Summary
- A new Baldur's Gate 3 mod increases difficulty with smarter enemies, improved AI, and an "enraged" condition for tougher battles.
- This mod tweaks enemy stats, spells, and tactics, making combat more strategic for players looking for a fresh challenge.
- Players must carefully strategize positioning and utilize their skills to defeat smarter enemies and brutal bosses in this enhanced difficulty mod.
A player has created a new Baldur's Gate 3 mod that increases the game's difficulty by enhancing enemy and boss AI and adjusting their stats. This Baldur's Gate 3 mod also introduces a new "enraged" condition that makes enemies even tougher.
Baldur's Gate 3 is a role-playing game developed by Larian Studios, set in the Dungeons and Dragon s universe. The game features four difficulty settings: Explorer, Balanced, Tactician, and Honour Mode. Explorer mode focuses more on the story while offering easier combat. Balanced mode provides a standard challenge. Tactician mode delivers a tougher experience with stronger enemies and environmental hazards, and Honour Mode adds a hardcore challenge with permadeath and limited saves. However, a new Baldur's Gate 3 mod promises to add yet another layer of difficulty to the game.
Created by Nexus Mods user Mithras666, this new mod tweaks certain aspects of the game to add another difficulty level to Baldur’s Gate 3. The mod's key changes include a substantial improvement to enemy stats and spells. NPCs now have a better grasp of their resistances, immunities, and hit chances against player Armor Class. Additionally, spellcasting tactics for enemies have become more strategic, making them more challenging to combat. With this mod, players will have to be careful, as regeneration mechanics have been introduced, allowing enemies to heal during battles.
The Baldur's Gate 3 New Combat Condition Added in the Mod
Moreover, the AI has been made significantly smarter. NPCs can now distinguish between summoners and their summons, targeting summoners more frequently. The AI has also become more brutal, often finishing off downed characters and prioritizing low HP spellcasters and rangers. With Mithras666’s mod, positioning becomes crucial for both players and enemies, as NPCs now take advantage of high ground and strategic positioning. The mod introduces "enraged," a new Baldur’s Gate 3 combat condition that grants enemies temporary hit points equal to 15% of their max health. Enraged enemies are also 33% bigger in size and gain resistance to all damage types, making them even tougher to defeat.
Baldur’s Gate 3 combat tactics have also seen major improvements in the mod. For instance, if rangers are swarmed by enemies, they now pull back and start using throwables from a distance. Melee characters now prefer close combat and are less likely to fall back when they are cornered. Enemies now use control spells if the player party is clustered. Additionally, bosses have been improved across the board, making them smarter and more brutal in assessing player stats and abilities.
To install the mod, players need to download it, add the file to their mod manager, and load their saved game. They should press "Insert" in-game to open the Mod Configuration Menu and activate the mod. Mithras666’s mod is sure to provide a fresh challenge for veteran players looking for an even more difficult experience in the Baldur's Gate 3 world.
Baldur's Gate 3
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 96 /100 Critics Rec: 97%
- Released
- August 3, 2023
- ESRB
- M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Partial Nudity, Sexual Content, Strong Language, Violence
- Developer(s)
- Larian Studios
- Publisher(s)
- Larian Studios
- Engine
- Divinity 4.0
- Multiplayer
- Online Co-Op, Local Co-Op
- Cross-Platform Play
- Full cross-platform play.
WHERE TO PLAY
Abducted, infected, lost. You are turning into a monster, but as the corruption inside you grows, so does your power. Forge a tale of fellowship and betrayal, sacrifice and survival, and the lure of absolute power. Caught in a conflict between devils, deities, and sinister otherworldly forces, you and your party will determine the fate of the Forgotten Realms.
THE ULTIMATE D&D EXPERIENCE
Choose from a wide selection of D&D races and classes, or play as an origin character with a hand-crafted background. Adventure, loot, battle, and romance as you journey through the Forgotten Realms and beyond. Play alone or as a party of up to four in multiplayer – and select your companions carefully.
A CINEMATIC STORYTELLING EPIC
Forged with the new Divinity 4.0 engine, Baldur’s Gate 3 gives you unprecedented freedom to explore, experiment, and interact with a world that reacts to your choices. A grand, cinematic narrative brings you closer to your characters than ever before, as you venture through our biggest world yet. Romance, deceive, aid, obstruct, and grow alongside your friends thanks to Larian's next-generation RPG engine.
- Franchise
- Baldur's Gate
- Number of Players
- 1-4
- Split Screen Orientation
- Vertical Only
- Platform(s)
- PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PC, macOS
- Genre(s)
- RPG
- How Long To Beat
- 100+ Hours
- PS Plus Availability
- N/A
- Local Co-Op Support
- 1-2 Players
