Mods to make combat Real-Time?

[𝔰𝔦𝔤𝔦𝔫𝔞 ✝]

Are there any settings or mods that change the combat system to something similar to games like Pillars of Eternity, with real-time combat that doesn't require pausing and waiting for enemies to act? I really want to get into Baldur's Gate, and I'm also into games like Neverwinter and others, but the combat here is holding me back.

[Lord Adorable]

No. People have tried with Larian's other games like DOSII but they always fail for 2 reasons:

1: lack of interest.

2: Even the modders who tried have admitted that a mod like that would require rebuilding the entire game from scratch.

[causality]

Just play Pillars of Eternity if you want real time BG3.

[𝔰𝔦𝔤𝔦𝔫𝔞 ✝]

Originally posted by causality:

Just play Pillars of Eternity if you want real time BG3.

I’ve already beaten them, which is why I brought it up.

[Griswold]

Originally posted by causality:

Just play Pillars of Eternity if you want real time BG3.

... Or BG1 and 2... Insane how nobody played the original lol

[Gustuv Wynd]

It wouldn't really work if you think about it. Maybe if you solo'ed one character, but how are you going to activate bonus actions and reacts and target spells for 4 characters in real time? Without a pause button I might add, but even if you had one you would have to be pausing so much for all the abilities that you might as well just leave it turn based.

D&D 5e just isn't going to work with it. It worked decent in BG12 and 2 since there wasn't that many abilities and no such things as reacts or bonus actions in AD&D

[𝔰𝔦𝔤𝔦𝔫𝔞 ✝]

Originally posted by Griswold:

Originally posted by causality:

Just play Pillars of Eternity if you want real time BG3.

... Or BG1 and 2... Insane how nobody played the original lol

BG1 and 2 feels pretty dated at this point, to be honest.

I've also tried Icewind Dale, but gave up after a while because of having to read all the dialogue.

[Lord Adorable]

Originally posted by Griswold:

Originally posted by causality:

Just play Pillars of Eternity if you want real time BG3.

... Or BG1 and 2... Insane how nobody played the original lol

It's because those games are actual garbage.

[Urk_da_WAAAGH!]

Originally posted by Griswold:

Originally posted by causality:

Just play Pillars of Eternity if you want real time BG3.

... Or BG1 and 2... Insane how nobody played the original lol

I forced myself to play BG1 and 2 a long time ago as I was a tabletop D&D player but never liked the real time thing and was a deal breaker honestly. I even held a initial prejudice against BG3 because I was assuming it worked the same way.

It was a big relief when I discovered otherwise and BG3 being turn based is surely one of the points that made it GOTY.

[dulany67]

I doubt the companions have any combat AI at all since the player makes all of their actions.

[Hobocop]

Originally posted by dulany67:

I doubt the companions have any combat AI at all since the player makes all of their actions.

Well, they do since Astarion does do some stuff when you get ambushed in camp by his 'family' in Act 3

But it's another thing entirely to have them perform reliably throughout the entire game with as large an ability and option set your average player character has.

[alanc9]

There's at least one other case where a companion can enter combat on her own. She defaulted to using the most damaging attacks she could do, which meant throwing all the smokepowder bombs she had on her.

[dulany67]

Originally posted by Hobocop:

Originally posted by dulany67:

I doubt the companions have any combat AI at all since the player makes all of their actions.

Well, they do since Astarion does do some stuff when you get ambushed in camp by his 'family' in Act 3

But it's another thing entirely to have them perform reliably throughout the entire game with as large an ability and option set your average player character has.

Originally posted by alanc9:

There's at least one other case where a companion can enter combat on her own. She defaulted to using the most damaging attacks she could do, which meant throwing all the smokepowder bombs she had on her.

Scripting?

[Griswold]

Originally posted by Urk_da_WAAAGH!:

Originally posted by Griswold:

... Or BG1 and 2... Insane how nobody played the original lol

I forced myself to play BG1 and 2 a long time ago as I was a tabletop D&D player but never liked the real time thing and was a deal breaker honestly. I even held a initial prejudice against BG3 because I was assuming it worked the same way.

It was a big relief when I discovered otherwise and BG3 being turn based is surely one of the points that made it GOTY.

Lol oh really? Turn-based made it GOTY, huh? What a revolutionary concept.

[Lord Adorable]

Originally posted by Griswold:

Originally posted by Urk_da_WAAAGH!:

I forced myself to play BG1 and 2 a long time ago as I was a tabletop D&D player but never liked the real time thing and was a deal breaker honestly. I even held a initial prejudice against BG3 because I was assuming it worked the same way.

It was a big relief when I discovered otherwise and BG3 being turn based is surely one of the points that made it GOTY.

Lol oh really? Turn-based made it GOTY, huh? What a revolutionary concept.

It was indeed GOTY. This is a fact that cannot be disputed.

[Griswold]

Originally posted by Lord Adorable:

Originally posted by Griswold:

Lol oh really? Turn-based made it GOTY, huh? What a revolutionary concept.

It was indeed GOTY. This is a fact that cannot be disputed.

The validity of the GOTY was disputed since LoU2. We've seen political discourse dictate GOTY, therefore, in my eyes it's all invalid.