Heyo everyone! Sorry for the delay in the tutorials, was busy working on this for SGDQ 2024 submissions, but this should be a good enough explanation for the new glitchless route on Patch 6 for a bit. Will finish the other tutorials and stuff this upcoming week now that my workload has lightened a bit, so expect them to come this next week. If anyone has any questions feel free to comment down below to ask!

Just casually finished the game faster than I left the nautiloid

Giant Jaheira jumps into the temple of Bhaal. Throws Orin into the abyss. Refuses to elaborate. Leaves (this world).

If you are alright by jahera, then you're alright by me

I love the fact you explained every moves you did and why, it's very important imo to understand some game mechanics

Random tip most people don’t know but if you look under the cliff where Astarion is - there is a chest that can be search under a rock with 2 speed potions for free

Amazing. What I love about your glitchless runs is that it's obvious how much work goes in to them. You use item locations, environmental tech, and spells that are so unique and need both practice and deep game knowledge to work in the right ways. Keep up the good work.

I love speedruns for the fact that my honor mode run took 50 hours and heres you beating it in 50 minutes. Even after years of watching speedruns im always in awe and they never fail to amaze me. Congrats on the run i hope you can get into SGDQ with it and thanks for bringing it to us.

I followed as closely as i could to do almost exactly what you did. somehow by the end of the run jaheira was seen by someone as i was trying to jump my way across to the brain stem. she died and i had already killed la'zeal so i attempted to spawn in a hierling from withers to be my sudo jaheira. they also died. so i snuck my mindflayered ass up to the stem my own way. scared to death i still used the mage hand/ invis trick as i climbed the brain. invis still worked. made my way to the portal. used levitate to go down to the brain. placed all my bombs/fireworks/a nautiloid barrel and an oil barrel. levitated back up. used fierce perilous stakes on myself. ended my turn and prayed. the brain dropped those orb things put up a shield and back to me. throw the firebomb at the rest of the bombs and Fkn KILLED EM!!!! Thank you for this video. was a lil tricky to follow. a slowed down version would be nice i bet for other people. other wise it all ended up working out, so thank you again Chronos! (i finished in about 3 and a half hours, playing and stopping to watch and rewatch certain moments of the run, like dialog options, level ups, or jump pathing)

Awesome run! Hopefully the bad luck shows the judges you can recover from even the biggest “that never happened” moments. Personal highlight is the strategist inspiration appearing as Jaheira jumps off the cliff 44:10.

Glad youtube recommendations finally recommended something good I really enjoy your commentary and I hope to see you at SGDQ

Thank you for doing this video on patch 6. It's honestly super inspiring, this was the video that got me off my ass to finally try some speedruns of the game. I doubt it would have had the same effect if I had needed to downpatch.

Thank you Chronos so much, for using actual version and sharing your knowledge

Thanks for bringing this run updated. I like training these run to get to know the game better. I have no intention of competing, but rather learning the techniques. Tks!

Thanks so much for the commentary! Everything was super easy to follow. I beat it second try 1h 31m in-game time, although I did do some glitches in the final act (kidnapping gortash + orin dev room) playing as gale origin since I did NOT want to mess up the final fight lol. I needed a doable guide for the achievement and you perfectly delivered :D

congrats on the run!! also thank you for the explanation on the invis last encounter, i never got why my invisibility kept breaking hahaha

Good luck with your submission! This run is impressive as always.

You absolutely safed me on my plat run. I had no idea how to the netherbrain part after invis got patched. Thabk you so much for a quick nice guide. Everything worked on console for me

Great Speedrun, will be amazing to see you on sgdq this year

Pretty awesome explanation and very well played, I really hope I see you and this run at the event!

found this video utterly fascinating and appreciated the way you narrated what was happening

saw you do a halo speedrun and then this popped up randomly. Glad it did, I love seeing speedruns with great commentary

Thank you for the guide. I was able to complete a run after about 30 attempts by following your steps. Aside from making silly mistakes, the major challenges were the githyanki versus emperor fight and the use of invisibility potions towards the end. If the githyanki fight extends beyond one turn and they cast hold on Jaheira, it usually ends badly. And at the end for some reason, throwing the potion doesn't always render the target invisible. It seems more reliable to break the potion with the arm next to the character instead of throwing it, although it could just be my luck. For this reason, I opted to stock up on two additional invisibility potions while purchasing bombs, allowing for two attempts with each character at the end. However, this lengthens the run as it requires accumulating more gold prior to the bomb shopping segment.

Very nice Speedrun, thx for the explanations!

Bro, this is awesome. I have loved this game. I beat it a couple times then told my wife I wanted to get the platinum trophy on PS5 (which included beating it on tactician). So I did it. Then I wanted to beat it on Honour mode. And I did it. …. And now I’m wanting to speed run and solo play it, and I’m learning a lot from what you did here. ….you skipped so much, and you were very meticulous on locations of jumps. Wow. When I died at Mykrul my first HM playthrough at 28 hours, I almost gave up. I can’t believe how easy you made that fight. Thanks for the awesome video!

Great explanations and tech used, thanks for posting this!

A big thank you chronos, yet another person who would never have obtained their golden dice without you. I improvised the ending thanks to this video

Awesome! Now I’ll want to sidecar this run. Thanks for sharing and elaborating!

Nice. Learned the old route through your vid’s and was wondering how a route on current patch would go. Good stuff!

After 4 or 5 tries I was able to complete Honour Mode thanks to this video. Appreciate your work on it!

This is so funny to watch as a regular player lol. Also you have strong "cool university professor" vibes. Subbed

Very interesting run, thanks for sharing your work !

Thanks to following your run my brother and I were able to beat honour mode last night. Thanks!

I love the oversight of allowing people to drop stacks of bombs and throw them. Thats a true “not intended by the dev problem.

Oh good, I got stuck in the glitch run though shar door, this is great, thank you !

Subscribed & Twitch followed in the first minute. There's good gameplay, and then there's good people. I could tell early on you bring both to the table, and I think that's neat. Love your abundantly clear passion and, as others have noted, your very relaxing and coherent explanations throughout.

Beat this run on honor mode today you are AMAZING, thank you for the great tips and amazing run 🎉

Thank you, was able to follow this with controller on my PS5 almost completely except for 3 parts: The jump down in the gauntlet of shar, throwing orin off the platform, and the jump you did with jaheira after getting onto the boat in the brainpool. Easily circumvented with; a quick leap of faith trial, an elixer of cloud giant strength, and a bit of jumping around with invisiblity.

I would love to see this at GDQ. You go man!

Thank you! I've tried (and failed!) honour mode multiple times, but thanks to this guide I now have a shiny gold dice 😁. I had to do the Gauntlet of Shar the long way (with lots of cheese) since I couldn't get my Tav to jump through the small gap in the broken stairs but everything else worked on my PS5. Thanks again, these videos are great.

You ran this faster than I've done some fights. Wild.

Thank you for this! I used your video to do my first attempt. I finished an honor mode playthrough but lost my golden die during a patch update. This let me get my golden die again!

Impressive run, great job!!!

Thanks so much for this video man. Used this to get my last achievement I needed on Xbox for Honour Mode 😁😁👍👍

Insane run. Thanks for explaining everything you are doing. Other videos running Honor Mode don't explain anything

What a perfect setup. My goal is to do a single playthrough that gets all trophies except dark urge, tactician and honour mode, and following this speed run with your tutorial, it'll clean up the list nicely! Now to find out what version comes on the disc versions. Could always resort to the default patch.

This speedrun is a welcome sight after seeing those obnoxious any% speedruns. Really amazing stuff here

Ayy! This guide is awesome. I had some mishaps but I managed to get by and get the achievement. I must have selected the wrong dialogue with Gortash so I had to blow him up using Jahera. I had to steal more fireworks for the final boss. Jahera got spotted by an imp and taken out immediately, so I had to solo the Brain. It worked out in the end!

Thank you very much for this guide!

"If you're allright by Jahe... take ca..."

The line between glitch and acceptable cheese is quite thin, it seems! Jump? Clever! Casting mage hand then entering a cut-scene then switching to a dead companion to "unlock" the characters so you can then use the mage hands to throw potions to make them invisible mid-cut-scene? Also working as intended 😀

Great run, keep it up man! ^^

really cool stuff man, good work

It's like seeing my life flash before my eyes 😂😂

Thank you for this amazing guide Greetings from Poland😉

Thank you, I finally have my golden dice

Great content and great explanations :)

Stock up while you can. I only hope I've brought enough to see us through.

Thanks you for your guide Chronos... Now i will have to redo my RUn to be under 2h ^^

Hey, thanks for the guide! Fairly easy to follow along even with console controls. If you're like me and wanted to save durge for a legit playthrough, you can't waltz into bhaal temple via birthright. Adds a couple steps but it's still very easy all things considered: Optional tip 1) recruit Gale, makes life easier later on. Just take small detours for 3 magic items or buy them later. Optional tip 2) rescue volo for pickpocket profit as necessary, takes two conversations and one illithid check if you need it 3) head to shadow lands as normal, if you're on console command-drop the moon lantern with shadowheart, let her die in combat, resurrect her at camp 4) head to waypoints and shar temple as normal 5) buy bombs and be sure to get stacks right so they don't blow up in your hand, i had to figure out a way to blow them up in a backpack because i didn't do it right 6) release nightsong to zombie man as normal, say bye to shart 7) scale Moonrise to rooftop as this video demonstrates; subtle spell misty step out of trouble; defeat ketheric v1 and v2 (This is where my run got a bit more complicated but with some wiki study i figured out a route to coincide back with this video's upon entering bhaal temple) 8) follow the prism intermission setup i.e. Eldritch knight Jaheira empowered by enlarge, throw monks into the astral plane 9) [im a bit hazy on order here but hopefully it doesn't matter] arrive in rivington, leap to 2nd floor of the bunkhouse across from wyrms crossing waypoint, find murder list, interrogate the mum's body to figure out Dolor is the killer. Optional 9a) id talk to gortash to make sure he is an ally prior to dealing with Orin. Honor is for slowpoke heroes, and my halfling Tav wants to go home 10) head to lower city, leap to roof of elfsong tavern, go down the hatch to second floor, chat with investigator to trigger murder quest. {I did this before finding Dolor's secret room behind the wardrobe, but maybe it doesnt matter, the order} 11) invisibly pickpocket the poem and the bag o' hands from Dolor as he plans his wine poison; escape detection and head back to basilisk gate 12) break into tombstone shop, infiltrate murder tribunal, lie about being an edgelord, kill an innocent Hollyphant for the greater good and to maintain your double agency. Severok bequethes you the amulet of bhaal. 13) head to sewers via manhole by Baldur's gate waypoint; open first door after orin reveals herself, sneak past ambush, leap to bhaal temple door and open it. 14) enlarge 20 strength jaheira, turn invisible, throw orin to her doom, follow her temporarily until Withers can ctrl+z 15) seal deal with pretty boy 16) head to nether brain, try and fail to save Orpheus from illithidhood (i tried to tell them i had a wizard bomb, i tried to convince laezel vlaakkith wanted her bones, to no avail. If no emperor, someone becomes a squid i guess) 15) leap invisibly to brainstem, and have gale take one for the team GG! I play quite slow so this took me two nights and 12ish hours of game time, more with my planning. But definitely a nice quick way to achievement compared to a legit painstaking honor run.

Bro, I lost my honor run on arfurs mansion by traps. Got so pissed of that to compensate, gonna waste a couple of hours (not as much as fucking 60) to do copy this speedrun. Thanks for the tips and ideas!

Congrats on making the cut ! =D

Hi all, I manage to do it thanks to this tuto, Small tips if you want to try it, IF mind flayer doesn’t drop you the speed potion (it’s random) you can go to the small cave (below the place where you meet astarion) move a rock and you will find garantied 2 speed potions Hope it helps thank you

Everyone has left the party. Sacrifices were made.

Me: 322hrs into the end of act 2 🤦‍♂️ Still love this game. So many individual experiences possible. It's going to hold up for well over a decade like the others. Thank you Larian! I wish you would do 4 as you're equipped. It must've been a lot of stress to say no.

Thanks! Helped me a lot

getting inspired "strategist" for jahira jumping off the edge sent me 💀

Holy moly did that myrkul fight make me realize that my run for honour mode was done waaaaaaay wrong... lol

I love when someone speedruns a game in incredible time that i will routinely put 200 hours into each playthrough

very cool! going to try it myself!

Great content!

"that time I destroyed the elder brain using some fireworks bought by selling ketheric's armor"

I beat it using your guide, awesome!

That explosives bundle that blows up a god... yeah, that puts a smile on my face. And if you think about it, its kinda realistic. No one said its impossible to gather a bunch of high yield explosives in a bag and then lunch that package into someones face.

@chronos if you accidentally get into the dialogue with Raph in front of the gauntlet of shar entrance you can attack him to immediately end the dialogue and he'll just disappears. No ramifications for it. It'll save maybe half a second if you accidentally get into the dialogue.

you can finish bg3 on honor mode and ask steam a refund, you are a legend man!

Happy this has a speedrun that isn't just "warp to the final boss lol"

I kind of wish they included a band of powerful warriors somewhere that just straight up jumped into your party or patrolled like that. This was cool to watch.

Thanks for this bro

Chronos: Casually playing threw one of the best videogames of all time on the hardest difficulty while explaining all the little secrets, faster than I left the tutorial. Me:

I completed my no boss/content skips honor mode run in 43h 37m, and that was pretty quick for no skips. Then along come the speedrunners finishing in less than an hour lol

Great job!!

I just completed the run and I cant preface this enough, some of this was a pain in the arse, that mage hand double invis throw was a whole thing. Also Jaheira failed the Orin throw several times. I really enjoyed learning more about the game doing this however.

This is an impressive Jump game !

Great video very helpful the only part im having trouble with is the jump to the final platform in shars temple, could be cause I’m on console but I’ve tried for awhile now

Me at 45 minutes on Honor mode: okay, let's go meet Astarion and Gale. Cronos: okay, so we'll drop all these fireworks and... That's game.

I wouldn't call it exactly glitchless but good run. you put a lot of effort into it and it's a good video!

That skip for the elevator in the Temple of Shar to the Shadowfel avoided the glitch I ran into. Going down the elevator Karlach and Gale stayed on the elevator, while my main character and Shadowheart stayed in place and fell down the chasm when the elevator moved out from under neath them. Honour run lost.

Thanx for the content! I’m really bored of the killing shadowheart stuff speedrun

This was fun to watch. Big props for all the time and thought you put into the strategy involved in this. Having said that, I'm with others who think the bomb stacking feels like too much cheese for glitchless.

this made me graduate from tactician

Entering act 2 like: "Alright Lae'zel, you go get chastised by the elderly elf lady, I'm gonna jump at the devil, and shadow heart, you stay here and look pretty"

I love how Jahera was inspired by her own murder/suicide

On current patch, the bombs explode in my hand when I try to throw the stack at Ketheric. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Standing in the same location, all the same setup.

Get this man in SGDQ

a true barrelmancer

Maybe I'm missing a hidden mechanic, but how do ten 3d4+9 bombs do 400 damage? I've barrelmancer'd Myrky before, but I dropped something like 30 bombs, 8 barrels, and a dozen holy waters dropped by an invisible Astarion, who then set the entire mess off with a point blank fire bolt - and wasn't sure it would cut it.

I followed your incredible video until the end of Act 2, when I found that it's impossible to take down Kethric Thorm and Merkle with just 8&10 bombs, not even close. I believe that this is because Larian strengthened them in some version updates after you posted this video. I tried several times in tactician mode and my conclusion is you need at least 38 bombs to one-shot both.

Glitchless Proceeds to jump 100 metres every second

16:29 I got to this point on the PS5 but couldn‘t make the jump due to extremely restricted camera angles and I couldn‘t point anywhere that didn‘t say „invalid target“ etc. Is there another spot to jump from? 😢