I agree with the people here saying, that combat could be better. Currently it relies heavily on 3 or 4 strategies and the gameplay felt nearly the same, no matter, which class you play. I really like BG3, but there is a lot of room for improvement.
That's a feature of Larian. Having played DOS1 & DOS2, especially the sequel with the armour system, you could only use certain strategies and compositions to win the encounters. Your first 2 or 3 turns each battle were spent doing the exact same thing in the exact same order regardless of the enemy because it was simply the most effective thing.
In BG3, Larian "conveniently" placed lethal high ground shove spots in nearly all named mob encounters. Dror Ragzlin, Minthara, Gekh, etc. can all be killed by sneak/invis shove cheese for insta-gib LOLOLOL strategy. The most obvious one is Gekh being placed with his back turned to you right over a huge open bottomless portion of the Underdark when the rest of the area on all other sides has actual ground. It's just poor game design.
The other encounters that don't have a "convenient" environment trigger where you can destroy something hanging from above and make it fall on them or break a structure so it crumbles.
Now some of these things aren't all bad when used in moderation and can have useful effects, but not when it's something in every fight. It's almost as if they are looking to pride themselves on a YouTube compilation of people just shoving high-level, deadly enemies into the unknown for insta-kills or baiting an enemy into a specific spot where you shoot and drop a boulder or fire pit on them.
The game right now is so meta'd and almost goads players into falling for the cheese traps. Not to mention there is high ground conveniently in nearly every single fight you have and you'd be stupid not to use high ground because of its advantage and the fact that the AI will.
Yep sums it up. Combat is so ridiculous bad that it’s hard to keep playing. I couldn’t get myself to start the game even after Druid update cause I know combat is still pathetic.
