The kisses requested by the player are meant for consent and pleasure

As the script says, for the player when he chooses roughly, it's enjoyment.
Kinda like everyone saw their Tav in that scene when everything was pressed "yes" and "rougher".
No sadness or discomfort was intended.

It's not very nice when players felt their character's enjoyment of certain actions, probably felt by themselves, adds the option of discomfort and fear, kind of messing up that feeling.
Even neutrality in this case could be seen as a poke at that sense of pleasures.
That's why the game asks so many times beforehand if we want to do it, and gives us the option to break up afterwards as well.

Because it's a fantasy story for fun to play, entertainment, not a simulation of abuse and discomfort by intimate things. The description of the romantic scene clearly shows.
The player feels it, if this is mixed with the fear option it will lead to the same thing that patch 6 brought about.

It's pretty sloppy overall.
Some people have a trigger for a sharp neck grab, on the night of the turn they could all set this moment up. That's been taken care of.
Why someone decided to add kinks on Valentine's Day so sloppily is already a mystery.

I don't mind if Larian add dialogue for Tav, who is confused and worried about the night and what happened. Or dialogue after Karlach's reaction for example.

But intimacy should be left in the mood that it was on release and in the original script. Here

I can see as a solution to add:

- gently

- roughly

As already perfectly realised during the night of the turn.
Then a gentle kiss will be standard, and a player who doesn't desire roughness will feel comfortable.

Last edited by LiryFire; 15/08/24 01:04 PM.