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Any update would be greatly appreciated. While people are comparing the game to Baldur's Gate (IGN), could you imagine having to select all your companions responses or if none of your companions had a personality (and no, the current "personalities" are no personalities at all)?. The greatest part of the game was the party interaction and the character development between characters. As is, we don't have that for the single player experience - quite possibly the most important part of the experience. So please, an ETA for the personalities is greatly appreciated for those of us who backed the game and want to enjoy the true single player experience.

Companion AI is on its way. I have good hopes it'll be there next week!

Next week btw we'll be bringing you extra AI personalities together with a number of improvements based on your feedback.

http://steamcommunity.com/games/230230/announcements/detail/250264574039813290

I wonder how many of them, and what they're gonna look like. If it's gonna be typical romantic/pragmatic, etc or something more ambiguous.

PCG: What kind of things are you looking at in the big update?

Vincke: We basically have two types of things. We're doing hotfixes where we see problems that we can fix right away for people, and then the patch will contain some extra content. Balancing fixes. We'll introduce the AI personalities葉hat was one feature that didn't make it fully for release. [Right now] you only have no personality or random personality, which is rather clunky to play with, or the loyal personality which basically does everything you do. We will add five or six AI personalities, and they have distinct opinions about things, and so it's basically your partner. [And] people will be able to create their own personalities.

They make decisions based on certain type of personality, and it makes the game quite different, actually, because then it's really like playing with a human being, to a certain extent.

PCG: Can you go into a little more detail on the kind of personalities that you're shipping in the update?

Vincke: We'll have a knight. That's what you can imagine. Then we'll have a rascal, a maniac, a judge somebody who's very judgmental鬆 priest, and a free-spirit, They basically all have different traits that they prefer.

If you put in, let's say, a judgmental character, who would for instance refuse to hire a companion, that's a very big impact on your game right there. If you role-play through that, that really changes your game. It's something that can happen in multiplayer also, right? It's basically what we're trying to do. This gives single-players the feeling of what you get in co-op multiplayer, when you deal with the actions of somebody else.