Unfair Mode

[Gaming Lax]

Yeah, Screw this mode,
guess no 100% achievement. Gg

[Dixon Sider]

Its a lot of fun though. Its difficult at first, but once you get the hang of it, its no longer painful.

[Baldurs_Gate_2]

Chapter 1 is the most difficult and the last one can be demanding

[Duder]

I was wondering about this as well. Does the game give any achievements for other difficulties?

[Immortal Reaver]

Originally posted by Duder:

I was wondering about this as well. Does the game give any achievements for other difficulties?

Slayer of Bears
In chapter 1, kill the bear in the Temple of the Elk with single level 2 character, playing on Hard difficulty or above.

More Challenge, Please
Finish game on Challenging or higher.

And there is achievement for Last Azlanti mode.

[Duder]

Originally posted by Immortal Reaver:

Originally posted by Duder:

I was wondering about this as well. Does the game give any achievements for other difficulties?

Slayer of Bears
In chapter 1, kill the bear in the Temple of the Elk with single level 2 character, playing on Hard difficulty or above.

More Challenge, Please
Finish game on Challenging or higher.

And there is achievement for Last Azlanti mode.

I agree with OP though, the devs should put 100 percent of their company's resources into updating the game with this change alone, nothing else. Halt all other projects please okay.

[Ronnie]

I think sword and shield warrior might fair good in unfair difficulty. My plan is to try to farm experience solo some and use the defensive warrior with tower shield to tank some while my offensive sword and shield warrior will bring down the monsters.. I did try a 2 handed warrior while he did ok armor class was just to low taking hits a lot.... Getting your main character to Level 4 would make things a lot easier. I had considered a rogue which might be good with the sneak attack but against 3+ mobs he would go down fast so I will go with a sword and shield warrior.

[Dixon Sider]

I think in this game, your best character would be a mage who specializes in conjuration. Thats a double bladed sword though because you will be the most effective and most vulnerable at the same time.

[Duder]

Originally posted by Immortal Reaver:

Originally posted by Duder:

I was wondering about this as well. Does the game give any achievements for other difficulties?

Slayer of Bears
In chapter 1, kill the bear in the Temple of the Elk with single level 2 character, playing on Hard difficulty or above.

More Challenge, Please
Finish game on Challenging or higher.

And there is achievement for Last Azlanti mode.

So if you're playing on Hard and make the enemies do 20 percent more damage, thus making it custom, it doesn't count as Hard anymore
facepalm
Meh no one can see my achievements here anyway since I have it on GOG and they're Steam's competition, they allow integration Steam should try to do the same
I'm a little butthurt about it though, can't have any bragging rights now
And can't represent when people complain about how hard the game is on Normal
Guess it's a shock to not have a game hold their hand, that or they refuse to believe they could actually be bad at something new or not used to.

[jsaving]

People definitely seem to have a love-it-or-hate-it relationship with unfair difficulty. If you enjoy figuring out the small number of builds and tactics that enable you to beat monsters with highly bloated stats, it's a blast. But if you feel railroaded by such a small number of builds/tactics and don't care about defeating monsters with highly bloated stats, then unfair probably isn't the difficulty for you.

[Duder]

Originally posted by jsaving:

People definitely seem to have a love-it-or-hate-it relationship with unfair difficulty. If you enjoy figuring out the small number of builds and tactics that enable you to beat monsters with highly bloated stats, it's a blast. But if you feel railroaded by such a small number of builds/tactics and don't care about defeating monsters with highly bloated stats, then unfair probably isn't the difficulty for you.

I am going back and cleaning out all the places I didn't visit each time I claim a region, almost have to set it to unfair. Many of these locations don't even have the magic prison quest, just a bunch of underleveled monsters.
Maybe I should start visiting these before I claim.
Unfair is perfect for people like me that claim many games are too easy. However I'm sticking with hard for now.
Maybe in the future I'll try to play the game 100 percent on Unfair. Started on Hard, switched it to Challenging, and back to Hard again.
I guess Unfair is where you really have to get scientific with the builds.

[Immortal Reaver]

Originally posted by jsaving:

People definitely seem to have a love it-or-hate-it relationship with unfair difficulty. If you enjoy figuring out the small number of builds and tactics that enable you to beat monsters with highly bloated stats, it's a blast. But if you feel railroaded by such a small number of builds/tactics and don't care about defeating monsters with highly bloated stats, then unfair probably isn't the difficulty for you.

I used single-class story companions (and had Val Fighter as tank) and I finshed unfair with them. Outiside of occasional reload, I just ran out of spells sooner and had to rest more, but it was not problem since I wasted no time. So it is possible to do it with non-optimal builds.

[Baldurs_Gate_2]

Originally posted by Immortal Reaver:

Originally posted by Duder:

I was wondering about this as well. Does the game give any achievements for other difficulties?

Slayer of Bears
In chapter 1, kill the bear in the Temple of the Elk with single level 2 character, playing on Hard difficulty or above.

More Challenge, Please
Finish game on Challenging or higher.

And there is achievement for Last Azlanti mode.

Last Azlanti can be played on the easiest difficulty with a party. The main char should just not do anything that would kill him outright like traps.

[Ronnie]

Actually I went back to doing a 2 handed sword fighter type... Cleave is a great ability to hit multiple targets and also has upgraded more cleave perks to hit even more enemies and finish them. I saw how people like to pick pet classes to overrun enemies with pets.. You can put some mobs to sleep while fighting others with your bard in the early game as it is a big help in harder fights to disabled 1 enemy while working on the others and sleep seems to last for a good long time as well while my 2 handed sword fighter makes short work on enemies.

I use Valerie as a defensive fighter to dodge as much as she can while my two handed offensive fighter does the rest of the work pretty much and some sleep spells from the bard to do some crowd control.

[Duder]

Originally posted by Ronnie:

Actually I went back to doing a 2 handed sword fighter type... Cleave is a great ability to hit multiple targets and also has upgraded more cleave perks to hit even more enemies and finish them. I saw how people like to pick pet classes to overrun enemies with pets.. You can put some mobs to sleep while fighting others with your bard in the early game as it is a big help in harder fights to disabled 1 enemy while working on the others and sleep seems to last for a good long time as well while my 2 handed sword fighter makes short work on enemies.

I use Valerie as a defensive fighter to dodge as much as she can while my two handed offensive fighter does the rest of the work pretty much and some sleep spells from the bard to do some crowd control.

I have Amiri and Jaethal as two handers but haven't tried cleave, wasn't sure how effective it was

[Frostfeather]

Originally posted by Duder:

I have Amiri and Jaethal as two handers but haven't tried cleave, wasn't sure how effective it was

It can be pretty good. I often take it on a melee Magus (usually Undead Bloodline Eldrich Scion on Unfair) and there's a cool little quirk it has: if you miss with a Spellstrike attack, then Cleave, the spell you were using with Spellstrike applies to everything you hit with the Cleave.

Especially in turn based, you can purposely try to miss your Spellstrike attacks by attacking enemies under suboptimal conditions, then the next turn Cleave under better conditions. You can activate this "Spellstrike Cleave" surprisingly often with a little effort.