Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General What's the meaning of "cheese" or "hide cheese"

The bottom line is that Larian's usual way of doing things, like giving a massive high ground boost, basically nullifies a lot of class skills, spells, and other things that have meaning in D&D and part of the strategy and feeling of accomplishment in the game that are now totally pointless. Like I've been complaining about druid a lot lately, because bear form is kind of bad and moon druid is therefore pointless. The issue is that the bear doesn't take advantage of the Larian cheese, so just don't use it. The OP posited a great way to use the spider form in another topic (which land gets right away) based entirely on out of control environmental effects of basically lighting the entire battlefield on fire with web. So again, you're being actively incentivized to avoid huge swaths of the game, and that's the problem. Nobody wants to feel like they inhibiting themselves. And when people complaint it's not like D&D I don't think it's random fanboying, it's really saying, "There's all these things that have a purpose because it's tradeoff or because you should use it and there's value in it, and now there isn't value in it." It simplifies it a lot but you sacrifice a lot of what makes each class special or meaningful. This also impacts replay value because you're not going to really change it up as between a Rogue and a fighter at this moment.

What's disheartening is that it's not clear Larian is engaging with the "why" behind people's complaints. When they nerfed firebolt, it wasn't just because it was firebolt right? The idea was the cantrip with so powerful that it was reducing the importance of other cantrips and other spells. So now you had fewer meaningful choices because firebolt was such an optimal choice. As far as I can tell, Larian hasn't acknowledged that design philosophy and that's what worries me. It's not just about responding to specific things the players are identifying, because we can nitpick a million things but that gets lost in the shuffle. The real bottom line is designing the game in a way that everything has a purpose.