Baldur's Gate 3The hardest difficulty setting, Honor Mode, is full of challenges. One player has now warned others to be careful when retrieving with Scratch the dog, as even that can be fraught with danger in this most difficult mode.
Reddit user Renilas took to the Baldur's Gate 3 subreddit yesterday (January 1) with a PSA – “Playing fetch with Scratch ended my campaign.” How? They're not entirely sure how it happened, but it seems like an innocent game of fetch was misinterpreted by their entire camp as some sort of attack on the top boy in roleplaying.
“So there me and my friends were in Act One, about to take a long rest so we could continue on to the goblin camp,” Renilas explained. “One of my friends throws Scratch's ball and I grab it so I can throw it to the puppy. This makes the ENTIRE CAMP hostile.”
The user went on to say that while none of his evil companions had been leveled up and therefore weren't much of a threat, there was another rather major problem to solve. An enraged Level 12 Oathbreaker Knight also happened to be present at camp when the fetch incident occurred, quickly ending Renilas' run in four rounds. “That's that,” they said.
It turns out that other players have also had similar experiences: “I did the same thing to test whether a weapon returned correctly. I didn't even think about Scratch,” whyreadthis2035 wroteadding that it “feels like unintended consequences.”
“This almost ruined my run one time, my friend threw a cup at me as a joke, I picked it up before Scratch could get to it, and suddenly Scratch was mad at me,” nighteroni added. “I was lucky that no one else in my camp was annoyed and I was able to put Scratch to sleep to end the battle without killing him. I learned that lesson very quickly.”
Needless to say, if you're attempting an Honor Mode run, this is something worth keeping in mind as you rest in camp. We all want to play Scratch, but maybe not if it ends in death.
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