Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Let us switch to custom difficulty mid-game.

There are some really nice options I like in the custom difficulty settings that I like (like hiding a lot of the automatic rolls amongst other things) but are not available to me as my 40+ hour save was started before Patch 5 dropped with the new custom difficulty setting.

I think it would be really nice to allow people to switch over and customise the different aspects even after starting on one of the three original difficulty presets. This would be great for people with tens to hundreds of hours in a save already started before Patch 5 came and have too much time invested in the save to restart just to adjust a few things. It would also be great for new players overwhelmed by all the options presented, or don't know enough about the game and all these options would impact, this way they can start on one of the preset difficulty levels and then later switch to custom to tailor it more to their liking.

I think being able to change to custom difficulty mid-game would be great for player choice and make the custom difficulty less daunting as you can change to it later after getting a feel for the game instead of having to confront it as your first choice when starting for the first time.

Larian deciding that the player needs to start a new playthrough under a specific difficulty setting in order to get access to bug/exploit fixes and legendary actions is something that goes beyond the comprehension of mere mortals. I made a thread on this topic around the time when the patch dropped.

https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=926014

I waited in act 3 in my playthrough because I was bored with how easy the game had gotten, something that actively diminished my enjoyment of the game. So when Honour mode dropped with the legendary action system for bosses I thought that I might finally have reason to come back to the game but nope, Larian comlpetely forgot that some people want those changes to apply to their active playthrough because they wanted to appease people that used exploits. I am honestly pretty annoyed by how myopic they are in their game design deliberations. I don't want to abandon a playthrough 100 hours in just so I can test whether honour mode actually fixed some of the core issues I have with the game later in the playthrough that made me stop playing.