Using cheat engines or Cheat mods is one of the quickest ways to ruin your fun in this game!

[Max]

This discussion is just me sharing my experience with you all. In some games, using cheats can be fun. But in this game, where enemies don’t respawn after being defeated and strategy is everything, cheating will ruin your experience quickly.

Yes, cheats might make the game easier and fun for the first few hours. But after that, there’s nothing left to do. You’ll miss out on the joy of leveling up, becoming stronger, and feeling true victory after a tough fight.

So trust me, don't use cheat!

[belgix]

BG3 is a fairly easy game in normal mode. No need to cheat here. If you want to cheat in honor mode, I should ask, where is you honor? That defeat the purpose of this level of difficulty.

[Metallicus]

Originally posted by belgix:

BG3 is a fairly easy game in normal mode. No need to cheat here. If you want to cheat in honor mode, I should ask, where is you honor? That defeat the purpose of this level of difficulty.

^This
BG3 is already too easy. Mods and cheats are really not needed.

[Basarab Laiota]

This game is considered easy? I set it to the easiest difficulty and I keep dying at least once or twice during every single encounter lol

[Razamanaz]

Originally posted by Basarab Laiota:

This game is considered easy? I set it to the easiest difficulty and I keep dying at least once or twice during every single encounter lol

You have all achievements on Elden Ring. How could you possibly feel like this game is difficult on easy? If you're used to CRPG games it's pretty easy on normal let alone easy. I'm sure you'll get it. You just don't have enough hours yet.

[belgix]

Originally posted by Basarab Laiota:

This game is considered easy? I set it to the easiest difficulty and I keep dying at least once or twice during every single encounter lol

I normal difficulty all my party died 4 times for the entire game; the gnoll and the hag in Act 1, Ketheric Thorn in Act2 and the final battle in Act3. I got bad luck in Act 3, tried to keep Dame Aylin alive in Act2 (not necessary but just for the challenge). At low levels it may happens because it's sometimes hard to recover from a single error or just bad luck).

[belgix]

Originally posted by Razamanaz:

You have all achievements on Elden Ring. How could you possibly feel like this game is difficult on easy? If you're used to CRPG games it's pretty easy on normal let alone easy. I'm sure you'll get it. You just don't have enough hours yet.

Finishing Elden Ring is waaaaay much harder than BG3. I also got all achievements in this game but there is boss battles I had to try 20-30 times to get it. I feel the DLC would be even harder!

[Basarab Laiota]

Originally posted by Razamanaz:

You have all achievements on Elden Ring. How could you possibly feel like this game is difficult on easy?

Hmm. Not the same thing, I guess.
Though I did get filtered by Elden Ring the first time I played it. It seemed insurmountable for the first few hours. At least Baldur's Gate lets me save. lol

[GrandMajora]

I disagree. 3 feats or ASI's over the course of the base game is pitiful.

Also, the amount of spell slots you have available early game means that dedicated casters are a slow burn class that takes a while to catch up with martials and hybrids.

I don't regret downloading the mod that gives me 4x the amount of spell slots, because now my spell casters can actually contribute to the battle, without having to constantly long rest after every major fight.

[Simbolic]

I don't care to ever cheat I only seek to enrich my experience with mods. Leaned my lesson a long time ago using God Mode on a game once. Was fun for like 10 to 15 minutes then got boring fast. Realized nothing is fun without some kind of challenge. Being immortal in a game takes every bit of that away.

[GrandMajora]

Originally posted by Jayhova:

Yeah I feel that way about all cheats.

There is no reason to cheat in this game's combat. If you are losing fights its because you don't understand the game. You succeed by making the right decisions, not by being strong or fast or anything else. Brute forcing wins with cheats totally defeats the purpose of the game.

You win because of the grace of RNG, and don't try to pretend otherwise.

Any time there's a way to win a fight using tactics and coordination, somebody comes onto the forums and complains about it being "cheesey" or "not supported in tabletop" until Larian finally patches it out.

Back in early access, spells used to produce environmental effects, and there were plenty of explosive barrels you could use to set up traps and ambushes. Those were removed due to customer complaints.

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D&D is not a competitive strategy game.

It is a fantasy adventure game.

One who's outcomes are determined based on the roll of the dice, and even setting your Proficiency bonus to +4 in Custom mode won't stop you from occasionally rolling a Natural 1 on your checks.

[Simbolic]

Originally posted by Basarab Laiota:

Originally posted by Razamanaz:

You have all achievements on Elden Ring. How could you possibly feel like this game is difficult on easy?

Hmm. Not the same thing, I guess.
Though I did get filtered by Elden Ring the first time I played it. It seemed insurmountable for the first few hours. At least Baldur's Gate lets me save. lol

I play lot's of DS games and never been that great at BG3 either. Can barely beat it on normal difficulty. Think I actually could only ever defeat the final boss on easy.
Never been great at strategy games, think it's not because of lack of skill, more the lack of knowledge and patience.

[belgix]

Originally posted by Simbolic:

Think I actually could only ever defeat the final boss on easy.

To beat the final boss you just need to be quick and have the right gear to maximize your damage.

[Simbolic]

Originally posted by belgix:

Originally posted by Simbolic:

Think I actually could only ever defeat the final boss on easy.

To beat the final boss you just need to be quick and have the right gear to maximize your damage.

Yeah I know, think mainly I just mess up my positioning. When fighting her alone the final time.

[Razamanaz]

Originally posted by Simbolic:

Originally posted by Basarab Laiota:

Hmm. Not the same thing, I guess.
Though I did get filtered by Elden Ring the first time I played it. It seemed insurmountable for the first few hours. At least Baldur's Gate lets me save. lol

I play lot's of DS games and never been that great at BG3 either. Can barely beat it on normal difficulty. Think I actually could only ever defeat the final boss on easy.
Never been great at strategy games, think it's not because of lack of skill, more the lack of knowledge and patience.

All true. I'm the opposite. Could never get into Dark Souls games. It takes a real controller jockey to play that type of action game. BG3 does take patience, and with patience comes knowledge. I didn't have the patience to keep replaying battles in Dark Souls while learning the enemies patterns. Seems we've fallen into the same, yet opposite, trap.

[[TG] zac]

As far as mods go I have only really used

1: Ones that add more sub classes and port a few classes over from older editions of D&D or pathfinder.

2: Ones that change how cantrips work, and even then the NPC's often gain full benefit from that as well. (for instance one of the mods I am using reduces the damage of a few cantrips but also adds more rider effects on to most of the cantrips that will go off on a failed save. Those can hurt me just as much as help and often do).

As far as outright cheats go, I don't see the point.