They announced that yet?
HC → SC
Nothing else changes.
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Can we petition at least for a brutal message when we die in hardcore ?
Like… “Get wrecked, you dirty noob.”
Or can you just steal the famous death screen of Dark soul ?
On a sidenote, I’m playing the honour mode of BG3 right now. It’s the hardcorest hardcore hardy-hard-hard thing i’ve tried so far. It’s a delight !
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Tss tss, you are SO old-fashioned…
Nowadays a “brutal” hardcore message is something like: “Oh no! You are out of HP!!! But don’t worry, you can still revive and keep on adventuring.”
In years to come, I fully expect most games to replace “die” by “lose consciousness”, out of legitimate concern for the players’ mental health.
PS: you are a brave soul! I am still working on my Tactician run, haven’t worked out the courage to try Honour yet…
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What’s that?
Basically a new difficulty mode, a sort of ultra tactician. It disables save scumming and you have to complete the whole campaign without dying.
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So, Ironman.
Yeah, Ironman in pumped up version of the hard mode. The bosses have new “legendary actions”, which makes some fights much much harder (and different from hard mode).
In a game of that length where a bit of luck is involved, it’s quite the feat. 
The steam achievement for completing honour mode is currently at 0.4%
I play often that kind of modes in games (ironman, hardcore, etc.) but I don’t know, this one feels different. I’m always very excited (and scared) to continue the journey.
And the pressure is there; I kinda want to finish it before LE launch 
Funnily enough, there are already honour mode speedruns under 25mins.
I’m not “that” impressed by glitchy speedruns; even if the method (putting a corpse in a wooden box and burning it) is quite funny.
BUT there is also people doing a full playthrough of honour mode without ever resting, or wearing equipment. Or even more insane : with only 1 hp for each character (with a mod for it; so no achievements… but still all the ruleset of honour mode).
Anyway, sorry for derailing the initial topic.
HC FTW !
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I think that’s the key, and why it is SO scary.
I usually stop playing any character who dies in LE. Without too much emotion or stress, because I know I can make another one in 20-30 hours, easy.
But in BG3? One run takes me 150 hours, or more, with a lot of emotional involvement in my character and their relationships with others. Losing all that for one misstep is absolutely terrifying.
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