@Rellik2217 : I'm spending fewer hours a week here these days, but if I had replied immediately I would have said : sure, go ahead. Which you did, so, great. I don't know which items in my feedback report have been reported dozens of times and which are more unique, or at least a lot less talked about. I also don't know which way is more beneficial, gives more chances that Larian sees the feedback, and makes it more convenient for Larian to process. I've gone for "big list of points", but it's also good to have dedicated topics. So now there's one for this.
Not being able to use NPC companions to initiate conversations would be one solution. Maybe not the only one, but it would be one. All I hope is that Larian realises that this is a problem and that it should be fixed.
You have the gift of expressing this much more eloquently and elegantly than I do, so thanks for taking the time to address these things in the forum.
Thanks, but "gift" is the thing of Sorcerers. I'm a Mage, and I spend a certain amount of time writing these feedbacks (which I'd rather not disclose in great part because I don't want to know). All I can say is that my initial feeling is occasionally closer to "raaah, X is so damn dumb, please tell me you don't really intended this, also please change to Y instead", and then I try to turn into "X really doesn't work, because reason". As I wrote in my
intro, trying to narrow down the problem, rather than a solution that I think would solve it.
As for Larian's combat philosophy of "Kaboom" and "omg, lol, this actually worked -> insta meme", well, it's very different from what I'd hope (that would be a deep, interesting and rewarding system), but at least it's finally becoming clear. So my hopes on this aspect of the game are kept quite moderate.
