Does anyone else find it strange, or like a missed opportunity, that companions' side-comments and suggestions to Tav are always voiced aloud and they don't use the illithid telepathy to communicate? Things like in the druid grove, when Kagha threatens the tiefling kid, Wyll says something like 'Do something, anything, please!' to the player, as if Kagha couldn't hear him? I never understood that, because we know they can communicate telepathically since Lae'zel does it when she's in her cage. There are several moments throughout the game where this happens, a companion makes a comment that they really shouldn't be saying out loud because an enemy would hear them, why not have them make it telepathically? I have to suspend my disbelief every single time this happens because surely they aren't deaf lmao.
When trying to recruit Shadowheart in the grove if you already have Lae'zel in your party, there's a deception skill check where you suggest that if Shadowheart plays along you can both dispose of Lae'zel later... Why are they even risking voicing that out loud when the player could just say that in SH's head instead? I could go on and on about all the situations where speaking aloud makes no sense, and even longer on situations where it would make sense for someone to say something telepathically, when they say nothing at all (such as *that moment* in the swamp near Ethel's hut with Astarion).
Last edited by lilaque; 08/08/21 11:14 AM.
