Banner saga 3 has exclusive playable dredge character Kivi (Stoneguard Rank 10 Hero) with tank combat ability. It is only available to people who backed Banner saga 3 kickstarter or preordered the game.

After many years, you still cannot get Kivi as DLC so here is little guide how to unlock him.This guide works with imported savefile from Banner Saga 2 or non imported.



Also this guide unlocks preorder (kickstarter) Unique Hero Title: Shield Cleaver, ingame item Sculptor’s Tools (passive Return the Favor ability) and other ingame items.

1. First you have to start Banner Saga 3 and start new game. You can start fresh or import save file from Banner Saga 2. Then after intro quit the game so the save file is created in your banner saga 3 folder.

2. Locate your save file named sav_chapter_16.save.json in your Banner Saga 3 save folder:
" %APPDATA% \TheBannerSaga3\Local Store\save\saga3 "

3. open the savefile with text editor . You can use the one that comes with Windows (notepad), or use free notepad replacement (https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/).

4. locate the line " globalVars " in the savefile . Be carefull, as there are two globalVars lines, the correct one is the first one.




5. next locate " survival_reload_required ", that is under globalVars line.





6. Now delete anything with word UNLOCK between "survival_reload_required": "false", and varl_added": "1".





7. Now make new line below survival_reload_required": "false and paste all the lines (code) from below link https://pastebin.com/wvz45Rcj

8. The code should look as picture below. Save the file and start your game.














9. When you load your game and if you did everything correctly, you already should have ingame items available to select during first battle from preorder/kicstarter exclusive.

That's it. Leave thanks, subscribe if you enjoyed this guide and also all credits go to author: RumeZucabr for posting unlocking tutorial, i just made it prettier.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bannersaga/comments/ntaxp0/how_to_unlock_kivi_kickstarter_heroic_titles/