I beat the Alpha after the patch SOLO with an Elven Huntsman/Rogue and now I just left Fort Joy at lvl 4 SOLO Dwarven Warrior/Necro/Hydro (and so far it has felt easier than my first run).
Every problem becomes easy once you understand how to solve it. In DOS1, without magic armor, CC spam = GG. Didn't get lucky with a roll? get used to saving mid-combat and reloading...Until Honor Mode comes out, everything will be easy. And then, once you are able to learn every winning strategy in Tactician, you know a priori it can be applied to Honor Mode. Then it's a matter of execution.
If CC reigns supreme, which it does, what do we do? Get rid of CC? Sure. I would still enjoy the game, but I don't think it would be significantly more or less enjoyable than with CC.
The problem with that view is that a player had to actively go out their way to save scum and break/cheese the system; which was fine cause that was their choice and if they wanted to go through the headache of save scumming and, in my opinion, lessen the experience with it than that was their choice.
Here though? It's right up front and in our faces. It's built into the main combat system. You can't miss it. You can't pretend it's not there. You can't even not use it since that's how the AI does combat, so you have to cheese to an extent to retaliate on higher difficulties.
