Your Favourite Glitches, Bugs, Explots, and the Other Fine Cheeses
Tyranus
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Inspired by the "Do you cheat?" thread, I feel the need to post a "HELL YEAH!" thread. What's you're favourite cheese?
Who doesn't remember the Backstab-Chat days of yore.
*Backstab X5*
"Hi there!"
"Did you just hit me?"
"Who, me? Never...." *disappears*
"Wasn't that odd"
*Backstab X5*
Or how about the classic Sequencer->Shapeshift?
"You can turn into a werewolf? How cute! I can turn into a pack of giant 5 armed spiders weilding swords made of pure magic."
Short on cash? Have a potion and a random gem in your inventory? Well, swap those bad boys out and get a stack so large Thalantyr wont know whether to sell you the Mage of the Archmagi or the Claw of Kazgaroth first.
I also have to disclaim that the Flesh Golems have a bounty on my head for genocide and war crimes for the horrible, horrible things I did at the Lighthouse. It was in my youth, before I knew what I was doing.
Who doesn't remember the Backstab-Chat days of yore.
*Backstab X5*
"Hi there!"
"Did you just hit me?"
"Who, me? Never...." *disappears*
"Wasn't that odd"
*Backstab X5*
Or how about the classic Sequencer->Shapeshift?
"You can turn into a werewolf? How cute! I can turn into a pack of giant 5 armed spiders weilding swords made of pure magic."
Short on cash? Have a potion and a random gem in your inventory? Well, swap those bad boys out and get a stack so large Thalantyr wont know whether to sell you the Mage of the Archmagi or the Claw of Kazgaroth first.
I also have to disclaim that the Flesh Golems have a bounty on my head for genocide and war crimes for the horrible, horrible things I did at the Lighthouse. It was in my youth, before I knew what I was doing.
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Although I understand this has been partially fixed in EE, so that you only can use one Project Image in a Chain Contingency. Still, double your mage!
Well, my personal favorite are key mapped Chain Contingencies, you edit the Keymap.ini (not available in BG:EE, sadly a nice thing that was removed) and tag the letter you want to trigger the Chain Contingency after it's spell code. Now everyone can cast a Chain Contingency, without the need of a Scroll/Potion swap!! After that one the "Make the NPC selected to die in the Selfishness Test in Hell open the last Good aligned door for you" is my second favorite. Then the always there FAKE TALK!!! It was mentioned in the Original Post but, heels and hells, this one is golden, it's even in the EEs. And after all, the Suiciding Drizzt, if you are invisible he can't initiate dialog and won't attack the gnolls, so he gets killed by the gnolls that won't attack you either, very good exploit to get his stuff at level one.
No specific trick with NRD, just NRD itself.
Fake-talking.
-Fake-talk shoplifting. DEVS WHY DID YOU FIX THIS I LOVE FAKE-TALK SHOPLIFTING
Standing in the fire. When I have potion of fire resistance and ring of fire resistance and other things that offer fire resistance. I swear I was so flame-retardant, a Molten Core-geared raid from World of WarCraft back in the Vanilla days would have envied the living daylights out of me!
-Black Pits grrrriiiinnnnddss.
-Summoning ghasts with animate dead.
-Mirror image + stoneskin + buffs and stuffs + FIREBALL CENTERED ON SSSSEEELLLLFFFFFF = Shattered Hand cleared
-Making big, flaming craters in Durlag's Tower in the chess room that would presumably lead to where the mind flayers are holed up in the canon.
-Exploiting the Obe's training room NPCs into the game.
In vanilla bg, using wands did not remove invis... That being said wands themselves in bg are ultimately OP, with or without using cheese.
I also made a complete soa/tob run with a sorc summoning 5-7 planetars using project image... (i must say i am quite ashames of that one)
What i find funny is that some perfectly legit items can be very cheesy, like prot from undead scrolls, as demonstrated below:
- use 1 prot from undead + 1 potion of haste.
- kill the liches in city gates, bridge district, sewers and kangaxx (using daystar from the city gates)
- you just got 100kxp, daystar and the ring of gaxx for an investment of 1500 gold and no risk at all.
Also the question was "favourite" and not "most powerful" and this is one admittedly relatively minor exploit, but very frequently used. Actually, if you integrate the additional damage this allows you to do over a full run esp. since it's available almost from the beginning and compare to some triple projected image whatnot mega-cheese, which you use a few times for very specific battles only, I'm pretty sure the speed weapons will come out ahead.
With 5 potions and a quick raid through the shops you can end up with practically unlimited magical / elemental ammo, more or less permanent giant strength and heroism from boatloads of potions, scrolls worth several hundred thousand scribing XP, fully charged wands of cloudkill, summoning, frost, fire, ..., a ring of regeneration, magical armor and weapons for the full party, ... - and in the end you come out ahead with a total of about 12 potions of master thievery just waiting for the trademeet merchants to be resupplied!
Killing Drizzt in BG:EE. If anyone can do this in a straight up fight, you deserve his scimitars. Otherwise, CHEESE!
The fireshield/stoneskin/mirror image tactic is a not so cheesy and kills him very easily.
Now, in the EE:
- You cannot wear more than one Ring of Wizardry
- It's not possible to get more than one Ring of Gaxx
- There's a Planetar summon limit of 1 (unless summoned by Images)
- Pause cannot be used at start to keep your BGEE items
Because if that's the case, it isn't considered as a Ring of Wizardry even though it looks like it. Its description indicates it clearly and a same character can wear two.
Biggest cheese in Baldur's Gate I guys: 2nd pair of boots of speed. Who knows what I'm talking about?
Lower Resistance + Greater Malison + Doom + Blind on dragons (you need 2 or more mages for this) and they are just dead meat.
In BG1, the area where you meet Drizzt, have someone invisible (spell/potion/stealth) to explore where Drizzt and gnolls spawn without initiatng the dialog. Then you can wait for the gnolls to roll 20s and eventually kill the drow. If you prefer youcan even try the last blow for exp. Happy looting then.
Also, if you have enabled Debug Mode in the .ini file, Ctrl + 4 in game will outline all interactable devices, including traps. No need to guess where they are any more.