[quote=Talismina]
"Doctor, it hurts when I do this."
"Well, don't do that."
When it comes to a game, that's good advice.
/quote]
This is a great explanation of the problem. This is a role playing game, are players so weak minded in a solo RPG that they cannot play beyond the game mechanics and need Larian to hold their hand with in game limitations so they do not break their own RPG?
I find it extremely disheartening that a mod on Larian's forum has this dismissive attitude about this issue, and just makes me more convinced that the issues with this game's combat won't ever really be addressed.
Look, almost every combat system has things you can cheese to break it. Hell, quite arguably the first BG1 outright leaned into this - you basically *had* to cheese things a bit to survive. BG2 wasn't quite so unforgiving, but also had very cheesy strategies or things you could abuse to make the game too easy.
The problem with saying "Oh, so just don't do the things that make the game too easy" with BG3 is tied to the fact that BG3 is a *very easy game* even on maximum difficulty. For all my complaints about haste, I actually used it fairly rarely myself - just because you steamrolled over almost everything regardless. In a lot of ways, I DID limit myself when I did my playthrough. I wore gear on my MC based entirely off whether I thought it looked cool. I pushed myself to use control spells - even when those spells were massively nerfed, or outright bugged in ways that nerfed them even further - just because I like control casters, even though I could have probably just been nuking everything to death with all the +damage per missile you can stack on top of magic missile. I pushed myself to get as much out of each day as possible, going into combat with very little resources, rather than taking the free rests I could have had. (Even though the game obnoxiously actively punishes you for doing this.) I didn't use potions at all.
But at some point, when your answer to "This makes your game unfun because it makes it too easy" is to just say "Don't use it then", and then I go and look at the list of things I "just shouldn't use" and it includes multiple spells, a bunch of gear, potions, certain builds, etc., eventually, I'm going to call bullshit. No, in fact, the problem is *not* that I simply insist on using a few things that make the game unfun. The problem is that the devs did not do a good job balancing this game.
