Balance seems to be a concept that the devs don't understand. At all. In the extreme early game, fresh out of Oleg's with a party of lvl2 characters, the first darn quest slaps you in the face with a host of enemies that are way too strong for you to handle at your level. People will tell you that you should just leave and come back when you're stronger. Normally that would be true, however... 1. You have no idea how strong an enemy is until it's too late. And that's *if* you get lucky with a good roll to inspect them. Otherwise the best you get is a name and a smear of gore where your characters once were as a monster 1-shots each of your party members as you watch on wondering what the hell just happened. The game does an abysmal job of supplying you with critical tactical information. 2. The game lacks the essential function to allow you to flee an encounter once combat has started. Found yourself in a situation that's way over your head? Tough luck. You're locked into the area and forced to fight to the death whether you like it or not. No escaping back to the world map with your tails between your legs. 3. Grinding weaker enemies in random encounters in order to slowly build your party up to a level where you won't die instantly to a treant is not practical in this game. You've only got 90 days to defeat the local bandit lord and plant your flag. Random encounters are fairly rare and you do *not* have the time to slowly grind. 4. Save-scumming is not only recommended but *essential*. Save-scumming is the honoured "art" of saving right before an important action in order to allow you to load the game again and again, rerolling the dice however many times it takes until RNGesus finally relents and decides to bless you with a good roll. If this sounds like a scummy and immersion-breaking tactic to you, then we are in complete agreement. The game relies far too heavily on RNG, severely diminishing the tactical aspect of the game.
