>Install SCS for the improved AI and play on a lower difficulty setting it'll be fun, they said.
First major encounter there's a billion bandits and a cleric among them. If you roll poorly and don’t stop them from casting Slow on your entire party, there’s literally no way to win. You absolutely need to beeline straight to any mage to prevent them from dumping spells on you, all ranged units even skeletons keep kiting your melee, etc.
I don’t even want to think about what the later fights look like when I’m already getting filtered.

skill issue they said
dumb motherfucker can't use one of the other five threads they added

>>3783795 (OP)
>minsc
>dynaheir
>imoen
>brawen
dogshit party composition, dogshit thread

>>3783795 (OP)
never install mods for a game you don't know well

>>3783823
this is why I'll never install SCS or anything like it, if I can't beat the game with my favorites it's not worth it, not saying the ones in OP's pic are mine
this is especially true in a game where the NPC's are arbitrarily non-minmaxed with no ability to change stats
same reason I play Civ games on only the hardest difficulty setting that I can still build a selection of wonders, because fuck you building wonders gives me a boner

>>3783897
are you an actual schizo or just high on some shit?

>>3783907
it can be both

>>3783795 (OP)
You installed more than just the improved AI, it's one of the "tactical challenges" components. You can also finish the bandit camp purely in stealth, and return to fight them when you're better prepared, or not fight them at all.

>>3783795 (OP)
>First major encounter there's a billion bandits and a cleric among them
>Screen is from a mid level boss area with optional combat

Based SCS filtering Retards to to this day

>>3783795 (OP)
If that is from the bandit camp, what you have to do is find a choke point, alert bandits, web + entangle that place while raining down arrows and fireballs(don't forget wands)
Think about your tools dude
Honestly, I also dislike that part because I really like Coran and that fight makes it so you can't rush to him

The only part that bothers me about SCS, like with so many challenge/rebalance mods, is that it often doesn't seem to give a shit about what "makes sense" nearly as much as what would be mechanically challenging or interesting.

>>3783964
>fireballs
the earliest you can reliable get FB is bandit camp, web in baldurs city. You also have two 3rd lvl spell casts at that point ...

>>3783897
These mods turn the game into a puzzle, boring!

>>3784017
Your main fireball source should be wands at that point, I don't remember where they are but you can definitely get some pre-bandit camp, I spam them there. Check the wiki. I'm pretty sure you can get web much earlier than that, check all vendors. And like 2 casts of it should be enough, assuming you also have archers
I'm also not a fan of it like I said because you can't rush that part for Coran but it's still beatable

>>3783795 (OP)
>you absolutely need to beeline straight to any mage to prevent them from dumping spells on you
Yes, mages are always priority targets. Kill the wizard.

>>3784071
made me check wiki for that info, you need to have prior knowledge of the game(i finished BG1 once years ago and done remember much about item placement) and its still hard to get, i finished the camp, came in later replaced Misc with Kivan and now Imoen with Coran.
Baldur's Gate & Tales of the Sword Coast
Found in

Ankheg Pit, next to Nathan's body
Ulcaster Dungeon in a pile (AR3901 | 1568.1429)

Sold by

Sorcerous Sundries
Erdane

Spam web
Spam wand of fireball
Use the cloudkill scroll you hopefully found

Its a tough fight but above spells can trivialize the weaker mooks

>>3783795 (OP)
There's a "billion bandits" because you alerted the entire camp. If that was your plan then maybe come with some aoe spells. one or two sleep or fireball spells takes out all those bandits.

>>3783897
>if I can't beat the game with my favorites it's not worth it
Based. That's what easy difficulty is for

I'm always torn on difficulty mods because on the one hand, yes, the default experience is all too often pitifully easy once you have a grasp on mechanics, or even just an understanding of the system.
On the other hand, they usually overdo it by a huge margin - and I don't mean in terms of individual encounter difficulty (though they might) but in the bizarre insistence on making nearly EVERY encounter difficult. Pacing is crucial, if you're constantly put through the wringer and the game turns into a marathon of bullshit, it stops being interesting.

>>3784207
I think SCS is fine on this, especially with how customizable it is, but I agree with you on general. The main reason I dropped Long War was it really fucks up the pacing of EW

>>3784193
how do you do that quest without alerting the camp?

>>3784223
Sneak into the main building with a single thief, unlock/disarm the chest, steal the documents, sneak out. Might require an invisibility potion or two, to avoid triggering a dialogue with the guy who "guards" the door.

>>3784230
that kinda require meta knowledge of the game, how am i supposed to know if some critical information isnt locked behind drop or dialogue from enemy. Funny thing is i watched streamer do this part recently and he did sneak into the tent with full party killed Tazok and then sneak out from the camp before others got alerted. In my game i finally assaulted entire camp killed the bandits but fight was so hard i had to rest before going into tent. I was totally expecting immersion breaking walking in to see the retards inside waiting 8h unaware i butchered 30 people outside. Surprise, surprise
they bailed when i was resting and only person left was prisoner and i found out i need to investigate cloakwood now to find Tazok. Its such a cool detail which made me really appraciate how much work went into this game.

>>3784230
that kinda requires meta knowledge of the game, how am i supposed to know there are no important item drops or information hidden behind a dialogue if i havent done it before.

>>3784245
Because this whole area, especially with SCS, gives you a hint that you have an option to do everything without combat. And as soon as you get the documents, the next chapter starts and sends you directly to the Cloakwood Mines.
Return to Baldur's Gate is another chapter where thieves shine.

>>3784245
You shouldn't be installing difficulty mods without meta knowledge of the game.

>>3784252
to be fair i finished vanilla BG1 few years ago and still had no idea you can do that camp peacefully, still think killing them better cause of exp and item drops.

>>3784258
In vanilla you can work your way through the camp piecemeal, in SCS the first tard that spots you alerts everyone.

>>3784258
>still think killing them better cause of exp and item drops
You can come back when your party is better equipped. BG1 is a very open ended game.

>>3784260
Only if you install the corresponding tactical challange. Otherwise you just have to fight 3-4 big groups one by one, not everyone at once.

>>3784263
Ah, true, it's been too long since I've not installed most of the options.
>>3784262
This is a good point for most non-linear RPGs, don't bash your head against a wall. Look for loot and XP elsewhere and then return.

>>3784245
You would find it out by using a stealth unit to do some reconnaissance and if you still couldn't further your quest after doing as much as you could in the shadows, then you start knocking heads.

>>3784082
In the area after the Nashkel mines, there's a wand of monster summoning in a tomb inside of a cave to the southeast
Spell Revisions/SCS might change it to only summon spiders, but that's fantastic for Web spam

In BG1 the only encounter that I can say was painfully unfair was the fight in the entrance of the Cloakwood Mines, there is a magician with Chaos and the only way of counter it in BG1 is available much later in the game and the spell is for BG2

>>3785066
Just throw fireballs with every party member lmao

>>3783795 (OP)
Is there a way to change native resolution in Baldur's gate without fucking with mods? I use my tv as a monitor and it's basically unplayable. Been a few years since I did a playthrough.

>>3785157
theres UI scaling option in setting and you can zoom in however you want in EE

>>3785203
>you can zoom in however you want in EE
that shit looks so ass. zooming in a game with prerendered graphics, lmao, what a joke.

>>3785230
so dont zoom in, you are creating your own issues here

>>3785241
i don't even use EE, no issue at all. it's just funny that's it's even a feature they put in, so i'm commenting on it. you follow?

>>3785157
Use the Nvidia Control Panel, mate.

>>3785247
its a useful feature I and many others use all the time and instead locking zoom level in game settings you decided to make another pointless comment because you are such a whiny faggot.

>>3785309
there's no zoom setting in my game. :)
zooming in a prerendered game is dumb as all hell, looks like trash.
stop crying, i know you and many other tastelets disagree.

>>3785318
>zooming in a prerendered game

do you really think even in BG1 the maps are exactly in your screen resolution you brain damaged faggot

>>3785324
Why are you arguing with him? Why do you care what he thinks? Use your zoom in peace, ya dummy.

>>3785324
you have no idea what i'm saying, do you?

>>3785457
ironic considering whole conversation started because YOU are too retarded to properly scale game for a TV, kill yourself you spastic retard.

>>3785497
i'm not that anon. notice the different posting style.

>>3785066
Nah the most horseshit fight is the iron throne one. Its so stacked against you that cheesing it with the stairs feels mandatory

Or you could do all expansion content and hit max level before it, but theres a fair bit of the main quest after it too

>>3789319
Are you playing on the highest diff? I don't remember it being too hard but I also never played it on highest

>>3789319
I tried it a few times, didn't get lucky, so I savescum stealthed past them. Then later I had to return and they were still difficult.

>>3789338
>>3789344
The problem with most battles in SCS in BG1 is that in after Cloakwood Forest all mages have spells like Chaos that can only be blocked with Spell Immunity, but surprise that scroll in only available in BG2