New Baldur's Gate 3 Achievement Leaks Harder "Honour Mode" Difficulty

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Baldur's Gate 3 just got a new achievement with the latest patch - and it's impossible to acquire. Foehammer, which was just added to the GOG release of the game, mentions beating the main story in "Honour Mode", which is presumably a new difficulty setting even harder than Tactician.

Honour Mode cannot be selected in-game right now, so it's not clear how this will work. However, if it's anything like Honour Mode from Larian's previous game, Divinity: Original Sin 2, then it will likely complement the Tactician difficulty while making it harder to save scum your way throughout Faerûn.

In Divinity: Original Sin 2, Honour Mode gives you just a single save slot, so right off the bat, you wouldn't be able to make a bunch of different saves for the different scenarios in-game. But it gets more brutal than that, as the save file will be deleted if your party is defeated in combat, making you start all over again. Yes, really.

Since the Baldur's Gate 3 version uses the same name, it may also have the same features as the setting in Divinity. So, don't get too attached to any Tav you create for the run - they might not survive until the finale of Act 3. It would make the feature to flee combat serve much more of a purpose, as getting at least one party member back to camp would ensure that the run isn't over.

You can change the difficulty at any point in Baldur's Gate 3. However, it's not clear if we'll be able to toggle Honour Mode off once we start our campaign.

Of course, given that the Baldur's Gate 3 campaign is longer than that of Divinity, it's possible that Larian will be a bit kinder to us in that regard, and the "Honour" here means something different. For starters, Baldur's Gate 3 relies heavily on dice rolls that can