"And I took that personally": Baldur's Gate 3 speedrunner has her time beaten by an obscene margin and then takes back the world record one day later
Feb. 15, 2024“Trying to take my Baldur’s Gate 3 speedrun records may result in unforeseen harm and new gold splits”
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TheBaldur’s Gate 3speedrun scene is heating up with a very wholesome war over a world record that’s been traded back and forth multiple times over the past handful of days.
As of January 25, the world record for Baldur’s Gate 3’s any% all acts category - where you reach the game’s true ending by any means necessary - was set at 19 minutes and 20 seconds by a runner named Mae. If you’ve spent any time looking at Baldur’s Gate 3 speedruns you’ll probably recognize Mae, since she holds records in almost every major category and played the game at AGDQ earlier this year, apresentationwhich remains probably the best explainer for how all the tricks in the run actually work.
Mae’s 19:20 stood for 18 days, which might as well be an eternity for a speedrun game as new and popular as Baldur’s Gate 3. But on February 13, another runner named biscbroke Mae’s record by a full 44 seconds, bringing the overall time down to 18:35. That’s a pretty ridiculous improvement over a record that stood for weeks, especially since as far as I can tell there’ve been no major new discoveries in the route. This run just had substantially better luck and execution than any that had come before.
Of course, this is all in good fun. Mae explains in theYouTubecomments that “It should go without saying but running with other people who can match my times makes things all the more enjoyable and I love having competition on the leaderboards, I just like trolling bisc.”
But then, bisc apparently likes trolling too. They say in the YouTube comments: “And I’m taking this personally.” Clearly, there’s a lot more life in the Baldur’s Gate 3 speedrun community yet.
These new records certainly widen thegap between speedruns for easy mode and Honour mode in Baldur’s Gate 3.
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