A new Baldur’s Gate 3 update may add Original Sin’s biggest challenge
It looks like Larian has plans to hurt us very badly in a future Baldur's Gate 3 update, which may add an extra-hard difficulty setting (...)
It looks like Larian has a future Baldur’s Gate 3 update planned that includes at least one fresh addition: the hardest challenge from Original Sin 2. A few savvy Redditers found a new, unused achievement in files on BG3’s GOG version called Foehammer that appeared after BG3 Patch 4 went live, and the Foehammer achievement only unlocks when you “complete the game in Honor mode.”
Honor mode doesn’t yet in Baldur’s Gate 3, but it is what Larian called the biggest challenge in Divinity Original Sin 2, the difficulty setting that’s harder than Tactician. In Honor mode, Larian gives you just one save file for manual saves, auto saves, and quicksaves. That’s challenging enough for those of us who like to keep several avenues open in case a decision goes terribly wrong, but it’s not Honor mode’s biggest hurdle.
New GOG achievement, hinting the Honour Mode?
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If your party dies, that’s it. The game wipes your save file, and you have to start over. Baldur’s Gate 3 features an awful lot of ways to die, including self-inflicted lightning bolts, surprise mummy gangs in a sewer, and sassing an angry genie, who may send you to a realm of dinosaurs or turn you into cheese depending on how serious the sass was. On the bright side, actual death takes a fair bit of messing up to achieve. Your party of four has to drop to zero HP and either fail death-saving throws or get attacked while in a downed state.
Still, Tactician mode is no joke. You’ll probably want to clear it at least once and have a strong grasp of how alchemy works before even trying Honor mode and maybe even throw in some Baldur’s Gate 3 mods like 5e spells to give yourself an extra advantage.
Larian hasn’t commented on the achievement or the possibility of Honor mode appearing in Baldur’s Gate 3.
Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF