Complete Newbie To This Genre - What Difficulty To Go With ?

[HUH]

As Title
What would you Rec. to someone new to this Genre/Mechanic ?
I would love to have a Challenge, but not to a point where i have to Reload every Encounter by a wrong Move.
Simply, enjoy the Story while use my Brain without turning this in to a Elden Ring Death Trip

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by HUH:

Complete Newbie To This Genre - What Difficulty To Go With ?
As Title
What would you Rec. to someone new to this Genre/Mechanic ?
I would love to have a Challenge, but not to a point where i have to Reload every Encounter by a wrong Move.
Simply, enjoy the Story while use my Brain without turning this in to a Elden Ring Death Trip

Explorer.

It is a no brainer choice. You start with that, and if you find yourself too powerful, you increase the difficulty. But start with explorer.

[HUH]

Thanks

[Rex is back, baby!]

Start with Explorer, if you find that too easy, increase the difficulty.

We have people who say Explorer is TOO HARD or Tactician is TOO EASY though.

[Eas]

Yeah, especially since it's heavily luck based if you go with higher difficulty which "balance" it against you the harder the difficulty you might miss 2/3 shot while they crit you for the same amount.

[HUH]

Didn´t know you can change the Diff. Mid-Game.
So excited for this one, downloading it now :)

Thanks for the info

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by HUH:

Didn´t know you can change the Diff. Mid-Game.
So excited for this one, downloading it now :)

Thanks for the info

Here are some tips for your start
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3025093305
feel free to ask if you have more questions

[Ellie]

Originally posted by HUH:

As Title
What would you Rec. to someone new to this Genre/Mechanic ?
I would love to have a Challenge, but not to a point where i have to Reload every Encounter by a wrong Move.
Simply, enjoy the Story while use my Brain without turning this in to a Elden Ring Death Trip

I would start on Balanced, whether or not you have experience. Keep in mind, you can change the difficulty at absolutely every point in the game without penalty in any direction. Try how far you get in Balanced, if an encounter proves too difficult for whatever reason, drop difficulty, continue.

[mutantspicy]

If you are D&D guy, Balanced is best. If you are a hard core gamer, who like to destroy games and insane difficulties, tactition is better. Be warned though, tactitian is so OP, it doesn't really resemble DnD at that point. Explorer is probably cool for begginers, but you will probably be bumping the difficulty by level 4.

[Loot]

I'd start with Balanced. Once you find that too easy, move over to Tactician. The game is quite easy once you understand how the AI will react to things. You can beat all the early encounters with a well placed Cloud of Daggers. They're the most difficult encounters, due to lack of gear / strong abilities.

Just make sure you turn off Karmic dice. It makes high AC useless, due to it skewing the results towards success.

Also, just a tip: You can go to the Underdark without consequence before dealing with the Grove situation. This will give access to some nice items to kick off a build. There are multiple ways to get there. Through the Goblin Camp is the main way. But you can get there even earlier by going through the hole in the ground where the spider boss is under Blighted Village. Just use Feather Fall and jump in the center one. You can easily defeat and still loot it by knocking it down the center hole, too. It'll be lying at the bottom. The holes to the sides are no good, though.

[HUH]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by HUH:

Didn´t know you can change the Diff. Mid-Game.
So excited for this one, downloading it now :)

Thanks for the info

Here are some tips for your start
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3025093305
feel free to ask if you have more questions

As long as there are no Spoilers, will do. Like to play Games compl. Blind. Did not watch any sort of Media or Streams so far.
Just the Reviews, that convinced me to Purchase BG3

Thanks :)

[Arcticspyder]

Originally posted by HUH:

As Title
What would you Rec. to someone new to this Genre/Mechanic ?
I would love to have a Challenge, but not to a point where i have to Reload every Encounter by a wrong Move.
Simply, enjoy the Story while use my Brain without turning this in to a Elden Ring Death Trip

I too was a complete newb to this genre and knew nothing about the D&D rule set 5. I started on explorer to learn the game. I found the first few fights to be frustrating until I learned the game mechanics, however, now I am really enjoying the game. I still know very little about D&D rule set five. lol

[Scheneighnay]

Balanced will give you a challenge if you're unfamiliar with DnD

[Sultar]

I would never recommend the easiest difficulty. You learn more and faster by making mistakes and trying again.
Like most rpgs, the difficulty is in the early game.
Start in balanced

[Gregorovitch]

IMHO it depends enitely on whether you want to use your BG3 experience to teach yourself how to play D&D properly. If you do you should play on balanced. If you don't care about that, or maybe don't have enough time etc, then play on Explorer and enjoy the story.

If you start on Balanced you will begin getting your arse kicked. You will then have to use resources (such as watching good players on Youtube and asking for advice on how to beat battles here) to work out why you are getting your arse kicked. This will take time and effort.

But if you stick at it you will find it starts to make more sense and you will be able to begin working out how to approach tricky situations yourself, how to use your characters better.

At that point you will realise that the effort was worth it. The experience you'll have will surpass that of explorer because you will have achieved something difficult at the same time as enjoying the same story ride and the whole adventure will be much more exiting because of the much greater danger.

That's one reason why I recommend you start on Balanced and stick with it provided you've got the time and the inclination to put in the effort and face up the game initially laughing in your face as you hit quickload for what seems like the 100th time.

The other reason is that there are several other games very similar to BG3 that are also very good, not quite as good as this one, but very good none the less. Examples are the Pathfinder and the Pillars of Eternity games. These games are actually bit harder than BG3, particularly the Pathfinder ones, and you will be able to enjoy them far more if you've learned to play BG3 on Balanced already, the skills are directly transferable.


Which ever route you take, have a great game and good luck!

[HUH]

Originally posted by Arcticspyder:

Originally posted by HUH:

As Title
What would you Rec. to someone new to this Genre/Mechanic ?
I would love to have a Challenge, but not to a point where i have to Reload every Encounter by a wrong Move.
Simply, enjoy the Story while use my Brain without turning this in to a Elden Ring Death Trip

I too was a complete newb to this genre and knew nothing about the D&D rule set 5. I started on explorer to learn the game. I found the first few fights to be frustrating until I learned the game mechanics, however, now I am really enjoying the game. I still know very little about D&D rule set five. lol

Now that i know you can change the diff. anytime you want, i will probably do the same.
Explorer to begin with, and turn it up ones i understand Rules/Mechanics a bit more