Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Fire barrel explosion in goblin keep too much

the room with some guards (Yerle, Roah Moonglow) in it surrounded by smokepowder barrels and fire wine barrels - when you explode it it goes into that room, the adjoining room, and then spreads across the entire upper platform. Its ludicrous.

I dislike the constant firebombs and acid flasks but this was the only surface event in the goblin base I enjoyed actually.

I liked it. Used invisibility to sneak out, cantrip lure the guards in...

Surfaces are a double edged sword and can feel really unfair in battle, and then really bothersome in post-battle. If you manage to "game it" and pop a fire barrel with some fire and by doing this kill 20+ enemies it feels really cool. But what did you really do? The level designer basically killed the mobs for you. You only shot a fire arrow, that's it.

Some implementations like this is really cool, but DOS-levels of surfaces and chaos is too much. I hear that there are other cool ways to interact with the environment too, like tipping statues, and I like that idea a lot.

Like many others I think that the core spells in d&d already offer a variety of surface effects without the need for a lot of random environmental effects and items.

Larian does such a good job with surfaces I think they can make the spells really shine. This game will be incredible.

The problem was that there was no surface. It was stone. I removed the barrel and oil from the floor and was 100 feet back and that room was like a michael bay explosion. I dont even know what it was igniting. Im down for hazards, but I cant understand how a barrel in a room could ignite stone floor 100 feet away and around a corner