If you're feeling bad about dying in Baldur's Gate 3's Honour Mode, don't worry—this speedrunner who beat it in under 40 minutes is about to make you feel way worse

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Baldur's Gate 3 has had a pretty active speedrun community, which shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone familiar enough with its more immersive-sim elements. There's the vaunted sex% speedrun, the any% speedrun which focuses on making Gale blow up as quickly as possible, and the «any% all acts» speedrun. Spoilers ahead, of course.

So, here's the deal. If you want the golden die reward for beating an Honour Mode playthrough without dying, you can't do that «Gale goes boom» strategy, since it finishes the game at Act 2. This means that any Honour Mode speedrun is, by definition, also an all acts speedrun. Them's the breaks. 

The non-Honour Mode version of this run heated up back in November when, powered by raw spite, prolific speedrunner Mae shaved off 12 minutes from the World Record. While their power is not to be underestimated, the current world record holder goes by the name of Chronos. Coincidentally, they're also the person who's about to make you feel bad for dying during the intro like three times.

As spotted by TheGamer, Chronos has not only beat Honour Mode in under 40 minutes, but they might be the first person to have beaten it, period.

While Chronos has claimed the title of Honour Run champion, the run itself is gloriously dishonourable. The Ketheric fight in Act 2, for example, is beaten by parking his character's gnomish butt on a ledge a good few feet away, casting Witch Bolt, and slowly melting the poor sod to death while he stumbles around, unable to stop his slow doom.  

This is despite the fact that, as part of Patch 5, a lot of combat exploits were squished for Honour Mode particularly. Clearly not enough.

Things do get a little intense by the end when Chronos arrives at the Netherbrain with 19