No one in the game, characters or npcs, should be able to disengage and attack in the same turn. It is too exploitable, especially by range classes, and makes combat looks like a bunch of monkeys or kangaroos jumping around fighting each other. The decision to disengage should matter much more than this. It would be more tactical than it is now.

Besides, the disengage mechanics make attacks of opportunity useless cause I am pretty sure in tactical mode, the AI will understand it's pointless to run and better to jump. And fighter feats allowing more than one attack of opportunity a turn or rogue advantage against them will be a no go to even consider taking.

Please Larian, make the combat more visceral and less jumpy. Melee should matter much more than it does now.

I agree with this 100%. My thought is make jump an action not a bonus action. There are a few ways to make it so people can't use bonus actions but that seems silly to have to pin people down in melee. ATM range and elevation the queen of battle and melee feels like the King (chess wise anyway)

You want the ai to disengage and jump away, that's fine. But THEY SHOULD NOT have the opportunity to pump an arrow in my face. This goes for my party as well.

also remove backstab.
the game for melee characters boils down to walking/jumping in the back of the enemy and backstab them.
it feels pretty weird to me and i don't see the fun or tactical depth side of these mechanics...
flanking would be fine (i guess) but hopping behind the enemy and attacking? i feel like a frog...

I agree. Although it’s been said a lot before. Jumping should trigger reactions, and disengaging shouldn’t be free. Maybe except for rouges?

I’m sure this will be changed though. If nothing else it will make many gameplay videos look silly, and that could hit the bottom line.

Absolutely.

What's the point in playing a tank if you can't control the battlefield at all?

And it feels really dumb and cheesy circling or jumping behind enemies to "backstab" the same opponent again and again.

Jumping needs to be a part of movement and trigger aoo's.

Disengage needs to be a full action. Let the classes that are about mobility shine and do it as a bonus action. Spellcasters also have ways to disengage (Shocking Grasp, Misty Step, Thunderwave...) they currently don't need because they can just jump away.

And it just looks dumb when everyone is constantly jumping around and shoving people.

I kinda agree with this in principle.

However, I have been trying to play as much as possible to not use the free disengage, and at the moment, practically speaking, it doesn't seem viable to play without it. There are too many enemies, ranged attacks have greatly reduced distance forcing you to attack from closer, combat arenas tend to be designed so you need to be close to even see enemies, and high ground advantage for attacks and defense is so strong that it further affects the balance of fights.

If disengage is a full action, you still can drink a potion or do other things. But you shouldn't be able to attack. I don't find personally there are two many enemies. With 4 characters and this disengage mechanic, it's far too easy in most battles to the point it's boring. To even it out a little, I play with only two characters in my party at the moment.

Besides, in D&D 5e, disengage takes a full action. I think Larian went too far by making it a bonus action.

jumping + backstabbing takes so much away from the tactical combat, that is 5e.
Flanking is an optional rule in 5e, but it would be a lot better to use this rule, instead of this backstabbing homebrew.
maybe even make flanking optional in the settings.
but as it is, there is virtually no battlefield control.

i can understand, if they don't implement grappling mechanics, because it would be complicated.
but the way they changed the rules from 5e makes battlefield control basically non-existent.

I'm okay with removing it, but only if a myriad of other things are changed as Stabbey mentioned.

Also, why do so many ranged abilities have ranges shorter than in 5e? Example, Eldritch Blast is only 60 ft., but should be 120?

Reasoning on shortened range is simple, they don't want players sniping enemies from across the map, for example the longbow has a max range of 500 ft. This is great in the pen in paper game as sniping enemies and performing other actions can be played out very well with the help of a willing DM, but in a PC game this is very hard to program and balance out. I doubt they will be allowing players to have excessive attack ranges.

Agree with OP.

The ability for (ranged) characters to enter and exit melee combat with few consequences not only breaks from core 5E rules, it devalues the classes (Rogues) that can earn this ability.

+1. i understand why they tried this but i think jump as is just turns combat really repetitive on long term (also it feels like the party is full of superheroes which is kind of wierd) and as other said its almost impossible to balance some dnd class abilites and rules around this without major tweaking made to those (which would lead to more problems and arguments i guess). i dont want a change because its not dnd, i want a change because at the moment for me its not fun (and its a shame because the game is really shining at other areas). im okay if they want to keep current rules as they are now as a separate game mode (i know some people think these are cool as is, though we never tried any alternative yet), but personally im waiting for an alternative game mode at least which gives us altered combat rules where flanking, positioning matters and attack of opportunities exist and adds to tactical layer

+1 & a 100%.

Be it via jumping or an ability, to negate the auto-hit from a Melee enemy is a big deal.
That should not come as just a Bonus action.

Agree with OP... this drum needs to be continually beat until this fix is confirmed...

...and one above post rung especially true that this change to jump/disengage doesn't only need to be changed because its "not d&d"... it needs to be changed because it makes combat altogether unfun overall imho...

At 150+ hrs and more than a few runs through available content i feel ive given the game enough of a chance... there is a lot of good stuff here but for a multitude of replays, combat must be fun... it is not currently imho and this is the single biggest culprit...

Have kinda put this game down until i see some movement on this... and not because its "not d&d"...

Disagree, but I think a reasonable compromise might be to make it dependent on difficulty.

A "Core rules" difficulty would be nice.

Breaking it into separate difficulty options would be even nicer.

I missed this thread but I completely agree with Nyanko.

The actual disengage mixed with jump as a bonus action combined with easy highground/backstab advantages make combats """funny lolz""" but it drastically decrease their tactical value, their balance and their interrest.

Those mechanics completely determine what combats have to be. Not sure I'll be able to go to the end of the game because combats become boring and unsurprising before the end of act 1.

This game is strange... We have to take it seriously as a D&D game and the next second we can use the silliest combat strategy like in other Larian's game. I really hope BG3 is going to become more serious and less funny for the lolz (Solution : trust D&D)

With different difficulty levels you don't need to disengage at all. Story difficulty mode Gale could solo Minotaurs using staff only or just have a button to skip fights altogether.

Definitely agreed, Disengage needs to be made a full action as is intended in 5e. The way it currently is devalues the rogue and, once it gets addeded, the monk class.

Don't forget every other melee classes... Especially those that could be called "tank".

You nearly don't even have to hold ennemies for them not to reach your ranged unit because your allies can easily disengage and flee.

I agree that disengage and jump should not be merged to a bonus action.

fun fact: some goblins used the disengage (bonus?) action during combat.
I am not sure if they attacked in the same turn, its been some time since I last played.

Goblins can use disengage as a bonus action in the MM

Just to keep the thread alive: jump to disengage feels wrong, looks wrong and therefore destroys immersion for this RPG - if anything somebody stupid enough to jump out of a melee should be punished for it by getting his spine hammered...

Sentinel feat is really going to be highly prized if they keep disengage the way it is.

Speaking of the goblin disengage - I've noticed that when a goblin archer disengaged, they will often not move at all, or move only slightly, and then shoot - and checking the combat log, this shot is not made at disadvantage, despite them being next to a hostile target when they take it.