Definitely a menial task.

Fine...

It is the most effective way, though pretty lame.

I found falling back and spamming fireballs like the doppleganger fight was the easier for me, though probably a lot slower for a speedrun.

@@seanpowers1899 I don't think Sarevok set those traps tbh. I think it's built into the temple.

@@seanpowers1899 In the orginial game Sarevok had 100% MR and was immune to them, with TotSC his MR became 0%. Nowadays these traps are the creative way to kill Sarevok. However, there is always the possbility to put the old SAREVO.cre into the override folder...

I finished this game today for the first time in my life. Sarevok took me like one hour to beat :D

Lul.

4:26 I must be free. I must be free. I must be free...

I thought chain back stabbing with a thief or stalker was cool. this is messed up.

Thanks for the explanation. I was so confused by the fact that he somehow managed to raise 140k XP finishing just one quest that it didn't occur to me that he simply cheesed multiple triggers. I was gawking at the screen wondering that the reward seems pretty decent even for SoA and ToB)). Concerning triggers, I don't understand why they didn't implement rewards as simple "binary semaphores" or true/false toggles from the very beginning. You know, like each quest has the toggled_reward attribute, so the player could still break scripts, etc, but at least would be able to collect multiple XP rewards. And about beamdogs, I think they're too incompetent to fix really difficult things, like the pathfinder, and too lazy to do tedious tasks, like rewriting classes from scratch with all the dependent code...

Do you have a link or a video title/creator name?

Genius? It's called exploiter noob. They used glitch to gain advantage in speedrun

You don't need an invitation to enter the tower

Me too, and it's still just like that for me. I play games slowly and take my time with everything as much as the gameplay allows it and the story still makes sense. I've played the BG games extensively, both legitimately as well as otherwise (cheated, hacked and torn apart), but speedrunning is not one of my goals with any games. Of course, speedruns often don't respect the ways a game was originally intended to be played, so they're not to be taken as a comparison, anyway.

yes

oh wow, basically if you talk to her over and over it keeps rewarding the exp,. so he was maxed leveled from spamming turning in of the quest

+Nachtruh You can also keep your party members at the door, take a party member (with boots of speed) and hit Saverok with an explosion then run to the door and exit. He will follow you out the door but Angelo and the other guy will not. So, you can legit 1v1 him =P

Saverok fight was too easy. U are either noobs or too dumb to get past him

some kind of dialogue exploit. I think it's having a previous dialogue menu with more options (1 and 2 instead of just 1), allowing you to choose option 2 when it's not supposed to be visible. for Candlekeep it let him choose 2 (here's my book), and for the palace it let him choose 3 (here's my invitation)

I think other categories would simply be arbitrary, "100%" would require a really solid definition of what that would be, all items? All Quests? All Conversations? too many possibilities with very little interest in it. If you're really interested in a different category, I did a "glitchless" run of BG1EE (www.twitch.tv/jiseed/c/4203585), although what is considered glitchless is really in the eye of the beholder.

Jiseed That's true,we could have long debates to define that Thanks for your link i will definetly check it and follow your work Take care :-)

Yours is legit (not using glitches), and I prefer that. 🙂

We use the multiple dialog glitch which involves interrupting a dialogue (in this case by despawning Montaron) which allows us to select that conversation's options (1,2, etc.) in a different conversation. By selecting the number 2 dialogue option we are able to select the (currently hidden) option to enter Candlekeep as if we have the Tome from the Duke.

Daaang son! Ever thinking of doing BG2 :D?

The old underflow bug doesnt work, but you still can swap potions and scrolls in place of things you've used in your inventory. The example in the video of the healing potion triggering the strength potion instead for instance.

+Jiseed to bad they fixed the underflowbug it´s been quite useful^^ to bad i did not know it when i played old bg1 (though i doubt it worked there after all it unpaused in the inventory so you´d drink the potion to quickly)would have been rather useful^^ i mean candle keep gives you everything you need for that glitch^^ in bg2 it was one of my favorite glitches^^ as you just got the 15.000 gold effortlessly (i mean you sell the stones, if thats not enough buy one back and go again^^) and could get the amulet of power in five minutes and then go for the quests with already overpowered equipement^^

+Jiseed I've spent like an hour real time trying to do that potion trick. Would you be so kind as to give me step by step tutorial on how to make it work? I'd be mighty grateful! PS You used that trick to dupe potions, right?

my question too - what is that, for lack of a better term because i don't know the symbol "phase shifting" that he is doing from the very beginning?

Trevor CliffordThats me using the Blade kit's special ability "Offensive Spin" which gives you 2x movement speed among other buffs for 24 seconds. Although it gives the blur effect visually, it doesn't apply the defensive qualities of the mage spell.

Minor Globe of Invulnerability, which is complete immunity to all level 1-3 spells

Click the scroll, click the ground. Enter the inventory and swap its place on the quick action bar (empty slot). Don't wait too long to swap it or it'll be eaten up, you have to do it before the spell particles appear.

thanks. okay if that cheat works in bg2ee it doesn´t with vecnas robe^^ (i´m fast but not that fast^^)

Maybe being called that for most of my childhood is why I've turned out this way, man... Oh well.

An elf fighter or archer ranger with 5 pips in longbows and 19dex is a easy path through the standard game. Most wizards never get a spell off.

@@OneWayTraffic Thanks lol. Funnily enough, I played this with my best friend in prep for BG3 and you know what? The thing that I didn't do was explore every map entirely. I thought as a kid, that I could just skip parts and still beat the game. NOPE

The double cutscene after killing Mulahey makes it impossible to beat the game due to the game not adding cloakwood even though you're in chapter 4. As such we have to enter Candlekeep in order to trigger the chapter increment that occurs once you leave the catacombs. This allows us to hit chapter 5 and head over to Baldur's Gate. It is additionally much, much faster than going through Cloakwood and the Mines.

Jiseed Ah neat, very well done by the way

*AMN

by summoning something, you can check all the glitch explanations on speed demo archive

Dagoth Ur Where on SDA? There is a wiki with a decent amount of information, but things like the multiple dialogue to open the Duchal Palace and the different area dialogue warping for Candlekeep Early aren't explained and I can't really figure it out just from looking at the run.

Do you know what an any% speedrun is?

Watermark0n first of all it doesn't say any %. Second it doesn't change the point, glitches can be a fun way to experience the game, but abusing a cheat like this to instantly go to max level is not any different than just setting yourself max level with console. You might as well just use the console to teleport yourself to sarevok and call it a speedrun if you're going to abuse a cheat this badly.

"Speedruns are cheating" - shitters

@@Watermark0n you do realize neither any% nor speedrun refers to whether glitches are being abused, but just to completing the game as fast as possible without completing every task the game has to offer. Thus if you know the words you said - it would state nothing about the use of glitches. Usually however, if you don't mention that it is a glitchless speedrun, it does mean glitches are allowed. Regardless i do agree with Zack that some of the glitches seem like you might as well just call it "with cheats", but that is just how i feel. Abusing a glitch to skip large intervals of the game seems to make the run a bit pointless - and doesn't really seem like you are completing the game. I do however not care whether he uses glitches to jump through walls or doors, or whether he abuses glitches to cast scrolls infinitely or go to max level. But that is just me i guess...

+izdatsumcp It's a video game... roughly 50+ hours of gameplay.. this dude apparently skipped by everything to finish in 20 minutes.

Bruce Wayne This game (especially BG2) is one of the best of all time.. IMO they are still the best RPGs ever made.

Personally I find these graphics aged less than say Neverwinter Nights 1/2 and Dragon Age etc.. because of the isomentric view.

Bruce Wayne 30, 40, 50 hours? I'm not sure. There's an expansion coming out (supposedly this ye ) called Siege of Dragonspear. Maybe you want to wait for that.

If you play BG1 to the end of BG2 and it's expansion (not counting the expansion coming out to bridge the games) you're probably looking at 200+ hours if you don't skip stuff. Maybe more if it's your first playthrough. You can fit it into a busy schedule, knock out a quest here or there and come back the next day.