5 Hidden Failsafes BG3 Devs Made For 0.1% Of Players

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The one about the Duergar boat was the most impressive to me. Also didn't know Alfira kept watch of the children, that's cute

It makes me so mad I cant save the girl that was trapped with Nere. I literally CHEATED with mods. Used PWK in turn base before he even got to leave the flipping cave in. She was still dead. So I checked the code and game files, she is literally impossible to save. She was never designed to live and I am over here like o(╥﹏╥)o

You know, for #4, what they should have done was have Quill Grootslang show up in the place of Alfira. It's not too much of a stretch.

So I think I found a failsafe for a glitch recently. The cutscene for the confrontation between Auntie Ethel and the brothers never triggered, I was able to walk right past them. When I talked to Auntie in her home she interacted in a positive manner and no dialogue options involving the brothers came up. after the conversation I went to check on them and it seems they died right on the spot where they were interacting with Auntie. So that looks to be a bit of a failsafe for if you are able to skip past that encounter, she just murks them on the spot haha.

Not a failsafe (probably) but I thought it was hilarious you can just blow open the door on Shar's temple that leads into her inner sanctuary.

Tests of Shar's virtues? Nah breach in like a Swat team.

If you kill Gortash as soon as you meet him, a lot of failsafes engage. I did it near launch during my first play through and haven't tried it on a recent build/version, but despite the failsafe it was quite buggy. Some failsafes were pretty cool, such as what the Steel Watch does, others were annoying such as all of the pre-Steel Watch Foundry content being autocompleted in various ways, but many NPCs would still reference Gortash as if he were still alive -- several of those after acknowledging he was dead (such as, "Gortash is dead! Yay! (moments later) We must stop Gortash!"). I ended up reloading a save.

If they're holding the blood of lefthanded then your party member with it is alive on shore with 1 hp in act 3 during story stuff

I found something, if a little naughty, in the BG3 playthrough during the Shadowheart swimming scene that I imagine is quite missable: before the scene, I removed all the gear off Shadowheart, and when Shadowhart was at the undressing scene, she was already naked, and then she tells you to turn around, no peeking so I the I was playing looked away... but instead of what would normally happen, she simply giggled and said 'made you look!' jokingly, perhaps Shadowheart's funniest and cutest moment... and it's well hidden.🤣😉

I always do the zhentharim bit in failsafe npcs, because I thought killing all zhentharim would mean there wouldn't be any left. Didn't know it was a failsafe.

Not gonna spoil it, but you should sneak past Shadowheart when you first crash, not interacting with her body at all. I did this with Lae'zel and I thought I broke my game.

Hey what about the ability to save omeluum from the iron throne and how he can teleport 1 person to the submarine along with himself

That is why every playthrough is different and you see new things every time if you play slowly and look around. This game has great combat but the world and its inhabitants itself are where it shines the most.

I ALWAYS loot nere immediately

They never get their cut 😭

and yet they absolutely will not let you kill Orin before her little Tribunal scene

The whole Iron Throne thing, with Obelia speaking to the player. I feel like the most simple guess is that perhaps at some point, the countdown was going to trigger later? Maybe we the players, were meant to have a brief few moments to prepare or something like that?

I am very impressed that I knew almost nothing on this list. I was expecting the usual suspects with maybe one or two new mentions but I knew only one of these

Ahh yes… good video… now… ahem left character’s clothes on the thumbnail? Source? Pretty please?

Why don't you just get a game over screen if you lose the ship battle? Clicking the wrong dialogue box gives you those screens. So many bizarre game design decisions in this game.

So that's why on my 1st play-through solo murderer run i did not get any help. Good to know.

Hmm, it'd be funny to do a BG3 meme run with the theme of, "Task Failed Successfully," and trigger as many of the hidden failsafe states as possible. And keep the theme running in every other aspect of the game as well. Hit up Withers and respec everyone into something that conflicts with their personalities and/or lore. (ie: barbarian Gale, Ice (spell caster of choice) Karlach, Wizard Astarion, theif Laezel, etc), Picking locks? No need for lockpicks, either destroy the containers or use the Knock spell.

It's a shame they did those backups for 1% of gamers but failed to script properly rest of the game for 99% of gamers. Example 1: During my playthrough I had my first encounter with Laezel after scouting the whole chapter 1 surface, including Druids Grove. However my PC behaved (dialogues) as if he didn't know about Druids Grove existence. Example 2: Wyll refused the offer to save the Duke, but half of characters in my camp talked as if he agreed to the offer. I played over a year after release and BG3 had many, many badly scripted triggers...

*failsaves

Hi, I dont know if this is known or not, but i found an inmortal npc, the redhead girl u find at the begining pf act 3 who can be kidnaped from the bhaal cultists, I tried to kill her after orin told me that someone in my camp was a doppleganger, she and her Cat were inmune to any damage i delt

Fun fact I discovered from being bad at the game, if you take too long to discover withers, he may just appear in your camp with different dialogue

I had several of these on my first playthrough... Now I'm wondering... How? 😂

I had a similar thing happen with the boats in act 3 iron throne not all my team made it out i found them washed up on shore at baldurs gate lower city

Also with nere i found that if you dont free him and just wait several days in camp he will be dead from the gas saving you having to do that encounter

It may be for the 0.1% of players, but this is D&D and there's enough jokes about "murder hobos" that it must be true. The developers knew that if every character can die than every quest or event related to each character (a large amount of them it seems anyway) needed a few contingencies even if most players never encountered them.

And that is just one reason why this game is so appreciated during these times when AAA games have become so, well let's just say uninspired.

I choose to interpret the Bhaal thing as him going "alright smartass you killed LITERALLY everyone else in Baldur's Gate who worships me, clearly you don't need MY help."

from the sounds of it the extra dialogue at the iron throne is cut content, she talks like gortash sent you there to do something

How is it possible to not have withers by the time you get to the underdark? Just never long resting? Because I can’t seem to find a way to NOT get him

I had two versions of the same thing at once one time. In the city if Wyll chooses to break his pact, you’ll run into a random person if you’re not playing as Wyll. But I switched to Wyll (b/c he was in my party) while that dialogue was happening, walked forward, and triggered the exact same convo with the woman we saved in act 1. But now with Wyll. Nearly identical dialogue. Oh. Then I saved his dad, and his dad went over basically the same thing. All about the Wyrm under the city.

Was playing through a Honour mode evil playthrough with a couple and one of my friends was playing Dark Urge and iykyk what happens to Alfira with that. We also let Mirkon die in the Harpy fight so without knowing it I guess I got the second fail safe without knowing it. Was wondering why those kids were staring at a wall.

Bethesda: "With this character's death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created"

Larian: "no worries fam, we got backup. and backup for that backup. and backups for the backups of the backups."

I accidentally broke that park fight in my first playthrough because I used dominate on one of the assassins, forgetting she was the last hostile so there was no hostiles as she was technically an ally, so the fight ended but I couldnt speak to the captain. So I killed the assassin but that turned the captain hostile against me so I had to kill her and then somehow the failsafe never activated so I didnt get that elder brain conversation 😅

The care and love Larian has poured into this game will never stop astounding me. I wish every developer put this much effort into their story

Didn't know the bhaal ones were failsafes, as durge sarevok asked me to fight to the death after killing orin.

I honestly didn’t know Serevok could show up at the end, because on my Durge run, I decided that there can only be one Bhaalspawn.

it's kind of wild how much love Larian put into this game... and yet there's some real oversights. This morning I finished my Karlach origin run w/ romanced Astarion, we went to the Hells together... but then at the epilogue, everyone talks to me like I'm Wyll, and astarion talks like he never left/hadn't seen me since the brain fell. it's baffling and frustrating, an unfortunate ending to an otherwise awesome run

Huh. I just ran into Fist Griff in the park on my honour run and had no idea she was a backup because the other chick died immediately as the fight started lol. Also found out that Trinoda shows up at the guild if Roah dies in the fight with Minsc as well.

For anyone trying to replicate the Iron Throne exploit; MAKE SURE TO UNGROUP YOUR PARTY BEFORE JUMPING. Failing to do so will cause them to autopath into the hatch and start the timer. I was able to do it by stacking 3 chests on the hatch and using Nyrulna. No featherfall or enhance jump needed (though if you have low strength you might need enhance jump).