Originally Posted by Michieltjuhh
Originally Posted by Amirit
My theory is, that the added option to imagine a friendly dinner with Gale (instead of a kiss or a punch in the face) that was supposed to lead to friendly relationships, was not associated with such relationships. Simply because the friendly path does not exist. Instead, when you choose this option it is registered as a "punch in the face" and the "relationships" progress on the path of harsh rejection. With everything bound to it.
Nah, they just screwed up the triggers with the patch. I played it out again in a playthrough where we were buddies and in the original playthrough (played out before patch 3) he responded as such. Playing it out again now, we suddenly aren't anymore.

Never got the weave scene in that playthrough so it's unrelated to that. Just purely approval based and now it treats you as if you have low approval with him.

^ This. I even have screenshots of his patch 1/2 response (after the friendly dinner option was added and I used it) and patch 3. Spoiler tagging it cause those pics take a lot of space, but you can see that his responses are different as night and day and I was a little taken aback.

Patch 1/2

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Patch 3

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On both screenshots my character was involved with Astarion and rejected Gale whenever the option came, but soft rejected. Eg. used the friendly dinner option and both screenshots were taken at exceptional approval.

Also, the most funny thing is, the morning after he had exactly the same convo thanking me for being such a good friend lol. I dunno daheck Larian did with his triggers, but they fixed some things eg. before patch 3 I had the bug where I could endlessly ask Gale about Nightsong fixing him deep into act 3, even before entering the Morphic Pool - it was the only place where his lines finally changed to something else lol.

Originally Posted by Annahri
And don't even get me started on Duke Ravengard. He's a 'tell, don't show character'. We are constantly told that he's so important but
once you rescue him he's nothing but camp furniture
.

So is Mizora once you exhaust all of her dialogue options... And what da heck is Mizora even doing in camp once you break Wyll's pact is a mystery to me.

But honestly? I think the game would get improved a lot from a very simple change, if Larian enabled the party banters where companions comment on Tav/Durge's active romance and all changes to the parties involved.

Aside from companions flirting with each other, eg. Wyll commenting on Lae and SH's eyes, or Astarion calling SH a flower and enjoying his walks with Gale (whatever that means lol) I have never heard the Tav romance specific ones. Last time I heard some it was in EA and obviously a lot of them got changed/added since then. Especially with Wyll's voice actor change.