Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Sneak Attack is Broken

At the very least 3rd level Astarion's Sneak attack with a short sword should be 1d6 + 3(dex) + 1(main hand enhancement) + 2d6 (sneak attack) = Minimum 7 points of damage / Maximum 22 points of damage with an average around 13.5
Even if you are being cheeky and only giving rogues 1d6 of sneak attack for some reason it should be Minimum 6 / Maximum 16 / Average of 11

Then I see this attack land for 2 damage, and I wonder why it didn't apply sneak attack but it did..

https://ibb.co/tL0KFkJ

Sneak attack damage is shown in a different line as "x takes y piercing damage" and weapon damage gets it's own line. What you have highlighted is the sneak attack damage, not the weapon damage. Sneak attack damage is not show on the screen, only in the log as you displayed it. So you should be seeing:

Bob hits jim with sword for x damage.
Jim takes x piercing damage.

That is not what I'm seeing, if that is the case, call it out as sneak attack damage and sword damage in the log please, this equation stuff for sneak attack is very confusing.

All I ever see for damage in the log is "John was hit for X type damage" no matter if it's spell, enviornment, falling, all the same though it does differentiate the type, if we can't call out what the damage comes from initally then at the very least make sneak attack it's own type of damage so we know.

In the screenshot I was dual wielding so though there were just to damage numbers from different hits, you can almost see in that screenshot there was a 6 damage hit and a 2 damage hit, they are described exactly the same.

The offhand doesn't do sneak attack damage though, so the offhand being 2 would be normal