Getting past first battle

[mouse065]

Had game few months - every update I see if they fixed combat so can actually hit something. Character and NPC die at first battle vs 3 imps and never hit them. Use all my heal boosts and potions. Tried mage, rogue, ranger. Is there a particular class you have to make just to play this game? I know level 1 characters suck, but really a game that is designed to never hit anything starts to get on nerves.

[Lax]

I'm having trouble believing you. Lae'zel alone can easily handle those 3 Imps you're referring to. Do you have any video evidence? Let's get to the bottom of this.

[laughing man]

Mh so im in my 4th run played as multiple classes and could easily beat those 3 imps. I guess you are either using the wrong skills or you dont pay attention to distances of your spells etc. - maybe check on youtube someones run - because this fight rlly is fine.

[Alexander.CRISIS]

Considering how easily tuned the imps are during the tutorial, the difficulties you are having may be supernatural in nature. Perhaps your house was built upon an ancient burial site, or a powerful shaman placed a curse upon your family. Whatever the case, it may be best to research such things and find qualified individuals who can assist you in removing the darkness that stains your soul and blood.

[mouse065]

Ill look at some you tube vids. See what I am messing up then. Because with sword Lae'zel seems to miss every swing. Both main attack and cleave. But maybe I just need to reload the game and keep going until I eventually make it past that battle.

[Wraith]

Originally posted by mouse065:

Ill look at some you tube vids. See what I am messing up then. Because with sword Lae'zel seems to miss every swing. Both main attack and cleave. But maybe I just need to reload the game and keep going until I eventually make it past that battle.

if your just missing be glad it larian making the game for you then.
Larian actually reduced the enemy AC from normal but increased their hp.

If Larian had follow the normal DnD creature rule you would be missing more lol

[SnarkOne]

Originally posted by mouse065:

Ill look at some you tube vids. See what I am messing up then. Because with sword Lae'zel seems to miss every swing. Both main attack and cleave. But maybe I just need to reload the game and keep going until I eventually make it past that battle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLE_vAbElEU
Skip to 20:00, the solution is there if you're having too much trouble, but the mechanics changed a bit so it might look different on your playthrough. If you attack from being Hidden with Lae'zel, you will get a surprise on the enemy, meaning you get 1 more bonus turn. Once they are near the purple jars, explode them.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

That shouldn't happen, might just be really bad luck.

[TheBlueFox]

Larian kicked the imps in the balls and they now have a default 80-90% hit rate, you can't possibly lose this fight unless you run into the nautiloid tank and let it detonate on you.

You MUST be exaggerating

[scy]

Originally posted by Alex:

Considering how easily tuned the imps are during the tutorial, the difficulties you are having may be supernatural in nature. Perhaps your house was built upon an ancient burial site, or a powerful shaman placed a curse upon your family. Whatever the case, it may be best to research such things and find qualified individuals who can assist you in removing the darkness that stains your soul and blood.

This is the only right answer.

[RubADuck]

This has to be a troll right? ... Right?

[JStryker47]

I never have much trouble with that fight. It's the fight with the intellect devourers, (or whatever those crawling brain things are called) right after the ship crashes and you reunite with Shadowheart, that's a pain in the rear end for me.

[id795078477]

Originally posted by pandariuskairos:

That shouldn't happen, might just be really bad luck.

There's a concept of "improbability" and the concept of "impossibility". In statistics the latter is usually happening then the former is raised to some above 1 power.

To illustrate: getting an ace out of a deck of card on a first try is .. improbable. Getting that on the first, second, third and fourth tries for all aces is .. impossible (we are talking about one case, not a millions of retries here). Of course, it's not "impossible" in the normal sense, but in a statistical one since it's equivalent to 1/52 x 1/51 x 1/50 x 1/49 which is around 1 in a 6.5 million chance.

What OP says is close to that (or worse) - because for the party to lose the first fight consistently they have to - first, miss almost all of their attacks since even one of that can deliver the imp back to the hell and at the same time getting hit by several imps attacks in a row (because to deplete all heal potions).

Since OP also tried with the different classes (at least 3), we are talking about improbability raised to the 3rd power aka "statistical impossibility". Rough calculations with estimated AC and party attack lead me to believe that such a scenario is far less likely to happen than the showcase with aces.

What's the conclusion? Well, never attribute to malice anything that can be explained with incompetence, misinformation or unforeseen issues. Here the most likely explanation is a technical bug, I can't fathom any other reasonable excuse for it on the premise that OP is telling the whole story.

[mike_hanna211]

First time I played, I couldn't hit anything either. Until I realized that you can swing at the SPACE the imps are in, without targeting the imps. So every swing will be a miss because you're swinging at nothing. I'm not sure what strategy would require hitting the space the monsters are in, as opposed to hitting the monster itself.

You have to pay attention to the cursor when attacking and make sure it's actually over, targeting, the imps.

[ben_pletcher]

On the off chance, are you using an ultra wide monitor? Not sure if they fixed it or not but I use to fail the first fight due to it. The issue was the targeting was off and i miss clicked and hit air instead of monster even though curser was clearly on monster.

Before you click to attack make sure it shows a % to hit. If you do not see that you are not targeting a monster.

[❌ Peath]

If RNG is wrecking you, enable weighted dice in the options - you'll see more positive results.
Also, make sure to not stand near the explosive tanks, or better shoot them with the dipped in flame bow to explode them and kill at least the one on the left.