It is D:OS3 with D&D skin for better and for the worse.

Frankly I would certainly prefer them straight do D:OS3, because in my opinion D&D rulesets drag it down, but nothing we can do about it - it is Baldur's Gate, it is D&D and I am glad they make it D&D 5e ruleset, because a lot of nonsense and junk was cleaned up there. So yeah, I'll sure play BG3 a ton and enjoy it a lot, even if I will puke my soul out with everything being controlled by D&D's inherent RNG.


I do hope that eventually Larian will make a proper and deterministic D:OS3, where you don't have to fight imaginary dice every step you make.

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And for the record, I enjoy Larian's turn based combat and D&D is a turn-based system, that every other game before has bastardized it, because of some weird assumptions or limitations - is not an issue with BG3.

Yes, the feedback about computer turns taking too long is fair, but Larian will likely introduce combat speed slider for computer-controlled enemies, I just hope they will make it a bit smarter, like subsequent enemy units taking turn together to cut time and giving player an option to make their movement fast, while combat action like swings and casts normal speed.

Last edited by Gaidax; 08/10/20 11:37 AM.