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anyone else playing baldurs gate dislike the party system? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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4 is such an arbitrary low number, like I know it’s multiplayer but cmon, theres absolutely no room for npcs in a human party. Also what’s the point of locking the appearance of the hirelings if they don’t get a backstory? Pillars of eternity 2 let you create custom party members and they had custom made companions that werent like full party members but some of them actually talked.

I know mods can fix this but I would really like to just be able to create 4 custom characters at the start even if im not playing multiplayer. Also maybe let us change the race and appearances of the hirelings if they gonna be blank slates.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Idk why they insist on making tactics games with only 3-4 characters. It's absurd, you can't do anything with that many. That's not enough to pull a flank attack, do fire and movement, anything. Any mistake becomes disasterous - If one character goes down you lose 50% of your force - The character who died and the character you have to detail to revive them.

And, of course, Baldur's Gate didn't have this issue bc you could have 6 characters in a party.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

play with a tank as unintended by 5e