Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems What gives no credit for honor mode?

I started a true honor mode run, just starting, but I have a number of mods installed, mainly hair and clothing. But one mod gives some clothing that gives boosts and effects. I don't use them but they are enabled for this playthrough.

I put on a pretty bracelet from that set, only to see it has an effect, so I immediately took it off before doing anything, if that makes a difference.

If I finished honor mode would I get credit for it, or is it messed up? If so, is there a way to tell now instead of wayyy later?

The game engine automatically detects when mods are active and disables achievements to ensure fair gameplay, even if its just cosmetic only.

There are ways to re-enable them back on with help of certain mods but I lack the knowledge to direct you to those specific ones like I wouldn't be sure if they work with latest version and so on, hope someone else more knowledgeable can tell.

Just wanted to tell heads up so you won't waste time on a run, there was a way to tell if the icons would be faded or light up to see if they got disabled but I don't know if that's the case with latest version since I don't dabble with mods, something I know friends have said.

I'm on Steam and received the Foe Hammer achievement and golden dice, even thouugh I played with a party of 6 and other mods enabled. I did not do anything else to re-anable achievements, as I wasn't aware of the possibility that the game would disable them.
I have all 54 achievements and several of them were obtained after I begain installing mods.

Addenduum : I do not have any weapon or armour strengthening mods or new magic items or spells. But the "party limit begone" mod from nexus and the mod that incrreases max. level to 20 from mod.io, give a serious buff. And these didn't stop achievements.

I can do without the clothing mods, but I really don't wanna give up on the hairdoos!

Well, I guess this run is busted. That's 0 for 3 honor mode runs, not one of which was due to croaking. Their little universes will always be paused...

Is deactivating and starting anew enough, or do I need to uninstall mods too? Sorry for the pestering exactitude, but that's a long journey to find out only at the end.

Again I ask for some indicator to be added to let you know whether your honor mode run is queered.

Isn't there some kind of achievement left that you could use as a "test" in act 1 ? E.g. "killing 2 birds with a gnome". Or the one where you kill 20 opponents while drunk. (The "gnome" thing is a bit bugged I think, because I had to do it 2 or 3 times before the achievement unlocked. But there are plenty of goblins in act 1 to use.)

Are these per game or account global? I'm not sure of my achievements but I wouldn't see an unlock if global and I've done it before.

Looks like they are global per account. I'm looking through unearned ones to see what's left.

Lol, Descent from Avernus, take control of the nautiloid to escape. 90% of players achieved this globally.

1 of 10 games are bailed on before this point? Wow!

Wait, that's 1 in 10 accounts! WTH!


I guess that confirms it was Avernus, but they sure as heck weren't picking up anyone, much less Karlach or Wyll.

I assume you're on Steam. There are 54 achievements for BG3. You should be able to check which ones you already have and whioch ones you haven't yet. Maybe you can find one in the last list that can be got in act 1, and then you know if it works with your mods or not.

Looks about the only reasonable one I can get to fairly quickly. There's also one for long rest purely on alcohol. But cobbling together 80 alcohols might be tough to do quickly without dumping precious early cash into it. Most alcohols are much more costly per unit than normal food, at that.

Wait!

1. Disable (but not uninstall) all mods.
2. Start throwaway honor mode run.
3. Become a drunk as quickly as possible.
4. (Hopefully) confirm achievement unlocked.
5. If so, start the real honor mode run.

Even that's kind of silly. Larian, any official pronouncement on this vis-a-vis installed but not enabled mods? You guys integrated an official mod manager!

Welp, disabled but didn't uninstall anything. Here goes nothing.


Goodbye, gorgeous Githyanki face, and gorgeous, jet-black lush long hair with a red bow on it. How little we knew ye!

If you go for killing 2 birds with one gnome, do it a few times. In my run it didn't unlock the first time either, only after 2 or 3 times. I suppose the he acheivement system is not entirely bugfree. (Nothing is, probably). The "busker" achievement showed this clearly also. You need to collect 100 gp from playing as a bard. Steam shows a slider how far you are. But when you actually collect, like, 10 gp after a performance, the slider increases but sometimes with only 1, or 3, or nothing. So, eventually I got there, but with much more than 100 gp.

Installed mods don't count. Only enabled ones.

You can see this by disabling mods and starting a run, you won't see the little blue mark next to the saves that says "This run has mods enabled"

Of course, you can also look up for "Achievement Enabler" mods.

Or one of the many save files that simply lets you instantly complete an Honour Mode run and earn your Golden Dice (As well as any other achivements you might want, like Jack-of-All-Trades) so you can freely play Honour Mode without care for active mods (Besides any other achievements)

Heck, there's even Golden Die Unlocker to simply get access to the die.

Really the only jank thing here is that for whatever reason some mods do and some don't block achievements. It's kind of inconsistent.

I know I managed to unlock an achievement while doing a heavily modded run (Extra feats, bunches of extra items all scattered throughout an updated loot table, extra encounters, a ton of extra classes and subclasses, extra origin bonuses, extra spells, reworked feats, like 10 different dependencies to make everything work etc... Basically the only thing that I hadn't changed is character appearances and party size) so the affect of mods isn't super strict. To the point where it would seem to be fairly rare that a mod actually inhibits achievements.

Just in case you don't know: If you use BG3MM, you can check (Settings --> Open Preferences --> Script Extender) whether the checkbox for Achievements is enabled or not.

Ok, after playing around with a bit, I think what I want to see is saved games

1. With "Honor Mode" prepended to the saved game name.
2. No blue gear (broken blue gear?) presence of which means it uses mode.

I managed to get a proper Honor Mode game started, names begin with Honor Mode, no blue gear.



Thanks, everyone! This has been a worse struggle than sheepishly asking Shadowheart for a kiss!