I bounced off hard.

[Last Jackdaw]

The prologue and the first act up to the white homunculous guy was extremely dull to me.

Does the game pick up soon after?

I turned all QTE to auto besides parry not a fan of those.

Playing on gamepass.

[zefyris]

The hell is the white homunculus? The Lampmaster?

[Commander Tom]

You do a lot less damage if you put it into auto..

[Brain Dead]

Originally posted by Commander Tom:

You do a lot less damage if you put it into auto..

That really doesn't matter. You can make broken AF builds pretty easily. Post game, I've got 4 Million damage per hit.

[Kashra Fall]

Pretty sure auto QTE doesn't hit perfects and if you don't hit a perfect on some of the abilities, do they even work?

[Last Jackdaw]

Yes the fellow who requests you bring him light.

I am a huge BG3, persona, metaphor fan but just couldn't get into this game.

I think its because I put all the QTEs to to auto. The parries i had no issues with beyond realizing If I parry everything I didn't need to worry about my skills.

[Vacenti]

Originally posted by Brain Dead:

Originally posted by Commander Tom:

You do a lot less damage if you put it into auto..

That really doesn't matter. You can make broken AF builds pretty easily. Post game, I've got 4 Million damage per hit.

It matters the entire game when you are damage limited and early game.

Otherwise yea, missing a perfect qte won't matter post game unless you want to hit 22 mil lol

[siren]

Get good

[Last Jackdaw]

Originally posted by siren:

Get good

I am not having any issues parrying.
I am just not engaged with the combat.

I think you really need the QTEs to make the game fun.

My parry everything style is killing it for me.

[MachineGod]

If the story isn’t interesting by the start of chapter 1 the story isn't going to become much better.

[Sharkinbear]

Originally posted by Last Jackdaw:

Originally posted by siren:

Get good

I am not having any issues parrying.
I am just not engaged with the combat.

I think you really need the QTEs to make the game fun.

My parry everything style is killing it for me.

If you aren't engaged with the combat, which is the main draw, and you turn off the part of combat that makes combat engaging then it's never going to get better for you.

[Obtuse Moose]

Originally posted by MachineGod:

If the story isn’t interesting by the start of chapter 1 the story isn't going to become much better.

Tell us you haven't played the game without telling us... The game MASSIVELY picks up pace and intrigue after the first chapter.

[Merlin]

Man some people have 0 attention span

[scoobythedoo]

gamepass people are the most casual of casuals

[strongled]

Originally posted by Last Jackdaw:

Originally posted by siren:

Get good

I am not having any issues parrying.
I am just not engaged with the combat.

I think you really need the QTEs to make the game fun.

My parry everything style is killing it for me.

Self-inflicted wounds, are you playing on Expert? You'll see the game is more challenging the more you play. Obviously you'll not be missing parries on the first enemies, but later on, they feint more, they have weirder windups, spells are used, there's a jump dodge added as well, etc.

QTEs aren't for "extra challenge", you get more hits, more damage and extra effects if you hit perfects, otherwise I've never seen them be different, they're the same QTE.

[Flannaz]

Originally posted by Last Jackdaw:

The prologue and the first act up to the white homunculous guy was extremely dull to me.

Does the game pick up soon after?

I turned all QTE to auto besides parry not a fan of those.

Playing on gamepass.

I assume you mean the big thing in the water place that eats party members?, yeah, no your parry everything will fall off pretty hard like once you fight enemies with complicated strings of attacks and as said previous jump dodges and another type of counter which is different again. Then you have special effects that impact fights, status effects and the like, you cannot parry being swallowed for example which takes a party member or two out of the fight for a while, then you have bosses that require certain things to be done to beat them. You're complaining because the mainly tutorial chapter is tutorial...