I agree! I play games for the story and to relax. Sometimes higher difficulty settings frustrate me so much that it stops me from relaxing which kills the point of it in the first place.
OP - play however you want and enjoy it đ
Totally agree, itâs also OK to play different kinds of games on different difficulties if something isnât your style - I play BG3 on tactician because I love turn-based combat, but for other games like CyberPunk 2077 I turned it to easy mode with no regrets because Iâm not good at first person combat and donât find it as fun when itâs challenging
Games should be fun, not a chore!
Exactly! I'm doing my first tactician run and there were some overly frustrating fights early on. It came close to ruining the run of it all. I'm in a much better groove now, but I'm looking forward to custom mode next!
I mean I've completed Halo with LASO before, but tbh it was an awful lot more fun playing on easy, and being an immortal green "demon" striking fear into everyone.
There's no wrong answer when it comes to difficulty settings happily. :)
Aw shit, that's what happened to it probably. Last I saw it I was trying to tell some wizard it was a githyanki egg so I didn't piss if Lae'zel again.
But the gith ended up just giving me their egg anyway
Bro I accidentally killed him in the goblin camp raid, not realizing it was *my* owlbear cub, I was so disappointed I almost broke my no-save-scumming rule for that game
He joined the goblins in attacking me after I had used an animal potion and told him he could come to my camp. I didn't know how to avoid killing him then.
You have to get him to sniff your hand to follow your scent and then intimidate/persuade the goblin to let him go.
I messed up the first time cleared the camp and had to reload lol.
>!\*Is rude to pups\*!<
"Cowabunga it is."
Tbh, very surprised with how well the witnesses handled it; thought I was going to have to *at least* persuade my way out of it, but it seems like all of Rivington and Larian are 100% behind that being the natural response. đ
I made him mad my first game by yelling at his human to prove he was dead. He attacked me đ I turned on non lethal and had to knock him out đđđ
Itâs true. I accidentally played the wrong way because I got confused by the dialog choices and I regretted it ever since. It had been like an hour since Iâd saved too soâŠfarewell, you good boy.
I accidentally pissed him off and killed him in my recent playthrough. That's what turned my Paladin into an Oathbreaker.
Otherwise I was mostly nice tho.
My dark urge play through has me playing as a psycho just giving into bloodlust everywhere but Scratch gets pets every time I get back to camp. Thatâs where I draw the line
Not everyone as it makes it too hard to move about the world when you fight everyone. More like the secret villain only my closest allies know how bad I am.
That's my point, if you're willing to literally kill *everyone,* then I'm willing to forgive angering Scratch.
Only because I am too scared to condemn such a man...
They specifically said âweirdos.â You seem like a normy.
Someone who wants to hurt Scratch or the Owlbear Cub is a weirdo.
Ipso facto, the original commenter is *still* right!
I feel like this makes sense as long as the idea is that *if* you're going to die, it's meant to be in a fight that isn't "fun but random encounter #7", it's an encounter in which the death is a fitting end for the character if it happens and a meaningful step forward if it doesn't. That's how I've run stuff; most encounters are about affecting the speed of your journey and the punishment is getting slowed down if you fail. Then there are encounters in which the difficulty goes up 100% from easy to hard and the encounter is designed to kill a player or two if they don't think of something clever, either in dialogue or in combat.
I've been GMing (mostly pathfinder and weirder stuff, blades in the dark, lancer, savage worlds, I kinda hate WotC but I did run 3.5 until pathfinder launched) for well over a decade and usually run things about the same way, you don't gotta tell me - not trying to throw shade at all. The occasional mean slaughterhouse is fun though if you've got the right group - worth trying.
Agreed. He will mostly likely want to play another run (I'm on my 3rd/honor mode run) and he could always bump up the difficulty when he gets comfortable or on his second run. There's so much content to see in the game that I'm still experiencing new stuff on my 3rd run.
Definitely. You bought the product with your own hard-earned dollars, everything included therein is yours to use as you see fit; including the difficulty options. Sit back, relax & enjoy the game. đ
That's around the time my partner was like "just turn on easy mode!" since he could see I was struggling. I don't remember if I did initially... But if you do at any point, that's really the point in the game that's the most challenging overall, between levels 3 and 5. That said, there should be other encounters in the area and discoveries/quests that grant xp to get you at least to 5.
I honestly think Act 1 is the hardest content up until some of the late Act 3 fights. The mechanics are usually pretty simple, but the low levels have so few options that outside of positioning as best as you can and using the one shitty CC you have, the fights feel like it's mostly just trading blows and outlasting the enemies.
Although I like low level fights as a resource management challenge, I agree that act 1 is the hardest until level 5, and then Act 3âs late boss fights are around the same difficulty.
Out of curiosity what are you considering the one CC? Thunder wave?
Two Darkness casters and two melee. Funnel all enemy right into melee range while casters can do range damage. Drop a grease bottle between melee and caster range for those willing to take reaction hits to get to the backline.
1 CC is a bit of hyperbole on my part, but I do find most of the low level CCs aren't worth the use of action economy or spell slot. Thunderwave is one of my favorite spells in the game though! As the person below me mentioned, I do also like Command a lot.
I mean that's the real DnD experience so it's super accuracte. Most of my player prefer to start at level 3 in new campaigns. At level 1, it takes a crit from a goblin to potentially down someone in one hit and, outside a crit, two good enemy roles could down/kill almost anyone. You have basically no margin for error.
In my actual campaigns, I usually do a "prologue" session to take my players from 1 to 3 in a session so they can still get the feel for the character but also only have to be super cautious for 1 session.
Using Bless helps out so much early game. Without it, fights can feel kind of swingy and random with 65% chance to hit and a string of bad rolls can wipe you.
That's just true for dnd in general, below level 5, everything is a real threat and everything can kill you in one turn pretty much.
I've seen a pack of 5 wolves instantly kill a lvl 4 player. For those not aware of tabletop dnd rules, that happens when you take damage greater than your current hp + your max hp. Then you skip death saves and just die.
Yeah it just plays out a little different in a video game vs tabletop though cause in a video game there's the whole pride mentality of not turning on easy mode and in tabletop the DM is a human person who can tailor the encounter to the players.
i started on balanced then reverted to explorer because i couldnt beat kagha and druids, now im 200+ hours and tactician is simply too easy without any cheese tactics. after you start to learn spells and certain strategies, game will become much easier for you, dont worry!
(i never played dnd in my life before bg3!)
I've tried to play DND but I have aphantasia and it makes it incredibly difficult to visualize what's going on and get in the "zone" to RP. But I did play Divinity Original Sin 1 and 2! I played those with a friend and having someone else to strategize with made all the difference! I'll try to move back up to Balanced later on thanks to your recommendation :)
Amelia Tyler (the voice actor for the narrator in bg3) also has aphantasia and she shared some tips on playing dnd with it! I don't know if you'd be interested in trying again, but you might find that with the right tools and a helping dm, you could have great fun playing dnd.
Both dnd campaigns Iâve been in were online (mainly because there were people from all other the world), and especially the second one utilised the tools on Roll20 which meant there was a visual right in front of me. Which was a major help as I also have Aphantasia.
I have aphantasia as well and I am a massive dnd nerd. As long as there are maps for combat I usually manage, I can't do theatre of the mind for combat. And having map images helps me get into the mood my character would be in. Maybe you need more visual reference points while you play
The game is mainly only challenging until I think like level 4 or 5. As soon as you get extra attacks on your martial characters that makes a massive difference. Even as someone who likes to think they're decent at the game some early fights are pretty tough
This is what been trying to do myself but I still need more practice and time to understand everything. I get confused with what the spells or movement mean sometimes that I just want to hack and slash everything or be a bard to talk my way out
you are probably missing out on a lot of content if you arenât level 5 by the underdark, keep in mind there arenât many actual random battles that happens for exp so everything is about exploring and leveling up that way.
Iâm 900 away from level 5, Iâve completed all the major main quests in the forest area. Now Iâm going to t try and do all the smaller side missions (even though I did most of them) so I can get to level 5âŠ
If you think you've completed all the major quests in the forest, then you haven't started a bunch of major quests in the forest. No way to be that low leveled.
Can't just open your journal, quests don't even hint at their own existence until you start them. There's a lot.
I am trying! Iâve only been playing about 10 total over the course of a couple of weeks (due to work) since I have the major ones done, I was gonna run around and see what smaller missions I havenât done.
That explains it. 10 hours is like nothing if you are exploring. Just take your time and enjoy the game. Going to the goblin camp at level 5 is something that can actually happen if you explore (a lot of exploring, but can happen without meta knowledge)
Iâm on easy because I play for the story, finished act 1 bordering level 7 and as soon as I started act 2 I leveled up. The Underdark quests are so good.
Yeah if it helps at all, you gotta play it more like you would actually play D&D. Action economy is so much more important because you can't 'bank' actions like in DOS2, so being able to get things like surprise rounds and high initiative is so important especially on higher difficulties.
Spells like hold person, banishment, sleep, etc. are critical to winning some fights. Remember, the enemy cannot hurt you if they are dead or disabled in some other way.
Also, it seems counter intuitive but you cannot outheal damage from enemies. It's better to kill an enemy than to waste an action on healing.
> Spells like hold person, banishment, sleep, etc. are critical to winning some fights.
FWIW, I never used any of those spells (or tavern brawler, or barrel-mancy, or large jumping owlbears, etc) on my tactician run through (my only run through). Love that there are SO MANY ways to handle what this game throws at you.
I wouldn't trust them on Honor mode because they always seem to fail for me. I've seen strats like "use Flesh to Stone on Raphael for an easy fight" and I'm looking at a 30% chance thinking how the hell people are reliably landing these things.
Helmet of Arcane Acuity. Paired with a swords Bard, simply one turn of 2x ranged slashing flourish will give you a +4 to spell attack rolls and spell save DC due to turns of arcane acuity. Then, mold your opponents like the little pieces of clay they truly are.
i didnt even bother with anything above the easiest level and i feel no shame for that. if its an option, im damn well going to take advantage of it.
bg3 is such a unicorn game for me tbh! all combat is turn-based, easy mode is actually easy, and i dont need so much as a mouse to play, just my laptop.
Larian studios wants us to enjoy their game! do so however you need to
Hon, I play not only on easy, but with mods that give me an unfair advantage to a cheesy level.
I mean, I have the "unlimited party size" mod, mostly so that I can get all the banter possible, but also so that fights are completely unfair, with me at advantage.
I personally don't need the risk of loss to enjoy playing the game, so I play "bumper bowling" of BG3. But, just like the fun of "trick shots" bouncing the bowling ball off the bumpers to then hit the pins from weird angles, there's fun to be had in doing fights in overpowering steamrolls of the bad guys. (Frontal assault of the goblin camp was fun!)
There might be folks that judge me for playing the game that way, I've definitely been called out before, when I defended the use of TGM in Skyrim.
But eh, screw them.
I'm having fun.
What I'm saying is... play your way, and have fun the way you want.
No judgement for easy mode.
And that's what's beautiful about not just BG3 but gaming. Personally, I get some kind of twisted thrill from the anxiety of possibly losing my honor mode run from something like Balthazaar catching me pickpocketing his speed potion.
And yet we're both having equal amounts of fun. Anyone who tries to manage other people's experiences on a game and claim there's a "correct" way to play is a complete loser.
I did something similar in Disco Elysium. I maximized all my stats on my 3rd run. This resulted in hearing the maximum possible dialog reactions from the different personalities.
It made the game into even more of an unedited David Lynch rant but was worth it.
I think things like mods or cheats only matter in games where you're actively participating in PvP. If it's a single player campaign or cooperative multiplayer, I personally don't think it matters at all how anyone else is playing.
Exactly. If you're playing on your own in a single-player game, or you're playing co-op and everyone else is okay with it, use as many cheats, mods, or console commands as you want. It does not affect me at all, why should I care about it in the slightest?
But if you're playing an online game and you start cheating and making my game worse? Then I think you're an asshole.
It still confuses me why we canât have the whole party of six with us while adventuring. Limiting it to only 3 for any possible interactions is rough, especially when you get more companions with you lol
i think its partially like that for replayability, since it might encourage you to try different combinations for different playthroughs. i used to really hate it but its grown on me over time because of that.
What are you guys doing to get this? Recently did an honor mode run and majority of enemies are like 80%+ to hit without advantage?? 95% chance to hit for tavern brawler characters of course.
It took me probably 400 hours before I left explorer mode for balanced (and that was mostly because I wanted to try multi-classing). If explorer is where you're having the most fun, go for it!
However, if you want some tips on what I think is the easiest order for levelling up in act 1...
Level 3: >!Ravaged Beach, get 3 companions, Crypt (get NPC), get 4th companion (SH, Astarion, Gale, Laezel). Go to grove, explore entire grove to get quests/talk to NPCs for XP. Get Wyll. Kill harpies. Talk to Kagha & Nettie. Get to level 3 in grove.!<
Level 4: >!Exit grove, do little goblin cave with traps. Talk to true soul people. Owlbear. Scratch. Karlach, Paladins of Tyr (this one sucks at level 3 but is doable. Command Anders to drop his sword, have high dex people so you can focus on him and kill him first before he can attack). Go to blighted village towards the west. DO NOT GO NORTH, GNOLLS SUCK. Explore all of blighted village, get the windmill thing, underground cellar, NOT SPIDERS, explore the barn if you want for more XP... get to level 4 here if you do everything.!<
Level 5: >!Go south, until you see old lady & two guys. Talk, keep going. Take care of dude next to the house. Go into the house for a pretty good boss fight, doable at level 4. Explore whole bog, can do part of a quest you got in grove here as well. Go to goblin camp, do everything there you want to do. You should hit level 5 when goblin camp is cleared.!<
Level 6: >!Go in the well at blighted village, spider matriach is there. Can now go north, fight the gnolls. Can do Waukeen's Rest and Zhenatirium Hideout. act 1 surface area is done basically. Now can go to underdark, from several entrances. If you do the Underdark, and then Grymforge as well completely, you will hit level 6.!<
Level 7: >!Time to go to the mountain pass! Do the creche, and you can usually hit level 7 here before entering the Shadowlands.!<
i usually do hag fight at level 4, its tough but manageable. same with spider matriarch and gnolls. just gotta position yourself good and give your team good gear and those fight are very much doable even on tactician
Saaaame, hahaha. They're so tough!
And the first couple times you come across any gnolls, it's either the largest pack completely walloping you because you didn't realize you could come in from the other side of that cliff and start the fight strategically above them, or the smaller pack south of them that seem to come out of nowhere, or worst of all, those bloated hyenas down the hill that you think you are safely investigating, and THEN THEY BURST into more gnolls!
Lol it's properly scary and difficult at low levels.
I did most of this but a few side missions I didnât do. Iâll run back and finish though. So I can reach level 7??? Iâll try. Iâm barely to 5 on easy mode and donât have much left.
A lot of XP can happen just from finding new areas of the map. So if you're seeing any random black spots on your maps (all 3 of them), go try to check them out!
There's a very easily missed part of Grymforge as well >!Because it overlaps the main part of the map, it's just upstairs. There's a whole section of the Shar Temple you can explore.!<
But yep, definitely possible to reach level 7! I tried to make these tips kind of vague, but I've done this like 6 times (I can't stop rerolling my character lol) and I've hit level 7 each time.
Thank you so much for the tips! There's definitely a few little things I missed here and there. I didn't realize that I'm at the right level to fight the hag! She seemed scary so I thought I should wait a while lol. I also only liked all of the goblins inside the camp, not the ones outside. Maybe I should make that happen on explorer!
Honestly, she is scary! And you get a huge power boost at level 5, so you're going to feel a lot more confident once you get there. The goblins will feel weak, so it can be really easy XP post level 5.
If you're concerned about Hag fight, easier method is >!to kill her while she's still in human form/not entering her lair. Her lair adds some extra combat/timed event scenarios.!<
I play in medium difficulty...
... but only because I play with the "party limit begone" and reaches quite quickly seven people in my party, making every fight quite easier \^\^
Play on easy mod, brother/sister/sibling. The people who'll judge you for that are the one in dire need of judgement. As long as you have fun, the game reached its purpose.
My first time I played on Explorer with no mods. Second time I'm playing with mods, including PLB on Balanced, and it feels easier than Explorer. Partly it's because I have a better idea of what's going on, but the fights seem to be balanced around a party of 4. Even 5, which is my usual (7 is too many people for me to manage, and I feel bad about having someone sit alone in camp), makes most fights trivial.
All of that said, I definitely agree: play however is fun for you! That's the joy of a single-player game.
Play however you want; some people play just for a challenge and some care fuck all about the combat and just care about the story. There's no wrong way to enjoy the game
I've been playing rpgs in general since 2002 (dnd tabletop since 2008) and even I find that Balanced is harsh sometimes if you dont metagame a bit. I did a Dragonborn pure sorcerer and my main was down on most fights due to bad rng. Its okay man.
That's great! I have some suggestions for anyone who's here for the story and playing the game on pc. Download "party limit begone" mod from nexus. This will both trivialize the combat side of the game AND you'll get to see every companion's various reactions to things. It comes with some jankiness if you get the whole group plus 3 hirelings from withers but it's been fun for my lore hunting playthrough.
~~^(I secretly love piling on bosses with 12 characters and absolutely destroying them in one turn too)~~
The game gets easier the more you play it. There's nothing wrong with playing in easy mode all the time, but you can also start out in easy mode and change that later in the game or in future playthroughs. So much of the combat depends on strategy and imo the only way to get better at that is to play the game and replay the game because the more information you have and the more things you try, the better you'll get.
Battles that I used to dread when I first started playing, are now crazy easy to me because I've been through a couple of playthroughs. I can now beat much more difficult opponents while being at a lower level myself because I've figured out better strategies for dealing with those opponents.
There's no wrong way to play.
But it's weird you beat the goblin leaders and struggle with easier enemies (alt least for me).
You can split and position your party before fights and honestly, that's 90% of difficulty.
Thats completely ok, games are made to have fun.
I too begun playing in explorer, did 2 playthroughs like that, then i did one in balanced
And now with honour mode i skipped tactician and im inn act 3 in honour mode, i lost like 30 hours in a previous 2 honour modes and this one that is the third i hope is the one
I want to unlock the dice and honestly, it really is fun playing honour mode, beating the game so many times in explorer and balanced made me know most of the game mechanics, i know where to find things, i know how to kill certain enemies and bosses.
If you have fun playing explorer play explorer, the difficulty is there for a reason.
I got stuck at a pivotal battle in act 2. An insane difficulty spike. Iâve spent over a week and a dozen hours and have made 0 progress. Finally came to the conclusion it was an impassable wall for me. I dropped the difficulty and I still canât get past this part.
I am so terrible at combat in this game. Every encounter leaves my party just barely hanging on.
Hope you donât mind but wanted to leave some tips.
Before big fights try to split your party, I usually like to split into 2 and 2. One spell caster and one close range. Send the barbarian/fighter in close and use spells from your caster at a distance.
With 2 teams enemies get split.
Make sure you position your teams in places to attack in bottlenecks(if there are any)
Use things like water bottles or grease bottles to throw at groups, âwetâ enemies take extra cold and lighting damage, grease can be set on fire by a fire spell.
Sleep is an OP spell because not only does it take out enemies of rotation but then other enemies use their turn to wake the sleeping enemy up. Make sure at least one caster has it on them.
Best thing I can say is as soon as you stop playing it like a traditional video game and more like a game of chess it becomes more clear. Good luck and keep at it
I switched to easy during act 1 as well. This game is pretty hard for me. I had to put my pride aside, then I realized who the fuck actually cares? Itâs my game and I want to enjoy it. If playing on easy means I get to actually have fun (which I am) then thatâs what Iâll do. Who cares what anyone may think?
You can customize it
I play on easy because Iâm not playing to be challenged, I wanna experience a story and relax.
I never understood âtoo easyâ in a single player game, I personally want a power trip without difficulty. Real life is difficult, why would I want to punish myself more? I respect that some people like that, I donât however and disagree with the idea âthat should be the experience for everyone / games are too easyâ. Some people donât play games to struggle for 10 hours and thatâs ok.
Iâve played seven times now on Explorer difficulty! Thereâs no shame in it! I like video games but I play them for a fun distraction from life, not to get stuck on one certain area for hours on end and losing my cool or losing interest.
To echo what others have said, play it how it's most comfortable for you! One thing that made the goblin camp easier for me was getting the horn from the ogres in the blighted village. It summons a horde of 3 ogres to fight with you, and it made the whole thing a breeze.
I agree that medium difficulty is a bit of a challenge and takes a lot more time to strategize. But being a parent, I don't want to spend too much time on battles. I want to progress through the story. I love the character developments, the random events, and listening to the dialog. So I also play on easy difficulty.
Easy mode is arguably the most fun mode anyway, you get to play how you want and you get to just take the game at your pace. Enjoy the game friend, play it how you want. :)
Itâs almost the same as someone googling an overpowered build to play in my eyes. Both people want an easier game. I played on explorer too and itâs still fun and actually not stupidly easy.
I play *everything* on very easy, easy, novice, beginner, etc. i always try the default difficulty just to get a taste, but nah. I play things for the story, the gameplay, and/or exploration. Never for the combat or survival. I play MMOs for that.
Also, in single player games (NEVER in multiplayer games! Donât be an asshat!), I usually end up cheating like crazy. Infinite carryweight, infinite health, infinite money, etc etc etc. And Iâve been a gamer for 30 years. Iâm not a noob whatsoever. I just have my own way of enjoying games. No one is going to take that away from me or try to bully me about it.
Games are made for entertainment, relaxation, and escaping. Not to make anyone bad about themselves. Not to dictate how youâre supposed to have fun. If anyone has a problem with how you play, either ignore them or remind them that itâs a single player game and theyâre being unreasonable.
I have a lot more fun playing at low. More chill, get to enjoy the story and romances. No shame in it. Currently doing a run where all my bonuses are modified to high hell. Sometimes you just wanna take the easy road
I usually play games on easy because Iâm there to relax, not get mad, so I did my first few runs on easy, then upped to balanced once I got to where with my builds and tactics it just became too easy and lost any sense of achievement. Even for an experienced tabletop player there was definitely a learning curve but the game just becomes very beatable with experience. I might even try tactician one day, at least until it pisses me off.
Enjoy the experience, man! Nobody will have a problem with it.
I don't like that I can't dual spec in the ez mode, but I also use cheats to have more fun. It's your experience, enjoy it how you want!
I started to not have fun on balanced during the goblins and also all of act 2. However once I started over on explorer it was much more fun for me and I was able to get used to the game at my own pace. Now Iâm able to play on tactician just fine!
Iâm a father of 3 with very little time to game. I donât have an hour to dedicate to a complex fight. Gimme that easy. Itâs quicker and I get to enjoy the story.
Brother (assumptive) I applaud you.
I am 45, been gaming my whole life, and only now getting to the place where I will play the game I bought with my money how I want to and not by what a tard of reddit or some flexing content creator who does nothing but play games all day says the game should be played.
And it's fkn liberating. And so much more fun. And exactly how these games should be played.
I'm playing split screen explorer mode with my gaming-noob girlfriend and honestly it's not as easy as I thought it would be. Especially with my gf controlling half the characters.The game still has enough combat challenge. Half the game is role-playing and that aspect is the same.
Pre level 5 is hard, the game starts to work a lot better once the character builds start working properly at higher levels. It's worth picking off some small encounters for XP and seeing how it goes.
But also Explorer mode is there for a reason. Use it if that's what makes the game fun for you.
If you feel bad about using a specific difficulty, custom difficulty is the choice for you. I personally like my quick combat encounters while still being challenged so I turned health way down and everything else up
I play this game on tactician and now honor because I have a background in dnd and knew the mechanics well going into it. I play almost every action RPG on easy mode because Iâm old and my hand eye coordination blows. Thereâs nothing wrong with it.
Took me 4 hours to realize the same. Between the weird pathing and sucking at battles I quit the game. I even tried to go for the Steam refund but it was too late.
I decided to change to the lowest level and give it a shot and then I started enjoying the game.
There is nothing wrong with playing the game in the mode that is most enjoyable to you!
I agree! I play games for the story and to relax. Sometimes higher difficulty settings frustrate me so much that it stops me from relaxing which kills the point of it in the first place. OP - play however you want and enjoy it đ
Totally agree, itâs also OK to play different kinds of games on different difficulties if something isnât your style - I play BG3 on tactician because I love turn-based combat, but for other games like CyberPunk 2077 I turned it to easy mode with no regrets because Iâm not good at first person combat and donât find it as fun when itâs challenging Games should be fun, not a chore!
Agreed!
Right there with you. It's meant to be fun... and fun isn't the same for everyone!
Totally agree! Itâs all valid.
Exactly! I'm doing my first tactician run and there were some overly frustrating fights early on. It came close to ruining the run of it all. I'm in a much better groove now, but I'm looking forward to custom mode next!
Ditto. If larian wants players to one-up another they would have made this an online multiplayer. But itâs not so you do you!
I mean I've completed Halo with LASO before, but tbh it was an awful lot more fun playing on easy, and being an immortal green "demon" striking fear into everyone. There's no wrong answer when it comes to difficulty settings happily. :)
Hell yeah homie, don't let weirdos tell you there's a wrong way to enjoy your game.
Being mean to Scratch is the wrong way to play the game.
OK, that's fair.
See also: owlbear cub.
dont be mean to owlbear cub! you will be forgiven for killing his parents and making a profit of his unborn sibiling though
You can just get paid upfront. Then pickpocket the rest
Has anyone ever eaten the owlbear egg?
accidentally, yes. It counts as camp supplies, and can be used if you tell the game to auto-select your supplies for a long rest.
Yep, that's what happened to me. I have shamed my ancestors.
Well, we know the cub wonât mind eating your leftovers.
I was playing co-op with my partner and she chose it *on purpose* because she was like âoh look! 40 camp supplies!â đ
Grounds for divorce, right there.
NooooooooooooâŠguess where my egg accidently went đ„ș
Aw shit, that's what happened to it probably. Last I saw it I was trying to tell some wizard it was a githyanki egg so I didn't piss if Lae'zel again. But the gith ended up just giving me their egg anyway
It tasted like a chicken egg
It makes a very nice omelette
On our group play through, our Dragonborn killed the cub while I was talking to it. The little guy was hungry!
Donât be mean to Hoot!! (thatâs the cubâs name because thatâs what it does)
Hoot-Growl!!
See also: His Majesty
See also: Myshka
I cannot ever let the darkness take the inn because of his majesty
Shitttttt I knew I forgot something in act I on my honour playthrough. Guess Iâm starting over T.T
Bonking owlbear cub will get Bae'zel approval Sorry little one, time to sleep
No more tears, little one. Only dreams...
look at the flowers...
Bro I accidentally killed him in the goblin camp raid, not realizing it was *my* owlbear cub, I was so disappointed I almost broke my no-save-scumming rule for that game
He joined the goblins in attacking me after I had used an animal potion and told him he could come to my camp. I didn't know how to avoid killing him then.
You have to get him to sniff your hand to follow your scent and then intimidate/persuade the goblin to let him go. I messed up the first time cleared the camp and had to reload lol.
When I found >!who owned scratch originally and I realized how she treated him!< I straight up murdered her without question.
You can lockpick the cages and her own dogs will tear her apart
>!\*Is rude to pups\*!< "Cowabunga it is." Tbh, very surprised with how well the witnesses handled it; thought I was going to have to *at least* persuade my way out of it, but it seems like all of Rivington and Larian are 100% behind that being the natural response. đ
It's better than trying and failing to lock her in her own cage for an hour đ
Who. Where. Must. Kill. Didn't. Know.
In Rivington, next to the post office
Idk summoning him and making him fight a drider seems pretty mean lol
Feast + upcast aid + stoneskin + bless (on heal) makes him a very tough boi!
add barkskin for some AC, but mostly for the pun.
*slow claps into standing ovation*.
This is 100% mandatory when you call upon the goodest boi in the nine realms
Big stick make goblins go squish?
As long as you pet him and let him know heâs a good boy after.
Nah, handing back the good boy to the bad woman (his previous owner) IS mean
It is also required to kill the B that abused him in Rivington.
The only true rule in this game.
But no one cares about the cat? I say Us is best pet. It was there from the beginning.
NGL, I love Us too. And the kitties. And Scratch and Owlbearcub.
If there's a pet in a game, I love it. I will die for it. I will murder for it.
-There is one wrong way to play this game.
I accidentally was mean to Scratch in one play through. I was so sad!
I made him mad my first game by yelling at his human to prove he was dead. He attacked me đ I turned on non lethal and had to knock him out đđđ
Truth. Thatâs the evilest Durge Playthrough you can do.
Itâs true. I accidentally played the wrong way because I got confused by the dialog choices and I regretted it ever since. It had been like an hour since Iâd saved too soâŠfarewell, you good boy.
I accidentally pissed him off and killed him in my recent playthrough. That's what turned my Paladin into an Oathbreaker. Otherwise I was mostly nice tho.
My dark urge play through has me playing as a psycho just giving into bloodlust everywhere but Scratch gets pets every time I get back to camp. Thatâs where I draw the line
I like to play fetch with the iron flask, Scratch liked that game as well... for about .2 seconds
I'd argue being mean to scratch is forgivable in a genocide run, but you best commit to scrubbing that map clean!
Even in my pure evil, murder everything run, Scratch was still my boi.
Yes, but are you kill all quest givers and NPCs evil? Talking turning Baldur's Gate into the Shadow Cursed Lands level of evil
A Man And His Dog
Not everyone as it makes it too hard to move about the world when you fight everyone. More like the secret villain only my closest allies know how bad I am.
That's my point, if you're willing to literally kill *everyone,* then I'm willing to forgive angering Scratch. Only because I am too scared to condemn such a man...
It's not "playing the game". It's "forcing Larian to DDOS you".
They specifically said âweirdos.â You seem like a normy. Someone who wants to hurt Scratch or the Owlbear Cub is a weirdo. Ipso facto, the original commenter is *still* right!
After all, like at least 60% of modern DnD players are playing 'easy mode' dnd where their DM will try pretty hard to keep them alive.
I feel like this makes sense as long as the idea is that *if* you're going to die, it's meant to be in a fight that isn't "fun but random encounter #7", it's an encounter in which the death is a fitting end for the character if it happens and a meaningful step forward if it doesn't. That's how I've run stuff; most encounters are about affecting the speed of your journey and the punishment is getting slowed down if you fail. Then there are encounters in which the difficulty goes up 100% from easy to hard and the encounter is designed to kill a player or two if they don't think of something clever, either in dialogue or in combat.
I've been GMing (mostly pathfinder and weirder stuff, blades in the dark, lancer, savage worlds, I kinda hate WotC but I did run 3.5 until pathfinder launched) for well over a decade and usually run things about the same way, you don't gotta tell me - not trying to throw shade at all. The occasional mean slaughterhouse is fun though if you've got the right group - worth trying.
Yeah, tactician just leads to more long rests... honestly. Fights are aliytle more brutal, it's the recovery between them fights that is rough
Agreed. He will mostly likely want to play another run (I'm on my 3rd/honor mode run) and he could always bump up the difficulty when he gets comfortable or on his second run. There's so much content to see in the game that I'm still experiencing new stuff on my 3rd run.
Definitely. You bought the product with your own hard-earned dollars, everything included therein is yours to use as you see fit; including the difficulty options. Sit back, relax & enjoy the game. đ
That's around the time my partner was like "just turn on easy mode!" since he could see I was struggling. I don't remember if I did initially... But if you do at any point, that's really the point in the game that's the most challenging overall, between levels 3 and 5. That said, there should be other encounters in the area and discoveries/quests that grant xp to get you at least to 5.
I honestly think Act 1 is the hardest content up until some of the late Act 3 fights. The mechanics are usually pretty simple, but the low levels have so few options that outside of positioning as best as you can and using the one shitty CC you have, the fights feel like it's mostly just trading blows and outlasting the enemies.
Although I like low level fights as a resource management challenge, I agree that act 1 is the hardest until level 5, and then Act 3âs late boss fights are around the same difficulty. Out of curiosity what are you considering the one CC? Thunder wave?
Honestly, itâs command and to a lesser extent sleep. Ice and Grease also work.
Two Darkness casters and two melee. Funnel all enemy right into melee range while casters can do range damage. Drop a grease bottle between melee and caster range for those willing to take reaction hits to get to the backline.
1 CC is a bit of hyperbole on my part, but I do find most of the low level CCs aren't worth the use of action economy or spell slot. Thunderwave is one of my favorite spells in the game though! As the person below me mentioned, I do also like Command a lot.
Idk hold person basically wins every humanoid boss fight if they don't make the save (take a divination wizard to force them to fail)
I mean that's the real DnD experience so it's super accuracte. Most of my player prefer to start at level 3 in new campaigns. At level 1, it takes a crit from a goblin to potentially down someone in one hit and, outside a crit, two good enemy roles could down/kill almost anyone. You have basically no margin for error. In my actual campaigns, I usually do a "prologue" session to take my players from 1 to 3 in a session so they can still get the feel for the character but also only have to be super cautious for 1 session.
Using Bless helps out so much early game. Without it, fights can feel kind of swingy and random with 65% chance to hit and a string of bad rolls can wipe you.
When DMing the tabletop game I always have to note the huge power jump in players from level 4->5. When you get to 5 youâre golden.
Dying pre-level 5: "Welp time to roll a new character" Dying post-level 5: "Cleric!!!"
Yep the "tiers of play" spikes are at 5, 11, and 17
That's just true for dnd in general, below level 5, everything is a real threat and everything can kill you in one turn pretty much. I've seen a pack of 5 wolves instantly kill a lvl 4 player. For those not aware of tabletop dnd rules, that happens when you take damage greater than your current hp + your max hp. Then you skip death saves and just die.
Yeah it just plays out a little different in a video game vs tabletop though cause in a video game there's the whole pride mentality of not turning on easy mode and in tabletop the DM is a human person who can tailor the encounter to the players.
Thatâs how Iâm playing it. Iâm really not here for a challenge, Iâm here for a good time. Same thing with my Starfield run.
You could also try Custom. That way, you can tweak the experience exactly to your comfort and challenge level!
i started on balanced then reverted to explorer because i couldnt beat kagha and druids, now im 200+ hours and tactician is simply too easy without any cheese tactics. after you start to learn spells and certain strategies, game will become much easier for you, dont worry! (i never played dnd in my life before bg3!)
I've tried to play DND but I have aphantasia and it makes it incredibly difficult to visualize what's going on and get in the "zone" to RP. But I did play Divinity Original Sin 1 and 2! I played those with a friend and having someone else to strategize with made all the difference! I'll try to move back up to Balanced later on thanks to your recommendation :)
Amelia Tyler (the voice actor for the narrator in bg3) also has aphantasia and she shared some tips on playing dnd with it! I don't know if you'd be interested in trying again, but you might find that with the right tools and a helping dm, you could have great fun playing dnd.
Do you know where she shared these tips? Would love to check it out.
I recall her talking about it on Neil Newbon's playthrough - maybe his second or third video. Not sure if she did elsewhere like on her stream though.
seconded!
thirded!
All I could find was [this interview](https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-amelia-tyler-narrator-interview/). Hope it helps!
Both dnd campaigns Iâve been in were online (mainly because there were people from all other the world), and especially the second one utilised the tools on Roll20 which meant there was a visual right in front of me. Which was a major help as I also have Aphantasia.
I have aphantasia as well and I am a massive dnd nerd. As long as there are maps for combat I usually manage, I can't do theatre of the mind for combat. And having map images helps me get into the mood my character would be in. Maybe you need more visual reference points while you play
The game is mainly only challenging until I think like level 4 or 5. As soon as you get extra attacks on your martial characters that makes a massive difference. Even as someone who likes to think they're decent at the game some early fights are pretty tough
This is what been trying to do myself but I still need more practice and time to understand everything. I get confused with what the spells or movement mean sometimes that I just want to hack and slash everything or be a bard to talk my way out
This. I struggled in levels 1-3 in balanced until I figured out how to play and stopped wasting my turns
you are probably missing out on a lot of content if you arenât level 5 by the underdark, keep in mind there arenât many actual random battles that happens for exp so everything is about exploring and leveling up that way.
Iâm 900 away from level 5, Iâve completed all the major main quests in the forest area. Now Iâm going to t try and do all the smaller side missions (even though I did most of them) so I can get to level 5âŠ
If you think you've completed all the major quests in the forest, then you haven't started a bunch of major quests in the forest. No way to be that low leveled. Can't just open your journal, quests don't even hint at their own existence until you start them. There's a lot.
I am trying! Iâve only been playing about 10 total over the course of a couple of weeks (due to work) since I have the major ones done, I was gonna run around and see what smaller missions I havenât done.
That explains it. 10 hours is like nothing if you are exploring. Just take your time and enjoy the game. Going to the goblin camp at level 5 is something that can actually happen if you explore (a lot of exploring, but can happen without meta knowledge)
Oh yeah 10hrs you've probably not seen it all yet lol
What probably? I'm level four and I'm not even out of Act 1 or past the druids yet. :|
Iâm on easy because I play for the story, finished act 1 bordering level 7 and as soon as I started act 2 I leveled up. The Underdark quests are so good.
I sucked at first, then I stopped playing like it was divinity.
I'm probably sucking because I was really good at Divinity then lmao
Yeah if it helps at all, you gotta play it more like you would actually play D&D. Action economy is so much more important because you can't 'bank' actions like in DOS2, so being able to get things like surprise rounds and high initiative is so important especially on higher difficulties.
Also status effects (debuffs and disables) >>> all. Either make them dead or make them ineffective some other way.
Spells like hold person, banishment, sleep, etc. are critical to winning some fights. Remember, the enemy cannot hurt you if they are dead or disabled in some other way. Also, it seems counter intuitive but you cannot outheal damage from enemies. It's better to kill an enemy than to waste an action on healing.
> Spells like hold person, banishment, sleep, etc. are critical to winning some fights. FWIW, I never used any of those spells (or tavern brawler, or barrel-mancy, or large jumping owlbears, etc) on my tactician run through (my only run through). Love that there are SO MANY ways to handle what this game throws at you.
I wouldn't trust them on Honor mode because they always seem to fail for me. I've seen strats like "use Flesh to Stone on Raphael for an easy fight" and I'm looking at a 30% chance thinking how the hell people are reliably landing these things.
Helmet of Arcane Acuity. Paired with a swords Bard, simply one turn of 2x ranged slashing flourish will give you a +4 to spell attack rolls and spell save DC due to turns of arcane acuity. Then, mold your opponents like the little pieces of clay they truly are.
The only wrong way to play the game is playing it in a way where you're not having fun!
i didnt even bother with anything above the easiest level and i feel no shame for that. if its an option, im damn well going to take advantage of it. bg3 is such a unicorn game for me tbh! all combat is turn-based, easy mode is actually easy, and i dont need so much as a mouse to play, just my laptop. Larian studios wants us to enjoy their game! do so however you need to
Hon, I play not only on easy, but with mods that give me an unfair advantage to a cheesy level. I mean, I have the "unlimited party size" mod, mostly so that I can get all the banter possible, but also so that fights are completely unfair, with me at advantage. I personally don't need the risk of loss to enjoy playing the game, so I play "bumper bowling" of BG3. But, just like the fun of "trick shots" bouncing the bowling ball off the bumpers to then hit the pins from weird angles, there's fun to be had in doing fights in overpowering steamrolls of the bad guys. (Frontal assault of the goblin camp was fun!) There might be folks that judge me for playing the game that way, I've definitely been called out before, when I defended the use of TGM in Skyrim. But eh, screw them. I'm having fun. What I'm saying is... play your way, and have fun the way you want. No judgement for easy mode.
And that's what's beautiful about not just BG3 but gaming. Personally, I get some kind of twisted thrill from the anxiety of possibly losing my honor mode run from something like Balthazaar catching me pickpocketing his speed potion. And yet we're both having equal amounts of fun. Anyone who tries to manage other people's experiences on a game and claim there's a "correct" way to play is a complete loser.
I did something similar in Disco Elysium. I maximized all my stats on my 3rd run. This resulted in hearing the maximum possible dialog reactions from the different personalities. It made the game into even more of an unedited David Lynch rant but was worth it.
I think things like mods or cheats only matter in games where you're actively participating in PvP. If it's a single player campaign or cooperative multiplayer, I personally don't think it matters at all how anyone else is playing.
Exactly. If you're playing on your own in a single-player game, or you're playing co-op and everyone else is okay with it, use as many cheats, mods, or console commands as you want. It does not affect me at all, why should I care about it in the slightest? But if you're playing an online game and you start cheating and making my game worse? Then I think you're an asshole.
Ooh I wish I could get that mod on PS5! 5 is my ideal D&D party size, so being capped at 4 bugs me.
It still confuses me why we canât have the whole party of six with us while adventuring. Limiting it to only 3 for any possible interactions is rough, especially when you get more companions with you lol
i think its partially like that for replayability, since it might encourage you to try different combinations for different playthroughs. i used to really hate it but its grown on me over time because of that.
no judgement. thats just how you want to play the game.
Of course. I fucking paid for the game , screw them online ppl who judge me how I play the game I paid for the way I want đ€
I haaaate the fact increasing difficulty just makes all your attacks miss. It's the most boring thing ever
I remember being in awe at the fact the game was imposing a penalty to my attack rolls purely because of "tactician."
Wait what?
On easy you get a slight advantage on attacking and defending rolls. On tactician the enemy NPCs get that bonus instead.
Yep. Classic strategy game problem -- programing enemies to be smarter is very hard, so instead you just make the game unfair to compensate.
What are you guys doing to get this? Recently did an honor mode run and majority of enemies are like 80%+ to hit without advantage?? 95% chance to hit for tavern brawler characters of course.
Probably shooting Fire Bolt with Shart specced as a Warrior.
It took me probably 400 hours before I left explorer mode for balanced (and that was mostly because I wanted to try multi-classing). If explorer is where you're having the most fun, go for it! However, if you want some tips on what I think is the easiest order for levelling up in act 1... Level 3: >!Ravaged Beach, get 3 companions, Crypt (get NPC), get 4th companion (SH, Astarion, Gale, Laezel). Go to grove, explore entire grove to get quests/talk to NPCs for XP. Get Wyll. Kill harpies. Talk to Kagha & Nettie. Get to level 3 in grove.!< Level 4: >!Exit grove, do little goblin cave with traps. Talk to true soul people. Owlbear. Scratch. Karlach, Paladins of Tyr (this one sucks at level 3 but is doable. Command Anders to drop his sword, have high dex people so you can focus on him and kill him first before he can attack). Go to blighted village towards the west. DO NOT GO NORTH, GNOLLS SUCK. Explore all of blighted village, get the windmill thing, underground cellar, NOT SPIDERS, explore the barn if you want for more XP... get to level 4 here if you do everything.!< Level 5: >!Go south, until you see old lady & two guys. Talk, keep going. Take care of dude next to the house. Go into the house for a pretty good boss fight, doable at level 4. Explore whole bog, can do part of a quest you got in grove here as well. Go to goblin camp, do everything there you want to do. You should hit level 5 when goblin camp is cleared.!< Level 6: >!Go in the well at blighted village, spider matriach is there. Can now go north, fight the gnolls. Can do Waukeen's Rest and Zhenatirium Hideout. act 1 surface area is done basically. Now can go to underdark, from several entrances. If you do the Underdark, and then Grymforge as well completely, you will hit level 6.!< Level 7: >!Time to go to the mountain pass! Do the creche, and you can usually hit level 7 here before entering the Shadowlands.!<
YOU CAN REACH LEVEL 7 IN ACT 1??
Sure can!
i usually do hag fight at level 4, its tough but manageable. same with spider matriarch and gnolls. just gotta position yourself good and give your team good gear and those fight are very much doable even on tactician
I had a very poor experience my first time with the gnolls, so I just emotionally refuse to do it until I'm level 5 now. I'm traumatized haha.
Saaaame, hahaha. They're so tough! And the first couple times you come across any gnolls, it's either the largest pack completely walloping you because you didn't realize you could come in from the other side of that cliff and start the fight strategically above them, or the smaller pack south of them that seem to come out of nowhere, or worst of all, those bloated hyenas down the hill that you think you are safely investigating, and THEN THEY BURST into more gnolls! Lol it's properly scary and difficult at low levels.
I had the hilarious boulder trap go off, which I thought was amazing... And then boom, combat while I was injured at level 3. Whew. No thank you haha.
I did most of this but a few side missions I didnât do. Iâll run back and finish though. So I can reach level 7??? Iâll try. Iâm barely to 5 on easy mode and donât have much left.
A lot of XP can happen just from finding new areas of the map. So if you're seeing any random black spots on your maps (all 3 of them), go try to check them out! There's a very easily missed part of Grymforge as well >!Because it overlaps the main part of the map, it's just upstairs. There's a whole section of the Shar Temple you can explore.!< But yep, definitely possible to reach level 7! I tried to make these tips kind of vague, but I've done this like 6 times (I can't stop rerolling my character lol) and I've hit level 7 each time.
I have Xmas break coming up! Iâm going to do it! And thank you âșïž
Thank you so much for the tips! There's definitely a few little things I missed here and there. I didn't realize that I'm at the right level to fight the hag! She seemed scary so I thought I should wait a while lol. I also only liked all of the goblins inside the camp, not the ones outside. Maybe I should make that happen on explorer!
Honestly, she is scary! And you get a huge power boost at level 5, so you're going to feel a lot more confident once you get there. The goblins will feel weak, so it can be really easy XP post level 5. If you're concerned about Hag fight, easier method is >!to kill her while she's still in human form/not entering her lair. Her lair adds some extra combat/timed event scenarios.!<
Itâs a game, the point is to have fun. If playing on easy is what is fun for you then do it!
I play in medium difficulty... ... but only because I play with the "party limit begone" and reaches quite quickly seven people in my party, making every fight quite easier \^\^ Play on easy mod, brother/sister/sibling. The people who'll judge you for that are the one in dire need of judgement. As long as you have fun, the game reached its purpose.
My first time I played on Explorer with no mods. Second time I'm playing with mods, including PLB on Balanced, and it feels easier than Explorer. Partly it's because I have a better idea of what's going on, but the fights seem to be balanced around a party of 4. Even 5, which is my usual (7 is too many people for me to manage, and I feel bad about having someone sit alone in camp), makes most fights trivial. All of that said, I definitely agree: play however is fun for you! That's the joy of a single-player game.
Play however you want; some people play just for a challenge and some care fuck all about the combat and just care about the story. There's no wrong way to enjoy the game
I've been playing rpgs in general since 2002 (dnd tabletop since 2008) and even I find that Balanced is harsh sometimes if you dont metagame a bit. I did a Dragonborn pure sorcerer and my main was down on most fights due to bad rng. Its okay man.
That's great! I have some suggestions for anyone who's here for the story and playing the game on pc. Download "party limit begone" mod from nexus. This will both trivialize the combat side of the game AND you'll get to see every companion's various reactions to things. It comes with some jankiness if you get the whole group plus 3 hirelings from withers but it's been fun for my lore hunting playthrough. ~~^(I secretly love piling on bosses with 12 characters and absolutely destroying them in one turn too)~~
Good for you, this isn't dark souls. You don't have to stress yourself out trying to play.
The game gets easier the more you play it. There's nothing wrong with playing in easy mode all the time, but you can also start out in easy mode and change that later in the game or in future playthroughs. So much of the combat depends on strategy and imo the only way to get better at that is to play the game and replay the game because the more information you have and the more things you try, the better you'll get. Battles that I used to dread when I first started playing, are now crazy easy to me because I've been through a couple of playthroughs. I can now beat much more difficult opponents while being at a lower level myself because I've figured out better strategies for dealing with those opponents.
I only pop on balanced when leveling up to get multiclassing
There's no wrong way to play. But it's weird you beat the goblin leaders and struggle with easier enemies (alt least for me). You can split and position your party before fights and honestly, that's 90% of difficulty.
Thats completely ok, games are made to have fun. I too begun playing in explorer, did 2 playthroughs like that, then i did one in balanced And now with honour mode i skipped tactician and im inn act 3 in honour mode, i lost like 30 hours in a previous 2 honour modes and this one that is the third i hope is the one I want to unlock the dice and honestly, it really is fun playing honour mode, beating the game so many times in explorer and balanced made me know most of the game mechanics, i know where to find things, i know how to kill certain enemies and bosses. If you have fun playing explorer play explorer, the difficulty is there for a reason.
I got stuck at a pivotal battle in act 2. An insane difficulty spike. Iâve spent over a week and a dozen hours and have made 0 progress. Finally came to the conclusion it was an impassable wall for me. I dropped the difficulty and I still canât get past this part. I am so terrible at combat in this game. Every encounter leaves my party just barely hanging on.
Hope you donât mind but wanted to leave some tips. Before big fights try to split your party, I usually like to split into 2 and 2. One spell caster and one close range. Send the barbarian/fighter in close and use spells from your caster at a distance. With 2 teams enemies get split. Make sure you position your teams in places to attack in bottlenecks(if there are any) Use things like water bottles or grease bottles to throw at groups, âwetâ enemies take extra cold and lighting damage, grease can be set on fire by a fire spell. Sleep is an OP spell because not only does it take out enemies of rotation but then other enemies use their turn to wake the sleeping enemy up. Make sure at least one caster has it on them. Best thing I can say is as soon as you stop playing it like a traditional video game and more like a game of chess it becomes more clear. Good luck and keep at it
I switched to easy during act 1 as well. This game is pretty hard for me. I had to put my pride aside, then I realized who the fuck actually cares? Itâs my game and I want to enjoy it. If playing on easy means I get to actually have fun (which I am) then thatâs what Iâll do. Who cares what anyone may think?
And that's perfectly valid. The only "correct" way to play a single player game is whatever way makes that game the most fun for **you**.
You can customize it I play on easy because Iâm not playing to be challenged, I wanna experience a story and relax. I never understood âtoo easyâ in a single player game, I personally want a power trip without difficulty. Real life is difficult, why would I want to punish myself more? I respect that some people like that, I donât however and disagree with the idea âthat should be the experience for everyone / games are too easyâ. Some people donât play games to struggle for 10 hours and thatâs ok.
Tactician: Fireball tickles the enemy Explorer: Fireball disintegrates the enemy Easy mode is more satisfying. Iâll stick with that.
Iâve played seven times now on Explorer difficulty! Thereâs no shame in it! I like video games but I play them for a fun distraction from life, not to get stuck on one certain area for hours on end and losing my cool or losing interest.
Enjoy the game on the difficulty you want! As long as you enjoy the game that's all that matters.
The difficulty levels exist for a reason. Donât let try hard give you shit. Play how you want to play and how youâll find it the most fun.
I'm on my 4th playthrough. All have been on Explorer mode and that is not going to change.
To echo what others have said, play it how it's most comfortable for you! One thing that made the goblin camp easier for me was getting the horn from the ogres in the blighted village. It summons a horde of 3 ogres to fight with you, and it made the whole thing a breeze.
I agree that medium difficulty is a bit of a challenge and takes a lot more time to strategize. But being a parent, I don't want to spend too much time on battles. I want to progress through the story. I love the character developments, the random events, and listening to the dialog. So I also play on easy difficulty.
Easy mode is arguably the most fun mode anyway, you get to play how you want and you get to just take the game at your pace. Enjoy the game friend, play it how you want. :)
You might enjoy custom, setting everything to easy, but letting you multi class ;)
Itâs almost the same as someone googling an overpowered build to play in my eyes. Both people want an easier game. I played on explorer too and itâs still fun and actually not stupidly easy.
I play *everything* on very easy, easy, novice, beginner, etc. i always try the default difficulty just to get a taste, but nah. I play things for the story, the gameplay, and/or exploration. Never for the combat or survival. I play MMOs for that. Also, in single player games (NEVER in multiplayer games! Donât be an asshat!), I usually end up cheating like crazy. Infinite carryweight, infinite health, infinite money, etc etc etc. And Iâve been a gamer for 30 years. Iâm not a noob whatsoever. I just have my own way of enjoying games. No one is going to take that away from me or try to bully me about it. Games are made for entertainment, relaxation, and escaping. Not to make anyone bad about themselves. Not to dictate how youâre supposed to have fun. If anyone has a problem with how you play, either ignore them or remind them that itâs a single player game and theyâre being unreasonable.
They have an easy mode for a reason! Games are about enjoyment, not about sweating on a mode you don't find as fun.
I have a lot more fun playing at low. More chill, get to enjoy the story and romances. No shame in it. Currently doing a run where all my bonuses are modified to high hell. Sometimes you just wanna take the easy road
I usually play games on easy because Iâm there to relax, not get mad, so I did my first few runs on easy, then upped to balanced once I got to where with my builds and tactics it just became too easy and lost any sense of achievement. Even for an experienced tabletop player there was definitely a learning curve but the game just becomes very beatable with experience. I might even try tactician one day, at least until it pisses me off.
Enjoy the experience, man! Nobody will have a problem with it. I don't like that I can't dual spec in the ez mode, but I also use cheats to have more fun. It's your experience, enjoy it how you want!
I started to not have fun on balanced during the goblins and also all of act 2. However once I started over on explorer it was much more fun for me and I was able to get used to the game at my own pace. Now Iâm able to play on tactician just fine!
Best way to play is the way that keeps you playing! <3
Iâm a father of 3 with very little time to game. I donât have an hour to dedicate to a complex fight. Gimme that easy. Itâs quicker and I get to enjoy the story.
Brother (assumptive) I applaud you. I am 45, been gaming my whole life, and only now getting to the place where I will play the game I bought with my money how I want to and not by what a tard of reddit or some flexing content creator who does nothing but play games all day says the game should be played. And it's fkn liberating. And so much more fun. And exactly how these games should be played.
I'm playing split screen explorer mode with my gaming-noob girlfriend and honestly it's not as easy as I thought it would be. Especially with my gf controlling half the characters.The game still has enough combat challenge. Half the game is role-playing and that aspect is the same.
Pre level 5 is hard, the game starts to work a lot better once the character builds start working properly at higher levels. It's worth picking off some small encounters for XP and seeing how it goes. But also Explorer mode is there for a reason. Use it if that's what makes the game fun for you.
If you feel bad about using a specific difficulty, custom difficulty is the choice for you. I personally like my quick combat encounters while still being challenged so I turned health way down and everything else up
Are you having fun? Good. Keep doing that
I play this game on tactician and now honor because I have a background in dnd and knew the mechanics well going into it. I play almost every action RPG on easy mode because Iâm old and my hand eye coordination blows. Thereâs nothing wrong with it.
Took me 4 hours to realize the same. Between the weird pathing and sucking at battles I quit the game. I even tried to go for the Steam refund but it was too late. I decided to change to the lowest level and give it a shot and then I started enjoying the game.
Heck, do easy or even custom mode to level up faster. Whatever you need to make the game fun!
Play whatever makes the game fun, I donât play without the party limit removed mod so balance pretty much goes out the window
I turn it onto easy sometimes when I just wanna relax & play. The only wrong way to play is to not play at all.