BALDUR'S GATE 2 Shouldn't Be Played Like This

What a classic, Baldur's Gate is amazing. Teenage me spend at least 200 hours playing this. (Before girls were discovered) Anyway, it's totally broken, thanks Bioware for making this totally balanced.
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[@A_Spec]

For some reason this video pulled 40k new views in the last 30 days......2 years after release. wot.

[@Ziegrif]

ALGORITHMS!

[@A_Spec]

@@Ziegrif gotta love em

[@dzejrid]

NGL, it popped in my recommendation out of the blue and I thought you were playing BG3 early access or something. My fault probably as I stopped reading after seeing "Baldur'S G.." and just clicked it. When BG2 starting screen showed up instead of BG3, it was a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

[@A_Spec]

Still one of the best games ever made

[@stevennicholas5472]

BGII::Reloaded is coming this year for the NWN2 engine.

[@shacklock01]

Also...thats a lot of fancy tricks but real men sit patiently rolling till they hit a 95 ahha.

[@barshalen99]

00*

[@Pictorial38]

@@barshalen99 Don´t need an 00 if u get strength to 19 later.

[@NephritduGrey]

@@Pictorial38 It's for the stats though and the warm fuzzy feeling of being persistent.

[@kevinklement2621]

@@barshalen99 I think they mean 95 for the six scores 3-18 combined, not the strength percentile. 95 is pretty crazy high then.

[@A_Spec]

Rolling for stats is bs anyway.

[@petrmiros9908]

I remember when i played this for the 1st time when I was like 12. Impossibly difficult. 1st Lich I accidently met in the Bridge - party wipe 10 times over + wtf is he casting at me?. Kangaxx - party wipe. Beholders in Temple sewers - nah im skipping this quest. Greater wolfwere regenerating faster then I could damage him - party wipe. Illithid lair in Underdark - uninstall. Levels sucking Shadow dragon - let just ignore him and read more Drizzt series. Adamantine golem - wtf its immune to everything … Ah those were such a good times with such a good games before girls were discovered.

[@tomg5187]

Petr Miros awesome comment! 😁😅

[@goolabbolshevish1t651]

Old school RPGs really rewarded smart play and knowing your enemy, who would have guessed.

[@kylecoucke943]

Diane Haynes not a 12 year old kid

[@nagcopaleen9078]

There's a moment in Throne of Bhaal when a lich sees you and immediately begs for mercy because it's heard of you. That was such a satisfying moment after the number of deaths from previous liches... and mind flayers... and level 1 gibberlings...

[@A_Spec]

Those damn Kobolds in the iron mines.

[@marciusnhasty]

You got a like after "Ah! Baldur's Gate, one of the greatest games of all time".

[@antaresmaelstrom5365]

"We don't have a lot of gold, only 1200." Ahh good old bonkers D&D economy, where a day of unskilled labor is 1 silver, but a +1 weapon costs 20k silver. "We only have 30 years of unskilled labor"

[@evankimori]

ASpec is a walking inflation bomb. He probably ruined the economy of that first town for quite a few months.

[@goreobsessed2308]

Yep I still do this to this day in my games peasants get payed a silver a day my players tend to hire many many peasants

[@A_Spec]

Masa Munsa in the flesh

[@ianh1504]

A guy in a bar in baldurs gate one chides adventurers for inspiring his son to go out and get killed

[@DrZaius3141]

Well, it's called Feudalism. It's like Capitalism, just a bit more stable and less exploitative.

[@EasoLV]

The coffee trolling of Spiff gets me.

[@prdiludi4432]

Didn't know about ANY of these glitches lol. Beated the game 20+ times and its just that good that i never thought about cheats. Great vid, had a nice laugh

[@DepressionAlgorithm]

21:15 Minsc shouting 'WAH HEY!' as he brutally murders Yoshimo with a crit to the face... xD

[@jamiemorton5485]

xI2ei still laughing at this..

[@neverokay8]

After 100+ playthroughs, I now try to avoid cheese tactics and exploits as much as possible, because they fast forward the game and effectively reduce the amount of content you're playing. Instead I take it easy, play by the rules, roleplay my character's alignment, talk to each npc, open every chest, and read every book. I also try to play with as many lore-friendly quest mods installed as possible.

[@Beerpowered]

From before girls were discovered lol. Like that changed anything! You know you have been gaming just as hard as ever!

[@trikkinikki970]

Some of us were playing before we discovered we were girls, too :D

[@thisiscompletelyreta]

Well shit. Anything baldurs gate 2 gets a like. Pity most of the exploits just let you skip a lot of the greatest video game stories ever made.

[@jmgollde843]

'Ere we go lads. Aspec going medieval fantasy instead of sci fantasy! For Sigmar!

[@IceLizardsUnited]

*For Helm!*

[@magnusanderson6681]

@@IceLizardsUnited For the glory of Amn!

[@Zamahael]

For chaos!!! Chaos is strong!!!

[@allan640]

Another "trick" you can do is you can defeat Frigrack the Ancient Red Dragon by collecting a bunch of cloud kill wands, then standing off screen and repeatedly casting them in the room. It takes around 4 fully charged wands to do it, but you'll suffer no deaths get a +5 holy avenger and well..:) Kill the Red Dragon. Having that sword with a Pally really makes the game easy

[@louistetrault6729]

Best walkthrough of BG2 I saw so far. ;P

[@Gorbz]

It would appear that Cool Name learned the transmutation school by testing spells on himself!

[@shacklock01]

favourite game of all time.

[@shacklock01]

The fact you dident let us all the hear the menu theme blare out angers me though hahaha

[@michaelrodriguez8071]

Cool Name is such a cheapskate. He has 140k and he put his party up in Peasant accommodation. Not cool.

[@celies88]

ASpec is branching out. Icewind Dale, Fallout and Arcanum next?

[@personwithaname271]

well shoot, that was a entertaining speedrun. loves your videos as always!

[@ryantoth676]

Step 1. Play the entire game as a spellcaster Step 2. Start a new game and import your end game spellcaster character Step 3. Play through the game as a magical god of destruction and death

[@Thenineoh]

My favorite broken char is a kensai / mage dual class. With melf's minute meteors active + dual wield, your character attacks with their melee weapons in between throwing the meteors, despite being across the screen from the target. terribly broken lol

[@JR-xv6mv]

At 14:18, you can also beat the lich by leaving the room everytime he casts a spell and then go back in, rinse and repeat. He will eventually run out of spells.

[@ThePppp89]

You can tell he cares a lot about having a extra-balanced and sane experience by the fact he's not playing the Enhanced Edition.

[@RiJMC17]

Yeah, or a patched up version. I remember playing BG2 and not being able to dupe items anymore. I thought this was a BG1 exploit, before watching this video I honestly thought it wasn't in BG2 anymore. Probably because I always downloaded the latest patch.

[@goreobsessed2308]

Lol

[@Dan-uf2vh]

oh wow, he took out of his 18 dex to put above 16 con for a mage ^^ what a n00b

[@timkim7]

But he lets a familiar die along the way which costs 1 con, so 17 con makes sense here.

[@A_Spec]

@@timkim7 those darn Kua-toa dungeon blockers.

[@nickferara8945]

Man this guy is really good at taking all the fun out of the game. Lol

[@moumantai6337]

i like how this is a video about game's bug but the narration is what i found entertaining and interesting

[@StalkeraBg]

These videos are oddly addictive for some reason (please help) Stellaris breaking integer firerate please :( (in the future) Really wish you broke other older games too tho, like Settlers and analyze how it works (like the corvette ultra speed vid)

[@ineednochannelyoutube5384]

All the fucking integer rollovers. Clamp your variables devs, clamp your fucken variables.

[@goncalofreitas4808]

I have played this game more times than I can count and this is beautiful!

[@ThomB1031]

One thing not to do, rush to the underdark like the story suggests you should. First playthrough ended there, where enemies were 5+ levels higher than my characters and I couldn't get past a fight against 8 or so enemies 5+ levels higher than me.

[@A_Spec]

Side quests are your friend.

[@ThomB1031]

@@A_Spec yes indeed. The next playthrough I did it different. One of those situations where the game should have slowed you down from following the main quest with the immediacy suggested by the narrative ha ha. Baldur's Gate 2 was definitely the peak accomplishment of Bioware, although Mass Effect is a close number two.

[@4verse79]

Ding dong the lich is dead ... made my day :-D

[@golgarisoul]

They sell the robe of Vecna? What the hell, DM!

[@ben5056]

golgariSoul for cheap too

[@mitchelltyner5670]

I got the Enhanced Edition and no robe of vecna there. Also the money glitch doesn't work for the EE either.

[@nagcopaleen9078]

@@mitchelltyner5670 I just bought the robe of vecna in EE. Diedre sells it in the mart, not Ribald.

[@oliverjensen223]

@@mitchelltyner5670 thief - or bard - with pick pocket, go sell stuff to a fence, steal it back and sell it again, until you are rich

[@rahman9749]

@@mitchelltyner5670 I played EE and they still sell that OP robe

[@rahman9749]

I will never play a game this way but its pretty fun watching someone doing it hahaha

[@sjdjjsjsjs3991]

Why do you hate old RPG games?

[@damagedgoods2663]

The completionist in me is dying inside...

[@classicfrog80]

You could literally break the first Baldur's Gate if you started your adventure with imported character of higher level. All you needed was Cleric/Mage with the ability to spam tons of skeletons and haste. Start game in Candlekeep. Spam as many undead as you possibly can around Gorion, pause, tell your horde to attack him, move out of the way so he's no longer visible, haste your minions and throw in any buffs you can. Normally if you attack Gorion he will one shot kill you with his spell, but if he can't see you, he can't kill you. And there's too many skeletons for him to kill them all and they will eventually, ever so slowly, kill Gorion for you. Congratulations. Now you're stuck in Candlekeep forever!

[@ZerglingWasteland]

In vanilla BG1, I've done the same thing with a level 1 Fighter/Mage due to a self-discovered bug; if you manage to Charm Person Gorion and wait out the entire duration of the spell, his script causes him to run at you with a knife, at which point killing him is just a matter of kiting him around Candlekeep and shooting him with arrows.

[@Sandcat87]

​@@ZerglingWasteland ​ @classicfrog80 I've also killed Gorion, a third way. Import a team of sorcerers/mages, 5 hitting him with lower resistance (20% each for a total of 100% magic resistance removal) and 1 hitting him with Wand of Paralyzation. This pauses his script for the duration of the paralysis, so you can then beat him down. You can also use this for pretty much every other character in the game, even in BG:EE. Thus you can also break the game in other ways, such as killing Sarevok in the Duchal Palace, which will allow the game to run on for about a minute or two before it crashes. Tethtoril at the start is actually the toughest character in the game with around 1,000 hit points as well as the same instant lightning kill as Gorion, but he'll go down the same way, although you'll need to re-cast lower resistance and paralysis on him to finish him off probably because of so many hitpoints. Ulraunt similar I think from memory, though easier. However, you cannot kill Tazok at the Bandit Camp, and you cannot kill Volo, at least in BG:EE. I am not sure why, the game simply doesn't allow them to hit 0 hit points. If anyone has found any ways of killing them, please let me know! :)

[@Amyante]

I imported my Thief/Mage multiclass into a new game, and when the time came for the two guys to test you on whether you could handle yourself in a fight, i backstab-critted one of them for close to 100 damage. Didn't kill him, surprisingly.

[@OoZeD]

I play this game at least once per year and is always fun each time, great vid.

[@Kurbyxo]

The mage can burn xenos with fire...mages are blessed with the gene seed of Trevor

[@timobecker1386]

I played that game probably over 800hours. I thought i have it all figured out...haha seems i was wrong. Thanks for that amazing contenct

[@A_Spec]

Baldur's gate is one of my absolute favourites and you're welcome.

[@Kevlord22]

Same here. I did untold hours of it in the past yet i still learned so much.

[@cameronjames3499]

Regarding the Crooked Crane; you can just solo the encounter with a scroll of Protection from Undead since he remains in passive mode while you take him down.

[@yellow6100]

5:50 huh ,thats cute ,I just use a mod Dungeon be gone and skip the whole first dungeon cause Ive seen it 1000 times :)

[@grumpyoldwizard]

You mentioned Vecna. They use that name in the latest Stranger Things episode. Perhaps that why people are watching? KZbin also recommended you to me. Be careful with the iOS version. If you click the wrong button (looks like a white keyboard; I thought it was settings), the game will exit without saving. You lose anything you did. This immediately cooled my enthusiasm.

[@Kilawpilath]

Darn it Aspec. Stawp breaking things.. LUL Nah.. so fun to watch these lol.

[@homerp.hendelbergenheinzel6649]

Bg2 is neither fallout nor fallout 2. But it's remarkably close. Fantastic game and since I'm only a casual bg/bg2 player I'm stunned by the possibilities xD

[@flyboobo]

My god the swap gem with potion for integer underflow thing has been there since the days of the original BG 1. I think they even pushed a patch. LOL can't believe the same trick is back.

[@jls7084]

If you used the import function of the game you could import your character from BG1 and if you exploited the duplicate function in back end of BG1 you could import a character were all stats were 25. This was one of the reasons why Neverwinter Nights did allow character imports from BG2.

[@roosterbooster6238]

In the original version I am sure there was a loading screen message about importing your BG2 character to NWN.

[@38procentkrytyk]

​@@roosterbooster6238 there was a loading screen but it is impossible to import character

[@tropik5724]

To me its the greatest game ever made for single player.

[@MetalGamer666]

Game developer lesson learned: Don't let game progression be hindered by lack of money, 'cause people will always find a glitch to make a lot of money!

[@AruwakEM]

Kek, that wow made me laugh. Great vid.

[@gozcubukcu1]

Also you can solo your way as a Warrior Dual Class mage or solo as a monk. I think most know but you can also keep underdark weapons and armor by giving them to imoen and removing her from the group before you leave underdark.

[@freedom_aint_free]

Man, I've thought that by the video title you were a weak player and you would be getting an ass whoop, but was totally the other way around ! I can't even fathom how many people was required in order to all those bugs to be discovered and exploited!

[@vschindler6388]

HAHAHA this is hilarious! Thanks a lot for a video!

[@mr.gunzaku437]

In these games I'd usually play a fighter for that all important 18/00. I'd roll until every member had excellent stats for their class.

[@thisiscompletelyreta]

Also best rpg ever made. Hand down. No competition.

[@MrDavidKord]

Even better now that you can play multiplayer.

[@ravageMK2]

You should present this as part of GDQ, help people and maybe even outdo some of those speedrun wizards :D

[@canyonntt6969]

This game is so damn perfect

[@AlphaNumericKey]

I liked the bit where while you were explaining how to cheese the Lich, the Lich took out half the party in one death spell.

[@A_Spec]

Rod of resurrection baby, booya. Death is cheap

[@goreobsessed2308]

1/3

[@JustinBird2012]

I started playing this last year and I love it. Haven't long gone through watchers keep

[@drkinferno72]

Only royalty can afford a royal room in a inn Is only like 8 gp

[@1perspective286]

Yeah, even in BGI it wasn't that expensive.

[@TJMatas-pk9hn]

Best gameplay of this game I've ever seen thanks for the tips

[@johnparker8648]

if you remove yosimo's armor you could hit him more often

[@pseudolukian2k]

Great times logging into multiplayer back in the day

[@D4nt3ix]

Eddy Wally at 22:52 really caught me by surprise xD oh man

[@SystemYTP]

I can forgive you for dismantling the game of my childhood :-) But... I can not forgive you for selecting option 3 at 19:09 >:-/

[@purpderp838]

Another way to break it is use the gold duplication glitch to buy every scroll in adventurers Mart magic lady disband all group and level up main character off the scrolls

[@J0krswy1d]

Haven't even watched the video yet, but liked the video! Loved those games along with IWD in the same time period of life.

[@ltcinsane]

heh i remember one of the best strategies to beat irenicus was to place thief traps around him before you get the final fight then as soon as he goes hostile he's dead XD

[@goreobsessed2308]

Yep that shit works with a lot of fights

[@gorthaur83]

I remember, years ago one of my friend has a boxed BG2 copy (as all versions OFC). We used the game manuel as DND handbook and played tabletop FRP. It has so detailed. when the games were games.

[@YarHarFD]

Yeah lol the neverwinter nights manual is a spiral-bound novel

[@A_Spec]

It's glorious

[@joshy_bish]

"Ding dong the lich is dead" hahaha

[@r30413]

i never thought to read the words balance and baldurs gate 2 in the same sentence... now i did

[@scarabart8171]

THIS WAS FKIN AMAZING,KEEP IT UP!

[@whitecat1441]

who need a British man spiffing with his yorkshire tea when you have aspec spiffing. jk and i love both of you guys

[@cocomunga]

He can’t hold a hammer but he can hold 65535 gems.

[@howdoilogin]

I knew something was wrong when I saw someone willingly pick Transmuter.

[@SuperEdo07]

this run was great. ditching jaheira was great. but forgetting about your familiar was unforgivable sir.

[@robertcampbell6349]

This is a riot!!!

[@FriendlyArchpriest]

Robe of Vecna? This makes no sense! Vecna is a character from Greyhawk and this games takes place in the Forgotten Realms!

[@ben5056]

Christian Psion multiverse ;)

[@FriendlyArchpriest]

@@ben5056 Not necessarily multiverse, it could all be in the same universe through spelljamming

[@ben5056]

@Christian Psion definitely

[@goreobsessed2308]

Because shoes up in a lot of planes hell he's in ravenloft as well

[@Mario-kf3ej]

Actually game got even better after discovering girls.

[@neilwallbank6507]

Go for the eyes Boo man i remember playing all 3 of the Baldur's gate's happy days

[@gary0044187]

so if you made that character in baldur's gate 1 and collected the 6 books that increase stats, you could use the dupe you just showed to have infinite number of books in that game, allowing you to get to 25 in all stats, then just export the character to bg2

[@nunya_bizniz]

Or just use a character editor and save yourself a tons of time.

[@tooglegoogle5589]

YOU CANT UNSEE THIS

[@Angel28366]

"There is yoshimo he is incredibly good for the rest of the campaign" lol he literally betrays you and leaves you without a theif at one of the harder parts of the game on a dungeon you cannot back out from..

[@BuzzKirill3D]

I think that was a joke.

[@usgreth]

@@Philthy_Phill I used to dual class him to something inappropiate then dump him after the starter dungeon. Don't think it nerfed him for his later appearance but woulda been funny if it had..

[@TheAcunianGamer]

A new video already? I must have drank myself into valhalla

[@furioni333]

infinity engine allows for an infinite realm of brokeness.

[@dreamaboutcoffee4967]

Shame that u cant do stuff like this in the EE version. Enjoyed the familiar on every class for example.

[@petergunn3614]

I just found that out. I'm in the middle of a replay and after watching this I went and tried the gem/potion thing and it didn't work.

[@gustafbstrom]

From what I see, the game is technically not broken - it's buggy.

[@RW77777777]

a rod with a very particular set of skills

[@altoid345b]

That charisma thing, im getting beautiful squidward vibes.

[@OroborusFMA]

I didn't have any problems with this game. The least "broken" game I ever played until the Dragon Age stuff.

[@MidnightSt]

if BG "does sit at that summit", then Planescape: Torment is chuckling, waving at it from beyond the orbit of Pluto. Fuck BG2, all it did was waste people's time and money and steal all the fame that rightfully belonged to Planescape: Torment. Fuck stupid BG2.

[@to12]

20:53 Is that the new Yorkshire Coffee? #NotSponseredByYorkShireTea

[@4lackofbetter]

You saved Yoshimo, abandoned Imoen, skipped entire chapters of the game. Game code and plot are mere suggestions.

[@A_Spec]

Break all the things

[@4lackofbetter]

Sadly this is probably patched in the enhanced edition, yet they haven't patched the glitch where two of my characters end up in exactly the same spot and I can't move either of them.

[@Revener666]

Lower levels are relativley cheap XP wise, always liked to start my wizards with a few levels of fighter. you get more HP and weapons skills .

[@goreobsessed2308]

I play through these games every few years and I learned some fun tricks from you I'm going to have some fun with these.

[@thamor4746]

Travesty, you spurned the classic god of RPG games =)

[@kurjekkolds1489]

The most overpowered and broken build I've ever created was a dual classed human level 9 kensei/11+ mage. Couldn't be killed and solo'ed the game once I hit the dual class mark. (No, spells like maze wouldnt kill me because I would cast magic immunity against that spell school.) I'm also glad I never cheated in that game.. would get boring extremely very fast for me.

[@A_Spec]

Kensai mage with double katanas was rediculous.

[@IYPITWL]

Charisma is useful cuz at 18 it prevents party conflicts, and you get more money from buy/selling. But yeah it's much less important than con, dex and primary stat

[@thewolfpack5290]

you can start the game with 25 in every stat with a char from BG1

[@masterSageHarpuia]

What this does say is the programmers did a good job on this game. Otherwise there would be like 10 triggers you failed to activate and you broke the game which means you can't continue.

[@etrosknight2254]

haha yeah think about some Bethesda games, you think you do everything right and quests still break lol

[@stephenmudiecastles.2938]

Killing Liche's with the throwing axe from the slums is easy.

[@linkamus]

It's not surprised there are exploits in a game this complex, especially for the time it was made. But yes... You SHOULDN'T play the game like this, haha.

[@captaintofu4926]

That was AMAZING!