Only 0.1 Percent Of Players Have Beaten Baldur's Gate 3's Honour Mode
It's been three weeks since Baldur's Gate 3 added Honour Mode, a new difficulty more punishing than Tactician. Tougher bosses, smarter AI, and most importantly, one save file. Mess up a roll? Face the consequences. Die? Start over. It's gruelling, but pushing through earns you an achievement and some swanky golden dice.
As you'd expect, it's the rarest achievement in the game by far. Only 0.1 percent of players have managed to beat Honour Mode, earning the Foehammer trophy. It's the same over on PlayStation, but luckily, it's under a separate DLC tab. On Steam, if you want to 100 percent Baldur's Gate 3 now, you have to conquer the most challenging difficulty setting in the game.
On PlayStation, 127 players have powered through Honour Mode, while on Xbox, 16 have managed in just 11 days.
For comparison, 2.5 percent of players on Steam (and 0.8 percent on PlayStation) have finished the game on Tactician mode. Granted, it's only been out for three weeks, but the much tougher parameters make it an achievement likely to remain incredibly rare, even if speedrunners have found ways to trivialise it.
Right after the new difficulty option was patched in, speedrunner Chronos got through Honour Mode in less than an hour. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that most people will probably take it painfully slow to build up their character, ensuring that they are strong enough to weather whatever challenges they run into. Not ol' Chronos. They jumped through the world and blew up the Absolute with a metric ton of explosives, cinching victory with a slither of burn damage. I'm fine with Tactician for now, thanks.
Others who have tried to get through Honour Mode without speedrun strats have run into some comically abrupt endings.
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