Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Let all of my party companions comment

Given that the vast majorty of players will play the game somewhere between 0,5 - 1,5 times we really should have all commentary played from the companions we do have with us. Knowing that I have to have the same character with me multiple times just on the off-chance that there's things I haven't heard yet is not a good feeling.

I feel like Gale has been uncharacteristically silent lately. Is it just because I've had a bad string of luck getting his lines, or did they forget to add comments in Act 2 to him? I don't plan on bringing him along next time. So how many playthroughs do I need to get his lines? I'll never know... not a good way to set it up IMO

BG3 has a system where companions can interject during conversations, however when you reload a scene (say after dying to a boss) you soon discover, you will get different interjections from different companions. Apparently completely randomly, this can lead to you missing important, interesting and well acted lines entirely and has lead some players to be complaining that companion X never said anything because luck of the roll, in their game they didn't.
This is especially noticeable at the end of the game where
This leads to a lessened experience and a majority of content being missed out on outside of player control to experience it.

Please change this, either as a toggleable option in the settings or completely. Most of the lines and interjections are very short so hearing from your present party (in most cases 3 people) would not drag out conversations or slow down the game, and in situations where your whole party is present (namely cut-scenes) hearing from all of them is important and missing out that content because of RNG is just wasting content.

If we had even the option, to hear all available applicable content, not just a random selection, then for those players playing FOR the story and companions, it would be less arbitary and an enriched experience and would go a long way to fixing the problems many have with and with companions they see as underwritten because so much of that writing is locked behind RNG

I do understand the reasoning behind this mechanic, of not wanting overwhelming interjections to the same line to slow down the pace of cut-scenes (we all know how long these could go if you had too many mods for BG2) however given the briefness of these lines and the small number of companions in your party at any given moment, I believe this decision robs the player more than it benefits and is not worth the cost of arbitrarily lost content.

Thank you.

Given that the vast majorty of players will play the game somewhere between 0,5 - 1,5 times [...]

Let all companions from my party comment a situation during a conversation. It's annoying that game picks a random companion to say something if the situation demands it and if I reload, then someone else will comment instead. I want to hear everyone's opinion, not just one person. It's obvious dialogues are recorded, so why are these weird restrictions even here?

At this point I'm reloading a conversation to hear everyone's opinion, which is really a crappy way to hear my companions.