The game needs INTERESTING random encounters, because most people think of RE and go NO NO NO!!! It always badly implemented.

I would not call them random encounters, but more like MWIE : Minor World Immersion Encounters. And make these not turn base but more like the old games!

I think this would be amazing to flesh out more that Larian style zone theme park like Faerun world more. Combat is dreadfully slow pace. I would argue the older games are WAY more strategic due to the constant positioning and re-positioning. Move in / out , and mixed with that slight chaotic element of not knowing exactly how things will turn out...is so much more fun, imho.

If that first ship area were a dungeon in BG2, it would be over in a couple minutes just due to the faster combat...which actually fits the urgency and the world! (why I still love that system...).
In BG3 I would make the imp and test subjects encounters real time, and that last part turn based. For example as a way to balance urgency/fast gameplay/ and strategic turn gameplay during bigger fights.

Having that fast pace combat mixed in with the regular turn base zones I think could work out great. Anyways, I've been arguing that and interesting random encounters for 3 years. Larian pretty much made up their minds on what they want the sequel to BG2 be.

And according to that latest patch, what people want it seems is a magic mirror to be able to change your look. So there are your priorities right there. Oh and bug fixes + restored content. I doubt we will get any kind of game changing content for a while. And 99% of MODS right now are either CHEATS or CHEESE. So wouhou to that and people saying, "ill be fineeeee, youll have a MOD for that....".

Last edited by Count Turnipsome; 23/09/23 07:48 AM.

It just reminded me of the bowl of goat's milk that old Winthrop used to put outside his door every evening for the dust demons. He said the dust demons could never resist goat's milk, and that they would always drink themselves into a stupor and then be too tired to enter his room..