At this point I just do not worry overtly about their silence to be honest, a lot of games I am following in EA have suffered slower than usual decelopment the past 1,5 year due to, among other things, the pandemic borking up all our lives. While I would love to hear from Larian, I have little doubt that Baldur's gate will be finished. It would be folly to expect a 2021 release though..

Overall my experiences with their past EA titles, such as Original SIn 1 & 2, give me little cause to be concerned though. I can only hope they will fix my biggest gripes with the game so far, namely get the cleric and druid spells out of my wizard spell list! lol. Oh and make stealth checks more frequent and have enemies look for you more actively, like they do (somewhat) in real time mode.

the barrelmancy end surfaces do not bother me too much, but tweaking the height advantage a bit for this title seems also to be a bit necessary. I would like height advantage/disadvantage only to apply to bows and cross bows for example... no need to make spells easier/harder to hit based on your position on the cliffside smile

And even though I've played every D&D title since Baldur's gate I & II, Icewind Dale I & II, as well as torment and the neverwinter night series.. the Larianisms don't bother me too much, but I guess I can be a minority in that.

It just needs tweaking, as I feel the height advantage seems to augment the already strong ranged classes a bit too much sometimes. Especially if they also have access to double attacks. But to get back on topic, Larian where art thou! Volo wants to help you fix your eyesight, him being the expert on well.. everything