How to beat Oleg Huge bandit Fight

[BlackJesus]

I simply cannot beat this fight. they just have far too many numbers and on hard mode they just kill too fast. Do I fully have to restart and level into a character with a massive amount of AoE / CC?

[Mork]

What make the biggest difference is to ask Oleg to use the alchemist flasks crate near the gate to blowup half of the bandits.

So if you can, reload a save before the battle preparation.

[oddball]

If you search around the area you can get alchemists flasks and oil and some traps to make it instant death for the bandits. Just talk to Oleg after you find the stuff.

[alation13]

Originally posted by BlackJesus:

I simply cannot beat this fight. they just have far too many numbers and on hard mode they just kill too fast. Do I fully have to restart and level into a character with a massive amount of AoE / CC?

If you have never played the game and you are attempting your first playthough on hard level, then you have answered your own question on why you are finding it unbeatable.

[Foca]

I played my first run on hard too, tough really really tough up to half of the game

[ShadowLL]

If this is your first playthrough - trust me, play Normal and not higher
If you completed something like pillars of eternity 2 on Insane and came here - grac, you are ready to ultra easy mode in pathfinder cuz this game does not **** around.
It will 1/20 out of u like 100500 times till you cry like a Harrim

[.//slayer]

Originally posted by ShadowLL:

If this is your first playthrough - trust me, play Normal and not higher
If you completed something like pillars of eternity 2 on Insane and came here - grac, you are ready to ultra easy mode in pathfinder cuz this game does not **** around.
It will 1/20 out of u like 100500 times till you cry like a Harrim

Come now, that's a bit of an overstatement. Pathfinder is hard at the beginning, but anyone who beat PoE 1/2 on Insane is more than ready for Hard/Unfair in this game. My own first playthrough was on Hard, and it was only difficult until my first Haste spell, after which the difficulty doesn't matter anymore. And Unfair isn't that far off, too.

[aclyte]

"Hard" here is REALY hard at first 5 levels - you will get ur ass kicked a lot of times.
It becomes easier at chapter 2-3.
And if u play RTwP , not TB combat... well... multiply hardiness by 1.5