I had to look into how exactly larian improved on a character(beast) in divinity original sin 2's definitive edition, since alot of people keep saying larian is known to ''improve'' their squandered characters in a definitive edition release. Some reddit threads i found people commented that most of his changes can be boiled down to larian having added more dialogue to beast, making him more reactive and more relevant to some storyline in act 3/4, but thats about it. Couple comments even said his changes werent that big, and there wasnt any major overhauls to his questline. This particular comment was a bit disappointing especially (spoilers for dos2, sort of?)
''I think that the four original characters received attention simply by being in EA, while Fane´s story was so complex and important that attention happened by default. Beast was just also there and it shows. Other than cracking a few lame jokes and being somewhat useful when your party interacts with the dwarven faction he does basically nothing. No meaningful change happened to that in the DE. His quest got a bit more stream lined because in act 4 Classic you could stumble upon one major plot development by accident when interacting with certain dwarves. When this got a bit more polished and focused Beast´s story was enlarged a bit more, too. It is still not enough to make it interesting.'' Link to reddit thread with this comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/DivinityOr...d_is_beasts_story_in_definitive_edition/
This makes me a bit more concerned about what exactly to expect larian to do with karlach in future patches/a definitive edition. They could very well just streamline her journey of ''acceptance'' by adding dialogue for the gondians who say they cant help her, and then we get the same ending for her but now with extra angst on top and letting us know we truly tried everything this time. Some players have said theyd accept her fate if we were allowed to ask for help from others even if it lead to nothing, so i guess this change would make some happy lol. I just personally hope we can get something a bit more substanstial than just ''now you can ask the gondians for help and get told no'', but based on larians so-called improvements on beast i dont know if thats realistic to hope for.
But i dunno, maybe im missing something, did anyone here play dos2 before and after the DE release that can give any insights on this, am i misinformed on how beast got changed?
