Okay, so this is sorta a culmination/follow-up to many of the issues I've read and/or personally observed with the game. My game is currently in a pseudo-abandoned state; I'm deciding if I should bother to restart or not (current roadblock is the dungeon I walked into, door locked behind me, no way out, no supplies left, no healing, monsters (multiple packs of 4-6 skeleton champions) are far too strong for my lvl 5 party. I have an earlier save, but my early kingdom is also kinda suffering, cause there's no information about how you cannot cancel adviser tasks, and/or really how to handle anything.

Anyway, it's clear that balance for the game is a near complete failure, with CR ratings all over the place, stuck areas, missing context, etc. I'm only a short way into the game, and most encounters are either easy or impossible, with no clue which going in. I get that it's supposed to be "realistic" (ie: you could be walking along and just get eaten by a random CR 20 Owlbear, that's how totally random works)... but come on, this is not at all "fun".

Now, it's a kickstarter game, not a AAA game, so I expect some QC issues, but this is kinda ridiculous. Any ETA on when the game will be marginally playable?

Note: Not intending to be totally negative... I bought the game, it has a lot of promise, and I would like to enjoy it. I'm just looking for an indication of when some of the more egregious balance issues will be fixed. I could give examples if desired (eg: the Owlbear in the Stag Lord encounter which literally one-shots everyone, or the dungeon with the locking entrance door), but hopefully many of those are obvious to everyone.

I do also appreciate the balance changes so far; it seems like the devs are working to get it better, but there are still some obvious glaring issues. I'm just looking for an indication on when it will be "safe" to actually play through the game, and not just auto-lose due to balance issues, that's all.

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I have one notice about balance, you made work time for summon spells just 6 second per level, that mean all summoner spells is not use until 10 level, why not make 1 Minute per lvl?

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Yes, may be archeology it is not that moderators will praise, but I'm not sure about it's right decision to make new topic for my little remark.)

I think it is not useful if creature live just few second. Even if you build special mage with improved favorite school you can use it just when you reach 7 lvl. I hope they will change it, the game is looking almost perfect.

I think the limited time exist because summonings were so extremely broken in the previous games that this one borrows from. (Baldurs gate series). So they tried to balance that by making it so that you have to summon the creatures directly in combat, thus wasting a casting turn that you could have used to thrown a fire ball or something.

You can also not command the summons directly for this reason. If you summon them from too far away they becomes useless as they wont move to the enemies.

Balanced but boring.