Baldur's Gate 3 Inches Closer to Real-Time Combat in Promising Mod

Sounds game breaking tbh, but still cool what the mod scene is up to.

"As those of you terminally online enough will recall"

That's not how you start an article lmao

Some fights have upward of 30 enemies. Good luck with that in real time...

Awesome news! I passionately hate turn-based combat and it's the main reason I still didn't play this. Hope it gets better.

I just wouldn't see real time combat working here... a lot of tactical nuance would be lost, unless you were pausing constantly anyway, in which case you may as well play it turn based? Only a fighter would benefit from real turn, because most turns are attacks anyway, but I hardly see the use of it for any of the mage based classes, or half the martial ones. Pathfinder used real time with pause, and I have to say, you get lost in the pace of the encounters sometimes, and they're not half as ambitious as what BG3 does.

@Scottyy Believe me, real time combat wouldn't work very well here. It's so easy to die in the early game, without proper control of your characters and strategy, you'd be seeing your party get wiped every encounter.

@J2theEzzo

It will be like FF7 approach I guess.

As in having an active time bar? That's not what the video above looked like... Or do you mean the remakes?

The point is, in some fights, you're against a vast number of enemies, and having to control 4 or so characters simultaneously, while trying to take advantage of things like setting up enemies for crits, etc. and keeping all your party safe/ alive would just be way too much to keep up with. At the start of the game, your total hp is about 10 points. That's 2 attacks, and you're dead. That translates to about 1 or 2 seconds in real time. In turn based, it's easy to manage, but in real time, there'd be no way to combat how squishy your team is, other than by giving everyone hundreds of hp, which essentially changes the game. This isn't Final Fantasy, after all.

How about adding the turn-based combat to the first two games instead lol.

I wanna see the Raphael boss fight on Honor Mode like this

Sounds like a way to completely ruin the game, to be honest! I just can’t see how it would work on some of the big battles.

Sheesh, no thanks. Baldur's Gate 3 was the first turn based game in a long time for me and I love how you can take your time to decide how to handle your enemy based on their weaknesses or whatever works best in the situation. I do hope mods will come to PS5 though cause a new playthrough would be fun if I could get certain weapons, armor sets or spells earlier.

@Scottyy Wouldn't Dragon Age be a better comparison? FF VII is more of a slow down than pause. If they implement slow mo, I'd be veeeeeeery impressed haha

I don't think I'd dare try this on anything other than easy mode, but sounds cool!

@Jayofmaya

Never played DA games.