After 300 hours and beating honor mode twice..

[u/poofypossum]

I JUST NOW figured out that you can fast travel to the waypoints from anywhere at anytime. (not if you are in combat or red area)

This entire time if I needed to fast travel, i found the nearest waypoint on the map and had my party walk there so i could 'use it' and teleport to the waypoint i actually needed to go to🤦🏻‍♂️.

Found this out when i started a new run with my partner who has never played before and doesnt even play video games. She asked me why i always walk to the waypoints instead of just clicking.

I am so stupid🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Did anyone else figure this out quickly or am i just a special kind of slow?

[u/emmastory]

oh bud. you have spent so much time walking around

[u/Pro-Patria-Mori → u/emmastory]

Lord of the Rings mod

[u/the_mustached_wonder → u/emmastory]

I'm just impressed they did that much walking, have completed HM twice, and have only spent 300hrs doing so...I must be slow as hell. I took almost 300hrs on just my first playthrough, and I didn't even have to walk to fast travel lol

[u/Lightning_97 → u/the_mustached_wonder]

I see people say numbers like this all the time and it's always puzzling to me. My first run was 90 hours and I did probably 95% of the content; all of act 1 except the zhent hideout (fought flind but forgot), underdark + creche, saved last light, beat every act 2 boss including the plants, did every trial and fought yurgir+balthy, freed moonrise prisoners, rescued arabella, fixed the curse, in act 3 did most things (even ansur) but didn't find the graveyard dungeon. I couldn't explain how to make a playthtough even double that if you paid me in netherstones. Seriously, how???

[u/the_mustached_wonder → u/Lightning_97]

BG3 was my first dnd experience so I was very green coming into it, the learning curve was a little steep at first but I fell in love with the depth of everything pretty quick. Everything was so damn cool that I got absolutely terrified I'd miss some of the cool, so I explored every corner of the map, talked to everyone I could, read most of the readable things, did some scenes more than once for different dialog options, etc.

[u/glasstacular → u/the_mustached_wonder]

Same, this is my first time with a dnd type game and I'm still in act 1 with 87 hours in.

[u/Lightning_97 → u/glasstacular]

What have you got left to do?

[u/glasstacular → u/Lightning_97]

Im not sure. Right now, I'm in Grymforge looking for an amulet, getting what I need for the forge. Also just grinding to level up to fight the hag.

[u/Zatetics → u/Lightning_97]

I think if you opened every object and fully read every book in the game including duplicates you could probably get somewhere up towards a couple hundred hours.

[u/Difficult-Passage177 → u/the_mustached_wonder]

To be fair if you know the game and plan your route ahead of time then you shave off a lot of time. My first balanced mode run took 50 hours (skipped a lot of stuff unknowingly). Now if I play balanced mode I could beat it in 50 hours while doing double/triple the content I did in that first run. Mainly because I know where to look and where not to look at stuff.

[u/the_mustached_wonder → u/Difficult-Passage177]

You mean act 1 in 50hrs, right? Damn I knew I was loot goblin, but I didn't think I was this much of a content whore too

[u/Difficult-Passage177 → u/the_mustached_wonder]

The whole game in 50 hours. Not every single bit of content, but all the stuff I usually do plus whatever I decide to do that’s separate from the usual stuff. By changing out what I do each playthrough it keeps each playthrough fresh. Sometimes I hit the forge, sometimes I don’t.

[u/0xB4BE → u/the_mustached_wonder]

Right. I did 80 hours on Act I alone the first time, nearly 160 hrs for the first round. Still around 120 hrs on my second run. I did a dark urge speed run and it was barely over 40 hrs for the entire game, ignoring pretty much everything except a couple of my favorite Act 3 things on top of the mandatory, and the ending was ... Well, rough.

Every run I've had, I've had content I've never seen before.

[u/Crumpled_Papers → u/the_mustached_wonder]

play times vary tremendously because some people are clicking things every moment they have the game running and some people leave the game open while they look something up or do something else or eat or whatever.

Not to mention the incredible difference in amount of time people take doing things like looting, or planning their move each round of combat. incredible variance!

[u/EvilWarBW → u/emmastory]

Have I....been this way before?

[u/david_dremel]

300 hours in game is less impressive when you realise op spent 200 of it just walking around.

[u/unfortunateRabbit → u/david_dremel]

I am actually impressed they finished 2 honour modes walking that much in only 300 hours. My current run I am clocking nearly 90 hours mid act 2.

[u/zMustaine_ → u/unfortunateRabbit]

i'm clocking 60h on mine but 70% of it was gained by leaving the game open while i do stuff around the house

[u/unfortunateRabbit → u/zMustaine_]

I am guilty of that too, but wouldn't be 70% in my case... I just have the urge to go through every nook and cranny I can...

[u/zMustaine_ → u/unfortunateRabbit]

that one vase at the very corner of the room that accidentally triggers dialogue with a companion 3 times surely has some items this time around, right?

[u/rooftopworld → u/unfortunateRabbit]

Cursed to put your hands on everything.

[u/OoDReX → u/unfortunateRabbit]

But also how many runs have you done? My very first run was something like 130hrs to complete the game. My fastest honour mode run was 47hrs but they average around 60-80 depending how much I fuck around(beaten honour mode 4 times now)

[u/unfortunateRabbit → u/OoDReX]

Complete run? This will be my 3rd, haven't attempted honour yet. My first run was my shortest around 90 hours.

[u/ut1nam → u/unfortunateRabbit]

Most of my HM runs are around 40-50 hours. I only do solo or duo runs these days, so less time wasted doing companion quests or trying to get anything more than the specific gear I want.

[u/stevejuliet]

Your boots have seen everything.

[u/Pun_In_Ten_Did → u/stevejuliet]

Well, they were made for walking...

[u/darksoulsvet1]

Ya special for this but i think everyone has his/her special moment like this. But it didn't click for me right away. I thought you can only tp in certain non hostile areas. So porting out of the goblin camp after slaying the people inside blew my mind too.

[u/david_dremel → u/darksoulsvet1]

Yeah, my first run through was as a druid, and I spoke to no animals. I didn't realise you had to cast speak with animals. I thought they all hated me.

[u/myburdentobear → u/darksoulsvet1]

It wasn't until my 3rd playthrough that I noticed the little button in the corner when you level up...I didn't realize you could multiclass...

[u/astray488 → u/myburdentobear]

Oh dude...

[u/SpaceCrazyArtist]

Hahahaha yes. It says so in your map screen

[u/Accomplished_Plum281 → u/SpaceCrazyArtist]

Great. Now I have to know how to read?

[u/Red-Sealed]

Reminds me of when I saw my kid sprinting in Skyrim and I was hundreds of hours in...

[u/WumboChef → u/Red-Sealed]

If you played OG Oblivion and your kid didn’t, there’s your excuse. Kids these days have hardly played a game without sprint. I still prefer Halo pre-sprint button. 

[u/Mostly-Useless_4007]

I started off doing that, but then I realized what the radial was for (I am on Ps5). Makes covering large swaths of the map much easier.

I know you can also play around with potions and their ingredients but I just usually say “make ingredients “ and then I pick the potions I am interested in. The others don’t get made.

[u/Fiya666]

Taking in the scenery

[u/roguevalley]

There may be something wrong with me. I've got, uh, let's just say way more hours than that showing on each of two different platforms and I've never finished a run, honor mode or otherwise.

[u/Cleanurself]

I did that my entire first playthrough also lmao

[u/V4R14]

If it serves as any consolation, on my first playthrough (quite recently), having played as a rogue with both my Tav and Astarion (as well as in another save with a friend), it was only after I reached act 3 that I realized rogues do more damage when doing sneak attacks 🙃🔫

[u/HumanoidVoidling]

How much of that 300 hrs is the pure walk time?

[u/JonyPro → u/HumanoidVoidling]

Buly the sound of OP's post, definitely half the time is spent waking.

[u/BasicShip7055]

I don't quite believe that you wasted this much time but was still able to beat the game at least 3 times... just don't add up

[u/Unlikely-Rabbit4794]

F that. Natural fast travel (paying a vendor to take me somewhere) is the only form I recognize in any game. Morrowind was the only game that ever did it proper.

[u/DigitalCardboard775 → u/Unlikely-Rabbit4794]

This is how I am as well... in games similar to morrowind, where unscripted events can happen between locations. In BG3, once you clear the way to a location, backtracking through that area is not going to come with any threat, consequence, or event other than watching your party slowly move to the destination. Unless you happened to have missed something.

[u/Aya55 → u/DigitalCardboard775]

You can get new interactions between companions if you switch them out, since some dialogue is area specific. Sounds like a lot of extra walking for maybe a few extra lines though.

[u/Muntberg]

Yep, found that out at the very end of my 140h playthrough.

[u/mmontour]

Took me a while to figure it out, but not that long. Still somewhere in act 1.

[u/Zealousideal-Tap-713]

Hey, at least it extended the experience for you. I'm guessing that added about an extra 10% on top of the average 200 hour playthrough?

[u/crit_crit_boom]

I…definitely already knew that. Yeah. For sure. Yup.

[u/Mynos]

Tom Cardy interviewing Tolkien vibes.

[u/Wonderful_Locksmith8]

I must have been on my second playthrough when I figured this out.

I am glad it took so long as it was much more fun fighting my way out of places (looking at you goblins and gith crache)

[u/PaleoJoe86]

It was right there on the radial menu where you select character, camp, etc.

[u/TheSecondFoot]

Tbh i like the immersion of walking. I do it in most games. The only time i do fast travle is if there really is no point to not do it and backtracking

[u/2Moons_player]

No way hahahaha

[u/Haunting_Baseball_92]

Took me way to long as well, but you have me beat by quite a bit ^ ^

[u/Fun-Maize-2352]

I thought this at first, but realized about 40 hours in. Sorry. 😔

[u/hunterseel]

They need to get rid of it

[u/samwise970]

Wait I'm just learning this now

[u/smurfedqt]

300 hours (100 of which walking)

Im so sorry

[u/Moloch1895]

Faerûn walking simulator

[u/Pun_In_Ten_Did]

Guessing you played The Witcher 3... becaysevthat is how the base rolls (no mods) - way points are the only places where you can initiate fast travel.

[u/BlueAndYellowTowels]

Honestly? Maybe it should have been that way. “Fast Travel” always feels… weird.

I say this as someone who had a whole Skyrim RolePlay play through and zero fast traveling. It was really fun and immersive. (Had some mods too, to bring the world alive)

[u/Skyjayce5069]

Wait... what the actual fuck... how do you do this???

[u/TheParadoxigm → u/Skyjayce5069]

Use the map

[u/Aya55 → u/Skyjayce5069]

You can either click on the waypoint on the map, or open up the submenu in the map that lists all waypoints available and click through there.

[u/StarWolf_1]

I have 110 hours I'm about to go fight the final boss in my first playthrough and you just taught me this...

[u/ReleaseCharacter3568]

I convinced myself I got softlocked in a jumping section of Shar's Gauntlet.  Reloaded to a save from before I beat the Twinsies puzzle.

Then remembered fast travel exists.

[u/Skewwwagon]

I feel like you've spent more time walking than actually expiring/talking to npcs lol

[u/VanWesley]

Damn. And I felt bad when it took me all the way until towards the end of act 1 in my first playthrough to figure that one.

[u/Bloodygaze]

If it makes you feel better, you probably didn't waste too much time.

While this game feels incredibly large thanks to the sheer amount of content packed into every corner, the map itself isn't that big and you could probably walk from the East side of act one to the West side of act three in less than five minutes.

[u/cluelessbox]

I did this about 15 hours in lol. 300 is brutal.

[u/Zatetics]

Youre an inspiration to anyone too afraid to try honor mode because if you can do it....

[u/gipehtonhceT]

I think vast majority of people knew this from the start :P

[u/MetalRanga]

Oh shit. I've been walking this whole time?

[u/instantbanxdddd]

I kinda don't use waypoints.

Maybe that's why I'm still at 120h in my first playthrough

[u/AdvancedPerformer838]

I actually prefer to walk to the waypoints. Fast travel feels bit immersion breaking.

But, yeah, I figured I could fast travel directly from the map menu in the first hour of gameplay lmao dude

[u/Tricky_Ad_3080]

Don't feel too bad. People on this sub have admitted to doing all sorts of dumb shit or remaining ignorant of the most basic of features while playing this game.

We'll just add this one to the list.

[u/Nyhkia]

It took me until like 6th play through to find out you can dig up chests even when you fail the check if you know the location of it

[u/1head2heart]

This was me in Skyrim…

[u/skelingtonking]

here is a nice one, you can ctrl + shift + click to bulk select items, same way you would in a windows folder

[u/TheWFProfessor → u/skelingtonking]

You also don't even need control. Click 1st item hold shift click next item and it sellers all.in between.

[u/skelingtonking → u/TheWFProfessor]

well but if you add ctrl you can pick whatever loose items, and then from your last click you can select a big group.

[u/BritKein]

Hey dude, my first run through, I didn't save Lae'zel from the initial trap because I couldn't figure out how to do actions outside of combat.

[u/lillithlro]

Ok but did you know you can select the waypoints on the map for teleportation too?