Clare Riley
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Baldur’s Gate 3 does little in the way of telling players how their choices will affect the story or their companions, and some fans have admitted to the less-than-ideal things they did on their first playthrough.
While Baldur’s Gate 3 gives you some guidelines on how to play, there are some things that players aren’t aware of until they make some egregious mistakes. These range from small game mechanics, such as choosing your companions in battle, to larger story choices that determine the fate of you and your party.
Redditor ‘TinkerMelii’ posted about his biggest mistake when playing Baldur’s Gate 3 for the first time. “I NEVER summoned Scratch except once. He accidentally sparked a fight shortly after. And I took advantage of my first shift to fire him,” they said. “For some reason, he was convinced that he would really die if he died in combat and left the camp.”
More fans flocked to the comments to share their own mistakes on their first playthrough, and many of them had to do with killing Origin characters. The ‘vaena’ player confessed that “[detonated] Gale just to see what happened while assuming he would get a radio or at least a ‘confirm you want to do this’.”
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They weren’t the only ones who let Gale explode, as many others also confessed to using the bomb inside his chest. ‘Cpatterson Evans’ admitted to doing the same thing, but in a fight that wasn’t even against The Absolute. “I detonated Gale during my first attempted fight with Yurgir to see what he would do and if he could help in the fight…the fight ended in a draw, to say the least,” they said.
Baldur’s Gate 3 Player ‘wrappedinplastic315’ discovered that if you don’t stop Astarion from feeding on you, well, it’s not good. “It didn’t stop Astarion from feasting on my blood. He killed me,” they said. “The next morning, as he walked by my body, he said, ‘Oh no, something terrible has happened.'”
Finally, some players were unaware that character mechanics could be used outside of combat to avoid obstacles. ‘PredictableToast’ admitted: “I’m trying to get to Karlach. “I arrive at the broken bridge,” he explained. “In past games, this means I need to find another way to solve it. I spend TEN HOURS of gameplay exploring and trying to figure out how to get to it only to realize I really need to jump over the bridge.”
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There are many players who have played Baldur’s Gate 3 multiple times, and that’s not just because of the over 10,000 different endings that are possible in the game. Sometimes it’s because their decisions in their first game were not ideal and they wanted to find a better result.
For more information on Baldur’s Gate 3, read about players confessing the sins they committed and how to craft all the potions.
