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>all I am saying is that with modern hardware and some creative thinking they could have improved the existing system
They can't, not without completely removing most of the core layers and reworking it from the ground up.
You can't improve D:OS2 system without:
>Removing armor mechanics
>Removing Diablo loot
>Reworking the stat system entirely
>Redesigning every single skill and stat in the game
>Redesigning the puddle gimmick entirely
The only things that kinda work well out of the box are the magic/skill categories and the core movement mechanics, it's too much work to salvage a fundamentally unsound system, you're better off just creating something new altogether, which is why they went to create BG3, which keeps most of the stuff I just mentioned but also completely gets rid of most of the trash I greentexted.
D:OS2 is a dead end as a system, you can't improve it without redesigning the whole thing, it's a bad branching of D:OS1's system, which as much as it did suffer from many issues didn't deserve to be gutted in such a way.

Really, just go back to D:OS1, keep and polish that stat system, unfuck the crafting to be less about big numbers but with the same freedom and extent in possibilities, rework skills to be less copypasted, rework status effects entirely and take a leaf out of some other games' book if you wanna make a game that is focused on action/order economy, there's plenty of games that nail it and don't fumble in a sea of worthless gimmicks like DOOM barrels or gay puddles.
Either that or just embrace becoming Bioware's successor and stick to making dating sims, that's already working plenty well for them.

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