Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Larian, please ensure you don’t take away player agency with AA in patch 7

Yes, I don't argue that the pain of a beloved character can be much more acute than one's own. It was very hard for me to watch some of Astarion's videos, and I even admittedly didn't watch them all to prevent myself from feeling pain and anger. But in this scene everything is too obvious, there is not one but even two lines, I watched this video:

“I was hoping that as regard for my support you'd throw yourself at me” - in my opinion, the line itself is very strange and stupid, especially since Astarion started a serious conversation. All right, let's say someone took it as playfulness.

“You should learn to enjoy sex for your own pleasure, and you should enjoy it with me” - Really? After what he said? I don't know if someone has problems with localization and translation. But it seems to me that already at this point the player wants to see what will happen if you induce Astarion to have sex despite... And his voice, his facial expression - there are so many signals here that it's strange to me to imagine how it can be ignored. But I'm not condemning anyone's roleplay, I'm just saying that this scene doesn't fall under the category of scenes that need a special warning.

And I agree that we can have more empathy for companions. And the most important companion is our LI. So how am I going to make the kind of facial expressions that were suggested for me in patch 6 in kissing Astarion? And even neutral expressions? It would look like I'm tolerating the touch of my significant other, rather than enjoying it. And I don't want Astarion to feel like there's something I don't like about him. It's not fair to make me look like I dislike him. In that case, it's not just the scrapping of the roleplay that upsets me, but also the thought of what Astarion thinks when he sees that look on Tav's face. About the associations with Tav - I didn't really mean that, I meant that the trigger can be activated under some similar circumstances. A person who was the victim of SA/DA sees some similar actions, and the same fear and pain on the face of the character with whom they associate themselves, together this triggers and can provoke PTSD. In the case where there is no match, for example, the expression on the character's face is happy, even if the actions that are done to the character are judged as unacceptable, the person is more likely to experience dislike, disgust at the scene, they may not like it, but it will not be as traumatic a trigger as it could be if there is a more complete match to some situation that happened to them in the past. It's not a matter of who one feels more sorry for, Tav or the companions, it's that the situation itself, also because of the association of oneself with the character being violently acted upon, can be a trigger. So a consensual D/s would be a much safer option for the player who gets into these scenes.