In my first patch 9 playthrough it initially felt as though the functionality was working well. Though I didn't actually know at that time that it existed, I did note, for example that the pink haired tiefling who I saved from the bugbear assassin (can't recall her name, sorry!) came and spoke to my MC despite the fact that there were definitely other party members closer.
In fact, in my first playthrough I'm pretty sure I didn't see any NPC talk to any other party members until later in the game, and I remember thinking "damn, I'd started to think they'd fixed that". I wish I'd known to look out for it as I'd have paid more attention to when this was, and I'm now wondering if it actually was working and hotfix 30 broke it, or if I was just luckier earlier in that playthrough than in my second post-hotfix one.
Does anyone know whether people noticed it not working before that hotfix released?
