PVP arenas?

[Bad Tempered Raven]

Haven't seen much discussion about PVP, and I think BG3 set a perfect basis for it.

What if we had PVP arenas (not necessarily like a open coliseum) but some small areas of the map, like the Blighted Village in act 1, or the Throne Room of the Moon Rise Tower, kind of thing. Then 1v1 or more players, controlling 4 characters pre-selected. You can create any character and class you want to build your crew, just like the pve multiplayer, all level 12 most importantly.

I think that would be insanely fun! because i find such a waste that we barely use characters max leveled in the campaign, apart bg3 pvp would be a insane chess game.

what you guys think??

[Bad Tempered Raven]

Originally posted by GARFIELF:

Could be neat if it didn't immediately devolve into people using swords bard/thief/fighter to win immediately.

I see a lot of counter play possibilities, even more in a 4v4 situation

[Pozzy Vibes GGHF :)]

Someone could release a mod for an arena mode with some custom balance changes

[victorvnv]

Pvp in current state would be boring and predictable, everyone will spend to kill everyone in single turn so everyone will be getting the same feats and build. Initiative will be king so everyone will have alert + every possible initiative gear, then classes that can stun like warlocks, monks, etc will dominate as that’s all this will be.

Get initiative > kill opponent in 1 turn or stun him until you finish him off.

High constitution and high initiative and every other stat will be at minimum.

Classes with stealth will have huge advantages while classes like warrior/ barbarian that are more straightforward will be slaughtered before even being able to make a move .


So thanks but no thanks.

They need to completely redo all skills, spells, feats, the way CC works , items, the way stealth and invisibility works, pretty much everything.

May as well just make another game that’s for pvp lol

[W0RTHL3SS]

No. NO. no.

Simply no. Not every game needs PvP, especially if the game can have builds that are INCREDIBLY broken.

[W0RTHL3SS]

Originally posted by Pozzy Vibes GGHF :):

Someone could release a mod for an arena mode with some custom balance changes

Why does every single game need PVP and online functions for this day and age? can't anyone be happy with offline singleplayer anymore?

[Sean8102]

Originally posted by zackerie:

just join a friends game and attack them. ez pz.

This.

Outside of mods I wouldn't get your hopes up for more than this when it comes to PVP.

[Sean8102]

Originally posted by Not good at anything:

Originally posted by Pozzy Vibes GGHF :):

Someone could release a mod for an arena mode with some custom balance changes

Why does every single game need PVP and online functions for this day and age? can't anyone be happy with offline singleplayer anymore?

I would have no interest in said mod. But who cares if it existed? If you don't want it don't download and install it. Simple

[Runic Tunic]

Outside of modding I don't see it really becoming a thing. The game as is was in no way balanced for PVP. So many feats, gear, and class combos absolutely break this game.

And that's not even taking into account Action economy and initiative tend to be king in 5e by default, which is also broken in BG3 (getting 5-8 attacks and doing at least 150 damage in one turn is insane).

Only extremely OP builds that focus on 1-3 turns burst damage would ever be viable in such a PVP arena. Only fix would be excessive item/build bans, or if Larian balanced a lot of the systems, which I don' think they'd do.

[lollars]

the first player in the fight who can act wins
there are mages that can deal like 1000 dmg per turn
monks can teleport (attack 5-8 times)and deal like 500 dmg + varient too stun per turn
fighter with 7 atks per turn
paladin just op

you need to balance the whole game new only for pvp

in divinity 2 there is a arena mode with origin characters

[Scrumpus]

Pvp doesn't have to be balanced to be fun. I would of liked the option to go into actual combat vs other players in multiplayer just as another means of messing around.

That said, I think a real ranked pvp mode would be silly.

[Revan619]

BG would be the worst idea for PvP. I remember the bs of div2 arena of infinite stun lock

[Bad Tempered Raven]

Originally posted by Revan619:

BG would be the worst idea for PvP. I remember the bs of div2 arena of infinite stun lock

I didnt actually know div2 had a PVP arena, well, so that is already an idea Larian explored,
means its not a bad idea, it just need to be thought for pvp,

of course it would be unbalanced, bg3 wasnt made thinking on pvp i think, and even games that are exclusively pvp, have to be balanced constantly, it is impossible to have a completely balanced game with so many character builds

[Bad Tempered Raven]

Originally posted by lollars:

the first player in the fight who can act wins
there are mages that can deal like 1000 dmg per turn
monks can teleport (attack 5-8 times)and deal like 500 dmg + varient too stun per turn
fighter with 7 atks per turn
paladin just op

you need to balance the whole game new only for pvp

in divinity 2 there is a arena mode with origin characters

well, 1 dominate person and all this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ is throw back at your ass, again, on this same topic i saw, 10 different instakill builds people mentioned

a lot of these 1000 damage stuff, needs to be setup out of combat in the game, with skills and elixirs, which you wouldnt have on this idea