Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Combat makes no sense???!!?

I am totally amazed at how bad this combat system is.
I cannot ever tell what is happening, have no idea who i can shove or not, and half the time when I am trying to attack someone, I end up moving around them and provoking an attack of opportunity.
it's not clear whether whatever place you want to move to will let you attack someone or not.

also, and maybe i am missing something, but why is there no clear keybinding for attacks? everytime i want to attack someone with a sword, i need to click on the main hand attack icon?
that seems crazy. I hope i am wrong on that and someone will quickly tell me, push control 1 to just attack someone with your sword.
I made fighter my first playthrough just to avoid any nonsense, but even just the most basic class is so infuriating.
I have played RPGs for the last 30 years, I have played Divinity Original Sin and loved it, but whatever is going on here right now is just... i can't believe how counter intuitive and nonsense this game is in the current state.

narratively it's annoying but at the very least, i thought this game would be fun to jump into just for combat mechanics. but nothing ever makes any sense.

Quite litteraly.
Left Ctrl switch your left mouse button from mark to destroy.

And yes, we are moving quite often ... usualy when on line of sight there is another enemy, or something similar.
It would be nice if Larian somehow implement warning for us that our character will need to move to attack this creature ... since in wider spaces, you usualy dont see your character ... and therefore you dont see the shadow/ghost figure that is showing where will you move. :-/
There are also AoO indicators, small red arrows under our enemy feets ... but they are often covered by enviroment, or invisible in blood.

Sadly, in this particular patch bug occured that is showing the path of projectile incorectly ... so even if you wish to throw (or cast) something and trajectory seem to be reaching your target, sometimes it stuck to some object on the way instead. Especialy frustrating with throwing stuff ...

ahh i see thanks, i will try that out next time. i will refrain from just posting every question about the game on here in the future.
i just thought it was a game i would easily slip into given playing previous Larian games and also D&D. was not prepared for this amount of frustration. but happy with a lot of it, so going to tough it out.