25 Secret Features Baldur's Gate 3 Never Tells You About (Tips & Tricks)

Candles you say? Interesting. Never used the dip feature

The throwable potion isn't a hidden feature, the game tells you about it on a loading screen

Where do I find the secret feature that punishes the people that created this disgusting pile of shlt game?

Mind 🤯 when you say you can send locked chests to the camp to open later.

Gatekeep normies from your video games. Gatekeep normies from DnD. Some of these are in the literal waiting screen cards. Some are just through investigation. Some say on screen as it happens.

I hope they haven't changed the crates blocking door thing since this video was posted. I need to remember to do that later.

My guy, pushing people off cliffs is NOT a hidden feature. It’s one of the most obvious tactic to use, even the enemy AI utilizes it.

Wow, this was actually incredibly helpful. 👏 Thank you.

Bro really said "no carry weight issues" you clearly haven't seen my grymforge runs, got me at 120 load on 3 characters after sending a bunch to camp and selling, I have hoarded every piece of special loot to do one huge fire sale at the end of the game 🔥🔥🔥

I stacked crates in front of a door and they climbed over 😢

Soooo... What about controller? Because Screw Keyboard and Mouse. Unless people love cramps.

Wait - why are Astarion and JuiceHead switched in the party view?

Well, actually, it's nice to know that the camp doesn't get raided and your stuff stolen. That was the only reason that I didn't store stuff there. So yay. Good, good, good. What a great tip

I really hate that you have to switch to your melee weapons at the end of every turn just in case you could get an opportunity attack. It would hurt nothing to allow an automatic switch for the opportunity attack when conditions are met, especially since you can freely switch as much as you want during your turn. Or jst do the melee attack as if the weapon was in your hand. It's still equipped after all. And other things don't change, like your AC, just because a shield isn't in your hand at the moment, so why should the melee weapon being in hand matter either. It's just a pointless annoyance that you have to constantly remember, and then reminisce on how stupid it is when you eventually forget one time.

in one of the early game ruins fights with the lever door, having two mage hands there to kite enemies, open/close the door and set up grease fire traps was extremely helpful

After playing BG3 almost all the way through 3 times I have figured most of this out. The only things I didn't know about was the armor in the screen that all are shown and the die skin color.

I don't say this to many guys but, wow those are some amazing tips. Very helpful.

My word, my brother in Christ. You taught me so much about this incredibly deep game. I haven't even reached passed Emerald Grove 57 hours played, as I start a new character each time as the game itself and its mechanics intimidate me. I am from the NES generation as the first game I ever played was Super Mario Bros. You've earned a subscriber for life. Much appreciated. X

Does poison also work like thrown healing potions?

Something I found really useful - Need your entire party to have Lightning resistance but don't have 4 elixirs? group up and throw 1 and you all get it. I was using 1 per party member for a full year until I realised this. It works for any Elixir in the game that can be thrown at someone for effect. I have not tried it with very rare ones or anything weird.

My first playthrough I got locked out of karlach before I ever went to act 2 idk what triggers it

What is the mod for the hair in the thumbnail?!

Took me over 100hrs to learn i could just give a vendor 400-1000 gold to get massive discounts XD pretty handy with Dammon since he travels between all acts if you keep him alive. Special shoutout to regular barrels! If you stack these like 2 high you can block line of sight which comes very handy when breaking prisoner's out of jail. I think they also still block projectiles...but, its been a minute since ive tested that

The biggest take away I had from this video was you used BG3 as a stop game between starfield....not even in the same league (also learned a few things so ty)

i agree, push is very effective, as is throwing people.

Anyone did a crates-only challenge run yet 💥

Great video. I just started my first playthrough. Just started act 2. I have watched alot of tips videos amd this video had several that the other videos didn’t cover. 👍🏼👍🏼

The throwable potion/elixers is great. I used it to save the guy surrounded by poisonous shrooms. First I took out the torch so we dont have explosions, then I threw the elixer of posion resist on him and took out all the shrroms.

love u man u are a life saver

25 secret features... realy, exactly 25? exactly secret? exactly features?
i messed up

I can finally live my Skyrim life in BG3 by shouting people off cliffs!

On trading. Everything is free with bags. Just remember to put all the stuff that refreshes into the bag. Its amazing. You can kill or knock out a trader and take all the stuff inside the pouch.

Merchants also reset their inventory after every long rest, and after every new member joins the party, but the new member has to join the actual party, not go to camp. So you can buy 3 Elixir of Hill Giant Strength from Auntie Ethel, then recruit Wyll, and buy 3 more.

Great tips 😊

yo what are your graphics settings is this 4k? my game at 1440p doesnt look this clear and clean.

During combat if you involve jumping with your movement you can move a little bit further

I've watched a couple of these lately & this is the best by far. Congrats.

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didn't know throwing a potion ❤also moving items between characters during combat is amazing

Health potion throw/attack
staple items ontop i knew about,but carry around crates to do so 4 a boost w die attack i havent even thought about

So how i missed i can throw health potions i cant belive(i knew some potions had txt about this)

Huge thanks..will try this out during my 2nd+3rd playthrough(i do 2 at once...Dark urge+normal)

Thunderwave uses a spell slot. Repelling blast is free.

Also: a torch is a flaming weapon. It is also able to be targeted by Shilelagh.

Circle of spores Druid with a torch deals insane first act damage.

Weapon dmg 1d8
Fire dmg 1d4
Necro dmg 1d6
Halo of spores 1d6

Every turn for one action and a reaction. Still have a bonus left.

I play with a controller. Some of the stuff you mention is just not available.
My favorite is when you press down on the dpad to examine but the game registers a long press which activates stealth and consumes an action.

Guess ill have to pull out the mouse

I love Karlach and usually have her in my party. I missed her the first playthrough, and I killed her in my Durge run, but otherwise she is always there.

Wyll though: I really dislike his personality and his story, and I think he sucks in battle. I am probably playing him wrong, but I find him majorly weak.

I don't get why they separated the characters' inventories if they were going to allow you full use of it, including moving stuff between characters with zero action or movement cost during combat. They should have gone with a common inventory, like they did in Pathfinder WotR. Makes things so much easier without all the meaningless logistics and UI friction. Also, re the hotkeys, you didn't mention that ppl can not only find all of them but also customize them under Options>Keybinds. As someone who plays a lot of CRPGs, I was baffled by the default key choices in BG3 and kept hitting the wrong keys out of habit (e.g. 'C' is usually for 'character sheet', but in BG3, it's 'hide'. You can imagine how many times I lost actions I lost before changing it, bc I hit C out of habit 😬)

You can assign weapons and armor in the hotbar, great for meelee builds, putting on jumping boots, spider web immunity boots, ect.