Even though Baldur’s Gate 3 came out months ago, players are still finding ways to stretch its role-playing campaign in unusual directions. This time, one player managed to get through the game on the highest difficulty using only the worst spell in the game.

Honor Mode is the highest difficulty level in the game, and to make it even harder, the only spell used by youtuber Fracturе in the challenge was the infamous Faithful Strike.

I didn’t use explosives in this challenge. There were no necrotic corpse tricks. I didn’t attack enemies or use special weapon abilities that deal damage.

The attempt also ends at the end of the third act, so triggering one of the earlier endings by, say, blowing up Gale won’t work either.

Just in case you’ve never encountered Faithful Strike in your playthroughs – this spell gives the user an advantage in the next turn. That is, you sacrifice your current turn for a benefit in the next round, which is too expensive a cost for most players.

That said, Faithful Strike does no damage, meaning the player initially has no self-defense. Fracture sneaks around and convinces characters until they get an item that adds Reverberation to that skill. Once Reverberation accumulates five times, it deals 2-5 units of electrical damage. It’s not hard to guess how quickly this tactic turns into a nerf grind.

Fracturе has a talent for turning the game into something strange and applying crazy strategies that probably no one else would have thought of. For example, the boss battle with Raphael ended with one of the squad members running around in circles until he was victorious.

Baldur’s Gate 3 will feature over 17,000 ending variations

Youtuber Fextralife has released a new video in which he revealed amazing details about Baldur’s Gate 3. It turns out that the game will have over 17 thousand different variations of the ending. This was revealed to the blogger by the screenwriter Crystal Ding:

I spent some time talking to Crystal [Ding], who is one of the lead writers on the project, and she’s working primarily on the game’s ending. She’s been working on it for six months now, just on the ending of the game, which is just incredible. I asked her: “How many ending options are there?”. And she told me that there are 17,000 variations of the ending.

This information was indirectly confirmed by Michael Downes, the studio’s director of publishing:

It’s worth realizing that the vast majority of the 17,000 variations will only differ from each other in minor details. After all, even Fallout 3 also had over 200 variations of the ending, although the plot itself was straight as a rail.

A new patch has added dozens of bugs to Baldur’s Gate 3

At the end of last week Larian Studios released the sixth major patch for Baldur’s Gate 3. The update weighed 21 GB, required 150 GB of free space and, as usual, not only fixed a number of bugs, but also introduced a bunch of new ones.

In a special thread on Reddit, users counted over three dozen bugs that appeared after the patch was released. In the character creation menu, for example, the numbers on the side of the sliders disappeared, in the trade menu you can no longer sell many items by selecting them through Shift/Ctrl, and the inventory of the merchant began to load very long, occasionally freezing completely. In addition, now only the active character can sell loot, not the whole group.

Updated animations of kisses, which the developers boasted about, also turned out to be problematic. As it turned out, they now cut off dialogs and sometimes hang, so your characters kiss endlessly.

The full list of bugs found can be found here. After some time gamers are going to pass it to the developers.