (It was basically nothing involved so figured no point since it's such an uneventful quest) House of hope I considered to be outside of baldur's gate city as it requires a Yes to travel there same with the underwater prison.
A gondian move XD Also nine fingers could literally solo that fight in the thief’s guild by herself I still don’t understand why we even need to be there XD
Omg I just realized that the rat fight reward is insane. As a DM I can't imagine giving out over 100 gold for simply getting rid of a bunch of lv1 rats.
Pretty impressive you can get all 12 levels in just one region. It’s likely larian compensating for players who don’t chase down every possible quest, but still interesting!
1:00 You know you could just go at level 1 to the trader in city center, then go up to top, do a "risk" and grab the staff from the wannabe immortal guy's chamber, then basically you have chain lightning at level 1 lol. Just make sure to have arcana and guidance for the check with possible advantage from something, like a scroll, etc. If you don't wanna risk it, just go up to level 3 where you get enhance ability.
This just proves they coulda made the level cap a bit higher, especially as you didn't even do raphael's line! Ah well. This was impressive to watch at least.
They could, but Sven said that above level 12 the game becomes really hard to balance. I've heard that before, that d&d 5e becomes very unbalanced once your level gets higher.
@@IsilionNELE The higher level spells you can get especially, yeah. A good compromise is the mod that keeps classes capped at level 12 but lets you have total 20 character levels with multiclassing.
I don't know how this mod expands if you leave the city, but from roleplaying perspective it would be interesting to level up this kind of character, and move to the 'countryside' and introduce yourself as this badass adventurer who started as a beggar to the group of people we know from the game like Shadowheart. Pretty much become their 'guide' of sorts.
this feels reminiscent of the good ol' "escaping riften jail and killing the jarl with no weapons" type vids omfg. can't wait till bg3 is as old as skyrim XD
I have like 800 hours in this game and Im still finding out new stuff. I didnt know about any of those events in the graveyard. This game always has something new to offer
you even could get more because before the netherbrain fight there is this giant fight with enemys from across al arcs, it levels all ov level 12 and a bit more
