There's a gap between literal and what they showed us at the moment.
About combats it's not D&D with reasonable homebrewed you could have arround a table... It's homebrewed combats with D&D's spells...
I would be fine with this if :
- this game wasn't named Baldur's Gate 3 because this name gives me a feeling of "realistic" (in the reality of the FR) classic fantasy combats, not classic Larian WTF combats.
- they didn't make all this show with WotC arround the game (in their videos/events). This let me thought about a D&D video game, not a new kind of D&D video game with a massive Larian layer upon it.
- they didn't claim to implement the rules as faithfull as possible first then tweak what doesn't work in a video game.
If you look at the game now, it looks like it's nearly all D&D that doesn't work according to them... I can't believe that it wasn't a lie because seriously, something is wrong everywhere.
