Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Actual XP cap in EA?

I for one hate hate hate time limits on games. I think back to Nwn 2 Mask of the Betrayer and the spirt meter. It "can" take away from the game. In a tactical game like this. I would hate it. I want to explore everything. I don't want to have to chose this quest over that one. This gear over that gear.

From my rough estimate, you would get to level 5 1/2 to 3/4.

Like Pathfinder:Kingmaker did it is fine for me, meaning you have different plot elements that define soft or hard deadlines, like an invasion happens after 20 days of free exploration, or you have two concurrent urgent quests, and there are story consequences for doing one first. The deadlines are always limited in scope and consequences. In BG:3, there should not be one that is longer than one act. So the tadpole thing would be relevant for act 1 only.



I really like to do side content and then crush the main story line while being over levelled. There are difficulty sliders to compensate for this. Nevertheless the balancing right now does not work, I agree. The Underdark beginning should be scaled up a level, I think, and the later encounters by two. XP could then be downscaled to ensure that you only get to level 5. Or something like that.

Even if they didnt back when EA was released ... i bet they do by now.


Unless those encounters will be ballanced for that speciffic level.
But you probably mean rest of encounters in Act 1 ... well, that is where XP adjusting comes to play.


You missunderstand me ... maybe its my bad english.
I never presumed that there will be some level cap for each act ... it would be a way, to be sure ... but certainly not good one.
I presumed that they will take all XP you can get in Act 1 and adjust them to fit the model.

For example: (dunno the numbers, will just guess)
You need 500xp to become level 1, 1000xp level 2, 2000xp level 3, 4000xp level 4, 8000xp level five.
So ... if they want us to be level 4 at the end of Act 1 ... all they need to do is make sure that whole amount of XP in Act 1 will be moving between 4000 and ... dunno, for example 6000.
That way we are sure to stay at level 4, and also are quite sure to reach it even if we miss something.
Right now the whole amount of XP can be even 9000 ... and that is exactly what they need to tune up.

They would need our feedback for that first, no?