@Hairyblue I’m annoyed to discover it’s on by default. I looked at settings, but I didn’t know what it was. I’m traditionally terrible at games and have been okay in this one except for a few horribly hard battles, and was feeling good about it. I’ll probably play on easy for a character or two, and have one on normal mode, but still feel hoodwinked.
Larian makes strategic RPGs for people that play RPGs. It’s not like they lie about what their games are about or their difficulty.
Also, early access is for the developers to test out the game with a much larger pool than just the regular play testers. If anything it’s let the devs know how good or bad an idea is.