Baldur’s Gate 3 hits the two-year mark, and with it, Larian celebrates its wonderful community of perverts and try-hards with cold, hard data.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is an absolute masterpiece. It is hands down a bar-raising, genre-redefining classic of a game. If you haven’t played it, you should. Join the millions of players who have been pouring in millennias worth of man-hours into making new characters, trying to get past Act 1, dying in Honour Mode, and sometimes, even finding love. And as a celebration of two years of BG3, Larian revealed some incredible stats about the predilections of players.
You Mean Almost 5,000 People Have Beaten Baldur’s Gate 3 Honour Mode At Level 1?
Now, I’m not one to judge how sweaty you get when playing your games. I mean people have beaten Elden Ring with just their mind. So of course, people have been tackling Honour Mode in Baldur’s Gate 3 looking for an incredible challenge. And boy have they found one.
It seems nearly 5,000 players have beaten Honour Mode while staying at level 1. Which, in case you’re unaware, is a feat and a half. Now, I don’t know if that means the whole party stays at level 1, or if just the main character stays at level 1—but either way, considering that in Honour Mode you have one life, and if your party gets wiped out, it’s not only game over but game over and delete your save—it’s an impressive feat. It almost certainly involves detonating Gale.
Speaking of Gale! We got to learn that he is the third-most respecced character in the game. And not only that, but Gale, the Wizard of Waterdeep is most often respecced away from his beloved Wizardry. If you’ve met the Forgotten Realms’ most divorced husband, you know that he’s not shy about how much he loves his intellect and his spellbooks and being a Wizard is better than being any other kind of spellcaster. So, naturally he is most often respecced into a Dragon-blooded Sorcerer. Absolutely brutal.
Of course, Gale’s respec numbers pale in comparison to Wyll and of course, Shadowheart. Which makes sense. Past a certain point, you can see the story reason for her transformation. But also, if you’re trying to play through Honour Mode, one of the first things you do is change her to a Healer. Here’s a look at some of the other changes made to origin characters.
You can see that the Hexblade Warlock continues its supremacy in D&D. People love it. And it’s extremely good in Patch 8. Larian also revealed that a whopping 265 million mods have been downloaded, picked from an array of almost nine thousand altogether. That’s a huge pool of mods – almost as huge as the huge naturals Withers sports in Larian’s official new graphics.
And since Larian made THAT mod an official one, even console players can know the glory of having Withers hanging around in camp, uh, enhanced. But a quick look at the mods page reveals the usual suspects of UI improvements, new hairstyles, and of course, new ways to make everyone appear in various stages of undress. Larian knows its audience. Perhaps too well.
Wellp, may as well go start another playthrough!
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