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Just today I was discussing with few other people the possibility to introduce a new custom formation for characters through modding, because the default one absolutely fucking blows, especially if you mod the game to include a party of six:



This made me realize that there's ANOTHER glaring flaw in the party controls of BG3, which is how ABYSMAL it is to keep track of the position of any character relatively to the party itself. Who's in the back, who's front-liner, etc.


You can rearrange the order of portraits, but it's basically pointless, since...
- The way they position in the formation has no logical correlation to where in the order of portraits you put them (i.e. I put Gale on the bottom and he's still right behind my playable character in the formation).
- As soon as you ungroup/regroup for whatever reason, the order of portraits rearranges basically randomly (not exactly, as there IS a criterium about it - the one you are controlling when you regroup is dragged on the top, remixing the order - but still, not something you can have a direct control over).

So even in hypothetical scenario where I'd get my oh-so-desired mod to change the default formation into something I like more, it's clear that I will never be able to achieve this degree on control: