The high armor values actually adds another level of complexity to the game which many people are not seeing. It is a phase of combat without CC and you need to treat it as such. I've come to enjoy that phase because once I get their armors down it's just a CC fest. DOSEE tactician was just a CC fest right from the start (or nuke them to hell with a mage from the start), which made it a little less fun (I still enjoyed it). DOS2 has two phases to the fight which makes it quite interesting. The game gives you many ways to get through this phase and you need to adapt.

It's not a cop-out on Larian's part simply because the solution was a simple one. Simple solutions sometimes yield the best results. The AI is mostly pretty damn good though. I should have written a list of all the crazy stuff they have done to me. The cheekiest was a melee 2H guy crippling my sword and board tank and walking just out of 1H melee range. Bastard.

Also I'm actually using all my consumables! When I pick up a potion or food I'm pretty damn excited. Normally when you finish a game of DOSEE tactician you have tons of arrows, grenades, potions and food in your inventory. I'm actually using everything now and it feels pretty awesome. In that case above with the 2H guy crippling my tank, it would have caused me to lose the fight if not for my single armor potion which I promptly drank.

Unfortunately this is too difficult for some people. My suggestion would be to create a difficulty between classic and tactician. I would venture a guess though that the same people who are not good enough to beat tactician and cannot acknowledge their own lack of skill in spite of other players doing it just fine, would be offended by there being a difficulty they cannot conquer. This is a reflection of society's greater problems with the mentality, "If I can't beat it then it shouldn't exist."

This is how it was in the old days though before full guides for every game under the sun on the internet. You play the game and get your ass kicked. You go compare notes with your buddies. You try again.

Last edited by Aryah; 22/09/17 06:45 AM.