Baldur’s Gate 3 player crushed after failing Honor Mode during epilogue
Larian StudiosA Baldur’s Gate 3 player made it painfully close to completing Honor Mode but was crushed after losing their run during the epilogue party.
Baldur’s Gate 3‘s greatest challenge is Honor Mode, a punishing maximum difficulty setting in which players must complete the game with a single save file and lose all progress if their party goes down.
Since the mode was released as part of Patch 5, there have been plenty of stories of people succeeding or failing in shocking ways. Some have made it incredibly close before losing on the final boss, while others managed to win in ways that don’t feel particularly victorious.
However, one player may be the first to lose an Honor Mode run after beating the final boss and during another popular Patch 5 addition: Withers’ epilogue party.
Note, Baldur’s Gate 3 end-game spoilers to follow.
Larian StudiosBaldur’s Gate 3 player loses Honor Mode after beating final boss
As shared by Reddit user kittykalista, their Honor Mode run ended after defeating the Netherbrain.
Ahead of the final battle, the player chose to sacrifice Gale and let their character transform into a mindflayer. Everything seemed to be going smoothly throughout the battle and party until the very end when “As I finish speaking to the last companion, the narrator says how hungry I am.”
At this point, the player had to make dice rolls to “resist eating my companion’s brain,” which they failed. Thinking they were in the clear during the epilogue, the players didn’t attempt to reroll with inspiration.
That ended up being a mistake, as the entire camp became aggressive as a result of the brain-eating attempt. The player assumed Withers would intervene the way he does if the player killed anyone during his party, but he did nothing, allowing the party to kill the player.
After reloading the file and rolling the credits, the player only received the Ceremorphosis achievement for turning into a mindflayer, meaning they’ll need to try again to get the coveted Foehammer and golden dice.
It seems pretty fair to say this is, as the poster put it, “the worst possible way to lose an honor run” – something the seemingly endless thread of “F”s in the comments attests to. If any good can come from this, it’s the lesson that you can never let your guard down in Honor Mode, even if you’ve reached the epilogue.