Among the massive haul of updates and additions that came with Baldur's Gate 3’s latest fifth patch was the mercilessly tough Honour Mode difficulty setting, and, unsurprisingly, a speedrunner has already managed to beat it in less than a hour.
For those who aren’t keen on subjecting themselves to something tougher than Tactician, the premise of Honour Mode involves ensuring that you live in a perennial brown trousers-verse by adding the likes of permadeath and the inability to reload previous saves to the equation. It also does some other stuff that adds to the challenge, but quite frankly the quest to earn the coveted Golden D20 already looks hard enough without even mentioning that.
However, as spotted by TheGamer, for speedrunner Chronos - the current holder of BG3’s all acts any% run record - all of that was just window-dressing for a casual stroll through the game in a leisurely 38 minutes and eight seconds. The run, which you can watch in full here, features a lot of the famous strategies devised by the BG3 running community since the game came out, including some messing around with Shadowheart and a bouncy disembarking of The Nautiloid.
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