Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Attacking / targeting needs changing

Whether its intended that players should be able to attack or cast spells at nothing by accidentally clicking a millimetre away from the target needs removing.

Its not a positive feature and makes combat incredibly frustrating.

Attacks and targettable abilities should only be able to be cast with and on a target, or otherwise somehow improve the targeting so that skills used slightly off a target lock in on the intended target.

Agreed.

At first I was assuming each target had some sort of radius around it that, when selected, would be targeted by the attack/spell.

Imagine my surprise when Lae'zel shot at an imp and hit the ground beside him because it moved while flapping.

Incredibly annoying.

Eh, I think the free aiming style can lend itself to some cool situations if the developers allow for such creativity. If they do approach this issue, i'd rather they go with option two and still allow shooting off target. It's a lot more powerful of an idea to create conditions and entity attributes for certain status checks than to design encounters specifically with targetable items sprinkled through the battlefield.

It's kind of like when a dev includes a fire barrel and an oil barrel next to a pack of enemies. Is there really much player agency/creativity in handling the encounter outside of the developers preset encounter strategies? You can either fight traditionally, or blow them up with fire.

The developers programming it in its current form allows the player to design all kinds of conditions with their parties toolkit without any obvious "ARROW HERE. FIRE HERE."