Baldur's Gate 3 No Companions Challenge Run EP:1

so I was playing Ballers Gate 3 recently and a thought struck me is it possible to play the entirety of this game solo no friends no companions nothing and today I'm gonna start seeing if that's possible [Music] the first most important part of this challenge is which class I pick because if I picked one of the Support classes they like a wizard or something that needs a front-line tank to eat up damage it's not gonna go well I'm just not gonna get far so my first thought was I need to pick a class that's kind of tanky and has some healing which led me to think the cleric but I decided to get a second opinion here I decided to call up me and my friend groups game master actually and I asked him the exact same question what class do you think would be best for surviving on my own in this game and he actually had a very interesting answer did I think I agree with he said I should go with the Rogue because the goal is not going to be able to eat up damage and take hits it's going to be not to get hit at all so I'm gonna play the Rogue actually and try to stealth this another important part of this is which race I was gonna pick the rogue's pretty set in place because I can be sneaky but I also wanted to pick a race to build on that to allow me to be even more sneaky ended up deciding to go with the elf because they're fairly sneaky and also if you pick the high elf you get the canned trip of Firebolt and that'll help me out put a little bit more damage over the levels I said to go through and change my stats around a little bit than just the standard given for the Rogue because I wanted a little bit more Charisma dexterity was already set at 17 but I feel like a little bit more charisma's gonna help me talk my way out of situations rather than fighting my way to situations because there's only one of me so a fight is just probably gonna end badly so if I can talk my way out much better result now a much less important part of character creation but still absolutely vital to this playthrough here was my appearance um I went with this guy I made this combination that make him look kind of just like a guy named Frank I don't know this is just what I'll end up with so I named him sneaky Frank so here you go here's sneaky Frank like it's time to get onto that mind player ship and see what we can do so starting off this in absolutely the only way possible we start off with a hilarious visual bug yep there he is that's our boy sneaky Frank sticking straight vertical out of the Mind flayer pod this is gonna be a fantastic play through oh my God anyways uh getting on with the actual game here I'm gonna not touch the egg in the middle that explodes because it explodes but I am going to loot all the corpses around because I am a little bit of a loot Goblin so I'm gonna steal literally everything which will actually probably be another important facet of this playthrough I am going to need as many consumables as I can get since I'm gonna be running into things that are meant to be party of four I'm gonna need to Output the damage like four people so I'm gonna be going through a lot of potions like 110 use spell Scrolls and whatnot so I'm gonna need everything I can get so actually getting into it here I can't have any allies which means I can't go up this elevator here and get the creepy little brain thing thinking back now I probably should have gone up and got the items up there and just skip the brain but I gotta stay away from the brain and I'm very okay stay with the brain that scene was a little disgusting incredibly well made but a little bit disgusting so when I ran into Lazelle here next to the dragons in the fire and everything and she tried to kill me I realized that in her chat options there's actually none to tell her to get lost so I gotta stick with her for a little bit but first moment I can getting rid of her going solo so first fight I got into here was taking down these three imps right at the beginning I don't really foresee any problems being solo even though Azalea's here for now on the tutorial here I think the real problems are going to get into once I land on that starting Beach so the next issue I had to deal with here is not really an issue more so my supposed to be companion shadowheart who's locked in a pod here I had to of course stop by and say hi at least to let her know you know I'm taking this solo I'm gonna leave you alone here enjoy the fire crash goodbye so I stopped by slapped the Pod once and then moved on the next area now here's where things are gonna get real interesting I gotta take over the bridge here this will not be a little more interesting solo because there's a few more enemies to fight I was able to end up fighting my way through the monsters on the way to get to the weird tentacle steering wheel type deal whatever you want to call that a council maybe I don't know it's got tentacles I'm a little afraid but this one was a little harder this might start getting interesting pretty quick here so look on the beach after my little brain worm saved me from falling by death and surprise surprise no Shadow heart rate at the beginning because you know left her in her pod to die so makes sense why she's not chilling here I just kind of moved along the beach you know gluten corpses and whatnot and it's very much to my surprise uh shadowheart is actually very much alive and not happy very not happy with me from leaving her on the ship to die but that's okay because I'm playing this game without any companions so you know what don't eat her anyways next up I ran into that part in the ship where you got the little brain guys to fight and uh considering that it's just me they're much stronger than me I'm gonna have to stealth this one luckily I got up above on this little platform here and they didn't notice me so I could do some surprise shots on them and I took them out pretty quickly I actually ended up getting really really lucky this one little brain didn't really know what to do so it just sat right underneath the platform and I could just kind of Bop It with Fireballs so it just you know went away so the next important step to this was telling a Starion to get lost so went up the hill found him he promptly wrestled me to the ground and held knife to my deck but you know things like that happen sometimes when you're trying to tell people to get lost so we worked it out we talked a little bit and I was like no I don't need my friends just make your own way along go find something else to do so next I ran into that mind plan that's kind of dying on the ship and first I just left it to dive then I was like wait that thing has items I need those items so I promptly killed with a fireball install on its Loop so next up on my list of telling my companions to get lost Gail the man in the Rock um went up thought this chat option that said Rogue sleight of hands sabotage the sigil would sabotage it to keep him in the there no sabotage even got him free so I had to talk to them for a little bit and then I again told them to get lost so next up on the list Lazelle foundrunner cage up here talking to the tieflings told the tiefling she was dangerous they should leave they left and what do you know why just left her up the cage and walked away sorry lizelle I gotta go I got things to do so that's that starting campaign is taken care of it's time to really get in this game I'm going solo everyone else is gone I started by going up to the little castle church thing and trying to scare off The Barbarians or whatever you want to call them thieves something but did not go well uh failed that check and they all decided to fight me so I decided my best bet was to not stand directly in the middle of everyone so I kind of went back up this little balcony here to try to take out their Archer got a couple hits in didn't go great but kind of started running away and I really was not making any progress in this fight I was literally just running I spending all my time running so I just reloaded and said hey you know let's try this yet try this with a new Fresh idea so the new plan here was kind of just Dash away right at the beginning so I was never in that like stuck in combat range where I had to disengage all the time keep spending my action on that so this got me a little further away and I was kind of taking pot shots at the fighter guy here they managed to take him out so next up I said instead of going straight back trying to fight those other guys I was gonna go back to that door I found shadowheart at because I found some thieves duels I'm gonna try to unlock that this time I was luckily able to do it successfully luckily I was able to get in and open up the sarcophagus so I got the fancy spear that was in there and the random key too so I went over to the Crypt area and where you try to unlock Withers and I was about to do it but then I realized I'm probably not gonna be able to fight off all these skeletons guards that spawn because I'm only level two there's only one of me but then it also hit me do I even need Withers I don't have any companions there's no one to be Reviving so I just decided to leave him there I was tempted to just move on to the next era without even dealing with anyone that's in the church and all the thieves I guess you call them whatever but I want blood so I'm going back I'm gonna try to take them out I started off with doing a sneak attack on the Archer here took me two shots to take him out but made quick work of him and moved on to the fighter that was chasing me I pulled off the exact same thing I did the last fighter and just kept dashing away so you can never catch up to me and just throwing Fireballs at him so worked pretty well the last one to take out up here was the Mage I snuck back stealth then took a stealth shot at her took her out no problem and then when I went to go loot her promptly fell on the hole in the middle didn't realize I could break if you just walked over it but yeah they I I didn't stand chance down there I blew up the fire bomb I took out one of them but there was too many I I was done for so I think that's where I'm gonna call it for today hopefully you enjoyed this video and if you like watch me try to play this game solo please leave a like down below and maybe consider subscribing if you want to stay tuned for the next episode thanks and I'll see you guys next time

Channel: Nate's Game Box

Views: 11,657

Keywords: Baulder's Gate, Balder's Gate, Baulders gate

Id: FS1ZY-RrfOo

Length: 8min 33sec (513 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 20 2023

Reddit Comments

[u/Dumpingtruck]

You can use entirely hirelings or you can stealth scum.

The biggest problem I foresee is that XP doesn’t scale up with a lesser party. So basically you don’t gain any offsetting bonus for the difficulty (this was a major draw in solo BG1/BG2 solo runs)

The only thing that is worse than that is theoretically you actually lose out on XP since inspiration events give Xp sometimes.

In short you might even be handicapping your XP gain.

[u/Fluffy-Tanuki]

Combats are going to be extremely skewed, since a lot of encounters are designed for a group of 4.

[u/maj0rdisappointment]

Game isn’t designed for it, there’s so much more to get out of having a party. Not sure why you’d try.

[u/A-F-F-I-N-E]

You absolutely can; there are already a few playthroughs that are totally through or through most of the game playing solo the entire time. Personally just finished a tactician run with a solo eldritch knight fighter. Sharpshooter + hand crossbows with longstrider to kite deals so much damage you can plow through most of the game. The best thing though was definitely the Illithid Cull the Weak ability; turned so many later enemies into one-shots that wouldn't normally be.

There are a few places that are exceptionally difficult to do, like protecting Halsin's portal and rescuing the prisoners and Duke from the Iron Throne but knowing the fights is sometimes all you need.

[u/OnlyLogic]

I'm playing a solo run, tactician difficulty as a gloomstalker/assassin. I'm level 7 and I had to reload a save from bef ore against the act 2 boss, wasn't able to take it down due to the mechanic. Ill try again at level 8, but Im considering respeccing just for that fight.