So basically you want to take Rogues main attacking style away and leave him with nothing but regular attack. Rogues don't even get second attack at 5th level. Damn, that's cold, I'd hate be a rogue!
In every game there are ways to "cheat" and make the game easy. It's on you to decide whether you want to be a cheater. In real life you can stab someone in the back, you just have to decide do you want to be that kind of person.
All classes aren't supposed to be able to backstab, that's another big issue that trivializes the whole Class System which is almost as fake as the one they have in DOS2. You even have backstabbing bears here.
What? Backstab is just Larians take on the flanking rules.
By the rules, [i]no[/] class is supposed to be able to backstab. Backstabbing is something Larian has added, not something they've moved from one class to all.
Apparently for Larian, a D&D ruleset is whatever they feel like it so no surprises here. I know that in 5e for they changed it to Sneak Attacks for Rogues instead of having an official backstab ability since it's the most dumbed down ruleset but i still don't agree how they implemented the whole flanking system in this game. A lot of stuff needs a massive nerf ( Height Advantage, Stealth ) and particularly changing a bunch of bonus actions to full actions ( Jump, Hide ). Cause i don't see them deleting the massive amount of grenades, projectiles, healing sources and barrels anyway.
The whole "Not adjusted for Newbies" thing could easily be fixed with a complete scripted combat tutorial that can be unchecked/untoggled by players the second time they start a new game. Personally I prefer discovering stuff instead of being spoonfed like a whiny baby all the time, specially in crpgs. I still don't like how insanely easy and exploitable this game is atm.
