Baldur's Gate 3 now has an ultra-hard anti-save-scum mode

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Howdy gang, Like a holiday turkey overstuffed with a moist heap of meaty bread, so too have you overstuffed our collective heart here at Larian. Since our launch in August, over 1.3 million players have completed Baldur's Gate 3, which, to continue the holiday metaphor, has made even the most blackened Belgian heart expand to at least three times its normal size. We’re so thrilled to see so many of you are loving - and, you know, finishing - the game.

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As of the latest patch, you can select a new 'Honour' difficulty mode that limits you to a single save file and also "ups the intensity" of the previous hardest mode, Tactician, making the game even more difficult in and out of combat.

Fortunately, if you just want to curb your tendency to save scum on other difficulties, there's another new 'custom' difficulty mode that allows you to tweak a ton of options - you could have Tactician-level combat with lower enemy aggression all with a single save file:

After getting pretty OP in my normal run, I started a Tactician playthrough and found the early encounters quite difficult enough, but I know a lot of folks online have been saying player power can even overtake Tactician difficulty from about level 4-5 onwards, so I expect the even harder and save scumless Honour difficulty will be welcomed by many.

Anyone here taking on the challenge?

Created at 6:33pm, 30th November, 2023. Page last updated at 2:43pm, 16th May, 2024.

Lanah Tyra 11/30/2023, 7:09:08 PM

I still have to get to it to even play it in normal mode, but I really enjoyed trying the hard mode of Diablo III back in the days, so would be fun to try something like that again.