Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous vs BG3

I'm less worried about bugs than I am about extremely questionable combat balance aka encounter design. Bugs are a given, and major bugs will be fixed so it's just a matter of time. I'm also playing just a plain rogue, so I'm even less worried about class-related bugs. It's the questionable combat balance that is what has higher tendency to ruin your fun, and in the worst case scenario, make you hate the game. Out of all the games of this genre that I've played, Kingmaker is the worst offender that is on a whole different league compared to every other game when it comes to this. I can't recall any other game with which I have to so often ask myself "What the hell kind of drugs were they on when they designed this?" Imagine being thrown into a fight in which you're surrounded by what, 20+ enemies, among whom are 3 Defaced Sisters, without giving any sort of hint to players that there may be a fight ahead, meaning that not only your team are totally unbuffed, but there's a good chance that they may even be fatigued from all the traveling. This is exactly what happened in my first playthrough. I decided to play their game - no prebuff, no rest - and took me a good while to win this one. It was a brutal fight at the end of which all my party were dead except for Valerie who had a ring that did constant aoe damage to nearby enemies.

I certainly could just play on easy until the game is in a better state, but I honestly don't want to have to do this for my first playthrough.