Baldur’s Gate 3’s Patch #1 Notes Reveal It’s Making Easy Mode Easier
Baldur’s Gate 3’s Patch #1 Notes Reveal It’s Making Easy Mode Easier
Here are the balance patch notes from Baldur's Gate 3 Patch #1.
Here are the balance patch notes from Baldur's Gate 3 Patch #1.
But is it making normal mode normaler?
Are you normalizing normal mode?!
and tactician mode more tacticiany?
I wish theyd do this. All of my time on normal has been rince and repeat reloading because i refuse to play on easy. The one time i did, it turned from hard and all my friends dying to a super easy 2 turn fight. It feels like theres no middle ground here.
If normal poses a challenge you might be too conservative with your resources. It's perfectly fine to have a short rest after each fight to regain your abilities. And even long rests are basically free, so unless you are in one of the rare time sensitive moments use them a lot.
Also consumables should be used more freely. Elixirs last until a long rest, so are usually good for at least 3 fights. Potions and weapon coatings also add up, that additional D4 of the lowest poison does a lot. And it's just a bonus action to apply and lasts 10 turns .
Scrolls of spells you have already learned should be used if you are out of spell slots. You don't need to save them for a harder fight. You can always have a long rest before entering a hard fight. But they can make that random encounter you entered with few spell slots much easier.
And all of that goes hand in hand with organizing your ability bar. It's a pain to do but being able to see what you have available is so valuable. At the very least make use of the individual tabs for "Class abilities" "Spells" and "Consumables". They give you a better overview than the default bar.
I play easy mode and this is much needed, I die non stop, and I have played table top DnD a good bit in the past. It's definitely over tuned.
I find that it is like DnD and there are some encounters where you can't win and need to run away.
Got any examples? I can't think of any
Yeah but I'm playing on easy mode lol I still win the fights it's just that sometimes I have to reload a save 2 or 3 times
And running away is not easy with the opportunity attacks and the distance required to be able to go to the camp.
It's definitely not overtuned. In easy mode you get max HP let level up and enemies deal less damage. Balanced is where the game respects the rules. You have every advantage with height manipulation, positioning of your characters, having a long rest before a combat encounter after reloading if you didn't see it coming... All of those things can't be done in tabletop.
It's fine to want the easy mode, nbd, but saying that it's overtuned is a stretch when comparing it to the tabletop version of 5E.
It’s also beefing up some Tactician mode encounters. I’ll have to replay.
Is tactician the hardest?
Yup
Still in act one but it seems like difficulty is/was generally hard for direct combat. But you seem to be able to cheese a lot of it. For example I was fighting a 75 hp enemy in a room full of minor enemies, near impossible fight for our builds. Reload save push him into a pit, now fighting the remaining goons is doable.
Just wait until enemies start pushing you into lava. 😂
Had that happen! The first time I decided to try out push, I had Karlach push a goblin into lava.
…I did not move her, because it did not occur to me that then she could be pushed into lava. Which is what happened the next round when an enemy dashed over and shoved her into a lava pit.
Lesson learned.
I had no issues on normal until the very end of Act II. There's a fight at that point that can be extremely difficult depending on the choices you've made. I beat my head against it for a bit, then switched to story mode just for that battle. Back on normal now, working my way through Act 3, and haven't run into any other fights like it. Curious to see how that encounter plays out in a subsequent playthrough as a less murdery type.
Lmao, I just did that fight on my evil playthrough. Scraped through on Balanced due to Shadowheart's special Darkness spell, a minor zombie apocalypse, and abusing potions of speed so Minthara could dump four smites per round on the boss.
Ayy, good on you! Man, I was not prepared for that one. Really wished I'd >!killed that damn drider earlier!<