Thank you both. It would have been surprising if they would have changed it and no one in this thread said a peep.
To be honest I wouldn't have checked if not for the epilogue (which I didn't manage to trigger in the end lol), so I would have missed it if any changes were made.
Originally Posted by Anska
It would have even tonally fit right in with the banter about how the party members taste. Mind if I mention this when I write them a feedback ticket about player dialogue during the holidays?
I love the "take over the cult" speech, especially if the bedtime-musings narration continues it with - among other options - "To wield enough power to threaten a god. That would be quite something ..." Astarion is such a perfectly charming devil on the shoulder in Act 2. But I might have gushed about this at least once before. ^^;
Go ahead.
When you play Durge the conversation about what the others would taste like and the one where he asks you how he should kill you feel like some hardcore flirting, so it would fit even more in that case.
And taking over the cult speech is also funny with Durge because
it would be taking it back, not taking over, but at that point you don't know it yet.
I wish Larian knew what friendships are, because Astarion is perfect as both a bro and a lover for someone who's hungry for power. And the friend version of his post-Araj convo is better than the romance one. You can talk about how in some circumstances it's necessary to use all available assets, which is perfect for a manipulative power hungry playthrough, and he says one of my favorite lines of his:
