Originally Posted by Wormerine
Originally Posted by kanisatha
Not quite accurate. The problem is that barrelmancy is not a cheat or an exploit. It is a mechanic that is intended by Larian,
I agree with you on priciple, that said in my playthrough of BG3 I didn't find barrels to be that prominent. I think one needs to go out of their way to abuse the system. Advantage with backstab or hight advantage is a plague, which overrides all other tactical considerations in combat.
Fair enough, though there's been a lot written in this forum about barrelmancy in certain specific encounters with a large number of enemies. In any case, I was responding to the other poster because they were specifically talking about the barrels issue as something that was akin to cheating which one could choose to avoid doing. I did mention a few other similar problems with Larian's combat in my last sentence, which when taken altogether make BG3 combat all about gimmicks, which is precisely what I hated so much about D:OS combat.