Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Rushed Companion Content in early act 1

I have played through act 1 a number of times, and I feel like it frontloads and makes companion content happen way to quickly.

As gale stands, you get him to admit his condition after being kind to two people, this results in you invariably missing a conversation with gale after one of these events, as the "I have a magic thing" overwrites the conversation you would have with him normally.

If you rest before you meet gale on the beach, then you miss his "stare at the fire" conversation, but if you rest after you meet him, you miss your personal introspective cutscene (particularly bad for dark urge players) at the camp.

In almost all instances, Astarion will try to feed on you before you find the boar on the road... which I believe astarions cutscene where he tries to feed on you is triggered by level 3.

Space out the ontent for companions for goodness sake, and allow for more than one cinematic in a night.

I always see the dead boar first. Most of the time it triggers when you long rest and you see Astarion leaving.

I still really think our first outdoor camp (the one by the River) should have a swimming/bathing sequence that precedes the Romantic ones.

For each potential Romance we should get a clear tease/leave em hanging option. Which stops short of the hard pass, but which doesn't commit you to anything. Some more build up to the full Torch Romances basically.

I think it would be amusing if we could play matchmaker for our companions too, and then give them bad relationship advice as a Durge subplot. An achievement for Charlatans that involves keeping the party off balance (and under your thumb) by provoking petty arguments on the sly and then watching what happens.

More companion vs companion stuff to facilitate that.

I think we as the player might be able to initiate a smaller scale party or camp celebration which costs 4x the amount of camp supplies, but can be activated at any point.

The EA for this game will never end. I don't know if they thought it would slow down after launch. But the whole world is in Early Access now. Might as well keep it going hehe