I don't think you'd be retconning Karlach's entire arc, really. To me it feels more like actually finishing it in one way or another. The biggest problem I have is that her arc in the story just kind of stops in act 2. There's some great content for Karlach in act 3, but everything that actually has to do with her ending (engine failing, can't be repaired) has happened by early-mid act 2 and there's never any follow up on it. That's a huge part of what makes it so unsatisfying. It's like having Astarion inevitably being kidnapped and used for Cazador's ritual because there just isn't a quest to deal with the problem in act 3, with no reason why there isn't ever given.
By retcon, I mean her concept as character. We know that the rumour about the supposed "good ending" that was cut was fake (the cut content might and likely had been gondians or steel watch explaining why they can't fix her), we know she's the only one that be be turned into the mindflayer (which had to be Larian's intention for at least some time, otherwise why code something so specific at the last minute?) and we know they specifically added new lines in patch 2 to point out that her situation is desperate and added entire epilogue to make the avernus the happy ending. The question we should ask is are they willing to change all of that and are they even able to do so?
Originally Posted by Norrec69
Conrad, my brother, in respomding to me you lay out all these changes to the game in ea that wouldve cost money, like halsin based on community feedback, And then in the same post responding to canuck you say it will cost to much to change that part. Come on man.
I do agree if we do get a happy ending for karlach it wont likely be a patch it will be a DE edition, cause her story requires added content like avernus or atleast upper city.( if they wanna do it right imo) but i will bet money it wont require any retcon. It will just be added content with story options that the player can CHOOSE to pursue.
Just like we can choose to go to the creche or not. Or choose shadowheart to stay with shar or not. Etc etc. Its about player choice not nessicarily about how the origin characters arcs are SUPPOSE to unfold.
Becuae EA is the time to change and add things like that, not post release. It's not Divinity, you have mocap and everything here, that is expensive. Also, not to bash devs that listen to the feedback, but half of the posts on the forum is about Halsin lacking basically any content so even if the feedback is taken into the consideration, resources will always limit things as we can see even now
