Did we really need to necro this thread? But on the other hand...
Agreed! Larian seems obsessed with combat speed while ignoring things that really slow the game down.
Holy crap, you made me realize the real reason I keep dropping new playthroughs of the EA quickly. It wasn't the combat itself failing to hold my attention, it was a lot of minor annoyances building up to that feeling. Wrestling with the chain system, all the freaking pointless containers, literally every NPC getting a cinematic when you talk to them for whatever reason, having to hit the jump button literally every single time we want to cross a gap or a cliff that's otherwise too high, and so on.
I mention the latter because I don't see why the game doesn't let us automatically jump gaps and ledges outside of combat if we can safely do so without risking damage. The other party members following us already do that to begin with.
