Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Larian please add another difficulty. Game is too easy

A quick reminder that all perspectives on the difficulty level of the game are welcome, as long as they're constructively expressed.

Personally, I've been playing on Balanced and am finding that it is ... balanced. I've played hundreds of hours of EA so it was probably a bit too easy for me in Act 1 but I got TPKed a couple of times in Act 2 when I was running low on resources, and more than that in some Act 3 major battles as my lack of 5e knowledge of higher levels and the fact I've not been making any great effort to optimise my party's build, equipment, items or strategies is - quite rightly - starting to bite me more. I also have a number of rules I apply about what I will and won't exploit and when I'll rest. But while I'm prioritising roleplay over optimisation, and also experimenting with builds and tactics as I face encounters for the first time, I am also trying to make decisions that do make some kind of sense at the time.

In short, I'm playing in a way that I personally think should make the Balanced difficulty level achievable but enough of a challenge to be interesting, and it is. I'm expecting that getting better at Balanced will keep me occupied for a couple of runs, and I'll probably start trying some Tactician play as well to see how it feels. But then I have no interest in min-maxing or actively pushing against the (very loose) constraints of the game to make encounters as easy as possible. I can easily imagine that people who enjoy that will find the game too little of a challenge. I'm just not totally convinced that there's a way to address that without completely revisiting the sandbox-type design philosophy of the game that I enjoy.

But certainly, if there is a solution, and it leaves Balanced as it is and gives us step up from that that's not too much of a leap, then that feels like a good thing for Larian to add in a later patch. It'll help people keep playing the game for longer, given it'll inevitably get easier the more we play.