Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Difficulty way too high for story and balanced

I'm not complaining about the difficulty as such. I usually need no more than one or two reloads if things go awry.
However, I still think the fights are overtuned. If you are surrounded by a dozen enemies after a cut scene, and your initiative is shite, and they all go *before* you, ending up two members down, and the other two on the brink of being eliminated before you can actually do anything, I'm not happy with it. Especially if you reload, are just much more lucky with your initiative, and, because you are acting earlier, simply waltz through your opponents. And this has happened to me more than once. You can be prepared as much as you like, but if you're just a but unlucky on your first rolls, especially initiative and sometimes boss mechanics, then it often results in a wipe.
It has actually become a bit better in the higher levels, because you can take more punishment, but it still manages to frustrate if I get mowed down because I can't do anything.