The way they muddle up things, yes it will. They will probably end up adding more health to enemies or adding more of them to each encounter if they change everything for 6 party members because they feel it is balanced for 4 currently and 6 would make it too easy.
Originally Posted by Imora DalSyn
I'd personally feel compelled to bring six.
I'm sure a lot of people would. Sure, folks like to undersize stuff, but to me it feels wrong and give an option, I'd feel compelled to do it as the balance would be around six.
And bringing six now as it is would make a lot of the harder fights easy.
So then what happens when a player uses only a party of 1? That makes all the encounters too difficult and so Larian has to change the encounters to keep them from being too difficult, right?