https://www.gamestar.de/artikel/baldurs-gate-3-erstes-gameplay-video-gamescom-kampfsystem,3345782.html
In the interview, Swen combat is not up for debate. Also said BG3 will only have 1 combat system but he didn't say which system. He also stated that it could be neither TB or RTWP.
Gameplay will not be shown at Gamescom either.
BG3 will have Early Access like DOS 1+2!
If any good folks can help translate it? Only one stem sounds bad
Thought they keep promoting different types of systems?
Early Access? Now that's something I don't really like. I remember DOS2 was it? It was really long in EA.
Not much help from me here, my german is even worse than my english...I took a partial translation from here:
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/comment/1082019/#Comment_1082019
'll paraphrase the article paragraph for paragraph. I will put my own comments into []
Lets start:
The first paragraph is just about the difficulty to get the pictures for the article.
The Quote talks about showing gameplay footage - at the E3 2020. They want to show something else for the GamesCon [Probably Divinty].
The journalist reacts to the quote by repeating that Larian will not show any "moving gameplay footage" and notes that it was expected to be the place of reveal noting that germany has a large number of fans of classical party rpgs.
The next paragraph mentions the large discussion of TB vs RT.
The last part by the journalist notes that Vincke is unwilling to give the battle system to a vote, even though Baldurs Gate will get some sort of early-access or betaphase before release. He also notes that Divinity got [apparently] a lot of praise for its battle system.
The closing quote:
"We will present it (in a video) and say: We will do it like that. We will not change it. No matter if the battles will be turn based or real time with pause or if we turn Baldurs Gate 3 into a racing game: There will always be people who disagree, for whatever reasons. Because of this it is important be able to show the battles (to say): This is how they look, this is how they feel [can't think of a better translation, sorry]. And then we will do that exactly like this."
So... racing game uh? When I asked for a new thievery system I did not mean Baldur´s thief auto.
Although a racing with Minsc riding boo, Sarevok driving a Iron throne and Charname in a "shiny one" Cespenar-car, all in a Super-Mario-style race would be funny. There was a racing minigame as a map for warcraft 3, funny thing.
Jokes aside, We will have to wait to know: The gamescom in Cologne is in 22-24 August. And hey said that the gameplay will not be show in there. They probably showcase "Divinity Heroes" there.
Larian have a "close doors" policy and they will never give much info before they show the entire gameplay.
