Larian Studios Forums Divinity: Original Sin 2 Divinity - Original Sin 2 - Suggestions and Feedback First Impresions of A.I 2.0 Patch

I have to agree with everything the OP said. This AI update is one thing, we need smarter AI in our games. But you can't have an intelligent AI that ALSO is designed around a dumb AI. Most games tend yo give the AI overbuffed stats or skills to compensate for them being dumb. This update KEPT the overbuffed NPC's with a vast repertoire of effective skills, metric crap tons of armor and damage stats, and then made them smarter to boot.

And to make matters worse, the update also took away many of the avenues for the player to compete with the OP NPC's. Getting comparable gear is impossible, getting necessary skills to compete is impossible, and just leveling up in general is very hard.

I played for about 4 hours last night, and it was just bashing my head against a brick wall the entire time.

I have tried setting up counters, like putting pools on the ground to electrify, or buffing my party, but anything that takes more than the first round to do, guarantees a loss, because you won't get a round two with most of your charaters.