Originally Posted by CrestOfArtorias
Originally Posted by Horrorscope
Originally Posted by Stabbey
The title is misleading clickbait.

No one from Larian studios is quoted in it, and the article does not even imply that anyone from Larian told them anything. It was a waste of time to read, in fact.


This. It's an opinion piece. Game mechanics can change and some will. we'll see what they do.


I am not familiar with the processes at Larian, I am however familiar with AAA game development, I worked as a game designer and I am working in the software industry right now, in total thats about 10 years of experience.

From what I can see as a 5e purist, the changes required for the game to resemble what I would consider a proper 5e implementation are simply unrealistic in the timeframe they have given and that just takes into account a rework of the core mechanics, that doesn't even take into account additional systems or finishing the product.

So while you are entitled to that opinion, I am very doubtful about that.

The fact that no community manager has entered this conversation between our factions yet also indicates that they are unsure how to handle this, if they expected this, their representatives would have a couple of statements prepared.



In their previous games they made some fair sized shifts and the common asks for being more 5e would be well well within what they "could" do. I can only let you know that they are listening, there is one guy here that gets all the data, compiles it and shares it in meetings. Give this some time, they will talk to us on all of this, this past week they already shared some metrics and told us there is more to come in comms, that is going to happen. Even if you don't get what you want, if past games hold true here, you'll be satisfied with their feedback, Swen is anything but shy to talk to us. They make a lot of movies etc talking to us and by the way that is the owner, above a community manager.

I'm hoping if they are somewhat stubborn on these that at the very least put some toggles in the game to make it more 5e. If they don't and if they have the same modding tools, these will be edited within days of release, a lot of what is being talked about in the mechanics are some of the easiest things to mod.