25 Secret Features Baldur's Gate 3 Never Tells You About (Tips & Tricks)
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2024
- Today we take a look at some hidden or secret features in Baldur's Gate 3. We highlight some lesser known mechanics for a video full of great early game tips and tricks for Baldur's Gate 3.
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No
Where is discount then?
You missed something, if you have a controller you can literally free rob every trader.
We need the ability to select multiple items at once to send to camp
@@squirrel_82 hold control, click all the items, then right click one
one of the most overlooked secrets is that when you are in dialogue you can select your other party members in the bottom left to position them before starting the fight
You can also do this to make pick pocketing easier. Even if you fail the check. They won't chase after you until that conversation ends. The kids at the druid grove do that exact thing to you. And most don't realize that it isn't scripted into the conversation. It's another kid literally performing the action on you during the conversation. And you can switch out to another party member to catch him in the act. Lol
Basically Divinity 3
@@MillenniumEarl014 No
@@Triforcebro denial
@@keldor8302 shut the front door ahaha, i love this game
Note on the throwable potions: Throw it at the ground, not the person. The bottle hitting the party member still does damage, especially if the person throwing the potion has high strength for throwing enemies. Last night our barbarian threw a potion directly at me when I was at low HP and it downed my character and then immediately got me back up 😅
Laz threw a potion at Astarion and he got shoved haha
Nice, I love that, that's some good RP 😂
_"Yeh yeh quit yer yappin', here have a potion!"_
*WHAM* straight in the face
here tiny human catch!
**throws a 110mph fastball at the wizard who's hurt and dazed before the potion knocks him unconscious.**
Meh, that's what happened when you have barbarians try to heal...
It's kind of funny to think about though. Smashing the bottle on someone imbedding glass in them, but then healing the wounds you just made around the glass. Character development!
"So, uh, how'd you get those scars? And why do they glint in the light?"
**immediately scowls at the barbarian**
I've been using "Sleep" a lot to cc enemies. One thing I noticed is that sometimes enemies companions will actually wake up the enemies you have slept so to counter that there are stuffed teddy bears in the game. If you sleep an enemy, you can on your next turn throw a teddy bear at that enemy which will make that enemy enter into a deep sleep at which point they start to suck their thumbs and become immune to being woken up until the sleep turns have ended. Very cool mechanic.
The stuffed teddy bear drops off of an npc called Za'Krug. He's a Goblin LvL 1 located at the entrance of Druid Grove.
@@heyguyslolGAMING there's also one on on ogre in blighted village
aint no way this is true. aint no way. i'm trying this next time i play and if it works i will lose my mind wow
edit: pretty sure i tried it and it didn't work. expected but sad
There's another in the swamps on the way to see Aunt Ethel
@@solvedraptor6854not really on the way, it's tucked in a dead end in the water by a waterfall
Just in case !
⏲ - TimeStamps :
0:00 Throwable Items
0:38 Shared Inventories
1:03 Push
1:55 Mage Hand
2:02 Crates
3:04 Affiliate Code placement
3:13 Candle/Weapon Dip
3:42 Trade
4:09 Merchants
5:26 Turn Based Mode
5:58 Attack of Opportunity
6:27 Ranged Attack Debuff
6:37 Inventory Management
7:07 Weight
7:52 Long Rest
8:04 Locked Chest for Later
8:21 Dice Color
8:33 Wyll & Karlach
8:51 Hotckeys
10:17 Expand Quick Use Menu
10:27 Outro
Easier to find one specific infos with that!
Thanks for this amazing video, a lot of good infos pack in 10 minutes!
Something you’d think the guy would include but no
@@TheVoyagers. Yeah but it Happens! I know that making this kind of video could take a long time, so I understand.
Appreciate the time stamps!
Not all heroes wear capes.
That is 20 not 25
Alt does NOT show all interactable items, just some . You will miss a lot of you rely on that. Look at desks, bookshelves, etc. There are LOTS of valuable items just laying there that you won't see with Alt.
Perfect example at the start of the game are clam shells on the beach areas. They weight less than a pound. But sell for 5g a piece. They won't show with pressing the Alt key. You need to just spot them or mouse over to get the item highlighted. There's a lot of items like that in the game.
@@keldor8302thanks I'm still in that area
That's kind of annoying, it feels like the feature makes you miss stuff because it implies it will show you everything and thus you don't check further.
Using the "Search" by holding interact is a fantastic way to interact with anything whatsoever, honestly. You're absolutely right, there are an absurd number of items and containers that don't show up with the highlight.
Plenty of valuable items aren't highlighted either. Paintings, alchemical tools and so on tend to not highlight but can be worth more than 30 gold.
Put one of the provision bags in your Traveler's Chest in camp. It should, at least some times, automatically pick up any food you send to the camp. Helps declutter the chest a lot.
I put one of each bag into the chest, you can do what you said or just loot it from the chest and it will scoop up the correct items in your inventory and then just put it back.
This will not work once it gets too heavy, so you can just stick with sending them one by one to chest as you said
How does this work I'm kinda confused :')
@@bobstoner415 You can CTRL (or SHIFT) + click to select multiple items, and rightclick and send a bunch at once.
But if you scroll through the bag, the items deselect.
@@yanoamustamu2390 you can also individually open open any chest, backpack, bag you pick up and put things into them while they are in your inventory (or the camp box)
The names are important there are many different bag variations. This would only work with the specific provision bag that each character has that automatically stores supply items (would probably work similarly with the alchemy pouch)
yeah, I noticed sometimes I pick up ingredients or camp supplies and they don't go into the designated baggies. Gets rather annoying. :-/
Just to clarify the high ground advantage (from the crate stacking trick) is just a +2 to attack rolls (10% increase), not advantage.
Also, after sending chests to your camp, instead of lockpicking them all 1-by-1, you can put them around a smokepowder barrel and KABOOOM! AFAIK this doesn't damage the items in the chest!
A simple fire bolt will do for non-metal containers
It's fun running across some of these tricks. As many objects like barricades and doors have health bars, many (even some locked doors) can just be broken apart.
I was wondering - does the loot gets damaged in any way when destroying chests/other cointainers like this?
Yeah, also everyone can hit you if you're on the top of some crates in the open lol. Not to mention around 2 HP damage extra when they break the crates by doing an AoE or something...
@@tipfertool5457 Man, I have OCPD and finding no point behind the breakable boulders near the paralyzed Thiefling made me so annoyed lol.
There *MIUST* be a secret there..... maybe I just haven't found it yet............
Just a word of caution about long resting. By entering certain areas, you can set off events related to that area, and if you long rest, those events can essentially proceed without you, killing off npc's that could have been saved amongst other things.
Any particular you are concerned about, without spoiling too much?
Never encountered it and it's hard to imagine (so far)
@@SebHaarfagre Eh, those npcs aren't worth it, lol.
@@SebHaarfagre I haven't yet experienced anything with major characters, but one I can think of off the top of my head happened with the harpies at the beach by the druid grove
@@SebHaarfagre There are a couple buildings on fire in Waukeen's Rest (Act 1). If you long rest, any items you haven't looted or NPCs you haven't rescued will get burnt to cinders (including a magic Maul).
@@VasharanThe 2H Maul that adds damage to jumps? Nah, I got that 30+ hours after doing Waukeen's Rest. It was still there.
Some loot containers you can pick up and send to your camp. In the camp chest you can use them to sort things into them like files into folders. Makes navigating the camp chest a lot easier.
And then you can pick up the container with loot from the camp and sell it to a vendor as single item, for the full price of everything inside.
That’s just a very cool idea. The ability to sell a designated loot chest, backpack, box, crate all in one go at a trader with everything inside for full price of all the item inside in one transaction is a huge timesaver. Because you can then have multiple storage items already inside a camp chest or even your inventory designated for specific items or junk rather for Trading. The thing so far is in game you can’t actually rename chests, crates, backpacks etc that are all storage systems. But I guess what is possible in while playing the game, adventuring you can just have some fun picking up interesting or unusual large storage containers. You can litter them around at camp as different storage items each their own maybe separate from the camp chest. Just up to player creativity.
Lol spooky
great advice! will definitely use this for all the cups and bottles i horde... :)
"Add to wares" is the feature I use to bulk sell my items. I shift click a group of items and then add them to wares for an easy sell
Similarly, I make doggie bags of potions and grenades and distribute them to my companions. Before I dismiss a companion, I retrieve it for their replacement. If only we could rename bags.
On "T", it also works on enemies. If you hover over an enemy and press T you can see their character sheets.
O...My.....GOD....
Awesome. I did not know that.
Oh thanks way better thank the inspect thing
This is beyond busted. In 5e, there's a select few abilities you can use to get one piece of information of an enemy. If you know the statblock, it's considered metagaming to play your character like he knows it too.
Meanwhile here you press T over an enemy and the goddess of knowledge blessed you with info about every single stat, saving throw, ability, and what not. It's TOO busted. I wish they gave you out of combat resources like Monster Manuals and such, or word of mouth/teaching from a scholar that would give your character the knowledge of certain monsters, so that you can know select info about select few monsters.
@Isaax It doesn't really give you that much info and it doesn't really 'help you' since your still reliant on dice roll.
In most cases the character sheet is irrelevant because the games attacks will tell you their % to hit so you can ignore the character sheet entirely by just clicking a few different ability saves and looking at the % to hit.
How does this man simply start without a boring intro and provides top notch tips and tricks?! I thought it was impossible.
Another good beginner tip is to go to your "Reactions" tab and activate all of them for all your characters and, crucially, tick the "Ask" box on all of them. Now the game will ask you if you want to use a reaction whenever it is applicable and if you notice that you always click yes on some of them (like Sneak Attack) you can untick the "Ask" box on it while leaving it ticked on the ones that you want to be able to think about (like Divine Smite).
I would suggest *not* turning it on immediately. Do this once you start getting a few reactions and you've played a few hours. It can slow down the pace of combat and be a bit annoying early on.
It's good advice for when you're ready for it, though.
Lol I just set zll my reactions to auto cuz if I don't there's just so goddamm many of them that combat slows to a crawl
Must note: Mage Hand is not invisible. There does exist an invisible version for Arcane Trickster Rogues and for Githyanki. The standard Mage Hand is visible and can be detected by enemies. The full release version of this game has improved Mage Hand - it can now remotely activate buttons and levers.
Was coming to say exactly this too :)
I need to start using this more
Correct! I noticed this today when I tried Mage Hand for the first time and used it to sneak. It got spotted so my plan to use it for pickpocketing didn't end up being more efficient than just using my PC rogue
Does it still have limited casts though? I was disappointed it still seemed to have only a couple of uses even as a cantrip.
@@peterfabell154 Haven't done much testing on the special variants but for the regular cantrip Mage Hand it was unlimited casting, and would last 10 turns - and it was the same for me in Early Access. So, I might not be understanding what you mean by "a couple of uses" and "limited casts".
A piece of advice that nearly every guide and youtuber seems to miss. That ive been trying to post every where i can: Torches. They are broken early game. They arent just for sitting in your inventory and pressing the torch button on the ui to have light. They are in faft a club weapon. And basically one with a fire enchant. This has two implications.
1 - As a club, it works with a druid's Shillelagh cantrip. Which will increase the club damage from 1d4 to 1d8. As well as make your attack modifier wisdom. This means a druid or nature cleric has access to a one handed weapon that can do as much damage as a greatsword/axe. Due to it being 1d8+1d4(fire damage). This makes a level two dip into druid with shadowheart one of the best decisions you can make until you unlock respec and have the money to do so. Also of note, the cantrip makes it a magic weapon whilst active. Circumventing resistances to non-magical weapons by some monsters. So the torch has a LOT of miles on anyone with this cantrip.
2 - You can throw them and get the fire damage effect along with the crushing damage from an elevated position. Making them the best non-throwing weapon in the game to throw. As you'll pick up plenty and not need to buy multiples of them.
I hope this helps people.
I haven't tried on release, but during EA, the shig cantrip remove the fire damage making it just a 1d8 weapon damage
@@pruzarias just double-checked. Club damage increased to 1d8 and fire effect and damage still active.
i prefer throwing bottles with my raging barbarian because it's more comical but I definitely need to consider torches
This is utterly insane...
You will find better magic items than a mundane torch. Not worth respecing over.
Its crazy how much attention to detail and ingenuity this game has, I’m honestly blown away. It feels so awesome coming up with strategies outside the box and actually having them work, to win hard fights.
I had one encounter that was especially hard, so what I ended up doing was stacking a bunch of explosive barrels and lighting them on fire with a fire arrow exploding in blazes of glory one-shotting the entirety of the enemies that had me stuck for over an hour. I love this game.
It's so good
Just had the windmill fight from rooftop with a buddy - without any Ogres and having to keep the goblin boss alive mind you - and it was executed /chef's kiss/
Was so fun! Only thing that let me down was the void grenade not dragging their archers off the roof lol (threw it at the ground; the AoE circle CAN be a bit misleading as it was in this case)
But yeah dragging a couple of barrels around is not to scoff at. Sometimes they won't do a world of hurt but they're very good at making the enemy path around it and if you have tons of barrels you can ever refresh the effects.
There's typically a general goods vendor (in act 1 it's the gnome at the grove). They always stock a camp supply which will get you a long rest. For some reason, these are really easy to pickpocket so long as your sleight of hand is good. Almost impossible to fail. Since you get it for free and long rest triggers them to restock, it's pretty much impossible to run out of long rests.
9:10 Particular note about Left Alt hotkey, is that while it will show you most lootables, there are still objects or containers it doesn't reveal so it's worth mousing around the ground manually to find things. Things like Skeletons often get ignored by the Alt hotkey.
bookshelves, i try not to be lazy and loot every bookshelf and as a reward one of my characters basically holds a freaking library of free spells
@@zacharyjackson1829 Same, but a lot of bookshelves show up when you hold Alt. Some wardrobes don't, and I'm not really sure the criteria that makes them appear. Maybe it's value of loot contained in them? Often it's just a quill and ink well in a container or a bone and I wonder if the game just says "Nah they don't want that."
@Blakobness I think it also depends if you have vision of the item while holding alt. It only shows things your character can actually see directly.
@@jamieclarke2694 I've seen this explanation, and it *would* make the most sense, however you will also highlight items that are *not* in your FOV when using alt...
@@psychotropican666 that are also not in any party member's field of view?
This is GOTY for me. Not only is it NOT a "stop-gap" before Starfield, I won't be playing Starfield until well after multiple play throughs of BG3. More videos like this please of tips/tricks. Great work love this!
Got to agree. It's not a stop-gap at all.
good choice
Starfield looks like dung anyway
Yeah I dunno, game is pretty good but kinda boring at the same time imo.
Maybe even game of the decade, I'm pretty sure years later people still talk about BG3 in list of best RPG, just like Divinity Original Sins 2 back then
Another hint: If you have no small party members, you can use the disguise self spell if you have it to make yourself into a small race. That way you can enter certain places medium races cannot.
If you're a Druid, you can also turn into a cat and traverse that way as well
Gaseous Form of course works too
Mage Hand also works.
I can say Baldur's Gate 3 has made its way to the top of my gaming tier list along with Divinity Original Sin 2 & The Witcher 3. Thanks for all the helpful tips on my next playthrough! :)
I find G really useful too as a rogue. It means I can ungroup my party, then press C to crouch with my rogue to scout ahead. My party will stay behind. It's also useful for tactics, as you can position each party member in certain position before entering combat.
Been playing a ranged fighter that I'm about to mutliclass into rouge for the sneak buffs. This should actually be really handy to try out. Thanks!
Using this comboed with invisibility necklace to get a surprise attack on backline enemies before the fight starts. 1 or 2 easy kills
You can hit G again to regroup everyone too.
@@DevianTrickster Can't you also use Lae'zel's Gith Psionic Ability? I forget what it's called but it makes you invisible, iirc.
G is also very useful for when i’m trying to explore tight areas without the npcs getting in my way
As the modding scene picks up, I'd love to see more content from you about it.
this game is going to be modded so hard, i cant wait to see what gets made
Looking forward to modders adding in the subclasses that didn't make it into the game.
It's been out for like two days bruh. ☠️
Is there a mod for enabling achievements with mods yet?
@@Happyfoam-lw3yt so?
Another useful tip, if you're having trouble targeting someone, both an ally or an enemy, you can click on the portraits of either the turn order or your party order. It'll even say "Path interrupted" if you can't reach them.
In my experience, path interrupted in portrait targeting doesn't necessarily mean it's totally path interrupted. Sometimes it's just a few millimetres of adjustment for your projectile to clear the obstruction. I'll need to manually aim that one for it to clear.
@@Dalziel45 true, I've had that experience as well. 99% of the time, targeting or clicking on your intended target is very easy. But that 1% can be very finicky
Love reading tips from other viewers in the comments, so I would add that it's worthwhile to collect visually distinct containers to keep in the camp storage chest. There's A LOT of items in this game, so I separate out good armor and weapons, quest items, extra supplies, camp clothes, dye, etc.
Also, enchanted amulets and rings are very light and it's worth it to keep the good ones in a pouch on your main character. A lot of the spells on those items can only be used once per long rest, so you can swap it out for something else.
With reactions, you can toggle them to "ask" instead of do them automatically. You only get one per turn (unless there's some feat or class that gives you more) so you may want to save it for enemy "B" and not "A".
Also reactions are not only for oportunity attacks. Later on they may be used for counterspells on your casters. You might not want your reaction to deal 5 dmg to a mob when youre in battle with a boss whos gonna fire a finger of death spell on you on his turn or throw an aoe on your entire party.
@@donFranko99 Exactly!
Thanks for the tips. I played 20+ hours and didn't know almost all of these tips! The amount of systems implemented in this game is quite amazing!
Along with inventories being shared, you can also have a character stay in camp and essentially use them as mobile infinite storage. Example: picking up every explosive barrel you can using the "add to camp" button to be set up for a later fight without having to go back and forth. Can also be used with crates to make structures of any height/width without having to worry about encumbrance. There's a ton of smokepowder and firewine barrels in the goblin castle :)
Highground doesnt give advantage in the release version. It gives a +2 to attack rolls instead.
Huh, I didn't even realize that. That said, +2 seems more than fair for a high ground bonus.
Thanks for the info, I was wondering why high ground wasn't enough for Ranged Sneak Attack
It also adds crush damage to thrown weapons. Which scales with height difference. During the fight outside the druid grove. You can throw a bowl from the top of the cliff onto a goblin below. And it will do one damage and something like five crushing damage. So, if you throw a javelin or spear that you may have gotten from the ruins or crypt. They'll hit real hard in that fight. Just remember to pick them back up after the fight. You can go Eldritch Knight for Bonded Weapon. Which will return your thrown weapon back to your hand. Making it so you don't need to carry multiple throwing weapons.
Huh, so the opposite of cover then, how do I get +5 though?
My thought exactly.
Also if you hold down shift whilst in your inventory, you can highlight every item. Meanwhile holding down ctrl and clicking items will let you select multiple items (both decent options to instantly sending a number of items to camp/another character instantly instead of one at a time).
thank you dude.
This. This was it. Thank you this is going to make playing even better.
It's more subtle than that.
Shift lets you block select in left to right order so you can literally just click the left item, click the right and it selects everything between them
It does not select all items.
Now that’s a Gargantuan Tip! That’s way more massive a tip than most great tips.
Literally found this out today. No more clicking one item. At a time to send to camp.
Note: You do not get Advantage from having high ground, Larian changed that around Patch 6 in early access. You do get a bonus for your attack to hit, however it is not nearly as strong as having Advantage.
If you have a badass potion to use, group your party very close together, then throw the potion on the ground and it'll buff the entire party instead of buffing only yourself.
I managed to get karlach immediately after wyll by complete accident. I unlocked misty step and then explored the druid enclave. Found a ladder next to some tieflings that led up to a high spot right along the border between the forest and risen road, and wondered if there was a way across the stream. One misty step later, I teleported directly next to karlach and was like "well that probably wasn't intended"
nothing in this game is "unintended". you really wanna have fun avoiding some usually necessary boss fights/mechanics in the game? just prepare the "Knock" spell and have fun, who needs a rogue?
You can just jump over there too
it’s pretty funny that the person Wyll has been hunting down and trying to kill has been right next to where hes been staying the whole time lol
I just managed to jump close to that spot, no teleportation.
I completely missed Wyll and had him walk into camp wanting to kill Karlach when I was in the underdark lol
As you mentioned mage hand: The hand also counts as an additional ally in order to allow a rogue to sneak attack an enemy. Essentially you can have the rest of the party stand back while the rogue dives in and still gets full damage.
This is actually a normal class feature of Arcane Trickster in tabletop D&D, but normally it's not until level 13, which is weird to me since familiars can do that for you starting right at 3rd level anyways.
BG3 took it a step further by just letting it always work. Yay for homebrew!
Best cantrip is for sure F8
If you don't have mage hand you can also use pommel strike to knock enemies off balance and get advantage.
Fun tip for Storm Sorcerers, if you take the Ritual spells feat you can use the ritual spells to get free flying move as many times as you want as ritual spells dont use up spellslots outside of combat.
works aswell with the Mask of Shapeshifting you get in the Deluxe Edition. Everytime you disguise yourself, Thunderous Flight is accessible
If you long rest in a dungeon you'll need to have camp supplies on you, not just in your camp. The Gobling Camp in the first area comes to mind.
We ran into this, but seemed to be able to counter it by just having SOME supplies on us to trigger the option to long rest, and then it would still present the entirety of our supplies for selection whether they were on us or not.
Still need to test if we can still do this while only having, like, an apple on us and the rest in the trunk.
That's actually super useful to know. I regularly send most things, including camp supplies, to the camp, and I've noticed there are places where I can't long rest or travel to the camp. The minimap outline is then highlighted in red. Two areas that come to mind since they especially hurt me are Ethel's hideout and the githyanki creche after the arcane plane. I thought these places were meant to be locked out, I'll have to test this one out
On Tactical mode difficulty enemies has 30% more HP so they can survive a fall. But it always takes out a good chunk of there health. Warning for you loot hoarders out there... If you shove the enemy into the water or where it lands some where you can't go, you loose the loot that was on the corpse.
Exactly. So many people advise shoving enemies off cliffs and stuff but you can miss out on a lot of loot this way, including boss loot. I knocked the spider matriarch into the abyss, unintentionally, with Eldritch Blast and lost her loot.
@@xKinjaxor maybe you didn’t ;) you should try jumping down after her with feather fall
Most act1 chasms end up in the underdark
@@shazampowers9909O.o
@@xKinjax I dont know if you know this, but you can turn off the knockback effect by going down to the bottom of your warlock menu "passives" and toggle on off midcombat.
This game is an absolute masterpiece. I'm not even going to play Starfield or Phantom Liberty right now; I only have time in my life for one epic RPG, and I know the modding scene is going to go BANANAS with this game.
The replayability of this is crazy as well. Honestly, might as well play BG3 multiple times and hold off on the other two since they probably will be filled with bugs on release anyways.
I likely won't touch those two until sometime next year with how long each BG3 campaign of mine is going to take (have 3 campaigns I want to do myself and 2 with different group of friends).
You know star field will be a bugged mess anyhow.
@@tobingj Yeah, like all Bethesda games, it will be better in a year when the bugs are worked out and the modding community is mature.
For a rogue, if you get comfortable pressing C to crouch, make sure that you replace your action Hide with the Cunning Action on your hotbar. It will replace the old crouch icon and switch the hotkey. Super helpful, especially if you hide a lot in combat
I kept pressing C to open a character sheet and wasting my turn early.
Shift-C to have your entire group (linked) crouch at once. If some are already crouched but some not, it will default to all crouch.
Little correction: The Mage Hand is NOT invisible for everyone.
Only for Githyanki's who get a invisible Mage Hand as a race bonus (its supposed to emulate their telekinetic abilities rather then being a proper mage hand spell.)
and it's a feature for Arcane Trickster.
As a Larian veteran, I can tell you that it isn't that they don't *tell* you about these things, it is that there are *so many features* that you *have* to figure them out for yourself. Larian has, in the past, admitted to players finding out tricks they didn't consider.
Edit: Speaking of using some of these tips, just earlier, for the hobgoblin boss encounter, I stored smokepowder and firewine barrels at camp, set a few up next to him and his throne room, got to safety, and wiped all but the two drow out with a single firebolt. It was BEAUTIFUL~!
I did that for 2 bosses in the goblin camp...then got really creative and mixed in a whole load of grease potions to set fire to the entire room...took like an hour to set up but was worth it :-)
I feel like playing solo is also ver possible if you just rp as this super saboteur, lol
@@HansWurst1569 I'm about to try that on the side. Have my main playthrough...but then very slowly work through the game solo on a totally separate character. So far it seems that early game is quite punishing because you have so few options...seems fun though, I like trying to overcome encounters using crazy intricate plans...and lots of explosions :-)
Divinity Original Sin 2 was just like this. I think it's the same engine, and that game is a blast as well.
@@foxbasedelta338 i wish you could make bombs (maybe you can, havent foud it yet) alsays dreamed of doing a dwarf grenadier in an rp game haha
As for traders rerolling their inventory. Be careful. Every time you level up the items go up in price.
So the green +1 armour you wanted sold for 120 gold after the level up reroll will cost 150 gold for example.
So check the prices and save often... or just get your Astarion to steal it for you. :D
Prices shouldn't be much of an issue after very early game, my level 6 character is walking around with 12k gold in her pocket.
@@Torguemada Which becomes a really big downside against a certain enemy in Act 2.
@@bramvanduijn8086if you're that high level though that enemy will die in like two rounds. Or you can convince it to self terminate
5:35 I take it even step further: First ungroup your party and leave others far behind crouched, start fight with one character, switch to another, sneak up to the enemy and get a free hit usually with an advantage. Keep adding the rest of your characters to the fight same way until you have a full party in combat. Enjoy! :)
During the goblin stronghold mission if you put the vampire on the beams above and then start combat with him stealthed he can assassinate all the enemies without entering combat as long as he one shots every single one up until he tries to pop that goblin chieftan. I found this out by accident and totally took advantage of it. Went from a hard fight against like 8 enemies with clerics to a goblin chief on his own getting pushed into the spider pit.
Basically combat only starts if an enemy catches you in the act of assassinating enemies.
You can also press T when mousing over a creature and it will bring up the examine screen. Great for checking out resistances, attribute scores and any active abilities/features it has
1:57, correction, mage hand is invisible for Lae'zel because she gains "Githyanki Psionics" from her racial. There's ways to make Mage Hand invisible for anyone if they pick the Telekinetic feat though.
Also Arcane Trickster gets it as a feature of their mage hand.
Along with trading being in the dialog menu, you can also change character in the dialog menu. This lets you distract enemies while you sneak around.
Eg start a dialog with someone while your rogue pickpockets them/robs their house or store.
Or while a villain is having a big ego trip speech, sneak around behind them for an ambush.
Dont pre jack turn based mode, doing so lets you get a sneak attack off before turn based mode starts automatically and then another sneak attack immediately after and then another sneak attack almost immediately after that since the enemy loses their entire first turn to "surprised" (you can get super cheesy with this so use or abuse at your own discretion)
Also picking up chests isnt just useful for lockpicking later, keep a variety of chests in camp storage to use as organisation, important items and gold in a gilded chest, food in a wooden crate etc
Camp and inventory Massive tip to speed up selling. Well first of all you should loot bags, backpacks, bucket of fish, pouch and store those in camp (keep some on rogue or other). The next tip is massive, you place very organized bags and buckets ect on top of the main big chest (at camp) you can rotate the cam to line this up well. These will be the trash collector bags, instead of selecting one item at a time you wanna press ctrl + left click on every trash item and highlight bad items. Because u have the bags on top of the main camp box you can click these to open windows and drag those windows to the side ready to dump trash in. Once you have highlighted all the trash you dump it right in the window of the bag or pouch or bucket. This is the organizing tip completed you can do it for weapons and such if you wish. Now to vendor things fast you wanna upgroup the party by dragging the toon icon away from the left side to untether them (act of own). Send the highest charisma toon to trader on his own, keep any other toon in camp to be the slave. Once at the trader you can click the camp slave toon to pick up bags or buckets on top of that camp box and press tab and send it to the toon at the trader. The trade is speeded up because you can dump that bag or bucket full of trash in the barter window and the trader will match the price for all of the junk as he wishes. This saves you clicking anything at trader just a simple drag and drop one bag/backpack/bucket limited by weight ofc. Repeat this for each trash dump back at camp. A further advanced tip is when out in world looting you wanna have a collection of container type on the looting toon (my rogue) and ctrl + left click the trash you loot and drag it to the container inside the inventory of the rogue then send to camp to speed up the process. By using pouch/bucket of fish/bag/backpack as you loot in the world this will save tons of time when back at camp. Further Tip for OCD, you can place book, weapon, armor infront of a backpack or box back at camp this acts as a label system to speed up storing stuff. GL
just pick up as wares
I'm taking my time with this game. Doing everything, exploring everything 25h in and in stick in the first act. Loving it so far.
Don't forget to use talk to to the dead spell on important characters that you kill, like bosses and main enemies. Most of time you get important information you might have missed , and many tims you can ask about treasure too
you can't talk to many people if you're the one who killed them, however the disguise spell (which is free with the traveler chest peculiar clothing gift helmet) you can unlock this and make them talk to you again. can also be useful for some theft attempts, like reseting "free passes" from touching NPC belonings before they aggro. useful for stealing the icon of sylvanus later (which by the way, if you turn it in to the children to complete their quest, you can then pick pocket it back from them. after you get halsin back they will be in the open in a crowd but casting fog will let you pickpocket undetected)
@@sadpee7710Those are a couple of great tips/reminders to be honest :)
Of note, you can speak to the dead on the dwarf who is the "Chosen One", my first successful attempt and it was actually a perfect use of it (made perfect sense story wise/RP wise where I was too)
Dead people who "recognize you" and hold a grudge against you will indeed not speak to you. Apparently they do not notice it if you kill their friends after they are dead themselves (as with the dwarf). I got the skill from the book and also the necklace, to speak with the dead, and apparently now I can recast it endlessly? No idea if it always was like this, if not, I may have broken the game (unless it's intended or if you can simply recast all failed attempts or maybe it was always unlimited I'm not sure)
I actually did know about the throwing potions bit! Although the game never explicitly states it, one of the three human NPCs in an early game combat encounter uses it to great effect. I didn't pick up on it at first, but it was enough of a hint for me to figure it out!
Yeah Wyll just tossed one my way while defending the Druid’s Grove. I didn’t realize what it was till just now.
There is a popup or something saying you can throw potions if you are too far away to heal someone. However I didn't notice it for like 20 hours.
@@LoveSeeker81392 I don't doubt that in the slightest. I have been skipping tutorial pop ups for the last six years with absolutely minimal exceptions. It's just not how I like to play games.
@@dragonwithamonocle As long as you ain't the type to blame the game for not telling you, you do you man.
@@SuperDdall Oh yeah, if the game tries to tell me and I skip it and it takes me 40 hours to figure it out, that is 100% on me.
As far as clicking on inventory slots goes, it is also worth noting that it will include any containers you have in your possession. So you could put all your armor in one sack, weapons in another, etc. Then when you want to try out a different build go to camp, drag that container onto your character, click around to find the pieces you want, then put the containers back in the inventory. If you select the items that way, whatever you previously wore will be put into the container the other item came from. Can make it easier than taking all, and putting all the items back.
Also -- and it took me a while to figure this one out -- you can use CTRL clicking to select multiple items, or shift clicking to select rows of items, and you can then ctrl click to deselect specific items. Makes it easier to move lots of stuff at once, especially if you order by type before hand.
Heck, inventory management could almost be its own entire video in this game (for better or worse).
Thanks for all the tips and tricks. Much appreciated!
Some things I'd like to add/clarify:
Always entering turn-based mode so that you ensure you have the first round of actions is great but take note of positioning. If you can enter a battle with initiative first and have surprise actions, you'll have a larger benefit to your rolls than utilizing turn-based mode to initiate first.
Ranged attacks always suffer at melee range, JUMP is one of the best options to utilize often as typically when an enemy closes the distance (such as using dash), you can jump out of melee range to utilize your proper ranged attacks.
Many mage classes/subclasses use aoe attacks which can be great for groups, but not so much when your own party members are a part of that group.
Positioning, positioning, positioning. Toggling group mode before entering a battle can be invaluable and allows you to position your characters in a much better way for you to utilize every party member's strength. This is even more so when you have someone with good stealth abilities (such as Astarion). If you can catch an enemy alone, you can separate and/or take them down without starting an area-wide battle.
I recommend to never use auto-select for camp supplies because more often than not, you'll end up over-utilizing the /40 requirement and could be wasting 1 or 2 camp supplies that may need later on.
jumping away still incurs opportunity attacks if the enemy still has a reaction left, don't they?
@@Dalziel45from my experience, yes. It will trigger attack opportunity and only once all the enemies that could opportunity attack you (and I noticed only one at the time does, then you have to redo the action for another one to follow), can you jump away.
Another tip: you don't need to pick chests open, you can also get their contents by smashing them open. Just make sure to do that in an conteolled manner and environment. If you blast a chest open and set off a secondary explosion, that explosion can destroy the items that were just dropped from the chest
The red bars in the action bar work as sliders as well. Just left click, hold and drag to see
You can also mark items in your inventory like you can mark things on windows desktop by holding SHIFT, then clicking 2 different items, It will then also mark every item between those 2 items.
You can also select individual items by holding CTRL instead and clicking items.
Super handy for sending things over to the camp like Camp Supplies or move items over to your other characters or containers!
Also want to add that you can pick up Backpacks and Pouches around the world and use them to sort your items, like Potions, Scrolls, Gems or whatever else you like, in their own storage.
This man knows how to make content; straight to the point and packed with info
And no spoilers for story, I rly love it
Thank you so much for these! The candle to dip weapon is great, and clicking armor slots to see all available gear is AMAZING!!
Starting to shoot at enemies before you walk up to them can be disadvantageous though, because you will lose the chance to have whatever dialogue you might have been able to have before. Sometimes not just outright killing your enemies is a good strategy.
Wow that was incredibly helpful! I've played about 45hrs and only knew about a few of these tips. Thanks!
Someone said you can even heal temporary companions/party members/summons by opening the party menu (helmet above the team portraits on the left) and selecting a potion to use from the inventory. As long as you are controlling the character, whoever's inventory it is shouldn't matter.
So even though characters like Hope do not have inventories, you can still heal them up with potions you have in another character's inventory. If you can't throw it at a character, this is a good alternative.
I liked how you talked about cheesing with crates/chests. The chests in the very first area where you can fight the demon are invulnerable. All you have to do is place one correctly, where you can't path through at the entrance to the fight. Jump over it and you can keep the extra demon dudes from ever getting in the fight. They just sit there attacking the chest the entire time.
Thanks for all the work you're putting in between Starfield & BGIII. These are all super useful! I personally love making a custom spell list for casters and arranging spells in a semicircle layout in the middle, starting with cantrips and expanding outwards with each level. Super useful when there are so many actions a character can take
I'm 60 hours into the game and I didn't know a lot of this - particularly throwing potions. I've been underusing throwing as is. Thanks.
Btw you can also throw creatures if your character is strong enough.
If you ever get a barbarian in your party, you'll be utilizing throw a ton. Especially with that ring you can buy from the druid vendor that gives a bonus 1d4 when you throw something at an enemy.
You can also cover things up with dead bodies. Someone online covered up a poisonous vent with a dead Goblin.
@@Jkev24 I've had Karlach for 50 hours and I still never threw anyone
i thought it depended on size? that enemies had to be small. maybe it's just that small enemies weigh less. regardless the reduce size spell can let you throw enemies but even more easily used to reduce size of your allies and throw them over obstacles or to move them when it's not their turn or without using their movement speed. similarily you can shove your own allies to get them away from zone's of control so they won't get attacks of opportunity made against them.
void grenades are OP cuz i think it's a 100% chance to pull everything regardless of size over a big distance, easily pulling an entire encounter or boss fight into a cliff. obviously these are limited in number and usually found on dead mind flayers.
throw build barbarians are crazy strong. beserker gives you enraged throw, dealing more damage with high strength and knocking people prone, it's a bonus action so you can throw 2-3 weapons per turn. the tavern brawler feat makes this damage even higher. meanwhile eldritch knight will have their weapon return to their hand after throwing, so it's good for specifc magic weapons that trigger effects on hit or when thrown, such as the healing flails.
@@sadpee7710throwing is based on weight, you can throw 3x your strength level. If I remember right you need 23 strength to throw a humanoid
3:01 using spells like darkness, cloud of daggers, hunger of hadar, etc works very well to force movement to another area / deal damage as they try to come in.
I havent seen this written anywhere else, but you can also pick up any pouches and backpacks from the ground. Helps managing potions, throwabls and scrolls. Also you can straight up attack potions to splatter them on anyone close enough. Sometimes less finicky than throwing them on the ground.
The TAB key treats the individual inventories as a common shared one. This is a really powerful feature.
You never need to transfer potions from one character to another except for housekeeping reasons. Just press the TAB key and make sure the character you want drinking a potion is the frame that's highlighted. Then you can right-click on any potion in any other characters inventory to use it. Same with using scrolls, reading books, examining items, lockpicking a chest, etc.
Exactly and it works for temporary companions, I've been told.
I would love to see more BG3 content! Also, thanks for all the game tips bc I'm pretty new to D&D games and BG3 is sooooo in depth it's easy to miss stuff like hotkeys and other game functions. Thanks!
The box trick can be used to also block line of sight on npcs, especially useful for stationary guards
The tilde key was the new thing I learned! The loading screens kep talking about the "grave" key, but I had no idea what that was. Thanks a lot!
Starts the video giving tips instead of wasting time to lengthen the video, gives valuable, not at all obvious tips, several of them, and explains them well. Kudos and thanks!
Mage hand is ONLY invisible if you have the rogue or Githyanki version (and the rogue one is only from a specific subclass)
You mention increasing the size of the quick bar at the bottom, but you can also change the size of the individual sections by dragging the dividers
Pretty cool that the game has so much I can learn several new things from this video and still have my own things to add to it :)
Also a tip. If you take a feet like great weapon master you might not notice it reduces your accuracy for that damage increase. You can turn this passive ability off during combat for harder to hit foes. Passive button is at bottom of toolbar. It took me a while to figure out how to turn this off when needed
Hey man, thought i’d friendlily point out it’s “feat”. Don’t worry I do stuff like that all the time too lol
Also you can toggle dual wield on and off. I think it's off by default.
@@cmdr.jabozerstorer3968off is much nicer because you can still do an offhand attack, it just doesn't force you
Not just high armor enemies, but also enemies already low. No point missing an attack trying for +10 damage against a guy with 2 life.
Also applies for the "all-in" gloom stalker passive for ranger that increases damage in exchange for lower accuracy on ranged attack. Really handy to turn this on only when the base % hit is so high that it's worth adding the extra damage.
This game is actually wild. Weird mechanics and effects I've discovered actually come from the enemy using those tactics against me. Like throwing potions and it healing multiple enemies.
Greats stuff! More than half of these tips I didn't know. I'd forgotten about sending to camp. That's a great feature that I knew about but didn't use. And stacking the crates is another great idea.
Thanks for sharing!
I massively improved thanks to your vids, and actually found a few things/items I see you missed in your playthtough :D
If you leave a Chest in your camp, and then leave that area(eg: from Druid Grove to the Underdark in Act 1), that chest won't pop up again in camp. You'll need to go back to the Druid Grove, go to camp, and recover the chest.
it does if u leave it in the traveler's chest, I've had kahga's chest there since the beginning
well, yes thats just how the travelers chest works. I'm talking about leaving a chest out in the open in your camp.
You can put anything inside the travelers chest and it'll follow you to the end. @@shazam2323
I found that all the chests DO stay in my camp with no issues - I have 4-5 extra ones there with items organised in them. And on the floor, not in the main chest.
Not sure about going to act 2, but in act 1, it's all fine.
they might've patched it recently then. I've left a chest at a tent in one spot in grove, left to the myconid area and the chest wasn't at camp there. @@markmatthews9102
Have like 25 hours into this game and this video taught me a bunch of things, freakin awesome man, thanks so much !
If you've played Divinity Original Sin 1 & 2 then a big majority of these were known or you picked up on them very quickly. Good to see people helping the newbies to these types of game because it it a lot of fun and I have been a Baldur's Gate fan since I was 13 (33 now) and a huge fan of Larian's other games so it's great seeing this game get the attention it deserves.
One of the most frustrating things about this game is how many things it DOES NOT tell you about that make the game miles easier, more convenient, etc. You covered most of them, and taught me some new things after 40 hours of gameplay... Throwing potions is WILD!!
For throwing potions, I've seen a clip I think from solving a riddle, where the player had a character stand next to a healing potion. They then proceeded to pull a lever with another character, which in turn triggered a giant metal thing, idk what it would be called, a press maybe, that smashed the first character to the ground. The death saving throw icon appeared, but, from my understanding, because the healing potion next to the character was smaller than them, it smashed the character, THEN the potion, which healed the character back. I hope I described it in a way that can be understood, lol, I didn't understand it at first before reading comments, because I didn't know about the throwing potions thing.
I didn't know that dropping and attacking potions would make a larger AOE. Sometimes the thrown potions won't hit everyone if the floor is uneven. I hope this will make it easier to position my party members for our Poison Resistance Group Hug!
one very helpful thing is, you can customize your attackbar / spellbar / whatever it´s called. Super helpful to design a custom skillrotation. Just click on "custom" at your bar, click on the lockicon to open it and drag and drop things out of your spellbook and inventory
You can actually swtich around your partys action order if they roll the same initiative, you'll see their blue portrait frame at the top as some nice intertwined texture if they are right next to each other. that means whenver its their turn, its their turn at the same time and you can pick and chose who does what and goes where if you click on their portait, for example the last person can buff the first person before first person attacks which you would want.
Oooh thanks!
One tip you missed is the G key or dragging your party members frames out of the left side of the screen to split them from the party so you can move them independently. This is useful for pre-combat setup when you want to specifically place each character in a certain spot before the start of the fight without having them all follow each other to one spot.
That functionality gave me one of those epiphany moments about how much freedom the game actually allows for (this is my first Larian game). You can create pretty elaborate plans of attack whenever you notice your enemies before they notice you. And especially when people you know you want to kill are not hostile yet. Position every party member in the most advantageous place you can find, enter turn based mode and attack all at once before anyone even has a chance to turn hostile.
Pro tip for anyone who wants to make the spider boss a tiny bit easier, you can attach the web paths in the boss room to destroy them.
The fall may not look like much but because the spider matriarch is so large, the fall will do about 40 damage each time you drop her meaning 3-4 drops will kill her.
I've found that you can reliably drop her twice if you have decent enough positioning, meaning you can get her incredibly low with very little risk.
She still hits like a truck though.
Also, if you've searched the area before her fight and gotten the boots that make you immune to being webbed, you can give them to anyone in your party who has Thunderwave or a Thunderwave scroll. Then drink a potion of invisibility (you should have gotten at least one by now) and sneak over to the platform she paths onto. There's a point where she leaves space for you to thunderwave her into the hole in the middle for an instant kill. Clean up the other spiders, grab the waypoint and feather fall into the hole for the kill xp and to loot her.
How do you mean attach the webbing?
@@PsyKotyK my guess from context is attacK the webbing but I'm also kinda curious
@@PsyKotyKHe means attack, not attach. You do it by holding down CTRL. However, it's a bit of a weird advice.
I never had any problems with the webbings, in fact I went to lengths so as to *NOT* destroy them, to get to all loot. Saving the Ogre horn for this fight, is a much much much better tip :p (In mine their leader died, was my 2nd summon, can't use it anymore now I think since the leader died).
You can also attack the hanging cocoons for loot. Often they will stay in the air (at the end of the string) though and a few of them were unreachable.
The green pods will drop acid, so destroy the ones you can, out of combat.
It's a cool fight. But a hard one so early on (this was the 2nd thing I did after leaving enclave, after the windmill)
Great video and deserved a thumbs up and a sub. I've been loving the game since it just launched and face-palming at how obvious and yet oblivious I was to some of these tips and tricks.
This video was super useful thanks. I also have my own tip to add Ranged attacks can be used to activate switches/levers super handy for later areas.
I for one am ALL FOR a full run of Baldur's Gate 3! The game is so much fun with a crazy amount of things to do and options to choose from.
Please do a full run of this game on here. :)
attack of opportunity costs a reaction, that u could spend casting shield/counterspell or using some of the illithid powers etc, always set attacks of opportunity to "ask" to decide in every particular round if u want to use it or not
I think the only reaction I don't have "Ask" on is Sneak Attack. I always want my Sneak Attack damage if I can get it.
@@LordBaktor Unless u have that Illithid power that can turn your hit into a crit, thats pretty much the way to go. The only thing is that Sneak attacking on Opportunity attacks is not always a good choice.
@@user-xx2ec6bj1i My current PC wants nothing to do with Ilithid powers, so no special abilities for me. Maybe when I do a second playthrough.
@@LordBaktor I see. Good luck on your adventures!
OH MAN this is genuinely great! I totally hadn't considered that first one - I knew you could throw them but since you can go into inventory and send them over to be used, so I was doing that instead of wasting an action throwing, I hadn't considered using it as an AOE at all! AND THE STACKED CRATE THING! I knew you could pick em up, and just figured out you could climb on them, did NOT think to combine that!
The "High Ground" bonus doesn't give advantage. It just adds an additional modifier to your hit roll, meaning it is indeed easier to hit things but cannot be used for attacks that require advantage, like sneak attack.
Hahaha! Frack me. I never would have thought about keeping crates on me for the high ground. Likewise, I never would have thought about taking locked chests and sending them to camp for later. Thanks a TON for these tips! Can't wait until I get to play the game.
Great video! Thanks for sharing dude.
DonutOperator likes BG3? Love that!
Man this guy fell off after the cheating scandal 😅
@@philslaya he has a mustache, never trust a man with a mustache and no beard. As for whatever you're alleging, peanut gallery.
Big tip I saw while watching a streamer was that during combat if your party’s turns are all grouped together you can pick what character to use so you don’t have to waste a spell slot or certain move that requires rest to do the last hit on a foe or to get an enemy’s attention in order to get a sneak attack with your rogue. I’ve never played a turn based game before this so I don’t know if this is common knowledge but it was a game changer for me.
another super usefull item is "bottle of water" if u dont want to waste 1lvl spell slot for "create water spell" or the raindancer staff. just throw a bottle of watter and extuinguish flame, or do that beffore u got burning and get 3 turns resist on fire and cant be burned. also ctrl and also shift for items / bagpack management is usefull
There are some places where you can't long rest willy-nilly. For example, there is a quest in Act 3 that you have to do within a certain number of days to get the benefit of having done it. Also, you'll need to feed Gale artifacts in Act 1 on long rests. (I think he will take a total of 3, but I could be wrong.) Otherwise, camp supplies don't really inhibit camping unless you simply don't loot a lot.
Also if you talk to drow lady in act 1 before they attack the druids, and Grymforge quests are time sensitive. Made me fear long resting a bit lol
I don’t think it’s on long rests, but rather based on „new area“ triggers. He asked me for another one right after some obvious new area transitions.
What happens if you don't feed Gale? I'm in Act II and I've only fed him two times after doing 20+ long rests. Good to know he only eats three and stops, if that's what you meant.
@@SaturninePlacesHe makes a deal with someone he really shouldn't for relief
For transferring items, you can also drag items to their avatars
I had a problem with that. Dragged a bunch of healing potions to my tank and can't find them. Checked the ground in case I misclicked and dropped them.
After reading some tips here I am thinking that they are auto collected in a bag. 🍍
Been playing this a lot and learned a few new things! Thanks for the video.
I knew most of these, but increasing the hotkey row amount, and clicking on equipment slots blew my mind. Excellent video.
Yes, I'm glad you’re covering Baldur’s Gate 3. Should be lots of good content down the line!
One small correction, High Ground gives you a +2 to hit (and Low Ground a -2 to hit) and not Advantage (which is roll 2 dice, picking the highest result).
I'd love more BG3 content from you, love your stuff for Cyberpunk and now that the game is fully out I expect the modding scene to take off.
If you find a backpack out in the world and have been stockpiling explosive/oil barrels, when you want to use the barrels you can put your entire inventory into the backpack then store it in the camp chest to free up carry weight. Click the first item in inventory, then Shift click to the last item in that character’s inventory to highlight all, then click and drag them into the backpack. To recover them just open the bag in the stash and take all, your inventory is now full again with that chars gear only :)