Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Being forced out of conversations is a bad design choice.

Currently in ACT 2, trying to talk to prisoners in Moonrise Towers. I get maybe half a line in before a Guard comes in and forcibly ends the conversation. Is it realistic? Sure, but it's also frustrating. I'm someone who enjoys listening to the voice acting and using the dialogue systems. I would rather break just a little realism for the sake of storytelling. Stop the world around us while we're talking or something. Make the Guard approach us AFTER the conversation.

It's just a frustrating waste otherwise.

Yeah... just got to that part yesterday and it infuriated me too. It's not just the conversations, the whole prison area is terribly designed and needs attention as there're also the weird detections and the Warden being script-linked to the scrying eye on the level above. Trying to do the prison as one normally would is simply impossible and just leads to a buggy disaster, so I had to resort to some gameplay tricks to have it play out as it should.

The way I did it was;

Entering turn-based mode for the conversations is GENIUS! Thank you for that quick little tip!