Sorry for the slow response! This forum doesn't get checked much, we really just use the discord server (https://discord.gg/PdSqseuN7x)

To answer your question yes it still works on Patch 8, it's just always a finicky trick (I've practiced it a lot and I'm still not super consistent). If you're still struggling with it head over to that discord server and ask there, people much more skilled than me can probably help

Also there's a tool, Divinity Fling Visualizer, which will show you where your node is set, which is super helpful

Hey there! Sorry for the delayed response!

It's critically important that you throw away the first set of smokepowder bombs you buy from Talli because they are glitched and explode when you throw them. All of the other ones work fine but that first set is a trap. If that doesn't work let me know and I can help you figure it out

Also if you need any other help with the speedrun there's a discord server where people are more active than on this forum: https://discord.gg/FtMhkqH2

Hey y'all, I'm trying to get into speedrunning BG3 (specifically the No Major Glitches category) but I'm having a frustrating issue with LiveSplit and I'm hoping someone here can help me out. Here's what's happening

1. I launch LiveSplit as Admin
2. Load the splits (doesn't matter which category I select, it happens with all of them)
3. Go to the Settings in the Splits Editor and enable auto Start and Split along with the splits I want it to use
4. Go to Settings and make sure Global Hotkeys are enabled (I've heard this is a common issue but doesn't fix it for me)
5. Launch the game
6. As soon as the game launches LiveSplit freezes and becomes totally unresponsive (hotkeys do nothing, timer freezes, clicking on it makes it show the mouse spinner
7. If I close out of the game it becomes responsive again

Here are common issues I've seen people report but I know it isn't:

• Running LiveSplit as Admin, I'm doing this
• Enabling Global Hotkeys, they are enabled
• Something to do with the Category I have selected, this happens no matter which category I use
• Having the Split/Start checkboxes enabled in the Split Component Settings, this happens with them checked or unchecked

Other possibly useful information:

• If I have no splits loaded I can launch the game and LiveSplit stays responsive, but if I then try to load the splits when I have the game open it immediately freezes
• If I have the timer started when I launch the game it stops, but once I close the game the timer shows that it has been running the whole time. So for example if I launch it when the timer shows 10 seconds it will be stuck at 10 but I close the game a minute later the timer will then show 1:10 as if nothing happened

Any ideas of what I might be doing wrong? I can take a screen recording of it happening if it would be helpful but hopefully I've included enough context here. I've taken a screenshot of all of the settings windows in case you notice something wrong with my setup there:

Thanks in advance! I really hope I can get this working because I like this run and want to start recording and posting actual times, but this issue is really frustrating

Ah, thank you so much for pointing out that it's the rooftop fight that makes the army leave! I wasn't able to reproduce being able to leave Act 2 because the army was still in the way. I am going to try that out and see if that fixes it

As for routing this I did a bit of work on that and yes you have to fast travel out to the Mountain Pass and back to talk to the pixie again but I don't think that's a huge problem because the load times are excluded anyway. If you do have to fight Ketheric on the rooftop then that would add some time back in but I wonder if you could still just use some bombs to do that, but not as many as you need for the traditional route. You only have to get him to half health so you should only need a handful of bombs to take him down. Even if that just saves you from needing to level yourself and Lae'zel twice and from needing the hireling it could be worth it since that's a significant time sink. Also if you didn't need the ring to boost the bomb damage or as much money it would make the gauntlet faster since you wouldn't have to go to Balthazar's loot room

The biggest (and possibly insurmountable) challenge with this route that I ran into is that you don't end up with Jaheira because you don't defeat Ketheric, which makes the Gith intermission and Act 3 much much harder if not impossible. If there's another way to get her into the party then that would be fine but I don't actually know if that's doable

Hey y'all, I'm currently trying to get into the No Major Glitches category and came across a piece of tech that would be a big time save if it's allowed under the No Major Glitches category. In a recent video by Proxy Gate Tactician (www.youtube.com/watch?v=31ITUKPyhZc) he showed that when you go into the final Ketheric fight you can use the pixie to turn you into a frog and fast travel back to the surface rather than fighting him and it will let you just leave Act 2 and give you his stone anyway

Using that tech would let you skip getting the smokepowder bombs and doing the fight with him, which would be a potentially huge time save (just buying all the bombs takes at least 4 or 5 minutes of resetting the vendor inventory and the fight adds at least another minute or two). I don't think it's currently outlawed by the category rules and personally I don't see it as a major glitch, it's more of an avoidance tactic like we use in a lot of other places in the run, but I want the community's input before I put time into practicing that route