Fake news. I'm a jaded Bulgarian and I enjoy the game so far.
The rest spot thing was more about how Aksha drains your resources and max hp, so fighting Mardracht after that would be brutal. I don't think getting to Aksha with only 1 rest is a problem, not only because I did that, but also because you can auto-attack all the copy-pasted ghoul encounters. If I had needed to use the rest spot again before attacking Aksha, I would have. It's not my job to LARP that a more challenging game is put in front of me. Not using the game's mechanics to their full extent in order to pretend it's good design is an indictment. Instead of bloating stats at higher difficulties, they could've made resting spots single-use.
No, it's not. It's called "having fun". You should try.
My point is you're complaining the game is not challenging while metagaming. This is exactly why the developers gave option to the players to adjust the difficulty to their individual needs. You are not giving yourself any credit when you're playing mostly on authentic mode with merciless and deadlier AI. It's basically the equivalent of saying: "Why is this game so EZ when I am squeezing every advantage I can out of it when playing on NORMAL difficulty!?".
Nobody is asking you to pretend anything. Just don't be suprised that rest-spamming (and reloading when ambushed) before/after a fight in Baldur's Gate is going to make the encounters easier in general. Because, yes, you can do that. If you want to be forced to rest more, then you have to adjust the difficulty. Right now I am playing on normal mainly to get the feeling for the 5 Edition rules (and I have to say I am liking how some of this stuff works). My next run with be either hard or very hard (maybe with some custom tweaks here and there) for, you know, the actual challenge.
Very hard game
Maybe they are hard men who play no magic users party?Very hard game
Maybe they are using the premade characters? Or maybe they read somewhere that a wizard NPC joins your party, and they decided not to create one.
All dumb reasons, of course, but I have to rationalize this somehow.
How am I metagaming? By noticing rest spots are not single-use? Besides, I didn't rest before tackling Aksha either way, so it's not like it would've made any difference had the rest spot been single-use in this case. That's because the copy-pasted ghoul encounters are pointless and can be defeated by auto-attacking. I'm also playing on scavenger difficulty now, not authentic.
If you play without any magic users in your party, you are a soft, flaccid, impotent, noodle man, who can't even cast light on his staff.Maybe they are hard men who play no magic users party?Very hard game
Maybe they are using the premade characters? Or maybe they read somewhere that a wizard NPC joins your party, and they decided not to create one.
All dumb reasons, of course, but I have to rationalize this somehow.
I don't have a cleric and didn't pick food spell for my ranger but still swimming in food rations by now. The devs really should crank this up, otherwise it's a dead feature basically. Rations should be scarce, barely available at the stores and not like 99 for 2 coins each or something. And of course I agree on too many long rest spots: you already have short rests system and on top of that long rest spot every few fights?A cleric will also trivialize rations upon reaching 5th level and gaining the "create food" spell, which is cast automatically each day while traveling.
Still can't get over how ugly is UI.
That just sounds grindy and tedious. The copy-pasted ghoul encounters aren't going to become more interesting by doubling the time it takes to get them down. Aksha is a fine encounter on scavenger, but it lacks a support caster. I'd place a single Dark Apprentice in there and it would bump up the difficulty significantly without resorting to giving enemies ridiculous roll advantages and double hp.
I've replayed some of the side quests, and the loot stayed the same.
It is ugly, yes. Personally I got used to it but that doesn't change the fact. But at least UX is okay with some exceptions like the crafting recipes situation. And the fact that you have to press alt for more item info every time like a retard while it should work by fucking default.
It would be much better if there were extra enemies instead of bloat but it would have require ton of extra time and they hardly that eager to please RPG-enthusiasts (the irony).
It wouldn't require a ton of extra time tbh, because most boss encounters are 1 or 2 extra mobs away from becoming actually good. The Sorrak wizard encounter by the crown requires some kind of Cleric to bump it up. Aksha needs a Dark Apprentice. I'd remove at least 2 of the ghoul encounters in the dark castle, though. Or spice them up, like some Brood here and there, and a Dark Apprentice or two, maybe even some spectral/phase spiders. Zombie + Dark Apprentice isn't a good combo because there's nothing stopping you from beelining to the apprentices and ignoring the zombies. The ghouls have a paralyze attack, though, so that will stop you whether you want it to or not. So, yeah, it requires a critical eye, not time, they already have the mobs to simply place in there.
Don't worry. We know people who will start with 4 wizards to compensate.
At one point they literally take the ghoul model, strip off the texture, slap a new name onto the creature, and just use it like that. A white 3D model without textures. Absolute madlads.
