If BG3 level cap is 12 it will feel like a half baked game. Based on how many maps we can see even with EA, if each map gives you one level- feels like a safe assumption, act 1 will take the player to lvl 6. We have 3 acts so there is NO way that the level cap will be that low. If you take the 6 levels per act as a baseline, you would be able to reach lvl 18-20. That seems a lot more reasonable.
Especially knowing that i hit lvl 4 before even starting the under-dark. No way that entire zone wont get you to lvl alone. Easy lvl 20
Zero percent chance. There's no way Larian is going to raise their initial estimate of level 10 to level 20. That's 5.5 times the total exp and a crazy amount of additional power.
We
might get level 16, max. But more likely 12-14. Leveling up in D&D slows down at higher levels because higher levels require so much more exp. 1-6 for Act 1, 6-10 for Act 2, 10-14 for Act 3 sounds reasonable. You level up 5 times in Act 1, 4 times in Act 2, and 4 times in Act 3.