How do you flee from battle again?

[Jaggid Edje]

So, I played this game a few hundred hours when it first released on Steam. Didn't hate it, enjoyed my time, but then I moved on to other things after having pretty much (but not quite) everything unlocked.

I picked up the DLC not that long ago and decided to play again, but started a new profile, starting without all my unlocks basically.

Anywho, I'm on my first non-tutorial run and managed to get every hero except my graverobber killed. She almost made it to the inn, but there was that fight right before the Inn against a Deacon and his minions....and she died too.

I could have sworn when I played originally there was a way to run away from battle. Is that not a thing anymore? Or is it just you cannot run away from those Oblivion rampart fights?

[Okonkwo Jones]

I believe they removed fleeing from the game when they got rid of the road battle 5 round limit.
So I think the only way to avoid a fight is in the pre-combat screen, where your characters weigh in on whether to fight or run and they gain/lose affinity, or give certain buffs.
Which is kinda a bummer. but you no longer get penalized in candles if you fail a run (also if you abandon a run while at an inn, any memoried heroes in your party will not get wiped anymore.)

[Gal Kraft]

Pretty sure candles also didn't exist back then either.

[QuartzBeam]

There has never been an option to flee a battle after it has already started.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by QuartzBeam:

There has never been an option to flee a battle after it has already started.

I feel like there was, but maybe I'm remembering a different game. It's been a while.