Avoid fighting enemies two levels or more than you are. Enemies one level higher can be beaten, but are much more dangerous.

You should always engage enemies at your level or lower whenever possible.

Status effects on characters in conversation are paused, so this can be used to pre-buff a character about to engage in conversation you know or suspect will end in combat, then you can buff someone else right before switching to the first to end the conversation.

If a conversation is going to result in combat, you can stall it indefinitely by not clicking on (end) and freely re-position your 3 characters not in the conversation to places of tactical advantage.

Tired of clouds blocking your vision in combat? In addition to displaying vision cones, Shift shows the boundaries of vision blocking things like smoke clouds, letting you determine where you can move to get a clear sight line to a target.

This can help you determine if Sneaking would get you spotted without trying to sneak yourself (which can sometimes result in NPC's losing disposition if they see you).

You can use Shift to display the vision cones of NPCs.

Be sure to save before trying something you suspect might be dangerous.

If you play both co-op and single-player, create different profiles from the main menu to keep them separate, as quicksaves and auto-saves made in the same profile will will overwrite themselves regardless of whether you are playing single-player or co-op.

Do NOT rely on auto-saves, as those are infrequent, usually happening either just before entering a point which will have a fight, or at the start of a fight.

The game is intended to be difficult, and certain things can instantly kill you and your entire party at once instantly.

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