Baldur's Gate 3 tactician flawlessly beats the RPG's most difficult chapter on its hardest difficulty with an absolute cocktail of D&D spells

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Baldur's Gate 3's most difficult moment was thought to be almost impossible to pull off flawlessly, but one player has managed to do so on the game's hardest difficulty - by using a huge array of D&D's speediest spells.

This article contains spoilers for Baldur's Gate 3's third act.

The Iron Throne might be my favourite set-piece in Baldur's Gate 3. When I stumbled across it 60 hours into my playthrough, it changed my entire perspective on the game. It's an underwater prison filled with innocent people who are being used as leverage to keep their loved one - who are working in a factory on the shore - under pressure to keep working harder. When you arrive there, the prison's founder, Baldur's Gate baddie Enver Gortash, says that he's going to destroy it to prevent all that information from coming to light.

What follows is a desperate race, where you've got six turns to save as many prisoners as you can and then flee the Iron Throne before it collapses in on you. When I took it on, I eventually saved around half of the prisoners, and to be honest, I was pretty pleased with myself.

In a recent Reddit post, however, one player put my efforts - and apparently those of much of the rest of the community - to shame. User SirMcCarthy showed off a screenshot where they'd managed to save literally every prisoner on the base, and on Tactician difficulty to boot. On Baldur's Gate 3's hardest difficulty setting, you don't just have less health and more enemy damage to deal with, but you've got to escape the Throne in five turns instead of six. From all the information they could glean online, that feat was basically unachievable - "everyone kept talking about how impossible it was in six turns…"

Not to be discouraged, however, this