If you liked this video check out my latest challenge run where I could never use the same action twice: kzread.info/dash/bejne/p6CFlNGfZJzUes4.htmlsi=BfGHFXnOe1-HO-G9

@Narinjas

3 ай бұрын

Actually, Cats, can, and will, open doors, for their own benefit, and should be able to "hold" (at least the bigger cats) the lantern in their mouths... i wish they will release a ln WildShape DLC, where you can keep the wildshape, and some merchants will hqve speak with animals, and use animals and an information and dellivery network, and yes, that includes cats.

@jamescopeland6802

2 ай бұрын

your worst enemy in all of bg3 is that dead guys dog. You must engineer his death plot engineer it like only true cats can.

Watching this made me realize, that "Shadowheart" is a valid Warrior Cats name lol

@ProxyGateTactician

4 ай бұрын

a good cat name in general tbh. i'd name a cat Shadowheart, but then also not tell my gf where I got the name from

@blackjacktrial

4 ай бұрын

I mean, most of the companions work. I can imagine an exotic oriental shorthair named Lae'zel or Karlach, a haughty colourpoint named Astarion, or a chonky friendly boi named Halsin.

@vivalamew

4 ай бұрын

Astarion would be a Birman silver tabby because he's a special boi and Halsin would be a ragged shorthaired Norwegian Forest cat 😂

@bawneff5133

4 ай бұрын

NIGHTSHADE NIGHTRIVER NIGHTFALL NIGHTFIRE NIGHTHUNTER SHADOWSKIN SHADOWLILLY SHADOWROSE SHADOWCHILD SHADOWBIRD SHADOWSTORM NIGHTSTORM NIGHTBIRD FALLENSHADOW NIGHTWING

@WobblesandBean

4 ай бұрын

​@@vivalamew Who would be the orange derp? Someone's gotta be the orange derp.

"Turns out, when you post videos showcasing bugs and a company actually cares, they fix them. Being primarily a Blizzard gamer for the last 10 years prior to this, I had no idea!" THE SHADE 😂😂😂

@MrWiseStranger

4 ай бұрын

As blizz gamer myself got shredded in pieces by this

@LeoTheDarkAngel

4 ай бұрын

@@MrWiseStranger yeah...I played EA games but it's about the same I'd say

@comkver

4 ай бұрын

I straight up laughed at the audacity! Lol

@addrenry784

4 ай бұрын

I still remember watching several 'unintended clever use of game mechanics' being fixed though (preventing spellstealing boneshield in naxxramas so that mages couldn't solo the military quarter for eg) time and time again.

@AnMComm

4 ай бұрын

​@@addrenry784oh, but that's the thing - they only fix things that benefit players.

1:08 cats can only jump 3 feet high, but that doesn't mean they can't carry huge boxes in their pockets. Video game logic at its finest

@ProxyGateTactician

4 ай бұрын

lol I can't explain that game logic moment

@Jules_Diplopia

4 ай бұрын

Everyone else can carry huge boxes in their pockets, even though they don't appear to have pockets. So. why not cats. Logic.

@Jules_Diplopia

4 ай бұрын

Everyone else can carry huge boxes in their pockets, even though they don't appear to have pockets. So. why not cats. Logic.

@GenaroNeto

4 ай бұрын

Well, cats really like boxes

@J3r0nix

4 ай бұрын

This is due to how dnd rules jumps as 3ft flus strength score in vertical height, funnily enough because of this a dnd elephant has a 9 ft vertical

As a cat, can confirm that doors are my strongest adversary. No matter how much I claw or meow at them, they never seem to open without my human

@ProxyGateTactician

4 ай бұрын

It makes sense. So I can't fault Larian here

@blackjacktrial

4 ай бұрын

As a Siamese cat, reject this argument unless the door is a hinged door with a doorknob. Can open door handles and turn keys left in doors.

@WobblesandBean

4 ай бұрын

As a duck, I say: quack

@Skyblade12

3 ай бұрын

@@blackjacktrialI had a Siamese cat that could open doors with doorknobs, actually. The handle ones were way easier, but the doorknob ones were possible hit or miss. High Dex Check, I guess. Well, and the handle couldn’t be too stiff. But she knew HOW.

@RavenGamingOverLord

3 ай бұрын

Sounds like my cat wrote this comment lol

Imagine Orin walks into your camp, and realizes she needs to learn wild shape in order to infiltrate

@ProxyGateTactician

4 ай бұрын

lmao she would just replace Yenna's cat instead of Yenna

@dylanmerrill5554

4 ай бұрын

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@danielled8665

2 ай бұрын

She already can, she turns into a bear as Halsin if it's him she replaces

“Turns out the problem was doors!” Soooo, just like normal DnD

@christopherevensen4942

4 ай бұрын

Not to mention normal cats

@lyntoncollins2758

4 ай бұрын

Brilliant :)

@sidneyrobinson18

4 ай бұрын

Party Rogue: *fucks up a lockpick skillcheck* "alright guys, I guess we're stuck here forever"

@MrWiseStranger

4 ай бұрын

@@sidneyrobinson18 the reason i reanimated take-10 and take-20 rules in my dnd5

@darkfalzx

4 ай бұрын

A regular cat opens a door by playing with the door-stop spring until someone on the other side gets sufficiently annoyed and lets it in... Or just sit there and meow obnoxiously. Now THAT would've been an interesting interaction to include in an RPG: )

"Out of spite, I stole her moon-milk" lol, never thought I'd hear that phrase

@katanah3195

4 ай бұрын

Tbh cats stealing milk is just perfectly standard cat behaviour.

@ElysetheEevee

3 ай бұрын

​@@katanah3195 It's definitely typical. It makes you wonder if it tastes so good it makes them forget the "last time," when they got rocket-powered diarrhea. 😂

@gabrielarkangelo

3 ай бұрын

​@@katanah3195not moon-milk tho.

@MatthewTheWanderer

3 ай бұрын

I wonder if it was a "brand new sentence"?

@deffdefying4803

3 ай бұрын

@@gabrielarkangelo has your cat not stolen your moon-milk yet? dont worry they will.

Imagine the tieflings’ reaction to finding out that four house cats attacked the goblin camp and killed all three of their leaders

2:56 This actually sounds like it is straight from a D&D campaign, the druid cats just happen to fool everyone into the flammable surface and knock over a candle Like we need someone to animate that

@ProxyGateTactician

4 ай бұрын

I had a lot of fun trying to think of some creative kills like that, and that room they set themselves up.

@highdefinition450

4 ай бұрын

cats are such assholes lmao

The idea of a cat showing up through a portal to challenge an elder brain is freaking adorable.

@world4saker

4 ай бұрын

If younare a super evil villain and get your ass or in this case your brain handed to you by cats the shame alone no one will take you seriously.

@MementoMori_2070

3 ай бұрын

If a cat made it to the elder brain, that’s a bad ass cat. And not to be messed with

@LutraLovegood

Ай бұрын

At that point I'd be more afraid of the cat.

whats funny is that i literally walked past the guards in act 3 *last night* as a housecat. I think they just dont want giant dangerous cats

@vicarion

4 ай бұрын

Isn't there a rule against animals larger than a peacock?

@LeoTheDarkAngel

4 ай бұрын

@@vicarion Oh yeah, this funny letter in Act 1, I remember that :D

The power of cats knocking shit off shelves has reached a new level.

@MementoMori_2070

3 ай бұрын

I’m dead that’s funny 😂

Of all challenges you could do, I was not expecting this lmao.

@ProxyGateTactician

4 ай бұрын

lol it was one that had the most unexpected problems of any I had attempted.

@AlphaTomato

4 ай бұрын

@@ProxyGateTactician Feels fitting. Irl cats do try really hard to open/pass any door they come across, even with great difficulty.

@LuLilouch

4 ай бұрын

I want to see Astarion as a cat

I love how one of your main strategies is to knock things off with your paws... That's some real cat RP

"Unfortunate workplace accident" took me OUT

@ProxyGateTactician

4 ай бұрын

Took her out too

When I was a kid we had this mystery where occasionally whoever was first to get up in the morning would find the front door wide open. After a few weeks we solved it: the door handle was very high up so Dad had tied a rope to the handle so the youngest kids could open it by themselves. Then our cat figured out how to use and let themselves in or out when no humans were around that she could "ask". Larian should patch in pet accessible door handles! 😂

@ProxyGateTactician

4 ай бұрын

Right!! It was so dumb that ONLY doors caused it to be a failure, and that there were like 5 doors that had the problem :( Originally I just never even considered a door blocking me.

@Locutusofborg41

4 ай бұрын

Clever girl...

@SharkyMcSharkenstien

4 ай бұрын

I mean you do get ropes with almost no use ... Sooooo .. hells yah

I can't believe you got into the Shar's temple without the Gems by using boxes. That is incredible lmao

@Gollvieg

4 ай бұрын

Honestly, it is very lazy of Shar's temple designers to just have a high wall with no roof protecting the inner sanctum.

@deffdefying4803

3 ай бұрын

@@Gollvieg not even lazy, basically unsafe. imagine the rain and other shit that gets in there when they have no roof. makes cleaning a hassle, and if they don't clean, slip hazard.

@anna-flora999

2 ай бұрын

​@@deffdefying4803considering it's inside a cave, I'd recon rain isn't that much of a problem

@deffdefying4803

2 ай бұрын

@@anna-flora999 my dumb ass 😭

This reminds me of that one D&D meme when someone’s cat ended up sitting at the table while a player was in the restroom, someone put a dice in front of the cat & it rolled a Nat 20. Next thing you know, kitty is officially the party druid that’s constantly in wild shape 😂

"Dude, I'm sure those cats are up to something." "Man, you're just paranoid." *Explosion*

as a cat owner i can confirm that it is indeed realistic for cats to struggle with and complain about doors.

@elishevajohansson2592

2 ай бұрын

Apart from one of my bf's cats - she will headbutt the door until you are sick and tired of the banging and open it for her. And she will not quit. Less complaining in her case, and more of a "open or I annoy you until you do".

That was unusual. Edit: Your narration is amazing in this one. "Cats are not a light source" had me spray coffee over my table.

@ProxyGateTactician

4 ай бұрын

I'll take that as a compliment

@nyarparablepsis872

4 ай бұрын

@@ProxyGateTactician Rightly so :)

Cool attention to detail with the rapport spores. The myconids scatter them onto people they wish to speak to, what they do is allow telepathic communication since myconids can’t speak verbally, so it makes sense that they can speak with you even as a cat.

To be fair, the myconids thought you were a strong druid, understandably so, they did not expect hardcore masoquist cat roleplayers.

@ElysetheEevee

3 ай бұрын

That's an interesting way of spelling "masochist" that I hadn't considered, haha. I actually had to spell it out and double-check. I love it when that happens. Language is fun.

@whitelabrysrinth3111

3 ай бұрын

@@ElysetheEevee ah whoops! I didn't even notice XD

Was randomly thinking what an all druid party would look like in this game and this video showed in my feed a little while later

@ProxyGateTactician

4 ай бұрын

Was pretty fun. It was kind of nice doing a run where I never do any shopping. Don't worry about gold, and never equip gear because it doesn't really matter.

Cats frolicking in the goblin camp was adorable.

"Can be beaten by a cat! What's your excuse?" should've honestly been the tagline for Baldur's Gate 3. That is, if anyone in the team had bothered to try to beat it as a cat, bunch of lazy slackers. Another amazing video, man. Keep it up!

@ProxyGateTactician

4 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@videowatching04

4 ай бұрын

ProxyGate was able to beat this in a cave, with a box of cats!

@highdefinition450

4 ай бұрын

it's really not lol

thank you for asking the REAL questions and actually putting more effort than you probably should in solving them ahah

Yet again, doors are the bane of cat existence.

The cat camp at 3:15 is such an unreasonably cute image

@ProxyGateTactician

2 ай бұрын

lol I had to place the in game bedrolls on top of them to create the scene and had people from the wiki asking if it’s possible to do that normally

"Stole the goods and eliminated the witness." These cats are evil.

Cats and explosives? You know your way to my heart Proxy 😊

@dragonmangames2523

4 ай бұрын

He's over here turning the Forgotten Realms into a game of Exploding Kittens.

@seb2750

4 ай бұрын

Mommy is here!!!!!

@Mephisto3111

3 ай бұрын

mommy milkers aproves

the shot of cats sitting at the chalkboard reading is so funny

Cat necromancers are entirely appropriate. I recall a tale of a cat wiping a party so hard the DM gave it class levels decided by a dice roll and it got necromancer.

To bad you cant play as Tarra. Thats a Cat who can throw some serious fireballs

@dolphincat1446

4 ай бұрын

You should be able to if you have the Tara mod and tutorial chest mod.

This video has shown me SO many new mechanics and interactions in the game. Wow. So good! Thank you

@ProxyGateTactician

4 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it!

No joke, I was actually considering BG3 as a cat after my run as a dragon. I'm glad I didn't start on it yet!

@ProxyGateTactician

4 ай бұрын

Your dragon one was pretty interesting though for sure. The Dragon looked like you had a lot more fun than I had in my run

@kodyackgaming3663

4 ай бұрын

@@ProxyGateTactician I would believe that. There's a reason this one was further down on my list to not having started looking into it yet, it seemed like it would be pretty painful and I considered having Gale-Cat be the main character to end it in act 2.

The only thing that's missing in this playthrough, is you sitting behind a door after finally making it through and meowing since you want to go back.

There is an Upper City Sewer Map?!? 1000hs for nothing. Dude this run was crazy! Good job on the run and the video, even if it was for my preferance like 10% too fast paced.

@ProxyGateTactician

4 ай бұрын

Yeah I had never spotted that until last month myself even. It's SO much better of a route than that awful courtyard battle

@asanoiaz

4 ай бұрын

There is one??? I have to use that in my next run. Courtyard fight was a pain.

@risacooper

4 ай бұрын

Gaaah I was always wondering why Astarion said something like "we can fight or sneak our way through" and then the only way I spotted was the big courtyard fight. Made me wonder if there was an alternative

@wolfsnow711

3 ай бұрын

@@ProxyGateTacticianthat part of the vid is so cool! But also, you can sneak past the whole courtyard without invisibility portions, there are only a couple mandatory pick offs of lvl 1 gobbos on the wall & then the race with a nautiloid to climb netherbrain

@GastricProblemsHaver

3 ай бұрын

Can't you just walk past the courtyard fight?

Now this is the true high stakes challanging way to play the game

"my cuteness has become my weakness" got me laughing 2 minutes :D

Step aside Stray this is the quintessential cat game

This is an incredible video. It doesn't have the fanciest editing or the most bombastic concept ever, but the script is consistently funny throughout, and little touches like «study session» really warmed my heart. Honestly, never expected that kinda content to entertain me that much. Hats off.

The gate tactician's biggest obstacle was gates. Ironic.

@ProxyGateTactician

3 ай бұрын

lol never thought of that but ur right

The fact that *doors* were the biggest obstacle somehow feels very appropriate for a D&D-based game.

This was sublime I wish the cat attack was more like domestic cats IRL - that lightning-speed, batshit crazy blur, when start using their back legs and stuff as opposed to that pounce/swipe

You can just imagine all of the enemies reactions to seeing a large group of cats suddenly scamper into their lair. _"Oh, look at that cute group of Kitties moving explosive barrels around the room. That's so adorable! Odd, now they're moving a lit candle over to the wine they accidentally split. I'm not sure what's going on here, but it is very cute."_

@LutraLovegood

Ай бұрын

Ahah, silly ca-BOOM!

0:09 not even 10 seconds in and I'm wheezing with laughter at this shot. just. it's impeccable.

@ProxyGateTactician

4 ай бұрын

As soon as I saw that cutscene I was excited because I knew it fit perfectly for the intro

I would honestly NEVER have thought this was even remotely possible, but damn... Meow I've been proven wrong. As a side note: This narration style reminds me so much of another challenge runner I used to watch but can't remember the name of. The mannerisms, cadence, all delightfully similar.

@ProxyGateTactician

4 ай бұрын

Most likely Mitten Squad because I have watched all of his videos, and really loved them. Sadly he passed away in December :(

@SerLagsalot

4 ай бұрын

@@ProxyGateTactician Aw shit, I hadn't heard that... damn.

@oldman6916

4 ай бұрын

Probably mitten squad, his voice sounds similair

@ProxyGateTactician

4 ай бұрын

@@oldman6916 pretty sure I watched every video on his channel. I really loved his videos a lot.

@wilczus222

2 ай бұрын

@ProxyGateTactician He lives in you 💛

Proxy out here completing (as much as possible) the challenges few others even imagine.

@ProxyGateTactician

4 ай бұрын

I've had this one on my mind for months, but never expected the hardest part of the challenge would be DOORS. I thought I'd never be able to hit level 6

@devinpm

4 ай бұрын

@@ProxyGateTactician That's a very D&D experience though lol

I still remember when 4 White Mages was considered an insane stipulation! Clearly I need to catch up with the times

@cherikitty

2 ай бұрын

Final fantasy!

I have sent a bug report: "Multiple mandatory doors could not be used as a cat." The cutscenes not playing is obviously intended because cats don't give a fuck about talking to ppl.

@ProxyGateTactician

4 ай бұрын

The only one that really bothered me was the Baldur's Gate City one because it's WIDE OPEN! There is no reason it should have been blocked. The one that requires you to speak the password at least makes sense

As a cat lover, this was beautiful beyond words. And a cat murdering a group of people with a lit candle seems like a plausible real life scenario. XD

“You are a cat, I am a cat,everyone of us is a kitty cat”-soldier tf2

@nancycariker-moon9890

16 күн бұрын

"I am a courage-filled machine of war" -soldier tf2 (same thing as a cat, right?)

You're a fucking genius, man. The way you use objects and items is mindblowing. I'd love a more longform version of this insane playthrough.

@elishevajohansson2592

2 ай бұрын

I second that!

You remind me of Mitten Squad, "the true game starts here" included, and that is a compliment of the highest order.

This is the content I talk to my friends about, love it

Watching this gave me the best laugh that I’ve had for days. Plus my cats agreed with every point you made.

Well done on the run, first of all, and second I really enjoyed the narration, had me laughing a lot 😂

@ProxyGateTactician

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed

I feel with the content of you videos and how you record them, its like watching a spiritual successor to Mitten squad.

@lamardavis688

4 ай бұрын

It’s damn near 1:1 pretty obvious he was inspired by him

This is, by far, my favorite. Hilarious and fascinating and I choked on my cheese and crackers at the Blizzard reference.

@ProxyGateTactician

4 ай бұрын

Can you tell they hurt me

@mkeller7881

4 ай бұрын

@@ProxyGateTactician The years I let them hurt me I will never get back. I guess it was fun at the time, but not as fun as watching you beat bg3 as a cat.

I can see Larian adjusting those doors to be interactable already xD also Rip Displacer beast wildshape, the best of wildshapes

Warrior Cats.

This was ameowzing. Loved the narration as well, good job thank you 😻

@ProxyGateTactician

2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Your commitment to the bit was amazing! That looked so frustrating 😂 omg kitties swatting a moon lantern across act2.

This video alone is worth a sub and a great way to be introduced to your channel. I can’t wait to see your other videos.

7:52 My cuteness had become a weakness 😂 Cats do struggle with doors a lot, even beyond the Forgotten Realms! That was so funny! Thanks for the video!

This is the best video I’ve ever seen. Thank you for making it.

"Out of spite, I stole her moon milk" In this moment, it truly became a cat for me.

I've been watching this video over and over and it still never fails to crack me up. I love cats, I love BG3, and the narration is incredible. 10/10, would meow again.

@ProxyGateTactician

2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

10:23 18:03 love it when the broken cutscenes give us gems like this

this is the best challenge run i've seen so far

@ProxyGateTactician

4 ай бұрын

thanks so much!

A video that combines my two favourite things / thank you

I'm blown away by your problem solving and perseverance. I hope you translate it into all the success!

I am thoroughly impressed. Great vid.

Not long til someone makes a mod that lets you just straight up play as a cat and adds some workarounds to certain sections and cutscenes to make it work lol

@elishevajohansson2592

2 ай бұрын

That... Would actually be awesome! ^^

Babe wake up new Proxy Gate video just dropped

@ProxyGateTactician

4 ай бұрын

this one took too long lol I got stuck way more than I expected

"and you know what they say, curiosity never killed anyone" Purrfect quote for this vid

This is excellent. Cats are the true murder hobos. Also love the sneaky divinity soundtrack in the middle

"Cats are not a light source" made me cackle so loud

Bro played Stray in Baldurs Gate 👀

Makes me wonder if Larian will include some more Wild Shape friendly options in their next patch. Like non-broken cutscenes and maybe even things like you actually doing your animal sound when giving a speech and everyone who is present cheering. I just imagine a small house cat going "Meow" and Auntie Ethel responding with "You can count on me, petal"

I wish I had known about your channel before uploading my video about Challenge Runs, you have now become my favourite Baldues Gate 3 Challenge Runner, maybe I'll do a follow up showcasing your genius!

This should be an officially supported way to play.

Dude did you just kill raphael in camp lmfao

This video is the most authentic feline experience currently available in media, that's all I will say on this matter; excellent content.

11:14 bro clipped through the wall to not break RP. He's a cat irl.

There's probably a mod to make your character a cat, only a cat.

@ProxyGateTactician

4 ай бұрын

True. I should start using mods for these types of videos for sure. I also like knowing that any of the probles/bugs I encounter can't be related to a mod though.

this is exactly what i needed at 7 am

I didn't know cats were expert barrelmancers.

I love how all of this could be made 100 times easier by simply adding in a Tabaxi race.

@ProxyGateTactician

4 ай бұрын

I hope they do add more races or classes eventually. Low odds of it I guess though

Surprised you didn't go tavern brawler and strength giant potions for tons of damage

@ProxyGateTactician

4 ай бұрын

I only had access to 1 giant strength potion in act 1, but tbh that would have been smart. There's the 1 near auntie ethel in the grove. I actually was glad I saved it though because I couldn't carry the explosive barrels to destroy the Dryder without that elixir on me. they would have been too heavy. The smokepowder ones I could carry just fine, but other ones were too heavy

So all the Raphael questline is off if you are a cat?

I would absolutely love if they can implement some type of cat ending or fix all that stuff you ran into as a cat to make it possible. That would be amazing and legendary.

not only playing it but editing it all must had been SO MUCH but the result was worth it. this is the best video ever and the most epic way to finish bg3. rip cat!shadowheart

Now I understand why cats hate closed doors so much.

Ymfah eat your heart out, we got BG3mfah

@ProxyGateTactician

4 ай бұрын

I respect his content a ton so I would gladly accept that as a compliment

@algernopkrieger7710

4 ай бұрын

And absolutely meant as one, from all us fellow challenge content enjoyers

Oh, my god, this is the best Baldur's Gate 3 video I have ever seen! I was in hysterics for most of it! 🤣

@ProxyGateTactician

3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

The Gauntlet of Shar door can actually be unlocked by picking up and storing a small Gilded Chest, then clicking on it

@ProxyGateTactician

4 ай бұрын

Really? Which chest?

@MycroftJr

4 ай бұрын

@@ProxyGateTactician I'm not completely sure, I'll try to grab the UUID next time I see it unlock something. But ever since Hotfix 17, clicking on locked doors/chests has sometimes teleported a small Gilded Chest from my Camp Chest to my inventory and unlocked the locked thing I clicked on, as if the Gilded Chest was the rightful key, and that door is one of the ones it works on.

Meow Meow Meow by the River