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Again, my post above is an open challenge.
Let's dissect quest in Act 2 and Act 3 vs any Act 1 Quest of your liking and see why some people is incorrect for saying "Act 2 & Act 3 is less [insert category here]".
A3 is so rushed that I am currently sitting on 5 different playthroughs all in A3, and Idk If I should continue while I'm in love with the game.
Or take a 3 year break from the game and check on it in 2026.
Pros of that would be that most bugs would be gone, maybe a DLC or two. And few thousand mods.
Most game breaking thing for me so far was my Evil playthrough... 67 hours into it I arrive at Moonrise Towers, and Minthara didn't exist in my game anymore despite having romanced her at the grove party.... Had to restart from the very beginning....
But A3 itself isn't even half baked, Not even IKEA baked where we got the stuff just got to assemble it. All we got is the damn grocery list but most of the things haven't been checked out yet, and half the ingredients are missing off the list.
Dialogues for me after reaching A3, On all 5 of my playthroughs currently in A3.
Are terrible.... Sure, I get a few one liners when I click my companions. But for the most part It's 2 options. What's your opinion of me, Wait for me in camp / Let's go.
In some of my saves I get some dialogue from Astarion/Gale.
With Karlach we did get the date.... Where she then puts on a strap on and abuses my male PC.....
I find a Diary from Wylls father, where he writes his favourite memories of his time with his son. Yet I get no options to give it to Wyll despite Wyll having mentioned that his father probably doesn't care much for him. Yet It's clear he loves n misses him.
After Shadowhearts thing, there's 0 options to hug the precious cinnamon roll??? Just stand there in silence staring at her bawl her eyes out???? What the actual heck????
I've got a mountain of Infernal Iron, but Dammon has 0 dialogue options other than shopping after the initial greeting with Karlach. And no further questline??
When I talk to Mol, she asks If Im ready to do some business, yet no further options to start a questline for my 1# Fav character in the game? What happened between her n Raphael? What about the other kids? What about her ambitions? Should be at least 3 entire questlines but instead I get nothing?
Mattis, my 2nd fav character. Why is he not with Mol? Why does he barely regard me at all.
Arabella, my 6th fav character. (Shart, Karlach & Astarion 3-4-5th favs)
Just dips on me and I find her in a sewer, and get like no dialogue options beyond that tiny bit. She still owes me that Spell she never taught me. And she should have a quest or two....
Quite a lot of other stuff as well that I can't remember off the top of my head since those things are the ones that piss me off the most.
But A3 is quite HUGE, but then you run into the characters you care about, and your companions. And there's nothing?? It's just weird...
Also, Rolan... I talk to him and he doesn't even recognize me, doesn't mention his 2 siblings I spent so much effort keeping all 3 alive and nothing. Then I'm forced to Knock him Unconscious but ofc It's bugged and KO'ing people just deletes them from the game permanently.... It's even worse than killing them, since at least If u kill them their corpse is still around after a Long rest.. KO will just wipe em out of existence.
And then are all the PERFORMANCE issues. The lack-buster ending. etc...
And thats the tip of the iceberg.
So I'd say yey, there is a wild difference between Act 1 and Act 3 quality.
