On a side note, going off of how the BG3 subreddit has wound back to the 'will party members die at the end of act 1' topic again, it sure does seem like that happening might sour the game for a lot of people. One can argue about how much people actually care about the lack of reactions, but I'm pretty sure we're all still here for the story and writing regardless of our thoughts on the combat system, and I have serious doubts that a party lock will be doing any favors to this game's writing.
