So what? We can now change the hair and genitals of the hirelings? But still we can't make a party of 4 dragonborn, 4 dwarves or just in general have what is commonly known as "customizable companions"? Are you guys f****** serious right now? Who ever wanted "semi-customizable" vessel hirelings? Why is it so hard for Larian to implement a simple choice of having fully customizable and sentient companions, like most other cRPG's in the history of cRPG's have? I seriously feel like the developers are trolling the fanbase with these ridiculous restrictions. Even the mods that allowed one to create custom companions, seem to no longer work since patch 3. Why can't we just get to play the game like we want to? It's not hard to implement at all. Seriously: Who is benefiting from this?
Honestly I am at a point where I am no longer interested in playing this game. This trolling of the fanbase has just gone too far.
So, while I don't feel quite as strongly as Lyzrl does on this, I do feel like the "you can sort of customize your hirelings a little bit more now" is nothing more than a bone thrown to the dogs to try and make them forget about the fact that their master is eating a steak. What possible harm could come from allowing us to run a full party of hand-crafted-from-the-ground-up characters? The coding and mechanics are already in place, it's just a matter of opening the proverbial door. Unless there's some sort of programming problem I'm not aware of that would make opening up the full character creator once the game is started impossible? Or is it supposed to be in some sort of homage to the original BG games, where the only character you could create was your own? If that were the explanation, then we should have been told that from the start. If not though, all of these little updates that allow us to adjust things a little bit more, and a little bit more, just feel like pacifiers to try and shut us up. If there's some important programming reason we can't do it, just say that. If there's some overarching design choice reason that everyone at Larian agreed to that we don't know about, just tell us. Otherwise, please just let us make a full party of custom characters. Thanks!
