Originally Posted by Flooter
Doesn’t it feel like the AI knows what the players’ reaction toggles are? Like it always takes the actions that avoid the worst outcomes?

This is my fear with any preset system, no matter how finely tuned : if the AI always knows how best to waste my ressources by exploiting my reaction settings, what chance do I have of making the correct preset decision?
As you also say, the AI can just as easily know what our toggles are; it's not like preactions introduce this problem. But just as DMs in PnP aren't supposed to use players' conversations against them (unless the players are talking in-character in front of an enemy), Larian *shouldn't* be coding the AI to use our reaction choices against us. I suppose the only thing we can do is provide feedback telling Larian this, and/or do in-game testing to see if the AI actually responds to which of our toggles are on.

Although, If we knew for sure the AI did respond to our presets, then there is tactical value in that. You can force the AI to do something different/suboptimal by enacting certain preset reactions.