10 Hidden Baldur's Gate Mechanics Most Players Will Never Discover
Tutorials in don't always cut the mustard. While the game does provide a somewhat comprehensive tutorial to outline the most basic mechanics of exploration, combat, and progression, its systems go deep to the point of confusion. Based on the fifth edition of rules, which accommodate for the wide range of contingencies possible in a tabletop role-playing game, there are many things that just doesn't have time to explain.
Other secret mechanics are as simple as hidden keyboard shortcuts or controller inputs that aren't explicitly outlined. They're technically all written out in the game's options menu, but that's a long read, and not the kind of thing most players spend a lot of time reviewing unless they're hunting down a specific setting. While it's worth the deep dive at least once, just to make sure there's no useful shortcut that slipped past the player's notice, this article may save some trouble. Here are some of the handiest hidden mechanics and secret controls in .
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Without a sharp eye, it can be easy to miss crates, boxes, and chests in . Thankfully, there's an easy way to reveal all the interactive items nearby with the press of a button. Holding Left Alt on a keyboard or R3 on a controller causes every interactable item in the party's field of view to light up, with a colored highlight and a nametag. The highlight's color may vary by the permissibility of interactions in settlements; if white, anything goes, yellow, tread carefully, red, and all interaction is banned. This also reveals enemy lines of sight, which is helpful when sneaking around.
This only applies when playing with a controller. One change the PS5 version of makes from the PC version is the
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