Finally. Turn based for the win.
All previous updates with their new monsters and dragons and gods to combat gave me nothing, because the real-time combat just kept destroying all my plans going into combat. Maybe I'm just slow.
I'm old-school. SSI Goldbox still (in my heart) is the best games ever.
Now I'm going to start a fresh game of Deadfire, in turn-based mode, and finally enjoy it as much as I should have done the first two times I played it.
Disclaimer: I really loved the game as it was.
Double disclaimer: Turn based games are always better.