{"id":35534,"date":"2023-08-04T15:30:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T13:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1868635"},"modified":"2023-08-07T06:27:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T04:27:35","slug":"how-to-get-a-powerful-baldurs-gate-3-sword-early-in-the-game","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/how-to-get-a-powerful-baldurs-gate-3-sword-early-in-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get a powerful Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 sword early in the game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Grab your big flamin&#8217; swords here folks. <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Cole Luke\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 04 August 2023 at 13:30 PM<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>With so much coming at you in the opening of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/technology\/gaming\/baldurs-gate-3-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Baldur\u2019s Gate 3<\/a>, it\u2019s easy to become overwhelmed and find yourself scrambling to get off the ship as fast as possible.<\/p>\n<p>But you need not rush as you can miss a couple of things that will really help your journey down the road, including a\u00a0powerful Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 sword.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Lae\u2019zel barking at you to get to the bridge, you can actually meander around and stop to smell the cephalopod flowers of the Nautiloid and get to grips with the mechanics before venturing forth into the unknown.<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of other things worth doing as well and we\u2019ll cover those too, so you can start your journey to Baldur\u2019s Gate with your best foot forward \u2013 especially when you check out our guide to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/technology\/gaming\/baldurs-gate-3-best-builds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">best Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 builds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read on and all shall be revealed to you, dear reader.<\/p>\n<h2><b>How to get Everburn Blade sword early in Baldur\u2019s Gate 3<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>At the end of the prologue in the Nautiloid ship, you\u2019ll see Commander Zhalk and a Mindflayer duking it out and the astute among you will notice that the Commander is wielding a very fancy-looking sword, the Everburn Blade.<\/p>\n<p>You only have a limited amount of turns before the ship crashes so you\u2019d be forgiven for wanting to just get to the other side of the room to the controls as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The best option though is to sneak one of your party members to the front and wait by the control panel while the others attack the Commander with the Mindflayer.<\/p>\n<p>Once the Commander is dead, grab the Everburn and transfer it to your character\u2019s inventory if they aren\u2019t the one who picked it up and then trigger the teleport.<\/p>\n<p>And hey presto! You have a great sword to use for yourself or a party member proficient with Heavy Weapons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/technology\/gaming\/baldurs-gate-3-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 review: An epic tabletop adventure awaits<\/a><\/p> <h2><b>Other early game advice for Baldur\u2019s Gate 3<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Should you save the brain in Baldur\u2019s Gate 3?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Onboard the Nautiloid you can also come across a body on a dissection table with its brain exposed. As it transpires, you can communicate with the brain and they call themselves Us.<\/p>\n<p>Us is under the waning power of the Mindflayers and reaches out to you to save them. Saving them allows them to join your party and they have quite a lot of Hit Points and can deal out quite a lot of damage.<\/p>\n<p>It might be a little odd to wander the world with a brain with arms and legs in tow but there are far stranger things ahead in Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 and Us will soon become part of the scenery when compared with the truly bizarre creatures out there.<\/p> <div class=\"brightcove embed\"> <div class=\"embed__intrinsic\"> <div class=\"brightcove__player vjs-playlist-player-container\"> <video data-video-id=\"6332232107112\" data-account=\"69912529001\" data-player=\"ByeOf0VZEl\" data-embed=\"default\" data-application-id=\"\" controls=\"\" class=\"video-js\"> <\/video> <\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/69912529001\/ByeOf0VZEl_default\/index.min.js\"\/> <p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/gaming-newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">free Gaming Newsletter<\/a> for weekly insights, and <strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RadioTimesGames\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">follow us on Twitter<\/a> for all the latest updates.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Looking for something to watch? 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