FIrst fight on beach.

[Teasel]

How do you get past those 3 brain creatures on the beach at the beginning?
They keep killing me.

[IRMcG]

Don't take them all on at once. If you go round to the side of the ship where the temple is and enter from there, you can sneak up onto the walkway and snipe down at them (remembering to go into stealth after each shot).

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Kill them before they kill you.

https://youtu.be/tq7SGQzeCEw

[zeeb]

You can also take the high ground and just shove 2 of them down to ground level if they swarm you.

[dolby]

just hit them with something deosnt matter with what... and larian can i get this game as well? is steam version harder than gog version cos no way this can be right?

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Like 99% of the battles in this game, it's easily won by blowing up the explosive barrel.

[Tuco]

By not sucking, mostly.

[xposethedarkside]

Originally posted by Pan Darius Kairos:

Like 99% of the battles in this game, it's easily won by blowing up the explosive barrel.

Damn you beat me to it. Anyway, yea what he said ^^^

[dulany67]

I didn't even know there was a barrel near that fight.

[Yojo0o]

Environmental tricks aside, I believe your companions strongly suggest you take them on from range, and doing so is pretty easy. Just maintain distance and attack with bows, thrown weapons, and ranged cantrips. They're a bit beefy, but they're limited to melee and die pretty quickly.

[naton566]

GAIN ADVANTAGE! high ground, attack whilst hidden

shadowheart with shield of faith active dodge/block incoming blows and you PC kills them from distance

[dolby]

Originally posted by Pan Darius Kairos:

Like 99% of the battles in this game, it's easily won by blowing up the explosive barrel.

there is no explosive barrels in that part!

[Linde]

How I kill the 3 brain thingies:

Prelude: I am usually lvl 2 when I get to the beach, but this strategy is to not take hits so it also works when lvl 1.

1. don't walk up to them so combat initiate, instead walk close enough to hit the one closest to you with a ranged attack (use stealth), make sure shadowheart has an xbow as it will usually hit better than her cantrips, but check chances, pick the best weapon and then hit closest brain with a ranged attack.

2. round 1 of combat, depending on who moves first and such, kill the brain closest to you and perhaps make a ranged attack on one of the others, and then move out of range of the other surviving brain thingies so they are forced to dash, use push if engaged in melee so you can back away and not end up taking attacks from 2 brains on your characters between your rounds.

3. round 2 of combat... A repeat of round 1.

4. round 3 of combat, kill the last surviving brain and combat is over.

If I got a melee low dex type or something as my main, then I get my main into melee when he is close enough to be the one who attack first and if able I still move him backwards to still force the brains to dash. I use shadowheart's ranged healing spell if my main character is downed in this scenario and contemplate why I've built a low dex melee character that can't take a hit.

(you really shouldn't need to spend spell slots on this, but if you miss too many attacks and are forced into 6th round of combat you won't be able to keep them out of melee even if all your pushes go through, so after my second or third missed ranged attack I usually let Shadowheart fire a guiding bolt on one of them to kill it and get back on track.)

[dulany67]

Do not face tank.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Originally posted by dolby:

Originally posted by Pan Darius Kairos:

Like 99% of the battles in this game, it's easily won by blowing up the explosive barrel.

there is no explosive barrels in that part!

There is.

[dolby]

Originally posted by Pan Darius Kairos:

Originally posted by dolby:

there is no explosive barrels in that part!

There is.

you are thinking of nautiloid tank? that does look anthing like explosive Barrel at all. But ok. you shouldn't be shoting weird looking things anyway... to risky, they might explode.