The difficulty is an experiment by Larian, Swen even mentions they might have ramped it up "too much" and that they're looking for feedback to tune it to a good level for release. So you should expect difficulty to fluctuate a bit until release.

* as usual this is imho (unless stated otherwise); feel free to disagree, ignore or try to change my mind. Agreeing with me is ofc also allowed, but makes for much worse flamewarsarguments.

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