This is so stupid and I love it.

Ah, the Disco Elysium style of rpg

You’re right. I was confused about the Larian account cross-save vs the Steam cross-save

I thought that bug was related to cross-saves, not cloud saves?

EDIT: It might have been related to both, based on the reddit bug thread. But this note was in the first Hotfix list:

Disabled Larian Account cross-saves temporarily to solve an issue blocking loads and saves. Steam cross-saves are unaffected.

From my personal experience – I never had an issue with saves, and I never disabled cloud saves. HOWEVER, my Steam cloud sync hasn’t been working. The game works fine and I have no issues with saving in the game, but my saves fail when Steam tries to sync it to the cloud.

Are you immediately running into battles or are you taking the time to examine the environment and enemies before initiating battles? Obviously it’s not always possible, but I usually spend a few minutes to plan some things before starting a fight.

I look at the environment to see if there are any items I can use to my advantage (barrels, chasms, etc.) or any optimal places to position my people (e.g., up high and out of sight for my rogue).

I also examine the enemies before hand to look at their strengths and weaknesses, and I change out my prepared spells accordingly.

In a game with dice rolls, it’s inevitable that some things will come down to luck. But I do think there’s still a lot of “tactical” planning to be had both during the battles but even before the fight starts as well.