Baldur's gate 3 player retaliated to Act 3's annoying street performers with a nuclear strike that slowed down the frame rate and exploded 100+ barrels.

What is the most you have ever overreacted in a video game to an annoying situation? I'll save before killing an NPC that sent me on a fetch-quest to the dungeon from which I just returned, sure. But Baldur's Gate 3's jakethebrick_ went to a new level, by killing the Lower City's somewhat obnoxious performers with a doom pile of over 100 barrels of oil, firewine and smokepowder. The explosion was the biggest I've seen in the entire game.

It's time to step up your game if you haven't been using the explosive barrels in BG3 - the forbidden art of "barrelmancy". You can right-click and send them into your camp stash. This will allow you to build up a war chest to use before difficult fights. I use this method to take out Dror Ragzlin, my early boss. I'm saving some smokepowder for Raphael in my current Honour Run: They should help me with his pesky soul-pillars.

You may remember the performers from outside Sorcerous Sundries. The performers are a nice touch of local color, and they make the Lower City feel more vibrant. However, their act of casting a few cantrips every minute or so can get old after forty trips from one end to the other. Divinity Original Sin 2 featured the phrase "Keeping it Together, Bree?" Original Sin 1's Mr. "Nobody has as many friends than the man with cheeses!" And BG3 had these guys. I wouldn't change them for anything, but sometimes it's just necessary to vent.

So, revenge. "I've been hoarding all the barrels and explosives I could find since Act 1." "All for this moment," Jakethebrick_ announced on Reddit and X.com, "The Everything App." I counted 100 explosives in their explosive edifice. Jakethebrick_ confirmed that there were also a few jars containing the plot-critical, extra-potent runepowder. After arranging the explosives amongst the NPCs in a peaceful setting, it was only a matter of hiding under a Globe of Invulnerability to set off the explosion.

It turns the game into an animated slideshow. The goddamn opening to Akira, but at 3 fps and with a sea damage numbers in the Big Boom. "I'm surprised the game didn’t crash because I expected it to," jakethebrick_ confessed in the comments posted on Twitter. "Very satisfied tho. 100% worth it."

They also declared in another thread: "The culmination 100+ hours of gaming." I hate those fucking scumbag wizards."