Baldur's Gate 3 Has Been Beaten in 10 Minutes by a Speedrunner

Shortly prior to Baldur's Gate 3's release, Larian Studios commented on the game's massive size, revealing that it has over 17,000 ending variations and noting that for an average player, completing the game would take around 75 hours, while fully exploring every facet for a 100% completion run could extend the playtime to about 200 hours.

As is always the case with massive RPGs, however, it didn't take long for the community to uncover methods to bypass the carefully crafted content by the developers and swiftly reach the ending sequence. A YouTuber and speedrunner known as Mae successfully achieved this, completing Baldur's Gate 3 in slightly over ten minutes. Their Any% speedrun concluded in a remarkable time of 10:03.

The feat was achieved by picking Gale as the origin character, raising his Strength stat to 17, casting Enhance Leap, and then basically jumping through the entire game. They then had Shadowheart cast Sanctuary on them, which stops enemies like Ghouls from targeting them, and hopped along to Act 2. 

There, Mae leveled up to learn the Misty Step ability, which was then used to teleport to the final area of Act 2 without fighting the two preceding bosses. The run ended by detonating Gale's special ability, killing Absolute, along with the entire party and the Guardian in the process, and technically completing the game without ever initiating the third act.

As impressive as the new record is, it is highly that it will be beaten within the next couple of days if not earlier, maybe even by Mae themselves, simply due to the sheer number of players the game attracts every day.

Just this weekend, Baldur's Gate 3 broke its own record for concurrent players, reaching a peak online of 875,343 players, while its previous record, set on August 6, was only 814,666 users. Larian Studios also recently published a new post, revealing that players spent 10 million hours in the game and petted Scratch more than 750,000 times.

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