Agreed. Give me 5e rules difficulty settings and shut me up. I'm just saying, most of the complaints would go away if they just give us a 5e difficulty setting and allowed us the option of implementing a more strict 5e ruleset. Have your loaded dice and homebrew rules, but please give us the 5e.
Another thing Solasta has even in EA! Sliders and options. Instead, Swen has stated in numerous times very passively about mod support and modders being able to create the game they want. I interpret that in translation as = we are gonna do whatever we want and if you want something else, mod it yourself or wait for a mod support.
Well, why should I (if I am in the minority or not Larian primary concern) have to wait for janky mod support that may or may not crash with every single hotfix or patch done to the game and a stable environment just because I want the game to be more closely aligned with the IP they licensed?
As the number of rng topics shows, people don't like dice rolls. Aside from the XCOM series, how many games are really based largely on RNG?
How many topics have players complained of not hitting multiple times in a row despite the high %? How many complaints have there been about rng in the conversations?
I suspect that getting an easy advantage is just trying to reduce rng as much as possible.
That is exactly what it is. Some players do not want RNG-based mechanics, especially off dice rolls that you do not see. I do think and believe if the dice rolls actually showed up in combat (like Solasta) maybe it would be a little easier to stomach for those complainers.
But look at Larian approach to that, loaded dice was prioritized and already implemented during EA (something not rooted in DnD) while the things that this forum has been asking for (removing lame brain high ground and backstab adv.) is untouched.
Do you really think it is any harder to remove that than it is to add a loaded dice system, which was just now updated again in another (on top of other) hotfixes. So how many man-hours and work days were put into loaded dice. Who is getting the priority with their complaints? It has been clear.
Then, look at the fact, and this is HUGE even if it does not appear to be so, that loaded dice is DEFAULT ON. You would think it would be off and you could turn it on. No, it is default on for a specific reason and it is not a coincidence.
If you downloaded the game and did not follow forum activity, you might not even know about the setting for a while. You are just going along thinking you are hitting and maybe lucky and high rolling.
