Play Baldur’s Gate 3 on hard and “you’re going to start crying”
Which Baldur’s Gate 3 difficulty setting will you choose? If you think you’re ready for Tactician, the hardest Baldur’s Gate 3 mode, developer Larian Studios says you might want to think again. During its final Panel From Hell ahead of the Baldur’s Gate 3 release date, creative director Swen Vincke and senior combat designer Matt Holland discuss how the hardest difficulty will truly test your rules knowledge of the RPG game.
If you’ve played Baldur’s Gate 3 in early access, you’ve been using the game’s default difficulty setting, Balanced. This offers “a bit of a challenge but not too much,” Holland explains, while a more player-friendly Explorer mode is there for those who want to focus on the story and roleplaying aspects without having as much trouble in combat. However, if you’re really feeling yourself, Tactician is the way to go.
“That’s our hard mode,” Holland says, “that’s the one that’s really going to challenge you in the combat – and even outside the combat in some ways.” This actually impacts things on two levels. On a basic level, it does all the standard things you’d expect such as increasing enemy health, making it easier for them to hit your characters, and there’s a ramping up of their AI and decision-making (more on that in a moment).
On top of that, however, Holland says he and his team have “gone through every single combat in our game and added in little bits of spice to make that combat shine just a little bit hotter and be that much harder.” To demonstrate this, the team shows off a simple encounter with a group of hostile goblins in a small town. On Balanced, things go pretty smoothly, with just one character getting knocked down and able to recover.
As the group prepares to replay the scenario on
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