That said, I'm curious about the quality of the playtesters used. I feel like Larian could have saved themselves an enormous headache by hiring a few of the folks on this forum to playtest the game. A lot of these bugs would have been found quickly.
I don't really bother reporting anything unless it's game breaking or painfully annoying. Some small things I just shrug off. Like the dead drow on the table with Nettie. In the cut scene, he's in his underwear. In the game, he's wearing pants, and if you use Speak with Dead on him, he's also wearing pants. Little things like that feel like oversights.
There are rare typos scattered about. I don't know if anyone bothers reporting those.
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Regarding communication, I'm happy Larian is communicating.
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Regarding content, something like the upper city should have been included. It's a big part of the titular city, which should feel like a character in and of itself.
The flavor of the city ends up feeling watered down. I don't feel the oncoming threat of the absolute army. I don't feel the grip of fear that comes with knowing murderers are on the loose. I don't feel the burning divide over the refugees. And I don't feel anything at all from the upper city.
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Regarding Karlach, I don't really understand her, unfortunately. It seems some folks like her, but don't feel totally satisfied at the end with her. That's fair criticism, I suppose.
I wonder if that missing satisfaction might be coming from the way she's written?
For instance, she has this deeply tragic background. She has this burning anger within her. But *none* of that shows in her personality. So, while all of that is *supposed* to be part of her story, none of it comes across for the player. Instead, she's all happy to be alive and good natured as can be.
Things don't really work that way. Karlach should be scarred inside and out. Broken in many ways. Her arc should be learning how to live again, how to be normal again. The tragedy of what happened to her should be felt.
But instead, it's not. People see this happy character, full of sunshine and rainbows, and subsequently, they expect a happy sunshine ending.
She feels more like a writer's personal fantasy self-insertion than she does a real character, I'm sorry to say. (I love the writing of almost all the other characters. Karlach's feels *very* different to me.)
