I wanted to address this and one other thing because everything else is just our opinions.
Well, of course they are ... what else would it be?
I really dont understand why people keep mentioning, that ... everything someone says is alterned by his opinions ... or do you really (and i mean REALLY) believe that anyone is even capable of being pure objective without any personal imput?
Bcs hoenstly, i dont.
The answer is NO, but I do know people who are like this and I have never understood it. For the record I couldn't care less what people do in single player games, because for the most part those games effect no one else and don't matter. Its a private fantasy Kingdom where people can save scum to their hearts content until they get all the 'perfect' outcomes they want.
Agreed.
I just mentioned it, bcs in my perspective that is the only reason i could understand ... no attact intented.
I do care about Multiplayer games and only multiplayer games.
I know ... i only wish more people around here would have this attitude.
Sadly Larian is alterning game as a whole. :-/
Actually now that the carry weight rules are in effect all of that is now impossible. You would be lucky to get a couple sets of Chainmail in your inventory with average carry weight of 120 LBS.
True ...
But my point was: How many topics about immersion have you seen about that?
Maybe one, or two mentions in some old topic, or in between dozen of other suggestions in single threat ... but certainly not even 1/10 of hatred against Barells.
Larian applied the proper RAW for weight and Barrelmancy broke.
That sounds acurate ...
Now i can only hope they will fix it. :P
For example they could incerase damage from explosion ...
If you were able to drag 5 barells before, but it was "immersion breaking" ... now you would be able to drag 1, but make the same destruction level with it ... i would be quite fine with such change.
After all, its not much "immersion" (since some people like that word so much) to blow WHOLE 120LBS barrel of Black Powder, to only create explosion that will only hurt people withing 0,5meter raidus ... instead of killing litteraly everything in 5 meter radius, and cause bleeding damage and major wounds to everyone in 50 meter radius, unless they were hidden behind something. :P
Now when i think about it, i would actualy like such change.
I think the majority of us agree that Barrelmancy is not really something that needs to be part of BG3.
"Majority" sounds like a little strong word ...
Around here there isnt even 1000 active people around here ... personaly i doubt there is even 100 ... and even if there was (1000 i mean) it would still be only 0,001% of all players ...
That i not much to make any asumption of what "majority" actualy things, or wants. :-/
I know you were talking about majority of forum users, and not majority of all players ...
I just clarify how insignificant majority of forum users actualy is.
Even being generous and allowing that how other people play doesn't affect us
Im not quite sure if there is anything generous about it ... after all, the other group do the same all the time.
its still demoralizing to think that the battles can just be cheesed that way.
See? That is what i was talkig about ...
So you actualy DO mind that someone can achieve the same result, with conciderable "lesser" (even if i would rather say "different kind of") effort.
I also tend to think that the long term reputation of this game will be partially predicated on the actual difficulty level of the game. Imagine all the work they put into creating encounters that are challenging and some optional encounters that are nearly impossible and then leaving something like this in place to just bypass all that design work.
I want to believe that is the point here ...
Everyone should have fun, and there simply are people out there who dont concider fun to being obliterated by "strong boss" over and over and over.
They are giving us options ... nothing more ... its up to us how, or even if we are going to use them.
Many people are talking around here about "its bad that combats are ballanced around cheese mechanics" ... yet i never heared about single combat, that would REQUIRE you to use litteraly ANY "cheese" ... so, ince we managed to understand each other in past ... i hope at least you (even if many probably will not) will understand why i concider that argument void.
