Baldur’s Gate 3 players are shocked by how difficult Honour Mode turned out to be, especially for those who love to role-play.
What a bunch of whining about accepting random rolls. I do my share of save scumming, but failing my first Honour run felt pretty good because I got to see what happened when I failed. Took away the temptation to control the outcome.
Honour mode was an excellent addition and is a huge win for role-playing.
In a way, it serves the narrative of being a ruthless bastard far better than just allowing for refill choices through roleplay.
“Side with goblins or Tieflings? Rescue the prisoners? Let me check the loot tables…”
“I’m eating all the worms. I need every advantage. Fuck you Astarion, find your own worms.”
That being said, most of my losses so far I don’t actually know how I died. Balth fight I absolutely couldn’t heal any of my people. Now there is a chill touch effect that can affect you a lot, but I specifically checked for it. Couldn’t use potions, second wind, heal spells, help downed characters, transfer life… Rivivify might’ve worked but I don’t know because Shart was the first one down on like turn 1.
Another time those cat eye traps in the tunnel dropped half my party and I turned it off and went to wake my downed teammates and died on the way to do just that. No idea what. I wasn’t burning or poisoned. I was low on health and probably should’ve sucked a portion first but I thought I’d save it and just pick everyone up do go lick our wounds in camp. Nope. Game over. Only 3 hours wasted at least.
It also really sucks to not have a face character. Shit is so expensive and you don’t get enough money for selling! Seriously considering thievery and murder. This adds such a dimension to choosing between good and evil…
My trick for Balthazar is to fight him in his original room. Don’t fight him in the nightsong’s room.
If you fight him in his original room you just have to deal with 3 ghouls that are a joke and his big bruiser plus Balthazar himself. Balth is easy to down in a round or two depending on your party comp and then you can just clean up the remaining undead. Once I discovered this strat I’ve never fought him in the nightsong’s room since.
I snuck around and tossed a bunch of corpses into the chasms. I think I managed about half before he caught me and got pissed. But I’ll definitely try your method.
Wow, the Honour Mode sounds difficult on many levels.
I wasn’t aware that if a companion dies that a scroll would not bring him back. Is this correct? I guess the two deaths listed in the article are not combat deaths. That must be the difference?
I’ve used revive scrolls and revivify.
I can vouch for having killed Gale and Mizora accidentally on early runs on the default difficulty in similar ways, and they were only able to be brought back via reloading.
