"The biggest-brained AI move in history" has Baldur's Gate 3 tacticians sharing the best and worst of the RPG's NPCs

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The robust combat systems in Baldur's Gate 3 offer equally stunning showcases for both brilliance and stupidity, and "the biggest-brained AI move in history" has players sharing the best and worst moves they've seen from the RPG's NPCs.

We're about to talk about particular in-game encounters, so here's your warning that some minor spoilers for fights you might find yourself in are about to follow. This all starts with an anecdote about a battle you're likely to find yourself in near the end of Act 1, against the Drow boss Nere in Grymforge.

When Reddit user DeyUrban did that fight, "Nere himself got pushed into the lava. Business as usual, I was preparing to reload a save so I could get his head for the Myconid sovereign, but then I witnessed the craziest thing I have seen in the game so far - One of his crossbowmen shot a push-back arrow AT NERE, and it PUSHED HIM BACK UP ONTO SOLID GROUND. I was absolutely stunned, I wouldn't have even thought of doing that. The AI is something else in this game man, I've seen a couple cases where they did something really stupid but otherwise even on Balanced [difficulty] they are extremely competent."

While that anecdote is all about how smart Baldur's Gate 3 characters can be, the top comment underneath sums up the rest of the responses: "The duality of AI is that they do shit like this then walk into their own AoE with only 4 HP left."

The most infuriating AI blunders, of course, are those that come from friendly characters. The biggest heartbreak I've seen comes from ladollyvita84, who managed to "finally save Isobel at Last Light Inn after so many attempts... then Jaheira walks into my still-active moonbeam and aggros the whole place against me."

"I had an instance where