1. I don't know if auto search would be the best, but searching a group of containers rather than individual ones would make it better I think.
2. Agreed
3. I think we will find more about the dream person in later acts, perhaps they will appear even without tadpole use then. Honestly I think this part is lame anyway for reasons that have nothing to do with this post.
I am pretty sure there will be negatives from using the tadpole later on in the game and not using it will probably be rewarded.
And lastly I've played games, *primarily* Baldurs Gate 3, where I'm cannonically punished for acting on the cannonical urgency, by all this missed companion dialogue I'm not getting because I don't sleep for 8 hours every 5 minutes. Absolutely attrocius.
The sad part of this is that they seem to expect everyone to know this, or expect everyone to be lazy and have everything refreshed for each fight. Those of us who treat the game a bit more like DnD get screwed badly for doing more than one fight per rest. I had to force myself to rest more often in my last playthrough and because I did the goblin encampment interior as one encounter, I think I still missed out on dialogue even though I rested pointlessly after every fight before this. It feels unnatural and unimmersive.
Ive played through many times. I don't care what people say, you have a mind flayer tadpole in your head. That's urgent.
So let me get this straight, if you had a tadpole in your head and people telling you your flesh will shed off, youd casually stroll about searching every little crack?
And the story tells you quite clearly that the tadpole in your head is not "normal", and there are several other "True Souls" that you encounter in the game that have had tadpoles in their heads for much longer than you, who have not succumbed to cremorphosis. So that should tell you that the sense of impending doom that is portrayed in the first few minutes of the game, is somewhat overblown.
I have said in another thread that they probably should add some sort of dialogue saying that it is impossible to remove the tadpole (this can be true or not, we would find out later.) Otherwise nearly all of my characters would find an unwelcome parasite added into the body against their will to be something that needs to be removed as soon as possible, they would not care one bit about anything else.
