Baldur’s Gate 3 Player Sets Off Insane Amount of Explosive…

Summary

Baldur's Gate 3 offers players a lot of freedom and flexibility to tackle challenges and find unique solutions, such as setting up explosive barrel sequences.
Players can use the game's tools and mechanics creatively to overcome traditional problems, like stacking crates to create a makeshift ramp or strategically placing explosive barrels in a town.
One player, Okoii, set up an elaborate explosive barrel sequence inside a town in Baldur's Gate 3, resulting in fiery chaos, death, and destruction. The community appreciated Okoii's creativity and editing skills.

One Baldur's Gate 3 player manages to use the game's flexibility to set up an elaborate explosive barrel sequence inside a town and unleashing fiery chaos, death, and destruction. Based around the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop RPG systems and mechanics, Baldur's Gate 3 offers players a lot of freedom in how they tackle the many challenges presented to them. Many times, players need to roll a virtual dice to determine how certain actions or encounters play out which can sometimes lead to unique outcomes and differences between players based on their choices..

In fact, some players have found outside the box solutions to overcome traditional problems in game. One high profile example comes from Minsc voice actor Matthew Mercer, who appeared on a stream with Larian founder Swen Vincke, utilized the game's toolset to stack 45 crates together, which served as a makeshift ramp. At the top, Mercer was then tall enough to shoot an Arrow of Transportation over a defensive wall and into the castle. Along similar lines, another player has used the in-game tools to create something a little more destructive.

Set to Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, a YouTuber named Okoii set up an elaborate explosive barrel sequence inside a town. After hoarding an insane amount of explosive barrels from Act 1, Goblin Camp, and Zhentarium hideout, Okoii went about strategically placing them around town, almost in a domino like way. Once the entire town was covered, the resulting explosion was absolutely massive causing a chain reaction that not only resulted in performance issues but killed all NPCs and caused structural damage throughout. For the cherry on top, the final shot showcased the four barbarian halfling players, standing over the ruins.

The Baldur's Gate 3 post proved to be a big hit with the community as many called Okoii a barrelmancer for their work in setting all of that up while others were impressed by the actual editing required to make the video look and sound the way it does. In the comments, Okoii also confirmed that the barrel sequence set up, and then the editing process alone took about 8 hours, with many others assuming that the event needed to be redone a few times in order to get all the various angles used in the final video.

As many noted in the comments, this isn't the first time Okoii attempted some outside the box techniques inside a game. In fact, this explosive barrel segment is part of a longer video showcasing four halfling barbarians, though Okoii has also created plenty of unique Elden Ring videos as well. One of the more popular Elden Ring videos features Okoii and two others using builds inspired by the living jars by wearing Lionel's armor, Jar Head helmet, and using the Jar Cannon as weapons.

Baldur's Gate 3 is available now on PC, with a PS5 release on September 6 and an Xbox launch to follow.