Originally Posted by Tarlonniel
Originally Posted by Tharrow
Like imagine having "I am a free love type of guy" be one of the first things a dude says to you before you indicate any interest and before he has an interest in hooking up with you because he's got so much else going on

I think the party is exactly the kind of atmosphere where it could most logically be brought up. We already learn a few things about him - his non-tolerance for alcohol, for instance, and more relevantly, that a casual hook-up out of the blue is exactly something he might've been up for (and has been in the past) if not for his current preoccupations. It's almost there. Almost.

Good point! A clear party night come-on from player character, where in response he's encouraging (will romance eventually) in a way that also says he won't be available until late-game (act 3), and that he's into free love when he romances at all so the player should pursue other romance options in the game and not turn them down for Halsin because other romances won't lock him out, is a tall order for the writers but I trust it could be done. Inevitably there will still be people grossed out by him and feel he's too forward. And any players who don't choose the party night flirt still won't know, so it won't catch everyone. Yet an explanation of his romantic style after a first proposition truly sounds like what some players are needing to not get to this frustration of needing to return to Act 1 from Act 3. If it's there, even if not everyone sees it, at least it's there. This level of specific game-to-player communication is something being asked of the poly romance but not the mono romances, which I'll admit is a little tiring to me on a metaphysical level, but I see that it's because so much player time passes before Act 3 and people are finding that the flags for other romance content have been passed up. While the mono romances develop throughout and have so much more content, and the player expectations for monogamy make it so those characters don't need to preface their answers to first flirts/propositions with an explanation of their romance style.