Does Difficulty affect the dice or just the AI?

[costasiero]

Question on title
Increasing the difficulty will just make the dice more favourable to the enemies or will it increase their skill on playing (like going for support at start etc)

[HarbingerOfDestruction「俺様」]

The combat sucks no matter how you go about it, there's no lee-way what-so-ever.

[Poop King]

Hit chance isnt any different between the difficulties so it doesn't seem to affect the dice.

[angelsenvy228]

It's hard to judge if the dice are weighted because its all behind the scenes, but it would be pretty unfair to manipulate difficulty that way. They do get more spells and especially will AOE your party every chance they get so I assume that is the only difference.

[Lord Enclave]

Originally posted by Poop King:

Hit chance isnt any different between the difficulties so it doesn't seem to affect the dice.

Are you sure? going from balanced to tactician gave me a 10% hit penalty. It went from 45% to 35% hit-chance and putting it on easy gave me a 55% hit-chance.

[costasiero]

Originally posted by Lord Enclave:

Originally posted by Poop King:

Hit chance isnt any different between the difficulties so it doesn't seem to affect the dice.

Are you sure? going from balanced to tactician gave me a 10% hit penalty. It went from 45% to 35% hit-chance and putting it on easy gave me a 55% hit-chance.

You sure?

[Jaggid Edje]

It affects the enemies' dice, not the players.

The exact affects of tactician is +2 to enemy saves and attacks, +30% to enemy health, more vicious enemy AI (including but not limited to a greater tendency to focus fire the squishiest character), more environmental objects (such as barrels), and double supply cost for long rest.

(Edited to remove reference to enemy armour class. Forgot that +2 I'm seeing is because I use a mod that makes tactician difficulty harder).

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by costasiero:

Originally posted by Lord Enclave:

Are you sure? going from balanced to tactician gave me a 10% hit penalty. It went from 45% to 35% hit-chance and putting it on easy gave me a 55% hit-chance.

You sure?

He probably compared the "hit chance" on a spell that takes a saving throw rather than an attack roll. Difficulty does give enemies a bonus of +2 to saves, thus leading to 10% lower chance for the spell to land.

Or he's using the same mod that I am which gives +2 to armour class on tactician as well. That's not standard for the game, however, that's the mod.

(There is a difference between Explorer and balanced though. You get +2 to hit on explorer).

[BigJ]

Some enemies have an extra +1 on their stat block on occasion and I've met 2 enemies with 1 higher ac, so the buff is mostly to their damage range and hp.

[Aranador]

The dice themselves are not changed, but baddies are stronger, tougher, faster, meaner, and nastier. Enjoy !

[Lord Enclave]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Originally posted by costasiero:

You sure?

He probably compared the "hit chance" on a spell that takes a saving throw rather than an attack roll. Difficulty does give enemies a bonus of +2 to saves, thus leading to 10% lower chance for the spell to land.

Or he's using the same mod that I am which gives +2 to armour class on tactician as well. That's not standard for the game, however, that's the mod.

(There is a difference between Explorer and balanced though. You get +2 to hit on explorer).

Nope just a melee attack. Tried it on commander Zahlk (or wherever his name was)
55% on explorer, 45% on balanced and 35% on tactician.

[ACS36]

I can't tell the difference between balanced and tactician. The AI behaves more or less the same.

Dice aren't changed at all on tactician, and DC are still really low values on average. The DC's are based on what act your'e in for the most part. Further you progress more likely you are to run into higher ones.

[costasiero]

OK now I am confused. Some here say that the dice are loaded while others say that the enemies are. Is it one , the other ... or worse.. both?

[One Man Army]

Difficulty affects combat rolls and AI.
Notice the +2 (Tactician Difficulty) in the combat logs for enemies.

You can see all the differences in difficulty here:
https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Difficulty