Originally Posted by JandK
Strange. I wonder why Larian isn't allowing a change of body type and race for hirelings. There has to be a reason.

Obviously, folks would prefer talking to Withers, then getting a hireling by going to the character creation screen and making their hireling. I'm trying to understand why this wouldn't be an option if it's so clear that this is what so many people want. Again, there has to be a reason, and I'd rather understand the reason than be upset about it. (In fairness, I probably wouldn't use the option anyway.)

Possibilities:

1. Maybe there's a technical issue with bringing in non-anticipated body types and races for anyone but Tav? Something that affects cut scenes? Like when the hireling is talking, for example. Could it be that another body type or race might not be able to open their mouth when talking or some such?

2. Maybe they're saving it for a definitive edition? Holding out on some of the good stuff to get more excitement when the definitive edition drops?

3. Maybe a fully customizable party would negatively impact their analytics? Perhaps they want to know how many players are picking this or that companion for this or that portion of the game.

4. ???

Yeah, see, I'd be far less upset about this if Larian just gave us some kind of statement about why they aren't giving this feature to us. As it is, to me it presents bad optics. They clearly understand that their players want to adjust things with the hirelings/companions or the Magic Mirror would never have been implemented. They also clearly have all the programming infrastructure in place to allow us to do it. The fact that they're just making these weird incremental increases to how much you can adjust, but not giving us the full-fledged ground-up customizability apparatus is confusing. If there's a good reason, just tell us. If there isn't a good reason, well...