Baldur’s Gate 3 offers you several ways to get through several quests and events and one of the amazing features is having a character roam around during a cutscene.
What happens most of the time is that you travel together as a party, but should a character be far behind the group, they don’t get caught in a cutscene.
With a party locked in a cutscene and another member at a distance, you can switch characters and roam freely, which allows you to do many things that can change certain outcomes.
How To Ungroup Single Party Members?
To switch to a character and roam freely while the others are locked in a cutscene, you will need to make sure they don’t get dragged into it.
This makes it necessary to ungroup a character and keep them at a distance while the other characters approach an NPC or area where a cutscene begins.
While ungrouping all your characters can be done with a single click, you may keep a group together and separate one member by simply dragging their portrait away from the others.
This can be done on the left side of your screen, and you will notice who has been removed from the group and can be controlled separately from the others.
How To Switch a Character During Cutscene?
Once you enter a cutscene, you might think that you must go through with it or end it quickly before you can do anything else.
This is incorrect because, at the bottom left of your screen, there will be an option to choose a different character with the “Character Select” option.
Keep in mind that the cutscenes that you initiate may be different from those that are triggered by walking into an area, making the outcome different.
Choosing Characters Out of Cutscene
If you choose another character, you will notice that whoever is locked in a cutscene will have a dialogue symbol near them and won’t move with the others.
After you select a character who is not in a cutscene, you may roam around and do whatever you like and this may include sneaking around, stealing, or even assassinating distracted foes.
This can be a good way for you to work yourself toward certain objectives with quests or get past difficult situations in the game.
Verdict
While slipping away with another character may seem like a sneaky move, it can be quite a trick when it comes to catching your enemies off guard.
Sometimes a good technique would be to keep your stealthy character behind and even have stealth consumables or spells ready to get sneaky.
Certain cutscenes end with you beginning combat and to make the first move, you can resort to switching to a distant character to make the first move.