TPK in Undercity

[Mystic Exarch]

In the first fight in the Undercity, my entire party suddenly dies a few rounds into the fight. No damage, spell being cast, or anything like that as far as I can see. Not just the enemies got good rolls/did a lot of damage, like literally I am mopping the floor with them and then suddenly BOOM, all dead.

I know there is a lot of unexplained icons and names in this game that are vastly different from the TTRPG, but this just feel contrived. If not intentional, then its a pretty serious bug.

[Tax evasion]

Ah right, the temple of bhaal, where you are clearly informed about the "Power Word : Kill" being cast by the Farslayer, and your need to interrupt it within 5 turns.

[r-kid]

Its one enemy the Farslayer of Bhaal, they have 5 round ritual which insta kills everyone under 100 health. If you get into combat with them you need to rush them to kill them before it completes.

[Mystic Exarch]

Originally posted by Tax evasion:

Ah right, the temple of bhaal, where you are clearly informed about the "Power Word : Kill" being cast by the Farslayer, and your need to interrupt it within 5 turns.

Except I was never "clearly informed" about this.

Also, WTF kind of contrived ability is that? Seriously? The ability to cast Power Word Kill (a ninth level spell slot) at unlimited range, no line of sight, up to 4 targets, and no spell slot is extremely broken even if it takes 5 rounds to charge. Realistically that guy could go around literally killing the entire planet if he wanted to and no one would know WTF is going on. Why isn't he kind of the cosmos yet?

If they wanted to make the fight challenging, they could have given the NPCs higher stats and player-like abilities instead of this video-gamey nonsense.

[Draknalor]

Originally posted by r-kid:

Its one enemy the Farslayer of Bhaal, they have 5 round ritual which insta kills everyone under 100 health. If you get into combat with them you need to rush them to kill them before it completes.

6 playthrough’s in and i had no idea that was what he was doing.

I just know everyone else despawns if he dies.

So i always just jump to him, Take off the unstopable and then toss/Shove them down the chasm.

Lol

[Mystic Exarch]

Originally posted by Draknalor:

Originally posted by r-kid:

Its one enemy the Farslayer of Bhaal, they have 5 round ritual which insta kills everyone under 100 health. If you get into combat with them you need to rush them to kill them before it completes.

6 playthrough’s in and i had no idea that was what he was doing.

I just know everyone else despawns if he dies.

So i always just jump to him, Take off the unstopable and then toss/Shove them down the chasm.

Lol

Lol, that's hilarious. And pretty much exactly proves my point. You can beat these encounters in a completely corny-ass way like that without even understanding what is going on, so its not tactical or actually challenging on tactician mode, just needlessly obtuse.

And that's what basically happens the rest of my playthrough. Except for a few parts, the entire game is a breeze on tactician. Then you run into some weird ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and die until looking it up on the internet. 200 IQ game design.