Baldur's Gate 3 Honour Mode Exploit Allows for Save Scumming

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One Baldur's Gate 3 player has found a way to reliably save scum in Honour Mode by filling up the game's save slots. While the accidentally discovered exploit defeats the whole purpose of Baldur's Gate 3 Honour Mode, it also presents a tempting option for players who have been struggling with overcoming the game's ultimate challenge.

Honour Mode is one of many additions that Larian introduced as part of Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 5 in mid-December. Apart from a stricter action economy and harder bosses, the key change that this mode makes to the overall gameplay experience is removing the player's ability to save scum; by saving progress on exit, the mode prevents the player from reloading the game in search of more favorable outcomes, at least in theory.

In practice, it turns out that there is a way to circumvent this core Honour Mode mechanic in quite a reliable manner. The method, discovered by TheGamer's Rhiannon Bevan, involves filling up the game's save slots until there's no more room for automatic saves, like the ones that Baldur's Gate 3 attempts to create while exiting an Honour Mode playthrough.

One thing to keep in mind is that Baldur's Gate 3 will actually overwrite both quicksaves and autosaves that are shared between a single character whenever it hits its built-in limit. Also, manual saves don't factor into the equation, as they are unlimited and cannot be automatically overwritten. Meaning that the only way to take advantage of this exploit is to start enough new playthroughs to fill up the game's quicksave and autosave limit, which normally stands at around 1.5GB, depending on the platform. It's only then that Baldur's Gate 3 will be prevented from auto-saving in a new Honour Mode playthrough, consequently allowing the player to save scum.

It goes without saying that save scumming goes against the whole «honour» part of Honour Mode. But seeing how Baldur's Gate 3 is a single-player game, there's no harm in playing it however one sees fit. After all, the