The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Surprising Enemies in Baldur's Gate 3

what's up everybody renfail here back again with another Baldur's Gate 3 guide and today we're focused on surprise attacks or surprising the enemy which if you've never played at Dungeons and Dragons before might sound like a strange concept but in 5th edition d d there is this feature whereby if you can catch a mob by surprise I think this is in Pathfinder as well Starfighter if you surprise your target you get basically a free round of attacks against them and they can't react they can't do anything against you so your objective anytime you can possibly make it happen is to surprise the enemy so that you get the upper hand and you get a free round of attacks against them which allows you to do a whole lot of damage and basically lay down any sort of strategic um choke points and choke holds that you might need to um and have the upper hand in those early stages of the fight it's really good especially against large encounters or big boss mobs where you know it's going to be a bit of a rough fight but you're not always going to have the upper hand you're not always going to know when there's a combat encounter coming up but in this case we do and we've done this before so we know that there's a fight just around the corner so this is the perfect chance to show you what surprise attack looks like and how to surprise the mob now if you haven't ever watched one of my videos before don't forget to like subscribe and hit the Bell icon so you never miss an update as we continue to push out content around Baldur's Gate 3 live stream the game prep for Star field Phantom Liberty all sorts of fun the fun stuff that's coming in the pipeline don't forget to check out the podcasts movie reviews the TV show reviews and everything else we do here on the channel don't forget the Discord without further Ado let's go ahead and work on some surprising the enemy here so there's a couple of things to think about before you sneak up on an enemy one is whether or not you want to sneak up with the whole party and in some cases that might be a good idea because you might want to position your whole party in the entrance to an area and have everybody there at the same time but in other cases you might want to do it just by yourself and and that's when you aren't quite sure what's around the corner and you want to use your sneaky character to sort of scout out ahead so to make that happen it's very simple you can hit the C button so drop yourself into stealth you can do shift C to do your whole party into stealth and over here on the left hand side you'll notice that same thing here um if I can get this without panning toggle group height is right here you can also use this button now do you want to do it alone or do you want to do it with the group that's a simple matter of just separating them out with the G key also over here on the left hand side I'm in this case going to separate them out I'm going to pick my main character and I'm going to go into sneak accordingly and I'm going to bring him down over here see both all right so we have positioned ourselves behind this guy now and if we look around we've got a couple of guys down there we've got the quilina character roaming around and if I sit right here you'll notice eventually she'll come up in her line of sight well here she comes so watch the red here the red is what we don't want to get into we don't want to get into any of the red because the red is is someone's field of view and we don't want to get in the field of view because that'll prompt a stealth chick or a hide check and that'll ruin our opportunity to sneak attack or do any sort of surprise attack at all now one of the things you have to be a little bit careful of with the Rogue is if you're gonna surprise in mob occasionally your sneak attack might do enough damage that it takes out the mob in one hit like this case he has 18 hit points if I roll the big enough sneak attack I might not surprise him but let's see what happens when I do it this way and see whether or not I can get a sneak attack on him in this case I did and it prompted a surprise round so it's the enemy's surprise which means everyone down here is also surprised if you hover over hover over them and so that means I essentially now get a free round of attacks now there's one thing you need to note here is because we separated my rogue out he's in combat but if you look at the rest of my party they are not so if I also want them to be involved in this I'll bring them down so let's take a look at this what this looks like now she's joined the battle but you noticed that she had to roll an initiative role elements if I do the same with Gail and lizelle and now they are in the fight as well and I can join them back together and do it like that now in this way um let me let me show you really quick I get another attack immediately because we are still in the surprise round right now I don't have advantage against him anymore but that's okay we're gonna do this okay and now what I want to do is probably run away beats have seen everything and hived now we're gonna end my turn they're all going to cycle through because they're surprised and now I get to move again right I would like come down here and do something like this seek attack ranged go back into hiding but now they get to move right now the reason it only prompted the single the the sneak attack and only I was able to do a full round um before they came is because the rest of my party was not actively engaged in combat so how do you make everybody in your party gets a surprise round and not just your main character well that involves moving your whole party up at the same time so let's take a look at what that looks like what's up everybody quick commercial break here to give it a shout out to our Guild Champions who are the highest tier memberships here on YouTube Ancient entity assassin gamer 94 Babylonia Rising crazies relative mujin and remedy thanks so much for the 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and wait for that Mage over there to path away now we're all in here now there's a couple of things when you do a surprise attack like this um if you can get it to where it triggers everybody at the same time that's awesome but sometimes you'll still need a little bit of manual finessing what does that look like well I'll show you what that looks like here real quick so we're gonna hit the sneak attack like so we have surprised but you'll notice that still only my main character is locked in combat and that's because it only triggered for him so it's really easy to get everybody involved you're looking for this icon over here whatever so here's Shadow heart we're gonna go have her drop a we'll do it right here we're just gonna get these two with us a little bit this is a quick and easy fight when you get surprised it's quick and easy now let's get Gail in so we're gonna bring Gail over here that Mage with a fire Bolt all right let's also get lizelle she can do a ranged attack okay that was a crit hit she's down I'll go back to my main character and I get my other attack here okay now I end my turn he's surprised he's able to turn around and and do something here but uh we still get plenty of time to take him out and that's how you very quickly and easily wipe out a whole encounter by using your surprise attack and that extra round of attacks you get so that no one else can do anything until you've had your way with them sneak attack is an extremely powerful tool in your toolbox and as often as possible if you can use it you should I like to use the manual method which is taking my rogue ahead of the group or whoever is going to be the person prompting that sneak attack it could be Lazelle even the key is moving them out ahead and just doing an attack against an unsuspecting mob and surprising them once you do that you get a full round of attacks they don't get to do any actions or reactions and you can go in there and you might not be able to wipe out the whole encounter like we just did right there but you might be able to at least knock out three or four of the mobs before they get a chance to get on top of you or take out a huge chunk of the boss mom's help health I should say so hopefully you found this guide useful if you did don't forget to like subscribe and hit the Bell icon so you never miss an update as we continue to play Baldur's Gate 3 prep for Star field and all the other things that we're doing don't forget to check out all the other playlists join the Discord support if you can see everybody in the next video be peace

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Length: 10min 17sec (617 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 31 2023