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Ted Litchfield

Baldur's Gate 3's hardest difficulty is supposed to 'feel like you're going up against a DM that's trying to push you to your limits'

A powerful dragonborn warrior stands strong in a gloomy dungeon.

In the final Panel From Hell preview of Baldur's Gate 3, Larian revealed the details of the game's highest difficulty, Tactician. In addition to reprising features of the mode from Divinity: Original Sin 2 like increased enemy stats and more aggressive AI, Tactician will also include bespoke additions to many of the game's combat encounters in order to tip the scales for your enemies.

"We have it in two layers: there's the base layer that all the characters in the game are gonna get⁠—that's the basics like just increasing HP or making it easier to hit you," explained Larian senior combat designer Matt Holland. "Then there's the local layer. We've gone through every single combat in our game and we've added little bits of spice to make that combat shine just a little bit hotter and be that much harder."

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