Baldur's Gate 3 Speedrun Explained

hi my name is May and this is a commented version of my current world record 90 Speed Run for Baldur's Gate 3. 90 means our goal is to reach any of the game's endings as fast as possible and we're allowed to use any bugs and glitches to get there before the Run we'll quickly go over our choices and character creation we use chaos or origin character since he has a special interaction in the game's second act that allows us to trigger an early ending his default wizard class is perfect for a speed run since it gives us access to all four of the Spells when we introduce for this run cloud cloud enhanced leap chromatic orb and magic Missile enhanced sleeve is used since it increases our jump Distance by a massive 300 percent by using this Gail is able to jump absolutely insane distances with much higher speed than if you are walking everywhere as does the preferred method of transportation for the Run we also played the game on the balance difficulty this is because we need to manipulate our party's HP values to zero a few times and by playing the game on balanced we have less HP which makes the process faster lastly here's a quick rundown of the ability squares we use we take 17 strengths since your jump distance and increases with strength 15 dexterity since neutral High initiative letting us take our turn sooner in combat 16 intelligence since that gives us access to four prepared Spells at a time and the rest of our stats are all dimmed to eight since they aren't used to neuron with all that background out of the way let's get into the speedrun body Skate 3 begins with their character being kidnapped onto an alien ship by brain eating monsters called Mind flares who infect you with the brain in parasite Kiel doesn't have time for that and immediately becomes the Incredible Hulk with enhanced sleep giving him more than enough jump distance to clear the entire first room in two jumps we then get in position for the first major glitch of the Run by dashing and jumping into a wall we managed to clip through the wall into the final area of tutorial nautiloid our goal is to activate the ship's transponder at the end of the room so he can escape we dash one more time stacking the movement seed bonus with the dash from earlier and then run forward a bit for jumping straight to the transponder to finish the nautiloid this is our first loading screen and because of the size of the game Baldur Skate 3 can have some pretty long loading times since load times vary wildly depending on your PC Hardware all speed runs for the game exclude loading tires for the final time in order to ensure fairness for runners on horse PCS at this point in the game's Story the ship crash lands and it's your goal to find a way to remove your brain parasite dropping the revive scroll from our inventory we start setting up for a glitch called Shadow Boxing by attempting to move an item to an invalid position we set a node certain containers can then be glitched to launch towards that node by passing all Collision checks and all checks for whether it's a valid position we can combine this with another glitch that allows dead companions to trigger cutscenes in order to effectively teleport our party extremely long distances so long as there is a cutscene at the destination making our way over to shadowheart she generously volunteers to be our magician's assistant we mesh through her dialogue and then perform the HP manipulation I mentioned earlier in order to get her body in our inventory the closest containers we can use for Shadow Boxing are found at Camp so we go there to retrieve them stead companions can't trigger cut scenes from The Container we need to make sure it breaks upon arrival to release Shadow heart so by setting it on fire we make it the second tick of the burning status destroys the box once it's lit we launch shadowheart towards the mountain pass because the game has no idea how to handle a dead Shadow heart rate and a cutscene she should be alive for the game resurrects her and forces the long rest obviously the Gale's Cat shows up to tell him to eat a magic ring which we'll chat out on later now live shadowheart is able to walk through the mountain pass entrance automatically taking the whole party with her there's also some brief dialogue here involving Shadow Hearts artifact but we just mashed through it and ignore it the front loading in we take control of Gale again to use magic Missile on some NPCs and camps that we can skip some otherwise mandatory dialogue we munch on the ring and then it's off to bed while sleeping Gail encounters the god of the Forgotten Realms we're allowed to customize the appearance of this character in character creation and so its tradition in the ball of skate speedrunning Community for us to one-up each other by making those hideous characters possible waking up we pre-ruff our jumps again for the next area and then leave for the mountain pass because we only have to get one character to the next area transition for our party to advance we opt to get Gill there while leaving shadowheart behind we'd normally have to fight a pack of ghouls on this route but by casting fog Cloud we're able to obscure their vision and avoid triggering a fight leaping through the cloud we make our way to elminster Gail's mentor for some background Gail is currently suffering from a magical bomb implanted in his chest that he accidentally put there in an attempt to oppress the goddess of magic the minister tells Gail that he needs to Nuke himself in order to destroy the game's antagonists The Cult of the absolute ending the game early as speedrunners we're all too happy to oblige so we make our way to the next area to go do exactly that we break our legs jumping down the hill and then it's on to the shadow cursed lands to go finish the game while we load in a quick thank you to everyone on the crpt speedrunning Discord server for helping make this run possible they found a lot of the tricks we use and it couldn't have been done without them as soon as we load in we Mash through some dialogue with the goblins so we can get back to doing some HP manipulation on shadowheart this is so that we can set up for another shadow box that will teleport us directly to the end of the game using chromatic orb we set up our fire again before lighting up our crate and putting Shadow heart inside dragging the chest as if we were to throw it we attempt to move it to a very specific invalid pixel over this Cliff sending our node inside the final area of act 2. once our note is set we launched shadowheart who is then able to trigger the final cut scene since she's dead and can't speak Gil takes the lead and we blow him up to the end of the game in 3 minutes and 43 seconds thanks for watching and thanks to my patrons for supporting me on patreon wow what a cool list

Channel: Mae

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Keywords: bg3 speedrun, baldurs gate, summoning salt, summoningsalt, tomatoanus, speedrun explained, shadowboxing, speedrunner mae

Id: 8cWNcl_d1I4

Length: 5min 46sec (346 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 08 2023