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Yeah I know the effect you mean, that can work, however I think with assault rifles etc. it's too quick even for that really and you'd have to wait for the bar to go down for the NPC to die properly. Have to bare in mind there's frame by frame accuracy to think about and FPS' games are generally quite fast paced compared to other genres, even the 'slow' FPS games.

I switched it over to an instant health bar effect and it made it so much better, the exp gain effect works well by comparison.

To protect my sanity I've decided I've hate played BG3 enough. Maybe at a 50% discount which I've sometimes seen you could justify a few playthroughs but holy shit. They claim it's finished, but there are multiple game stopping bugs in it that break your progress in the decision tree not to mention

To do an actual honest review of the game as well if you guys ever get tempted. The story writing definitely screams a mix of Tumblr fanfiction and theatre kid reddit. Whenever you encounter the cults etc. in the game the voice acting is exactly like. The game dances the line of woke frequently and I think that's why so many gamers could put up with it but it's definitely there especially in the design of the NPCs because they all look like they took modern day millennials and plonked them in a fantasy world and there's no getting around the fact that it's extremely jarring.

Combat is incredibly meh and your average turn based affair, ironically if it stuck to more traditional aspects of turn based RPG I think it would have done better. Adding cartoonishly tall ladders for a height advantage and also the jump mechanics was a terrible idea. The navigation meshes seem very off for the jump mechanics in particular and because this game was clearly designed for a console you can't control your party members very well because you constantly have to ungroup/group them to cycle through and move them one by one.

In a PC version of this game that was design properly you'd just drag or shift select, very annoying and shows they were being lazy.

I was a pretty big Larian fan back in the day because Divinity Original Sin 2 is a genuinely good game BG3 frequently drops the ball purely looking at it as a game. I'm not wholly against RNG when it's done well but the "miss, miss, miss" no matter what setup you pick gets really exhausting so you just end up being very reliant on AoE which are your only guaranteed hit chance weirdly enough.

Hate the dice rolls in everything, it would be one thing if I could turn them off but that's easily the worse part of the game. Normies try to claim it's D&D immersion but it just encourages save scumming because there are certain sections where a wrong dice roll will instantly kill your character and end the game which is stupid and takes away player agency.

Unnecessary cameo appearances everywhere in Act 3 in particular, they just wanted to force the characters into the story so it feels very inconsistent compared to the overall plot.

It's sad because I love my RPGs, if BG3 hadn't been wokified it might have been an okay title at least, but the dice rolls, ladders and jump mechanics definitely ruin it. The people who praised this game originally didn't even get past Act 2.

Keep in mind as well BG3 had the covid wave behind it, I think that's a big reason behind it's success. Larian are going to be in for a big disappointment if they think they can get away with the same shit again with their new Divinity game.

TLDR: I hate played BG3 so you don't have to if you ever get tempted by the discounts, maybe if you can get it for -£15 it will be worth it lol.

STEM degrees aren't even any kind of guarantee to a career anymore either arguably though because the funding for the sciences has been shot to pieces. It's all AI scams and creating products to appeal to addictive personalities now.

Even the people who study psychology have clocked onto this so instead of going into any kind of real psychology career they go into marketing instead and come up with some extremely fucked up ideas to use on the population.

My favourite one will always be Riot games hiring that douche psychologist to perform experiments on their own playerbase and yes that's a real thing that happened.