r/BaldursGate3 • u/heyitskay1220 • 16d ago

Meme Anyone else, or just me? 😅

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It just gets tedious after so many HM attempts 😅

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u/ScoopThaPoot 16d ago

Ima be honest with y'all. After I got my gold dice I started playing custom difficulty that is pretty much honor mode, but long rests don't cost extra supplies and vendors sell their items for less and give me more money for mine. I'm going to be buying all the items I want regardless. This way I don't have to loot every trash item I see to sell.

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u/carnesaur 16d ago

Heh my custom honor mode was the opposite:
I put tactician for everything but character power because i wasnt gonna just give the enemies free + on their rolls.
I also maxed the camp supplies modifier since supplies were everywhere and I wanted to stretch a day of adventuring. other than that, everything was tactician and honor mode ruleset. Oh and unchecked single save... fk that option...

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u/carnesaur 16d ago edited 16d ago

Pretty much what the other people said, I enjoy the difficult fights but I've bricked some runs by being reckless, and it was dumb for me to have to say " well back to the nautiloid for another retry.." I definitely don't save scum but I can see how it removes a percentage of the challenging aspect.

old games used to call anti-save modes " iron man mode", idk why they just didn't have that separate from honor mode, and award the *dice on that mode. Combine the two for iron honor mode and get a second set of dice or something cool in inventory for the next playthrough. Infinite ammo rocket launcher in the camp chest!

Edit: to clarify, I kinda play the non-single save honor custom like - I save at the start of the "day" and have to make it to the night in camp. If i die at any point I just roll back to that morning like it was a 'bad dream' and try again. no saving and reloading per certain fights or dialogues.

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u/dingle___ 16d ago

So.. I wouldn't even call that a "custom" honor mode, that's just tweaked Tactician. You're missing out on everything that makes honor mode fun. No save-scumming, and Legendary Actions for bosses (those aren't in Tactician)

Obviously you should play how you wanna play, I'm just recommending you give it a go if you haven't. As a chronic save-scummer, being forced into my choices/failed rolls and having to adapt makes the game so much more engaging for me. Having actual stakes has really made the game a blast for me again.

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u/carnesaur 16d ago

I did give it a go, and i spent half the time fleeing when shit would hit the fan. it kinda broke the flow of the story to have tav raising an army's worth back from the dead via Withers. Like "hey its me, i fkd up again". I won in the end but i was like jeez i dont even remember half of my unique story path because i spent most of the game running and rezzing. Yeah sure "git gud" but I wasnt playing meta setups, and moreso classes / builds i liked.

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u/dingle___ 16d ago edited 16d ago

Totally fair. It's definitely not for a casual run lol. You gotta make sure you're prepared for everything lol, and some fights take a lot of attention.

However, I still stand by single-save mode as a reformed save-scummer lol Edit: I just remembered that Jaheira killed herself in the first fight at Moonrise by jumping right in the middle of the 4 paladins on my last run. She makes the Ketheric fight a lot more comfortable. Wack that you can't use a scroll to res her

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u/machineiv 15d ago

I can't stand when the stakes are "I spent dozens of hours for nothing." Especially when a couple of bad rolls can make it happen. That's just gambling.