We're still finding Baldur's Gate 3 tips that manage to surprise us
Just when you thought you knew everything about Baldur's Gate 3 — all the top tips and tricks — a fresh handful of them come along and take you by surprise. Well, they take me by surprise — I bet you're much more savvy than me. Just in case you aren't, though, and you're a kindred spirit, here's what I stumbled upon.
The tip that really took me by surprise is this. Did you know that you can initiate combat during an interaction cut-scene to affect the outcome of it? It means you can potentially save a character scripted to be attacked — and maybe killed — during the cut-scene before it actually happens.
The tip comes from content creator ESO Danny, in a video found originally on the TikTok channel «baldursgate3tips», appropriately enough. As the video points out, you can interrupt a cut-scene by selecting the «Attack» circular button/option in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen.
The example shown in the video is of an interaction which, if you interrupt it, has you save the life of a character and in doing so, unlock a monastery door that would otherwise — if you let the scene play as normal — be locked, and be impossible to lockpick.
Another tip in the video highlights how you can trade with anyone in the game — any character, regardless of if they're highlighted as a trader or not. Why would you want to? Because apparently — and I love this — you can simply buy the quest reward from them for whatever the quest is that's associated with them. That means you can skip the quest and still get the reward, assuming you've got the cash, and that you can access the reward even if you fail the quest.
This is done in a very similar way to the first tip. During the dialogue interaction, there's a Trade option on the same
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