I rather not wait until release. Most players will judge the game by the first 5% of the content. As 95% of players will not see the last 5% of content. We can see it with Elden Ring. Elden Ring got all 9/10s because the start of the game is great, but the ending half is AWFUL. What DOS2 did was the same mistake BG3 is making. They are putting their bad content first. Fort JOY is more like FORT AWFUL. It is the worst entry to a game one can possibly conceive. This also therefore applies to all companions. If the first companions i see remind me of Fane / Sebille, Red Prince, and Beast, many players who are returning will immediately refund the game. Because from the get go- i see lazy game design.
The airship part is ok, the rest of act one is not. I played dos2 on ultimate, and yet i was constantly getting angry in bg3. Mostly because i kept seeing the same identical plot as i saw in dos2. The start of the game and act 1 should have 90% of the characters progression for companions. If you want to kill them off like you did in dos2 and bring new ones thats fine. That is way better then what we have now
