Originally Posted by The Red Queen
Originally Posted by Tuco
Originally Posted by Boblawblah
Do we have a Larian source on respecing Origin companions starting class? I couldn't see it above.
Only Fextralife trying the press build, so far. But I have no reasons to think they gave him a faulty version of the game and they will remove the feature later.

Didn't he say that it wasn't confirmed that the feature would be in the full release? There was something like that somewhere that made me think he'd heard that something might be changed. But I'm forgetting what I've heard where about what. Not that this particular thing about changing origin companion classes bothers me, exactly, as I can presumably just ignore it. Though like you I do find it puzzling.

And, as you say, even more so the hirelings. At the event in Ghent, iirc (and I may not!) Swen mentioned using them to create, eg, a party of four barbarians. But if they come with a class already specified, does that mean we then need to immediately respec them from level 0? Or can we not make our four barbarian party with three hirelings?

I'm definitely perplexed and keen to hear more.

The thing Fextralife was unsure about was if the origin companions will have parts of their dialogue removed when you change their class.

The current implementation of hirelings and respec looks very unfinished and not well thought out. The only reasons I can think of why it is like this are
1. Respec was never intended, especially not to this degree to fully respec origin characters. Thats why they made 1 hireling for every class first
2. The hirelings were not intended to be completely silent or even be (mini) companions, but that got scrapped but you ended up with 12 high quality models and no time to make a complete hireling character creation

And that is not the only part where things in BG3 do not seem to fit together which is why I am now highly sceptical of preorders and spending money for an unseen product.

Last edited by Ixal; 12/07/23 09:16 PM.