This reminds me on good old days when I couldn't wait for Septic Yogurt. :)

Scaling the number of enemies is pretty minor, I wasn't aware of the lich though. Guess they nailed it since I never noticed. Dos2 scales all numbers JRPG-style, monster levels, loot. Well, pretty much everything. Obsidian got it right with both PoE games in my opinion. No loot scaling and optional encounter scaling, both up and down.

Hrm…pretty sure DOS2 didn't scale much if at all…googled for it and only found a mod which enabled scaling, implicating that it's not in the game.

I never heard of any level-scaling in D:OS2 either, with the exception of the items in shopkeepers' inventories scaling with your level. I think that's all there is?

It's possible he meant the exponential-like scaling of numbers (damage etc) in the game as the level of items/skills increase, but that's a completely different issue from level-scaling.

So they're getting rid of spells per day and switching to…cooldowns?
That will go well with ( ye) ol' timers. ;)
I don't mind it, rest is rarely well implemented.

Sword Coast Legends part 2, here we come!

Might as well be Dragon Age 2 if that's what they are going to do.

Aye, that'd be splendid.

How could Awesome button combat be even more awesome?

https://i.gifer.com/I2KL.gif

Add some exploding barrels.

No. Make it so players do not need to watch the screen when pressing the button aka TW3 style of combat.

Lol. Still butthurt? Get some help, man.

My bad, I must've remembered it wrong in regards to level scaling monsters. But you're absolutely right it's the exponential scaling of numbers and the loot scaling that actually annoyed me, so much that I jumped to the conclusion that enemies scaled as as well. I apologise.

If they are doing 5e D&D, you have to have spell slots. It's one of the main features of 5e since so many classes can use spells early on. :wall:

Yep, without spellslots I'd have a hard time calling it D&D.

Eh? What blasphemy is this - no spell slots!? (I mean…did someone actually say they were using cooldowns, or is this speculation?). I hope they actually implement 5e….I quite enjoyed Sworc Coast Legends, but I don't want a 5e BG game to go that simplified route…Surely they saw the shitstorm SCL generated (from many, many bitterly disappointed D&D fans) and would not be foolish enough to do that.

In another interview they talk about how D&D guys learned something from Swen working on BG3 and how they might try something like that in future D&D test. Then the D&D guy says that they might try to modify how spell slots work or how it works without them. That would mean that Swen has changed something about how spell slots work in BG3…

I don't like it either, but let's face it: nearly all rpgs suck at resource management.
And BG1/2 was really poor with this( rest)…at worst, you'd wake up to some annoying trash mobs easily dispatched, repeat.
Cooldowns at least prevent overuse of high level abilities that can trivialize even challenging encounters( usually gamebreaking/OP in these games)…I mean you could literally just memorize sequencers, rest, repeat, and obliterate everything using just one mage.
They also tend to work better with gameplay flow/exploration.

There are other fun things Swen wants to change:
https://www.pcgamesn.com/baldurs-gate-3/leveling-system

Booooo. You seem to want to play some other game. Go play SCL and leave BG3 to actual D&D fans.

Well, you always have to make adaptations if you want to have it work in a PC environment. Some things just make no sense without having a master for example who limits the player.