Ok, I have been playing this early access for a while and its getting pretty annoying when my character as a male is getting male admirers during the party scene. There should be a toggle switch in options to remove that possibility and you only receive love interests from the opposite sex. The last time that happened I reloaded an old save and tried as i might to sway it to a female choice ( character was male), but eventually it came back to him asking to sleep with my character or kicking him out of camp permanently. I suppose I could just not meet/ remove any of the male allied characters and use configuration of the 2 female choices, but that would be both drastic and put my party on a disadvantage... but might be worth it in the long run if Larion doesn't put the option to filter out same sex allies as love interests.
Don't know what to tell you. If it were up to me all romance dialogue and scenes would be gated. If the player does not flirt, then it really shouldn't be brought up at all. Total strangers in an unfamiliar terrain with monstrosities around every other corner? Yeah let's talk about romance while I wash off the blood of my enemies hoping I don't sprout tentacles right out my face hole and zombieland the next mo fo I see. Not to mention some just want friendship. Some don't want romance at all. This really shouldn't be a dating sim. It should be a fantastical adventure. At times though it really does feel like a dating sim.
The gate would also mean avoiding unwanted attention.
They could have leaned into body language more instead of dialogue too. A smile and moving subtly closer. Or hand on the arm or hand on the shoulder. A casual lean. Simple but effective and more natural. Only after you initiate though so it feels like you are building something. Some of the dialogue really takes me out of whatever it is they were trying to do.
The way it is now, you get all attention and it's like you have to check people off you like a hoe in heat.
Then again I'm conservative. I like my romance private, personal, and passionate.
To me this seems realistic. People are going to flirt/hit on you whether you wanted it or not in a neutral environment; most straight men don't notice it because it's often mostly men doing it to women, and IRL they would react violently to other men doing it to them, which is what the poster above would probably do (now imagine if women were as defensive about unwanted flirting).
Faerun supposedly does not have the RL biases in our world, so sexes are uninhibited with their targets of flirtation.
Let's face it, we're all going to be annoyed one way or another. If I have my male PC romancing Gale, but he's remarking constantly about Shadowheart's features or Wyll goes on about Lazael, and when they're not it's Mizora/Mystra, I could stand to be annoyed. But it should be treated like the trivial annoyance it is.
The reasonable response to unwanted flirtation is "thanks, but no thanks". Anything else is overreaction.
There are too many romance permutations to consider to accommodate every individual's sensitivity. And yes, for some a fantastical adventure involves a passionate relationship with a partner, while others would rather just be Indiana Jones rather than Sandokhan/James Bond.
