...when you experience a full party wipe and have to reload 20 minutes+ of gameplay because you couldn't save your counterspell for that fireball thrown at your party.
Fireballs have been thrown at characters since the birth of DnD, and counterspell wasn't always a thing.
Irrelevant attempt at a gotcha. Counterspell is a thing now in 5th Edition DnD which this game is modeled after, people have the right to be disappointed at the possibility of a lesser version of it.
To be fair, one could argue that (at least the combats in) BG3 *aren't* modeled exactly using 5e combat design, because Larian has made so many changes. Supposedly*, Larian will be balancing combats based on the fact that counterspell (and all their other homebrew) is implemented in X way, correcting for the fact that it's weaker than in tabletop.
Of course, Larian might also make fireball stronger by creating fire surfaces everywhere, so who really knows at this point. And fireball is already OP for its level, so any additional buff would make it *extremely* lethal if used on level ~4-6 characters (
fireball should be 6d6). We'll find out on launch I suppose..
