Baldur's Gate 3 on Honor Mode is apparently one of the hardest RPGs of all time, with over 1.2 million deaths and barely a 10% success rate

Baldur's Gate 3 Minthara, a drow with pale purple skin and light blonde hair, smirks as her face is covered in blood splatter
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Larian 🐲has been talking about how many of you have completed Baldur's Gate 3's Honour Mode, and it ain't many.

T꧒o celebrate the hit RPG's one-year anniversary, Larian is busting out the stats. A dedicated to the single-save permadeath mode reveals that 141,660 have survived a run since the difficulty tier was added late last year. That's cool, but Larian also reveals that 1.2 million of you failed, which means Honour Mode barely has a 10% success rate.

Not content at stopping there, the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Baldur's Gate 3 studio goes on to re🐎veal that 76% of defeated players "honorably deleted their save game," while 24% continued their adventure in custom mode.

For a while, the hardest difficulty you could play Baldur's Gate 3 on was Tactician, which beefed up enemies' health, made them nastier, and gave them more special powers. It also makes it more expensive to buy items and more costly to get a good Long Rest at camp. Come Patch 5, though, we got 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Baldur's Gate 3's Honour Mode, which builds on Tactician rules by adding a single save system that'll stop you from save-scumming and party permadeath. As you can see from the stats above, it's somewhat challenging.

Naturally, some who did defeat Honour Mode didn't leave it there. One 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:"invented an exploit" to somehow beat the horrible mode by only casting the RPG's worst spell 2,469 times, while another said 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:'why stop there?' and added more rul⛄es – No companions, no hirelings, no long rests, no tad🍌poles, no trading, and no stealing. Truly built different.

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Iain Harris
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